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Episode 10. The Goodwill of the Gods & Hermione Granger vs. Sabrina Spellman (Feat. Ed) · High n' Dry Podcast

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  SPEAKER_01: The two one.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, everybody.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to High and Dry.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Ryan Barron North.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for joining me as we continue to scream into the void for episode 10.
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  SPEAKER_01: With me as always, we have our resident cannabis enthusiast, James Crosslin.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_01: James, how are you doing today?
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  SPEAKER_06: I'm doing great.
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  SPEAKER_06: Thanks, Ryan.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_06: Uh it's the big 1-0.
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  SPEAKER_06: I'm pretty excited.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we've reached the uh this is it.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_01: We've made it.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_01: Double digits.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_06: This is we've we've achieved success.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_06: We can stop now.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_01: The sponsorship is rolling in anytime now.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um also with us we have Ed.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: Ed, thanks for joining us again.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_01: How are you doing?
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_04: I I am alive.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_04: But you know what?
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_04: It's gonna get better.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_04: Things are great.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_04: It is Christmas Eve.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_04: I have no more work, and it's a four-day weekend, so it is gonna be rocking.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_06: Congratulations.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_06: And the same to all the laborers out there who uh who are who have been working hard and they get a little break off.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_06: You deserve it.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_01: And uh happy, happy holidays, happy everything.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_01: May you all look down upon everyone with favor.
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  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, hopefully you don't lose your children to his wrath.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_06: We'll see.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_06: We'll see.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I mean it's uh it's been a weird year for everybody.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_01: Sure has.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, so for those of you who are just joining us, High and Dry features us three assholes.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna be getting high and we're gonna be doing some drinking.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna talk about something philosophical, and then we're gonna have two people fight.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um, this week we have the Battle of the Teenage Witches, Sabrina Spellman versus Miss Hermione Granger.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_06: Whoa, whoa, this is a big fight.
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  SPEAKER_06: This is two of the most powerful girls to save the world.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_01: And I I think we're really gonna see that pay off in round one, where it's just juking it out.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_01: Just them punching each other to death.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think what it's gonna come down to is who's willing to play dirty.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_06: We'll see.
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  SPEAKER_06: We'll see what happens in that first round.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_06: Excited.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I'm excited too.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_01: I'm excited too.
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  SPEAKER_01: So before we get started on our first half of the show where we dive into the philosophical on this Dionysian podcast of ours, um, first we gotta get drunk and high.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_01: So, uh James, what are you smoking today?
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_06: Uh today, I just gotta say, these holiday deals have been great for weed.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_06: Um, today I've got a wonderful distillate called uh Melon Wreck, and I'm really excited to taste it.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_06: I hear it tastes like like just like watermelon.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_06: I'm super excited.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: I'm excited for you.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Ed, what are you drinking today?
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_04: Well, I was actually gonna bring that up to you guys.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_04: In front of me are three different bottles, and I will have you guys choose one, two, or three.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, Ryan, what do you think?
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_01: I say I'm gonna say you put all three of them into a single shot.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_05: No, don't do that.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_05: Sounds terrible.
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  SPEAKER_05: What's the difference?
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_04: Well, Ryan, what number do you choose?
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_04: Is that your actual vote?
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, that's what my heart's telling me.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_04: All right, well, I'm gonna split these into three different shots then.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_04: So Jameson goes, the the tequila for Jose Cuerva.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_04: It's gonna be followed by Buffalo Trace, Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_04: We're all off with a bottle of Jameson.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_05: Oh my god.
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  SPEAKER_05: I like tequila mixed with a whiskey.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_01: That's uh that's the traditional way of drinking tequila, actually, with a with a whiskey, yeah, with a whiskey chaser.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_03: Um we just fill up this Santa glass.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_06: And Ryan, what are you drinking?
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so today you uh for those of you who are following our YouTube, we did a little tasting this afternoon of knuckle noggin salted caramel whiskey.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_01: That's a little gift I got from James for the holiday season.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_01: So thanks, James.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm excited.
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  SPEAKER_06: Uh yeah, no problem.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_06: Uh we tried it a little earlier.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_06: It is uh it was pretty good.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's quite delicious.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I'm gonna be enjoying myself a little more than uh Ed over there.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, if you could fancy something, that'd be fucking rad.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_05: I'm so sorry, Ed.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_05: You didn't have to do what he said.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_05: It's too late now.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_04: My opinion changed as is so let's do it.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_06: Um, for first shot.
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  SPEAKER_06: Are you ready, Ed?
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_04: Oh god.
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  SPEAKER_04: All right, let's do it.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_01: Well, what's a two?
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_01: Shot first shot of the 10th episode.
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  SPEAKER_01: This one is two this one's to us.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: To us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Way to go us on getting through 10 episodes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Number 10.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for being with us for that one, Ed.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_01: Here we go.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cheers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cheers.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_06: Oh yeah.
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  unknown: Oh no.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that's that's a watermelon.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that is that is just like watermelon.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_06: And I got it in this nifty thing called a dart pod.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_06: And it's got its own little like um it's its own little concentrate cartridge, and it really just shoots the the vapor straight into your face.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_06: It feels so good.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_06: All right, all right.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_04: And Ed, how is yours?
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_04: Uh I didn't realize we also left the cap open because that that does.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_01: Well, for we that's to get that extra fermentation, and that's I think what you know you're really looking for.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_06: So now what you're looking for is dust and dog hair in it.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_01: Adds that flavor.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_05: Just swirl it around.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_06: All right, so here we go, round two.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_06: All our listeners in Chicago.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, they've been they've been our second biggest market.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_06: Way to go, Chicago.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_06: Here's to Chicago.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_04: Chicago.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_01: So it occurs to me that knuckle noggin, salted caramel whiskey, is not a shot whiskey.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: In in what way?
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_01: Because it I mean, because well, it I it feels like a whiskey that's asking to be enjoyed.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_06: Just swish it around a little bit before you swallow.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_06: Let it let it linger in your mouth.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like it's asking.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, add a little bit of dog hair.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_06: Spice is what they call that.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_01: Ed, how was yours?
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_06: It was it was better.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_06: Now that you can't feel now that you can't feel your throat.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's it's uh after it's about the third one where it's just like water.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_04: I got the battle of the laborers going on in my stomach right now.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, and here's round three.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here's to the teenage witches.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_01: Cheers, boys.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_05: Cheers.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_06: Oh my god, that was too much.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_06: Oh my god, it's still going.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_06: Oh my god.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_06: I took way too big of a hit.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_06: That's good.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_06: I think you two are gonna be carrying this podcast today.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_01: Whew.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_01: Well, that was good.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_01: That was good.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, James.
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  SPEAKER_01: I appreciate that uh the knuckle noggin there.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_06: I'm really glad you enjoy it.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and then uh for those of you who want to know what uh knuckle noggin tastes like, go ahead and jump onto our YouTube real quick.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_01: We got a little tasting all set up for you.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: All right, so how's everyone feeling?
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: We feeling good?
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: We ready to get philosophical?
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_01: Tell me what it is.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_05: I'm so I'm so high already.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_01: Today's question, now that we're we're getting there, I feel the salted caramel coagulating in my veins.
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  SPEAKER_01: The question I am posing to you is if humanity was put on trial by an advanced race of aliens or a deity, or if we're all suddenly transported to Mount Olympus and the pantheons are looking down upon us and they they've made a decision that they're gonna cancel us, uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, would you defend humanity and argue for its continued existence?
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: After that, how would you do so?
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_01: So the the key question we're looking for a lot of questions.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_01: Well, the key one we're looking for is how would you defend humanity and argue for its continued existence?
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_01: And if the answer happens to be I fucking wouldn't, well that's interesting.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_06: Let's hear what you have.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_06: What do you have to what do you think, Ed?
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_06: What's your initial thoughts?
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_04: My initial thoughts?
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_04: Man, um I don't know if I would defend humanity.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_04: Why?
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_04: Because uh I look at the human race as a version of an animal.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_04: Because I mean we're all we all started as animals, we've evolved, we've we've surpassed being animals, but at a certain point, I don't think most of humanity jives well with the rest of the ecosystem, and it's putting a lot more than our own personal survival, which would just be pride above everything else.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_01: No, and I I can agree with you there.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, and I uh I there there's a lot in that statement that I agree with.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_01: I frequently I'll say that we should just give this world back to the wolves.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I think they're a little more responsible with this world than we are.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um well, James, what are your thoughts?
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_06: My initial thoughts are so I want to know more about these people who who feel uh like they can put us to trial.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_06: I want to know how their advancement went.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_06: And I also want to know why they've kept the power I want to know why they've kept the knowledge of creating a peaceful society away from us for so long.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_06: If we could have learned from other like species mistakes as they rose to sentience and space travel and cooperation, why would they keep that a fucking secret?
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_06: Like they could have saved so many lives.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_06: Um, we could have advanced much faster and not destroyed our planet.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_06: Like, why test us like this when they could be helping us?
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_01: And it's that line of thinking that's gotten me in trouble at more than one Thanksgiving.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um when you're asked uh when when the topic of meeting your creator comes about, um at least in the context of the creator being one who's omnipotent and all-powerful, i if I were to finally meet this person and I know that they had the power to take care of stuff, I'd be like, hey, what the fuck?
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: You're a real dick.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um that that would be my my biggest thing.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um I I I would I would immediately go back to uh there's this moment when I was younger, um, and there was a girl in middle school, and I I can't remember her name.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_01: I I can't remember any interaction her and I had, but what I'll always remember um was that she was dealing with a developmental disorder.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um she had a tongue that was too large for her head, um, and and she had difficulties, and just and of course, children at that age are just vicious and terrible to anything they come in contact with.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um, for those of you listening, if you're a parent, your child's a piece of shit.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_06: Well, not necessarily we just had really shitty parents.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_06: That's also true.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_06: There was a whole generation of like shitty parents.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's a whole generation of shitty parents.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but um but no, I remember there was this moment where they were just giving her endless hell, and that was a moment in my young life where I was just like, why do some people have to suffer like this?
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_01: Why does she have to suffer?
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_01: And then I think of you know, you have parasites that bore themselves into children's eyes.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, and you you have just these you you have COVID that just wiped out 300,000 Americans, and it's just so if I met the guy or whoever behind this who let that happen, it w it would be uh, hey man, the fuck.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_06: Like uh that's great that you want to be individualist, but uh but you're you're telling us that we should have worked together when you didn't work with us.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_06: So I mean, like, I don't know.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_01: Now you're judging me.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_01: Ed, do you have any thoughts?
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, what if that's actually what's happening right now?
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_04: Like, they didn't even give us the the due process of defend yourself.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_04: It's like, whoa, hey, things are so wild that we're just gonna pull a few off of the planet and uh make sure that things are going okay.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_04: But I do love James's response is isn't to just automatically defend, it's who the fuck are you, the cops?
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_04: Like, why do I have to defend you?
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_02: That's important.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_02: You to put me on trial.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_02: Fuck me, fuck you.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_03: Fuck me.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_03: Fuck you.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_03: Fuck you, buddy.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: High and dry podcast.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: What are you, the cops?
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: Well, so I mean that's a that's a good thing to hold on to.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_01: We're actually working on a website right now.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_01: High and dry.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_01: What are you, the cops?
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_05: What are you, the cops.com.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_01: So, well I'm gonna look at that up right now, if it's a well, so like our Charlie dilemma, we immediately ran right off the rails here.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but it it it brings up a good point.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: So it's like, well, who the fuck are you?
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_06: Um I want to know what their advancement is like because they couldn't have just had this really smooth growth, you know.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: Well, then so I'm going to put this question to the both of you.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um and Ed, you'll be the first to respond as guest um in in a different way.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_01: So the people who are putting us on trial are incredibly powerful.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_01: However, they are not omnipotent and they are not immune to the trappings of human ego and the id and this and that, and they they have um those sorts of things that they have to work through.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_06: And this this So they're very human-like.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: They're very human-like.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_01: So think of you know the Greek gods, and you know, they they're jealous and they're angry.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_01: Where the fuck are they to put us on trial?
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: The so the thing that comes from it now is that they now are in a position because they have the ability where they need to look and say, are we really what's best for all of this?
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_01: And we're asking you to give us a reason not to push the button.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_06: So, oh, so at so at this point, we just have to do, you know, it's either like they know they're not good.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: They they're well aware.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they don't give a shit.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Zeus was running around fucking people as bulls and ducks and shit.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: He knows he's riding dirty.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_06: So they know they're being judgmental and there's no convincing them otherwise.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, they're they're well aware.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_04: Do they're at the world then after us, or like are do they're gonna go with us.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna go with us.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but what they need right now is someone to stand there and say, this is why you shouldn't call it quits just yet.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_01: Humanity needs another season.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_01: Ed, thoughts?
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_04: Well, I don't know if I'd be the best person for that, but if I I guess if like I had to break my arm to say something good about humanity?
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_04: Well, gun to my head.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_04: Humanity.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_03: Gun to my head, no.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_04: Um I I I I think as I age, I'm not sure if it's just me trying to look at the the better side of life versus just being just pessimistic all the time.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_04: Because I know I subscribe to being pessimistically optimistic.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_04: Because either I'm always right or I have a nice surprise.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_04: But what I what I do notice is a lot of people have the best intent for their actions, and but a lot of it is lack of foresight or foresight to be able to predict well beyond their choices that then the immediate, and you have a conflict of communication with people.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_04: So I I think the argument would be that people inherently want to be good to each other because going back to the animal thing, like we as species have it in us to want to do good by the people who are closest to us.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_04: And I think once you get beyond the scope of like, say, 30 or 50 people groups, or because what is it, where the human mind could only recognize X amount of faces that you start thinking of other people as an abstract versus themselves, so you're just gonna be a lot more conflict.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_06: This is something I totally agree with.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_06: I totally agree that we should be living in smaller societies where we can be where we can um kind of like decentralize power and everyone can kind of know what's going on so that it builds a healthy society.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_04: All right, take it more tequila for this conversation.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_04: Let's do this.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going in with him.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_04: All right.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um I need some more salted caramel.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_06: Well, while you're doing that, I'll I'll elaborate.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: Well, well, I I would counter that with the um wrist blade wielding assassin cult.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, you can make your own choices.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_06: I bet these people, I bet these gods would love that there was a wrist blade wielding assassins cult.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_01: They'd be like, do they worship me?
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm just saying that if Congress had to fear the wrist blade wielding assassins, they might think you know twice about some shit.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_06: Well, well, like what Ed was saying, I would say that we because there's too many people, um, f we we lose sight of each other and we see each other as abstracts.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_06: And uh all of society is built on cooperation.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_06: Like none, not this is not all competition.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_06: If we could direct that cooperation by having like smaller societies that handle more local systems, I think we'd be better off.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we've totally forgotten that.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_01: Well, Ed, is your shot ready?
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_03: Yep, ready?
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'm ready.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_03: Three, two, one, cheers.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_06: Oh yeah.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_06: Like in my perfect society, everybody's involved in politics.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_06: Everyone's a politician, everyone has to be informed about what's going on.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_06: Well, and that's an interesting thing.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: We we have the internet.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: It we it is totally within our power for every issue to have a vote.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_01: To have direct democracy from everyone.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: The the only thing I'm concerned about with that though, um, absolute democracy is also really fucking scary because then there's gonna be people put to death because their genes are two years old.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_06: But listen, but that's what different how different is that from like some senator deciding someone dies?
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I'm saying?
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_06: At least we can be like there's no one to blame but yourselves.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_06: Here's a mirror.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_06: But with politicians, we can oh but oh, it's just that politician.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_01: You see, but that well, when we have that pure democracy, then all of a sudden we're burning witches and shit, you know.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_06: We we did that when there wasn't pure democracy.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_06: When back then, that was a church that ruled it wasn't pure democracy.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_06: So I mean, uh no, I disagree.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_06: I think that at least if it's pure democracy, you can hold up a mirror and say, there is no one to point the finger at.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_06: Look at this is you, this is yourselves, you have to change.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: Well, Ed, you had a point?
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_04: So I I think that in the scope of like how we go as a society, when you have a pure democracy, you have to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_04: So myself, who lives and works in like the Chicagoland area, my life is entirely different than those who live further south down in like Springfield, Illinois.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_04: Like if you if you look at Illinois, like it's a very red state outside of Chicago because of the density of Chicago, it's very democratic.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_04: But when you look at the smaller, like what James was saying, like you can have that pure democracy because you can focus on the immediate concerns, kind of like when it goes state by state, because Illinois is different from Indiana versus Montana versus North Dakota.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: But well, I I I think that the the pure democracy requires an initial faith in humanity, which I think I'm starting to lack.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_06: Well, the reason you lack is because you're in a system that can't facilitate it by design.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_06: Like the fact that we have so much that's left up to so few people representing, you know, massive amounts of people's opinions and they don't have to listen to people.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_06: Like, seriously.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: Well, well, especially we're dealing with a bribery-based uh rule of governance right now.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_06: Um if we had smaller societies that had they would have to directly cooperate with other societies.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_06: If we decentralize things, they would have to directly cooperate with other people and be like, oh, those people aren't that different from us.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_06: They would have to directly cooperate.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_06: Right now it's so abstracted because we have national and global trade, and and it's all the United States, which encompasses 400 million people, is considered one entity.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_01: Well, so real quick, um because we we have we've gone way crazy, we've gone way off track.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: So what we're gonna do now is bring it right on back, and what we're gonna we're gonna laser focus this in.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_01: Ed, you're gonna start, you're standing before the Pantheon, and they're like, hey, we're about to cancel the show.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: Convince us not to.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: What are you gonna say?
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_04: I would say that like they would be lording their power over us, and I I would address them and say, You have the power to cancel humanity, yes or no.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_04: Now, there's a lot of inherent good when it comes to people in their communities, but when you get to as large of a population as we have now in terms of how things operate.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_04: It kind of goes to the example of when 4chan decided to storm the Transformers movie to decide the best quote for the movie and they absolutely just smashed me thirsty.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_04: The number one people looked at the long elaborate thing for Optimus Prime to say.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_04: Like somebody put their heart and soul into it.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_04: Number two ended up being Hitler did nothing wrong.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_04: And number three was these Brussels are making me thirsty.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_01: I mean see that's my concern about what we're getting back into we're getting back into it.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: Ed you have one he already did it he already did it.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_06: That was his answer disqualified then kills us all just do a barrel roll that wipes everything out.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_01: So so what I gathered from that is basically you're going to look at him and be like nah dog fuck it yeah trees are yeah the trees man well well well James what do what what are your thoughts?
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: My thoughts would be so well just so I could one paragraph you got one paragraph everyone's looking at you.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: All right how are you going to save humanity?
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_06: I say I would say um look at what humanity has been able to accomplish with a little bit of knowledge.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: The problem is how it's been directed and if you if you as the deciders of our fate choose to become more directly invested then perhaps we can use that knowledge in a different way we have accomplished a lot despite its faults and I think we could with with some help we could direct it appropriately and what do you think um so I'm standing there looking at them all and I would be so I'd still be so angry at all of them that would be that would be the hardest thing for me is just how angry I would be just because of you know just just because of just because life is suffering and just because culture is how we as humanity have tried to ascribe meaning to all this.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_06: Life isn't all suffering though.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_06: Life isn't suffering.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_06: We had our episode where we talked quite a bit about how you know we do suffer but we do get to take joy in in in the wonderful opposites of that in the times where we don't suffer.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_06: We there's a lot of bliss there that you know we should appreciate and we can't ignore it.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: It means something yeah no and and that is true there is and and well I think that's you know that's where culture comes in where culture is where we as humanity tries to define goodness and happiness and meaning um you know and that that's essentially what culture is um and again culture and what we're doing here with all these this booze and all this uh smoking is is an escape from the horrificness of everything outside of that.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_01: Well I guess what I'd say to them then though to cut to the chase of it is like look motherfuckers good start look here you motherfuckers we we are on what what I see in this world is that we are standing right before this large jump that we have to make um we're either gonna fall or we're gonna make the jump and things are gonna be crazy and I feel that we've reached a point where we're right there.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: Why would you cut us off before we get a chance to make that jump?
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_06: Oh that's a good that's a good answer.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_01: That's my thoughts on it.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_01: That's you know because I do at the end of the day despite my um depressing takes on it um do think that there is hope.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_01: I I am a huge proponent for wrist blade wielding assassins keeping everyone in check and making sure you put your shopping cart the fuck away um but uh yeah it's like we're right there at the precipice of this great you know societal and cultural and humanity experiment don't slice us off before we've had a chance to see what happens just one more night just give us just give us one more night just one more night man I I don't know I don't think like life is without suffering like what James was saying because if we went back to again like people being we can't expound anymore we can't expound okay all right all right I'll let it go I'll let it go I'm just gonna say bears don't kill you before they start to eat you all right like life exists and there is suffering and survival in it but to each their own to each their own to each their own oh hell you know what to each their own sounds like no it doesn't it sounds like a transition into the next part of the podcast sounds like a transition into the next part of the podcast all right so there it is I conversation come on come on humanity Sabrina the teenage witch yeah um well I would I would say just to sum up the previous section is uh high and dry what are you the cops what are you the cops don't let us down humanity by the way it's$20 a year what are you the cops.com is available all right all right so here we go ladies and gentlemen thank you for making it this far as we hopefully we cut some of that we'll we'll see what happens but you know what we do on this show is that we use alcohol and cannabis to escape from the self in order to explore the community and that's what we're doing and now we're gonna do that with two teenage girls beating the shit out of each other all right we're gonna have to we're gonna have to work on the working on the phrasing for for next time all right oh fuck well so we've made it halfway through the show we're about to get into our fight which means it's time for the final shot and the final hit go ahead pour yourselves a shot if you're listening at home do the same I'm like shaking so much weed oh yeah this the there's a battle going on in my gullet right now I'm not enjoying it oh I took my hit too early well that means you're gonna have to do another one to keep like to do it with us all right so here we go to to teenage girls saving the world teenage girls hopefully we get some awesome teenage girls who will save our save us from this this dystopia that we're living in well you see teenage girls have been doing some good shit lately well but you were the first one to be against it because you didn't like the way Katniss ran.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_06: Well I didn't like I didn't she was a she was a bad runner I didn't I did not watch I originally did not watch the Hunger Games because five minutes in when I saw her running through the woods I was like nobody runs like that I turned off well she was running heel to toe heel to toe yeah that's gonna rip apart three movie season just like nope yeah I was I wouldn't I refuse to watch it for the longest time because I was like I there's no way I'm gonna like this fucking movie.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_02: Have you seen how the average person runs I don't I guess not well the average person yeah but she's supposed to be saving the world she's supposed to be an archer she's supposed to be killing people and I was like dude stand out and shoot a fucking deer like you're supposed to run using the pads of your feet to propel yourself forward and that's something that you do have to practice.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_06: You pull back you know with certain muscles and you know it bothered me because it looked to me it looked like uh you know how they did pirates in the 50s where the way they did sword fighting and stuff like in old old movies where it was like horrible stage stage you know fighting that's what it looked like to me and I was like god damn it I can't do this again I'm not a fantasy and sci-fi genres I like I will not be disappointed.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_06: Look I'm gonna be real with you you didn't miss much I did I was pretty disappointed.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah and I was disappointed too Ed thoughts um Hunger Games no no we I didn't hold us no we're not I'll I'll do a shot before we keep going Buffalo Trace here we go oh yeah so here's the fourth final shot uh fourth final before we get into the fight Ed's already there let's catch up with him Hunger Games uh we're not talking about the Hunger Games god damn it we're gonna have to cut all that that's gonna be bonus material can't stand we're doing it live all right welcome to episode 10 we're doing this all live this is going straight to the channel so anyway let's get back on the topic all right so the these two girls round one they they get in the ring they had they have to take off all their jewelry belts shoes it's just them and what they naturally have on their body yes and so well the first question then we have to figure out is is any of their magic innate?
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_01: Sabrina's yes I don't think Hermione's magic is innate so for wizards their magic is innate but the but the but they have utilization of it wand yeah to to focus it a lot of it yeah see now that's something I never got um because you the the first book opens with Harry doing some weird wacky shit yeah with no wander focus it's a focus to amplify so it's like it's still innate because even when he brings up the cookie jar and he drops it in the even in the first book and movie like that's him doing it.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_01: He never had his wand until later so but it's just a focus for the ability he couldn't control more powerful so there's there's no creature within the Harry verse that is able to so oh they can other other creatures can use magic versus not humans.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_06: Humans have a tough time of it yeah okay all right well then I think that's pretty easy round one is gonna go to Sabrina Sabrina's gonna fucking just gonna fucking murder my knee so I'll agree with that but just for the sake of argument for the podcast let's pretend they didn't have their abilities I would also say that Sabrina would still win because if it was just them in because they're both half mortal and if they were to fight in the mortal sense and just stand there in their underwear just smacking each other going bitch smack bitch smack Sabrina is a cheerleader who actually trains physically I don't want to demean them because girls can learn to fight like it doesn't have to be just like uh they are warriors they could they could have learned to fight well I would say and well I would also say that we did see hermione beat the shit out of Draco though like she punched she knocked it out yeah when she had a wand to his throat and then she punched him in the face with a sucker punch.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah she could sucker punch some yeah so she's able to sucker punch well then I think well even if uh Hermione does the sucker punch rope dopes herself into an advantageous position I think Sabrina's got height on her yeah Sabrina's got a little bit of height um she's a little more live and then she could light her on fire yeah okay well here I I I think actually that older Hermany is got more reach and stuff but we've also seen Sabrina get thrown across a room and smacked into shit and be able to get back up and not just get her head bounced off the back of a rock like they did with Malcolm what I'm saying is that her athleticism is going to be able to have her go more rounds because your average asshole is going to be able to throw five or six haymakers and then be gassed but with uh Sabrina being able to do a whole like cheer Mickey Mickey you're so fine she has the cardio to be able to push it out also the lighting on fire I think the lighting on fire yeah so I think it's time to bring round one to a vote Ed oh Sabrina Sabrina all right there it is it doesn't even I don't even have to state it Sabrina so round one goes to Sabrina Spellman congratulations Sabrina round two so now in round two we jump back into a city view both of these characters have now received a manila envelope that details the instructions on how they're supposed to kill the other one they're in a city that's like each other's you know it's it's a familiar territory to the both of them um and it's something that they can utilize and now they have full access to any equipment any augmentations and in this case their their their wands yeah um Ed, thoughts okay so kind of going back to the previous episode I was on with the altered carbon uh we gave him the advantage because he'd be able to like plan and use tactics and things like that.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_04: And if that were the case for this scenario I think Sabrina would be able to invoke a lot more powerful spells and abilities and be able to just absolutely screw Hermione I I have to really focus because I'm drunk to be able to pronounce her name right to outclass her in her magic ability but if Hermione had the videos that I've seen she is a gunfighter when it comes to wands and stuff because there was there's this one scene where she was sitting there in like this deli type of thing and she's just blasting off spells she's able to do that.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_04: But the last point I have before I train this is it depends they're both speaking Latin and Haremone uses one word spells which are quicker and stuff but I think Sabrina's actual interpretation of what the spells mean and her understanding of the Latin language for longer more powerful spells puts her at an advantage.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_01: Well I I think that comes into the thematic realm again.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yes because with with Sabrina Spellman especially with this new Netflix series they're trying to go a more darker path they haven't quite jumped into a grim fairy tale witch but like they're dancing with it.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yes um and that's that that allows um Sabrina to you know friggin kill people spiders and and shit like that um while Hermione is in the realm of fireballs and the fantastical and like literally fighting wizards wizards fighting I think that um I think you're so right I think that uh I think that Hermione is a better fighter.
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_06: I think she's like good at wizard fighting.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_06: I think she's good at wizard fighting and I think that Hermione has an advantage in that she is an amazing planner.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_01: Like she she juggled three lives with that time turner for like I'm glad you brought up the time turner um and I will state so my entire thought process on that is this is that Sabrina is more powerful.
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_06: However as soon as you have the ability to alter time or space you become a god Sabrina also has that power though but I also think that she is just not as clever as Hermione who is always everyone's like this clever fucking bitch you know ruining my plans she's so clever Hermony is book smart though.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_04: Sabrina is off the cuff like wits all day long.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_01: Well well that's because that's because Sabrina is an American witch she can't afford the same schooling that Hermione can and so she must rely on street smarts but I think but I think in this case hermione's uh you see I I you went a different way than I thought at the beginning because I thought we were on the same path.
• 39:23
  SPEAKER_06: I think Hermione would outplan Sabrina I think she would outplan her every time I think Sabrina is more off the cuff but Hermione's planning is what makes it it's her superpower beyond being a witch I would have to say that I agree but only because they are not taking Sabrina as far as they should.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_01: So Netflix has ordained that Sabrina's gonna be dark now.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah um she's but she's still I'm a half witch and you know you're born into it kind of shit.
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_01: She's still restrained by teen drama she's still restrained by teen drama um but at the end of season three she wasn't well I would say that the only way Sabrina could take it is if they finally because they're obviously starting to delve into Grim fairy tale which is um early European witches and if they finally decided that look she's not a witch because she was born that way she's a witch because she fucked Satan yeah um I would say that Sabrina would take it um and I think that what what the Sabrina show tries to tackle between the evil in me and you know juggling that if Sabrina finally decided just to be a witch in you know the the definition of evil medieval you know literature she would take it but because she's juggling her bullshit she she isn't able to go all the way and that that's where she would lose against Hermione's planning and whimsical spellcasting.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_04: She does have a lot of bullshit she has to tackle it's a lot of team bullshit well add thoughts I I I really think that it depends on the scenario okay about if Sabrina has time on her side like I think that Sabrina's innate ability surpasses Hermony's in a class itself to where if even if she were to plan things out Sabrina's other superpower seems to be to be able to worm out of anything because the devil is the or sorry Satan is the biggest deceiver but she's able on multiple occasions to outwit even him and when it push comes to shove Harmony has only dealt with a crazy death call Sabrina is dealing with Satan himself and I think she takes it because of her wit over planet that's an interesting point.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_01: And I think it's time to put it to a vote.
• 42:08
  SPEAKER_06: I think so too so Ed is that your vote are you voting for Sabrina Yeah I have to go to Sabrina on that one uh for me I um I think Ed made a real good argument uh but I also think hermione would um I think she'd squeak it out I really think she would just because she like her movies also are about hunting down artifacts and like using their power and shit and and she's also very clever.
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_06: Interesting.
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_06: I don't know uh so I I think Hermione would squeak it out just a little bit.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_01: So we got one for Sabrina we got one for Hermione I am gonna have to say after Ed's point right there where Sabrina's main enemy is the devil against a washed up ass has been ass Hitler wizard whose only whose only you know at the height of his aspirations is to become the dean of this school is that what he's doing no he wasn't being kind of I don't know but all he does all he does is attack his preparatory school he did the fascist thing where he took over the education system.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah I mean I I wanted um yeah like I'm gonna raise a generation of little Hitlers is what he was like I will be the dean I'm gonna have to give it to Sabrina all right so my opinion has changed Sabrina would take it so there it is um everything shifts in the world of high and dry and for those of you listening at home Sabrina wins round two which means she also won round one yeah so Sabrina is the victor after only two rounds but we gotta see how round three would how would round three play out there now at this point each of them gets to bring a friend um Ryan I want to hear your take who would Sabrina bring that's what I want to know the devil I say she would she's gonna bring Salem she's gonna bring Salem again
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_04: I got you both trumped.
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_04: You ready for this?
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_04: Alright, so spoil alerts for all of our whistlers, if you haven't watched all the way to season three, Sabrina brings Sabrina.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, she copies her stuff.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_04: Not only as her normal self, as her mortal form, when she's still a witch, and she still has some powers and stuff, but her other Sabrina form is the Queen of Hell, who has infernal power as well as the army of fucking hell behind her.
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_06: But but also Salem is a hilarious talking puppet cat.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_06: And I think that she would still choose to bring Salem personally.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_06: That's the fight I want to see is the fight where she brings Salem.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_06: You know what?
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_04: Since she already won the first two, I'll concede Sabrina brings Sabrina because that is a shutout in the half.
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_04: So let's bring Salem.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_06: Well, well, so I I actually I think because Hermione brings Harry Potter who can't look Harry Potter's thing is that he can't lose.
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_01: Well, well here's the thing about it though.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_01: If we really look at it for half a second, Harry Potter's a fucking asshole.
• 45:28
  SPEAKER_01: He is, he's a jock piece of shit.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_01: He's a jock, um, and then he just goes off and becomes a cop.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_01: Fucking has a horde of wealth.
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_01: He was a C student the whole fucking time, and then he rolls out and he's like, I'm gonna make him pay.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna be a cop.
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um I mean he had a tragic childhood.
• 45:48
  SPEAKER_01: He didn't give a shit about school, even though it was about the most interesting thing that could possibly be.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_01: All he did was spend time on a fucking broom, and then he goes off and becomes a cop.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_06: Yep.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_06: Um he paid attention to none of his classes, he fucking hated school, and and then he became a cop.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_06: It's kind of kind of fitting.
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and and I I think that with Salem's wisdom, he does, he's so wise, he's he's seen so much, he has fucked so many witches.
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, he's he's he's fucked so many witches.
• 46:23
  SPEAKER_06: Um he looks just fantastic.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_06: No, no, no.
• 46:27
  SPEAKER_06: I'm talking about the old ABC show.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_06: Salem was an old warlock turned into a cat as a punishment, and he had he fucked bitches.
• 46:37
  SPEAKER_06: Oh yeah, no, Salem fucks.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_06: Salem did all these there was a fucking episode where they brought in a girl cat that was a witch turned into a cat as a punishment, and then he fucked her as a cat.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, okay, so so aside from BBC, but my entire argument has been Salem's feeling adventures.
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_04: So in season one, okay, Salem has his own set abilities, and Harry Potter just kind of like gets off on luck for a lot of the time, right?
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_04: But when Sabrina is stuck in May in the corn maze when she's trying to get to the uh the tree that gives her the apple.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_04: I I am so drunk, I can't remember the name of shit.
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_04: But uh the scarecrow thing that Lilith uh summons to go after her to like kill her or maim her or whatever, Salem uses like psionics to blow a hole through the side of a hedge and destroy this thing.
• 47:51
  SPEAKER_03: And Harry Potter calls the dumbest TJ or the teenage.
• 47:58
  SPEAKER_03: But oh my god, my uncle's a wolf.
• 48:02
  SPEAKER_04: But like Sam's like, yeah, fuck you, brah, and he's gonna just blast through Tapieri and just give him another scar to magic lightning.
• 48:12
  SPEAKER_06: So so as long as Harry Potter has someone to sacrifice, he wins.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_06: And he it he will Hermione will lose because she will be the sacrifice, but Harry Potter will win.
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_06: I I promise you.
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_06: Harry Potter does not lose, he only sacrifice loved ones.
• 48:29
  SPEAKER_06: That's but don't they get married though?
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_06: Well uh yeah, I mean what was it?
• 48:37
  SPEAKER_06: What was that statement?
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_06: Don't they get married?
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_06: No, like Hermione marries Ron.
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Hermione marries Ron.
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_06: So he can still sacrifice her because yeah, because it's it's not directly.
• 48:49
  SPEAKER_03: So Harry Potter wins, fucks Ron's sister, and lost every beer and himself because he killed Harmony over a battle with a cat.
• 48:59
  SPEAKER_06: Correct.
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_06: Harry Potter needed someone to lose, and she was the closest person of meaning.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_06: It's nothing personal.
• 49:05
  SPEAKER_06: This is how his story advances.
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_06: Well, I'm ready to vote on it, so so round three, Harry Potter.
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_02: And who wins?
• 49:15
  SPEAKER_02: Harry Potter.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_02: James, who wins?
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_02: And yeah, I'm gonna say Harry Five.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_04: No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 49:20
  SPEAKER_04: I'm sorry.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_04: I take it back, Bruce Willis.
• 49:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yep, yep, yep, yep.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_01: So round one goes to Sabrina Spellman.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_01: Round two goes to Sabrina Spellman.
• 49:33
  SPEAKER_01: Round three goes to Bruce Willis.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_01: Done.
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_06: Done.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_06: There it is.
• 49:39
  SPEAKER_06: So and it's a real shame.
• 49:40
  SPEAKER_06: I don't want to I don't want to knock down Hermione.
• 49:43
  SPEAKER_06: I think Hermione is very powerful.
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_06: Um and uh I there's a chance she could have won in that last one, just on her own merit.
• 49:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but not with Harry, no.
• 49:53
  SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_01: Who knows?
• 49:55
  SPEAKER_06: No, I mean I think Sabrina is just a little too powerful.
• 49:57
  SPEAKER_01: I I think so, I think it's the innate nature of what she can do.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_01: That'll take it home.
• 50:04
  SPEAKER_06: I thought this would be closer, um, but it ended up not being a little bit more.
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_06: Not at all.
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_06: Not at all.
• 50:09
  SPEAKER_04: I I will say though, like the caveat is if Harrimany was able to get the jump on Sabrina, who doesn't if if she didn't use her spies or her friends or her resources or anything like that, and Harrimany was able to get the jump on her, like her ability and understanding for her spells to be able to knock out like devastating spells with only a single word versus Sabrina's, it could have her, but Sabrina just outclasses her when it comes to the actual higher level.
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, definitely.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_01: Because Sabrina will she'll her spells will require more at times, and then they kind of stretch into that whole Germanic witch sort of feel.
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_01: But then a dude is you know buried alive in demonic spiders, you know.
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_06: It's yeah, and also the Sabrina from the ABC show, she hers was like she was way overpowered.
• 51:07
  SPEAKER_06: Well, she could just point her finger and some shit would happen.
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I would say that Sabrina's gonna wear, and I will say that because in Sabrina the Teenage Witch with Melissa Joan Hart, yeah, at one point she points at her glass and it fills with milk, which means that Sabrina has the power of creation.
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_06: She does have the power of creation, absolutely.
• 51:29
  SPEAKER_06: But she does have a crippling pancake addiction.
• 51:31
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 51:33
  SPEAKER_06: It's a genetic.
• 51:35
  SPEAKER_06: Listen, they did a whole episode.
• 51:37
  SPEAKER_06: It was a genetic pro uh addiction that had passed down from generation to generation, and she ate pancakes one time and she became fucking addicted, like crap fucking addicted.
• 51:47
  SPEAKER_01: Well, but that's why she and that's why in round three she has Salem to work me through it.
• 51:53
  SPEAKER_05: Salem encouraged her addiction.
• 51:55
  SPEAKER_01: That's also true.
• 51:56
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so we've decided the tribunal has decided Sabrina is gonna take this one.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_06: Way to go, Sabrina.
• 52:05
  SPEAKER_01: Way to go at least two out of three.
• 52:07
  SPEAKER_06: You you sure had a good powers there.
• 52:11
  SPEAKER_01: Congratulations, Sabrina.
• 52:13
  SPEAKER_01: All right, well, um, thanks everyone for listening.
• 52:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um, a guest, Ed, thanks for joining us.
• 52:19
  SPEAKER_01: Do you have any final thoughts?
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_04: I my old lady brought down some pink lemonade and gin, and I've been drinking that, like not realizing it was gin.
• 52:28
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm gonna have a blast cleaning up my house for Christmas Eve.
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_04: So hopefully I can make it up the stairs.
• 52:34
  unknown: Cool.
• 52:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, thanks, man, and thanks for being on.
• 52:37
  SPEAKER_01: We we appreciate having you on again.
• 52:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's always a good time.
• 52:40
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, James, final thoughts?
• 52:42
  SPEAKER_06: Uh, my final thoughts, I would say good job to those teenage girls for killing each other.
• 52:50
  SPEAKER_01: Well, there you have it, everybody.
• 52:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us.
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_01: This has been High and Dry with our guest Ed.
• 52:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um, Ed, where can we catch you at?
• 53:01
  SPEAKER_04: Oh man, I don't even remember.
• 53:03
  SPEAKER_01: Fantastic.
• 53:04
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna pass this.
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_06: Perfect.
• 53:07
  SPEAKER_06: We'll get it next time.
• 53:09
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• 53:12
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• 53:16
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• 53:18
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• 53:19
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• 53:22
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• 53:27
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• 53:28
  SPEAKER_01: We're uh thanks for listening.
• 53:31
  SPEAKER_01: And uh have a happy holidays, and may Yule bless all of you.
• 53:35
  SPEAKER_06: And not kill your teenage children.
• 53:38
  SPEAKER_06: Happy holidays, goodbye, everybody.