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Episode 1: All Because We Opened a Book · Revelio: A Wizarding World Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to episode one of Revellio for September fifth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Amy, I'm Nicole, I'm Tom.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to our first episode. It's been a long time coming. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I got my Taylor Swift shirt on right now too.
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  Speaker 3: That was perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Oh see, I knew I could. So since it is
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  Speaker 1: our first episode, we wanted to go through and introduce
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  Speaker 1: ourselves to all of you listeners and also explain what
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  Speaker 1: the show's at because you're probably wondering unless you read
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  Speaker 1: the brief synopsis before downloading, which I hope you did.
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  Speaker 1: But let's just go through in each of us introduce ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: your name, your house, where you're from, any other important
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  Speaker 1: information that we should know. So I guess I'll go
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  Speaker 1: first and just kick us off. I'm Amy, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: Hufflepuff and I am from Upstate New York. And this
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  Speaker 1: is not my first podcast, so if you found us
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  Speaker 1: through the Speak Beastie socials, that is my podcasting background
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  Speaker 1: right there. I produced and hosted Speak Beastie, a Fantastic
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  Speaker 1: beast podcast for several years, and I also hosted Promptly
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  Speaker 1: Potter as well. So I'll go next.
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  Speaker 3: So I am in Nicole, and I am in Slytherin Howey.
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  Speaker 3: I'm also from upstate New York, so right by Amy,
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  Speaker 3: And this is my first time hosting and producing a podcast.
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  Speaker 3: But i am not a stranger to podcasting at all.
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  Speaker 3: I've been listening to Speak Beastie and all those other
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  Speaker 3: Potter podcasts you probably know for the last I don't
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  Speaker 3: even know.
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  Speaker 4: It seems like a decade, probably longer. It's probably definitely actually, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: definitely longer. My Son's a time is so off, you know,
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  Speaker 4: as you get older.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so used to saying like ten years ago,
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  Speaker 1: but now I'm realizing things are like twenty years ago.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, okay, so I'll guess I'll go. I'm
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  Speaker 5: the last. So I'm Tom. I'm from Gryffindor. I am
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  Speaker 5: from Argentina, but I'm currently based in Yuguay. And yeah,
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  Speaker 5: i'm a little I'm a little far from you guys.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, but our time sounds actually work out.
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  Speaker 2: It's not Yeah, it's not that bad.
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  Speaker 5: It's one hour difference, so we're good. And yeah, it's
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  Speaker 5: my first time podcasting, so I'm very excited. As excited
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  Speaker 5: as I am, I'm also terrified because yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 5: new experience, but hey, here's here's the new chapters.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, whoa we we're.
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  Speaker 1: Morphing into each other. Uh So then your next question
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  Speaker 1: is probably what the heck is Revellio and what is
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  Speaker 1: this show going to cover? We have answers to that,
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  Speaker 1: so Ravellio, this podcast is going to be a place
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  Speaker 1: to discuss all things Wizarding World, from revisiting the books
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  Speaker 1: and the movies, to theme park expansions, to video games,
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  Speaker 1: to the upcoming TV show and so much more. Pretty much,
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  Speaker 1: whatever comes up we're down to talk about. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot to discuss still with the materials that we do
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  Speaker 1: have out and so much more still coming, so we're
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  Speaker 1: excited to be able to talk about it. This episode
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  Speaker 1: will be a bit of an introduction to what the
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  Speaker 1: show is, who we are, and what you can expect.
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  Speaker 1: But first.
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  Speaker 4: Rule listening to w W in the Wizarding Wireless Network.
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  Speaker 4: Now for the latest headlines.
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  Speaker 3: So a lot of this news you may already be
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  Speaker 3: familiar with, as we're obviously playing a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: catch up here since so much news has happened this
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  Speaker 3: summer before we launch, but still wanted to cover it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, maybe it might be new to you.
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  Speaker 3: So starting off, we've gotten some news related to the
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  Speaker 3: upcoming currently untitled Harry Potter TV show. In an article
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  Speaker 3: in Variety in June, it was revealed that the show
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  Speaker 3: got an upgrade from a Max exclusive to an HBO original.
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  Speaker 3: So what does this mean? You know, this means it
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  Speaker 3: won't be limited to the streaming service. It could be
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  Speaker 3: aired on traditional TV and it kind of puts it
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  Speaker 3: really up into that caliber of shows like Game of
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  Speaker 3: Thrones and House of the Dragon that have really come
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  Speaker 3: to known as HBO originals. We also learned back in
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  Speaker 3: June that the show has found its showrunner, so Francesca
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  Speaker 3: Gardiner was named as showrunner and executive producer. She's not
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  Speaker 3: new to the Max HBO family. She's worked as a
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  Speaker 3: producer on Succession and His Dark Materials, which can also
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  Speaker 3: be found on the platform. We definitely have plans to
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  Speaker 3: talk a lot more in depth on a later episode
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  Speaker 3: about all we know so far about the show. You know,
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  Speaker 3: there's still a lot of casting announcements to come, but
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  Speaker 3: we have learned who several of the show's producers will be,
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  Speaker 3: as well as some of the directors.
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  Speaker 4: So more to come on that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually really excited to see this now. I loved
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  Speaker 1: His Dark Materials and that's I don't know, that's like
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  Speaker 1: kind of the direction I want to see the show go.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm really excited that someone involved in that is
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  Speaker 1: now involved in the Harry Potter one, just because I
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  Speaker 1: think that was such a good adaptation of the books
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  Speaker 1: and that just visually worked really well. So I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see what she does.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have not watched any of her work.
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  Speaker 3: His Dark Materials has been on my to watch list
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  Speaker 3: for probably a while, but it's definitely Yeah, like you said,
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  Speaker 3: I think having somebody who's not unfamiliar to that adaptation world,
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  Speaker 3: and I feel like the genres are probably pretty similar
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  Speaker 3: as well, So hopefully fingers crossed this was a good choice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, And I know there's been some talk about
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  Speaker 1: how this will be I think her first time as
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  Speaker 1: an actual showrunner. I forget what her involvement with His
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  Speaker 1: Dark Materials was, but it wasn't as a showrunner, so
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  Speaker 1: I think that's interesting. That's an interesting way to go
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  Speaker 1: with a somewhat newcomer in that way, I.
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  Speaker 3: Think, Yeah, taking on a very big project for sure,
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  Speaker 3: So yes, so excited for that.
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  Speaker 4: We also have a lot of exciting theme park news, so.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, start about you know you guys, but the theme
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  Speaker 3: parks are my jam. Oh yeah, so this is so
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  Speaker 3: this is so exciting. So Universe Orlando is, you know,
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  Speaker 3: getting that expansion of Epic Universe, And we got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of details this summer about the Wizarding Paris section
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  Speaker 3: of the park. We've seen renderings of the streets and
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  Speaker 3: the Ministry of Magic Ride Q was also released and
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  Speaker 3: it looks amazing and it looks so good and like
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  Speaker 3: we knew that it would because you know, the other
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  Speaker 3: parks look amazing, but yeah, I'm kind of like even
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  Speaker 3: more blown away and like I think it looks even
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  Speaker 3: more amazing than I think I even imagined.
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  Speaker 1: Did you guys see the picture of it at night?
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  Speaker 1: Like I'll lit up?
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  Speaker 2: I have not the conceptual art.
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  Speaker 1: No, there's like actual aerial view photos that somebody took
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  Speaker 1: and you can see all the buildings lit up and everything,
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  Speaker 1: and it just.
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  Speaker 2: It looks so I think I saw it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a city.
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  Speaker 5: I think I saw something firework from like a test
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  Speaker 5: for fireworks.
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  Speaker 2: Is it probably that.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see that one? But yeah, it was just
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  Speaker 1: like an aerial view of the Paris streets and the
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  Speaker 1: Ministry building. Yeah, but if you google it, like Wizarding
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  Speaker 1: Paris aerial view at night, you'll probably see it. But
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  Speaker 1: it looks so cool. I can't wait for this park.
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  Speaker 3: I yeah, I just googled it so that I can
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  Speaker 3: pull it off after we're done recording. But yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: I think, like I feel like when we first like
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  Speaker 3: found out that we were getting that, I like maybe
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  Speaker 3: had like I don't know, maybe a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: reservations because I think like, obviously, you know, it's very
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  Speaker 3: like fantastic beast driven, you know, having it being focused
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  Speaker 3: around you know, Paris, and of course we have just
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  Speaker 3: great you know, feeling like you're stepping right into the
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  Speaker 3: story with how they did you know, Hogsmeade and diagon
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  Speaker 3: Alley and just kind of having this area that's maybe
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  Speaker 3: not as like familiar, kind of reminds me a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of like Galaxy's Edge, like from this area that's
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  Speaker 3: like in this.
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  Speaker 4: World but you know you're not super familiar with.
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  Speaker 3: But I was really glad to hear that, like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the Ministry of Magic that we like know and love
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  Speaker 3: was also going to be part of it, so that
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  Speaker 3: there's really that familiar piece too.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's also interesting because we were talking about
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  Speaker 5: two different timelines, so it's one is set in like
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  Speaker 5: in the nineteen twenties and the other one is set
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  Speaker 5: like in the nineties. So it's like it's it's it's
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  Speaker 5: in contrast there, like we're going to go from the
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  Speaker 5: past to the present, and it's such an interesting concept
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  Speaker 5: and I'm so like intrigued to see how they're going
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  Speaker 5: to pull that out. And yeah, like I'm really excited
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  Speaker 5: to visit the Ministry. Like anything, when you go to
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  Speaker 5: the Wizarding World, you get to experience it firsthand and
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  Speaker 5: you get to see everything like on actual scale. So
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  Speaker 5: we only got like little bits of the Ministry of
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  Speaker 5: Magic at the studio tour or you know, like very
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  Speaker 5: small pieces of sets. But this is going to be
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  Speaker 5: like a full size replica, and it's going to be
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  Speaker 5: so exciting. Like whenever you come into these places, it
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  Speaker 5: doesn't feel like a set. It feels like you're literally
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  Speaker 5: thrown into the world. So like anything that Universal has
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  Speaker 5: done in the past, I'm sure they will not disappoint
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  Speaker 5: and I'm really looking forward to all of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean and even like, yeah, I'm just excited
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  Speaker 3: for Epic Universe, like in general, like obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 3: especially this part, but the whole land in general just
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  Speaker 3: looks so awesome and definitely I think will be a
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  Speaker 3: great thing for Universal. Yeah, and I mean we did
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  Speaker 3: learn too. You know, we are going to have you know,
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  Speaker 3: some people come back. So Eddie Redmain is already set
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  Speaker 3: to return, is new we're gonna have. Yeah, we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have the Golden Trio Onmbridge is going to be the
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  Speaker 3: star of the show. It sounds like it's so weird,
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  Speaker 3: but it's it's so weird, but I.
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  Speaker 5: Know, and it isn't it great that it's post deathly
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  Speaker 5: Hollows So we're literally getting content that is you know
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  Speaker 5: that happens after the war, which we've never really quite
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  Speaker 5: gotten it, so we could Whenever I thought of Ministry
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  Speaker 5: of Magic, I would have thought, Okay, this is Harry's
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  Speaker 5: audience in the Ministry of Magic. You know, it's his hearing,
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  Speaker 5: it's his you know, like it's probably going to revolve
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  Speaker 5: around that. But the fact that it's a completely new
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  Speaker 5: take on you know, a new piece of information or
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  Speaker 5: whether it's canon or not, but it's something really exciting
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  Speaker 5: because it's it's you know, it moves the story forward
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  Speaker 5: in some ways.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I think it'll be nice too, just to see because
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  Speaker 3: obviously we get so much like focused on Baltimore and
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  Speaker 3: like obviously you know, Escape from Gringod. You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: you know, all about him and Bellatrix and there are
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  Speaker 3: always like our villains that we see, and so I
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  Speaker 3: think it'll be really cool, you know, to have Unbridge
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  Speaker 3: And of course, you know, we don't know yet, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if the actress who played her is coming back to
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  Speaker 3: reprise her role.
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  Speaker 4: I really hope so.
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  Speaker 3: Because she's amazing and you know, what will happen with
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  Speaker 3: the Golden Trio. We really hope we don't have another
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  Speaker 3: Hermione moment. You know, if you're not familiar and haven't
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  Speaker 3: been to Universal, there, Emma Watson hadn't come back to
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  Speaker 3: like do voiceover work for the train and so there
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  Speaker 3: was like another actress who kind of did that and.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't that it wasn't the best impression.
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  Speaker 1: They did replace that though.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they have replaced it so much better. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 4: hopefully it'll all be good.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, so what we don't know yet what will
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  Speaker 3: happen with that, so more to come with that, and obviously,
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  Speaker 3: you know, hopefully, I mean clearly, we're all so excited
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  Speaker 3: about this, so we're definitely going to be having you know,
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  Speaker 3: an upcoming episode where we can talk more in depth
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  Speaker 3: about this, and you know, I'm sure in the next
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  Speaker 3: couple of months we're just going to start to get
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  Speaker 3: you know, more and more information about it now that
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  Speaker 3: the big reveal has happened. Yeah, for sure, and to
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  Speaker 3: kind of I guess on a sad note, now we
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  Speaker 3: just went from being so excited to the next bit
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  Speaker 3: of news is quite sad. So we learned that Mina
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  Speaker 3: Lima has not been contracted to continue on with their
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  Speaker 3: illustrated editions of the Harry Potter series, and big sad
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  Speaker 3: face on this one.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, We've had this happen before.
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  Speaker 3: You know, with John Kay, but I think that was
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  Speaker 3: very different, right because he like he stepped away from it,
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  Speaker 3: and he needed to step away.
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  Speaker 4: And this just feels very shocking the best word.
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  Speaker 3: I can think of, because you know, men A Lima
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  Speaker 3: is so vital to everything Wizarding World.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's like, yeah, it's like so much that
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  Speaker 4: we so.
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  Speaker 3: Many things in your brain when you visualize things in
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  Speaker 3: the universe, is you visualize it that way because of
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  Speaker 3: Mina Lima and how they designed it for the films.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know about you guys, but like they're illustrated.
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  Speaker 3: Editions are like my favorite versions also they illustrated.
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  Speaker 4: They're so good and they're so cool.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm really bummed about this, Like not even
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  Speaker 3: just because it won't be like a full complete set,
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  Speaker 3: Like I feel like we're never going to get a
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  Speaker 3: full complete set that's like the same people beginning to end.
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  Speaker 4: But it's like, I just.
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  Speaker 3: Love mean Alima so much and that works so much.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm still really really surprised about this.
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  Speaker 1: I am too. I mean, they're so, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: just entrenched in this world. It's like crazy to me
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  Speaker 1: that they wouldn't contract them for the rest. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to remember, did their Prisoner of Azkaban edition? Did
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  Speaker 1: that come out before the Secrets of Dumbledore screenplay that
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  Speaker 1: they also did not do.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 1: October twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say that. I think it was
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  Speaker 2: last year.
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  Speaker 4: When came out. Yeah, that makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: Because I remember it was around like Christmas season that
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I was like, oh, this would be
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  Speaker 3: this would make a good Christmas present.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and I don't know if maybe the start
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  Speaker 3: of like them not doing you know, Secrets of Dumbledore,
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  Speaker 3: which I'll say, I actually haven't bought that because it's
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  Speaker 3: not going to match my others.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 1: I know the heel of having the screenplay was that
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  Speaker 1: beautiful cover of it.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know if that was like the beginning
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  Speaker 3: of like then you know, or what happened there. I
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  Speaker 3: think obviously we haven't gotten a lot of details here
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  Speaker 3: except knowing that it doesn't seem like it was me
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  Speaker 3: and a Lima's decision. No, So it's really that's kind
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  Speaker 3: of like it seems like all we know, but it
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  Speaker 3: seems like they're still going to be pretty entrenched with
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  Speaker 3: Harry Potter here.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 3: There was also an announcement that you can get a
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  Speaker 3: handwritten Hogwarts letter, handwritten by Mirapora, and it's like twenty
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  Speaker 3: five hundred dollars, so I will not be ordering one,
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: but let me just I.
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  Speaker 5: Was tempted, to be honest, I was in the new
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  Speaker 5: York store a week ago and there was this display
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  Speaker 5: with the letter and they were promoting it. And when
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: I looked at the price, I was like, Okay, I'll
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: just look the other way because this is you know,
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  Speaker 5: but I was so tempted to at least be like,
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: oh what if no, no, it's no way, no way,
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  Speaker 5: like but I mean, it must be such a real
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  Speaker 5: treasure to have that, you know, you're own acceptance letter
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  Speaker 5: from the very you know, creators of the prop itself.
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  Speaker 4: And haven't been handwritten.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you know.
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  Speaker 3: I was so tempted too, And then I saw that
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  Speaker 3: price and then I looked, actually have on the wall
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  Speaker 3: right behind me, I have a it's a replica of
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  Speaker 3: the letter that I actually got at the London studio tour.
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  Speaker 4: They were just you know, giving them out.
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  Speaker 3: I think it maybe it was when they opened where
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: you could go into private drive and see the fireplace
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  Speaker 3: like I don't remember.
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  Speaker 4: It was so many years ago that I went, but
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: I have a.
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  Speaker 3: Replica from there, and I'm like, man, it would be
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: so nice to have like that actual handwritten one.
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  Speaker 4: And then I was like, I can't do.
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  Speaker 1: It, but.
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  Speaker 3: So sad, but we you know, we are still gonna
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: you know, get we have confirmation that they are still
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  Speaker 3: going to continue with these more interactive editions, which is good.
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  Speaker 3: I love the interactive editions you know so much, and
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  Speaker 3: so I'm glad we're still going to get them and
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  Speaker 3: there still is this plan to finish it, but still sad.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know who that designer is going to be
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  Speaker 3: and like, to be honest, like I just don't think
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna be as good as it would have been
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  Speaker 3: with me and Lima, Like I think that person who
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: steps in has like the biggest Hagrid sized shoes to
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  Speaker 3: fill And yeah, I don't know I'll buy it because
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  Speaker 3: I already know I'm gonna buy them, but.
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  Speaker 4: I might not like it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I have the first five from the Jim K
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  Speaker 5: is it Jim K Right editions?
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I called oh geez, I called him
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: John K earlier, didn't I.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Ye, Jim K.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Sorry Joe, Sorry Jim.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, So I have the first five, but I know
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: he won't be continuing, So it's like, Okay, how is
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: my collection going to look afterwards? Like the same thing's
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: gonna happen with these editions, this illustrated interactive editions, Like
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: how will they look like it's gonna look inconsistent. The
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: one thing that looks like that secrets a double doore screen.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah no, I can't tell you. It does not look good.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: No, no, yeah, so it's a it's a pity bookshelves
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: come on.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: So moving on to more uplifting news. At the end
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: of August, we got a trailer for a new video
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: game called Harry Potter Quidditch Champions, where you can be
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: that star quidditch player that you've always wanted to be.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: We learned in the trailer that you can play as
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: iconic characters like Harry, Draco Ron, or even create your
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: own original character. It looks like places from both the
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: movies and the books will be included in the game,
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: and the game was available digitally starting September third for Xbox,
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: PC and PlayStation, but it looks like physical editions as
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: well as a Nintendo Switch version will be coming in
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: later this year, which is very exciting too.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Yay, I'm excited about this game. It reminds me so
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: much of the Quidditch World game from the two thousands.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I play that game.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: That game.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm surprised that it's like actually kind of like
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: taken this long for us to get like a Quidditch
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: style game. It seems like that would have been like
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: the very first thing like that we would have gotten,
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: like with this new iteration of like port Key games
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: and you know, everything that's coming out. But yeah, I'm
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: excited too because I think obviously Quiditch just fits. I
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: think the video game esthetic so well definitely, And I
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: love that we're still going to have like characters that
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: we're familiar with, but also you know, be able to
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: create your own character as well. And yeah, I'm excited
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: for this. I'm I mean, I'm probably gonna wait and
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: get it on the Switch because it just seems like
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: a game that would be really good, like handheld and
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: on the go. So a little sad that I'll have
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: to wait a little bit, but that's okay.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Us Switch people always have to wait.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah we do.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: I mean I could get it on PlayStation, but I
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: just I feel like it'll be good on the Switch and.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, looking forward to that.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exciting.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: So moving on from the Wizard and Archive has been
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: released in two volumes. These are a compilation of original
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: writings from JK.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Rowling.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: So it looks like it will be mostly old poet. Oh,
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: so it looks like it will be mostly old potter
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: More writings, but there may be some new information as
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: well as a forward written by Evonna Lynch. It's going
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: to be available in ebook and audiobook form, so yeah,
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: I'm I'm looking forward to this, to be honest.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got my audiobook. I pre ordered it and
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: so I got it. Haven't started listening to it yet,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: but I think it's always nice to have things like
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: that in a compilation form, because it can be hard,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: I think to sometimes like find everything on like a
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: website and like did I read everything? And obviously, you know,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: these were writings that came out a while go, and
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: so it's kind of nice, like I know when like
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: they first came out, like I read them, and I
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: have the original three books when they first did the compilation,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: which it looks like the second volume of this from
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: the Wigeoning Archives is essentially those three books that were
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: released previously, So if you already have those, you might
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: not necessarily need to buy the full volume. You could
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: just get you know, volume one, But it looks like
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: volume one is kind of the other writings that were
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: never kind of included in like a published form, So
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: I mean it's always nice to have everything all together
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: as one so you can kind of read through it
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: and you know you're.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Not missing anything.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: And I think this one's exciting because obviously, you know,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: with Avana, like you know, coming in and writing the
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: foreword and also being involved in the audiobook and just
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: having it as an audiobook I think is great too.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I think like these short kind of stories like work
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: so well as an audiobook because you're not sitting there
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: like I need to listen to this for five hours straight.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: You know, you can kind of just listen to it
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: as you want to. So I'm excited to start listening
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: to it.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I will say I'm disappointed it's not an actual print, Yeah, exactly,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: because I would like to have a physical book, But
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I will take what I can get.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: So we're definitely planning to talk about this more later
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: after we kind of all have had a chance to
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: get caught up on all of it and listen to
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: everything and get some more to come with us.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: For sure. Yeah, definitely.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: So last, but not least and on you know more.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: A sadder news again, Harry Potter, Magic Awakened will be
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: closing in the Americas, Europe and Oceania territories on October
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: twenty nine, twenty twenty four, and it was already removed
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: from the App Store on August twenty six, so the
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: game will continue to be available for players in Asia,
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: including China, these Mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, as
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: well as others select Asia and m e NA territories.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: The game developers didn't really give any reason behind the decision,
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: but there are a series of theories that point out
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: to the service being in these regions, being too expensive
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: and not having enough players to compensate for the losses
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: and how much it costs. So we will hopefully for
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: further develop on this as we get new information, but
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: that's all we know for now, and it's been a
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: very abrupt change. It's been a very abrupt decision too,
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: because it only launched a year ago, so, like people
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: in the comments were very upset to say the least.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not very long, even for a mobile game,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, all right, Well, that wraps up our news.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Hopefully from this point forward will be a little bit
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: or up to date on things as we get roll
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: in here. But it seems like, we really had quite
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the summer full of news and announcements, so we wanted
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: to make sure to at least cover those. So our
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: main discussion for this episode is again kind of very introductory,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: but it's more about reflecting and keeping the magic alive,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: which is what we hope to do with this podcast.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: So why did we start the show? We all really
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: found ourselves in the spot where there was so much
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: negativity surrounding the Wizarding world, and all we really wanted
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: to do was just enjoy it and discuss it with
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: other fans. So we really hope that this serves as
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: a place to foster that community and that you can
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: relate to some of the rantings here of three friends
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: just hanging out and being kind of nerdy. So we
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: are in the year twenty twenty four, but Harry Potter
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Love is still alive and well. So let's take a
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: little trip down memory lane with some numbers here to
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: reflect back on the craziness that is potter Mania. When
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Sorcerer's Stone was first published in nineteen ninety eight, it
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: had an original printing of fifty thousand copies. Now it
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: has sold more than one hundred and twenty million copies,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: which makes it one of the best selling books of
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: all time. So from that point in the late nineties,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: potter Mania really came on pretty quickly. It seemed almost instantaneous. Really,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: midnight release parties started organically. Actually they were organized by
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: bookstores themselves, not Scholastic, and when word reached Scholastic that
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: these midnight parties were happening, they provided the bookstores with
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: giveaway items like lightning bolt, temporary tattoos, bumper stickers, all
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: that fun stuff.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Man, I missed those midnight release parties too. I have
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: borders that I miss. Borders to really bring back.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Up some beverteries here Walden Books.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, oh man.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: So by the US release of Goblet of Fire, nine
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: thousand FedEx trucks were used for the sole purpose of
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: delivering copies of the books to stores in time for
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: the launch. And this is actually funny. In two thousand
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: and three, I remember these headlines there was a book
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: heist in which someone hijacked a trailer full of the
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Order of the Phoenix books ahead of their release and
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: they stole over seven thousand copies.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Wow, I remember that, and I just cudn't believe that
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: that was like that this was like a major headline,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: but like, oh my god, it's such a big deal though,
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: because I mean those the books were so like you know,
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: behind lock and key, like I'll never forget the boxes, you.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Know of like do not open this.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the day and it was like the really big
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: start of like street dated things.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: I feel like and like.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: This is a big deal, like can't spoil it before
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: it comes out.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: But I wanted to read this article from CNN because
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I just think it's funny, like looking back now at
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: like how big this was, I feel like we don't
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: think about it that much anymore, but this was crazy
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: like that a book cost this. But here's from the article.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: It says the appetite for all things related to Harry
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Potter shows no sign of abating, as police said thousands
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: of copies of the eagerly awaited new book had been stolen.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: The seven thousand, six hundred and eighty copies of Harry
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Potter and The Order of the Phoenix worth an estimated
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty thousand, five hundred and sixty pounds
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: or about twenty to wait, yeah, two hundred and twenty
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars US dollars were taken from a trading estate
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: in Merseyside, Northwest England, at the weekend. Officers said on Tuesday,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the books, each weighing two pounds, were stolen from a
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: trailer which was later found abandoned. Police warned anyone tempted
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: to handle copies of the book before its official publication
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: on Saturday that they could face criminal charges. If anyone
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: is offered the book prior to Saturday or after Saturday
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: at a reduced price, they should immediately contact us. That
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: a police spokeswoman love this. The thefts are the latest
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: crimes connected to Harry Potter. Last month, four people were arrested.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, they didn't proofread this. This literally says last
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: month four people were arrested last month in Suffolk, Eastern England.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: It was such breaking news. They just had to get it.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Out curiously typing this in connection with the discovery of
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: two copies of the latest book.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's the gist of it. There's more in
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: this article. But I just think that's so funny.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I can't even imagine, like if something like
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: that happened.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, and you have to think too at
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: that time.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, the internet wasn't even exactly like what it
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: is now, So like if this happened now, like yeah.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Right, Like we did get a leak on the internet
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: before Deathly Hallows, but these days it would have been
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the full book, would have happened with all of the books.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: But yeah, after that event, later installments were transported in
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: armored vehicles. So all in all, the series has sold
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: more than six hundred million copies as of twenty twenty three.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: I couldn't find twenty twenty fours numbers yet. And that's
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: just the books, because obviously then there's also the films,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: which extended the midnight release. Mayhem passed when the book
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: stopped coming out, because we had midnight showings for most
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: of the films. And the film series is the fourth
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: highest grossing film series of all time with seven point
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: seven billion dollars worldwide, which keeps going up because we
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: know they keep bringing those films back to the theaters
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: to do those showings that they do, so that number
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: will grow. Deathly Hallo's Part two is the eighteenth highest
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: grossing film of all time, making over one billion dollars,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: which breaking a billion dollars is very very rare. There's
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: not too many films that do that. The films were
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: released over the span of ten years, so we got
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: quite a bit of time with the books coming out,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: and we got another decade with the films coming out.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: There was some overlap, but that really extended this period
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: of just the obsession with Harry Potter that was so
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: permeated pop culture during that time. Everybody knew it, everybody
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: knew what happened in it, even if you hadn't ever
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: read it, Like it was just one of those things
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: that was so ingrained in society really at that point.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: And now we're thirteen years after the last film was released,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: and we've had theme parks open up with that new
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: expansion coming to Orlando next year twenty twenty five, right,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: We've had the stage play Churs Child, we had three
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: spin off films with the Fantastic Beast series. We've had
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: lots of video games, mobile aps, remember Wizards Unite, Oh yeah, yeah,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: oh man. And now we've got this TV series as
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: well to look forward to. So, you know, it's interesting
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: to look back at where we've been, but also it's
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: interesting that this just keeps going, like it's still one
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: of those things that is like it could have just
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: had its moment and then faded away, but it's still
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: there and new generations keep getting reignited and fascinated by it,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: and it really just sticks around. It's really had quite
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: the longevity.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that it like has had such
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: a great like cultural impact because I think that you know,
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: we had that split with you know, deactly how it
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: was part one in part two, and then all of
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: a sudden it became cool to separate, you know, that
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: we saw it later with Breaking Dawn Part one and
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: part two. And I think too, like the fact that
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: you know, it's it's so crazy to me to think
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: that we're thirteen years from the last film being released,
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: like where is my life going? But but like it's
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: the fact that it's just still so big and everything.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: I think that it's you know, probably played a role
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: and like resurgence and like other things that we've seen,
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: you know, like obviously we have these other big fantoms
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: like Lord of the Rings and then eventually it's like,
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: you know, hey, let's do this Rings of Power TV
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: series and now.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: That's kind of coming back.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: And then obviously like Hunger Games is kind of not
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: this resurgence you know, with more material coming there as well.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: And I think that it just had such a big impact.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: It seems like it was like the first to really
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: do that and really have the kind of impact that
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: it did and kind of really just set up how
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: so many other like fandoms have evolved over time.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Totally.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think all so the fact that it
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: never died down, that it always it was always like
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: record breaking and there was always like so you know,
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: people queuing whenever a store opens or whenever a new
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: theme park attraction opens, and it's still you know, it's
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: still pretty much alive. So it never went anywhere like
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: with the Hunger Games when it ended, like there was
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: this lapse, you know, this time period with you know,
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: you didn't really get much hype around it. But suddenly
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: there was a new book coming out, there was a
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: new movie coming out, and people were going back and
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: revisiting it and viewing it for the first time. You
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: had reactors all over YouTube, just really really hyped for
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: what was coming. So it started having this resurgence. And
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: I feel like for Harry Potter, that resurgence is always
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: there in some ways, like it's it's so powerful and
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: the fact that newer generations are you know, I have
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: family members like cousins whose daughters and sons are picking
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: up the books and they are sessed with them and
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: they're watching the films, and so it's like, it's so
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: crazy to think, like, twenty plus years later, it's still
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: going strong, and you know, we haven't necessarily had anything
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: new from Harry Potter itself for the past thirteen years,
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: so that just speaks volumes of how much of a
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: cultural impact.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: It was and it will continue to be, for sure, absolutely.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: And it's funny like I teach high school and these
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: kids come in and they're wearing their Hogwarts T shirts.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Like they'll be like, oh, what what house are you in?
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Blah blah blah, And it's just funny to me, like
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: these are kids who, mind you, were born in like
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: two thousands, so they were like one when Deathly Hallis
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: came out the book. So it's just funny that like
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: they're so into it still and it's still such a
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: prominent thing, and it's just like normal language to be like, hey,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: what's your Hogwarts have like, and yeah, you know the answer.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: Well, it's like people who like never got into it,
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: you know, or really knew, you know, never really knew
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: anything about it, like they know, like the term muggle
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: is you know, from is from Harry Potter, or like
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: just those words like quidditch, like you know, you don't
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: have to have read the books or even seen the films.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: You know, you probably know what quidditch is. And I
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: think even just the amount of people that go to
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: the theme parks who you know, have never read the
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: books or you know, seen the films or and they
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: still love it and enjoy it. And I think even
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: sometimes going to that park maybe sparks an interest for
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: them to then go and watch the films or you know,
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: even read the books. And it's I mean, it's I
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: can't think of many other things, you know. I mean
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: obviously I do think of like Star Wars and stuff
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: like that, but I can't think of many other things
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: that have been able to kind of like remain at
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: this like dominant level for so long while you know,
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: more and more media has come out since then, and
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: like I said, I think Harry really sparked this huge thing,
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: and so there's been so many things that have come
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: out that could have overdominated it, right, and it like
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: never did I feel.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, yeah, I think you're right. The only thing
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: you can really compare to is Star Wars, Like I
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: feel like that's the only comparison you could draw.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: And yeah, I think I mean because I think, you know,
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: you had like when Star Wars kind of you know,
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: had after the original films and before the prequels and
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: stuff there was, and then after the prequels and then
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: when there was this kind of huge latency period before
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: you know, the Disney buyout and everything, you had your
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: niche fans that were still you know, and there was
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: books that were coming out and everything there. But I
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: think it kind of maybe even faded a little bit
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: at that time where I feel like Harry Potter just
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: hasn't And of course Star Wars has been around so
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: much longer than Harry Potter, so you know, we might
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: see that happen with Harry Potter as well. But yeah,
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: you've had these two like just massive medias that have
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: just and they've become so it's like you mentioned too,
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: it's like it's like just that multimedia approach to and like,
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: you know, it's so crazy to think how you know,
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: this this book series you know that kind of just
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: came about you know, is now permeated almost every major
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: form of media that you can think of.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's such a feat I.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Think it really is. So, you know, now that we've
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: kind of looked back a little bit at the series,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: that I want to look back at our own relationship
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: with the series, and I thought it'd be interesting to
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: know how and why did you fall in love with
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: the Wizarding World.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean kind of like exactly what we were
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: just talking about like makes me think of like my
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: story in terms of like, you know, I got a
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: copy of Sorcerer's Stone at my school book fair at school,
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: and it was rarely shortly after it was released. I
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: was like seven or eight years old at the time,
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: you know when the book was released, and when or
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: when I started reading it. I'm not sure exactly, you know,
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: when I got it, but it's just such a special
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: memory for me because it was I feel like it
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: it's the only book from like my childhood that I
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: remember like reading, like like physically remember like sitting on
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: the floor like reading it and like I'll never forget
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: to my grandmother like reading the ending chapters to me,
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Like that's a memory that I kind of you know,
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: just will always have. And then I, like, you know,
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: I think then there was a few years before I
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: read Chamber of Secrets, and then honestly, like I kind
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: of sort of fell off and I kind of continued
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: to get the books and they kind of collected dust
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: a little bit on my shelves.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: But then like once you.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: Know, it breached that like movie territory and that medium
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: came up, and I remember, like, you know, getting to
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: the Age and Prisoner of Azkaban movie coming out, and
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: I was like, gosh, like I gotta read this book,
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: you know, before I see this movie, and kind of
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: like that's where the rest was kind of history for me,
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: was reading that book in preparation for the movie, and
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: then that was my you know, hook line and sinker
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: into getting into this fandom.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: And I think that like I really just fell in
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: love with.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: It because it's with such well it not just was
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: it still is such good storytelling and such a detailed
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: and immersive world. And I think truly it was my
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: very first experience with like being like reading a book
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: series that's that that has world building like that and
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: just the immersion, and I think that I was always
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: probably predisposed to become obsessive with things like this, and
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: it just kind of took being exposed to that type
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: of storytelling.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, yeah, it's funny because I think hearing
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: your timeline, I think I got into it probably around
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: the same time actually, because nineteen September one, nineteen ninety eight,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: was when the first book was released in the US.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I would have been four years old at that point,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: so I was not reading it. So yeah, I didn't
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: get into it until a few years later, right around
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: the time Prisoner of Azkaban the movie was coming out.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: I was probably eight or nine maybe, and I got
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: the Sorcerer's Stone DVD for Christmas, and my sister got
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: the first four paperback books. Well, we watched the first movie,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: loved it, and she had the books on her bookshelf
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: and she told me I was now old enough to
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: read those books, and I wouldn't be able to get
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: through them. So me being the competitive nuisance that I
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: am wrong, Yeah, I took that as a challenge and
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: I took the books off her shelf and read them
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: one by one, and I did, in fact finish them.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I had to have a dictionary, but it was an
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: easier read than when she challenged me to read Lord
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: at the Rings and I sat, they're very stubbornly trying
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: to do that. But yeah, it was around that time
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: and then the Prisoner of Azkaband movie came out, and
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: then yeah, from there it was all the midnight releases
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: and everything. But I think the reason I got so
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: obsessed is very similar to you, and that it was
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: this immersive world and it really felt like it was
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: written for me, and it didn't feel like other children's
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: literature that was kind of dumbed down, like it felt
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: like it was for your age group, but it was
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: more I don't know, like that they weren't like trying
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: to sugarcoat things.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: I guess, no, I mean there's and I think it's
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: like how, you know, how the books kind of almost
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: age up with you, you know, for especially for us
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: that were there as they were being written, and you know,
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: they got progressively more challenging and darker in all of that,
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: and it's like, obviously those first two books are kind
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: of light and fluffy, but.
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: There's some dark stuff in there. Oh yeah, but there
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: really is.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: And so like you're absolutely right that it was, like,
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: you know, JK. Rowling was not afraid to dumb down,
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: you know, but still keeping it light and fluffy and
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: introducing you to this world but then kind of like
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: throwing in this really.
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: Dark stuff too.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, it was like there was this trust in
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: you as a young kid reading these that you could
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: understand the themes and really kind of grasp it. But
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: I also, like so many people who I think, really
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: held onto these books so fast and hard. Was it
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: It felt like you belonged in that world and it
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: felt like those characters were there for you in a
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: way that I don't think other books did for me
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: at that time. And I was a bookworm, like I
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: was reading a lot, but I think just a lot
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: of us who felt kind of like misfits growing up,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: this was that place that we were able to escape
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: to and seeing a character like Hermione who I could
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: hundred percent relate to and like the description of like
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: the big front teeth and the bushy brown hair, like
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: that's me and that's what I always struggled with, like
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: looking at myself in the mirror. So it was one
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: of those things where it just felt like it was
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: there for you to belong in that space, and that's
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: what it continued to be for me growing up. That's
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: what it continued to be all through high school and
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: college and now into adulthood. And I just feel like
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: at every point in my life, I keep coming back
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: to the stories in the world, and I relate in
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: different ways and it means something more to me at
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: different times in my life, depending on what I'm going through.
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: Okay, so to me, it was back in two thousand
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: and one, my cousin literally almost like dragged me to
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: the cinema to see this boy wizard.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Who didn't know he was a wizard.
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: And I was like, oh, this sounds cheesy, this sounds like,
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: you know, like something I seen before. Like I wasn't
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: like I was just being a child, And so I
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: went there, I saw the film, and I completely fell
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: in love with it. The whole story just everything was
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: so it was so compelling, and I think it was
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: just the magic, just how beautiful it was and how
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: real it was at the same time, because it wasn't
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: it wasn't like something oh magical like coming from a
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: fairy tale. It literally seemed like something that could happen
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: to you, and it feels like in your world. But
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: at the same time, a different world inside your world
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: because it's kind of like a fantasy. So I just yeah,
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: I just felt it was so relatable and the characters
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: and it was it was such a magical experience. And
• 47:28
  Speaker 5: then after that, I started going to the movie screenings.
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: I hadn't read the books yet, so I waited a
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: little bit on that, but yeah, so I started like
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: going to the to the screenings and.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: Just became obsessed with it.
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: I bought the video games I had, like I was.
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: I started like, I literally played I Was Harry Potter
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: in a bathrobe and I had my own stick that
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: was like a wand and then it was, yeah, it
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: was I was just like all over it, like I
• 48:05
  Speaker 5: loved it, and it became it became part of my life.
• 48:08
  Speaker 5: Like people started to know me, and five, you know,
• 48:12
  Speaker 5: or not even five minutes, like two minutes into knowing me,
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: they were like, oh, yeah, so you're Harry. You're a
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: Harry Potter fan. So I've always I've always been the
• 48:19
  Speaker 5: Harry Potter fan kid. And yeah, later on I started
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: reading the books, and prior to the release, I think
• 48:26
  Speaker 5: the first one that I read, I think I think
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: the first one, to be honest with half Blood Prince
• 48:34
  Speaker 5: the first one I read before the film came out,
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: and then the other books like I did read them,
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: but not prior to the release of the of the films.
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: And yeah, I just I just remember feeling it was.
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: It was for me, It was for a long time.
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: It was like the reason that I wanted to just
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: live another year, if that makes sense, because you know,
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: your teenage years are hard.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: You go through a lot of things. You go through
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: you know, people either.
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: Bully you or they are you know, they are judging
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: you for being different, and you you know, your look
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: down on because of that. So and while you're going
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: through that, and I remember just picking up a copy
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: of you know, one of the books and just reading
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: the chapters. I was going through a lot of like
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: anxiety and just wasn't going through a really good time.
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: And that was like my sort of beaking of hope
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: too and my guiding light just picking up that book
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: and just finding that outlet that took me into a
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: different reality where I could literally just be happy. And
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: just so I owe in many ways, I feel like
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: I owe my life to these books and to these
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: films because they were always an outlet for me and
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: I just really appreciate how like you said, you know,
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: it's like the characters, how relatable they are. Like I
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: also found myself, you know, Like I saw Hermione, I
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: was like, oh my god, she's you know, she's she's amazing,
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: you know. And I also saw myself in her. And
• 50:09
  Speaker 5: I saw a little bit of myself in Harry, and
• 50:11
  Speaker 5: I saw a little bit of myself in Ron. So
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: it was just always just finding that little bit of
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: magic that my life needed. And it was the perfect getaway,
• 50:22
  Speaker 5: to be honest, and it just continued growing, and it continued,
• 50:26
  Speaker 5: you know, to inspire me in so many ways.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: So and it still does to this day.
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: So I'm always going to be forever grateful for everything
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: this series has given me and everything that you know,
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: I because I wouldn't be who I am today if
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: if Harry Potter hadn't been part of my life, I
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: would be a completely different person.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: So I owe it all to this series.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: It's so interesting to think about, like if we never
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: read these books or watched these movies, what our lives
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: would be like. It's very very strange.
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: I mean yeah, I mean I can't even imagine because
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: it's like I think, like like really similar to kind
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: of what you just said, Tom, I feel like nothing
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: in my life has had as much of an impact
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: on me as Harry Potter.
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: And I think, like to some people who.
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: Are not part of like that fandom obsessive culture, that
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: probably sounds absolutely ridiculous.
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: Right, but I think that like it really has been.
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: Like obviously, like I'm so happy that I was, you know,
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: part of the generation that got to grow up with
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: the books and with the movies and you know, and
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: just experience all of that. And like I mean, I'm
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: thirty three years old right now, and so like honestly,
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: like Harry Potter has been like the biggest constant in my.
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: Life, like outside of like my family. You know.
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like Harry Potter has been there. And it's
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: one of those things where even if sometimes it might
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: take the back seat for me because you know, I'm
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: in my Disney era or I'm in Taylor Swift era
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: or whatever, it is, like Harry Potter's still there, like
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: you know, Homwards is always there to welcome me home.
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: And it just is always there and it always comes
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: back and it's never going anywhere. And I mean I
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: have two Harry Potter tattoos, So it's literally never going
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: anywhere for me.
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: It will be there in the grave.
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: So it's just so crazy to think of having something
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: be such a constant, you know, in your life. And
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: like for me, it was my gateway fandom and it
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: really molded the like my personality, and I think, like
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: my personality now is all about my nerdy life, you know,
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: and all these fandoms that I'm a part of in
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: the media that I consume. And I always wonder like
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: if Harry Potter hadn't been there and kind of been
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: that gateway for me, like would that still like would
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: that have been like my personality now?
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: Like it's so crazy to think about.
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: I can't even think about what, yeah, what my life
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: would be like if it wasn't there. And I think, like,
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: you know, it's been there for me for really good
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: times and really bad and challenging times, and yeah, it's
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: just crazy to like when you really stop and think
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: about it.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: So are Hogwarts houses. We've talked about how you know,
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: that's culturally just everyone just knows. So I'm a hufflepuff,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: I'm a griffin door, So I want to know, do
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: we all think that our Hogwarts houses are accurate, and
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: is our pot or more house the same as what
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: you would pick for yourself.
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: Well, so I have like a very I feel like
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: just interesting story. I think with houses because I lived
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: most of my life as a raven cloth, I'm like
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: a newly converted Slytherin as of you know, the last
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: several years, and so I you know, maybe people don't
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: believe in that, you know that you can't switch your
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: house or whatever, but you know, at the end of
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: the day, this is still just like you know, as
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: much as we want it to be real, it is you.
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: Know, what do you want? Right?
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: Sorry I think a minute spoilerler.
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So, I you know, did get to that point
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: where I made the choice that I'm like, man, I
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: think as I got older, I realized like you know,
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: I think, you know, growing up and when the books
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: first came out, Slytherin was like, oh my god, it's
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: the bad House.
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: And you know, we really.
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: Saw it through Harry's perspective, which obviously wasn't a great perspective,
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: and so as a little kid, you know, it's kind
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: of like, well, I don't want to be like with
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: the bad guys.
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: You know, and then I think as.
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: You get older and you mature and you learn, you realize,
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: like there's so much more to Slytherin House than that,
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: and I think, like, I'm still very much a very
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: big secondary Raven club, Like if you take those quizzes
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: that give you the percentage, like my Slytherin and Raven
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: Clob percentages are so like they're very very similar. But
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: I just like felt so at home once I kind
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: of realized that, like, no, I think I fit.
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: More in Slytherin.
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: And so my original Pado Moore house was Raven Clob
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: like and I agreed with that at the time. I
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: kind of do still agree with it, you know, And
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: at the time in my life when I took that
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: quiz and then eventually like I made a new account
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: and that gave me Slytherin. And the whole time I
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: was answering it, I kind of was like, man, did
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: I just get Slytherin? Because I kind of answered this
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: in a way to get Slytherin. And then I realized, man,
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: that's a real Slytherin thing to do, so, you know,
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: answer this in a way to get the outcome that
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: you want. And I was like, yeah, that's my confirmation.
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: So and then I got.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: Slytherin on the official the official quiz, and actually almost
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: every every test I've taken since I made the transition
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: to being a Slytherin, I've gotten Slytherin. So my answer
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: is like, actually, I do think it is accurate, and
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: it was accurate for me both times, and at the
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: time it was what it is, what I would have
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: picked for myself both times.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Well. As Dumbledore says, we sort too soon, So.
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: We sort too soon, And I think absolutely, because I
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: think the person I am now and the person I
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: am when I realized, I, you know, I was more,
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: maybe just a little bit more of a Slytherin, like
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: the person that I was at eleven and through a
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: lot of that time identified as raven Claw. Like I,
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: you know, I don't know if it was a so yeah,
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: I think maybe it was a sor too soon, you know.
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: And we evolve in our life and I think you can't.
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: I think we all possess traits of all the houses,
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: you know, and we're not all perfect fits. There's a
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: lot of parts of Slytherin that I don't fit with,
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: Like I don't think i'd become a dark wizard. If
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: I was in the world you, No, I don't think
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: I would. I would have turned to that way of life.
• 56:38
  Speaker 5: But you know, I think that it is you would
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: have gone straight to the dungeons.
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: I mean what I see like now, the biggest thing
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: that I identify with with with Slytherin is self preservation.
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: That is my biggest thing.
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: So I would have absolutely been down there and I've
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: been like, you don't need to get me out.
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: I'm protected down here. You all can sacrifice yourself. I'm
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: staying down here.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: But I'm out there like burn it all down, Like
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: I'm not kidding him.
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: Were like, you know our hofflepast Slytherin's like we're truly
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: embody that.
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: But I think, like what's really hard about houses.
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: Right is like it's so it's such a it's a
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: box and you can't fit we can't fit anybody.
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: Into like just one box.
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And so that's what That's what I used to
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: justify my transition in life from raven Claw to Slytherin.
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: M hm.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: So makes sense.
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like in my case, I was always
• 57:33
  Speaker 5: a Gryffindor. I know people have this misconception that oh,
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: you're in Gryfindor because of Harry, and you know, if
• 57:39
  Speaker 5: we're starters, red is my favorite color.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: I know, it's kind of like maroons ish.
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: Color, but green's my favorite too. Yeah, and I always
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: wanted to buy Slytherin merch so you know it.
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: Makes sense, right, Yeah, it does.
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: And also like I always felt like very connected to
• 57:56
  Speaker 5: Gryffindor to everything that it represented. So when I did
• 57:59
  Speaker 5: my first test on Potter Moore in twenty eleven, remember
• 58:02
  Speaker 5: we had to collect those feathers that would get us
• 58:05
  Speaker 5: like early access into the into Potter more So, I
• 58:08
  Speaker 5: remember just I took the the sorting hat quiz, and
• 58:12
  Speaker 5: I remember I did Actually the complete opposite happened to me, Nicole,
• 58:17
  Speaker 5: because I did everything at Gryffindor would answer, and funnily enough,
• 58:22
  Speaker 5: I got Ravenclaw and I was like I got into
• 58:26
  Speaker 5: this serious you know that there was this whole like
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: in twenty eleven, there was like this whole like house
• 58:33
  Speaker 5: crisis identity thing going on in the fandom because suddenly
• 58:36
  Speaker 5: people who were in a certain house were suddenly turned
• 58:40
  Speaker 5: told oh, no, you belong in this house. So I
• 58:43
  Speaker 5: was like, no, I can't be Raven Claw. I don't
• 58:45
  Speaker 5: know why I chose raven Claw, and it was because
• 58:47
  Speaker 5: literally I had I hadn't answered the quiz like with
• 58:53
  Speaker 5: what I would have answered originally, so I remember I
• 58:57
  Speaker 5: had to do it another you know, I had, I
• 58:59
  Speaker 5: couldn't get over. So I was like, Okay, I'm gonna
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: do it a second time if I'm still Ravenclaw. Okay,
• 59:03
  Speaker 5: that's it. There's no going back. I have to fully
• 59:05
  Speaker 5: embrace it. But I took it the second time, and
• 59:08
  Speaker 5: I did it like very transparently, like I didn't try to,
• 59:12
  Speaker 5: you know, Gryffindor my way in and yeah, so I
• 59:18
  Speaker 5: actually got Gryffindor. And I actually have taken like two
• 59:21
  Speaker 5: more quizzes on potter More and I always get Gryffindor
• 59:24
  Speaker 5: no matter what, like anything, Like obviously I always select
• 59:29
  Speaker 5: like options, but the options you get are always different,
• 59:32
  Speaker 5: so whatever my choices are, like, I still get Gryffindor.
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: So I'm very proud of it because it's like, Okay, yeah,
• 59:38
  Speaker 5: I actually did belong in this house, and I'm very happy.
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: And I had everything, like I had my whole.
• 59:42
  Speaker 5: Gryffindor attire, like my my robes, my my tie, my everything,
• 59:47
  Speaker 5: so I was like, no, I cannot like switch now
• 59:49
  Speaker 5: and be a raven Claw, you know. So I was like, yeah,
• 59:53
  Speaker 5: I'm still I'm still happy to be in Gryffindor. And
• 59:55
  Speaker 5: I of course, like what you said, Nicole, like picking
• 59:58
  Speaker 5: up what you said. It's not you know, like you
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 5: your house doesn't always represent you one. It's obviously there's
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 5: certain traits that are more prominent in your personality and
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 5: maybe that's what you know drives you to a certain house.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 5: So I feel like that's my case with Gryffindor, because
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 5: I'm not like, oh, I'm bold all the time and
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 5: I'm brave, and I'm like, I obviously get scared, and
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 5: obviously I you know, sometimes I would go down the
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 5: dungeons with you guys. You know, I'm not sure i'd
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 5: be like up for you know, trying to win a
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 5: battle against Voldemort and the death Theaters, but who knows. Like,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 5: but at the same time, I do feel like I
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 5: have a lot of the traits and personality, you know,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 5: characteristics that really form a Gryffindor. So I'm just yeah,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 5: I'm a proud, proud, very proud Gryfindor.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, so we have three of the four
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: Hogwarts houses because I am in Hufflepuff. I am always
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: in Hufflepuff, no matter what quiz I.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: Take, I am not surprised at all. Yeah, you and
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: body Hufflepuff so much.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: I've made oh yes, six or seven pot or more
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: accounts at this point, and every time it's snuffle pup.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: Why do we have that? Why do we do that?
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: Do?
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: Why do are we always like, you know, second guessing ourselves?
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: Like maybe it's changed this time. I don't know, but yeah,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: it makes sense. I'm at peace with it. Little Amy
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: was upset because blue is my favorite color, and I
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: wanted to be in Ravenclaw, and I do think like
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: same as Nicole. I think raven Claw would be like
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: my secondary house. And I always kind of thought I
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: was Ravenclaw. But I think Hufflepuff makes a little more
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: sense because I think a lot of my smarts are
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: more like determination, and I'm not going to let this
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: thing beat me. So I'm gonna sit here and I'm
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: going to study like all night, every night until I
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: get what I want, which is a very Hufflepuff thing.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: Like I don't think that sort of stuff comes naturally
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: to me. I think it's all stuff that I've really
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: had to work for. So I do think that it
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: does make a lot more sense that I'm Hufflepuff, but
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: I still love the color blue.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: Well, it's funny that you bring up the learning thing,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: because I think like that actually like is a way
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: to really distinguish between some of the houses and kind
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: of like helped me as well, because obviously, like I've
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: always been very academic, and that's why I was like, oh, yeah,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: of course I'm raven Claw, right, Like I have three
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: master's degrees, like academia. Academia has been my thing. But
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: it's kind of like I feel like I almost was
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: doing it more for like the prestige and like what
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: it could get me, more so than just for the
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: sake of learning. And that right there is the difference
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: between a raven Claw and a slotherin.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I feel like this learning.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: Like why you do it, you know, it's just like
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: it all really comes back to the way you learn
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: and why and how and so it's just a little
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: interesting anecdote that I thought of when you brought that up,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: like that that's kind of what differentiated for you as well.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, definitely, I mean and then just as I've aged,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: like I do realize about my personality, Like I am
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: very very loyal, but I'm not blindly loyal, like you
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: have to be someone who's earned that loyalty. And I'm
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: not afraid to like speak up or act out when
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: I see something that's not fair or not right, Like
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: I'm very like m M, that's not the way that
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: you're supposed to be. I'm gonna say something to you,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: whether you like it or not, whether it screws me
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: over or not, I'm going to say it because that's
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: the just way. So I think that's very very much.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: I think it's very accurate, and I'm okay with it
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: because badgers are adorable too, So.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: I think I think your thought on. I love the
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: Hofflepuff merch. I think they just need to be a
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: little bit more consistent with the Yello they do.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: So then kind of our last discussion point here in
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: the main discussion to wrap things up. Obviously, we've talked
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: about how big of a role Harry Potter has played
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: in all of our lives up until this point, and
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: we'll probably continue to play. But what has been the
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: biggest way in which the Wizarding World has impacted your life.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 5: Because of Harry Potter and because of the films, I
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 5: became obsessed with the audio visual part of it, and
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 5: I started you know, getting very like how is this done?
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 5: And how's this achieved? And you know, how can I
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 5: do this? And I started playing around with after effects
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 5: and starting creating like very you know, like certain attempts
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 5: of a luminous kind of effect. And I started playing
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 5: around with that, you know, just looking at a lot
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 5: of YouTube tutorials, and that actually kind of you know
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 5: set me up for like, okay, I actually liked this,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 5: you know, post production kind of like part, and I
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 5: started pursuing, little by little a career in you know,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 5: editing and in post production in general. So I feel
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 5: like because of the curiosity that it sparkled in me,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 5: I was like starting to find, you know, my place
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 5: in the world as a professional. So even though I studied,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 5: I majored in English into Spanish translation at university, my like,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 5: my real passion is editing and I've always loved it.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 5: And I feel obviously, if if Harry Potter hadn't been
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 5: part of my life, I don't think I would have
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 5: ventured into that creative outlet like I wouldn't have you know,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 5: it goes back to not being the same person, but
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 5: even professionally, I think it just really built me up.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 5: And I think that's probably like the way in which
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 5: it impacted me that, you know, like the first thing
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 5: I can actually come up that probably the most important one.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is yeah, I think And I know this
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: is gonna sound really generic, but I think for me,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: it's definitely just the people that I've met. I would
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: never have met either of the two of you. If
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: it wasn't for Harry Potter. We wouldn't be sitting here recording.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: And I've ended up with pretty much all of my
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: best friends, my closest friends, I met because of Harry
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: Potter one way or another.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: True.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, like Nicole, we met online because of Harry Potter.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: Like what like twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen now or something
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and just realized we lived like an hour
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: away from each other. I messaged her begging her to
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: be my friend.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 4: I mean, you didn't have to bag it in as
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 4: much at all.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: And then we met up and really hit it off.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: And I mean we talk every day, right, Like if
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: I don't hear from you, I'm like, I wonder if
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Nicol's okay yea, but it's just funny, like those things
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: that would not be in your life if you didn't
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: just happen to open up a book in free.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I actually also met like one of my closest friends.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 5: She came from a Harry Potter fan site that was
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 5: from Latin America, and you know, you had like these
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 5: it were like these kind of like forums where you
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 5: would comment back when commenting was popular on websites and
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 5: we didn't have social media. So I remember posting my
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 5: Harry Potter collection in this website and she and she
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 5: replied and she goes, oh, this is so cool, like
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 5: and then we started like talking, and then you know,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 5: we added each other on Facebook, and you know, we've
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 5: shared all over like twelve years of friendship now thirteen
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 5: years of friendship, and she's one of my best friends
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 5: and I'm so happy, you know, I'm so grateful to
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 5: have her in my life. And it's just like you said,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 5: because you know, we opened a book, or because we
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 5: tuned in one of the movies, or you know, and
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 5: it changed our lives and it made us, you know,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 5: get to know amazing people who not only share that
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 5: same passion but are also very kind and amazing people.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean I really don't have much more
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: else to like add to that.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: Grateful you are for me, you know, and I think.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: Like that's exactly it for me too, Like I said earlier,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: like Harry Potter has been the biggest constant in my
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: life and has really influenced so many decisions in my
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: life and influenced so many things that have happened in
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: my life, like including like me finding like my closest friends, right,
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: And so it's like, you know, I think that you know,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: we grew up like don't meet people that you find
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: on the internet, and literally all of my best friends
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: and all people that have on the internet. But like,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: you know, it's that would have never happened if it
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: wasn't for you know, JK.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 4: Rowling writing this book series, and it's just.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just I can't I mean, if somebody asked me, like,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: what else has impacted your life? Like, I don't think
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: I'd be really hard pressed to like really like like
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: Harry Potter comes to me so so naturally and to
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: really think like what else has had a similar impact.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: It just goes to show the domino effects of just
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: random little events throughout time and throughout your life that
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: lead you in a certain direction. So that wraps up
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: our main discussion specialis all right, So this is the
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: first time that we're doing our specialis Revellio segment. So
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: just to let you all know what this segment is about.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: In this segment, we look at the meaning behind names, dates, plants, spells,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: et cetera in the Wizarding World. So for our very
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: first episode, it seemed fitting to explore the Revellio charm.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: Its uses variations and etymology. So Revellio reveals hidden secrets
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: when it's cast, and the anomology behind that incantation is
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: Latin like usual, and it's the Latin word revelaire means
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: to unveil or reveal. And this spell is not really
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: used in the book so much in just that shortened
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: version of just Revellio. Book instances usually are the later
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: variations that we'll talk about a little bit in a minute,
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: but we do see Revellio used in the Fantastic Beast films.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: Newton uses it on Graves to show that he's actually
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: grindel Wald. In the first film, and Hogwart's Legacy uses
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: this spell.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so if you.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: Play Hogwart's Legacy you'll have it in your head. The
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: if you have not played the game, When you cast Revellio,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: it reveals these Revellio pages that are book pages you
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: can find all over the place, and those pages have
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: different information and lore about locations, characters, all that stuff.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: So then we get to our first variation of Revellio,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: which is the name of this segment, specialis Vellio, and
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: specialis Vellio reveals spells performed on objects or potients. And
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: again with the etymology, we know revel air Latin reveal
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: on veil and specialis is Latin for specific or particular,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: so revealing the specifics of something. So where we see
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: this used. Hermione tries to use it on Harry's copy
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: of Advanced Potion Making, but nothing happens. It kind of
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: depends on how you interpret that passage because something could
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: have happened and she just doesn't see it. Because depending
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: on how you read it, it kind of sounds like
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: the spell ended up revealing the ink writing property of
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: the half blood prints in the book, because Harry discovers
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: that writing like right after this happens, So it could
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: be that nothing happens, or it could be that her
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: casting that somehow revealed that ink. Who knows. It's up
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: to interpretation. And then the third and final variation is
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: hominem revellio, which reveals human presence. So again our etymology
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: revel air on veil reveal revellio. And the Latin hominem
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: spelled ho m I n um, which is different than
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: how it's spelled in the incantation that we know, which
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: is h O m E n um. The Latin hominem
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: with an i is the plural of homo, meaning person,
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  Speaker 1: so it reveals person. Hermione uses this in Deathly Hallows
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  Speaker 1: at Grimaud Place when they first go in to check
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  Speaker 1: that the coast is clear, and death Eaters use it
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  Speaker 1: when they come to the love Goods House and the
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  Speaker 1: trio is hiding upstairs. So that is Revellio in a nutshell.
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  Speaker 2: Very useful spell like.
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  Speaker 5: It has a lot of different variations and uses that
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  Speaker 5: you can like, I think in Hollward's legacy, Revellio like
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  Speaker 5: specialities revelio hominum rebellio, like everything appears when you cast rebellio,
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  Speaker 5: so it kind of encompasses everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, that'll be like you wouldn't have enough wheel
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  Speaker 1: slots to have all the different versions of and have
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  Speaker 1: to cycle through them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so now we're moving on to our discussion question,
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  Speaker 1: All right, so that's episode one in the books. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for listening. I'm Amy, I'm Nicole
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  Speaker 2: And I'm tomc