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Episode 27: Back to Hogwarts 2025 · Revelio: A Wizarding World Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to episode twenty seven of Rebellio for
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Speaker 1: September eighth, twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy and I'm Nicole, and it is just us today.
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Speaker 1: Old Tom is off having a grand.
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Speaker 2: Time gallivanting through London going to the Harry Potter studio tour,
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Speaker 2: so if we can forgive him for not being here today, but.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess it's okay.
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Speaker 2: What's not okay though, is he is missing out on
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Speaker 2: our birthday podcast birthday, Yes.
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Speaker 1: Our anniversary.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but we are one years old as of Yes,
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Speaker 2: we're recording this on the six I think it was yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Our first episode came out September fifth, which is so
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Speaker 2: crazy that it's about a year so mild.
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Speaker 1: Yes, time flies when you're having fun.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and yeah, thank you to everyone who has fun
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Speaker 2: with us for this whole journey or has joined us
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Speaker 2: along the way. We hope you'll stick around for our
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Speaker 2: second year of life.
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Speaker 1: And hopefully we have less technical difficulties in year two
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Speaker 1: than year one.
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Speaker 2: I mean, based on we're gonna say, based on what
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Speaker 2: just occurred before we started recording, we are not all
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Speaker 2: to a great start. So if anything, we are consistent, So.
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Speaker 1: That's right, there's something to be said for consistency.
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Speaker 2: This is true. This is true, all right.
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Speaker 1: So this is kind of a strange episode. As you've noticed,
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Speaker 1: we are releasing on a Monday instead of a Thursday,
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Speaker 1: but we did want to make sure that we were
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Speaker 1: able to record after all the Back to Hogwarts stuff happened,
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Speaker 1: so that way we can talk about all of these
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Speaker 1: announcements and our thoughts. So this episode is going to
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Speaker 1: be completely news, so kind of breaking our usual format
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Speaker 1: as well as our usual schedule. But on September eighteenth,
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Speaker 1: we will be back to our regular schedule with a
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Speaker 1: normal episode that day.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, listening to WN the Wizarding Wireless Network now
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Speaker 3: for the latest headlines.
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Speaker 1: So we have a few pieces of news that are
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Speaker 1: not Back to Hogwarts announcements that happened after we've recorded
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Speaker 1: last episode as usual, again consistent, so we'll get into
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Speaker 1: those really quick before we dive into all the stuff
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Speaker 1: from the showcase. So we have more Weasley's. We got
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Speaker 1: the casting for Fred, George Percy and Ginny for the
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Speaker 1: HBO TV series. So yeah, there's this awesome photo of
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Speaker 1: all of them. We've seen some more pictures of them
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Speaker 1: out filming, so we've seen them a costume which is
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Speaker 1: really fun. So we have Tristan and Gabriel Harland who
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Speaker 1: are playing Fred and George respectively, Rory Spooner as Percy,
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Speaker 1: and Gracie Cochrane as Ginny.
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Speaker 2: I think they all look really great, and I've seen
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Speaker 2: some like discord online about their like how their costumes look,
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Speaker 2: especially for like Molly, like thinking that it doesn't they don't.
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Speaker 2: I don't know a better way to say it, that
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Speaker 2: they don't look quote unquote poor enough. But that's what
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Speaker 2: I've seen online. I don't I don't understand.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're not going to show up in like rags, right,
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Speaker 1: Like do people think people with less money look like?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think that, you know, I think they look great,
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Speaker 2: and I think, like obviously all of them, they're just
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Speaker 2: wearing this like hodgepodge of stuff I like very easily
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Speaker 2: as the net. Yeah, and I loved that Ron was
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Speaker 2: in a Chedley cannon shirt because again, just any kind
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Speaker 2: of nod to like cannon and this being like very
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Speaker 2: cannon heavy is great, and so I loved that in Corporation.
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Speaker 2: But no, they all look super great.
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Speaker 1: And Ginny where socks with sandals. I was like I
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Speaker 1: love this.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I loved it so much. I think she looks adorable. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Again, I am like, I know, I
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Speaker 2: don't know. I'm still like really liking everything that we're seeing.
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Speaker 2: I know that there's like that maybe isn't I don't know,
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Speaker 2: I don't know if that is the major Maybe that
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Speaker 2: is the major opinion or not. I know, obviously there's
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Speaker 2: still like, you know, always going to be like different
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Speaker 2: opinions with this, which is fine, but like, I'm still
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Speaker 2: liking everything.
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Speaker 1: So mm hmmm. I think for the most part, I
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Speaker 1: think that the next announcement is probably a little more
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Speaker 1: divisive than most of the casting we've gotten so far.
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Speaker 1: For sure, it immediately thought of Tom when this happened. Well,
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Speaker 1: and I am sorry you're not here, Tom.
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Speaker 2: I know, I know, and I have some I have
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Speaker 2: some massive thoughts about this next one that are gonna
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Speaker 2: d be from everything I just said. So let's get
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Speaker 2: into it.
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Speaker 1: Okay. So, speaking of casting, during the Back to Hogwarts showcase,
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Speaker 1: it was revealed that Warwick Davis is reprising his role
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Speaker 1: as Professor Flitwick in the HBO TV series, and people
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Speaker 1: understandably have many thoughts about this. It's an interesting choice,
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Speaker 1: very interesting if you're trying to make something different, why
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Speaker 1: are we casting the same actor?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, this is the It's funny because, like I had,
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Speaker 2: I didn't initially have like a thought about this because
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Speaker 2: I was at Universal back to Hogwarts Day, and so
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Speaker 2: I was like preoccupied and busy with being like at
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Speaker 2: Hogwarts to like see what everything was being announced, and
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Speaker 2: so I kind of like just saw glimpses later and
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Speaker 2: then I didn't really like think much of it. I
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Speaker 2: think at first I actually had some like I don't
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Speaker 2: want to say excitement, that wasn't the right word, but like,
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Speaker 2: but then when I sat on it, I'm like, okay,
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Speaker 2: Like this is actually the very first thing of like
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Speaker 2: that we've learned about this show in total totality that
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Speaker 2: I like don't love and not because like I don't
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Speaker 2: think Warwick Davis can do it. Obviously he can. He
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Speaker 2: originated the role and did great, But exactly what you said,
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Speaker 2: like I think that we like. One thing that I've
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Speaker 2: liked is that I have been able to keep these
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Speaker 2: separate in my head. And I know there's been a
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Speaker 2: lot of discourse online and like Chris Columbus just came
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Speaker 2: out and said some things as well about like how
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Speaker 2: they have Hagrid looking and I have thoughts about that too,
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Speaker 2: Like right, like at the end of the day, these
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Speaker 2: are based on characters, so they aren't going to look
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Speaker 2: similarly because they're described in a book. But this is
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Speaker 2: just kind of like a very like a very interesting choice,
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Speaker 2: like did could they not find somebody else? Did work
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Speaker 2: asked to do it? Like I just am so curious
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Speaker 2: how it came about, And.
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Speaker 1: Just like there's so much they can do with makeup.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Flitwick in the films doesn't look like Warwick, right,
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Speaker 1: so you can An.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't look like grip Hook and they're all the same actor,
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Speaker 2: so like.
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Speaker 1: They could make him look totally different. But at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, person, what are we doing?
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Speaker 2: And how I mean? And like I don't want him
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Speaker 2: to play him any different. He's gonna be like you
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Speaker 2: know what I mean? Because then it's like wait what
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Speaker 2: But at the same time, it's just like but I'm
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Speaker 2: don't want the exact same either, Like.
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Speaker 1: And also, if you are going to bury him under
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Speaker 1: the makeup and make him look different, then why not
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Speaker 1: just get a different actor?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, It's just it's a choice.
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Speaker 2: It was a choice, especially like.
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Speaker 1: They've got to know that they've been getting this backlash
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Speaker 1: and that's like a thing that people have a problem with,
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Speaker 1: is it being too close? So why why would this
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Speaker 1: be something like yes, let's do that.
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Speaker 2: I've actually like I've seen a lot of like good
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Speaker 2: things online too, but like I yeah, I mean, obviously,
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Speaker 2: this one little thing is not enough to write me off.
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Speaker 2: SERI I'm obviously still excited and watch it, going to
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Speaker 2: watch it, and like I mean, obviously, as we've talked about,
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Speaker 2: I think that like obviously Tom has kind of been
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Speaker 2: the one of the three of us that's kind of
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Speaker 2: had more like reservations about the show where I think
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Speaker 2: you and I are just like, yeah, let's do this.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm just yeah, I don't, I don't Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I think, like, yeah, I don't have
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Speaker 2: a problem with like these actors like coming back and
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Speaker 2: still being part of the franchise. Like obviously we like
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Speaker 2: we see like Havanna and James and Oliver and Bonnie
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Speaker 2: coming back to you know, and Warwick came back, you know,
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Speaker 2: to do the Baking Show, and like having Tom come
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Speaker 2: back for Curse Child, Like I love that they're still
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Speaker 2: so involved and passionate about it. But I think that, like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I don't know this. Yeah it was it was a choice,
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Speaker 2: and I think it was probably I don't want to
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Speaker 2: say the wrong choice because like we know he'll do
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Speaker 2: a great job, so it's like hard to say like
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Speaker 2: that was the wrong choice, Like we'll be fine. We
10:45
Speaker 2: know he'll be fine. But I think it's just yeah,
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Speaker 2: like let's just like keep this separate, Like yeah, so
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Speaker 2: I can keep it separate in my brain. And now
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Speaker 2: they're messing with that a little bit. But hopefully this
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Speaker 2: is the only uh recasting that we get.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So in addition to that news, we also got
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Speaker 1: the casting announcement for a few more characters. Elijah Ocean
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Speaker 1: will be Dean Thomas Finn Stevens as Vincent Crabb, William
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Speaker 1: Nash as Gregory Goyle, Serene Saba as Professor Sprout, Richard
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Speaker 1: Durden as Professor Bins, Bridd Brennan as Madame Pomfrey, and
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Speaker 1: Lee Gil as grip Hook. Professor Binns looks perfect.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like am just so excited. You know how
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Speaker 2: exciting it is to just see Professor Binns cast.
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Speaker 1: It's so excited.
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Speaker 2: I mean it's like I just mentioned with like you know,
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Speaker 2: the Chudley Cannon shirt, like I think, like, sorry, like
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Speaker 2: I am gonna be so excited about this show because
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Speaker 2: like it's so exciting to like get these other characters
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Speaker 2: and these other canon things and book things that we
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Speaker 2: didn't get in the films and like.
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Speaker 1: This Bins entering through the blackboard.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's all so happy the actor. Yes, and
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Speaker 2: the actor already looks so good, like doesn't even have
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Speaker 2: makeup or anything on. He just is already like Professor
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Speaker 2: Binns in my opinion, So yeah, I was definitely the
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Speaker 2: most excited to see that. I also think that Crab
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Speaker 2: and Goyle look really great too, like really spot on.
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Speaker 2: And I think that little trio will just look really great.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, I think they continue to all look
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Speaker 2: I mean like to come off of I guess just
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Speaker 2: you know, us having some reservations of Warwick coming back.
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Speaker 2: I think everyone looks like really great. Like I think
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Speaker 2: like the actor for Grip Hook looks really great too.
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Speaker 2: Like I think that I'm really excited just to see
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Speaker 2: everybody like in action, because yeah, they just yeah, they
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Speaker 2: just look great. So yeah, I'm excited.
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Speaker 1: So moving on from casting Harry Potter, a Hogwarts Express
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Speaker 1: Adventure will be opening in twenty twenty six. So this
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Speaker 1: was first teased last year during the Back to Hogwarts showcase,
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Speaker 1: and from the wording it sounds like they were hoping
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Speaker 1: to have up and running sooner, but it's taking a
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Speaker 1: little more time. To quote their website, it says a
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Speaker 1: Hogwarts Express Adventure will open in twenty twenty six, giving
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Speaker 1: us a bit more time to make this journey aboard
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Speaker 1: a real moving train. Everything is meant to be, from
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Speaker 1: house competitions to spellcasting thrills, this is no ordinary train ride,
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Speaker 1: and we're making sure every detail is unforgettable. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: just from that wording, it just sounds like maybe there
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Speaker 1: were some delays, but yeah, twenty twenty six. And in
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Speaker 1: the video posted to the official Harry Potter Instagram, some
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Speaker 1: more of the details of the experience are outlined and
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Speaker 1: you get to see some of the stuff like the
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Speaker 1: photo ops. They're gonna have a photo op of platform
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Speaker 1: nine and three quarters and the actual train ride will
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Speaker 1: feature some different activities and things on board as well,
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Speaker 1: and afterwards it looks like they'll be selling butter beer
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Speaker 1: in merch. It looks like they're going to have kind
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Speaker 1: of a little village sort of set up going on
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Speaker 1: there for that.
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Speaker 2: So it's interesting like in the like the little video
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Speaker 2: kind of rendering that you get to see of it
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Speaker 2: in the showcase, Like it's funny, and I think it's
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Speaker 2: just because obviously it's just a rendering, but it almost
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Speaker 2: makes it look like they're planning to do like virtual screens,
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Speaker 2: so it looks like you're actually going through the Scottish
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Speaker 2: like countryside, but you're on an actual moving train, and
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Speaker 2: so I'm really curious, like what that's actually gonna look like,
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Speaker 2: Like are the windows actually gonna be virtual screens or
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Speaker 2: are you gonna like where is this gonna be like,
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Speaker 2: because I don't like if this goes through, like I
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Speaker 2: don't know why I'm thinking the Midwest or I don't
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Speaker 2: know why I'm thinking that, but like the Midwest of
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Speaker 2: the United States like does not look like the Scottish Islands.
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Speaker 2: So I'm really interested to see what they're gonna do.
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Speaker 2: I mean, maybe they will do this like virtual screen
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Speaker 2: the kind of like think of like the Hot Earth
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Speaker 2: Express at Universal but maybe obviously more like advanced and
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Speaker 2: you're on a moving train then too, so it'd be
15:27
Speaker 2: kind of like the same thing of being on a
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Speaker 2: moving train. So yeah, right, I have just have a
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Speaker 2: lot of I had a lot of questions when we
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Speaker 2: first got this announcement last year, and I actually now
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Speaker 2: that we finally have a little bit more information, I
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Speaker 2: feel like I have even more questions about like what
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Speaker 2: this experience is going to be like. But yeah, I
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Speaker 2: guess we'll see. Yeah, we still don't know where it's
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Speaker 2: going to be and.
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Speaker 1: No idea.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's kind of like scary that it was
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Speaker 2: announced a year ago, and like you, like you said,
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Speaker 2: it seems like they're it's just taking them a little
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Speaker 2: bit longer to get it to get it sorted. But
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Speaker 2: I'd rather them obviously like take the time to like
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Speaker 2: come up with a good experience than to like rush
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Speaker 2: something either. So yeah, I guess we'll see. But we've
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Speaker 2: got a little bit of more information on it now. Then,
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Speaker 2: also in the showcase, we got a little bit more
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Speaker 2: about the full cast audio book from Audible, which, as
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Speaker 2: I mentioned, I got I remember it was the last episode.
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Speaker 2: I think it was last episode, episode twenty six where
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Speaker 2: we like learned about this and I was super excited.
16:36
Speaker 2: I think that was a bit of news that was
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Speaker 2: most excited about, and this continues to still be the
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Speaker 2: bit of news that I'm the most excited about. And
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Speaker 2: so we got another little kind of like video teaser
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Speaker 2: as part of the showcase. This one was really cool
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Speaker 2: because we got to see like them in the recording
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Speaker 2: studio delivering their lines, some of these like cats members
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Speaker 2: getting super into it. I just love like kind of
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Speaker 2: behind the scenes from recording like audio dramas and stuff,
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Speaker 2: because I think a lot of these actors, like, you know,
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Speaker 2: they are a lot of them. Some of them are
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Speaker 2: voice actors only, but some of them are obviously like
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Speaker 2: on screen actors, and it's always so interesting to me
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Speaker 2: to like watch them like fully act it out, you know,
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Speaker 2: so that they're fully in character, but obviously they're no
17:22
Speaker 2: one is ever going to see that performance, you know,
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Speaker 2: but it's just how they get into it. And we
17:28
Speaker 2: also got to see like crewmembers gathering natural sounds from
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Speaker 2: a steam engine. And yeah, like I said last episode,
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Speaker 2: i just love the idea of a full cast audio
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Speaker 2: drama and I'm surprised it's taken this long for us
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Speaker 2: to do it, because I think Harry Potter is like
17:42
Speaker 2: the most perfect story for this. We also got a
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Speaker 2: few more like casting announcements as part of this video,
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Speaker 2: So we found out that Mark Addie obi Hagrid, Daniel
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Speaker 2: Mays's Dobby, Alex Hassel is Lucia smelfoy Ovny Deshmok as
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Speaker 2: Parvattie Patil, and Sarah Deshmok is Padma Patil. So I
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Speaker 2: kind of like that it seems like their sisters in
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Speaker 2: real life. And yeah, I have this. I got so
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Speaker 2: teary eyed listening to And God, the actor who's playing
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Speaker 2: the older Harry is escaping me. It's not here, is
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Speaker 2: it Harry tried away? Is he doing the younger version
18:22
Speaker 2: is escaping Marina? But and Hugh Laurie doing the like
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Speaker 2: the cave and he just talking about like I'm not like,
18:32
Speaker 2: I'm not worried, I'm with you, and I literally got
18:35
Speaker 2: teared off, but I'm just like I'm just like.
18:37
Speaker 1: He pauses and that line is so.
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Speaker 2: Good and his breath like, oh my god, I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: like die listening to this. I can tell because I'm like, Wow,
18:45
Speaker 2: I'm just watching you record it, and I'm getting like
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Speaker 2: emotional and choked up. It's just yeah, it's just so
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Speaker 2: good and I'm so excited and yeah, I'm just so excited.
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Speaker 1: So, like you pointed out, like I think is super
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Speaker 1: interesting that the Patil Twins they cast actual sisters for this,
19:05
Speaker 1: and I was like thinking, in my mind, I'm like,
19:07
Speaker 1: we know that they cast Arabella in both the audio
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Speaker 1: and the TV show. What does it matter really if
19:17
Speaker 1: these two people look alike or not. If we're not
19:20
Speaker 1: going to see them just an audio, could they potentially also.
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Speaker 2: Be beyond something there?
19:27
Speaker 1: I looked them up and Ovne is twenty years old.
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Speaker 1: But if they don't have them in it a ton
19:37
Speaker 1: until like a later season, that might not matter, you
19:41
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like if they're just background characters
19:45
Speaker 1: in the beginning and then I don't know when they
19:48
Speaker 1: would film, so they might be a little too old,
19:51
Speaker 1: but like it also might work out timing wise, depending
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Speaker 1: on how quickly they filmed seasons.
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Speaker 2: Wh Yeah. And I will say though, and I just
20:05
Speaker 2: double checked this because I thought we already do have
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Speaker 2: a Parvati cast.
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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, Alessi.
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Speaker 2: Aloney, I thought, I like, and you were saying that,
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Speaker 2: I'm like, I think we did get one of them cast,
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Speaker 2: only one though we only have Parvati right now. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: very interesting.
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Speaker 1: It is interesting though that they actually cast sisters for that,
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Speaker 1: because how would you ever?
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Speaker 2: No, but yeah, in the on screen versions of these
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Speaker 2: the Pateol sisters, like, we never get actual real life sisters, no,
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Speaker 2: which is interesting, so interesting, huh. But yeah, I'm super
20:42
Speaker 2: excited for this, and you can pre order like all
20:47
Speaker 2: of them now. Audible might still be running. I know.
20:53
Speaker 2: I restarted my my subscription right after we got this announcement,
20:59
Speaker 2: and they were like a three months for ninety nine cents,
21:02
Speaker 2: which they do every once in a while, and that's
21:04
Speaker 2: like my little hack for Audible is I'll rejoin when
21:07
Speaker 2: they do like three months for ninety nine cents and
21:09
Speaker 2: then like stop up on some audio books and then
21:11
Speaker 2: I cancel my Audible and then I just maybe it's
21:14
Speaker 2: like cheating the system a little bit, but almost Lytherin
21:17
Speaker 2: so makes sense. Yeah, So I did that, and so
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Speaker 2: I'm planning to use the first three credits and then
21:23
Speaker 2: obviously I'll buy the rest, but you can preorder them now.
21:27
Speaker 2: Sorcerer's Stone releases on November fourth, and then if you
21:30
Speaker 2: go back and re listen to our new section from
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Speaker 2: episode twenty six, that's where we talked about like all
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Speaker 2: the casting and the original casting announcements that we got.
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Speaker 2: And then also we have all of the release dates
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Speaker 2: for each of the audio like each book, and we
21:43
Speaker 2: talked about them in that episode, So we won't rehash
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Speaker 2: it here, but you can go back in and listen
21:48
Speaker 2: to that. So yeah, yeah, it's super exciting. This was again,
21:51
Speaker 2: like I said, probably my favorite part of the showcase
21:53
Speaker 2: for sure. And then also some more like book news,
21:58
Speaker 2: I guess if we want to stick with that, we
22:02
Speaker 2: got a sneak peek at some of the art and
22:04
Speaker 2: the interactive elements that are gonna be inside the upcoming
22:07
Speaker 2: Goblet of Fire Interactive Illustrated edition. Obviously, if we've talked
22:11
Speaker 2: about this quite a bit, and obviously being upset that
22:14
Speaker 2: Me and a Lima's not coming back, having said that
22:18
Speaker 2: it looks great still, I'm just still gonna be as
22:22
Speaker 2: I'm flipping through it, I'm gonna be like, I wish
22:23
Speaker 2: this was mean a Lima, but it looks good, but
22:25
Speaker 2: I wish it was me and a Lima. Like it's
22:27
Speaker 2: gonna be a very like cognitive dissonance experience.
22:29
Speaker 1: But I'm pretty bitter about it. But I don't don't
22:33
Speaker 1: know if I'm gonna buy it or not.
22:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, well i am.
22:38
Speaker 1: So I'll just look at yours.
22:39
Speaker 2: Yeah I'm gonna, like I said, I'm gonna I'm not
22:44
Speaker 2: gonna be happy about it, like.
22:47
Speaker 1: You're gonna suffer, but you're going to be happy about.
22:50
Speaker 2: It, exactly exactly. And I like the sneak peak we
22:55
Speaker 2: get in the showcase. He look, it does look good.
22:59
Speaker 2: It looks good, and yeah, well it comes out. We
23:04
Speaker 2: got we found out the date. We knew it was
23:06
Speaker 2: coming out in October, but we got an official release
23:09
Speaker 2: date of October fourteenth, So yeah, I'll probably put on
23:13
Speaker 2: my Christmas list this year, and in that way, someone
23:16
Speaker 2: else is buying it and then you know, yeah, but yeah,
23:21
Speaker 2: I'm still sad. It's not mean a lima, but yeah
23:24
Speaker 2: it does. It does still look good. So I feel
23:27
Speaker 2: like betrayal saying that, But yeah, October fourteenth. If you
23:33
Speaker 2: want to get a copy, head to your local bookstore
23:36
Speaker 2: or retailer on October fourteenth. And then also we actually
23:42
Speaker 2: just shared a few episodes ago that this Pocket Potter's
23:48
Speaker 2: series that's coming out, which I need to go to
23:50
Speaker 2: a bookstore and like have a look at them. Because
23:52
Speaker 2: I was super excited when we first like announced them.
23:54
Speaker 2: I thought they look super cute. Maybe I should like
23:58
Speaker 2: get them for my boyfriend daughter because they're like geared
24:01
Speaker 2: towards kids. That'd be really cute. But again, they are
24:05
Speaker 2: these like little books, like guide books. I guess you
24:07
Speaker 2: could call them for the different characters in the series.
24:11
Speaker 2: Harry Ron and Hermione are already out. We talked a
24:14
Speaker 2: few episodes ago that Dumbledore and Luna's versions would be
24:18
Speaker 2: coming out in twenty twenty six in February, and during
24:21
Speaker 2: the showcase we learned that the Hagrid and Dobby versions
24:25
Speaker 2: will also be coming out in twenty twenty six in August.
24:29
Speaker 1: I love the Dobby's getting one me too.
24:32
Speaker 2: That's so cute, you know, yeah, I of course he
24:36
Speaker 2: would though, like.
24:37
Speaker 1: Of course, or I love for Dobby.
24:39
Speaker 2: I want one for Creature.
24:41
Speaker 1: M hmmm mm hmmm.
24:43
Speaker 2: We know, I know, we won't we want well, you know,
24:46
Speaker 2: just do all the house else they all deserve love.
24:49
Speaker 2: Like I'm good. I'm gonna go out here right now
24:52
Speaker 2: and say even Creature. Maybe that's the Slytherin in me.
24:55
Speaker 1: But oh I have a major soft spot for Creature.
24:58
Speaker 1: I I kind of breaks my heart a little bit.
25:01
Speaker 2: Yes, I agree. So, yeah, that's a book news.
25:08
Speaker 1: Yeah. So we also got a teaser trailer for some
25:12
Speaker 1: new additions to Hogwarts Mystery, and it looks like there's
25:16
Speaker 1: some news stories and rewards that will be added to
25:19
Speaker 1: the game. There's also an upcoming Dark Arts Month event
25:24
Speaker 1: and giveaways.
25:26
Speaker 2: What I you know, one I like need to Like
25:30
Speaker 2: I have had Hogwarts Mystery like downloaded on my phone
25:33
Speaker 2: and my iPad like since its inception, and I just
25:38
Speaker 2: haven't really played like this. I mean, my Hogwarts legacy
25:42
Speaker 2: is still in its wrapping, like you know, so like
25:45
Speaker 2: what's new. But every time we get these like new
25:50
Speaker 2: things coming to Hogwarts Mystery, I'm like, I need to
25:52
Speaker 2: like play this, like this looks so cool?
25:55
Speaker 1: Why am I not going?
25:57
Speaker 2: Yeah? And there's still yeah, and I think, like remember
25:59
Speaker 2: like when we I think, I know, like had tom
26:01
Speaker 2: I talked about it a lot where we had a
26:03
Speaker 2: lot of mobile Harry Potter stuff kind of phased out,
26:06
Speaker 2: But it seems like they're still really putting a lot in.
26:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
26:13
Speaker 2: I mean they're obviously still really focusing on Hogwarts Mystery
26:16
Speaker 2: and on then the game that we're going to talk
26:18
Speaker 2: about next. I'm so curious about this, like Dark Arts Month,
26:22
Speaker 2: Like was I like, did I miss the Slytherin gathering
26:26
Speaker 2: of Dark Arts Month? Like is this like an official thing?
26:29
Speaker 2: Like it? Like when is Dark Arts Month? Like is it?
26:35
Speaker 1: It's kind of like how Halloween Butterbeer Month just like
26:38
Speaker 1: suddenly randomly was a thing.
26:40
Speaker 2: Right, and and not even just like a big thing.
26:46
Speaker 1: They're like, it's butter Beer Month again, and.
26:48
Speaker 2: We're like last time. So okay, okay, it's been a
26:58
Speaker 2: thing in Hogwarts Mystery. I think, okay, because so I
27:02
Speaker 2: just quickly googled Dark Arts Month. The AI overview says
27:06
Speaker 2: that Dark Arts Month is a themed event celebrating the
27:08
Speaker 2: darker elements of the Harry Potter Wizarding World, often held
27:11
Speaker 2: in October, like I just mentioned, obviously in conjunction with Halloween.
27:17
Speaker 2: But apparently it's why did I? How did I miss this?
27:21
Speaker 2: I mean, it seems like maybe Curse Child has done something.
27:26
Speaker 1: I mean, like that thing like Universal has with like that,
27:31
Speaker 1: didn't they used to do the light show and stuff.
27:33
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's still a thing. But yeah,
27:35
Speaker 1: and obviously you're death theaters. We can't forget them.
27:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I know, and that's like, that's to me,
27:42
Speaker 2: that's like part of Halloween horror nights, you know, But
27:45
Speaker 2: I guess it makes sense. But here's an article that
27:48
Speaker 2: came up as well from the official Harry Potter dot
27:50
Speaker 2: com back in October of twenty nineteen, Harry Potter Hogwarts
27:57
Speaker 2: Mystery celebrates Dark Arts Month. Hmm. So apparently it's been
28:04
Speaker 2: a thing on Hogwarts Mystery for a while. And I'm
28:06
Speaker 2: sure everyone listening that's been playing Hogwarts Mystery religiously is
28:09
Speaker 2: probably yelling at us right now, like, yeah, it's fun
28:12
Speaker 2: a thing. Like I'm sorry I haven't played, but yeah,
28:17
Speaker 2: I behind, We're behind. I always think of October a
28:20
Speaker 2: Dark Arts a month, like Tess a Halloween, you know,
28:22
Speaker 2: So that makes complete sense.
28:24
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, yeah. So the other mobile game, Harry
28:30
Speaker 1: Potter Puzzles and Spells is also getting some new content,
28:34
Speaker 1: and we got a sneak peek at the upcoming Battle
28:36
Speaker 1: of Hogwarts feature, where players will be able to quote
28:40
Speaker 1: band together with your club to fight for the Light.
28:44
Speaker 2: This is a Harry Potter mobile game that I do play. Yeah,
28:48
Speaker 2: the fight for the Light like Star Wars, like look
28:51
Speaker 2: light Side, Dark Side, like what are we doing here?
28:54
Speaker 2: But Puzzles and Spells is really fun. I really like
28:57
Speaker 2: Puzzles and Spells. I think I've fallen off of it
29:00
Speaker 2: a little bit since they've started doing these like special content,
29:05
Speaker 2: like I don't remember ever having like crazy special content.
29:08
Speaker 2: But yeah, I need to get back into this one too,
29:10
Speaker 2: because I really like Puzzles and Spells and a Battle
29:14
Speaker 2: of Hogwarts feature that seems exciting. But yeah, we'll see.
29:21
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. So we also got a Curse Child video,
29:28
Speaker 1: and this was a very lovely video of Tom Felton
29:31
Speaker 1: talking about taking on the role of Draco and Cursechild.
29:36
Speaker 1: That said, there wasn't a whole lot new in this video.
29:39
Speaker 1: The only bit that was really new information comes in
29:42
Speaker 1: a little line of text at the end, which says
29:45
Speaker 1: the tenth anniversary of the production will be celebrated in
29:48
Speaker 1: London in July twenty twenty six. So otherwise, we already
29:55
Speaker 1: knew it's going to the Netherlands and tickets are on
29:58
Speaker 1: sale for that, and all the those dates for the
30:00
Speaker 1: North American tour are also not really new.
30:04
Speaker 2: So.
30:06
Speaker 1: You know, they're they're promoting that Tom is there, and yeah,
30:11
Speaker 1: so this tenth anniversary is interesting though, like, I wonder
30:14
Speaker 1: what they'll be doing for that, So hopefully we find
30:17
Speaker 1: out more about that soon.
30:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this was, like you said, I think
30:23
Speaker 2: it was a very lovely video, a very heartfelt video.
30:26
Speaker 2: And you know, anything with Tom talking about coming back
30:33
Speaker 2: to reprising the role of Draco tugs at my heart's
30:35
Speaker 2: drings a little bit. As I've said before, he looks great. Yeah.
30:41
Speaker 2: The Jermiine fan fiction reader in me just loves to
30:45
Speaker 2: see him and this adult Draco outlet. And yeah, it
30:51
Speaker 2: looks great, and I'm excited to see him in a
30:53
Speaker 2: couple of months.
30:54
Speaker 1: And Tom is aging particularly well as well.
30:57
Speaker 2: So I mean that's basically exactly what I was alluding to.
31:01
Speaker 2: So now I know, you know, and there's there is
31:06
Speaker 2: there is something about him and the Draco costume. Yeah,
31:11
Speaker 2: we'll just uh yeah, Tom.
31:15
Speaker 1: Fell, keep doing what you're doing.
31:16
Speaker 2: Tom Amy, and I see Monson and you can tell
31:20
Speaker 2: we're very excited. We're gonna be a little too far.
31:23
Speaker 2: I might have to pack some binocular so I can
31:25
Speaker 2: really see you.
31:26
Speaker 1: But well, you know, maybe we'll see him at the
31:28
Speaker 1: stage door. You never know.
31:30
Speaker 2: This is true, this is true. He won't be in
31:31
Speaker 2: costume then, But he still looks for it even if
31:33
Speaker 2: he's not in costume, so it's true. Yeah, yeah, but
31:36
Speaker 2: either way, looks looks great. And yeah, we'll.
31:43
Speaker 1: Move on from talking about how much we're gonna before
31:45
Speaker 1: we fan Girl too much. Move to our next item.
31:52
Speaker 1: Harry Potter Wizards of Baking is coming back for a
31:55
Speaker 1: season two, which we knew and we got a preview
31:59
Speaker 1: on Back to Hogwarts. So James and Oliver are back
32:02
Speaker 1: as hosts, and Carla and Joseph our back as judges,
32:07
Speaker 1: and the creations look amazing. There's a Thestoral cake thing
32:14
Speaker 1: in there that I was like, whoa, I'm on the
32:16
Speaker 1: boat that too.
32:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, I yeah, the thestral was really cool. The buck
32:24
Speaker 2: peak one was really cool. The like Hagrid like face
32:29
Speaker 2: is really cool. The like fire breathing like dragon is
32:33
Speaker 2: really cool. Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited for this. Obviously I
32:37
Speaker 2: was a huge fan of season one. Still a little
32:40
Speaker 2: salty that my number one team did not win, But yeah,
32:45
Speaker 2: I'm really excited for this to come back for season two.
32:48
Speaker 2: I think it looks great.
32:49
Speaker 1: And yeah, I don't think we have an actual release
32:55
Speaker 1: date because the preview just says that it's coming Holidays
32:59
Speaker 1: of twenty two, So that makes sense.
33:01
Speaker 2: Didn't it come didn't come out around Thanksgiving time last year?
33:06
Speaker 2: I think it was around thing. It makes sense. It's
33:09
Speaker 2: a very like Thanksgiving Christmas Eve kind of show, and
33:14
Speaker 2: I'll be curious to see, Like, I don't think we've
33:16
Speaker 2: gotten anything about like what the winning prize will be,
33:21
Speaker 2: Like is it going to be the same as the
33:23
Speaker 2: first season where they get to have a published recipe
33:28
Speaker 2: or will it be something different? I don't know.
33:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point because like, are they going
33:34
Speaker 1: to make a cookbook every single year? Look, I feel
33:39
Speaker 1: like they'd have to switch up the prize at some point.
33:42
Speaker 1: I don't know.
33:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess we'll say. And then in the showcase,
33:51
Speaker 2: we like they move into something that just like hit
33:54
Speaker 2: me like a ton of bricks. Really, they talk about
33:58
Speaker 2: how in twenty twenty six, you're going to be celebrating
34:01
Speaker 2: twenty five years since the first Harry Potter film twenty five.
34:11
Speaker 1: I might as well just be dead now. I'm old.
34:14
Speaker 1: I'm old, It's over debt, that's it. Rip me of
34:19
Speaker 1: the century?
34:20
Speaker 2: Oh my god?
34:22
Speaker 1: Like yeah, just wow, how is that possible? Because I'm
34:28
Speaker 1: only twenty five?
34:30
Speaker 2: Right, Like, I mean I'm like twenty three, but I
34:33
Speaker 2: remember seeing this, you know, like, how does that work?
34:37
Speaker 2: Twenty five? What the lead? Yeah, so that I just couldn't.
34:45
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like, I guess I knew it's been
34:47
Speaker 2: like no, I didn't, like, honestly, no, I didn't really
34:49
Speaker 2: realize it's been twenty five years.
34:51
Speaker 1: Like right, you have to like stop and think about
34:54
Speaker 1: it that twenty five years ago was two thousand, where
34:58
Speaker 1: it's like no, in my mind, I think twenty five
35:01
Speaker 1: years ago. I think like nineteen ninety something.
35:04
Speaker 2: Oh, I think nineteen seventy.
35:09
Speaker 1: Oh man, Yeah, there's way more than twenty five. Nicole.
35:12
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I'm having a little bit of a
35:15
Speaker 2: trouble with the aging aspect of my life, and this
35:20
Speaker 2: just like slaps me right in the face, Like Nicole,
35:23
Speaker 2: you're in your mid thirties now, like thank you, Harry Potter.
35:26
Speaker 2: And I think every time we've gotten anniversaries of the books,
35:30
Speaker 2: that hasn't bothered me as much because like, yeah, the
35:34
Speaker 2: book's a been out for a while, but something about
35:36
Speaker 2: like the movie coming out twenty five years ago.
35:40
Speaker 1: I think it's just like I know, I was super
35:43
Speaker 1: super young when the books were coming out, so like
35:45
Speaker 1: that's not like surprising to me the length of time,
35:49
Speaker 1: But then the movies is something else where. It's like
35:51
Speaker 1: you can remember like like driving to the movie theater,
35:56
Speaker 1: so like being old enough to drive.
35:59
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean I was ten when Sorcerer's Stone
36:03
Speaker 2: came out in theaters, so like I wasn't driving.
36:06
Speaker 1: Well, I mean like the later movies. Yeah, yeah, I remember.
36:10
Speaker 1: I also was far too young to drive with Sorcerer's Stone.
36:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, like going to mid Night well right, because I
36:17
Speaker 2: didn't really start. I think the first film that I
36:21
Speaker 2: actually saw in theaters was Prisoner of Azkaban. I don't
36:24
Speaker 2: even think I saw SORCER's Stone or number of Secrets
36:27
Speaker 2: in theaters and they actually.
36:29
Speaker 1: Came in theaters was Goblet of Fire.
36:32
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but either way, Yeah, so hopefully all of
36:37
Speaker 2: you listening are also having a bit of a crisis
36:39
Speaker 2: about this as well, because I think two, like thinking
36:43
Speaker 2: back to our episode where we talked about like the
36:45
Speaker 2: movie magic like still holding up like that also like
36:49
Speaker 2: is like crazy to me to like really think about
36:51
Speaker 2: that that movie is twenty five years old, because it
36:53
Speaker 2: still looks so great in my opinion.
36:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like I saw Anthlete Hollow's Part one
37:01
Speaker 1: in the theater last week, and even that movie, like.
37:05
Speaker 2: That's.
37:07
Speaker 1: What, that's thirteen years old at this point, it still
37:11
Speaker 1: looks amazing, like it looks like something that could literally
37:14
Speaker 1: come out right now. Yeah, it's weird. Yeah, wow, time man.
37:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, unfortunately we don't have time turners to bring
37:28
Speaker 2: us back. But what we do know is that in
37:31
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, it will be twenty five years since
37:34
Speaker 2: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone film came out, and
37:38
Speaker 2: the Showcase tea is that the celebration will be all
37:41
Speaker 2: year long. And obviously this is a very milestone, you know,
37:47
Speaker 2: a quarter of a century kind of milestone, So I'm
37:51
Speaker 2: hoping that we'll get a lot of fun stuff. The
37:54
Speaker 2: Showcase basically just said to you know, keep an eye
37:56
Speaker 2: on the official Harry Potter social accounts and the website
38:00
Speaker 2: for various news and announcements and all the information about
38:05
Speaker 2: what's happening to celebrate the anniversary. And they I think
38:09
Speaker 2: they mentioned at like a location near you, So I'm
38:11
Speaker 2: assuming that presumably we'll get different events around the globe
38:14
Speaker 2: for this.
38:15
Speaker 1: So yeah, it'd be cool if they did some sort
38:18
Speaker 1: of gathering you know, I feel like I haven't had
38:22
Speaker 1: something in a while.
38:24
Speaker 2: I would love that. I was actually thinking about that
38:26
Speaker 2: when I was at Universal on September first. I know
38:29
Speaker 2: that there was like a bunch of like social media
38:32
Speaker 2: content creators that I follow their socials that they were
38:37
Speaker 2: all there for back to Hogwarts, and I didn't run
38:39
Speaker 2: into any of them, and there was like I saw pictures.
38:42
Speaker 2: There was like a huge group of them and they
38:43
Speaker 2: got on the train like yeah, like right, so they
38:46
Speaker 2: got right at eleven and I did things backwards, as
38:49
Speaker 2: I said to you, so I didn't see them. But
38:53
Speaker 2: other than that, it was a very like business as usual,
38:56
Speaker 2: normal kind of day there. And I'm like I had
39:00
Speaker 2: that thought. I was like, man, I really wish that
39:03
Speaker 2: like they did something with this day.
39:06
Speaker 1: You know, I'm going to say it right now, because
39:08
Speaker 1: as we know, Universal listens to our podcast. I think
39:13
Speaker 1: they should bring back Celebration of Harry Potter for the
39:16
Speaker 1: twenty fifth anniversary because Celebration of Harry Potter was very
39:21
Speaker 1: much film focused. Yep, it makes total sense, yep to
39:26
Speaker 1: do that for the twenty fifth anniversary.
39:28
Speaker 2: Just agree, I agree. And then while you're at at Universal, like,
39:33
Speaker 2: please come up with some kind of event for back
39:35
Speaker 2: to Hogwarts Day.
39:36
Speaker 1: Thank you, yes, thank you, please and thank you. Those
39:40
Speaker 1: are our requests. Yes, you know where to find.
39:43
Speaker 2: This yep, and you'll know you'll really find us at
39:47
Speaker 2: Universal if you create these things.
39:50
Speaker 1: Mm hmmmm h yeah, and then invite us and pay
39:54
Speaker 1: for us to go there for free. That's all. It's
39:57
Speaker 1: very small requests.
39:59
Speaker 2: Well, sleep plug it here on the podcast, we're unhinged
40:05
Speaker 2: without Tom and a late night and when there's no
40:09
Speaker 2: actual serious topic here.
40:11
Speaker 1: I was all, this is going to be a thirty
40:13
Speaker 1: minute episode.
40:16
Speaker 2: No, yeah, right, yeah, we always have a lot to say,
40:19
Speaker 2: but hopefully are enjoying Amy and I a little un
40:22
Speaker 2: a hinged on this episode.
40:25
Speaker 1: Oh boy. Well anyway, I mean, you know this next
40:30
Speaker 1: bit of news. I don't think we have anything to
40:33
Speaker 1: worry about. I don't think we're going to be dethroned
40:35
Speaker 1: as Universal's favorite podcast at all. But there will be
40:39
Speaker 1: an official podcast put out that is revisiting the original films.
40:47
Speaker 1: And that's about all the we have. We don't even
40:50
Speaker 1: have a name of this podcast. If they take Ravellio,
40:55
Speaker 1: we might have to sue them when we came there.
41:01
Speaker 2: Someone out there is like searching that, you know. Can
41:04
Speaker 2: you imagine though, like someone out there is like searching
41:07
Speaker 2: all of the fan podcasts so that they like come
41:10
Speaker 2: up with a new name. Oh my gosh, would we
41:12
Speaker 2: come up or would we not? Because we're a Wizarding
41:14
Speaker 2: World podcast and not Harry Potter.
41:17
Speaker 1: Well, and like, here's the thing, do you know how
41:19
Speaker 1: hard it was to find a name that wasn't already
41:22
Speaker 1: taken when we did this. They're too late.
41:28
Speaker 2: It's just going to be called the official Harry Potter podcast.
41:32
Speaker 2: Like they don't even need to come out with something
41:34
Speaker 2: eye catching, attention grabbing, and they can't.
41:39
Speaker 1: The fans have already claimed all the good names.
41:43
Speaker 2: Fans are always going to be more clever anyways. So yeah, yeah,
41:48
Speaker 2: but having said all that, I'm actually kind of excited
41:50
Speaker 2: for this because I am too. I think of like
41:52
Speaker 2: some of the other like official, like I'm pretty sure
41:57
Speaker 2: I used to listen to an official I did listen
42:00
Speaker 2: to an official like Outlander podcast for a while, and
42:04
Speaker 2: I think Game of Thrones did one too, And they're
42:06
Speaker 2: always really exciting.
42:07
Speaker 1: Because Abby had one for a while.
42:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you obviously get like tidbits and guests and
42:14
Speaker 2: stuff on those shows that unfortunately US fan podcast will
42:19
Speaker 2: probably never be able to score on a podcast, and
42:23
Speaker 2: so there is a lot of great information and I
42:25
Speaker 2: really hope that it's like like, as you said, we
42:28
Speaker 2: have no information on it at all, but I hope
42:31
Speaker 2: that it is very like behind the scenes driven, you know,
42:37
Speaker 2: and just kind of.
42:40
Speaker 1: I feel like they're doing the right focus of doing
42:45
Speaker 1: the films, Like I think it would be silly of
42:48
Speaker 1: them to try and do an official podcast about the
42:52
Speaker 1: books that, yeah, the fans have filled that space already,
42:57
Speaker 1: Like I think, yes, doing something revisit behind the scenes
43:01
Speaker 1: the making of the films, getting all those great interviews
43:05
Speaker 1: with actors and crew and all that. I think that'll
43:10
Speaker 1: be really interesting to listen to.
43:14
Speaker 2: They could also tie the show into like I would love, like,
43:18
Speaker 2: like what we were just talking about some of these
43:20
Speaker 2: other podcasts that do, like, you know, an episode comes
43:24
Speaker 2: out of a show and then the official podcast comes
43:27
Speaker 2: out with like a behind the scenes kind of podcast, yeah,
43:30
Speaker 2: talking about that episode. That'd be really cool too. It'll
43:36
Speaker 2: be curious to see too, because one thing that HBO
43:38
Speaker 2: does a lot is their original shows. They actually do
43:44
Speaker 2: a little bit of a making of the episode at
43:48
Speaker 2: the end of every episode, like They've done that for
43:50
Speaker 2: House of Dragon, They've done that for the Last of Us,
43:52
Speaker 2: like they just HBO is just something HBO does, And
43:55
Speaker 2: I'm really hoping that they continue that tradition for this
44:00
Speaker 2: because I would love that. But yeah, absolutely pretty cool.
44:05
Speaker 1: Yeah. But in the meantime, if you are looking for
44:11
Speaker 1: a podcast that has like more like crew behind the
44:16
Speaker 1: scenes stuff, I do have to plug our girl, Flick Miles.
44:21
Speaker 1: I believe she's recording a new season. I saw something
44:24
Speaker 1: on our Instagram now behind the Land. So she's got
44:27
Speaker 1: some really fun interviews with some like unexpected guests that
44:32
Speaker 1: like maybe you wouldn't really think about too much. So
44:36
Speaker 1: if you like the behind the scenes stuff, definitely check
44:38
Speaker 1: out her podcast too, absolutely, and then go listen to
44:42
Speaker 1: our episode interviewing her, which was episode six. Yeah, and
44:48
Speaker 1: then we just have like some more merch focused stuff
44:52
Speaker 1: that they put out. There was a video tour of
44:56
Speaker 1: the Lego Hogsmeade Collector's Edition that James and Oliver Phelps
45:01
Speaker 1: were showing all the different pieces of this looks pretty awesome.
45:05
Speaker 1: It came out on September fourth, so there is an
45:10
Speaker 1: Instagram video of that. Very cool. All the Lego stuff
45:15
Speaker 1: is always so detailed, and.
45:17
Speaker 2: I think we always talk about that always looks so great,
45:19
Speaker 2: but I just have nowhere to put it, and like, yeah,
45:25
Speaker 2: I was just pulling up the video because I actually
45:26
Speaker 2: hadn't seen this yet. I know it looks really yeah,
45:29
Speaker 2: it looks really cool.
45:30
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah. And then the last bit of merch
45:34
Speaker 1: news here is the Hogwarts and the Snow collection is
45:37
Speaker 1: now out in Harry Potter shops around the world and
45:40
Speaker 1: at the studio tour, and you can also find it
45:43
Speaker 1: online at Harry Potter shop dot com. I have to
45:47
Speaker 1: say I was underwhelmed by this direction, which is so
45:52
Speaker 1: I usually love all the Christmas stuff.
45:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of feel the same actually, Like will
46:01
Speaker 2: say that I loved like how they did the video
46:03
Speaker 2: in the showcase and like incorporating all the different Harry
46:06
Speaker 2: Potter shops and passing the trunk. I thought that was
46:08
Speaker 2: really cute. Yeah, I was kind of underwhelmed too, especially
46:12
Speaker 2: after like I'm so mad at myself for like not
46:14
Speaker 2: getting one of the Christmas Spirit jerseys in the past,
46:21
Speaker 2: and so I was really kind of looking forward to
46:23
Speaker 2: like what we would get this year. I will say though,
46:26
Speaker 2: I'm kind of excited for these Christmas like tea lights
46:30
Speaker 2: that are coming out right now. We have the Honey
46:33
Speaker 2: Dukes one, but I saw in a post that there's
46:36
Speaker 2: going to be more coming out. Not that I want
46:40
Speaker 2: to start a little tea light village because I just
46:42
Speaker 2: don't have space for that right now, but I would
46:43
Speaker 2: love like an Oliveanders one or that was exciting. I
46:47
Speaker 2: think the snow globes are cute as well, but I
46:51
Speaker 2: don't again, I don't feel like that I need anything.
46:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do like I like the ornaments that I
47:01
Speaker 1: think they just started it last year at least that's
47:03
Speaker 1: the first of one that I saw, these like porcelain ornaments,
47:07
Speaker 1: and this year's is the trio like standing in the Snow.
47:12
Speaker 1: Last year I got a really cute one of Hagrid
47:15
Speaker 1: dragging the tree. So I do really like those ornaments.
47:21
Speaker 1: That's about the only thing that interested me in the collection.
47:23
Speaker 2: I mean, I actually I really like the Hogwarts and
47:30
Speaker 2: the Snow three pack of socks. Yeah, and I.
47:39
Speaker 1: Do like night Bus ornament is cute too.
47:43
Speaker 2: Yes, I do really like so this Hogwarts in the
47:47
Speaker 2: Snow like hoodie. I actually really loved this, like the
47:51
Speaker 2: print of like the trees and the snow and Hogwarts
47:55
Speaker 2: in the back, but I just wish that that was
47:59
Speaker 2: on the of the Spirit jersey because I really really
48:04
Speaker 2: like that print. I also do like the cushion cover
48:13
Speaker 2: that one I might have to get, actually, so when
48:18
Speaker 2: we are in New York in November, I look at
48:20
Speaker 2: Harry Potter store. If I see that, I might have
48:22
Speaker 2: to get that one because it is very cute. I
48:25
Speaker 2: actually like so the if you haven't seen the collection,
48:28
Speaker 2: the cushion cover is basically like the snow globes of
48:31
Speaker 2: like Hogsmeade and Hogwarts and Three Broomsticks and everything on
48:34
Speaker 2: a cushion cover. It's super cute. So there's a blanket
48:37
Speaker 2: too that matches it that I really like. And I
48:42
Speaker 2: do like these like fabric ornaments as well, like I
48:44
Speaker 2: really like the the sorting hat one I really like.
48:51
Speaker 2: And I also do like the Hogwarts trunk glass ornament
48:57
Speaker 2: and how it's sparkly, and I think that will look
48:59
Speaker 2: really good on a tree. The irony of all of
49:01
Speaker 2: this is literally this morning, I flew home from Orlando
49:04
Speaker 2: and I was texting Amy as I was in the
49:08
Speaker 2: Universal store at the airport, and I bought an ornament
49:12
Speaker 2: while I was there, speaking of this porcelain ornaments. There
49:15
Speaker 2: it's headway on top of trunk with some like halle
49:20
Speaker 2: Berry's and very christmasy, and it was very cute and
49:22
Speaker 2: I didn't need to buy it, but I did. And
49:24
Speaker 2: here we are looking at more ornaments that I probably
49:27
Speaker 2: will have to pick.
49:27
Speaker 1: Up, but it's the ornaments and I always get us.
49:31
Speaker 2: They do and I don't have like two trees like
49:33
Speaker 2: Amy does, and I don't have space for two trees,
49:36
Speaker 2: so like my tree is just gonna be like extra
49:41
Speaker 2: ornament y. But yeah, but yeah, definitely check out the collection.
49:44
Speaker 2: I know during the showcase they offered like a twenty
49:47
Speaker 2: twenty percent off discount code. I don't know if that
49:49
Speaker 2: still works, but there it's like BT back to house,
49:53
Speaker 2: So I don't know what it is. If you watch
49:54
Speaker 2: the showcase it is at the end, but I might
49:57
Speaker 2: have to see if that or are that stop code
50:00
Speaker 2: is still active because I would love to save some
50:06
Speaker 2: money on this ornament that I feel that I need
50:10
Speaker 2: to get.
50:10
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, So there were a couple more things
50:19
Speaker 1: in the showcase, but we didn't include them here because
50:22
Speaker 1: they're things we've already talked about before. So that really
50:26
Speaker 1: kind of wraps up everything new that we got on
50:31
Speaker 1: Back to Hogwarts.
50:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we covered most of I think pretty
50:34
Speaker 2: much everything. I think the other things where there was
50:37
Speaker 2: some If you haven't watched the showcase, definitely recommend watching it.
50:39
Speaker 2: There's some like feel good like clips of the cast
50:43
Speaker 2: and everything talking obviously some old clips, I think, maybe
50:47
Speaker 2: some newer stuff too, and then yeah, it's always great
50:51
Speaker 2: to hear them talking. So yeah, that was this year's
50:57
Speaker 2: Back to Hogwarts showcase. Sonos. So last episode we asked
51:07
Speaker 2: which magical object would you like to know more about
51:09
Speaker 2: and why, and so FeliCa said, the Veil, darn it,
51:16
Speaker 2: And I'm just like, oh my goodness, Like why we
51:18
Speaker 2: never we didn't think about that. I know we talked,
51:20
Speaker 2: we've talked about the Veil and some other you know,
51:22
Speaker 2: some other episodes. But yeah, Felicia says that she was
51:27
Speaker 2: certain that we would learn more about those voices and
51:29
Speaker 2: why some members of Dumbledore's army can hear them and
51:32
Speaker 2: others can't and deathly hallows, and was so disappointed that
51:35
Speaker 2: it remained so mysterious. But I suppose life after death
51:38
Speaker 2: is a mystery in our world too, and one that
51:41
Speaker 2: Rowling never really tried to explain in her world either. Also,
51:45
Speaker 2: dark detectors, I just feel like we don't learn much
51:48
Speaker 2: about them, so I'd love to know more. They seem
51:50
Speaker 2: like interesting objects that might benefit magical law enforcement patrol
51:54
Speaker 2: in their work. Yeah, I agree, and from Jerry, Jerry
52:01
Speaker 2: shared on careful consideration, I do think that my interest
52:04
Speaker 2: in those objects that are bigger on the inside is
52:07
Speaker 2: still my major interest. Jerry, are you a doctor who
52:10
Speaker 2: fan too? I'm curious, but yeah, so, Jerry says so.
52:15
Speaker 2: From the tents used at the World Cup to Hermione's
52:18
Speaker 2: beaded bag, and as I recall, even the Hogwarts trunks
52:21
Speaker 2: have been somewhat magically modified from regular trunks to be
52:24
Speaker 2: lighter and hold more so that all needed supplies can
52:27
Speaker 2: be taken with relative ease. I think I read that
52:30
Speaker 2: on Pottermore back in the day. These are so very useful.
52:33
Speaker 2: I want to have a small fanny pack that has
52:35
Speaker 2: the attributes of that beaded bag to take on my
52:38
Speaker 2: trip to Universal next week.
52:41
Speaker 1: Oh that's right. Jerry is probably currently listening to this
52:45
Speaker 1: in line at at the Universe. Shout out, Jerry, hope
52:49
Speaker 1: your trip's going well.
52:50
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm so excited to hear what you think about
52:53
Speaker 2: epic Jerry and I also agree with this because, as
52:57
Speaker 2: Amy can attest our last trip, I had such a
53:00
Speaker 2: hard time getting all my stuff to fit in my
53:02
Speaker 2: little backpack. And I would love this too, Jerry absolutely.
53:08
Speaker 2: And so yeah, Jerry said, both luggage for the trip
53:10
Speaker 2: and for the ultimate park bag agreed. She also says
53:15
Speaker 2: in tents like the one mister W borrowed from Perkins
53:18
Speaker 2: at the office. Also, I love referring to him as
53:22
Speaker 2: mister W. I love that could be a big help
53:25
Speaker 2: with dealing with homelessness. A ps one, thinking about Dumbledore's
53:30
Speaker 2: put Outer, did you remember the uses we saw being
53:32
Speaker 2: made of it in the Fantastic Beast films. My theory
53:35
Speaker 2: about the put Outer is that Dumbledore first invented it
53:38
Speaker 2: to simply put out and then restore light, but that
53:40
Speaker 2: he was able to then make modifications on the fly
53:43
Speaker 2: to let it do more as needed, including a final
53:46
Speaker 2: modification made shortly before his death as he was modifying
53:49
Speaker 2: his will to suit his final plans to let it
53:52
Speaker 2: help Ron return to his friends at need.
53:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would make sense.
53:58
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, it's always very very good thoughts from our listeners.
54:05
Speaker 2: And so for this episode. We want to know which
54:09
Speaker 2: piece of the back to Hogwarts twenty twenty five news
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Speaker 2: are you most excited about.
54:16
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54:44
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54:48
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54:52
Speaker 1: we will hear all about the Goblet of fire stuff
54:56
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