Speaker 1: My grandma and your grandma was sitting back the fire
Speaker 1: my grandma to the other grandma. I'm gonna say, funny,
Speaker 1: you're talking about Hinda. I'm getting like like Jagamo jam
Speaker 1: ding Dong Lost Cultures calling girl girl. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you it's a magical episode. Okay, listen, Matt, why do
Speaker 1: you say it's magical. Well, we might just be diving
Speaker 1: into the wizarding world of Harry Potter. Harry Potter, and honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't think that we could have had a better
Speaker 1: guest for this topic. She's heard her spot here. She's
Speaker 1: truly clawed her way saying no, no, no, I'm just
Speaker 1: saying I'm saying, I'm saying there's no one that compares
Speaker 1: like this person has been the Harry Potter trenches. Yes,
Speaker 1: and you know what, she was one of the hosts
Speaker 1: of Potter Con just this weekend during the sorting series,
Speaker 1: during the story a ceremony, which is that's amazing. That's
Speaker 1: what you get to oversee everyone's future begin that's the
Speaker 1: headlining app absolutely, I mean other credits, the headlining actors.
Speaker 1: Everyone waits for the sortings. She's like when you go
Speaker 1: to Harry Potter World Wasiting World. That's my one qualm
Speaker 1: with Universal Studios Wasiting World. Just you don't get there's
Speaker 1: no imitation sort you just choose of your own self image.
Speaker 1: What house here in which you go into a goddamn
Speaker 1: shop and buy whatever scarf? Right? And then there is
Speaker 1: there is like the wand like the olive Ander's like
Speaker 1: wand ceremony. But it's bullshit. We're going to get into
Speaker 1: all of it. Okay, Well, let's go through the credit.
Speaker 1: Let's go through. Yes, she hosts one of my favorite podcasts,
Speaker 1: Important Ship that Doesn't Matter with Our with my friend
Speaker 1: our friend Ian Adams. Yes, don't don't say, don't say
Speaker 1: my friend friends. Yeah, girl, Okay. She's the host of
Speaker 1: cool show not Lame with my friend our friend Pat Wise.
Speaker 1: You know what, he's both my friends, He's mostly friendt
Speaker 1: you sud be Lloyd Knight, be Lloyd Knight. She hosts
Speaker 1: a storytelling a show with Katie with Ashcraft. My friend,
Speaker 1: your friend, our friend, our friend are truly our joint
Speaker 1: friend but also again primarily Elisa's friend, primarily Lisa's friend,
Speaker 1: absolutely love and also one of my favorite shows I
Speaker 1: think I've ever done in New York City. Is um
Speaker 1: the roast of a fifteen year old Yes, which has
Speaker 1: been at the annoyance. It's been a legion bar right,
Speaker 1: So it's been all over and we're so excited. It's
Speaker 1: at least so excited. I was like, should I not talk?
Speaker 1: Should I talk? Which you know, I just don't want to.
Speaker 1: I don't want to ruin the magic. Not everyone has
Speaker 1: podcast etiquette, but you know who's been around the podcast
Speaker 1: block is at least her own. So now we know
Speaker 1: next time, if you were trying to go on Elsa's
Speaker 1: podcast and talk to her in the intro, you shut
Speaker 1: your mouth magic. Yeah, when I was on, because our
Speaker 1: intro is very short. Our intro is very short. Right,
Speaker 1: how did you guys start to start the important that
Speaker 1: doesn't matter podcast? So Ian good friends, all our friend,
Speaker 1: every friend, honestly friend to all Ian Adams moved into
Speaker 1: my basement and he was like super nice. We started
Speaker 1: hitting it off. He was just like a Craigslist dreammate
Speaker 1: and then yeah, he was just a Craigslist just some
Speaker 1: dude from Georgia. He was coming up and he moved
Speaker 1: in and then he was like, hey, by the way,
Speaker 1: I have like all of this podcasting equipment. If you
Speaker 1: ever want to start a podcast, And I'd have this
Speaker 1: idea that I wanted to do a podcast called Important
Speaker 1: Ship that Doesn't Matter where, like we talked about just
Speaker 1: like the Internet and life online, because I feel like
Speaker 1: it's this thing that people like always dismiss as silly,
Speaker 1: but also like we're all living our lives there and
Speaker 1: we're all like making actually extremely important moves on there
Speaker 1: all the time. Um, So we started it, and that
Speaker 1: was that is that I had. My little sister sent
Speaker 1: me a voice memo of her singing the intro and
Speaker 1: then the song. Yes, I think I know all the words.
Speaker 1: I won't attempt to sing it right now. I would
Speaker 1: attempt to sing it the Internet to place for friends,
Speaker 1: friend men almost friends, for people that you want to
Speaker 1: and people you already fuck. So we're here, make the
Speaker 1: most of all the bits then jokes and laughter. It's
Speaker 1: Important Ship that Doesn't Matter, hosted by Alice. You should
Speaker 1: check it out and also Bone and I have both
Speaker 1: been on it. And did you did you? Did you
Speaker 1: get a little saucy and political in yours? Because I
Speaker 1: got a little saucy. I got saucy and political in
Speaker 1: money mine is well, you had a question come in.
Speaker 1: But someone tweeted to the podcast that they wanted us
Speaker 1: to talk about the gay internet, the Twitter specifically, which
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm not totally entrenched in in the
Speaker 1: way that this, uh this this question poser might have
Speaker 1: thought I was. But it was a very interesting episode.
Speaker 1: What did he think the gay Twitter was? Like? Just
Speaker 1: he didn't really specify. He just wanted us to tell
Speaker 1: him what it was. I'll tell you what the gay
Speaker 1: Internet is. That's gay porn. Like, that's what that is.
Speaker 1: We can talk about that. All the everything centers around
Speaker 1: beautiful men. That's all it is. Did you guys see
Speaker 1: um the flag bearer from Tonga? So he's my cover
Speaker 1: photo now, so I'm sure everyone has seen. I mean, also,
Speaker 1: whatever was going on last night with the divers, I
Speaker 1: mean really it was just us screaming at the screen
Speaker 1: like Mama, Matt Suit and I were just foaming at
Speaker 1: the mountain. It's a lot, it's a lot. But Tonga
Speaker 1: really put themselves on the map in an enormous way.
Speaker 1: They were like, we have our country has a lot
Speaker 1: to offer. We're going to oil this guy up. We
Speaker 1: have the most oil. We have a lot of oil
Speaker 1: to spare. Citizens. It's power and oil. No, that's what
Speaker 1: a statement. Honestly incredible. Also, like when Giselle stomped the runway, Yes,
Speaker 1: she stomped the runway all the way across that big
Speaker 1: gas field. They were I wonder if they were just like, okay,
Speaker 1: we have like a full three and a half minutes
Speaker 1: with something, let's get Giselle. Um well, you know, I yes,
Speaker 1: had something vaguely Brazilian. It was so stupid. Also, I
Speaker 1: had heard a rumor that this was like it was
Speaker 1: early in the plants and apparently it was mixed, but
Speaker 1: that she was gonna walk or the runway and at
Speaker 1: the end she was going to get mugged. What this is?
Speaker 1: What this is? Something that I heard was that she
Speaker 1: was going to get mugged at the end of the
Speaker 1: runway and like a staged mugging so that they could
Speaker 1: they could like shine a light on the fact that
Speaker 1: there's how much crime in Brazil? What now? And this
Speaker 1: is so this is this makes me feel like it
Speaker 1: must have been partially true at some point because she
Speaker 1: like this, can't someone didn't. Someone didn't just make up
Speaker 1: that Giselle was going to walk the runway like she did,
Speaker 1: and they said, like they wanted to in the opening
Speaker 1: ceremony showed the good and the bad of Rio of Brazil.
Speaker 1: They wanted to show all it and all of it.
Speaker 1: They mixed it after like the bad just took over,
Speaker 1: like the entire press psycho Olympics to that. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but that's what That's what they were saying. And I
Speaker 1: was like, there, there's no way that can happen. And
Speaker 1: then of course it didn't. But apparently it was supposed
Speaker 1: to be like this, like she would get mugged and
Speaker 1: they would chase the mugger around the stadium and it
Speaker 1: would become like that. Okay, I'm actually I'm on board now.
Speaker 1: It's like she gets like mugged. Oh no, like imagine
Speaker 1: Giselle was acting in that moment. I honestly I wish
Speaker 1: I wish they had done it. I loved little Samba boy. Yes,
Speaker 1: he was incredible, bomba boy. I would love to see
Speaker 1: him come back. And he was doing like Capua who's
Speaker 1: doing all of that. He's very talented. Speaking of a
Speaker 1: talented little boy, that was so Guys, we are here
Speaker 1: today to talk about Harry Potter and the reason and
Speaker 1: there's been you know, all of a sudden, all this
Speaker 1: activity around Harry Potter, and money needs the money, so
Speaker 1: it's all begun. Like I feel like this Harry Potter
Speaker 1: renaissance that's happened is you know, the books ended, and
Speaker 1: then we had our theme parks and it was an
Speaker 1: international phenomenon, and more and Potter and more the website,
Speaker 1: and now we have Harry Potter also in universal studios
Speaker 1: in Hollywood, there's one in Japan. It's like now, now
Speaker 1: I think younger and younger kids are getting really exposed
Speaker 1: to the brand of Harry Potter, and therefore there is
Speaker 1: this demand for new content. And so we have Harry
Speaker 1: Potter and The Curse of Child, which we all have
Speaker 1: some up opinion. Yes, but before we get into those,
Speaker 1: let's just do with the least what we normally do
Speaker 1: with our guests. Okay, but but let's relate this back
Speaker 1: to Harry Potter. We always ask our guests what culture
Speaker 1: has shaped them, but this might be a great opportunity
Speaker 1: to talk about how Harry Potter shaped each of us. Yes,
Speaker 1: so at least, like what what? So we first of all,
Speaker 1: one of the touchstones of um roast fifteen year old
Speaker 1: self are the old pictures of Elise. Yes, my space
Speaker 1: presence back in the day. So talk about how Elise
Speaker 1: became a lease, which is the perfect way I love
Speaker 1: to phrase that question. Okay, fantastic. So uh as far
Speaker 1: as like, I'll talk about my Harry Potter development and
Speaker 1: my myspaces their abreast of me. They are they are
Speaker 1: so right. Around the same time that I was like
Speaker 1: learning code to make my MySpace, I coded my MySpace.
Speaker 1: So it all started with my very first love. I'll
Speaker 1: say his full name, Brian Chum. That sounds like a
Speaker 1: really hot d was, you know what. He was like
Speaker 1: a little bit nerdy. We went to hot topic together.
Speaker 1: I bought him a studded belt and he really blossomed
Speaker 1: between the two of you. Okay, okay, So he knew code,
Speaker 1: he could do computer stuff, and so he taught me
Speaker 1: a little bit. And then I kind of learned how to, like,
Speaker 1: you know, those websites that would make you like a
Speaker 1: template for your mind space. I learned how to go
Speaker 1: in and like further adjust those like I couldn't bear
Speaker 1: write it, but I knew what to look for to
Speaker 1: like change things, so I would make myself these like
Speaker 1: I remember the my space page that I loved the
Speaker 1: most had a very very thick black border, so the
Speaker 1: actual screen was very small and yes I remember, and
Speaker 1: it had a little black and white robot in the
Speaker 1: corner that moved with the page, and the bio said
Speaker 1: if you want to know me, fucking know me, and
Speaker 1: then down you got to grab their attention. And I
Speaker 1: overrode the top eight and I had a top three
Speaker 1: that was represented by three game on and you could
Speaker 1: click on one of that that I thought represented the
Speaker 1: friend that it would click through to their my space.
Speaker 1: So I like made it more bitchy, more exclusive, more codified.
Speaker 1: I love it. So during that same time, I was
Speaker 1: also getting very into Harry Potter fan fiction, which like
Speaker 1: I was always a big fan of, like the Harry
Speaker 1: Potter fans sites muggle Net there was one I think
Speaker 1: there was Leaky Cauldron, remember Leaky Cauldron as well, And
Speaker 1: there might have been one called like Key or something,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't as good muggle Net. There should have
Speaker 1: been one, Yeah, yeah, so I think so, I think
Speaker 1: there was. But either way, like I started with those
Speaker 1: and then I started to get into the world of
Speaker 1: fan fiction and um primarily on fan fiction dot net.
Speaker 1: That was my main were you also, I was so
Speaker 1: fan fiction done. It had a sister site called oh Gosh,
Speaker 1: I forgot it was, but where it was it was
Speaker 1: like the home for like original stories, and I wrote
Speaker 1: I tried my hand at writing some horrifically intolerable stories
Speaker 1: about I was inspired by the movie Alfie the remake
Speaker 1: with Jude law God. I wrote a whole story about
Speaker 1: this British womanizer who worked at a new station. And
Speaker 1: you got to flip the gender. You're ahead of your time, yeah, yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: well he was mail he was, I know. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you wrote about a British one oh womanizer woman, sorry,
Speaker 1: a male womanizer. But anyway, fan fictions not now, yes,
Speaker 1: so I and I also wrote original stories on fiction press.
Speaker 1: That's what. Yeah, thank you, so fiction press. I wrote
Speaker 1: original stories, but fan fiction was where I really shown
Speaker 1: I had a real knack for taking the Harry Potter
Speaker 1: characters and putting them in new scenarios, mainly with myself.
Speaker 1: And and was it romantic? Was it saucy? So it was?
Speaker 1: So it was romantic but not sexy in fan fiction term,
Speaker 1: So if you guys want a little terminology, sex scenes
Speaker 1: are called lemons. And I did not write any lemons
Speaker 1: because like you like like when you So I didn't
Speaker 1: write any lemons because I was writing all of this
Speaker 1: fan fiction exclusively on my home computer, and I was
Speaker 1: that my dad would be like, you know that my
Speaker 1: dad would want fine and then read. So it wasn't
Speaker 1: that you didn't have the ur I read a lot
Speaker 1: of lemons and I would be like, but I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I couldn't bring myself to write them. Also, it's like, right,
Speaker 1: what you know? And I wasn't really having a lot
Speaker 1: of sex at that time, so you couldn't really delve
Speaker 1: into that. My primary fan fiction time was when Order
Speaker 1: of the Phoenix had already came out, but we were
Speaker 1: waiting for Half Blood prints, okay, And during that time
Speaker 1: I wrote a very extensive thirty nine chapter, six d
Speaker 1: and fifty word fan fiction. Oh my god, you wrote
Speaker 1: a book that essentially that was literally just the fifth book.
Speaker 1: I would go. I would sit in my parents computer
Speaker 1: and go chapter for chapter everything that happened. But it
Speaker 1: was as if I you chose the longest book. That's
Speaker 1: so funny. So basically you had there's a version of
Speaker 1: Harry Potter and the Order with you. It's you. So
Speaker 1: it's Harry run to Addie and al right, so I
Speaker 1: have a question, what was Eddie good at? Like everything? Oh? Everything?
Speaker 1: That was a maazing complaint when people would so I
Speaker 1: got a lot of good reviews, but when people would
Speaker 1: flame me, they would always say they would be like,
Speaker 1: you're this character is a very sue and like fuck you,
Speaker 1: and I would be like calling fourteen s characters a Mary.
Speaker 1: Yes would mean she's like too perfect. That's just how
Speaker 1: I would be if I got to go, you're saying
Speaker 1: you hate me? So did you graduate in high school?
Speaker 1: And yes, okay, so you were this You're the same
Speaker 1: age as us. I feel that that year, especially legit
Speaker 1: grew up with Harry Potter because Sorcerer Stone I was eleven,
Speaker 1: Yes exactly. I think that like our age group, it
Speaker 1: just like timed out really well. Like I read Sorcerer's
Speaker 1: Stone at eleven, and then I think two and three
Speaker 1: were already out. Four or four we were maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit younger than him. But by five, by the
Speaker 1: time five can't come out, we had caught up with
Speaker 1: No and then deathitely House came out right the summer
Speaker 1: of our junior going to graduate. I remember always being
Speaker 1: like right there with the characters and we're the same
Speaker 1: age as Rupert and Emma, and yeah they're actually that
Speaker 1: was huge, So and that being my personal problem with
Speaker 1: Harry Potter and the Curse of Child, I think, outside
Speaker 1: of the fact that I don't think it's written very well,
Speaker 1: is like all of a sudden, they're like fifty years old.
Speaker 1: And also I really feel like they're watered down, boring,
Speaker 1: one dimensional versions of themselves. I feel my biggest issue
Speaker 1: with Cursed Child I've been saying cursed, not cursed. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's correct. It's definitely all of us
Speaker 1: trying to be a little British. It's like, never in
Speaker 1: your life and you ever said cursed until Harry Potter
Speaker 1: and the Curse Said Child. Um did you, guys, how
Speaker 1: how was your first pronunciation of her mind? Because I
Speaker 1: said hermione until she has Victor crust larn how to
Speaker 1: say it in the fourth book, which I think was
Speaker 1: in there because they were like, none of the Americans
Speaker 1: know what this time. I think that might have been
Speaker 1: true because I remember when they when that moment came
Speaker 1: in the books, because I I knew it was hermione
Speaker 1: because my fourth grade teacher that read us the book
Speaker 1: in class was pronouncing it like her. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Mr mcgar who always did the Hagard voice and no
Speaker 1: other voices. He always did a Haggard voice, which ended
Speaker 1: up being the literal Hagard voice, Like he nailed this
Speaker 1: voice and he didn't know he attempted to no other characteristic.
Speaker 1: That was his showcase. And he went on to get
Speaker 1: signed by w M A Wow and so her so
Speaker 1: basically Um. Once I found out that it was her
Speaker 1: my own name, I was like, how could there be
Speaker 1: that many syllables in this name? Like I don't accept it.
Speaker 1: There was a girl, I mean, I remember that there's
Speaker 1: this girl named Arianna Um. Her name was actually Ariana Grante,
Speaker 1: which is very close well you know who she was
Speaker 1: in my in my fourth grade class, and she was
Speaker 1: listening to the books on tape and she told me
Speaker 1: that it was hermione and I just missed her out
Speaker 1: of hands times like that's absurd. Speaking speaking of the
Speaker 1: audiobook and pronunciations, so originally and Jake Rolling abides by this,
Speaker 1: it's pronounced voldemore silent tea. And then the guy who
Speaker 1: read the audio books pronounced at Baltimore up until the
Speaker 1: fifth book, after the movies had come out, and after
Speaker 1: the characters in the movie pronounced to Voldemore, he had
Speaker 1: to correct his own pronunciation. And yeah, I never said
Speaker 1: Baltimore and absolutely always said Valdemore. I don't understand Baltimore.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't get like this is supposed to
Speaker 1: be friends. It supposed to be. It's another problem that
Speaker 1: I have with Cursed Child is that they like, we
Speaker 1: have to I don't know if we have to go
Speaker 1: in the plot, but the point where they're traveling and
Speaker 1: they're in the Baltimore world, everyone's saying his name, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, they wouldn't be saying his name, they would
Speaker 1: all be saying the Dark Lord. Yes, there is a lot,
Speaker 1: There is a lot a lot drops. Also, the book
Speaker 1: implies that Harry went to godrix Hollow once with Petunity,
Speaker 1: but that's not true. Harry had never heard of Godrick's
Speaker 1: Hollow until that until the seventh book, until that book
Speaker 1: came out. Yeah, I think it's just very obvious, like
Speaker 1: there's a lot missing. Not only is there a lot
Speaker 1: of logic drops, but also the humor is totally missing.
Speaker 1: The humor of the books, And Henry brought this up
Speaker 1: because Henry Kopersky, my boyfriend, read this prior and I'm
Speaker 1: about halfway through. Yeah, but Henry has has read it
Speaker 1: and absolutely hated it, and he's a huge fan. And
Speaker 1: his biggest problem is just like for sheer enjoyment value,
Speaker 1: like humor is gone. Yeah, it's just not fun. Trying
Speaker 1: very very hard. They're very they're trying really hard to
Speaker 1: have Scorpius may play the Ron role, but he has
Speaker 1: none of Ron's charm. It's just not there. And I
Speaker 1: think it's because the characters are too fast and you
Speaker 1: can tell whatever spark she hasn't. I think the strongest
Speaker 1: part of Harry Potter the characters. It's like the best
Speaker 1: most fun part. You get to know them. All of
Speaker 1: them seem off, none of them seem correct, encouraged child
Speaker 1: and like they're part to the plot that I think
Speaker 1: are fun. But it's like hyper accelerated and the characters
Speaker 1: are all wrong, like Ron's like Ron's like like the
Speaker 1: joke shop guy now which I know he runs Wee
Speaker 1: is Like I know that. That's like Cannons personality is
Speaker 1: so different. Yeah, and her Miane, she's boring, She's boring,
Speaker 1: she's nothing, She's spoiler alert, she's the Minister of Magic,
Speaker 1: very cool. But the thing is her character is gone.
Speaker 1: There is a way, there has to be a way
Speaker 1: to make what's so fun and funny and interesting and
Speaker 1: amazing about her Miami and like age that to where
Speaker 1: she is now. But there's no humor in her character.
Speaker 1: All the scenes but that I've read so far between
Speaker 1: her Moami and Harry are so painted, and Harry is
Speaker 1: just like, I don't know, like it's And of course
Speaker 1: Jenny's whole role in the book is what's happening, Dad,
Speaker 1: what's going on? You need to be a better father, Harry?
Speaker 1: Like my, I'm just I'm just a mom now, like
Speaker 1: I'm the wife and like so another thing is that
Speaker 1: Alvis severas Carrie's son, who shouldn't have named that? Talking
Speaker 1: about the names for one second, horrible horrible very literally bad,
Speaker 1: very very bad, Scorpius, terrible, Rose, Selfie, Delfie, and Rose
Speaker 1: and Hugo are very Hugo is not even in it,
Speaker 1: but Hugoes their other child. He goes a solid name.
Speaker 1: I would have rather followed a Hugo. Absolutely love the name.
Speaker 1: Who whoo, who goes Hugo for this. I love Hugo.
Speaker 1: Why the fund is her name Rose? Yeah, it's very's
Speaker 1: so stupid, and then it's eighty years old. Her name
Speaker 1: is what Rose Granger Weasley Rose Granger Weasley, which I
Speaker 1: do think it's bad as she's like, I'm a Granger
Speaker 1: Weasley and I'm like, yes you are, Yes I do.
Speaker 1: I do love that. So Alvis ever goes into Slytherin.
Speaker 1: That's the big thing. But they never show anything throughout
Speaker 1: the rest of the book to show why he's in
Speaker 1: Slitherin like they have, but like it would be cool
Speaker 1: to see that he's like ambitious or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: like maybe he like they tried it that he's like brooding,
Speaker 1: he's like sad. But Slytherins thing is that they're ambitious,
Speaker 1: So show him being ambitious. And that's why it doesn't
Speaker 1: make any sense because all he is in this thing
Speaker 1: is kind of exactly the same as Harry. He's super brave.
Speaker 1: Like it just doesn't make any totally. I feel like
Speaker 1: that's probably a device just to get him in Scorpius time.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, but it's like you have such a cool
Speaker 1: opportunity to have him kind of maybe struggle with being
Speaker 1: a shittier person being a Slytherin. You know, like the
Speaker 1: end of the day, why is he in Slytherin? Because
Speaker 1: they needed him to be in Slytherin for the book.
Speaker 1: They did no work in the early pages of the text,
Speaker 1: which you absolute really can accomplish. You show one tiny
Speaker 1: thing about his character, and then later on we believe
Speaker 1: that he's in Slytherin. Always see is him being nervous
Speaker 1: and terrified that he's gonna be put in Slytherin, and
Speaker 1: then he gets put in Slytherin, And honestly, it just
Speaker 1: depresses me the whole thing. And I'm at the point
Speaker 1: in the book now where I don't really want to
Speaker 1: give too many schoolers, but they're about to do something
Speaker 1: that is going to alter the course of a lot
Speaker 1: and I know it's going to ruin a lot of things.
Speaker 1: Have you spread the scene with the trolley Witch? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I have so many problems. I actually I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get I'm gonna get to the trolley Witch later,
Speaker 1: but spoil it from because I read the whole synopsis
Speaker 1: and I was like, what, Yeah, so we have a
Speaker 1: we have a segment later in the show called I
Speaker 1: don't Think so, honey, and I don't think so honey.
Speaker 1: My my mind is going to be focused on can
Speaker 1: we talk about the trolley Witch? Now you can talk
Speaker 1: about it. So basically, you know the trolley witch who
Speaker 1: walks down the paste these day, iconic do you want?
Speaker 1: That's it? That's that's literally all she does in the
Speaker 1: books iconic great So in Harry Potter and the Curse
Speaker 1: of True iconic truly, I'm no neither I Harry Potter
Speaker 1: and the Curse of Child they there's a scene where
Speaker 1: they try to get off the train. So Albus and
Speaker 1: Scorpius who's Scorpius, now, boy, he's the son of Drake
Speaker 1: has a crush on Rose Granger, because of course it's
Speaker 1: got to be that. They're trying to the train and
Speaker 1: meet with the Diggeries. No, they're trying. Yeah, So they're
Speaker 1: trying to leave the train. All of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: trolley Witch is on top of the train. She's on
Speaker 1: top of the train. She's like, what's going on? And
Speaker 1: they're like what the fuck, Like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: So she's like her hands turned into spikes and she
Speaker 1: screams a bellow scream, and says, no one leaves this train.
Speaker 1: You find out that the trolley Witch is not really
Speaker 1: a person. She's more of like an entity and part
Speaker 1: of the train element of the trains there for hundreds
Speaker 1: of years, she's never let anyone get off, which, honestly, oh,
Speaker 1: I hate Yes, you better work, you better kids on
Speaker 1: the train that she becomes that sucking Union X two
Speaker 1: with the nails. She literally turns into Wolverine, screams a
Speaker 1: horrifying scream. They get away from her, but then later
Speaker 1: on her mind, he says, well, the trolley Witch is
Speaker 1: just so embarrassed and so frustrated, very upset. Other two
Speaker 1: biggest revelations of Cursed Child. Also, she comes out and
Speaker 1: says she has no name. She's forgotten. Now this is
Speaker 1: none of this is cannon. I dismiss it. Other two
Speaker 1: biggest revelations of Curse Child. I will say, uh, confirmation
Speaker 1: that Baltimore and Bellatrix fu wait, I did not know
Speaker 1: that I spoiler. Oh my god, I need yes, So
Speaker 1: confirmation that Baltimore and Bell Jakes did it, which thank
Speaker 1: god they both needed it. Come on, Honestly, it probably
Speaker 1: was amazing it probably it was probably they were probably
Speaker 1: flying around. Honestly, it probably was amazing. Honestly, at least
Speaker 1: it is getting her fan fiction. There's probably some snake player. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know there was snake, but you know, Nighini got
Speaker 1: into it. Negini was involved, all of the all the
Speaker 1: different objects were involved. Beatrix is like primal screams were
Speaker 1: probably absolutely horrifying but sexy, and they know, Wait, what's
Speaker 1: the second revelation, what's the next relation that moaning? Myrtle's
Speaker 1: real full name is Myrtle, not a grand Day, No,
Speaker 1: it's Myrtle. Elizabeth Warren, Yes, I saw that. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's so funny. Elizabeth Warren Myrtle first of all Warrent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess it's a British. I feel like even if
Speaker 1: she knew, even if even if Jakie Rolling knew and
Speaker 1: named her that or did it, I don't care. I
Speaker 1: love that so much. There's another revelation in the book.
Speaker 1: Dobby Still named Dobby barbera boxer. This female senators and
Speaker 1: of course nin Hillary Clinton. That's so funny. Well, can
Speaker 1: I just so now that I've heard that, the confirmation
Speaker 1: that Belitrick and Baltimore did fun Yes, I just want
Speaker 1: to ask have you treated yourself to a trip to
Speaker 1: Universal Orlando to go to the Wizarding World. Alease, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I know, I know five times. Just Producer
Speaker 1: Joe just lost his mind. Yes, I've spent thousands of
Speaker 1: dollars on my trips. I've heard so much about it.
Speaker 1: I know that, like you can buy the special wand
Speaker 1: and go to the little places and do a thing.
Speaker 1: But like so all my Florida family is in Miami
Speaker 1: and every time we go, I'm like, guys, can we
Speaker 1: please go to Orlando? And they're just like, my family
Speaker 1: won't go with me, so I have to go with friends.
Speaker 1: Like I've kind of decided that this is the year,
Speaker 1: like you know, you must go. We are we you
Speaker 1: might go in early October. We should go, just saying
Speaker 1: please please invite me because I will come. Honestly, at
Speaker 1: least you should come because also, like I, I truly
Speaker 1: enjoy going with and I think so David Mazzoni and
Speaker 1: Bowen and I went to Orlando, and what I mean
Speaker 1: it was a transcended. It was the most fun. I
Speaker 1: was kind of honestly, I was managing my expectations a
Speaker 1: little bit as like, well, how much fun are we
Speaker 1: really going to have as adults going to like these
Speaker 1: theme parks that are like designed for kids. But oh
Speaker 1: my god, I'm a huge Disneyland freak. Yeah. I love
Speaker 1: because when I was a little kid, I grew up
Speaker 1: in l A. And my mom's best friend did the
Speaker 1: window displays from Main Street us A. Yeah, and so
Speaker 1: she would get us free tickets all the time, and
Speaker 1: so we would go to Disneyland. And so I like,
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, I went to Disneyland all
Speaker 1: of the time. So as far as theme parks go,
Speaker 1: like that is the type of theme park that I enjoys.
Speaker 1: Immersive world. And that's and you will love when world.
Speaker 1: When you so for I would so here. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: actually map out a night tinperary for those of you
Speaker 1: who might want to go here. Here here's what you
Speaker 1: must do. You have to go. You have to get
Speaker 1: a multi day pass, yes, because because it's the Studios
Speaker 1: University of Florida. And on adventure, you go to Diagon
Speaker 1: Alley like you would if you were a student. You
Speaker 1: go to Diagon like you produced the shops, you get
Speaker 1: your gig. You you know, maybe you maybe go into
Speaker 1: Olive Handers, perhaps be chosen by the wand Attendant and
Speaker 1: have a haven. I have a moment. I have a moment, honey.
Speaker 1: So you go into Green Goots Bank you do the
Speaker 1: ride of your life, the Green Goots Ride, which features
Speaker 1: Helena and Ye finds as Baltimore and bellotracks. They get
Speaker 1: up in your face. It's a roller coaster experience that's
Speaker 1: also three D and also like an immersive ride, and
Speaker 1: they get up in your face and it is It's incredible,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. It is so good. So basically it takes
Speaker 1: place the ride like in between books like six and seven,
Speaker 1: when they need to break into the vault, it takes
Speaker 1: place I think during seven, during seven when you're in
Speaker 1: the vault, when they're in the vault in Aran Horntail,
Speaker 1: there is a Hungarian hortail blind dragon un that's a
Speaker 1: blind abuse to dragon, like I'm talking about thrill ride,
Speaker 1: multiple launches, like so good. Honestly, I need to pause
Speaker 1: that part in the book. Incredible, the way the fact
Speaker 1: that you was able to write an action sequence like that,
Speaker 1: like they're breaking into Gringots and like making it feel
Speaker 1: like high optinge high adrenaline. It's incredible. I'm like getting chills,
Speaker 1: just thinking about that in the book, I mean me
Speaker 1: reading it when I was that age, I was like, well,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be that's takes off because the beginning
Speaker 1: of seven is like kind of a rough rod. It's
Speaker 1: very upsetting Ron Ron, just like that when Ron goes away,
Speaker 1: it's like yeah. Also, Potter Con was this weekend and
Speaker 1: there were a lot of amazing silver doughs. A couple
Speaker 1: beautiful that's cool, just like hot girls dressed as the
Speaker 1: silver dough and they were awesome. There was one girl
Speaker 1: in like an all white body suit and she had
Speaker 1: wrapped Christmas lights around herself and then done like dear makeup,
Speaker 1: like really good, and I was like, girl, that beautiful.
Speaker 1: Also in Taigon Alley is um oh God, the Weasley
Speaker 1: shop is amazing and um bertie Bots, which is like
Speaker 1: in Florian's ice cream shop. So he gets kidnapped. Well luckily,
Speaker 1: luckily there's some quote unquote British people to man the
Speaker 1: store because everyone's British too. Actually, I think they do
Speaker 1: hire a lot of people from the UK for the
Speaker 1: especially when it first opened, because I went when it
Speaker 1: first open. The first time I went was Christmas when
Speaker 1: it first open, So you can imagine there was a
Speaker 1: First of all, there was a three hour wait to
Speaker 1: get into the part of the theme park of the Islands,
Speaker 1: a enter that was Harry Potterworld, and my sister and
Speaker 1: I we just felt like better than everyone else, and
Speaker 1: we we're like, we feel as if we shouldn't have
Speaker 1: to wait on this line. So we literally walked past
Speaker 1: it into God no one stopped us. That It was crazy.
Speaker 1: You can do that. I did that at Cafe DuMond
Speaker 1: in uh in New Orleans, like that, playing that like
Speaker 1: tourists wait on such a long line to go. Me
Speaker 1: and my group we just passed the line and seated
Speaker 1: our out and it worked. I was like, I've given
Speaker 1: my life. I was like, these people are here because
Speaker 1: their tourists and their family brought them here and don't
Speaker 1: know that, No, they didn't deserve it as much. I
Speaker 1: walked right in. I'm sorry. That's the thing is what
Speaker 1: would Harry do. Harry would would walk right in, you know,
Speaker 1: and like I felt very you know, her himself into
Speaker 1: sort of like a park attendant, and he would be
Speaker 1: in the park. What if what if someone had stopped me?
Speaker 1: And I just went like Imperial and they're like Okay,
Speaker 1: they walk in. We're dealing with a true crazy person. Please, okay,
Speaker 1: so wait, let me so. After you do Green Goods
Speaker 1: the Bank the ride which features also true goblins like
Speaker 1: over yes, um, you get on the Hogwarts Express, which
Speaker 1: is a true train that takes you to the other
Speaker 1: theme park, and you get off the train and then
Speaker 1: you're in right because it's hogs Meade Village as well.
Speaker 1: So there's a diagon alley and then there's the original
Speaker 1: hogs Mean Village. So you walk through hogs Mean Village,
Speaker 1: you turn the corner, there's like amazing uh dueling dragons
Speaker 1: rolling coaster called Dragon Challenge, its theme to the Triworsard Tournament.
Speaker 1: There's like Hagrid's House is like a little roller coaster
Speaker 1: that goes through it called Fly to the Hippograph. It's
Speaker 1: like there's like a little hippograph animatronic that's very cool,
Speaker 1: very cute. And then you round the corner and there's
Speaker 1: Hogwarts and it takes your breath away. It is shocking
Speaker 1: throughout the whole throughout the whole park. There of course
Speaker 1: pumping the music, which is just like the best, the
Speaker 1: best John Williams score is just pumping through the whole
Speaker 1: thing is u that's the best part of the see
Speaker 1: I love the more like epic versions of it, which
Speaker 1: I really honestly, there's a moment where you're waiting online
Speaker 1: for uh, the Hogwarts ride, which honestly it's indescribable. I mean,
Speaker 1: you get, you start, you get on the line for
Speaker 1: the Hogwarts ride, and you essentially walked through the grounds
Speaker 1: of Hogwarts and you walk through you see the mirror
Speaker 1: said you see amazing. You see um, the the scores
Speaker 1: of the houses, you see the dark Defense against the
Speaker 1: Dark Arts classroom. You go, you walk through the Defense
Speaker 1: Against Arts classroom, which is amazing. We created to scale
Speaker 1: with the film. It's incredible. Double Door's Office, You walk
Speaker 1: through the herbology gardens, you literally walk through all of it.
Speaker 1: And then you you do. You walk through this part
Speaker 1: of the hallway where the four heads of houses are
Speaker 1: in portraits having conversations with each other, and it's just
Speaker 1: like so fascinating to be a fan of the books
Speaker 1: and listen to them talk. It's just so cool and
Speaker 1: there it's really for us. Yes. Then the last thing
Speaker 1: you see before you get on the ride, which is
Speaker 1: mind blowing, is the sorting hat basically like breaking reality.
Speaker 1: I'm like telling you about safety, don't put your arms
Speaker 1: and feet out, You'll be whatever splirched or whatever Harry
Speaker 1: Potter words. So basically, then you get on it and
Speaker 1: it's this unbelievable. You do the ride, it's like two
Speaker 1: and a half minutes long, and your feet touched the
Speaker 1: ground and you can't believe what you've been through. Um,
Speaker 1: that sounds so incredible. At so at part Con there
Speaker 1: was also a really good mirror of Ari said costumes.
Speaker 1: She won the costume contest because she made the entire
Speaker 1: like structure of the mirror and it looked perfect. And
Speaker 1: then she was Ron Weasley holding the House cup with
Speaker 1: all of the medals. It was like it was unreal. Also,
Speaker 1: So I haven't been to Harry Potter World, but what
Speaker 1: I did do was the Warner Brothers Studio tour in
Speaker 1: England when I went, and it was just the greatest.
Speaker 1: So you when you go in, they like show you
Speaker 1: this movie that's like all about They put you in
Speaker 1: this movie theater and then they showed you like all
Speaker 1: this behind the scenes stuff of the movie and they
Speaker 1: and it's narrated by like like thirteen year old Emma
Speaker 1: and Daniel and the like, we love being in the films.
Speaker 1: But and then the screen, the screen lifts up and
Speaker 1: it's the doors to Hogwarts and they open and it's
Speaker 1: the full set for the Great Hall and you walk
Speaker 1: in and it's just like the most insane thing. And
Speaker 1: then the tour is like self guided, so you're allowed
Speaker 1: to be in there for as long as you want.
Speaker 1: And they have all of the costumes, a ton of
Speaker 1: the original sets, so Dumbledore's office is in there. They
Speaker 1: have the full diagon Alley set, so you walk down
Speaker 1: and you see like Weasley, Swizard Weels was like the
Speaker 1: big guy picking his hat off, and like you can
Speaker 1: walk through the full platform nine and three quarters set
Speaker 1: and get on the train. It's like all these different things,
Speaker 1: things like um they showed all of Umbradges costumes from
Speaker 1: the fifth movie and they were like, as she gets
Speaker 1: more powerful, her outfits get pink, like more intensely pink.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, I didn't know any of that.
Speaker 1: They have the statue from the Ministry of Magic of
Speaker 1: like the Wizard's trampling on all the Muggles, like the
Speaker 1: Evil Boltimore statue and stuff. It was where is the Scotland, Ireland.
Speaker 1: It's in the It's like in Britain, you have to
Speaker 1: like take you can take a bus. It's like a
Speaker 1: bus from some train station that wasn't hard to get to.
Speaker 1: When Henry and I were there, we saw advertisements for it.
Speaker 1: We only had a limited time and I think it
Speaker 1: was sold out or something or like it was really expensive,
Speaker 1: so we couldn't go. But I now am having such
Speaker 1: regrets because I really want to go. It's so cool
Speaker 1: and they have everything, and they just they also have
Speaker 1: like interesting things like, um, a lot of like the
Speaker 1: cast and crew are in the portraits and so they
Speaker 1: showed you like the portraits in the in Hogwarts and
Speaker 1: then like which cast and crew member director of the
Speaker 1: movie it actually is and stuff like that. So I
Speaker 1: literally live talk about Poticon because what what was it
Speaker 1: so so pot icahn This girl Margaret and Kaminsky, who's great,
Speaker 1: I guess, just started it as it started as a
Speaker 1: get together for her friends and that's how it first started,
Speaker 1: and then it got bigger and bigger, and then last
Speaker 1: year and I think the year before it was at
Speaker 1: the Bellhouse, I got involved with it. Last year she
Speaker 1: had contacted me because I've made it known to the world.
Speaker 1: I love Harry Potter and then I do comedy. So
Speaker 1: I got in touch with her um and that was
Speaker 1: like at the Bellhouse and it was awesome. It was
Speaker 1: so much fun. But this year it was at Irving
Speaker 1: plas insane and it was two days at Irving Plaza.
Speaker 1: I did I like I don't did the sorting ceremony
Speaker 1: on the first day, so I got to do the
Speaker 1: opening sorting and it was very fun. And I brought
Speaker 1: Pat Wise, who would never who is not he's only
Speaker 1: seen the movies person um and he was my double door.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's well. Also Muggle Nat. So Muggle Nat did
Speaker 1: a review which was awesome and they my name's on
Speaker 1: muggle Nat, something that has never Yeah, they plugged my
Speaker 1: Twitter on muggle Nat. It was that. They also they
Speaker 1: also were like Pat Wise, star of the Evening's furious.
Speaker 1: They were like, he played a very casual Dumbledore. It
Speaker 1: was hilarious. So we ran this racket where like we
Speaker 1: only got one free drink, but the drinks at the
Speaker 1: Irving Plaza were like mad expensive and we were like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is not going to fly. So we decided to
Speaker 1: tell the audience that anyone who brought drinks for us
Speaker 1: to the stage would get um sorted immediately into whatever house.
Speaker 1: And so by the end of both Pat and I,
Speaker 1: the article suggested only Pat did it, but we both
Speaker 1: did it. Looked that night were double fist beers, which
Speaker 1: was awesome. We got a bunch of free drinks from it.
Speaker 1: I was I was supposed to have a second show
Speaker 1: in the evening. Literally went to the show, said I'm
Speaker 1: too drunk to be here. Left the show, had to
Speaker 1: go home. I got up at least and said I
Speaker 1: showed up. I walked in. I was like, it's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. I cannot work out these new characters right now.
Speaker 1: My god, wait, can I ask what the vibe was like? Okay,
Speaker 1: so they come up on stage walk us through it.
Speaker 1: So the vibe is really good because it is a
Speaker 1: twenty one and over event, so it's like very fun
Speaker 1: I also think that in general because the original Harry Potter,
Speaker 1: not this cursed child mass, but the original Harry Potter
Speaker 1: is so funny, Like that's such a huge part of
Speaker 1: the heart of the series that the Harry Potter fans
Speaker 1: are a very good humored But so it's like a
Speaker 1: very fun thing. The way the sorting ceremony works is
Speaker 1: that people all put their names into a goblet of fire,
Speaker 1: and then I come up with it, and then there's
Speaker 1: another cauldron that has personality questions, and so I just
Speaker 1: pulled names. It was literally now me pulling names, bringing
Speaker 1: people up. We'd ask them the questions. I throw it
Speaker 1: to the audience to sort them, and Dumbledore makes the
Speaker 1: final car which for him, yes, Pat did. One dude
Speaker 1: brought him a beer and Pat did not sort him
Speaker 1: into the house of his choice. And then so he
Speaker 1: came up to the stage and he did that, and
Speaker 1: then Pat sorted him into Hufflepuff, not very rude. And
Speaker 1: then I pulled the guy's name later, so he came
Speaker 1: back on stage and was like hey, and it was
Speaker 1: very tense, but he did get to go to Griffin
Speaker 1: Door eventually, which is good. What house do you think
Speaker 1: that you're in? Griffin Door? I feel very strongly about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe that either I've been told I would be
Speaker 1: a slyther end, but I feel like, and I think
Speaker 1: you can speak this, I feel like a vast majority
Speaker 1: of people self sort themselves into raven Claw. Yes, I
Speaker 1: think it's I think it's what a lot of people
Speaker 1: do when they're like, I want to say that I'm
Speaker 1: in a cool house and then I'm smart, But I
Speaker 1: don't want to be um as braggadocious as to say that.
Speaker 1: Just why Yes, so a lot of people say raven Claw.
Speaker 1: I think also like probably the crowd that we're hanging
Speaker 1: out with has like a like an intellectually liberal vibe,
Speaker 1: and they want they want to be like they want
Speaker 1: to be Raven Claws. What I always say about myself
Speaker 1: is I really feel like, depending on what phase of
Speaker 1: my life you talk about, like I would have been
Speaker 1: in different houses, like when I was a kid, when
Speaker 1: I was eleven years old, you have to put me
Speaker 1: in Griffin door for sure. In my early for sure
Speaker 1: Slytherin absolutely, late teens, early twenties, Slytherin down right now
Speaker 1: in my life, I feel like I'm a hufflepuff. But
Speaker 1: I will but I will die even Okay, So interesting
Speaker 1: that you're like, get allowing yourself the flux to change houses.
Speaker 1: Why are you a hufflepuff now? Right now? I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm a hufflepuff because I'm very less a fair
Speaker 1: about the whole thing. Like, no, I think it does,
Speaker 1: I think because I'm embracing the fun and trying to
Speaker 1: be like like kind and just really trying to be
Speaker 1: like like in this new phase of my life, like
Speaker 1: just trying to be like, hey, you know, let's enjoy life.
Speaker 1: Like I really don't feel like that lines up with
Speaker 1: any other house. And you know, we did this last
Speaker 1: week with Sam Taggart. We talked about sex in the
Speaker 1: City and we talked about the sex ladies and one
Speaker 1: of the reasons why I feel like I identify as
Speaker 1: it carries because I strongly feel disconnected from the other three. Yes,
Speaker 1: And I would say, like if you were to break them,
Speaker 1: all four of them down into traits, like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like a hufflepuff right now, which Henry, my boyfriend,
Speaker 1: gets mad when I call him a hufflepuff, but he
Speaker 1: is and it's not but so but solf a puff
Speaker 1: thing is like unafraid of toil, Like that is not
Speaker 1: not rob you think I'm afraid of toil cocktail. During Podokahon,
Speaker 1: the first girl who got sorted into huffle puffs said
Speaker 1: that she liked to watch Shameless, So we all decided
Speaker 1: that Shameless was another huffle puffless like like unafraid of
Speaker 1: to great friend shameless. Ye, but so like I don't know.
Speaker 1: I will think about huffle Puffs as like the people
Speaker 1: from my high school who went to u v A,
Speaker 1: Like they worked very hard and they got that is true. Well, listen,
Speaker 1: you Delawares, it's um you have to be brave to
Speaker 1: get through it. It's a huge school because I had
Speaker 1: seven of friends that went there, and it's a big
Speaker 1: it's a big little school because you know, like Delaware
Speaker 1: is a small state, so I feel like it's a
Speaker 1: it's a state school but for a small state. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of like I think it's like twelve thousand
Speaker 1: undergrads or something, so it's like size a ball. Right.
Speaker 1: It's that situation where I could throw out three names
Speaker 1: and like, of course you wouldn't know them, but there's
Speaker 1: that chance you would know one where Yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: huffle Puffs work very hard and they're generally likaball, but
Speaker 1: I'm not. I mean, I guess Cedric to you, it
Speaker 1: depends on what he looks. I think I would ghost
Speaker 1: Cedric before we move on. I think what at least
Speaker 1: I just want to point out something underlying, something at
Speaker 1: least mentioned, is that Harry Potter fans have a sense
Speaker 1: of humor because the books are funny. You would not
Speaker 1: be able to do the same thing with Lord of
Speaker 1: the Rings fans because we would take so serious. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very serious, and I think probably like Game of
Speaker 1: Thrones saying yeah a little bit, the Game of Thrones
Speaker 1: has some humor because of like Terrian and stuff. But
Speaker 1: are you sorry. I've read the books and I watched
Speaker 1: the show, but it's not the same, Like I'm not
Speaker 1: as into like I'm not like an encyclopedia for that stuff.
Speaker 1: But I think that Harry Potter has a very fun
Speaker 1: light heart and that like showed up in Potter Con,
Speaker 1: like everyone is there to have a really good time.
Speaker 1: People are drinking there, they have funny costumes, Like there
Speaker 1: were a lot of really really amazing costumes. There was
Speaker 1: just one Baltimore there who had like full prosthetics. It
Speaker 1: was crazy. But there was also like cute friends who
Speaker 1: came as Ron and Padma Patil and like like like
Speaker 1: it was two gals and one was wearing like the
Speaker 1: shitty frilly robes that Ron had online, and then the
Speaker 1: other one had like the like an orange sorry, and
Speaker 1: they like went on and just like they would walk
Speaker 1: around looking piste off at each other, and he was
Speaker 1: like like they like they would kind of hold hands
Speaker 1: and I'd be like, you know, what's your favorite book?
Speaker 1: Goblet of Fire. Absolutely think it when you look back
Speaker 1: on this series, like Goblet of Fire was the one
Speaker 1: I think because like of how it starts and how
Speaker 1: its like just the procession of like you know, you
Speaker 1: got the eule Ball, you got the tribe as a tournament,
Speaker 1: like then in the thick of their like adolescence, yes,
Speaker 1: and then it ends with the Dark Turn. And the
Speaker 1: books are never perfectly paced because the first three books
Speaker 1: I'll let up to some big event at the end,
Speaker 1: whereas Goblet of Fire had like three four based out
Speaker 1: it was like high energy events. It's stratas the Goblet
Speaker 1: of Fire is the book that lives in the two
Speaker 1: worlds that exist in Harry Potter, which are like the
Speaker 1: light frivolous like Tumbledore's password is Lemon Drops the world
Speaker 1: of like the first three and the upside Down and
Speaker 1: then the like like you need to confront Death, Harry
Speaker 1: the last like it lives in kind of both of
Speaker 1: those worlds. They're like silly, goofy things like the Rita
Speaker 1: Skeeter plotline, I think is like very there's so many
Speaker 1: fun subplots in Fire Rita Skeeter and then like Harry
Speaker 1: loving cho Cheng starts. Then that's when you get the
Speaker 1: first hint of Ron and Hermione realized, which is very
Speaker 1: fun and hot. Hermione, Hermione, I'll never hot Hermione was
Speaker 1: a moment in time. I will never have we talked
Speaker 1: about this on this podcast before, because I'm having deja
Speaker 1: vu right now about her about this um moment of
Speaker 1: So I will never forget a moment in my life
Speaker 1: that changed my life was when Um, I remember I
Speaker 1: was reading Goblet of Fire and I was sitting by
Speaker 1: by the pool and I was like reading it, and
Speaker 1: I remember it was the moment when they've grabbed Harry
Speaker 1: and have decided to grab the cup together and it's
Speaker 1: a port key and they get transported to the manner.
Speaker 1: And when Cedric was murdered by Baltimore, that absolutely I
Speaker 1: had to put the book down and I had to
Speaker 1: do several like laps around my yard. I was like,
Speaker 1: my life has changed because it had not happened to me.
Speaker 1: It had never happened. And also I think in my
Speaker 1: like short life at that time, like I had never
Speaker 1: like actually understood like kids die, like like I really
Speaker 1: like that was a choice. It also happened so fast.
Speaker 1: It happens in an instant. And like the line he
Speaker 1: was dead before he hit the ground, never forget the line,
Speaker 1: We'll never forget that the ghost of his last last
Speaker 1: still on his face when he died, the ghost of
Speaker 1: his last laugh still on his face. That really wow,
Speaker 1: my god. The seventh book too, is phenomenal. Seven. She
Speaker 1: could have sucked that up for real, and she like
Speaker 1: hit a home run. The Battle of Hogwarts is one
Speaker 1: of the coolest things. And then like Harry meeting Dumbledore
Speaker 1: at King's Cross and like that, so like the gross
Speaker 1: like fetal Baltimore just like dying. Also, I just feel
Speaker 1: like it's so rare as an artist like that you truly, like,
Speaker 1: especially at that level of commercial success for her, like
Speaker 1: where you truly nail something like she stuck the landing
Speaker 1: so hard, and so for her to be on her
Speaker 1: Twitter and say, gosh, I wish I hadn't put her
Speaker 1: money and ron together, so ridiculous, Like that's so ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Because also it's so much cooler that Harry and her
Speaker 1: min here are just good friends. It's absolutely way cooler,
Speaker 1: I think, Like I think that show having a strong
Speaker 1: platonic male female friendship at the heart of the story
Speaker 1: like is huge. I mean it's like, like you don't
Speaker 1: see that in books. It would have completely undercut all
Speaker 1: this stuff, Like it would have made her instead of
Speaker 1: her being her mine, it would have made her Harry's
Speaker 1: her Harry's girlfriend exactly. And she stands on her own
Speaker 1: more when she's with like yeah, and also just like yeah,
Speaker 1: just like you can't take her mine's power away from her.
Speaker 1: That does take away everything. And also if she had
Speaker 1: a regret, then come out and say that it's you
Speaker 1: put her money with anybody, like like I just hated that.
Speaker 1: I just thought it was so disrespectful. And I was like,
Speaker 1: because we all were with her, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 1: and then to hear how she would change other things
Speaker 1: about the books, Like I can't really relate any specifics
Speaker 1: right now, but just I don't want to hear how
Speaker 1: she would have rewritten that j K is a little
Speaker 1: too like eager to like, yeah, the keyboard, and I
Speaker 1: know I think she's a drift a little bit with
Speaker 1: what to do with this thing, and news flash, what
Speaker 1: she should do is write the Marauders prequel. That's exactly
Speaker 1: what I've been thinking since the third book. News Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just like, well, I think she doesn't want to
Speaker 1: do it because it's precisely the thing that everyone wants
Speaker 1: her to do. But it's all it's so there, it's
Speaker 1: all there. And I said that she on stage at
Speaker 1: Potter Con and it got like raucous applause, like people
Speaker 1: want it and it's like an irving Plausa gave you
Speaker 1: like a huge applause break that's crazy, Like just we
Speaker 1: need to know. I was like, we need to know
Speaker 1: how Lillian, how did Lily start liking James? We like
Speaker 1: don't really get the answers to that. And then the
Speaker 1: other thing is like serious is really hot and like
Speaker 1: I would love to explore that they were all hot.
Speaker 1: James Potter was hot and like a like a cute
Speaker 1: little way pedigree Now that was my one thing. I
Speaker 1: was like, why has pedigrew friends? I know? And it's
Speaker 1: also like when your friend turns into a rat, when
Speaker 1: the animal that expresses his heart is that he's a rat,
Speaker 1: It's like maybe we need red flag when his animogous
Speaker 1: as a rat red flag. Like their part of the
Speaker 1: seventh book was exploring the seventh exploring Snap and you're
Speaker 1: finding a total asshole. Yes, and it's like that like
Speaker 1: that James. It's so interesting because in the first books
Speaker 1: there's so much James adoration, Like Harry's focus is so
Speaker 1: much on James, and like knowing more about James, his father,
Speaker 1: and towards the end it really becomes so much more
Speaker 1: about Lily, and you like find out that Lily was
Speaker 1: like really the heart of everything and that like she
Speaker 1: was the one who was like good and kind she
Speaker 1: saved and that she saved him with her mother's laugh.
Speaker 1: Loved that that snape story from from the Princess Tail
Speaker 1: truly well done. And that's like for like for me,
Speaker 1: it's like I haven't finished this. I will finish it
Speaker 1: um in course the child. But the thing is like
Speaker 1: I don't need this, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: when she ended the last book with an always well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I actually didn't want to continue further in Harry's life.
Speaker 1: I would like to know back more, or I do
Speaker 1: think it's interesting that she's doing fantastic beasts. I'm interested
Speaker 1: to see what she's going to do. Have you guys
Speaker 1: read any of the like Potter More stuff about like
Speaker 1: the other wizarding schools and stuff in America. So there's
Speaker 1: the one in America, there's one in a Gilver Morney
Speaker 1: is the American one, and then the house names also
Speaker 1: said this at Potter Con was like a first draft.
Speaker 1: They're so bad, very bumpus, which is what I got.
Speaker 1: It's like some sort of large cat puckwagi, which is
Speaker 1: like a tiny humanoid figure, horned serpent, what the hellbird?
Speaker 1: Thunderbird and those are them? This is very bad. Every
Speaker 1: kid like names the ship that they draw. It's a
Speaker 1: cursed child, feels like it feels like fan fixure. I
Speaker 1: think that J. K. Rowling is also like a profoundly
Speaker 1: British woman, and if she's going to be writing about
Speaker 1: other people in other places, she needs some other hands
Speaker 1: on deck. Because so she was writing about the other schools.
Speaker 1: I think it's very cool. There are some problems. One
Speaker 1: Africa has one school and they don't and they don't
Speaker 1: use ones and they all learned to turn into animals.
Speaker 1: So South America also has one school. It's in Brazil.
Speaker 1: All of Asia has one school it's in Japan. So
Speaker 1: let's talk about how China has nowhere. First of all,
Speaker 1: the Japanese are not letting like Koreans and Chinese people
Speaker 1: come to their school. No, that Japan is not doing that,
Speaker 1: so like, but also Japan does have a cool backstory
Speaker 1: where like they get these robes at the start of
Speaker 1: their learning, and as they grow, the robes change color,
Speaker 1: like as they learn more about magic, and then if
Speaker 1: they if they like become a dark magic person, they're
Speaker 1: like a dark wizard, they turn white and it's like
Speaker 1: dishonor on your family, which is like, well cool to
Speaker 1: for you to bring in dishonor on your family. She
Speaker 1: just needs, so let's on pottermore. So, there are three
Speaker 1: schools in Europe dirm String, Bobaton, and Hogwarts, and then
Speaker 1: every other continent has one. Australia has none, and it's
Speaker 1: just a mess. And I'm like, girl, this is very cool,
Speaker 1: but like you need she already got in trouble for
Speaker 1: like the way she talked. She did a whole series
Speaker 1: on magic in North America and like wove in a
Speaker 1: lot of like Native American things and did it in
Speaker 1: a way that Native American people didn't like and I
Speaker 1: was like, you shouldn't have touched this, you should have
Speaker 1: gone here with this, which like, obviously she's going to
Speaker 1: write about magic and North America. It's good for her
Speaker 1: to include like Native American people, but maybe get some
Speaker 1: of those people on your team to help you, right,
Speaker 1: because I guess she like took this very like skin
Speaker 1: walkers are like a sacred like thing, and she was like,
Speaker 1: they're really just wizards and people were like, no, they're
Speaker 1: not really just wizards. I think she's an extraordinarily talented person.
Speaker 1: I think that there's a time to say goodbye. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like I think, you know, she is in a
Speaker 1: place right now, she's certainly enough financial place where she
Speaker 1: can afford to say goodbye. Yes, I really don't think
Speaker 1: it's that she needs money. I think she's a creative
Speaker 1: person who wants to create more. And I truly think
Speaker 1: like she thinks that she's contributing as she puts more
Speaker 1: and more in the world. And also I do think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of pressure on Earth from the industry
Speaker 1: to keep doing it, keep going. But the thing is
Speaker 1: like within what she's set up, like like I have
Speaker 1: no problem with fantastic beasts. I have no problem with that.
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of fun. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be cool that it's in the US and the twenties
Speaker 1: and stuff. I think that's really funny. Redman, it's awesome.
Speaker 1: I guess, like, don't funk up what you've already perfected,
Speaker 1: because that's what First Child feels. Yeah, And honestly, I like,
Speaker 1: there is an element and I'll just say on here,
Speaker 1: like spoiler alert, maybe turn the volume down from the
Speaker 1: next ten fifteen seconds. There's an element of time travel,
Speaker 1: and I feel like it's going to be very back
Speaker 1: to the future where it's going to sun up, and
Speaker 1: I'm not happy about it. It's very like it's very
Speaker 1: winky because now it's like your go back to all
Speaker 1: these moments that people Yeah, and yes, I mean it
Speaker 1: read's kind of like a fan fiction to be honest
Speaker 1: like that. It's like these characters but they're not exactly right,
Speaker 1: and they're like doing they're doing things that I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think. I don't. I just don't think that Curse
Speaker 1: Child is what people wanted. I don't think. Like, actually,
Speaker 1: I think the story of Harry was done at the
Speaker 1: end of the seventh book, and it kind of like
Speaker 1: ruins it to have like these people and things coming back,
Speaker 1: like you know, another potential spoiler or whatever. But there's
Speaker 1: Baltimore stuff in there, and I'm like, no, Baltimore's defeated.
Speaker 1: He killed the people, like he sacrificed himself and died
Speaker 1: and came back to fucking life and then like Nevill
Speaker 1: killed the snake and Baltimore it's done. And it's the
Speaker 1: same problem I have, really, And I did love The
Speaker 1: Force Awakens. I did like Star Wars a lot, but
Speaker 1: it's the same problem I have with that. It's like
Speaker 1: the Republic has risen. It's like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: How where did they come from? How honestly like answer
Speaker 1: the question, like where did they come from? Because they
Speaker 1: were wiped out and and what you know, I I
Speaker 1: understand there's conflict again, make it an entirely new conflict.
Speaker 1: That was my thing is. I was like, get a
Speaker 1: new dark Wizard here. Like my thing with this is
Speaker 1: towards the end. And this is just from synapsis because
Speaker 1: I don't really feel like I care about this book
Speaker 1: enough to read it or this play enough to read it.
Speaker 1: But there's some plot elements in the end that just
Speaker 1: feel very Daisex Mock and I eat like it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, there's this thing that we didn't
Speaker 1: of course address before, and which the books never did.
Speaker 1: The books were self contained and realized enough to have
Speaker 1: everything makes sense, and this just feels like it's pulling
Speaker 1: stuff out of its ass because it's trying to be
Speaker 1: too epic and and it's trying to cover so much
Speaker 1: ground time wise, you go through what four years in
Speaker 1: this It's it's pretty crazy. It's crazy, and there's so
Speaker 1: much of like characters coming up like um Like like
Speaker 1: one example is like a scene at the very very
Speaker 1: beginning where you meet Scorpius Malfoy and Rose Rose Granger
Speaker 1: Weasley is like, you're the boy who everyone thinks is
Speaker 1: Boltimore's real son. This is your backstory and life goodbye.
Speaker 1: It's just like I can't. I don't. Like it's very bad.
Speaker 1: It's not. All of the things that are great about
Speaker 1: Harry Potter, like the law, like the development of things, whatever,
Speaker 1: is like completely undercut in this thing. And also like
Speaker 1: she should have gotten that lady to do some of
Speaker 1: the illustrations. Something brought some of that back, yes, but
Speaker 1: I know, I just think I think expanding the world
Speaker 1: is cool. I think that if she wants, well, my
Speaker 1: my prediction is that so we're doing this magic in
Speaker 1: North America thing with Fantastic Beasts. But Fantastic Beast is
Speaker 1: kind of like it's obviously gonna be a franchise, and
Speaker 1: it's a perfect franchise to travel around the world. So
Speaker 1: I think she released the stuff about the other wizarding
Speaker 1: schools because Fantastic Beasts is gonna take It'll be a
Speaker 1: like around the World's definitely cool. I'd like to read
Speaker 1: an except of some bad writing from the girls in side.
Speaker 1: So this is a scene where um, all the all
Speaker 1: the adult characters arrived at Professor Minerva mcgonagall's head mistress
Speaker 1: of so Minerva McGonagall, who has now got to be
Speaker 1: three thousand years old, who's still living, is head mistress
Speaker 1: of Harry Potter, had mistress of Hogwarts. She's had mistress
Speaker 1: of Hogwarts, and she all of a sudden she's in
Speaker 1: her office and everyone arrives through Flo Plotter flo Powder
Speaker 1: through the chimney, and this exchange happens between Harry and
Speaker 1: Draco malfoy. Quite a surprise to see you, Draco. I
Speaker 1: thought you didn't believe in my dreams. Draco says, I don't,
Speaker 1: but I do trust your luck. Harry Potter is always
Speaker 1: where the action is at, and I need my son
Speaker 1: back with me, safe and safe and sound. Jenny says,
Speaker 1: Then let's go to the Forbidden Forest and find them both.
Speaker 1: And seen it's just like such middle school play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like very it's let's go here. It's so much
Speaker 1: of that. It's so much of that. And also there's
Speaker 1: like a weird element of like albics severus knowing like
Speaker 1: everything that's ever happened in Harry's life, as if he's
Speaker 1: read the books and it's like, you know, like I
Speaker 1: don't know about everything my parents have done, and they're
Speaker 1: like like like literally, he's like, well, the second task
Speaker 1: was the one where they went into the water and
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, and it's like, why the do you
Speaker 1: know that? Like who would know? Like why would you?
Speaker 1: Like I don't know about like what like my mom's
Speaker 1: cheer competitions or whenever, Like I don't know, Like he
Speaker 1: just knows everything about Harry's life, and like it's it's
Speaker 1: very black, and I feel like there's going to be
Speaker 1: a lot of people out there that are going to
Speaker 1: be here that there's criticism. Of course, the child, there's
Speaker 1: those people that it's like me, when I watched like
Speaker 1: season five and six have lost, I was like, no,
Speaker 1: it's still good. It wasn't And it's like, those people
Speaker 1: are going to be out there for this book. But
Speaker 1: here's what I would say to them. It's like we
Speaker 1: have earned the rights to criticize these books. I mean,
Speaker 1: because like I said, there's nothing better than the original,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like the original series, it's
Speaker 1: it was amazing, Like this does not feel right, and
Speaker 1: we're allowed to say that doesn't feel right. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: you can tell it's not purely her. She just she
Speaker 1: she just supervised the story and you can tell because
Speaker 1: the characters are all wrong and it just lacks the
Speaker 1: spark of the original. My hope is that we'll see
Speaker 1: some of that in um Fantastic Peace. I have really
Speaker 1: liked the previews of Fantastic I think it. I also
Speaker 1: think it's great that she herself wrote the screen. But
Speaker 1: and I didn't know that that was true. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that they would have Like Hollywood is
Speaker 1: so weird. I didn't know that they would have like
Speaker 1: trusted her a novelist to write a screenplay for it,
Speaker 1: but looks like they did. And that's exciting for me
Speaker 1: because I do think she's fantastic. Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be. I mean, I have really enjoyed, like all
Speaker 1: the little hints at it. I think that it's really
Speaker 1: fun um and I am excited to learn about American
Speaker 1: wizards and stuff like that. Like it takes place like
Speaker 1: there's that scene where it shows like the seal for
Speaker 1: the Magical Congress of the United States, which is right
Speaker 1: here in New York City under the Woolworth, So it's
Speaker 1: Colin Farrell, Eddie Redman, and then is the rest of
Speaker 1: it kind of just like yeah, yeah, new people. I
Speaker 1: think that part of it is that he's running around
Speaker 1: with a Muggle. He actually has a Muggle friend, which
Speaker 1: is one of the things that I did think was
Speaker 1: it was something that maybe could have been done in
Speaker 1: the original series, was have there be like one actual
Speaker 1: Muggle who was like a good person or that wasn't
Speaker 1: like a full idiot. Yeah, it wasn't just like the
Speaker 1: worst I mean, I get you can't do everything, but
Speaker 1: like the only ones were the durs leads, and it
Speaker 1: was just so bad, even if Dudley was like okay,
Speaker 1: kind of had like an epiphany at the end because
Speaker 1: when he because the dementor showed him himself as he
Speaker 1: truly was. Yeah, honestly, afterwards, like so are to wrap
Speaker 1: the Harry Potter conversation up. We do not necessarily endorse
Speaker 1: Harry Potter and the child. However, you know what, fans,
Speaker 1: go ahead and read it, and you know, make your
Speaker 1: own opinions, make your own there there are interesting revelations
Speaker 1: in it. Yeah, we're the biggest, of course being myrdle
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren, which of course, honestly I also have got
Speaker 1: have yet to get to the part where Belitrick's and
Speaker 1: Baltimore fuck. I mean to that, I don't see it.
Speaker 1: We don't see its staged. Unfortunately, don't tell if you're
Speaker 1: gonna you need to walk the walk, Honeie. Yes, honestly,
Speaker 1: give me an intimate two person play, which is Bellatrix
Speaker 1: and Baltimore, our producer Jelly shaking his head, yes wildly,
Speaker 1: and give me the fool for Love Helena, And give
Speaker 1: me a fool for love with Helena and Ray fines
Speaker 1: as Baltimore and Bellatricks strange and I give you my money,
Speaker 1: I love it, I give it twice over. We're at
Speaker 1: a segment in our show called I Don't Think So Honey.
Speaker 1: Now this is the touchsnowe of lost cultures. By the
Speaker 1: way I should, I should mention that we have, of
Speaker 1: course and rocking our cultures to have. Yeah, and we
Speaker 1: feel very much like like we are um cruising down
Speaker 1: the the the river that is culture. Yes, interesting beasts
Speaker 1: along the along the coast. Remember any seven of culture
Speaker 1: cruise down the river? Rule number seven of culture cruise down.
Speaker 1: You haven't come up with rules in a mile? We haven't.
Speaker 1: Well that's n So that's we'll make a note of
Speaker 1: that that we should remember. Our pattern will catalog it
Speaker 1: improv people. So I don't think soody. We're going to
Speaker 1: rail against something in culture just for one minute. You
Speaker 1: have one minute on the clock, release and you're gonna
Speaker 1: select something in the culture. It can be anything, and
Speaker 1: you have one minute to provide to make a case
Speaker 1: about why it sucks. And you need to say the
Speaker 1: words I don't think so honey, as much as you
Speaker 1: can to drive home the point, because you know what
Speaker 1: that's really what this is about, and just we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna lead by example, and you're gonna see how
Speaker 1: this is done. Matt. I've gone first every single episode,
Speaker 1: So how about you go first. You're thinking that I
Speaker 1: should go first because you already it sounds like you
Speaker 1: already have something. Okay, well, I had something really good
Speaker 1: and then the trolley witch. The trolley witch. But I
Speaker 1: feel like I've already railed against the trolley way. I'm
Speaker 1: not going first. I don't have anything, okay, all right, um,
Speaker 1: okay with that bitch ready? All right? Yes, I got one,
Speaker 1: and clock starts now. I don't think so, honey. Not
Speaker 1: enough trailers for Beauty and the Beast the movie. I
Speaker 1: have been waiting for too goddamn long to wait for
Speaker 1: a fucking trailer which is mostly voices off screen. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen any of the of the animal anamorphic objects
Speaker 1: around the house talking. I want to know how it's
Speaker 1: gonna look. I don't think so, honey. Me just hearing
Speaker 1: their voices, I don't think so, honey. One shot of
Speaker 1: gorgeous Emma Watson bending over to touch of Rose, I
Speaker 1: don't think so, honey. I want to hear Emma Watson sing,
Speaker 1: I want to say, if this is a musical, stop
Speaker 1: being afraid of the music. My problem with Hollywood trailers
Speaker 1: that are about musicals. You're afraid of the music. Into
Speaker 1: the Woods, you were afraid of the music. You confuse
Speaker 1: the viewing public. I don't think so, honey. It's a
Speaker 1: musical at Stan Sondheim. You disrespect Sondheim. I don't think
Speaker 1: so honey. You have to have a trailer pact of music,
Speaker 1: beauty and the beast iconic musical. Don't be afraid of
Speaker 1: the music. Don't be afraid to show me imagery, glory, glamour.
Speaker 1: I want to see Emma Watson had to tell in
Speaker 1: a yellow gown. I don't think, so, honey, anything less.
Speaker 1: If you don't give me trailer, I don't give you life.
Speaker 1: I don't think so one minute. I'm sorry, but that
Speaker 1: was my best. If you don't give me a trulier,
Speaker 1: you don't give me life. I just feel like it's
Speaker 1: coming out in March two seventeen, and like it's like
Speaker 1: we've got nothing. We've got really close to nothing. We've
Speaker 1: got table scraps, and I want more. Yes, I agree
Speaker 1: with me. I am ready for Emma Watson's next phase.
Speaker 1: I really am. I'm a huge fan. I think she's
Speaker 1: fucking brilliant. Yes, we got a trailer. I know exactly
Speaker 1: what we're talking aboutause you mean studio and go see
Speaker 1: Bad Moms. Last week they played a trulier. We got
Speaker 1: so excited and then it was a fucking cop out.
Speaker 1: Didn't see a face. Everything was was disembodied her face
Speaker 1: for a second. Emma Watson's last movie in the UK
Speaker 1: made only sixty nine. What it's not her fault. It's
Speaker 1: not her fault. It's not her fault. But it did
Speaker 1: make sixty Oh my god, that's perfect. Well I will
Speaker 1: say this, sixty nine what does that mean? Like six
Speaker 1: people saw it, like it's like very a very few,
Speaker 1: like the gross and it's only like that's only like
Speaker 1: forty euro. It's crazy, it's a thousand years. So I
Speaker 1: just like my thing is like we're watching that trailer
Speaker 1: and I was so excited because I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, it's Beauty and the Beast because but I
Speaker 1: hadn't seen it on like the big screen. And it's
Speaker 1: when she bends down to touch the roles and you
Speaker 1: see her like a beautiful face and you're just like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, she's Bell. Now she was her mind like,
Speaker 1: now she's Bell. Literally I started a plotting I was
Speaker 1: that person in the movie. Didn't you want more, honey?
Speaker 1: But I need more? And honestly I waited too long.
Speaker 1: I love Beauty and the Beast. I love Beauty and
Speaker 1: the Beast. I think my favorite is Little Mermaid. Also
Speaker 1: need the live actually Little Mermaid. I don't know how
Speaker 1: they'll do it, but like needed, I love, love, love,
Speaker 1: Beauty and the Beast. Um, don't worry, You're gonna get
Speaker 1: more come November when Moana comes out, that new Disney movie.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get a full trailer. But I'm sure. I'm sure.
Speaker 1: Also would of a live action Mulan would love Aladdin action.
Speaker 1: Also would love for them to revisit Pocohonas and maybe
Speaker 1: do it right and get a live action Pokehonas because
Speaker 1: I think that there's there's elements of Pocahonas that are incredible. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's historical interpretation is and I would love for them
Speaker 1: to do like a more adult, stark, kind of realistic
Speaker 1: portrayal of what what the life of Pocahonas was with
Speaker 1: that kind of you know, romantic type of um cinematic feel.
Speaker 1: I would love to see what that is. I think
Speaker 1: it could be amazing. I love it, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm down for the live action Disney stuff. I'm so
Speaker 1: down great. Also, I love musicals. I love musicals. That's mine. Okay, um,
Speaker 1: I guess I'll go and then okay, So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put one minute on the clock for don't think so honey,
Speaker 1: and one minute o'clock ago. I don't think so honey.
Speaker 1: American wait staff who make a huge fucking deal out
Speaker 1: of splitting the check. I was just in Montreal this weekend.
Speaker 1: Every single wait person was happy, more than eager to
Speaker 1: split the check for us and split dishes for people
Speaker 1: who shared and people who split. I don't think so honey.
Speaker 1: Waiters who just who are complacent, who are lazy, who
Speaker 1: don't want to put an effort to please and satisfy
Speaker 1: their customers. Bitch. I don't think so honey. American service
Speaker 1: industry for encouraging this and propagating this in the culture
Speaker 1: of American service. I don't think so honey. Customers who
Speaker 1: feel bad about and don't feel empowered to demand this
Speaker 1: from their weight staff. Um, I don't think so honey,
Speaker 1: rude weight staff and slow wait staff, so this is
Speaker 1: this is equal opportunity. I don't think so honey. Canadian
Speaker 1: wait people very slow because you know what, they're too
Speaker 1: laid back and they're too nice, and you know, nothing's
Speaker 1: a rushed. So I don't think so honey, wait staff
Speaker 1: Canadian and American American. I can't speak to Mexican wait staff.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're lovely. Maybe they balance it out for symmetry,
Speaker 1: who knows, But I don't think so honey. Wait people
Speaker 1: across North America. Bitch, that's one minute that's ever waited
Speaker 1: at a table in your life. But shut the funk
Speaker 1: up right now. I don't think so honey, that I
Speaker 1: am not in the I'm not. That's not my job.
Speaker 1: I've been. I know. My first job was at Maggie
Speaker 1: Moves at an ice cream shop. It was a really
Speaker 1: it was like the poor Man's Cold Stone. Um, but
Speaker 1: I did my job fantastically. I'm just saying I if
Speaker 1: it depends on how many cards you split it from,
Speaker 1: I'm a server. And if if a party of eight
Speaker 1: is like, hey can you split this eight ways? Sorry, girl,
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to make this a personal you attacked
Speaker 1: me personally. To listen, we were dining out six people
Speaker 1: every night and we didn't even bring it up the way.
Speaker 1: People would just be like, should I split this? And
Speaker 1: we were like, if it's not, if it's not a
Speaker 1: big deal, and they were like, no, not at all.
Speaker 1: I'm happy. I think it truly depends on the establishment,
Speaker 1: but all of these establishments throughout Montreal were just more
Speaker 1: than eager to do it. Matt, I think we have
Speaker 1: a lot to learn from the Canadians. I've absolutely that's true.
Speaker 1: I can say this. I also think, you know, you
Speaker 1: need to cut people some some slack. I think that
Speaker 1: you really aggressive. I think that Bowen Yang is a villain,
Speaker 1: and Bowen Yang is a restaurant villain, which you cannot
Speaker 1: turn this around on me. That was my I don't
Speaker 1: think so, honey. You do not undercut my I don't
Speaker 1: think so, honey, at least. Are you ready? I'm ready,
Speaker 1: I'm ready. I'm gonna do. I'm doing a Harry Potter
Speaker 1: because I do. I do have something to say. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm going to say and I can tell it's good
Speaker 1: because she's been sitting quietly and I can tell she's
Speaker 1: and she's ready to right now woman, and and go okay,
Speaker 1: I don't think so, honey, that sucking Potter more waits
Speaker 1: Hufflepuff more than other houses to put people into Hufflepuff
Speaker 1: because j K did not do the work of making
Speaker 1: Hufflepuff cool. And it's like, I don't think so, honey,
Speaker 1: because listen, if you wanted there to be any cool
Speaker 1: redeeming people from Hufflepuff, that was on you to put
Speaker 1: it in the book. You made one person from there
Speaker 1: who was hot, yes, but boring, and he died. So
Speaker 1: it's like, I don't think so, honey. I've been buying
Speaker 1: Griffin door Ship for years. To have some fucking quiz
Speaker 1: online tell me that I'm in Huffabuff because it's waited
Speaker 1: some kind of way is ridiculous. Also, the sorting hat
Speaker 1: takes your choice into consideration. I know this, So I
Speaker 1: don't fucking think so, honey. I would tell that hat
Speaker 1: I'm transferring darts strength, I would try. I would transfer schools.
Speaker 1: There are other schools that I can go to. I
Speaker 1: should be able to click no no no, no no
Speaker 1: no no before my choice if the website is going
Speaker 1: to be accurate. So I don't think so, honey, I'm
Speaker 1: not in Hulff, I never would be in hubbleb of
Speaker 1: Goodbye Why that was incredible. Honestly, we also now know
Speaker 1: how at least really feels about the Badger. I trust me,
Speaker 1: I know there's so much wrong. There's so much wrong.
Speaker 1: There's so much wrong, Like why why why make the
Speaker 1: fourth one? I mean you could even call it the
Speaker 1: fourth one? Why make up so much worse or less opion?
Speaker 1: I mean he could have had one friend from that house.
Speaker 1: That was cool because like Luna held it for raven
Speaker 1: Claw and yes, also cho Cho, you know, she had
Speaker 1: her good in her bad. But like Harry wasn't friends
Speaker 1: with Cedric degree. He was like a character, but he
Speaker 1: was kind of like you kind of like didn't like
Speaker 1: him that much. In the same book, well, here's yeah,
Speaker 1: he was mentioned throughout. He was mentioned because he played
Speaker 1: Quittits right here, right, So I feel like he was
Speaker 1: mentioned throughout and like sure, for sure, but then like
Speaker 1: he was developed in this way that was like, oh,
Speaker 1: but he was cool the whole time, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you're just throwing huff bone where you could have done
Speaker 1: this the whole time. You really meet him in the
Speaker 1: third book, Harry falls off his broom with the demandors
Speaker 1: in a game against huff Cedric catches the snitch of
Speaker 1: that because of that. Also, there are members of Griffin
Speaker 1: Or who belong on Hufflepuff. And I will say his name.
Speaker 1: I'll say first and last names. Colin Creevy. Yes, what's
Speaker 1: going on with the Hufflepuff? All the do doc day
Speaker 1: he did fight in the Battle of Hogwarts and die. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: maybe he was retroactively brave. What m and Dean? I
Speaker 1: feel like Dean Thomas Thomas Belonga's huffle Puff pitch. I
Speaker 1: mean the other one, the one who the lavender Avander brown.
Speaker 1: Name one other huffle Puff besides, I can't think of
Speaker 1: one there. Hannah Abbott marries Neville in the end, apparently
Speaker 1: she becomes the Neville. Honestly Hufflepuff until that, but until
Speaker 1: the end, But at the end you find out, well, no,
Speaker 1: because in the first one he stands up to them
Speaker 1: and shows that he's brave, and then he helps Harry
Speaker 1: with the task, he gets him the gilly weed and um,
Speaker 1: and then in the end he kills the snake with
Speaker 1: the sword of Griffin Door which he couldn't fut that
Speaker 1: all the whole time he had been like a punk gass.
Speaker 1: What was I gonna say? Um, he wears an amazing
Speaker 1: m hooded sweater in the last movie and also never
Speaker 1: got so crazy how hot he got, and then like
Speaker 1: they put him in this really nice hoodie and you
Speaker 1: you can see that it's a hoodie when he runs
Speaker 1: away from the Dementurs and from the death theaters, and
Speaker 1: I remember being like, no, they all sort of wear
Speaker 1: hoodies when they got older. Huffle Puffs, like Professor Representative
Speaker 1: was who Sprout just even not even you could have
Speaker 1: made maybe the huffle of Future be cool. There is Tonks.
Speaker 1: It was in Hufflepuff, but you don't associate her with
Speaker 1: the house because you don't see her at Hogwarts. Who
Speaker 1: was raven of house Flitwick Flitwick. Okay, somebody told me
Speaker 1: it was Trelawney recently, and I was head of house
Speaker 1: for Hufflepuff. I guess that would have made sense. It
Speaker 1: would have been cooler than Sprout. Also, they keep mentioning
Speaker 1: simple Trelawney and Harry Potter and their curson child, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, like, that's not the character we want, like
Speaker 1: called back, no no, But that was one of the
Speaker 1: funniest characters that was ever in the books. I mean
Speaker 1: I also loved the fact that her Mine hated her.
Speaker 1: It was like she was dropped. Yeah, that she was
Speaker 1: such like a like cook. She was like so crazing,
Speaker 1: was having none of that. Now she was like this
Speaker 1: is fake. And then they say in the book, I'll
Speaker 1: throw her Harry Potter a crystal child one bone, and
Speaker 1: it's like, well, you know, her Mine Granger hates divination,
Speaker 1: like the world over knows that her mind denounced divination
Speaker 1: and in her like Room of Banished Books is like
Speaker 1: Sibyl Trelawny's book, which I kind of love was yeah,
Speaker 1: Sibil Trelanne and Red Skeeter, where the two characters when
Speaker 1: I was like, you guys are stirring it up. You
Speaker 1: finna mix it up up with the Rids Skeeter, But
Speaker 1: I do love Rita. Skeeter is one of the best
Speaker 1: comical comical. The first scene where she's introduced in the books,
Speaker 1: it's like a sketch. It's like it's so well written
Speaker 1: in kind and she has the quick quotes quill and
Speaker 1: she keeps saying he still It's so funny. The books
Speaker 1: really are from and also who played her in the
Speaker 1: movie oh whoever it was, she was perfect before Should
Speaker 1: we just shout out before we go? Like the best
Speaker 1: movie performances, because I feel like Rita's theater. Alan Rickman
Speaker 1: obviously till as Old as Times Lace. Also here's a
Speaker 1: here's a little culture plug. Check out Emelda Staunton performing
Speaker 1: as Rose in Gypsy on the West. Her performance of
Speaker 1: Rose's turn is like one of oh my god, I
Speaker 1: had no idea. She sings to she's amazing and it's
Speaker 1: so different than the way Patty do it, but it's
Speaker 1: really good. Like it's acting first, she's an amazing singer.
Speaker 1: She's incredible on the part. Luna love good also amazing.
Speaker 1: I forget her. It's like Amelia or something I can't remember.
Speaker 1: I forget. And she was not an actress. She was
Speaker 1: just a fan of the books who went in and
Speaker 1: love it. He locked it down. I also, I'm you
Speaker 1: have Emma Thompsons and also maybe the best performance in
Speaker 1: the whole series, I would say, yeah, personifying the role
Speaker 1: exactly how no, I would say Helena giving quintessential Helena
Speaker 1: in an amazing part for her just like killing it
Speaker 1: and also finding out she was not the first choice
Speaker 1: for the part. The woman that plays in Narcissa malfoy
Speaker 1: was the first choice for that part and she got
Speaker 1: pregnant couldn't do it, and Helena Bottom Carter was like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm available, and they were like, oh, that's okay, that's
Speaker 1: the perfect shore Maggie Smith. But like, just like Maggie Smith,
Speaker 1: one of the actors that's like so good that you
Speaker 1: forget that they're acting, because then you see her on
Speaker 1: Downtown and you're like, oh my god, it's so good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's incredible, incredible. Well, hey, this has been a fantastic,
Speaker 1: magical episode of like, I'm so happy we were to
Speaker 1: have this out. I'm so happy that we're all on
Speaker 1: the same page about that. I do encourage you to
Speaker 1: read a Bowen Child. And also, you know, to everyone
Speaker 1: out there saying like you know, well, I'm sure the
Speaker 1: effects are amazing to see on stage, Like that's not
Speaker 1: what theater is. I'm sorry, but that's not that's not
Speaker 1: what theater is. Theater is moments. Theater is giving you life.
Speaker 1: Theater is giving you energy. Theater is giving you conflictator
Speaker 1: is giving you drama. Theater is not giving you lights
Speaker 1: and sounds. And with that, I say goodbye at least,
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