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Episode 40: Wizards of Gaming - "Harry Potter" Mobile Games · Revelio: A Wizarding World Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to episode forty of Revellio for March nineteenth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. I'm Amy, I'm Nicole, and I'm Liz
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  Speaker 1: Yay Liz our special guest and her debut appearance on Revellio.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's only been on air for like a
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  Speaker 2: year and a bit, and I'm finally here.
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  Speaker 1: Liz is our social media manager, or our social media which,
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  Speaker 1: as we call her, the mastermind behind all of our
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  Speaker 1: wonderful posts. So yeah, we had to bring her on
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  Speaker 1: this episode because she's got insider knowledge of.
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  Speaker 2: She's giving me a face. I don't know if i'd
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  Speaker 2: call it inside or knowledge as much as i'd.
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  Speaker 3: Call it like indent knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a hater, Okay, well you know I'm a hater
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  Speaker 2: who still plays It's Your Guilty Pleasure mobile games and
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  Speaker 2: we can't wait to hear about it. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if so, Liz. Since it's your first.
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  Speaker 1: Time on the episode, why don't you introduce yourself and
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  Speaker 1: tell us, you know, like all the fun stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, I mean to take a leaf out of
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  Speaker 2: Sam's book. I was born in the nineteen nineties, the
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  Speaker 2: nineteen nine yards. Yes, I'm a raven claw even though
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  Speaker 2: half more like thirty three percent of the time I
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  Speaker 2: get sorted as a Slytherin, so I call myself a
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  Speaker 2: slyther claw.
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  Speaker 1: Makes sense?
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  Speaker 2: What else is cool about me? I started reading the
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  Speaker 2: series because my sister gave me a copy of the
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  Speaker 2: first book for my birthday, and it was the August
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  Speaker 2: before Deathly Hallows came out. I was at that point
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  Speaker 2: very very against reading it. I really don't know why,
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  Speaker 2: and she's like, no, you'll like it. She was right
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  Speaker 2: spoiler alert, and here I am, m I random fun fact.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I've shared this other places, and if
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  Speaker 2: I have, well, too bad. When I first read Deathly Hallows,
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  Speaker 2: it was my elementary school's like copy they'd gotten, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so many copies, and I was like one of the
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  Speaker 2: first people reading that copy. And when we get to
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  Speaker 2: the iconic line of not my daughter, I did, in
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  Speaker 2: fact take it to the librarian and show her the
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  Speaker 2: B word and she, you know, sharp eyed it out
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  Speaker 2: and I feel really bad that generations who then would
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  Speaker 2: read that book wouldn't get to feel the full effects it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: to be fair, I just showed it to the librarian
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  Speaker 2: and she So I still kind of feel bad about that.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if that book is still out there somewhere still.
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  Speaker 2: You know, maybe in the library. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You saved generations of children from that terrible, terrible word.
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  Speaker 3: Well until they like watch the movie and they're like, wow,
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  Speaker 3: that's what.
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  Speaker 1: It was, until they got home and listened to mom
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  Speaker 1: and dad used that word and.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So you know that was how I contributed to culture. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now I do fun things like this with Harry Potter
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  Speaker 2: and kind of just vibe in the background a lot
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  Speaker 2: doing social media stuff. Because my relationship with Harry Potter
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  Speaker 2: has changed a lot over the years, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: post COVID It's been really weird for me, if I'm
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  Speaker 2: being honest, And I do credit Harry Potter for my
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  Speaker 2: the kinds of fantasy books I prefer, which is usually
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  Speaker 2: school studied or in castles, and it's very hard for
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  Speaker 2: me to read fantasy outside of that, and I fully
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  Speaker 2: blame Harry Potter. So not a bad problem to have.
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  Speaker 2: Not a bad problem to have. But anytime I try
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  Speaker 2: something else, I'm like and then I read something like
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  Speaker 2: Fourth Wing and I'm like, wow, I really love that.
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  Speaker 2: Why did I love that so much? I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it was out of school. It had the school setting,
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  Speaker 2: Like that's why. Yeah, So that's what I fully blame
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  Speaker 2: all of my life on. Is there anything else we
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  Speaker 2: need to know about me? I mean I think that
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  Speaker 2: covers it. Censorship, missing school.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, loves reading about kids.
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  Speaker 2: In school, loves reading about it wizard in college.
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  Speaker 3: So in this episode, we're going to be kind of
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  Speaker 3: rounding out our Harry Potter gaming series by talking about
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  Speaker 3: Harry Potter mobile games, but first.
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  Speaker 2: Rustling to w W in the Wizarding Wireless Network now
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  Speaker 2: for the latest headlines.
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  Speaker 3: So there's actually quite a bit of news that's happened
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  Speaker 3: since the last episode that you guys recorded. So first,
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  Speaker 3: you know me, I always got to plug my audible
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  Speaker 3: audio edition. So we're all the we're all the way
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  Speaker 3: up to Order of the Phoenix. And I know I
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  Speaker 3: said this when God, what a Fire came out? Like
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  Speaker 3: how are we already here? But we're already up to
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  Speaker 3: Order of the Phoenix. I'm still so far behind. But
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  Speaker 3: I did get to see the little like interview that
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  Speaker 3: Kara Knightley did, like talking about bringing umbrage to life. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm actually really sure. Yeah, I'm really excited to
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  Speaker 3: hear her like after seeing that little clip. I know
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  Speaker 3: when we first talked about her casting, we kind of
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  Speaker 3: were like, wow, that's really weird, but I think it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be good.
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  Speaker 1: Basically like a snippet of her voice, and yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: liked it, Like, oh okay, yep, I could close my
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  Speaker 1: eyes and I could I could picture Unbridge here.
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  Speaker 3: And we also learned that we have a new Harry
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  Speaker 3: Potter shop coming this time to London, which seems pretty apt,
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  Speaker 3: and it's going to be located on Oxford Street. And
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  Speaker 3: we still don't know like a lot of details about
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  Speaker 3: this store, you know, as we've talked about before, the
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  Speaker 3: other stores usually have like a theme around them, so
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  Speaker 3: we don't know yet what this one's going to look like.
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  Speaker 3: But we do know it's set to open in fall
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  Speaker 3: of twenty twenty six, so hopefully in the next couple
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  Speaker 3: months we'll learn a little bit more about the design
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  Speaker 3: of this store, which hopefully they go big because it's
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  Speaker 3: like the birthplace, you know, right, you'd have.
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  Speaker 1: To what's the theme of the.
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  Speaker 2: Is it Japan? As the other one.
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  Speaker 3: There was two, I think one of them was like
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  Speaker 3: the one I feel like I remember us talking about
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  Speaker 3: one that was like at the end of like a
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  Speaker 3: road with like trees or something, and that was supposed
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  Speaker 3: to be themed around Forbid and Forest because it was
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  Speaker 3: kind of building in the theme of the wildlife and nature.
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  Speaker 3: I think that was one of the japan ones.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I know Chicago is like the Try Wizard.
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  Speaker 3: I got with a fire Yep.
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  Speaker 2: I did not realize that the stores were themed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the I think they started that with
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  Speaker 3: Chicago because obviously Harry Potter New York isn't like themed
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  Speaker 3: to anything.
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  Speaker 1: It's more just like the Phoenix and the little like
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  Speaker 1: dragon clock things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if Chicago was themed around Try Wizard, then why
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  Speaker 2: do we have the patronas.
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  Speaker 3: I think didn't Chicago open around it was like part
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  Speaker 3: of everything that happened with the anniversary of Goblet of Fire,
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  Speaker 3: and so I don't know if that influenced it could
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  Speaker 3: be cool, but yeah, I know that. I think their
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  Speaker 3: center like one of their center pieces is like the
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's a guy. I don't remember if
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  Speaker 3: it's a Goblet of Fire or the tribser Cup, Like
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember which one it is, but it's one
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  Speaker 3: of them. And then I know they have the little
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  Speaker 3: like I think they have the like little mermaid like
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  Speaker 3: stained glass window thing somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay, so I think.
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  Speaker 3: Now they've all been kind of themed since then. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I guess we'll see what happens, like with London, but
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  Speaker 3: I know for sure one of the japan stores that
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  Speaker 3: open was Forbidden Forest. I remember us talking about that.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I guess we'll see what happens. There are
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  Speaker 3: obviously other like Harry Potter official ish kind of stores
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  Speaker 3: in London, like there's the nine and three Quarters store
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  Speaker 3: in King's Cross Station, and then obviously they have the
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  Speaker 3: studio tour that has the official store, but this will
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  Speaker 3: be the first like official quote unquote Harry Potter shop
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  Speaker 3: is part of that franchise. Cool and very recent. This
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  Speaker 3: actually was like just announced like yesterday to when we're
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  Speaker 3: recording this, But Warwick Davis has been appointed an Officer
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  Speaker 3: of the Order of the British Empire. This is an
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  Speaker 3: award that recognizes his services to both theater and also
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  Speaker 3: charitable causes. So this is really nice for him.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I actually saw Tom Felton's post on Instagram first
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  Speaker 3: about it, and then I saw like the official one
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  Speaker 3: with Prince William giving him the award. I was strolling
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  Speaker 3: and did you think he died?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: About it? Please don't tell me this. No, we can't
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  Speaker 1: have another. And then, like I read farther in the caption,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, phew, okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my god, I had yet the same experience
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  Speaker 3: as soon as I saw the black and white image.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and that would maybe that would really suck,
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  Speaker 2: considering he's supposed to like reprise his role in the show,
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  Speaker 2: in the show, which still weirds me out.
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  Speaker 3: That's definitely so an interesting choice. But yeah, if you
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  Speaker 3: see Tom Felton's post on Instagram, Warwick is still with us.
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  Speaker 2: It is not a path away, alive, live and well and.
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  Speaker 3: Is actually being honored.
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  Speaker 2: He's warm and breathing. Yet at least. The one thing
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  Speaker 2: is Tom does post in black and white a lot.
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  Speaker 3: He does.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's that's something to my dear friend. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just seeing that, to my dear friend, that's giving like
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  Speaker 2: I'm about to go on a thing about how great
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  Speaker 2: it was to work with you. Yeah. Wow, that to.
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  Speaker 3: My dear friend, with the coupled with the black and
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  Speaker 3: white image, it's just yeah, to send you into.
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  Speaker 2: A little Okay, here's someone's comment. I have a heart
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  Speaker 2: attack with that black and white photo. Gether in, Tom, Tom,
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  Speaker 2: don't scare me like that thought something happened. I thought
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  Speaker 2: he died. Cry cry cry cry cry emoji. You made
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  Speaker 2: us think he died. Laugh cry emoji, Tom, I thought
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  Speaker 2: we lost him. Everyone's asking him to please not use
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  Speaker 2: black and white as the first photo anymore.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm telling you it's the comment. It has to
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  Speaker 3: be the caption because like a couple of posts ago,
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  Speaker 3: he posts the black and white reel of him and
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  Speaker 3: Dan Radcliffe and yeah, nobody thought that was like a
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  Speaker 3: death boast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just like we have so much trauma
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  Speaker 1: of the adult actors.
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  Speaker 2: From the film's going. Even if we just think about
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  Speaker 2: like twenty twenty six, there's been a lot of major
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  Speaker 2: film and TV stars that have died, like I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Catherine O'Hara, and like it's been a really like sad
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  Speaker 2: year for stuff like that too. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: my heart could take anymore.
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  Speaker 3: I know in the Oscar and it's only aren't this.
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  Speaker 3: I think the Oscars are this weekend and they do
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  Speaker 3: like yeah the ram and like ooh yeah, so well it.
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  Speaker 2: Got me two weeks back on the first when the
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  Speaker 2: SAG Awards were because Catherine Ohara won an award and right,
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  Speaker 2: so everyone was just like what and Seth rogen like
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  Speaker 2: accepted on her behalf because it was for their show
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  Speaker 2: the studio. But it was just like, oh oh no,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't expecting that. It was like the Chadwick Boseman
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  Speaker 2: almost winning the Oscar all over again. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well Warwick is still alive. He's a life story
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  Speaker 3: and he can say and he's being recognized for his
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  Speaker 3: things that he's done in his life.
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  Speaker 2: So that's great love that for him.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. So the next bit of news is we did
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  Speaker 3: get the cover for the upcoming Harry Potter and the
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  Speaker 3: Halfwoodprints Illustrated addition, the cover features the scene in the
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  Speaker 3: cave when Dumbledore and Harry are facing Me and Fairy.
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  Speaker 3: So super pretty. It's got lots of orange from the
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  Speaker 3: fire and teals and I this one might be one
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  Speaker 3: of my favorite of the illustrated covers. But what do
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  Speaker 3: you guys think about it if you've seen it.
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  Speaker 2: I really liked how the reveal was with the bubbling grain.
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  Speaker 2: It felt very much like back in the cave and
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  Speaker 2: it's like ri scene. I think it was fun. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I can notice the slight style difference in
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  Speaker 2: the art just from the cover, which I think is
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  Speaker 2: totally fine because who it was Jim Kay before my
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  Speaker 2: room and I saw his post when he's like I
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  Speaker 2: can't do this anymore, sending all a love to him,
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  Speaker 2: but it looks really good. I kind of.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is my least favorite of the illustrated covers.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm biased because Halflood Prince is my favorite.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm definitely a little biased too, And I think
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  Speaker 3: Halfwood Prince like book cover is like my favorite too,
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  Speaker 3: which is obviously from the same scene, huh.
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  Speaker 1: I think, like what I like about the other illustrated
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  Speaker 1: covers is there's a lot more going on, So there's
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of little things that you catch, like
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  Speaker 1: every time you go back and look at it, especially.
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  Speaker 3: That first one. I was just looking at mine. That
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  Speaker 3: first one has a lot of little hidden things, like
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  Speaker 3: at the platform.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like this looks nice, don't get me wrong, but
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  Speaker 1: like I'm just missing those.
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  Speaker 2: Little like yeah, the X I see you know, I
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  Speaker 2: see what you're saying. When I compare it to what
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  Speaker 2: the Order of the Phoenix one looked like where we
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  Speaker 2: have the shelves with all the books and there's not
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  Speaker 2: really a lot of like background happening for this one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot more just okay, we put in are
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  Speaker 2: they did? They put it out on a faster schedule.
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  Speaker 3: Like I think it's been two years.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so still like a pretty standard.
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  Speaker 3: Or something like that. It's definitely been a couple of
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  Speaker 3: years since Where the Phoenix came out.
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  Speaker 2: I think got it, Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I did see a comment earlier on social media that
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  Speaker 3: mentioned how like long Harry's legs look in it, and
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  Speaker 3: now I can't unsee it.
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  Speaker 2: It's very scary. Jack Skellington, Yeah, yeah, they are a
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  Speaker 2: little but see and that's where I'm seeing, like the
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  Speaker 2: differences in the art style is the people mm hmm
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  Speaker 2: yeah he I think it's because of how they have
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  Speaker 2: the pants, because it's like where the cuff of the
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  Speaker 2: jeans are, because it makes his like ankle look genormous
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  Speaker 2: in the boots.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then like the angle a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: like the way his legs are. It just doesn't ye
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  Speaker 3: that situation. But I still I still really like it.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's I like the fire like how the
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  Speaker 3: fire works.
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  Speaker 2: Why is Dumbledore so much taller than him? This is
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  Speaker 2: making Dumbledore look like he's eight feet tall.
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  Speaker 3: Which is really funny actually because if you like like
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  Speaker 3: Mary Grand Prix cover, they're like almost the same height,
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  Speaker 3: like as they're over the little Goblet thing.
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  Speaker 2: Even though I guess looking at like the newer Scholastic
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  Speaker 2: cover that's that like Blue Scale one, it's a very
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  Speaker 2: similar height disparity to the illustrated one. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we're just going with Harry really didn't get a
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  Speaker 2: growth spurt until he was eighteen, I mean, Dan Radcliffe also,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe they're just trying to align with movie Harry.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well yeah, I still like and I just was
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  Speaker 3: looking at it like next to all the other ones,
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  Speaker 3: and I think it's still I definitely think it still works.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I agree, I think other than probably like
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  Speaker 3: the Prisoner of Azkaban one, it is probably the one
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  Speaker 3: that has like the least going on in the background.
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  Speaker 3: But it's also like such a pivotal scene and like
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  Speaker 3: doesn't need a lot going on in the background too,
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  Speaker 3: So like maybe we'll see that with these last couple
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  Speaker 3: like this, like as we get into the darker books.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little more simplified. Yeah, it'll be interesting to
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  Speaker 2: see which scene they pick for the cover for Deathly Hallows.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because there's a lot to choose from there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well yeah, so, as we mentioned too, so this is
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  Speaker 3: our first book that we have with a new illustrator,
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  Speaker 3: and it's Levi Pinfold. I know, we talked about that
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  Speaker 3: too when we learned that he was going to be illustrating,
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, it'll be out in October October six, twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty six. So I feel like they usually always kind
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  Speaker 3: of come out in the fall. I feel like I
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  Speaker 3: usually ask for them for Christmas, so they always kind
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  Speaker 3: of come out in that timeframe. So yeah, be curious
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  Speaker 3: to see if we get any other teasers of like
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  Speaker 3: any of the art on the inside, Yeah, because that'll
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  Speaker 3: be cool to kind of see more of the style.
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  Speaker 3: But I will be getting it regardless, So I had
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  Speaker 3: to get to the collection and then it'll probably be
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  Speaker 3: like two more years before we get the last book.
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  Speaker 3: But that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: But are they going to split the last book into
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  Speaker 2: two parts like they did the movie?
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  Speaker 3: There's no reason to if they didn't split Order of
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  Speaker 3: the Phoenix Illustrated into two books because it's the biggest book.
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  Speaker 2: Then that's true.
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  Speaker 3: They shouldn't have to split the ad of.
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  Speaker 2: Course, splitting the last one making a comeback, I hope not.
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  Speaker 3: I hope not.
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  Speaker 2: Everything else from that era of media makes a comeback,
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  Speaker 2: like why a dystopia but not the two parts in
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  Speaker 2: two parts? Give us a three hour movie.
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  Speaker 3: It's fine, but see, I feel like that. I feel
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  Speaker 3: like that won't make like a full comeback because now
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: things are just going to like TV over movie. So
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  Speaker 3: just do a TV SOO and then you don't need
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  Speaker 3: to do all the parts because you've got all the
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: time with the TV show.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: So yeah, until they cancel the TV show after like
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: a single season because people didn't like watch it quick
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: enough in the first twenty four hours of it dropping.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, you dropped it on a Thursday. I'm busy.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: I am busy.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: I'll watch it on the weekend.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Some Shadow and Bone PTSD. It's like everything Netflix produces
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: PTSD because they either give it one season or they
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: pull a Virgin River and it gets a ton of seasons. Okay, yeah,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Virgin River is a guilty pleasure for me. I am
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: currently watching the season that came out yesterday. What it's
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: consistent content, and that's that's a rarity in this day
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: and age. It's true, I gotta take away I.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Can anything that gets beyond two seasons is like rare.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: It proves though that you know, if maybe Paramount backs
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: and Netflix gets the bid again, Netflix is capable of
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: doing seven seasons of little show. This is true. M
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: M prooves something.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see what the heck happens with them. So,
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: speaking of HBO, it was a great segue and to
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: the next point here. So HBO recently revealed a bunch
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: of casting announcements. So it's for several of the Hogwarts students,
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: and so I'm not gonna go through like each of
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: the castings. You can go to the official sites and
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: see them in their pictures and everyone. But we did
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: get the casting of like, you know, Oliver Wood, Angelina Johnson,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Susan Bones, Terry Boot, Penelope clear Water, Pansy Parkinson, like
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: all of those characters to kind of fill out all
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: of our different houses. So lots of casting.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Not gonna lie. I missed this announcement and reading it
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: in the notes for the doc today, that's how I
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: found out it was fair.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: I don't feel like it was very I think because
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: it's obviously like side characters kind of. I think it
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: was just a random post. But there is a featured
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: article on the official Harry Potter website that shows the
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: pictures of all of them, and I do like how
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: they did it because they had like all of them
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: take group pictures, like per the house that they're in,
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: so it's actually really cute.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: That's a good way to do it.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, instead of like just the single like headshots that
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: they were doing, or like.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: The random assortment of casting news we were getting where
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: they're like, here's too Easily's and some random that nobody
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: cares about the casting of yet, right, And I was like, okay,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: this is a choice.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah. I think I do think they handled this
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: casting announcement really cute, So that's fun. The only thing
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: that like, I don't love about the way they did
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: it is it doesn't necessarily put like a face to
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: a name because you just have them in a group shot,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: so you're like, cool, I don't know who's who. But
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: the idea behind it I think was cute because it's
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: like there, so that's fun. But yeah, you can head
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: over to the official channels, and you'll see everybody but
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: all of our favorites and some other names that I
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: actually didn't recognize, which could just be because I need
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: to go back and reread, or it could be because
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: they're new characters.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: But I mean, I legitimately don't remember names like Graham, Monta,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Hugh and Paragrind, Derek and Lucy and Boyle.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and Lisa Turbin, Lisa Turpin, like that just seems
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: me too.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Lisa Turbin's the one I did.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: I didn't recognize that at FIR, but I had to
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: look it up.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: It's been a hot while since I read any of that,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: So yes, and let's be real, the only casting as
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: I care about is Oliver Wood.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Right, and I don't know which one in the picture
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: is him.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: I know. Yeah, I'm gonna look up who Orson Matthews is.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: That's who's playing Oliver Wood. Yeah, No, that was a
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: good one to pick for Oliver one.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I can. Yeah, I just pulled out the picture too. Yeah,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: you could tell because there's like three girls and then
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: there's like two guys, and like one looks very like
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Lee Jordan, and so it's a kind of process.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Definitely keeping keeping Yeah, they're they're definitely keeping with what
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: people enjoyed about the original Oliver makes sense. They all
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: look great though. I love that they're like all in
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: red like house colors. Love that.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then it's really funny because in the Hufflepuff picture,
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: like they're all have yellow in some way except for
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: one of them. It's like he just forgot to was
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: that was not in the green chat memo? Yeah, yeah,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: they're doing their best because yeah, all the raven Claws
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: are all in blue in some way, and the Slytherins
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: like they're kind of all over the place. They've got
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: some gray, some black, some green, but they all look
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: very Slytherin like.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: They do look very Hey least it's really easy to
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: tell who's playing Pansy in that set because it's literally
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: the only female and all the dudes.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, super cute pictures and yeah, excited to see
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: them in their roles. So yeah, that's really the only
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: like show update we've had in a like a while.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: I think they're just plugging along with filming.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: So there was some of the pictures of the Diagon
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Alley sat leaked.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I did see that.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I that looked pretty cool, but other than that, not really.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think they've just been like filming inside and
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: so we're kind of shut out for now.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: But from some of the leaks I think I sent
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: it in one of the group chats, we saw that
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: they built some of like a Hogwarts courtyard with like
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: the themed mascot topiaries, and I'm like, you know, honestly,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: I want a themed topiary.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean honest yeah.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: And then next we kind of in celebrating, you know,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: our anniversary of Flat first Stone. Just a few more
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: announcements that have come out of events that are happening.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: So Warner Brother Studio Tour London. You know, they always
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: have a summer feature, but this year they're doing a
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: new one called First Year at Hogwarts. So this feature
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: is going to run from May seventh to September seventh
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: and will transport visitors back to where the filmmaking magic started.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: So of course our first film. So the feature will
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: showcase iconic moments, displays, and props from the first film.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: They're also going to be updating a few of the
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: different If you've ever been to the studio tour, listened
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: to our episode when we talked about it. They're making
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: some updates to a few of the like permanent scenes
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: that are there to make it themed to this feature.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: So one of them is going to be in the
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Great Hall. They're going to have the Gryffindor banners hanging,
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: you know, as they did in the end of term Feast,
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: after you know, Dumbledore changes them and the Gryffindor beats Slytherin,
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: and the Gryffindor common room, they're going to put up
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: the scene where Hermione casts Patrificus totalis and have a
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: long bottom, so that'll be cool. And then in the
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: backlock stage they're going to be premiering a new show
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: called The Secrets of sound Effects, which will be an
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: audio visual experience revealing behind the scenes secrets about art
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: of Folly and how different sound effects were made to
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: bring the Wizarding World to life.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: So okay, cool, that's cool.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Sad I'm gonna be missing that, Tom, please.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Big big fully nerd.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I love watching random behind the scenes videos that I
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: can find a fully for different movies.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Quite weird.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's cool, it's cool.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: I want to Oh, I wish I could go.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Let's start saving on. We'll do a London trip with Tom,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: it would be you know, but if we can't get there,
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Tom is a lot closer than us, so hope like
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: he will go and can tell us all about it.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: And then, lastly so on October twenty ninth, again, to
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary of Harry Potter and a
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Philosopher's Stone, there is going to be a night fountain
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: show in Versailles in France. They're gonna be doing a
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: special edition of this night fountain show. That's all I
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: really know about it. I tried to dig and find
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: a little bit more about it, but either it was
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: in French or I couldn't really find more. So there
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: is going to be some kind of night fountain show
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: happening at Versailles that is Harry Potter themed on August
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: twenty ninth. I maybe did I say October. I don't
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: know what I said. It's August twenty ninth.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: So we need to then plan a trip where we're
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: hitting London and then going to the coffee over to Yes, yeah,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: totally doable.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: It's very easy. Yes, to get there.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: We can happen.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: It's not like a super long flight or anything.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Not at all. And Yeah, that's kind of it. For
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: the news, I say, that's it. There was kind of
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: a lot.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: That's a lot, a lot of the big reveals and stuff. Yeah.
• 28:13
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• 28:37
  Speaker 1: For our main discussion, we are wrapping up our Wizards
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: of Gaming series and talking about Harry Potter mobile games.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: There's been quite a few over the years.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Uh, We're going to kick off with the first one
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: that neither Nicole or myself have ever played.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: But it sounds like Liz has had the pleasure.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, I've had it downloaded and I've opened it,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: but that's as far as I've gotten.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, that's farther than you usually get in
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: to call.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: She says this because my Hogwarts Legacy Deluxe Edition is
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: still wrapped, not my TV stand.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: So I love that I'll get to it one day someday.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, Hogwarts Mysteries, the game I've probably played the
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: most of my life outside of all of like the
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: lego games I've played on my Wii as a child,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: And that's not necessarily intentional, that's just how it's ended up.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: So we will start with Hogwarts Mystery, the one I've
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: played since twenty eighteen when it first came out, which wow,
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: eight years ago now, hot dog. So the game was
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: developed and published by jam City. I don't know much
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: about gms city. They have a lot of games, Hogwart's
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Mystery seems to be their biggest property. They are regularly
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: hiring people for the game on LinkedIn. Okay, I get
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: ads like for their LinkedIn posts all the time. They
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: want people to help write the story of Hogwarts Mystery,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: which they desperately need because there are a lot of
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: problems with it.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Liz, you could apply and just think about the chaos
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: you could cause. But this game fun.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Look, we will get We will get to the story
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: problems soon. But Hogwarts Mystery is a game where you
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: have to wait for energy to refresh to do tasks.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Right in Hogwarts Mystery case, I believe it's four minutes
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: for one energy to replenish in your and your your
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: energy bar gets like more capacity added to it as
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: you complete Flying class life, since that is how it's
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: put in. You take flying all the years at Hogwarts Wilds.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: It's not as like much in the later years because
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: they kind of add different classes over the years. You
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: start with like charms and potions, and they steadily add
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: more as you go along. But effectively, it does mean
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: that either you wait for energy or you pay to play,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: so you pay to get more energy. You pay to
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: get gems that you then can use to get more energy.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of currency types in the game, as
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: standard with pay to play games. There's gemstones, there's your gold.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: You can only have fifty thousand gold at a time.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: I'm nearly always at fifty thousand gold. I have to
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: spend it so I can earn more. It's ridiculous. There's
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: a whole set of books. There's a blue book, a
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: brown one, a red one, and a gold one, and
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: those let you buy the different pet options and the
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: different magical creatures you can adopt. Because for whatever reason,
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: it's acceptable to adopt all sorts of magical creatures in
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: this universe and.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: To just trade in a book for a creature.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, there's pages, which is different than books, but
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: you can use pages to do old adventures that you
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: may have missed because they're constantly putting out new side
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: quests for you to do, and they're timed and only
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: come out at certain times of year because that's a
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: good idea apparently, so if you miss one too bad,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: maybe it'll read trigger the following year. You don't know,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: you may just be forever and complete. I think those
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: are the big curve and see things you can actually
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: do stuff with. But then you're also gathering attribute points
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: of like wisdom, courage, and the heart. They call it
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: something nice, but I just call it the carrying. And
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: as you earn those, you go up levels for the
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: different clubhouses, which don't really get too much. They're just
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: places you can go to interact with other characters. There's
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: a lot of weird levels to this game, guys, but
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: the basics is you start at Hogwarts in nineteen eighty four. Cool,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: You're heading to Hogwarts. It's gonna be great. The game
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: follows your seven years of education at Hogwarts. How long
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: that takes depends on you. It also depends on how
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: many chapters Gmcity put in each one because the late
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: years are really long because I don't think they knew
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: what they were going to do post Hogwarts yet, so
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: they just kept delaying the end, so it can take
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: a while to go through it. But then after Hogwarts
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: you work for some super secret thing at the Ministry.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Don't know how you qualify for that as a fresh graduate,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: but not my game. They're desperate for unspeakables, I guess.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Apparently the big overarching theme is that your character's brother,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Jacob went missing, and you want to know what happened
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: to it. He was expelled from Hogwarts and then he
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: went missing, and you're like, wow, what happened to my brother?
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: So that's like an overarching thing for a big chunk
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: of the series. I will not spoil whether or not
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: you find out what happened to Jacob.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: So it's so funny to me because, like, ever since
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: this game came out, anytime I try to research anything
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: to do with Harry Potter, inevitably I'll be reading along
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: and thing and I'm like, wow, I don't remember this happening,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: and then suddenly it'll come up Jacob's brother Da da
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: da da da. I'm like, oh, yeah, because it didn't happen.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: It's right, so Jaco, what happened to Daga. But then
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: also you want to know if and how it's connected
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: to the Cursed Vaults, which were five hidden rooms a
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: la Room of Requirement in Hogwarts that you spend a
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: good chunk of your early years tracking down. It's still
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: really not clear to me why we were tracking them down,
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: but we found them. They're tough, they're hidden, and of
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: course there's like sketchy characters everywhere trying to lure you
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: to the dark side. You have a whole horde of friends,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: most of whom are nice. Some of them, like Maroula,
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: you're more like frenemies because my religious doesn't like anyone,
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: and that's okay. Like in Hogwarts Legacy, people love Sebastian.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: In Hogwarts Mystery, it's Barnaby. He's a Slytherin kid who
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: just loves magical creatures. He's a cool dude. We love Barnaby.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: No slander. So as you're going through and like finding
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Cursed Vaults and you know, maybe your brother, I don't know,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: they do take some kind of dark directions with the story.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: At times. There is a death of someone I will
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: not spoil who because it is kind of a big
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: deal and if you haven't hit it yet, I think
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: it's in year six that it happens. But it's pretty
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: intense because they're one of the friends you have from
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: the beginning and you're like, oh wow, this mobile game
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: took it there. When it happened, the fan base wasn't
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: really acting it like it was really weird because you
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: can it's a Harry Potter mobile game, Like, what do
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: you mean You're killing off a character?
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: Like?
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: It was pretty weird. High Yeah, I don't think they
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: needed to be that, but they were so. And you're
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: you're constantly dealing with random things happening in addition to
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: taking classes because each chapter you have to complete, it's
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: usually two classes. They vary which ones you're doing, and
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: you have a couple of like tasks that you do
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: and usually it's involved like going and talking to people
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: and write. Because it's a Wait for Energy game, you're
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: just sitting there tapping. I don't read a majority of
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: the dialogue. I literally just tap through it because I
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: don't care. Straight up, when you're not doing that, you
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: can play quidditch. There's a whole quidditch side thing. You
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: go through four seasons of quidditch where you learn each
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: of the positions, which is kind of fun, and then
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: you can pick which you play as after you've like
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: unlocked them all. It's effectively just tapping circles, but in
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: various ways to like accommodate all the different positions. Kind
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: of weird, honestly, it's very laggy, like it takes a
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: while to load. That might just also be that I
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: don't have an iPhone. I don't know. I find very laggy.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: You can collect magical plants and creatures. The magical plants
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: thing is new. That's like within the last couple months.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: I think it's kind of boring. You like collect ingredients
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: from them, which you can then trade in for like
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: energy or those books I talked about, or the pages
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: or coins or jem any number of things, and then
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: you have the magical creatures that you can adopt using
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: your books. There's this whole magical creature reserve, unclear where
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: it is officially, but it has all of these different habitats.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: It's like if they took Newt's case and put it
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: not in the case effectively, and they have everything from
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: like doing a horn clump. I think it's a horre clump,
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: but you have like the very basic there's a niffler
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: all that up to various dragons and a yetti wow,
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: and they're regularly adding new guys, like we've had the
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: shrake added recently. The swooping Evil was one of my
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: favorite editions. There's the horned Serpent. They are regularly adding them.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: And then you gather food, which is like a reward
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: from various things, and you feed them food and you
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: bond with them through different levels, and then as you
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: like hit each little level, they give you energy and gems.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: It gets really teddy if we're being honest, but there
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: is a lot of opportunity to earn food. I constantly
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: have like five hundred creature food sitting in my thing
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: to use and I never go through it. All you
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: do that there's a lot of competitions happening regularly. One
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: of the first ones they did was there used to
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: be quidditch competitions where you would have to win so
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: many games of quidditch and as you hit the different Okay,
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: I have won five, ten, fifteen games of quidditch. During
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: like the little timed event, you would get prizes, prizes
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: for things like that typically include the books, sometimes gems.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Now they've added pages, and since the introduction of pages
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: a couple of years back, money and furniture, because my
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: favorite part of the game is you get to decorate
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: your dorm room with furniture sets you earn. There's also
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: dueling competitions where you just try to win as many.
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: Dueling things as you can to earn more spells to
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: use in dueling. There's the carnivals, where you play carnival
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: games to win gold.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Tickets that then win you prizes. There's puzzling potions where
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: you earn little potions as you do the tappies in class,
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: and then you have to find the hidden pictures in
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: like the puzzle grid to then win prizes. At any
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: given time, there's like four different events happening. And then
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: there's the eternally favorite Full Marks, where it's effectively like
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: a bingo board and you're trying to either get a
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: diagonal across or there's like a special shape to like
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: earn as many points as you can. That people don't
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: like that it's annoying, and it always comes when they
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: release a new Times Limited Side Quest or a TLSQ,
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: which means you can't actually do any of it because
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: you're busy doing the New Time side quest. So yeah,
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: there's a constant barrage of things like that, so you
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: could literally just play those and like never actually do
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: any chapters of the game. Because it starts in nineteen
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: eighty four, it means we're running concurrent with several Weasley brothers,
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: so you're friends with Bill and Charlie. You get to
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: see Bill graduate, you get to see the Twins come
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: into Hogwarts, which is really interesting. You see Cedric Diggery
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: come into Hogwarts, so you have some overlap like that,
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: which is interesting. Some of it isn't quite canon, Like
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: there seems to be a problem with when they introduce
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Quarrel and him teaching Muggles studies, like it doesn't line
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: up the way it's supposed to, and everyone's like, oh okay,
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: and then there's just like various canon issues that don't
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: make sense, Like for whatever reason, it's a jabbernel with
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: an A. They have never corrected it, even though everyone
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: points it out. It's like, that's that's easy to look
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: up and check. So there's weird little quirks like that
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: that you're like, huh, Okay, so it's not I see
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: why they're always needing writers for the game. Oh and
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: you they also you know, you can go on dates
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: with your friends. They are inclusive. You can pick any
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: of your friends to go out on dates with. You
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: are not limited to just those of the opposite sex.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: I go out a lot with the raven claude dude,
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: I forget his name, but he can turn into a bird.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: But the biggest issue with the game, in my opinion,
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: is your character is effectively a merry suit, Like, what
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: do you mean we're becoming an animeagus? What do you
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: mean we're learning at it? As to patrons? What do
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: you mean I never get in trouble? What do you like?
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: It's a we get in trouble and we go talk
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: to Dumbledore, and Dumbledore's like, well, let's try a better
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: next time. You like, you technically have options in your
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: like little dialogue tree when you're doing like the chapters
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: and stuff, but they rarely make any difference in what
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: you're doing, unless it's something like the animegas or the
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: Patrona's quest, because there's three options for each and your
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: little answers like we'll dictate which one you get. If
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: you have a specific one you want, go to the reddit.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: They have a whole they have all the guides. That's
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: what I did to get the ones I wanted. But effectively,
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: your character can like do no wrong. Your character never
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: really gets in trouble, even though they're like breaking into
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: rooms at the school, like doing all of this stuff
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: and like becoming an Animega said like year three, like, uh,
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: you never can do wrong.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: I mean I guess, like what's the like, I guess
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: what's the like mystery part of this? Is it like
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: this Jacob going missing, Like he's the mystery.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the mystery is Jacob and the Cursed Vaults, even
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: though that kind of like falls away because there's like
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: a rogue defense against the dark Arts Professor and like
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: you're five, who like gets really sketchy and you get
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: kind of more into that kind of after all the
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: vault things happen. But I'm not gonna lie. I don't
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: pay that much attention to the story anymore so because
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: it doesn't really go anywhere.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Like does the mystery like resolve itself like early on,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: like did they maybe not expect.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: It to go that long?
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: So now there is no mystery.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: So they kind of do it. If I'm remembering correctly,
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: that it ends up like you're finding a cursed vault
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: each year for those like first five years, but then
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: you kind of get to the point where years five, six,
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: and seven, it's like I said, they really just didn't
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: seem to know what they were gonna do post year seven,
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: so they just kind of kept adding chapters. So let
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: me let me just do a quick thing to compare
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: the chapter lens, chapter numbers and.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: How what's almost like they didn't even need if they
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: were gonna call it Hogwarts Mystery, Like did they even
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: need to develop it beyond Hogwarts?
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: I don't think so, right, but they did so. For example,
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: Hogwart's Mystery Year one has ten chapters. Hogwarts Mystery Year seven,
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: let's see how many it contains sixty chapters. What, Yeah,
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: it's they just didn't know what they wanted to do
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: year seven. It's mindre shing. You're getting more into like
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: you're doing some stuff like their little tasks for the
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: ministry that's theoretically like helping you decide what to do,
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: but like it's like chapter thirties five the the Horror Program,
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: it's time for your next career exploration, like they kind
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: of just go into that effectively. Oh yeah, and then
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: there's like some random objects that you're keeping. But to me,
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: none of the story makes sense kind of after the
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: death of the character. It's like they they'd been leading
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: up to that point and then just didn't really know
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: what to do after, and now it's just kind of
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: like a for frenzis for me, like, I don't pay
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: attention to the story because there's no reason too. It's
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: not going anywhere. I do the fun little timed like
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: quests and that you do silly little things they've introduced,
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: like the Malfoys and you have like a whole thing
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: with like a young Draco at one point. They're always
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: doing new holiday and Valentine's ones, but they put like
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: all the Valentine's ones in year four, so I'm going
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: on like six Valentine's dates. I guess in year four.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: I don't really know when you have time for that.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: They're probably spread out a little better than that, but
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: they end up being a lot of those timed side
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: quests for year three and year four. And because I
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: started playing at the beginning, it hasn't been been that
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: weird because you know, I've done them as they come out,
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: But for people like just getting into the game, it's
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: a barrage of them, like you're constant you finish one
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: and then the next one is triggering, and like it's
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: a barrage trying to get through them all to actually
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: like do the thing. So I would say it's not
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: a great game to try to come in and start
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: now I'm the thing.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you've convinced me to no.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: I genuinely think it's one of those games where it's
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: if you hadn't if you started playing after twenty twenty,
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: it's not really worth it unless you were just like
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: grinding the whole time and like buying gems like candy
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: to convert in energy. Like there's just too many TLS
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: cues now for you to like it's just like overload. Yeah.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: So honestly, Hogwarts Mystery is a mess.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: I'm surprised it's still around kind of like just given
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: how we've seen so many and we'll obviously talk about
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: this as we talk about some of the other games.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: How we've seen so many of them like leave and
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: does not stick around, and like what about Hogwarts Mystery
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: has still remained all this time.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: It's one of the few things that really gave you, like, okay,
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: a multi year thing through Hogwarts, which is inevitably something
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: that like in the gaming part of Harry Potter, we
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: just kind of continue to lack, like yeah and right,
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: you get to kind of make your own character. You're
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: still getting interesting choices like which of your friends are
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: you gonna date? And you know, things like that. And
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: it has the thing right, it has quidditch, it has
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: the magical creatures, like, it kind of has all the
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: little things, right because the Fantastic Beasts game that you know,
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: case files one that we had for a while that
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: was fun, but it was just the magical creatures. And
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: then you have like the Quidditch Champions, but that's just quidditch.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: You have Hogwarts Legacy where I can run around the castle,
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: but that's about all I can do in that game,
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: Like they don't even have quidditch, like, so it.
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: Kind of yeah everything.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: I think that's the big like thing is, oh, I
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: can actually go through Hogwarts and take the little classes,
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: and I think I think that's ultimately the appeal. And
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: because it consistently has new content coming out, it does
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: like I think it's maybe every other week. Now. Every
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: week there's a new chapter, like for the post Hogwarts thing,
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: since that's where we're at now. But right there's consistently
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: stuff coming out, so even if you were caught up,
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: you'd know within a week there would be more stuff
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: to do. And that's something, right. A lot of games
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: fall into is well, they did the thing, and now
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: you've completed the game and you've done all the side
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: quests and that's it.
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I feel like it, you know, well, it's
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: kept you engaged all these years. Even though you feel like,
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: you know, you have some issues with it, you're still
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: going back to play it. So I'm sure there's a
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: lot of other people that feel all right.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: So here is my time side quest that is triggered
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: the Hogwarts Tapestry. Author Kingsley's Shackable is recruiting me on
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: a special mission. Will I uncover a lost piece of
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: Hogwarts past? Probably not, but if I've completed it, maybe
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: I will, and I'll get a special reward. But there's
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: been so many of these now that you have too
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: many special rewards and you don't have enough places to
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: put them all, so you have to pick and choose
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: which ones to keep out, and that's important because when
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: you tap them, they either give you energy or money,
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: or pages or empathy, courage, knowledge points, or gems. So
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: you have to decide what's important to you. It's a lot.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: I feel like by comparison, the next one we're going
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: to talk about is so much nows.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: Wouldn't I think?
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, genuinely. When Hogwarts Mystery first copened in twenty eighteen,
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: I do think it was fun, Like the simplicity of
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: it was nice. But now there's just so much happening
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: in it. There's so many events constantly. There's so many,
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: like there's a new time side quest a month. That's
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: a lot, and most of them are completely dumb.
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I wonder if the developers too are like,
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: because obviously it's been around for a while, if that's
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: their way of like trying to just keep people engaged,
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: and it's like it's working, but it's also sounds like
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: maybe it's also too much.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: It's also kind of discouraging new people but keeping the old,
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: which yeah, yeah.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know, but that's why
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: I'm out with the game. Is the TL don't Listen
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: is there's a lot going on, and in my opinion,
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: the main story kind of finishes up after you figure
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: out the whole cursed fault thing. And maybe that's because
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: I'm not paying attention to the rest of it. Maybe
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: it gets more interesting. I don't know, but none of
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: it seemed interesting enough to The story itself is not
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: interesting enough to keep my attention.
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: So hm hmm.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, now we know the mystery that is everyone. See,
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: I told you guys, there was a lot about this game.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: There's so much and that was like the low key version.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: I could have done so much more, Like there's events
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: and stuff I did not talk about at all, Like
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: there's so much more I did.
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, I sure did.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: That's what I did get into.
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Amy and I are like, we can't talk about
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: it really other than what I can find on the internet.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: And that even doesn't give you enough. But it's still around,
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: So if you want to try to slog three year three,
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: have fun, I guess.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: Okay. Well, the only mobile game that I've ever played
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: for Harry Potter was Wizards Unite. All right, So Wizards
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: Unite came out after Hogwarts Mystery did. It was released
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. It was shut down in twenty twenty two,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: which is kind of sad because this game was actually
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: fun and I would definitely play it.
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: They did not give it long enough. They did not know.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: So Wizards Unite was an augmented reality mobile game. It
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: was developed by Niantic and w WB Games San Francisco.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: It was published by Niantic under a license with pork
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: Key Games. So Niantick is the same company that developed
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: Pokemon Go, and obviously the Pokemon Go craze influenced the
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: development of a Potter version of that game. And so
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: the beta version of Wizardsy Night was released in New
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: Zealand in April twenty nineteen and in Australia in May
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen, and then it was had a water
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: release in June of that same year. So the plot summary,
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: I just pulled this from the Harry Potter wiki to
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: try and sum this up a little bit. It's less
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: complicated than the last one we talked about, but sure
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: it still can get slightly confusing.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: So here's the summary.
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: When unpredictable traces of magic appeared all over the Muggle world,
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: the wizarding world faced potential exposure to avert this calamity,
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: the Ministry of Magic began recruiting, which is in wizards
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: to join the Statue of Secrecy task Force. So yeah,
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: so basically you're playing this game as one of those
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: Wizards recruited for this task force to try and fix
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: this situation that they constantly refer to as the calamity.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Throughout the entire game, you choose your character's profession. You
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: can choose between a professor, a magic zoologist, or an orror,
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: and then you move around a map that's based off
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: of your real world geographical area to find these traces.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: So those traces include creatures, items, memories, wizards, even and
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: your job is basically to hunt these down and return
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: them to the Ministry. So just like Pokemon Go, you know,
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: this game really encouraged people to move outside and get
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: that physical exercise and fresh air. In the process. It
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: did kind of also encourage like group gaming, which is
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: kind of fun, Like, you know, people would meet up
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: and go out and play Wizard's Night, just like they
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: would with Pokemon Go.
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: I wonder if this would have survived longer if it
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: didn't come out right around the pandemic. Yes, I feel
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: like that's what did it end?
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: That's fair. I remember when I downloaded it that summer
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: because I was spending a lot of time at my
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: now husband's house because we were like packing everything up
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: for a cross country move. And I remember like walking
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: out along his street because there were pokemono. They're like
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: the gyms, but you know, I don't remember what they
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: were called in Wizards Unite, but there was one. There
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: was like one at the end the street, and then
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: there was one like more towards the little park area.
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: And I remember, like being out in the freaking Arizona
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: heat in July, like walking to them, like entertaining myself, right,
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: and they it was fun.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: They did like they tried to add a feature during
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: shutdowns that was like the night bus and you could
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: take the night bus to any location without actually leaving
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: your location. But yeah, I do think that definitely contributed
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: to shutting it down, which is unfortunate. It was a
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: really fun game. I enjoyed it. But yeah, uh so
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: there's like a few things that you are trying to
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: collect along the way. So the foundables is what they
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: call the things that you collect and return to the ministry.
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: That includes people, creatures, items, memories, Confoundables are the pieces
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: of chaotic magic that put the foundables in public places,
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: risking the breach of the Statute of secrecy. So if
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: you encounter a confoundable, you have to use spells against
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: them to try and free the foundables that they have trapped.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: To do the spells, you're tracing like the symbol for
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: the spell with your finger on the screen. You have
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: to do it sometimes a couple times, and that usually
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: puts the foundable into your inventory. Spells do require spell energy,
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: which does not replenish with time, so like you couldn't
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: just like close out of the app and then like wait,
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: you had to actually go and visit ins in greenhouses
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: to replenish your energy.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: I thought that's why I stopped playing.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, which was a problem during COVID.
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like you.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: Can't like the greenhouses and inns were usually buildings and
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: more populated areas that they didn't want to be walking to.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: I thought that's why I stopp playing, because I could
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: keep playing Hogwarts Mystery from the comfort of my apartment
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: in Gorant.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes, so yeah, these buildings, like buildings on your
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: map in the real world, would show up as different
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: things like these inns in greenhouses and fortresses, which the
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: fortresses you could go and duel dark wizards and creatures,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: which was kind of yeah, that was really.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: Fun, quite as intense as like a friend die, right right.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: The greenhouses is where you would go to get potion ingredients.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: The inns is where you would go and replenish.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: Your spell energy.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: Uh so, just a lot of different things there. There
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: were a bunch of characters with this game, so kind
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: of the main one was Constance Pickering and she, yeah,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: everyone remembers Constant.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: She worked for the Ministry in Magic.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: She was the leader of this task force and she's
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: basically like your liaison, and she's like guiding you through
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: the game and what to do and giving you the backstory.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: There was Mordecai barry Cloth who was in Orror, Matilda
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: grimble Hawk, a Ministry investigator, Gareth green Grass who is
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: a nonspeakable, Grim Fowley who was a researcher at the Ministry.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: Regina ral was another unspeakable, and then you also encounter
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: Minerva McGonagall and Harmione Granger as well.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, so how much of that I remember? Yeah,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: how much it's like coming back to me now. That
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: you're talking about.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: Uh so the game it received mixed reviews.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: A lot of the issues.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: Were that it ran like really really really slow on
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: older phone models, so if you didn't have the latest phone,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: you were not going.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: To get this to play. Yeah.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sadly I never I never have it. Yeah, that
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: was kind of the issue I ran into was when
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: this came out, the phone I had couldn't run it,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: and then by the time I got a new phone,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: it was about to shut down. So I only enjoyed
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: a little bit of this game, which was really sad.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: But yeah, the game ended service in twenty twenty two,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: so sad.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: That's why do I feel like that's longer than I
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: would have thought. But maybe it's because I fell off
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: and just kind of stopped tearing about it.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: Well, and those pandemic ears were like, yeah, you know,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: they were really we super fair. Was you were talking
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: about it too. It reminded me because there's obviously some
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: other mobile games that have come out over the years
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: that like we didn't include in this episode, But when
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: you were taking it brought me back to a game
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: I loved which we didn't have in here. When you
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: were talking about having to trace the spell with your finger.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys remember it was called
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: Harry Potter Spells and it was on the iPod.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: I don't never. Yeah, I don't have Apple stuff all.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: Right, right, I think it was only on iPod. But
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: it was like way back, like I played the high
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: school yeah, yes, yes, because you had to be able
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: look yep, okay, So I think it came out. I think,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: I mean probably, like I graduated high school in two
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: thousand and nine, I feel like I played it around
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: like high school college, and I remember it had like
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: a blue cloudy background. I loved that game. And essentially
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: that game was all about like learning to do spells
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: and you would trace them with your finger. So I
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: just so many memories like flooded back when you were
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: talking about tracing the spells with your finger.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: We love a good tra scene, yes, I love. Yeah.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: That one didn't survive too too long either, I don't think.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: But see that's the weird one I did when I
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: would like play on my friends iPod touches was Tap
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: Tap Tap Tap Revolution, which was like Dance Dancer.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: Too. Yeah, I played that too.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it still exists. But that was fun.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: The one that I was obsessed with on my iPod
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: touch was uh I think it was called like Zombie
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: Farm or something.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I played that too.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: My friend and I downloaded it as a joke and
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: then we both got like addicted to it. You would
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: like grew your little zombies and then you went to
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: battle against like a neighboring farmer, and when they were
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: ready to be harvested, it was.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: The little green thumb popped up out of the ground.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: Why does that feel like? That was definitely made in
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: the era of like the Walking Dead.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 4: Boom actually, speaking of I guess to add an unofficial
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 4: Harry Potter mobile game and if someone.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: Did create a Snitch version of like Flappy Bird, but
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: it was the fly like the Snitch. It did eventually, Yeah,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: it did eventually go away because I used to play
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: that and I used to play a Doctor Hoover. Actually
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: do still play the Doctor Who version, but I think
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: at some point that Snitch one.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: There were there were a lot of versions, Like I
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: feel like I saw one where it was like Kim
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: Kardashian's head. There were a lot of them. Back in
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: the ear. Flappy Bird that was such a good time. Man,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: let's go back to I need I need Temple Run
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: to make a comeback.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: Temple Run is still around.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: I still play it, I know, but I feel like
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: we need like the back of it, like an update
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: of it. Yeah, let me like change characters, you know,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: do some licensing. Let me like have cat and said
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: in there or something.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they should make like a fourth waying variation of it.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: And it's like, yeah, anyways, we just well we wanted
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: to get we went off the rails. So I just
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: picture them like running on the parapet like they see
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: if they could do it. They could do it, could Okay? Anyways,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: back to Harry Potter. So the next game that we
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: want to talk about is Harry Potter Puzzles and Spells.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: So this game came out in twenty twenty. And this
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: is your kind of standard match three puzzle mobile game,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: think like Candy Crush. So this is basically Wizarding World
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: Candy Crush. And so this game was developed by Zinga
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: and published also by port Key Games in September of
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty, as I mentioned, And you can play this
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: on Android, iOS, Amazon, Kindle, and Facebook Gaming.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: What's on Facebook?
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: It is on Facebook Gaming it is.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: I did not know that Hubbard's Mystery is on Facebook
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: for our window of time, but sometime in like twenty
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: twenty two, maybe twenty twenty one, it got removed.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: Interesting, well, this, as far as I know, is still
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: on Facebook Gaming. Nice and so yeah, so this one
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: is like again pretty straightforward, like as a player, you're
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: solving different puzzles by matching you know, your three little
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: colors or your three shapes or whatever, and as you
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: do this, you can unlock various spells and potions and
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: magical creatures. You utilize different boosts and power ups to
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: clear like hazards that show up on the board, and
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: of course all those hazards are themed to different you know,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: Harry Potter elements, and you can also participate in spell
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: Upgrade events where you can solve different puzzles that are
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: themed around the various Hogwarts classes. And as you play
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: through the game and the different levels, you'll visit familiar
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: Wishing World locations, and you also kind of like play
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: through like puzzles that are themed after iconic moments from
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: the Harry Potter films. I would say like they're very
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: like and also the books too, Like you could loosely
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: tie some of the puzzles to like certain chapters of
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 3: the books, but I think it's definitely focused on like
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: let's do our most iconic things. So think like obviously
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: like Platform nine and three quarters, going to diagon Alley,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: like dealing with Man Drakes, like a lot of those
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: iconic moments.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: Cool.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: And one thing that is cool about this that I
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: think you don't typically see in a lot of other
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: like Match three games, is that like because it's a
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: Harry Potter game, like, they of course have an element
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: where you can customize and create your own character, which
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: I think is really cool. So you can customize your appearance,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: you can choose a wand you can choose your house,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: so the standard things that you know, we typically see
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: with Harry Potter games. And then there would.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: Be like a riot if they didn't let you choose your.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: Choose something yeah yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, but they just
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: put you in a random house, Like yeah.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: I think that would have been one of those things
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: that have had happened, they would have immediately like pushed
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: an update and like correct today.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: And then there is like a little bit of a
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: like social element to the game as well. Players can
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: form clubs together. Obviously you've got people in different houses, right,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 3: so there's different things that can happen there as well,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: and you can participate in differently cooperative activities with other players,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: which is cool too. And yeah, I mean with this game,
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: it's pretty like, I don't have anything super cool to
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: like share about it other than it I think it
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 3: is really well done for It's been a little bit
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: since I've played it, but this is the mobile game
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: that I've played the most, and I think they've done
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: a really good job with it, and they continue to
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: update it. I know in some of like our news
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: sections of other episodes, we've talked about like different puzzles
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: that are coming, different scenes that are coming, So yeah,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: like Hogwart's Mystery, they kind of are continuing to add
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: different things to it to make it, you know, fun.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: This is a game that if you, uh, you could
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: easily jump into Puzzles and sees because a new player,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: unlike Hogwarts Mystery. So I really like these types of
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: games because they're just so mindless and they're addict they're
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 3: so addicted. So yeah, but yeah, that's Puzzles and Spells cool.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: I like the graphics for that one. I haven't played
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: it in a while. I think I downloaded it like
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: around the time it was first, But I don't end
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: up playing a lot of match three games. I do
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: a lot of like the matching tiles, like Jong style
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: games or like Sudoku. But I remember really liking the
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: graphics because they're very The colors, at least for me,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: were very vivid on my screen and looked really nice
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: because like Candy Crush, the colors are vivid, but they're
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: vivid all in the same way, so they all like
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: one together.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 3: Mute it I think. I actually think Candy Crush kind
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: of looked a little muted yeah after a while, and
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: like dull I feel like, but no, they did a
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: really good job with the graphics with puzzles and spells.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: I need to re download it and get back into
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: it because it was really fun.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: You could have been playing it on your cruise, right,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: I know, because I was. So you don't need Internet
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: at out things.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: I don't think you do. You would for like obviously
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: like the social components and the challenges and stuff, but
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: if you're just going through the levels, yeah, I don't
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: think you need to be on internet.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: See like Hagrid smister, you always got to be attached. Yeah,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: because it's like always like remotely saving your thing and
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: like all this stuff. Another con. I guess I'll just
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: keep coming up.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: With more, but it's just gonna keep playing it.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: Look, I think I think it's my sunk cost fallacy
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: at this point. I think that's what it is for me,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: and you know, randomly when I want to interact with
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: my swooping evil because.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, from what I remember, I don't remember
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: having any issues with Puzzles and Spells.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: So definitely.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 3: Definitely download.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: Since two out of the four games you're talking about
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: you can't download anymore. Of the two you can download,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: Puzzles and Spells is the way to go. Yeah.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 3: I literally am re putting.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: It on my right now, Mystery out right now.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 3: Welcome back. It's funny though, because I went to my
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: Little Games folder and I definitely do still have Hogwarts Mystery,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: and I actually still have oh my god, this would
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: I need to delete this but it's not downloaded on
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: my phone but it's still showing. But I have the
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: Fantastic Beasts, the Old the Wow, it's wait, it's still
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: the case.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I forgot that was even a thing.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: Honestly, it was good.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 3: I didn't I didn't think it would actually open. Y'all,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 3: this game is still works wild. I wonder if you're
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 3: still in the app store when I say it was
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 3: called fant okay, Well, maybe we should have added this
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 3: one into our little thing too, because I did not
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 3: expect that that game.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: No, I didn't think that would wild.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 3: I mean still in the app store. Well, funny story,
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 3: it's not still in the app store.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: So must just be. If you already have it down,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: you're good.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 3: But I haven't. I haven't updated it in probably like
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: six years.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: Interesting, I mean no, neither is anyone else.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so wild. So last game that's on our
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: list none of us have played. Oh yeah, So I'm
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: not gonna spend a lot of time on this.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna give a rundown.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: Harry Potter. Magic Awakened was released in twenty twenty one,
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: and it's shut down in most markets in twenty twenty
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: four and twenty twenty five. It's an RPG game with
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: card based combat elements, and it is based ten years
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: after the Battle of Hogwarts. It was developed by WB
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: and Knee Tees under the port key Games Umbrella. It
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: was first released in Asian markets, where it still seems
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: to be playable even though shut down for the rest
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: of the world.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: This was like a tabletop RPG with cards, but on
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: your phone correct innovated.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 3: So didn't Tom play this? I feel like Tom was
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: sad when we found out it was going away, Like
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: I remember us talking about that in a segment Innovated.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: So.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: Here's the plot summary from Harry Potter wikie h. Ten
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: years after Harry Potter's legendary victory over Lord Valdemore at
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: the Battle of Hogwarts, a young Muggelborne receives an unexpected
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: visit from a giant of a man by the name
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: of Rubius Hagrid, who has come to deliver their letter
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: of acceptance to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: Hagrid explains to them about the existence of the wizarding
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: world and accompanies them to Diagon Alley, where they purchased
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: necessary supplies for their first year. Upon arriving, however, a
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: mystery begins to unfold, and on the mystery sorry on
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: the grounds when one of the first years, Ivy Warrington,
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: goes mysteriously missing after the sorting ceremony. Why are all
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: these students going missing?
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: Is Hogwarts even really that safe?
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: No, no, we know this first. Jacob the player thus
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: starts their numerous adventures at Hogwarts by finding Ivy first.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, so at least.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: They find you're effectively Harry Potter two point out.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 3: That's what I was like. This seems like Hagrid is
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 3: like cheating on Harry here creating.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: Gosh mm hmm weird.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it looks like in this game, you know,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: you like choose your avatar, you choose your house, you
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: attend lessons, you join the dueling club. So how this
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: works as a card based game but on a mobile
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: device is you collect spells in the form of cards.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's like a tabletop card RPG kind of thing,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: but they're like digital and on your phone, and you
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: need the card in order to use the spells in
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: combat or for the story. There's also quidditch apparently, where
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: you have to tap.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: To dodge the bludgers and stuff like that.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: The House Cup you compete for with different challenges that
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: are held daily in the form of duels or quidditch matches.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: This made me laugh.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: Apparently there's a dance club feature where you play a
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: rhythm game to dance.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 3: I love Rhythm, the high School musical rhythm game that
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 3: I could play on my Nintendo DS. Yeah, I love
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: rhythm games. They should come out with a Harry Potter
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 3: rhythm game with like the music.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Top Top Prevolution. But Harry Potter Cotter.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 3: Well, sorry, there's a I have to put this idea
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 3: out right because like we always put ideas out on
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 3: our podcast, and if God forbid, anybody listens to our
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 3: podcast and they get this idea. But there's this game
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 3: that I play on my Nintendo three d as that
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 3: is a rhythm game with oh my god, the name
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 3: is Escaping Me. What is the the disney Oh my god,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 3: Oh my god. Oh I couldn't think of it. So
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: it's like but it's like a rhythm game to the music,
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 3: because like the music of Final Fantasy is really big
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: as well in the game like video gaming music community,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 3: and it's like I can picture them doing this with
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 3: like very similar but using it with Harry Potter, and
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 3: they have it where there's like four like characters that
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 3: are like and they do different moves, but they're like
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 3: as they do moves and as you like, like do
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 3: the moves correct you attack something, So like all you
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 3: got to do is put like I don't know, a
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 3: dat theater or like Baltimore or like.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: A rhythm game to defeat Voldemort dance that.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: So but it would be so fun and chill and struss.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: It's fun.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 3: But anyways, carry on. I just add that idea pop
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 3: and I could see it in my brain.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so, I guess, you know, taking place only ten
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: years after the Harry Potter timeline, there's a lot of
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: familiar characters that pop up in this game. Most of
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: the Hogwarts staff is the same. Obviously, we get Nevill
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: Longbottom as a professor in this game, and the list
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: of like students you interact with a lot of them
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: have familiar last names as well.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: Love that so hashtag nepotism.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean that's really all I have to
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: say about Magic Awakened, because.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: I remember downloading it but not enjoying the art style
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: a ton, so then I promptly undownloaded it. Oops.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was reading that. You know, even though it's
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: not available in a lot of places, you can change
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: your location.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: You're going to the app store and then you can download.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 3: But from an Asian country.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, spell, Puzzles and spells are still the best one.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah. Specialis all right.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: So it's been a while since we've done a specialis
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: for Velio, but we wanted to do one this episode.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: Because with all of these.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: Mobile games there's spells of some sort involved. So I
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: chose to dive into the etymology of uh, I'm gonna
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: say it wrong, MEI meati, all the jinks for medio mediology,
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: inks for canto.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: I did that to myself. You did? You did?
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 3: I think that?
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: But this spell I chose because I know it appears
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: in most of the mobile games. I don't know about
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: puzzles and spells, but the other ones we talked about,
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: it's definitely in there. And this is the spell that
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: mister Weasley recommends rereg Cattermole aka Ron tries to stop
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: the raining in Yaxley's office and Deathly Hallows. This could
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: also be the spell that movie version matd Ee Moody
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: uses on the ceiling in the Great Hall and Goblet
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: of Fire. So obviously this spell name is derived from meteorology,
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: which we know is the scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: including the weather and the word meteorology has Greek roots,
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: with the word meteoron roughly meaning phenomenon in.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: The sky, no band name.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: I call it Greek, I think, yeah, definitely. Greek philosopher
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: Aristotle wrote the first major report on the Earth's atmosphere,
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: called meteorology, meteor meteorology, meteorologic.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 2: Let me just say arologia. Don't think about it.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: There you go too many? He wrote that, wrote that
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: one in three hundred and fifty BCE. It remained a
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: well regarded authority on the subject for over two thousand years.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: So go Aristotle. What wasn't he just throw that over
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: just saying yeah, he was kind of smart or something.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: So then the other part of this meteorology inks, the
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: jinks part. Obviously, jinks means bringing bad luck or casting
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: an evil spell. In the Harry Potter universe, a jinx
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: is usually like a mischievous or annoying charm, not dark magic,
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: but more like irritating or for amusement, rather than doing
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: serious harm. Recanto comes from the word wecan't, meaning to
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: do recan't is Latin. Yeah, So basically mediologys for kanto
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: basically means to undo a bit of bad luck of weather.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I did look it up, and I do
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 3: not think that this one appears in Puzzles and Spells.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 3: It looks like it is only in Hogwarts Mystery and
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 3: Wizards Unite. Honestly, what there are a lot of spells
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 3: and puzzles and spells.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's in the name, not this one, right,
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 2: but not this one. This one's too cool. Watch They're
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: going to listen to our podcast and it's going to
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: be the next blak event. This one's too hard, right,
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: Like you stole the idea from us to include a
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: spell and an ip We don't know how dare are you?
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: Hm hmm Yeah, so that is kind of the anymology
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: behind that.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 3: So nice. So in the last episode, we asked you guys,
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 3: what do you think could happen in a Hogwarts Legacy sequel?
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 3: Which we know that there's a sequel in development, so
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 3: maybe some of these ideas will show up. We got
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 3: a few responses, so Jerry shared, I think it might
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 3: allow visits to at least one other wizarding school. I
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 3: think Olver Morny or Bobaton's are most likely. That would
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 3: have to create uniforms for the male students from scratch,
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 3: since the movies and Epic Universe only have female students
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 3: for either of these schools, that'd be really cool involve
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 3: the other schools for sure.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: T Yeah, and like I know we said in the
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: last episode. I think it was Sam brought it up,
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: like how cool would it be to get Hogwarts legacy
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: style games based at these other schools?
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly, Yeah, someone take me to Castella Broxo. Yes,
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: I'm unsure if the Exosi or someone take me there.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 3: I really want to go to derm Strength because I
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 3: just want to find out if, like they're all so
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 3: intense all the time.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: Are they all always? I feel like they are.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 3: I think so too when I kind of am here
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 3: for it, so.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: Honestly am they walk around learning their little like staff choreography.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 3: They all have staffs and they're just walking.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: Around whenever my nephriends are watching, like because they'll watch
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: through the movies and that's staff And I can't help
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: but laugh every time, and even like with the Bow
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, is this dancing well?
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 3: And it's so funny when you watch the show at Universal,
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 3: like when they're when they do the Bobaton's and derm striding.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 3: Because of course, you obviously have people in the crowds
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 3: that I think have probably never watched the films or
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 3: like picking up and then when they're all like, everyone's like,
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 3: oh what is going on?
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 2: That's funny?
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well great idea. Jerry love that and actually fandom
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 3: Shmandam had a very kind of like similar like idea.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 3: They said some sort of interschool tournament should happen, so
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 3: you know, yeah, like let's bring like the Try Wizard tournament,
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 3: but make it like more than Try Wizard. Yeah, and
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 3: maybe like not so scary and full of death, like
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 3: maybe a little bit more fun. But as they know,
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 3: the wizarding world really likes death of students.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: So I mean like in Hogwarts Legacy, there's like camp
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: sites where like everyone's just like, oh.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: That's the student we want to kill. So obviously, yeah,
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: there's hot up.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 2: I don't think every time every time I learned something
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: about Hogwarts Legacy, I'm like, oh, okay, I don't know
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: a lot about Hogwarts Legacy, but I know there's no quidditch.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: I know we love Sebastian, and I know that you
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: can learn the dark unforgivable you.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: Can, yes, but you know you can't use it inside
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: Hogwarts apparently.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: Oh ye, fair question.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: Then, but you hos plot hole fair game?
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: How did he? How how did fake Moody do it? Then?
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know. In for plot hole, I don't know. Sorry,
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: it's probably not actually a plot. They take place in
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: different periods of time.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: It's more like, if you use it in Hogwarts, I
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: think your character just gets in trouble and then like
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: you can't use it again.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 2: Which fair I mean is it's called an unforgived You
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 2: kind of can't just like kill other students, you know.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: I feel like you have to like let that get
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 2: you in trouble unless you're history then nothing gets you.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: In cab at it.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 2: Just do better next time.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, You'll have a little talk with Dumbledore and I'm like,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 3: just do better next time. Don't show anymore students.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: We'll understand.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 2: He'll be like, are you doing this thing? And BE
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: like no, Dumbledore and he's like, look, I know you're
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: doing the thing. Here's how to do it.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, okay, a better way to do it.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 3: I love fostering magical growth and my students. Yeah, Anyways,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 3: something that you had actually just mentioned was, is lucy
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 3: suggestion is that you know Quidditch one thousand percent needs
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 3: to be there.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't get why it isn't.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: There, Which is funny because my least favorite part of
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: Hogwarts Legacy is the flying challenges. Hate them so much,
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: so bad at them. I one of them. I had
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: to cheat and go into my settings and set it
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: on story mode so that I didn't actually have to
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: like fully do well in the flying Challenge.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: To move on. So I switched it to story mode,
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: failed the.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: Challenge, came back out of the challenge, and still got
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: to move on, and then I reset my settings to normal.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: That's so funny, Like I can't do this.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm having a story mode player all the time.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 2: Anyways.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I think like Quidditch would do really well,
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 3: because I mean I actually really like the quidditch games
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 3: like that come out too, So yeah, I could see
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 3: I could see that being in this in the second one,
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 3: unless for some reason they're like not allowed to do it,
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 3: but I can't imagine.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: I think the issue was there was so much watch
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: else going on in this game that they literally did
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: not have.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 3: Space for quite but yeah, well that's what sequels are for, right.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 2: Mm hmmmm hm, and watch them still not put quidditch.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 2: It's like, do you guys know the game Planet Zoo? No? No,
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: I mean it's just a game and you make a zoo. Uh.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 2: They would put out new animal packs all the time,
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 2: but they never put out any birds like they did
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 2: like an ostrich and stuff, but no birds that fly.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 2: There was never like a flying mechanic. And then they
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: added backs and like butterflies and people are like, Okay,
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 2: it's coming, We're getting birds. Nope, never gotten birds.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: Huh.
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 2: Then they moved on to developing Planet Zoo too, and
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: supposedly this will have birds, but it became like a
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 2: whole thing where they're like, look, it's a new animal
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: pack and everyone's like does it have birds And they're
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: like well no, and they're like we don't want it, no,
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: thank you, Like we have enough things. Give us birds.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: So we'll see. If number two actually has birds in it.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 3: I would say maybe it's a logistical thing, but if
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 3: they can do other flying creatures, then yeah.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 2: See. My conspiracy was that the like team member working
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 2: on the Burbs left and had like a clause in
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: their contract that they could like take the take unfinished
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: code with them and that nobody could recreate it. That's
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 2: my conspiracy theory. I don't know if it's true, but
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 2: that's my conspiracy theory. Well, folks, we're leaving you with
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: another discussion question. Wow, shocker. I know, and we've talked
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: about a lot of different mobile games today. They all
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 2: kind of have their different thing. But what kind of
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 2: Harry Potter mobile game would you like to see next?
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 2: We'd love to hear your thoughts. You probably we will
• 1:33:00
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• 1:33:03
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• 1:33:07
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• 1:33:10
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• 1:33:12
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• 1:33:15
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• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: All right, so Liz, this is your moment. Is there
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: anything you want to plug where our listeners can find
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: you and all of the.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: Work you do. Wow, Oh, some of you want to
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: hear me continue to talk reading them things with Amy
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 2: that are like tangentially Harry Potter related. You can see
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 2: me over at Expecto Podtronum, where we talk about Patronis's
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 2: and honestly a lot of tangents. If you're a Hunger
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 2: Games fan, you can find me at PanAm Parley where
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 2: me and my co host Carmen and I think Carmen
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: was on here a while back. We talk about Hunger
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 2: Games and we're rereading the books right now. And that's
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: over on Instagram at PanAm Parley Pod, and I have
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: a Bookstagram if you just want to follow along for
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 2: books recommendations. I'm on Instagram at Liz and Young ninety seven,
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 2: not super original. I'm reading lots of books. I'm currently
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 2: trying to get through my backlist of books that I
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 2: want to read because they remind me of Harry Potter
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 2: in some way. Like there's one Evergreen Academy and it's
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 2: a trilogy of like Magical Botanist College that looks really
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 2: fun and there I have one. This one is called
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 2: King's Preparatory. Oh my blur, there we go and it's
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 2: a magical school in the desert. And that's so. I
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 2: have stuff like that and I'm hoping to read some
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 2: of them and put together a list for everyone that
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 2: may be will put on the Rebellion website if I
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 2: ever do it.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, that's that's me.
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 2: And of course I'll still be doing social media here.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad we finally got you on an episode.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: You guys keep talking about it, like.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 2: Rant about Hogwart's mystery and convince you not to start
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: the game with this.
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: I'm definitely convinced if you're.
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: On the fence, don't do it. It's you've kind of
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: missed the window to have a pleasant experience in the game. Yeah,
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 2: this is all right. Thank you, Yeah, thank you, thank you.
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 2: Until next time, I'm Amy, I'm Nicole, and I'm Liz.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 2: Mission managed