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  dude, these Dursleys need to be on Super Nanny.
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  Yeah.
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  That would be such an incredible show.
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  Or like, Wife Swab with King Curtis.
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  Like the wife swap? Dudley is King Curtis,
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  Hello and welcome back to Inside Quotes Book Club,
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  the show where my brother and I read some books.
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  But more specifically, we read books that turn into movies.
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  We are currently covering the first Harry Potter book,
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  one chapter per week, with intentions of prepping for the new HBO show coming this
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  Christmas. I'm your host Jeremy,
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  and with me today is my older brother Jonathan.
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  Jonathan, what you been reading lately?
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  Hey Jeremy, you know what I've been reading lately?
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  Lego instructions. All right.
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  Really?
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  I
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  got this little ~ pack of Harry Potter Legos from ~ Kelsey's
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  Okay
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  mom and I was like now's the perfect time to put together.
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  Is this technically
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  fan mail?
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  Yeah, I yeah, I guess it's fan mail,
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  yeah. And I I got like a
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  Yeah.
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  little, you know, Harry Potter minifig here.
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  I got ~ Albus Dumbledore's
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  Let's go!
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  desk here with a sorting hat, mind you.
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  that's cool, that's cool. Nice.
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  You know? It's just
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  like a little you know little mini set,
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  you know. I but I I I
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  Little miniset just to get your Lego fix.
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  think you were referring to this book right here,
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  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
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  That particular Harry Potter book,
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  Mhm. Yeah.
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  yes.
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  Mine's a hardback edition, but you know,
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  who's counting?
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  Well, Jeremy, chapter three, The Letters from No One.
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  What what did you think of the chapter?
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  Ooh, letters from no one. Well,
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  first of all, who is no one and why are they sending me letters?
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  You've been getting letters?
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  No, not really. I wish if you want to send me a letter you can do that
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  in a comment form down below Just say hey Good takes on this chapter that you're
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  reading right now and then I'll be like Thanks
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  ~ so yeah the letters from no one we are
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  on chapter three Do we want to do a little recap of what we've already?
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  Like for you know, it's been a week already since
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  the last people have watched. like,
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  should we do a recap of last week's chapter?
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  Last time on Harry Potter.
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  Ooh, sounds like you were prepared for that.
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  I I'm very much not, but
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  Okay.
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  well, last time on Harry Potter,
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  ~ it was the Vanishing Glass where Harry and the Dursleys go to the
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  zoo for Dudley's birthday and some hilarity pretty much ensues.
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  ~ and then he gets punished and that's pretty much where we're at at this point.
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  so yeah,
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  I've got my-
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  Finally, didn't write my notes in the car,
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  so I can actually read my notes this time.
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  Okay, this should be good then.
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  But Jonathan, do you have a chapter summary for this particular chapter?
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  Yeah. Mm-hmm. So for chapter three,
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  The Letters from No One. Harry begins receiving mysterious letters addressed
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  specifically to him. Uncle Vernon refuses to let Harry read them
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  and becomes increasingly desperate to prevent the letters from reaching him.
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  As more and more letters arrive,
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  the family tries moving from place to place to escape them.
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  Eventually, hundreds of letters pour into the house through every possible opening.
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  On Harry's eleventh birthday, the family retreats to a miserable shack
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  on a small island, hoping they have finally escaped the mysterious letters.
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  Clarity ensues
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  Clarity ensues.
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  This is an action-packed chapter.
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  It is full of just chaos and craziness But also it's
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  This
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  just at the end of the day. It's just like Harry getting mail ~
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  This is like the madness of Uncle Vernon,
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  this chapter. Just like
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  This is a great, it's a very entertaining chapter to read,
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  I would say.
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  I think, I hope the show really buys into the craziness of Uncle Vernon,
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  because like, he's sitting here like,
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  sleeping on the floor in front of his door so that Harry can't get his mail.
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  And more, we'll dive deeper into it.
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  But yeah, it's so funny and there's a lot of potential here for the show.
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  And I really hope it's shown.
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  So, but yeah, this is a exciting chapter because at first we've kind
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  of like the first chapter is just introduction to Harry
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  as a baby and what happened. Basically Harry's not even in that chapter,
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  but then the second chapter is actually this is Harry now he's 10 years old.
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  His life sucks, but now there's a little bit of hope or just a little
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  bit of creepiness because he has no idea what's going on.
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  And somehow people are like stalking him,
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  sending him mail. So let's find out.
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  There's a whole mystery and a whole nother world knocking on his door.
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  So shall we dive into this chapter?
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  Let's dive in.
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  So immediately I am...
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  guess I should pick it up. So immediately I am shown
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  the chapter art here. Classic chapter art.
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  It's solid. is a bunch of, for those not watching our video,
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  it is a mantelpiece, a chimney fireplace with hundreds of letters flying
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  out of it. And then you've got pictures of the family with Dudley's image.
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  as like the biggest because he's the most important on the mantle.
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  The mantle. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
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  Yeah.
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  What did I say?
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  I was just he didn't say anything.
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  I was just saying
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  okay. Okay. I thought I said it wrong.
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  Anyways, it's so funny. I love the image of this and it's,
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  I can't help but think of the hundreds of owls on the roof at this moment,
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  either waiting in line or just simultaneously swooping in one at a time.
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  Like it's a, like a fighter jet or something like that.
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  Yeah. Well let's let's talk
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  about that. Did owls deliver these letters?
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  Did owls deliver these letters?
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  That's what I- that's what the movie led me to believe because there's hundreds
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  Yeah. I the the movie does yeah,
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  of owls.
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  they're like they're all perched outside.
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  Do you see ~ like flying swooping through Privet Drive.
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  But in the book here, I don't think it actually mentions them seeing any
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  Really?
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  owls actually. Now the it's definitely like,
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  you know, magic is involved because,
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  yeah
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  you
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  know, they just keep coming, you know,
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  and it just keeps escalating. But
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  It doesn't actually say anything about like,
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  an owl delivered it on their doorstep.
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  It's actually coming through like the regular post,
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  actually. Which is kinda weird.
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  Really?
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  Yeah.
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  Or is an owl dropping it through the post box?
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  Whatever it's called.
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  I mean it could be. It's it's
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  We've been poisoned by the movies.
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  it's there with all the other like whenever he gets his first letter,
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  right? It's like there with some other stuff.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  Something from Aunt Marge, you know you know,
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  whatever. So he picks it up with the regular mail.
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  You can't help but think, okay.
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  Wow.
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  So I feel like that could be a difference in how they portray that in the HBO show.
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  That changes
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  one or two of my notes at least
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  throughout this chapter.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Wow, that's interesting. I know one of them,
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  cause one of them comes as like an egg carton through the dairy guy,
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  Mm. Yeah. Yeah.
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  cause that happens still. ~ and then they have a
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  I mean yeah.
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  half giant delivery at the end of this in the next chapter.
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  So, but yeah.
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  I I had
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  a question. I'm very interested in the mail,
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  you know. Our our father was a mailman,
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  so th this whole just like you know,
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  retired post officer.
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  the wizard
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  the wizard you know, post is a fascinating topic,
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  yes.
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  It truly is, yeah.
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  Do you think wizarding mail has red receipts?
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  Like why? Yeah.
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  Wizarding mail, ooh.
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  Like because they find out that he's not getting the letter,
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  so they keep sending him and they keep like multiplying,
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  you know?
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  Are you supposed
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  to like send something back though?
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  Well, it just says to reply by like the end of summer.
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  So like how do they not know like the same day that
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  Yeah
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  he gets the letter that he's not reading it?
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  There has to be something magical there.
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  That's something easily explainable swept under the rug if it is a plot hole.
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  So Hog Hogwarts'
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  letters are like under some kind of like enchantment then.
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  Some kind of
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  Yeah,
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  charm.
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  either that or the owl is waiting around to see if they read it.
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  Or the are the owls off screen waiting.
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  Yeah,
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  waiting for his tip, his payment.
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  Yeah. Okay, okay.
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  I want to sidebar real quick because I have a new idea.
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  Every episode while we talk about the chapter art,
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  I would love for us to rank the chapter arts.
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  Now, if you will allow me,
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  bear with me as I share my screen.
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  because I've got an exciting little.
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  What could it be? What could it be?
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  little thing right here. It's called a tear list.
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  Can you see my screen and everything?
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  Okay. So this is this
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  is why, you know, audio listeners,
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  you gotta follow us on YouTube or Spotify's got the video too,
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  but
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  Yeah. Yeah. So we've got ourselves a nice run of the mill tier list.
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  I didn't change any of the names because I like,
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  I like S A B C D E F and we've got all 17 chapters,
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  including the first like title page.
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  And we can start off with that because honestly,
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  I didn't really look at that one as much.
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  So I figured we would go ahead and do the first four since just to catch up,
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  you know? ~
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  Okay. Okay.
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  what do you think about the
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  title page it's just well it looks like an image of Hogwarts
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  Yeah. It's ~ yeah,
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  this is gonna be hard for people to see.
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  It's kinda the hit pictures are kinda small.
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  It will be, it is pretty hard.
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  I'll pop up an image if I can in editing.
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  Okay. ~
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  I I like it. It's not like the classic it's a very generic castle though,
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  It's not very Hogwarts-y of us.
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  Yeah.
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  I would say.
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  And I feel like you get better pictures of the castle in other I don't know,
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  other book covers, other chapter arts and stuff.
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  Mm-hmm
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  as the series goes on, so I don't know.
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  I feel like that one's kind of mid mid tier.
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  I'm just saying that's a C. That's pretty mid.
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  Okay, okay.
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  Okay. Now let's do chapter one,
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  the boy who lived. I feel like we gotta go at least A tier for this because it's
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  iconic. It's the first image you really see.
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  It's it's so iconic, it's classic.
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  I I would even go S tier. I think you have to.
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  It would go S tier, okay. I was gonna let it be there.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  I think I agree with that.
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  Okay, then we've got the Vanishing Glass Chapter 2.
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  Mm-hmm. Okay.
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  I hate this one.
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  I know y you said it's not your Dudley.
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  It doesn't look like Dudley to me.
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  It's too
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  flat. I feel like they could have extended it out vertically.
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  Yeah.
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  ~ it's, it's presence with Dudley.
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  I don't know. It's cool. It's a weird haircut,
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  but it's not exactly what I imagined Dudley to look like.
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  D for Dursley.
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  D for Dudley Dursley. Okay.
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  Now we've got this chapter, ~ letters from no one.
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  I'm saying minimum B.
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  Okay. I
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  I think it's great.
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  I'd go with a B. Yeah, I don't think it's like amazing,
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  Okay.
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  but it it does highlight like an iconic moment in the in the chapter.
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  Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
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  And it's very
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  memorable to me, yeah.
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  True. Truly, truly. So I think these can all be edited as we go.
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  So we will continue to do this.
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  So as of right now, we've got S tier,
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  B tier, C tier and D tier.
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  Okay. Got the whole spectrum.
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  So we'll see about next week.
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  Just a little quick little, ~ almost stopped our entire recording.
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  Just a quick little segment there.
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  Make it fun. So yeah. ~
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  Now that we are summarized and we've critiqued the art,
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  let's talk about the first section.
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  So we've split this up into four sections so that we can all talk about
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  it more evenly. ~ in the first section we titled Harry's miserable summer.
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  So we've got his actual miserable summer.
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  He's by the time they let him out of the cupboard,
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  it's already the summer holiday,
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  which makes me feel like, did they not allow him to go to school?
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  Because the phrase says by the time they let him out of the cupboard,
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  it was the summer holiday. Sounds like a horrible time.
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  If you're going to punish someone.
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  I guess I don't know, yeah. I'd have to look at the dates on that.
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  I don't know if it When is Dudley's birthday?
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  Like when did they go to the zoo?
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  I assume April or May. You know?
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  It's a couple weeks.
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  The the opening line
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  of the chapter it says the escape of the Brazilian boa constrictor earned Harry
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  his longest ever punishment. So yeah,
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  I don't know.
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  That's gotta be at least... There's no way they didn't let him out.
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  He probably
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  went to school but it was just like he goes,
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  you know he just gets shoved in the cupboard when he gets home.
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  Yeah, school's not really a break.
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  Yeah.
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  He just gets bullied there anyway.
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  I don't know, the way they made it,
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  the way she wrote it down made it seem like an extra like jail time,
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  solitary confinement. Okay,
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  well that's squashed at least.
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  ~ Then he's talking about the school he's about to go to after this.
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  He's like, you know, I'm looking forward to the summer,
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  but even more the fall because I'm not going to be at the same school as Dudley.
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  And I'll actually have a, he'll probably have a chance to make real friends,
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  but they call it the local comprehensive
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  in the British version. It's a public school
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  Yeah.
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  basically, but they still wear uniforms,
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  but they're calling it the local comprehensive.
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  That's such a interesting way to call a school.
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  I don't know. Have you heard about that?
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  Do we have any British listeners right now?
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  No, we don't.
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  No. no, we don't we
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  not currently at the moment.
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  If you're British, let
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  us know because we need your help translating
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  If you're on this call right now,
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  please tell us.
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  Hey, apparently, according to Google,
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  Dudley Dursley's birthday is June twenty third,
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  nineteen eighty. So may
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  ~ Okay.
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  maybe it's like the the terms are 'cause I mean like school doesn't start 'til like
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  September first, you know, so maybe it's like they don't get out until
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  That's true. Maybe they're in June.
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  the end of June ish, you know?
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  So
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  ~
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  Still. So they just celebrated his birthday early?
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  I don't know, that seems a little too late still.
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  mysteries will not always be revealed on our podcast.
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  But we move on. ~ It's really sad,
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  but it's kind of nice that he's finally going to be away from the Dursleys
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  for once in his life. And then we've got a scene in the kitchen or somewhere
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  in the house where Dudley is trying on his new smeltings uniform,
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  which is absolutely diabolical,
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  by the way. is the
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  From the description.
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  description states maroon tailcoats,
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  orange knickerbockers,
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  and flat straw hat called boaters.
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  Not to mention the smelting stick.
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  Like, what is the smelting stick all about?
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  That is, that's where we need another British person.
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  Is that a thing for some schools?
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  Books the book says it's for for the boys to hit each other when
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  the teacher's not looking. Yeah.
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  But it's so vague, it's like to prepare them later for life?
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  I don't understand that. It's a little weird.
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  The book also says this
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  is Vernon Uncle Vernon's proudest moment.
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  He was so proud.
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  Yeah, that's, that's funny.
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  Especially since he gets hit with it later on.
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  But, this, this uniform really makes the ugly brown sweater with orange balls seem
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  totally fine. Like it's almost school colors from the two chapters ago.
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  So yeah. And then again, why are they naming a dessert after pants?
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  I just don't get it.
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  I just don't get it.
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  ~ and then we've got the scene where Harry walks into the kitchen
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  and Petunia is boiling clothes in gray dye.
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  And he's like, ~ what's that for?
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  And she's like, it's for your school uniform.
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  It's some of Dudley's old clothes.
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  They won't notice a difference.
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  And.
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  Yeah. I I got ahead of myself
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  with talking about this last episode.
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  I because I was thinking it was chapter two,
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  Yes. Yeah.
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  but yeah, I just
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  I they just go so far out of their way to treat Harry poorly.
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  Like why would they spend
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  What a waste.
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  that time that like that effort of doing all that?
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  Not just
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  It's so extra
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  Like just buy him cheap clothes,
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  you're just going through even more effort just to give soggy clothes
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  in your kitchen like come on ~ I I did like ~
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  The part where he said I didn't realize it had to be so wet.
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  I Just wrote haha feisty when you are
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  Yeah.
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  He's, he's just got talking smack in this chapter.
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  ~ and
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  Yeah.
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  then it'll look like everyone else's when I'm finished and the Harris,
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  it said Harry seriously doubted that.
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  And that's such a funny interaction,
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  like almost like breaking the fourth wall.
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  It's almost like a gym looking at the camera moment.
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  That could be good to see in the show.
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  If just a dead pan to his face,
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  like, okay.
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  Yeah.
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  so yeah.
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  That's interesting. They're going so far.
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  And then he also says, make Dudley get the mail.
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  He keeps talking back as if he's not scared of them,
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  which isn't necessarily shown in the first couple of movies.
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  Like he's talking back.
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  Yeah, I yeah. Mm-hmm.
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  And I guess they deserve it, obviously.
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  But like, it's a side of Harry that I don't really see him as.
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  So that's interesting. He doesn't really talk back
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  Mm-hmm. Yeah.
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  until he has magic.
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  and then he gets told to be poked with the smelting stick.
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  So, but yeah, that's all we got for the first section.
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  So we got the second section called the first letter where Harry finally gets
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  his first letter. Why don't you take that section.
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  Well Yeah, he gets sent to go pick up the mail and you know,
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  ~ amongst the stack of letters is he finds something addressed to him
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  for like the first time in his life.
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  You know? I feel like as a kid,
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  you know, you never got mail. It was always for your parents,
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  Dude, even if you're the child of a post officer from the USPS...
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  you know. So if you Yeah. Mm
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  hmm. Yeah. Yeah.
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  We never got our own mail. You'd think he would sneak one for us,
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  Mm-hmm.
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  but nah.
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  I I also just going back to the mail,
• 19:34
  I'm I'm fascinated
• 19:35
  Yeah.
• 19:35
  by this because like we'll get to it later,
• 19:38
  but like six AM, like I feel like this mail is delivered so early.
• 19:43
  And like it's like there when they get up already,
• 19:44
  That is so early. Like, it's like almost with the morning paper.
• 19:48
  you know? Yeah. Maybe that's how they do it over there.
• 19:50
  But
• 19:51
  Maybe so. mean, dad got up pretty early,
• 19:53
  but that's cause he had to drive like 40 minutes.
• 19:55
  He would like
• 19:55
  leave for work at six AM, you know,
• 19:57
  to
• 19:57
  But he didn't get on his route
• 19:59
  until like, cause he had to sort his mail.
• 20:01
  Yeah, you gotta sort it. Yeah,
• 20:01
  You know, he didn't get on his route until like 10 o'clock.
• 20:03
  So.
• 20:04
  but
• 20:07
  This is a different system though.
• 20:07
  Things work different across the pond.
• 20:08
  Yeah.
• 20:08
  But yeah, you are right. The getting mail,
• 20:11
  like a letter, addressed to you as a kid,
• 20:14
  probably one of the, it's gotta be one of the top 10 greatest feelings of childhood.
• 20:18
  ~ I feel so special. Now I don't,
• 20:21
  Mm.
• 20:22
  I don't really get it. Yeah.
• 20:25
  ~ it it says here like he couldn't believe ~ that it was addressed to him.
• 20:30
  He's like, He I didn't even belong to a library,
• 20:32
  so I didn't get rude notes asking for books back.
• 20:35
  Like I I thought that was kinda funny.
• 20:36
  And then he says a letter addressed to him so plainly there could be no mistake,
• 20:41
  'cause it's addressed to him like Mr.
• 20:44
  H. Potter,
• 20:44
  Right.
• 20:44
  the cupboard under the stairs.
• 20:45
  It's just like, It's got my cupboard on it.
• 20:47
  They're already... They didn't even start out with like just the address.
• 20:48
  Yeah. Mm-hmm.
• 20:51
  just went, ~
• 20:54
  covered under the stairs. It's very specific.
• 20:56
  We're not messing this up. Make no mistake.
• 20:59
  Yeah.
• 21:02
  So he t he takes it back to the table and of course I I feel like this
• 21:05
  is a recurring theme that we'll see with Dudley is just like he can't
• 21:08
  let Harry get anything. And he's just like,
• 21:11
  Hang
• 21:12
  Yeah.
• 21:12
  on, Harry's got a letter, and just kind of points it out.
• 21:14
  And Harry's just like, I wish I kind of kept that to myself.
• 21:18
  But they
• 21:19
  here.
• 21:19
  rip it out of his hands. Uncle Vernon reads it,
• 21:22
  and then he flips out. He tells Petunia and then she flips out,
• 21:26
  and then they won't tell anybody what's going on.
• 21:28
  They lock everyone out.
• 21:30
  And Harry and Dudley have this like little wrest mini wrestling match to
• 21:34
  see who can like listen at like the the door,
• 21:37
  at the at the keyhole. Dudley won.
• 21:37
  Yeah.
• 21:40
  I love that part mostly because it's rare
• 21:45
  to see them on the same team.
• 21:49
  They're
• 21:50
  Yeah. Mm-hmm.
• 21:51
  not, they're not really on the same team,
• 21:53
  but they are both against their parents right now.
• 21:57
  So it's like, they're kind of equals when they're normally not.
• 22:00
  So
• 22:00
  Yeah.
• 22:01
  I think that's kind of fun to see that little dynamic just for a brief moment.
• 22:06
  Yeah.
• 22:07
  ~
• 22:08
  Let's talk about the letter. I think this letter has a good description.
• 22:10
  Yeah. Okay.
• 22:11
  ~
• 22:17
  They describe it as thick, heavy,
• 22:19
  yellowish parchment with emerald green ink.
• 22:22
  I love a good green ink. And it has a purple wax seal bearing
• 22:27
  the four house animals. Lion, snake,
• 22:30
  badger, and eagle.
• 22:33
  and Jonathan. this point, Harry has no idea what a Hogwarts house is.
• 22:37
  He just sees these animals. So.
• 22:41
  question for you and for the discord or whoever's just listening
• 22:44
  and wants to comment. Without knowing the attributes to each house like bravery,
• 22:50
  cunningness, know, smarts, wits,
• 22:53
  and loyalty. Without knowing anything,
• 22:56
  just rating based off of the animals.
• 22:59
  Which is the coolest animal? Which is,
• 23:01
  which are you like drawn to the most?
• 23:04
  So, ~ lion, snake, badger,
• 23:08
  eagle?
• 23:09
  Yeah.
• 23:11
  Well, Jeremy, you and I are are both Eagle Scouts of the the Boy Scouts of America.
• 23:15
  So I I feel like we would have to go with Eagle.
• 23:16
  That is so true.
• 23:18
  I got my trophy right here dog.
• 23:20
  Eagles are majestic. ~ man.
• 23:20
  Yeah. I got mine too, but I'm I'm not gonna go get it.
• 23:24
  It
• 23:25
  was just right here that's why I had it.
• 23:26
  I'm gonna not put that back. I'm just gonna have that right there.
• 23:29
  But that's my Eagles trophy for getting Eagle Scout.
• 23:33
  I
• 23:34
  I would be tempted to go lion though.
• 23:36
  I feel like lion's pretty cool.
• 23:37
  I don't like snakes.
• 23:38
  I don't know if they're cool, they just are powerful
• 23:40
  and scary. I don't know no snakes,
• 23:43
  I don't like snakes.
• 23:43
  Yeah.
• 23:44
  And badgers are a bunch of duffers,
• 23:46
  aren't they? You know?
• 23:46
  I love a badger.
• 23:51
  Dude, check this one out. ~
• 23:53
  He's I bet he's gonna pull a book of of Redwall off the shelf.
• 23:56
  not only a book of redwall lord brochtree speaking of
• 24:00
  Okay, that's a cool badger. It is.
• 24:02
  books we do read books in this house now ~ this is about
• 24:07
  a badger dude he's awesome
• 24:13
  I badgers are really cool. I'm actually between,
• 24:16
  Holding a sword like that.
• 24:19
  all badgers actually have swords.
• 24:21
  You know, but if we're talking Narnia,
• 24:24
  like obviously lion is the coolest thing.
• 24:26
  They have badgers there too.
• 24:26
  Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah.
• 24:29
  The badger is pretty cool. I love a badger.
• 24:31
  Would you go Eagle though?
• 24:35
  I have to on my honor,
• 24:38
  you know? Gotta be eagle scouting.
• 24:39
  Yeah. It's in our blood.
• 24:42
  But honestly, I do feel like the left out houses have cooler animals.
• 24:49
  I don't know, people might disagree.
• 24:51
  I'll put a poll in the Discord to
• 24:57
  see what other people think.
• 25:01
  If you haven't joined our free Discord,
• 25:03
  you should definitely do that so we can get your answer.
• 25:07
  Yeah. So at at this point they're they're trying to listen in to to Uncle Vernon
• 25:12
  and Petunia, ~ their conversation.
• 25:15
  And you get like little bits and pieces of it.
• 25:17
  But
• 25:18
  Mm-hmm.
• 25:18
  you know, they're trying to figure out like are they how d how do they know he's
• 25:22
  living under the stairs? Are they watching us?
• 25:24
  Are they spying on us? Like what's what's going on here?
• 25:26
  ~ and they're like, What should we do?
• 25:29
  And Uncle Vernon's just like No,
• 25:32
  we'll ignore it. If they do, they'll get the answer,
• 25:34
  you know.
• 25:35
  Yes, that's best. We won't do anything,
• 25:36
  you know. They'll get the hint.
• 25:37
  I of relate to that. I kind of ignore problems until they become a really big
• 25:41
  issue. ~ man.
• 25:43
  Yeah.
• 25:44
  He's like, I'm not having one in the house,
• 25:46
  Betunia.
• 25:47
  You
• 25:48
  Didn't we swear when we took him in we'd stamp out that dangerous nonsense?
• 25:52
  So yeah.
• 25:53
  I love the part where Vernon first reacts to the letter and it says
• 25:58
  his face changes colors from red to green to grayish white.
• 26:02
  It reminds me of
• 26:02
  Yeah.
• 26:03
  that scene from Monsters Inc where Randall's getting hit with a baseball bat.
• 26:09
  I imagine different patterns on them and everything.
• 26:12
  Yeah. That's a good pool there.
• 26:12
  So, ~ yeah.
• 26:15
  I also realized once he kicked Dudley out into the hall with Harry,
• 26:19
  that's like the first time I've ever seen them parent Dudley for once,
• 26:25
  you know? ~ And obviously that doesn't last long.
• 26:29
  As yeah. As it goes
• 26:31
  on, like they they never give in and tell Dudley what it's all about.
• 26:35
  And yeah,
• 26:37
  Right.
• 26:37
  they're just like th for once in their life they've told him no,
• 26:41
  you know. Yeah.
• 26:41
  They're trying to keep him perfect and
• 26:44
  innocent, I guess, even though he's a turd.
• 26:47
  I think it's just like yeah, it's just very telling their their reaction
• 26:51
  to the letter in general. Like something something's going on
• 26:53
  Yeah.
• 26:53
  here. ~ later that evening it says Uncle Vernon did something he'd never done
• 26:58
  before. He visited Harry in his cupboard.
• 27:01
  And did
• 27:03
  How's it going sport?
• 27:06
  Did we get this in the movie like in a deleted scene or something like that?
• 27:10
  Like I feel like I can picture it,
• 27:13
  but also I can't really.
• 27:14
  not sure.
• 27:15
  I really want to see this this in the in the show.
• 27:18
  Yes.
• 27:19
  Because I've always thought this is so funny.
• 27:22
  Again, the Dursleys go so far out of their way to mistreat Harry.
• 27:26
  Cause he's
• 27:26
  Yeah.
• 27:27
  basically like Harry asks Vernon,
• 27:29
  like, where's my letter? And he's like,
• 27:31
  I I don't know what you're talking about.
• 27:31
  Yeah. It's fine.
• 27:32
  Don't ask questions. And he's like,
• 27:34
  It's mine. It had my cupboard on it.
• 27:36
  You know. It was not a mistake,
• 27:39
  you know. ~
• 27:40
  yet.
• 27:41
  but Vernon's like, Yes, ~ about this cupboard,
• 27:44
  ~ we think you should move into Dudley's second bedroom.
• 27:47
  And I just
• 27:48
  second one and that's
• 27:50
  it says like the the Dursleys had four bedrooms,
• 27:53
  actually. Like so like Vernon and Petunia had one.
• 27:57
  They had a guest room for any time Marge would come to stay,
• 28:00
  and then Dudley had two to himself and then Harry gets the cupboard,
• 28:05
  like
• 28:05
  Yes, they had two whole
• 28:06
  It's so bad.
• 28:07
  unused bedrooms.
• 28:10
  Yeah.
• 28:10
  ~ man, that's crazy.
• 28:13
  th this
• 28:14
  chapter in particular, you you were talking like roll doll vibes.
• 28:17
  Like I'm definitely
• 28:17
  Yeah.
• 28:18
  getting that from this. Like this is like Matilda's parents,
• 28:20
  Especially in like the mean, yes.
• 28:21
  like, you know. Yeah.
• 28:22
  Right, right, right. That'll be so good to see.
• 28:26
  ~
• 28:28
  Well, I, there's a prop alert that I want to see in this now.
• 28:34
  Okay.
• 28:35
  One of Dudley's old presents is a working tank.
• 28:40
  Yeah.
• 28:42
  How exactly does that work? partially...
• 28:45
  I'm interested partially because that's an insane thing to have,
• 28:48
  but it also sounds really fun.
• 28:50
  Like if it's a Nerf gun thing,
• 28:53
  that would be cool to just drive around the house.
• 28:54
  Probably like that ninja turtles pizza shooter,
• 28:56
  you know.
• 28:57
  No, I don't No, I don't know.
• 28:57
  I thought it was like a real thing you could get in.
• 28:59
  That seems huge.
• 29:01
  ~ a working tank Dudley had once driven over to the neighbor's door next door
• 29:05
  Yeah.
• 29:05
  neighbor's dog. no, he used it to over the he drove it over the dog.
• 29:08
  It's like... Yeah! ~ He's
• 29:11
  an evil little turd. man. Yeah,
• 29:15
  so it's like
• 29:15
  Yeah.
• 29:15
  one of those little motor cars,
• 29:17
  but it's a tank. I've never seen that.
• 29:18
  Okay, yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
• 29:19
  And you could shoot stuff out of it,
• 29:21
  like a tennis
• 29:22
  ball or something. That'd be awesome.
• 29:23
  Kinda envy one of his 37 presents.
• 29:27
  Yeah.
• 29:28
  I I liked how it said like there was like a whole shelf of books that were just like
• 29:33
  very new. Probably the only thing in the room that hadn't been played with
• 29:34
  Yeah.
• 29:36
  or touched, like
• 29:38
  I think my favorite item in the empty room in Dudley's second bedroom
• 29:43
  was the empty bird cage, which I assume turns into Hedwig's cage.
• 29:47
  I don't know. Maybe not. ~ but just the thought of Dudley shoving
• 29:53
  an entire parrot in his backpack to take to school is insane.
• 29:59
  Like obviously he couldn't bring the cage,
• 30:01
  but he could have just asked like a friend to come over to get it.
• 30:05
  But he like traded, I guess,
• 30:08
  did he trade it for the working tank or I don't know exactly what he traded it for,
• 30:12
  but he brought a live pair to school to trade.
• 30:16
  It's swapped out for a real air rifle.
• 30:18
  Air rifle. So now he just has
• 30:20
  Which was on the shelf,
• 30:21
  it.
• 30:22
  with the end bent because Dudley had sat on it.
• 30:25
  I he just catches strays like just left and right.
• 30:26
  That's horrible. Always catch it.
• 30:30
  Yeah.
• 30:30
  Man.
• 30:31
  Not good. good. And it's, you know,
• 30:34
  every chapter there's something new.
• 30:36
  Mm-hmm.
• 30:38
  Ugh. But the- I just love
• 30:39
  Dudley's like up
• 30:40
  that he didn't give him the birdcage.
• 30:42
  Because can't you just like fold down birdcages
• 30:42
  Mm-hmm.
• 30:45
  too?
• 30:47
  I guess some of the I have seen them do that before,
• 30:49
  but you know, those those ones
• 30:50
  So funny.
• 30:51
  that use by that are used by magicians,
• 30:53
  you know, they'll like, you know,
• 30:54
  smash
• 30:54
  Alright.
• 30:55
  and then the bird disappears. Yeah.
• 30:57
  Like in The Prestige. We just watched that.
• 30:58
  Except the bird doesn't disappear
• 31:00
  in the in the prestige. It's not real magic.
• 31:05
  Wait... He makes a bird reappear though.
• 31:09
  That's that bird.
• 31:12
  I I can't spoil the prestige on this podcast.
• 31:14
  It's too good of a movie.
• 31:22
  So does that bring us to the next section here?
• 31:24
  Okay.
• 31:24
  That does bring us up to the next
• 31:25
  section. Letters everywhere. So we've got more letters arriving through increasingly
• 31:31
  impossible routes and Vernon becomes desperate to keep them from Harry.
• 31:35
  So my first note was, dude, these Dursleys need to be on Super Nanny.
• 31:43
  Yeah.
• 31:44
  That would be such an incredible show.
• 31:46
  Or like, Wife Swab with King Curtis.
• 31:47
  Like the wife swap? Yeah, Dudley is King Curtis,
• 31:51
  like Yeah.
• 31:55
  man. ~
• 31:56
  Yeah.
• 31:57
  And then there's another like very assertive and brave Gryffindor trait coming
• 32:02
  up for Harry because it says he had grabbed Uncle Vernon around the neck from behind
• 32:08
  trying to get his letter. And I feel like that's a no-no,
• 32:11
  but he doesn't respect Vernon.
• 32:14
  He shouldn't. But I thought that was interesting.
• 32:19
  Little future Gryffindor here we come.
• 32:24
  someone had known he had slept in the cupboard under the stairs.
• 32:27
  If I had gotten that letter, I probably would be a little freaked out.
• 32:32
  I mean, that's gotta be super creepy.
• 32:34
  Cause he doesn't know what's like who this is that's trying to reach him,
• 32:39
  which is exciting, but also like,
• 32:43
  they're freaking out because it's like stranger danger.
• 32:46
  Like they're worried for me, even though they wouldn't be.
• 32:49
  Yeah.
• 32:53
  ~ and then I thought to myself,
• 32:57
  even now that he has his own room,
• 33:00
  I feel like it's, I would want to be back into the,
• 33:05
  the cupboard just because I have the whole downstairs to myself at night away from
• 33:09
  the Dursleys, you know? I feel like that's...
• 33:13
  Yeah.
• 33:14
  He he does say something similar to that where he's like,
• 33:17
  He'd rather be back in his cupboard with the letter than than up here without it.
• 33:19
  yeah right and they also said so he could sneak food
• 33:21
  But yeah. Yeah.
• 33:28
  So yeah. He's waiting.
• 33:32
  He gets up really early to wait for the postman.
• 33:36
  This is one of my notes that may have been.
• 33:40
  ruined by your new theory that there's no owls here but I was like
• 33:42
  it's okay. I don't know for sure.
• 33:46
  little does he know that it's an owl delivering his stuff and not a postman
• 33:52
  and then this is the part where Vernon really starts to go crazy because
• 33:55
  his first reaction is to give him a bedroom to sleep in that's fine
• 34:01
  but now Vernon is sleeping at the bottom of the stairs in a sleeping
• 34:06
  bag waiting for the mail to come
• 34:12
  'Cause it's ar
• 34:12
  And that's just.
• 34:13
  it's already escalated. I did you already mention it,
• 34:15
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 34:15
  of of how
• 34:16
  the letter like they knew he moved upstairs.
• 34:19
  He got the second letter. And then like
• 34:20
  right right right
• 34:22
  they just keep coming. And so,
• 34:23
  like, yeah, Harry's like, I got a plan,
• 34:25
  more specific. Yes.
• 34:25
  I'm gonna get this letter. Yeah.
• 34:28
  So. He tried to be so quiet too.
• 34:31
  And I love that it's pitch black and he can't,
• 34:34
  he doesn't know it's him until he's stepping on a squashy face.
• 34:41
  I feel like this is the beginning of the five stages of grief for Vernon.
• 34:46
  Like he's starting to go crazy,
• 34:47
  but like this is a man in denial at least right now.
• 34:52
  And then he slips into the anger stage when he yells at
• 34:58
  him for half an hour at 6 a.m.
• 35:01
  I've never been yelled at for half an hour.
• 35:05
  That's 30 whole minutes.
• 35:08
  Is is it the same though in in ~ England?
• 35:11
  Is half an hour still the same?
• 35:12
  It's half an hour's different.
• 35:13
  Do they use they use time different?
• 35:15
  I don't know. We'll have to consult Big Ben.
• 35:18
  It's a British half hour.
• 35:25
  And then we've got this image,
• 35:26
  an interaction of Vernon speaking to Petunia with a mouthful of nails,
• 35:32
  which is also something really funny to see.
• 35:34
  hope we, I hope we see that. ~ and then we get
• 35:40
  our first musical needle, needle drop.
• 35:42
  hope this can be a good thing.
• 35:44
  Tiptoe through the tulips
• 35:47
  Yes. Mm-hmm.
• 35:49
  as he's nailing the thing shut.
• 35:52
  He's singing Tiptoe the Through the Tulips to himself.
• 35:55
  And I just feel like that would be the perfect if you have...
• 35:59
  They're probably gonna fit all of this into one episode.
• 36:02
  So this requires a solid good montage of Vernon's craziness.
• 36:07
  So my suggestion for the HBO show is to have a Tiptoe Through
• 36:11
  the Tulips needle drop. And he starts to go crazy.
• 36:15
  You can see it in his eyes. And you know how that song is used as like
• 36:18
  a creepy horror movie?
• 36:21
  trope we can make it really funny but give a little bit of on the edge look that'll
• 36:26
  be a great montage of him just of all of them like the different ways they're
• 36:32
  getting letters and ripping them up like petunia gets the the eggs
• 36:35
  and blends them up in the food processor and just them driving but it could be like
• 36:43
  montage with that song and then I take a break for the no post on Sunday scene
• 36:48
  and then back to tiptoe through the tulips when they get into the car to
• 36:53
  go to the hotel like shake them off shake them off
• 36:58
  Yeah,
• 36:58
  I I really did I I did want to go back to one thing as he was like nailing
• 37:03
  up the mail slot. it says that like
• 37:07
  it says ~ basically he like what got so like flustered and distracted that he's like
• 37:13
  he's trying to knock in a nail with a piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had
• 37:16
  you
• 37:17
  just brought him. Like he's and he d there's another moment later on,
• 37:21
  the no post on Sundays, where
• 37:23
  Yeah
• 37:24
  ~
• 37:26
  It says he he's talking to them about no post on Sundays,
• 37:29
  you know, they can't deliver today.
• 37:30
  And it says as he's spreading marmalade on his newspaper.
• 37:34
  Yeah.
• 37:34
  Like he's just gone
• 37:35
  crazy. He's so distracted.
• 37:38
  I missed that. I missed that.
• 37:38
  I thought that was so
• 37:40
  fun. But like you're saying, like whenever they go off,
• 37:43
  they're trying to like run away from these letters and like,
• 37:46
  yeah, shake off,
• 37:46
  Yeah.
• 37:46
  shake off and
• 37:47
  Yeah.
• 37:48
  He they like drive out into the woods.
• 37:50
  He gets out of the car, looks around,
• 37:52
  he says, Nope, not here and gets back in the car and keeps driving like
• 37:54
  Yes! All of a sudden takes a hard right turn.
• 37:56
  the I I really
• 37:58
  I just hope it's like a really funny scene.
• 38:00
  I feel like it could be.
• 38:01
  I do too.
• 38:02
  And I really hope they buy the rights to tiptoe through the tulips so they
• 38:05
  can make this a funny, lighthearted,
• 38:06
  Yeah.
• 38:08
  and creepy
• 38:09
  little montage. think, ~ that would be so great.
• 38:12
  Ugh. ~ I feel like the pullout quote for this one is,
• 38:17
  no post on Sundays. Probably
• 38:20
  That's a good one.
• 38:20
  because the movie makes it so iconic,
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  but.
• 38:25
  Do we have, have you ever heard of a kitchen chimney?
• 38:28
  Is it common to have a
• 38:30
  ~
• 38:30
  chimney inside your kitchen? Or am I just going crazy?
• 38:33
  I'm not sure what it is. Is
• 38:34
  it like an exhaust vent for like above the stove?
• 38:36
  Like a fan.
• 38:37
  That might be what they mean,
• 38:39
  because I'm thinking like fireplace chimney.
• 38:41
  That makes a lot more sense. I mean,
• 38:42
  Yeah, I don't Okay. That's probably what it is.
• 38:46
  they had like in the 1800s before electricity,
• 38:49
  they cooked on their fireplace,
• 38:51
  but this is the nineties. So.
• 38:54
  Yeah, it's just those things above the stove.
• 38:56
  Like those vents to Yeah.
• 38:59
  Okay, cool. That
• 39:00
  makes it a lot better to me. That's just another Britishism.
• 39:06
  ~ So then he decides they're going away and I feel like that's the bargaining stage.
• 39:12
  then the next, throughout the rest of this chapter,
• 39:16
  he kind of goes back into other stages.
• 39:17
  He doesn't finish the full five because it's that bad,
• 39:20
  I guess. ~ And then I guess going back to the letter,
• 39:26
  he asks, he's already getting paranoid,
• 39:29
  but he makes a joke saying, ~ you're checking for letter bombs.
• 39:35
  And I was wondering what that was such a weird side comment,
• 39:37
  but apparently big like back then it was a big scare back then,
• 39:42
  like the IRA in the 1990s were sending letter bombs to around London
• 39:47
  to like army bases and stuff.
• 39:51
  that's some interesting, like historical context.
• 39:55
  So yeah, back to driving away.
• 39:57
  finally go to a hotel, and they have stale corn flakes
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  and cold tin tomatoes on toast.
• 40:05
  Which sounds disgusting.
• 40:09
  But it's nice to know the British also have continental breakfast.
• 40:12
  Even if it's gross.
• 40:17
  and I checked to see if the, the Rail View Hotel is a real place,
• 40:20
  but it is not, but it's located in Corkworth,
• 40:25
  which is described as a dirty industrial town in the English Midlands where
• 40:30
  characters like Lily Evans, Petunia Dursley,
• 40:33
  and Severus Snape grew up. So that's kind of interesting,
• 40:38
  but that'd be cool if there was a real hotel that that was based off of.
• 40:42
  I
• 40:42
  bet we could we could map this this journey out,
• 40:44
  right? 'Cause don't they like live in Surrey,
• 40:45
  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 40:46
  right? So from like Surrey
• 40:50
  to Cokeworth to wherever this shack is,
• 40:53
  we can make a I don't know, an estimate on that.
• 40:55
  to the boat docks?
• 40:56
  I don't know.
• 40:57
  I wonder.
• 40:58
  The last part is the hut on the rock.
• 41:00
  Vernon takes the family to an isolated hut as Harry's eleventh birthday begins.
• 41:05
  Someone knocks on the door.
• 41:08
  wonder who that could be.
• 41:12
  yeah.
• 41:14
  Yeah, so Vernon is going crazy.
• 41:18
  He's driving around, driving in circles.
• 41:21
  He'll go in one direction, turn around,
• 41:24
  go in the opposite direction,
• 41:24
  you
• 41:25
  drive out to the woods. Finally he's like,
• 41:28
  I found the perfect place for us and he gets this like this guy in like
• 41:33
  a little little rowboat to take him out to this hut in the middle of the ocean.
• 41:37
  And
• 41:39
  This guy is described as a toothless
• 41:41
  old man and for some reason I imagine this dude at like
• 41:46
  a lighthouse keeper in Maine, but I imagine him as that fisherman mouse
• 41:52
  guy with a raincoat from flushed away if you remember that guy He had the fish
• 42:00
  yeah.
• 42:00
  Super deep cut I guess, but that's who I imagine
• 42:03
  he got the keys from
• 42:06
  I just
• 42:06
  remember the fish that said, you know,
• 42:07
  Have you seen my den? Okay.
• 42:09
  Yeah, that's him. He was holding him.
• 42:12
  Okay. Yeah.
• 42:13
  He had like a hook
• 42:14
  and stuff.
• 42:14
  So you you said no post on Sundays is a standout quote.
• 42:19
  I put Daddy's gone mad, hasn't he?
• 42:21
  I feel like that's a good one.
• 42:21
  Daddy's gone mad, hasn't he? Yeah,
• 42:23
  that is a good one. Yeah. That is true.
• 42:23
  Made famous by the movie, I feel like,
• 42:26
  but
• 42:28
  I I know it'll be it'll be so interesting to see to hear some of these like iconic
• 42:33
  lines done in a different way,
• 42:35
  delivered differently. Yeah.
• 42:36
  you know. I don't know.
• 42:39
  Some things maybe you just have to do it that way,
• 42:41
  but I don't know.
• 42:42
  Yeah. ~ so then they're finally here.
• 42:46
  They, they talk about their rations and he gets a bag of crisps,
• 42:51
  which in our, in our language,
• 42:54
  it is chips, but their chips in,
• 42:58
  in Britain is French fries. I just feel like they're wrong on that.
• 43:02
  Pringles are crisps because they're not chipped off of a potato.
• 43:06
  But that doesn't mean that a chip is from,
• 43:09
  is in a french fry form. Because chipping off a potato means a potato chip.
• 43:16
  So, I think we win that debate.
• 43:22
  I don't I don't feel that strongly on that one,
• 43:24
  but I'll support you.
• 43:25
  Okay. All right.
• 43:26
  ~
• 43:28
  Got a couple of debates throughout this book for British versus American.
• 43:35
  Dudley's talking about he wants to stay somewhere that has a television.
• 43:38
  He says it's Monday. The great Humberto's
• 43:39
  You
• 43:41
  on tonight. I want to stay somewhere with a television.
• 43:44
  I assume that's also a fake person.
• 43:48
  The great Humberto. I I I
• 43:49
  Is it like a magician show?
• 43:51
  know, it feels like like a magician.
• 43:53
  Like a David Copperfield or something.
• 43:53
  Which is interesting because
• 43:56
  this is a wizard. They're anti wizard here,
• 43:59
  anti magic. So I don't know. It's weird that
• 44:04
  I Dudley wishes he was a wizard subconsciously.
• 44:08
  if there's I don't know if there's any info about it.
• 44:08
  I bet there's a fanfic that Dudley is
• 44:11
  also going to school.
• 44:17
  Thanks.
• 44:18
  But ~ Harry says Monday, this reminded Harry of something.
• 44:21
  If it was Monday, and you could usually count on Dudley to know the days
• 44:24
  of the week because of television,
• 44:26
  then tomorrow, Tuesday,
• 44:27
  Alright.
• 44:28
  was Harry's eleventh birthday.
• 44:32
  I keep bringing up the office in this show.
• 44:36
  I'm not even a huge office fan,
• 44:38
  but this part also reminded me of Kevin being able to do accounting based
• 44:44
  off of &Ms. Like he can do any calculation of numbers.
• 44:47
  Only if you say it's this many &Ms,
• 44:50
  how many do you have left? I don't know if you remember that part.
• 44:53
  Yeah.
• 44:53
  It's really funny.
• 44:55
  He plays like the dumb guy.
• 44:59
  Not when there's &Ms involved.
• 45:01
  I just feel like that's so deadly.
• 45:03
  Like
• 45:04
  But yeah, he
• 45:05
  knowing the days of the week. But it totally makes sense.
• 45:07
  He's very on top of things.
• 45:08
  He's being rationed, which it makes total sense why in the next chapter
• 45:12
  he goes ham on the cake. Like he's eating cornflakes,
• 45:17
  10 tomatoes or tomatoes. And what else was that?
• 45:23
  We just saw it. crisps.
• 45:27
  Yeah. So like...
• 45:29
  I'd be upset too. It says it's like his worst day he's ever had in his life.
• 45:33
  Ha ha ha.
• 45:35
  Well they they traveled to the hut,
• 45:37
  says it was freezing in the boat,
• 45:38
  and icy sea spray. When they when I was listening to the audio book,
• 45:43
  I was like, What is this I C C C spray?
• 45:46
  But it's like I see spray and rain crept down their necks and a chilly wind
• 45:46
  I say sea spray. Sea spray.
• 45:52
  whipped their faces. Seemed like hours until they reached the rock where Uncle
• 45:56
  Vernon slipping and sliding led the way to the broken down house.
• 46:00
  The inside was horrible, smelled strongly of seaweed,
• 46:02
  the wind whistled through the gaps in the wooden walls,
• 46:05
  and the fireplace was damp and empty.
• 46:06
  There were only two rooms. Dudley only got one of
• 46:10
  You two rooms.
• 46:15
  Yeah, I guess so. Did Dudley get his own room?
• 46:17
  Was it two bedrooms or two rooms,
• 46:19
  like one bedroom and the living room?
• 46:21
  you're you're right. I th I feel like it probably was
• 46:21
  Cause Dudley
• 46:24
  was on the couch. ~
• 46:27
  In the movie.
• 46:28
  no, in the book too, they set up a palette or something on the couch
• 46:29
  Does that is that what it says?
• 46:30
  Okay. I know Harry's on the floor,
• 46:31
  of old moldy blankets.
• 46:34
  you know.
• 46:37
  but yeah, I thought that was confusing text here because it says next door.
• 46:42
  Like they went next door.
• 46:45
  Okay, yeah.
• 46:46
  but there's not an external building.
• 46:49
  That makes me think that, but maybe it's more like that's the next door from where
• 46:55
  they're at. I guess that makes sense.
• 46:57
  It's it seems
• 46:58
  like just like a one room cabin and then a living area in a kitchen,
• 47:01
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 47:02
  you
• 47:02
  know, or something.
• 47:03
  Well, as as the night rages on,
• 47:05
  Harry's kinda listening to Dudley's stomach rumbling over the the sounds of thunder.
• 47:10
  He's counting down the minutes,
• 47:12
  you know, five, four, three, two.
• 47:14
  It's not every day one turns eleven,
• 47:16
  you know. You can't help but be excited.
• 47:18
  You know.
• 47:18
  That's also another good feeling
• 47:20
  is just like staying up when you know you're gonna turn 11 maybe
• 47:26
  and just like watching the clock turn to midnight even though you're in bed,
• 47:30
  you know, sleepless. That's a good feeling too.
• 47:34
  Yeah. He's counting down the seconds and then boom.
• 47:38
  The whole shack shivered, and Harry sat bolt upright,
• 47:41
  staring at the door. Someone was outside,
• 47:43
  knocking to come in.
• 47:46
  Sounds like a really big letter.
• 47:49
  My my prediction is that that is where episode one ends of the HBO series.
• 47:55
  Okay. Okay.
• 47:57
  I feel like that's a natural point to to end.
• 48:00
  Although I would like him to space it out a little
• 48:01
  There's a lot.
• 48:02
  bit more. So I don't know.
• 48:05
  Hmm... Interesting.
• 48:07
  But I I feel like that's a very good,
• 48:09
  like, dramatic end of end of the pilot episode,
• 48:12
  you know.
• 48:13
  Yeah, I would say another stopping point if you wanted to stop earlier would
• 48:18
  be him receiving his letter and nothing happening.
• 48:21
  The first one? Yeah.
• 48:22
  Like,
• 48:22
  yeah, the first one. And then this is where the second episode starts.
• 48:27
  And then they have this whole interaction.
• 48:29
  And then the third episode is Diagon Alley after he's with Hagrid.
• 48:33
  So I don't know. This could be an entire episode.
• 48:35
  Could be. Mm-hmm.
• 48:38
  Because there's a lot of stuff that has dropped in the next.
• 48:42
  Like chapters three and four could be its own episode for sure because there's
• 48:46
  a lot of backstory dropped in it ~ So,
• 48:51
  I don't know we'll see I'm excited anyways
• 48:55
  Yeah.
• 48:56
  I I feel like this maybe we've got too high expectations now for this chapter.
• 49:01
  But like I think we're both really looking forward to it.
• 49:03
  If they like if they get the right tone with it of just seeing how like
• 49:07
  I need it.
• 49:07
  crazy Vernon gets, just how unhinged and mad he gets,
• 49:10
  Yeah, that's what I re-
• 49:11
  like, yeah.
• 49:13
  We really- I think everybody wants them to do the Dursley's right.
• 49:16
  And give them some good screen time.
• 49:18
  And more time for us to hate them even more.
• 49:21
  So. Yeah, it'll be good. And it-
• 49:24
  I'll get bonus points. We should like-
• 49:28
  tally up all of our predictions and see which ones were we were right at
• 49:31
  the end of it. And
• 49:32
  Yeah. That'd be cool.
• 49:34
  then we'll see who wins, who has the most bonus points.
• 49:36
  Okay.
• 49:38
  Well, Jeremy, I'm getting a little hungry.
• 49:41
  You want a little wizarding snack off the trolley?
• 49:43
  Let's get the spinny wheel out of Snack Hood.
• 49:47
  I
• 49:48
  Okay, okay.
• 49:49
  get a new name for this each time.
• 49:50
  So if you're new here, which I don't know why you would be if starting
• 49:53
  on chapter three, ~ we have this wheel of different snacks from
• 49:58
  the Wizarding World that we've got.
• 50:00
  ~ Every other one is a BirdieBot's roulette.
• 50:03
  Could be a birdie bots?
• 50:03
  section so
• 50:05
  we've only gotten birdie bots the past couple times and we've gotten vomit rotten
• 50:09
  egg marshmallow and what was the one you had candy floss so we've
• 50:12
  Candy floss. Yeah, that one was good.
• 50:15
  had two really bad ones and two solid good ones but we're really hoping
• 50:20
  for some other type non-bean because we have some trauma from episode one still so
• 50:26
  Okay, so you ready to spin this wheel or?
• 50:28
  Alright.
• 50:28
  I'm ready.
• 50:35
  What is this? What Fizzing Whizbees!
• 50:37
  Ooh.
• 50:37
  Okay. It's- I feel like this is a snack-like segment to do before
• 50:44
  we have anything like showcased in the book,
• 50:47
  but you know, whatever. Let me go get my Fizzing Whizbees.
• 50:54
  believe these are it. Yeah. We didn't want to buy two separate packages,
• 50:59
  so we just split them up. Jonathan has the main packages.
• 51:02
  Yeah. Yeah Yeah, here's the box here.
• 51:02
  Did you already show off the packaging?
• 51:06
  Okay.
• 51:07
  Fizzing Whisbeys. Official
• 51:09
  Okay.
• 51:09
  Harry Potter.
• 51:13
  Orange sherbet white chocolate with popping candy.
• 51:16
  So I'm excited.
• 51:17
  Ooh, interesting.
• 51:19
  So I've gotten these at Wizarding World of Harry Potter and I...
• 51:22
  Hundred and sixty calories. If you're allergic,
• 51:23
  How for- ~ for three pieces.
• 51:24
  to any of these ingredients, stop listening for a few minutes.
• 51:31
  That's a lot of calories for three pieces of candy.
• 51:33
  That's crazy. Okay. ~ I will say I had them at Harry Potter World,
• 51:38
  well, like maybe five, 10 years ago,
• 51:42
  and they were chocolate with raspberry popping candy.
• 51:46
  and I really loved those. And I'm not sure how I feel about it,
• 51:49
  but let's go for it.
• 51:52
  Okay.
• 51:53
  All
• 51:54
  like orange cream signal.
• 51:56
  Mm-hmm. It's good.
• 51:58
  I mean, I mean the rest of it.
• 52:00
  This is great.
• 52:03
  Well.
• 52:04
  I'll eat two.
• 52:07
  Amen.
• 52:08
  I'm gonna eat one just to watch my figure.
• 52:10
  They're pretty thick too.
• 52:13
  They're very chewy, yeah.
• 52:15
  Mm-hmm.
• 52:17
  Well, I guess that concludes our chapter three,
• 52:21
  so... My brain is bubbling right now because
• 52:22
  Hmm. I'm good with that. I can't yeah.
• 52:27
  of that fizzing whiz. I can't even hear myself.
• 52:30
  What a fun candy. I love popping
• 52:32
  Yeah.
• 52:32
  rocks.
• 52:34
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• 52:37
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• 52:39
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• 52:42
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• 52:44
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• 52:46
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• 52:47
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• 52:52
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• 52:52
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• 52:57
  I am still popping.
• 52:59
  Mm-hmm.
• 53:00
  Wonder what if Dr. Pepper does anything.
• 53:07
  So yeah, how about how do we thank you guys for Thank you guys
• 53:12
  for following along with us. ~ I guess we'll see you next week on
• 53:17
  the inside quotes book club chapter 4
• 53:18
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• 53:20
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• 53:22
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• 53:22
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