"Harry Potter" (w/ Alise Morales)

guest for this topic. She's heard her spot here. She's truly clawed her way saying no, no, no, I'm just saying I'm saying, I'm saying there's no one that compares like this person has been the Harry Potter trenches. Yes, and you know what, she was one of the hosts of Potter Con just this weekend during the sorting series,

during the story a ceremony, which is that's amazing. That's what you get to oversee everyone's future begin that's the headlining app absolutely, I mean other credits, the headlining actors. Everyone waits for the sortings. She's like when you go to Harry Potter World Wasiting World. That's my one qualm with Universal Studios Wasiting World. Just you don't get there's no imitation sort you just choose of your own self image. What house here in which you go into a goddamn

shop and buy whatever scarf? Right? And then there is there is like the wand like the olive Ander's like wand ceremony. But it's bullshit. We're going to get into all of it. Okay, Well, let's go through the credit. Let's go through. Yes, she hosts one of my favorite podcasts, Important Ship that Doesn't Matter with Our with my friend our friend Ian Adams. Yes, don't don't say, don't say my friend friends. Yeah, girl, Okay. She's the host of cool show not Lame with my friend our friend Pat Wise.

You know what, he's both my friends, He's mostly friendt you sud be Lloyd Knight, be Lloyd Knight. She hosts a storytelling a show with Katie with Ashcraft. My friend, your friend, our friend, our friend are truly our joint friend but also again primarily Elisa's friend, primarily Lisa's friend, absolutely love and also one of my favorite shows I think I've ever done in New York City. Is um the roast of a fifteen year old Yes, which has been at the annoyance. It's been a legion bar right,

So it's been all over and we're so excited. It's at least so excited. I was like, should I not talk? Should I talk? Which you know, I just don't want to. I don't want to ruin the magic. Not everyone has podcast etiquette, but you know who's been around the podcast block is at least her own. So now we know next time, if you were trying to go on Elsa's podcast and talk to her in the intro, you shut your mouth magic. Yeah, when I was on, because our

intro is very short. Our intro is very short. Right, how did you guys start to start the important that doesn't matter podcast? So Ian good friends, all our friend, every friend, honestly friend to all Ian Adams moved into my basement and he was like super nice. We started hitting it off. He was just like a Craigslist dreammate and then yeah, he was just a Craigslist just some dude from Georgia. He was coming up and he moved in and then he was like, hey, by the way,

I have like all of this podcasting equipment. If you ever want to start a podcast, And I'd have this idea that I wanted to do a podcast called Important Ship that Doesn't Matter where, like we talked about just like the Internet and life online, because I feel like it's this thing that people like always dismiss as silly, but also like we're all living our lives there and we're all like making actually extremely important moves on there all the time. Um, So we started it, and that

was that is that I had. My little sister sent me a voice memo of her singing the intro and then the song. Yes, I think I know all the words. I won't attempt to sing it right now. I would attempt to sing it the Internet to place for friends, friend men almost friends, for people that you want to and people you already fuck. So we're here, make the most of all the bits then jokes and laughter. It's

Important Ship that Doesn't Matter, hosted by Alice. You should check it out and also Bone and I have both been on it. And did you did you? Did you get a little saucy and political in yours? Because I got a little saucy. I got saucy and political in money mine is well, you had a question come in.

But someone tweeted to the podcast that they wanted us to talk about the gay internet, the Twitter specifically, which I feel like I'm not totally entrenched in in the way that this, uh this this question poser might have thought I was. But it was a very interesting episode. What did he think the gay Twitter was? Like? Just he didn't really specify. He just wanted us to tell him what it was. I'll tell you what the gay Internet is. That's gay porn. Like, that's what that is.

We can talk about that. All the everything centers around beautiful men. That's all it is. Did you guys see um the flag bearer from Tonga? So he's my cover photo now, so I'm sure everyone has seen. I mean, also, whatever was going on last night with the divers, I mean really it was just us screaming at the screen like Mama, Matt Suit and I were just foaming at the mountain. It's a lot, it's a lot. But Tonga really put themselves on the map in an enormous way.

They were like, we have our country has a lot to offer. We're going to oil this guy up. We have the most oil. We have a lot of oil to spare. Citizens. It's power and oil. No, that's what a statement. Honestly incredible. Also, like when Giselle stomped the runway, Yes, she stomped the runway all the way across that big gas field. They were I wonder if they were just like, okay, we have like a full three and a half minutes with something, let's get Giselle. Um well, you know, I yes,

had something vaguely Brazilian. It was so stupid. Also, I had heard a rumor that this was like it was early in the plants and apparently it was mixed, but that she was gonna walk or the runway and at the end she was going to get mugged. What this is? What this is? Something that I heard was that she was going to get mugged at the end of the runway and like a staged mugging so that they could they could like shine a light on the fact that

there's how much crime in Brazil? What now? And this is so this is this makes me feel like it must have been partially true at some point because she like this, can't someone didn't. Someone didn't just make up that Giselle was going to walk the runway like she did, and they said, like they wanted to in the opening ceremony showed the good and the bad of Rio of Brazil. They wanted to show all it and all of it. They mixed it after like the bad just took over,

like the entire press psycho Olympics to that. I don't know, but that's what That's what they were saying. And I was like, there, there's no way that can happen. And then of course it didn't. But apparently it was supposed to be like this, like she would get mugged and they would chase the mugger around the stadium and it would become like that. Okay, I'm actually I'm on board now. It's like she gets like mugged. Oh no, like imagine Giselle was acting in that moment. I honestly I wish

I wish they had done it. I loved little Samba boy. Yes, he was incredible, bomba boy. I would love to see him come back. And he was doing like Capua who's doing all of that. He's very talented. Speaking of a talented little boy, that was so Guys, we are here today to talk about Harry Potter and the reason and there's been you know, all of a sudden, all this activity around Harry Potter, and money needs the money, so

it's all begun. Like I feel like this Harry Potter renaissance that's happened is you know, the books ended, and then we had our theme parks and it was an international phenomenon, and more and Potter and more the website, and now we have Harry Potter also in universal studios in Hollywood, there's one in Japan. It's like now, now I think younger and younger kids are getting really exposed to the brand of Harry Potter, and therefore there is

this demand for new content. And so we have Harry Potter and The Curse of Child, which we all have some up opinion. Yes, but before we get into those, let's just do with the least what we normally do with our guests. Okay, but but let's relate this back to Harry Potter. We always ask our guests what culture has shaped them, but this might be a great opportunity to talk about how Harry Potter shaped each of us. Yes,

so at least, like what what? So we first of all, one of the touchstones of um roast fifteen year old self are the old pictures of Elise. Yes, my space presence back in the day. So talk about how Elise became a lease, which is the perfect way I love to phrase that question. Okay, fantastic. So uh as far as like, I'll talk about my Harry Potter development and my myspaces their abreast of me. They are they are

so right. Around the same time that I was like learning code to make my MySpace, I coded my MySpace. So it all started with my very first love. I'll say his full name, Brian Chum. That sounds like a really hot d was, you know what. He was like a little bit nerdy. We went to hot topic together. I bought him a studded belt and he really blossomed between the two of you. Okay, okay, So he knew code, he could do computer stuff, and so he taught me

a little bit. And then I kind of learned how to, like, you know, those websites that would make you like a

template for your mind space. I learned how to go in and like further adjust those like I couldn't bear write it, but I knew what to look for to like change things, so I would make myself these like I remember the my space page that I loved the most had a very very thick black border, so the actual screen was very small and yes I remember, and it had a little black and white robot in the corner that moved with the page, and the bio said if you want to know me, fucking know me, and

then down you got to grab their attention. And I overrode the top eight and I had a top three that was represented by three game on and you could click on one of that that I thought represented the friend that it would click through to their my space. So I like made it more bitchy, more exclusive, more codified.

I love it. So during that same time, I was also getting very into Harry Potter fan fiction, which like I was always a big fan of, like the Harry Potter fans sites muggle Net there was one I think there was Leaky Cauldron, remember Leaky Cauldron as well, And there might have been one called like Key or something, but it wasn't as good muggle Net. There should have been one, Yeah, yeah, so I think so, I think

there was. But either way, like I started with those and then I started to get into the world of fan fiction and um primarily on fan fiction dot net. That was my main were you also, I was so fan fiction done. It had a sister site called oh Gosh, I forgot it was, but where it was it was like the home for like original stories, and I wrote I tried my hand at writing some horrifically intolerable stories about I was inspired by the movie Alfie the remake

with Jude law God. I wrote a whole story about this British womanizer who worked at a new station. And you got to flip the gender. You're ahead of your time, yeah, yeah, no, no, no, well he was mail he was, I know. Yeah, and you wrote about a British one oh womanizer woman, sorry, a male womanizer. But anyway, fan fictions not now, yes, so I and I also wrote original stories on fiction press.

That's what. Yeah, thank you, so fiction press. I wrote original stories, but fan fiction was where I really shown I had a real knack for taking the Harry Potter characters and putting them in new scenarios, mainly with myself. And and was it romantic? Was it saucy? So it was? So it was romantic but not sexy in fan fiction term, So if you guys want a little terminology, sex scenes

are called lemons. And I did not write any lemons because like you like like when you So I didn't write any lemons because I was writing all of this fan fiction exclusively on my home computer, and I was that my dad would be like, you know that my dad would want fine and then read. So it wasn't that you didn't have the ur I read a lot of lemons and I would be like, but I couldn't. I couldn't bring myself to write them. Also, it's like, right,

what you know? And I wasn't really having a lot of sex at that time, so you couldn't really delve into that. My primary fan fiction time was when Order of the Phoenix had already came out, but we were waiting for Half Blood prints, okay, And during that time I wrote a very extensive thirty nine chapter, six d and fifty word fan fiction. Oh my god, you wrote a book that essentially that was literally just the fifth book. I would go. I would sit in my parents computer

and go chapter for chapter everything that happened. But it was as if I you chose the longest book. That's so funny. So basically you had there's a version of Harry Potter and the Order with you. It's you. So it's Harry run to Addie and al right, so I have a question, what was Eddie good at? Like everything? Oh? Everything?

That was a maazing complaint when people would so I got a lot of good reviews, but when people would flame me, they would always say they would be like, you're this character is a very sue and like fuck you, and I would be like calling fourteen s characters a Mary. Yes would mean she's like too perfect. That's just how I would be if I got to go, you're saying you hate me? So did you graduate in high school? And yes, okay, so you were this You're the same

age as us. I feel that that year, especially legit grew up with Harry Potter because Sorcerer Stone I was eleven, Yes exactly. I think that like our age group, it just like timed out really well. Like I read Sorcerer's Stone at eleven, and then I think two and three were already out. Four or four we were maybe a little bit younger than him. But by five, by the time five can't come out, we had caught up with No and then deathitely House came out right the summer

of our junior going to graduate. I remember always being like right there with the characters and we're the same age as Rupert and Emma, and yeah they're actually that was huge, So and that being my personal problem with Harry Potter and the Curse of Child, I think, outside of the fact that I don't think it's written very well, is like all of a sudden, they're like fifty years old. And also I really feel like they're watered down, boring,

one dimensional versions of themselves. I feel my biggest issue with Cursed Child I've been saying cursed, not cursed. I don't know if that's correct. It's definitely all of us trying to be a little British. It's like, never in your life and you ever said cursed until Harry Potter and the Curse Said Child. Um did you, guys, how

how was your first pronunciation of her mind? Because I said hermione until she has Victor crust larn how to say it in the fourth book, which I think was in there because they were like, none of the Americans know what this time. I think that might have been true because I remember when they when that moment came in the books, because I I knew it was hermione because my fourth grade teacher that read us the book

in class was pronouncing it like her. Shout out to Mr mcgar who always did the Hagard voice and no other voices. He always did a Haggard voice, which ended up being the literal Hagard voice, Like he nailed this voice and he didn't know he attempted to no other characteristic. That was his showcase. And he went on to get signed by w M A Wow and so her so basically Um. Once I found out that it was her my own name, I was like, how could there be

that many syllables in this name? Like I don't accept it. There was a girl, I mean, I remember that there's this girl named Arianna Um. Her name was actually Ariana Grante, which is very close well you know who she was in my in my fourth grade class, and she was listening to the books on tape and she told me that it was hermione and I just missed her out of hands times like that's absurd. Speaking speaking of the audiobook and pronunciations, so originally and Jake Rolling abides by this,

it's pronounced voldemore silent tea. And then the guy who read the audio books pronounced at Baltimore up until the fifth book, after the movies had come out, and after the characters in the movie pronounced to Voldemore, he had to correct his own pronunciation. And yeah, I never said Baltimore and absolutely always said Valdemore. I don't understand Baltimore. I don't. I don't get like this is supposed to

be friends. It supposed to be. It's another problem that I have with Cursed Child is that they like, we have to I don't know if we have to go in the plot, but the point where they're traveling and they're in the Baltimore world, everyone's saying his name, and I'm like, they wouldn't be saying his name, they would all be saying the Dark Lord. Yes, there is a lot, There is a lot a lot drops. Also, the book implies that Harry went to godrix Hollow once with Petunity,

but that's not true. Harry had never heard of Godrick's Hollow until that until the seventh book, until that book came out. Yeah, I think it's just very obvious, like there's a lot missing. Not only is there a lot of logic drops, but also the humor is totally missing. The humor of the books, And Henry brought this up because Henry Kopersky, my boyfriend, read this prior and I'm about halfway through. Yeah, but Henry has has read it

and absolutely hated it, and he's a huge fan. And his biggest problem is just like for sheer enjoyment value, like humor is gone. Yeah, it's just not fun. Trying very very hard. They're very they're trying really hard to have Scorpius may play the Ron role, but he has none of Ron's charm. It's just not there. And I think it's because the characters are too fast and you can tell whatever spark she hasn't. I think the strongest part of Harry Potter the characters. It's like the best

most fun part. You get to know them. All of them seem off, none of them seem correct, encouraged child and like they're part to the plot that I think are fun. But it's like hyper accelerated and the characters are all wrong, like Ron's like Ron's like like the joke shop guy now which I know he runs Wee is Like I know that. That's like Cannons personality is so different. Yeah, and her Miane, she's boring, She's boring, she's nothing, She's spoiler alert, she's the Minister of Magic,

very cool. But the thing is her character is gone. There is a way, there has to be a way to make what's so fun and funny and interesting and amazing about her Miami and like age that to where she is now. But there's no humor in her character. All the scenes but that I've read so far between her Moami and Harry are so painted, and Harry is just like, I don't know, like it's And of course Jenny's whole role in the book is what's happening, Dad,

what's going on? You need to be a better father, Harry? Like my, I'm just I'm just a mom now, like I'm the wife and like so another thing is that Alvis severas Carrie's son, who shouldn't have named that? Talking about the names for one second, horrible horrible very literally bad, very very bad, Scorpius, terrible, Rose, Selfie, Delfie, and Rose and Hugo are very Hugo is not even in it, but Hugoes their other child. He goes a solid name.

I would have rather followed a Hugo. Absolutely love the name. Who whoo, who goes Hugo for this. I love Hugo. Why the fund is her name Rose? Yeah, it's very's so stupid, and then it's eighty years old. Her name is what Rose Granger Weasley Rose Granger Weasley, which I do think it's bad as she's like, I'm a Granger Weasley and I'm like, yes you are, Yes I do. I do love that. So Alvis ever goes into Slytherin.

That's the big thing. But they never show anything throughout the rest of the book to show why he's in Slitherin like they have, but like it would be cool to see that he's like ambitious or whatever it is, like maybe he like they tried it that he's like brooding, he's like sad. But Slytherins thing is that they're ambitious, So show him being ambitious. And that's why it doesn't make any sense because all he is in this thing is kind of exactly the same as Harry. He's super brave.

Like it just doesn't make any totally. I feel like that's probably a device just to get him in Scorpius time. Yeah exactly, but it's like you have such a cool opportunity to have him kind of maybe struggle with being a shittier person being a Slytherin. You know, like the end of the day, why is he in Slytherin? Because they needed him to be in Slytherin for the book. They did no work in the early pages of the text,

which you absolute really can accomplish. You show one tiny thing about his character, and then later on we believe that he's in Slytherin. Always see is him being nervous and terrified that he's gonna be put in Slytherin, and then he gets put in Slytherin, And honestly, it just

depresses me the whole thing. And I'm at the point in the book now where I don't really want to give too many schoolers, but they're about to do something that is going to alter the course of a lot and I know it's going to ruin a lot of things. Have you spread the scene with the trolley Witch? Yeah, okay,

I have so many problems. I actually I'm gonna I'm gonna get I'm gonna get to the trolley Witch later, but spoil it from because I read the whole synopsis and I was like, what, Yeah, so we have a we have a segment later in the show called I don't Think so, honey, and I don't think so honey. My my mind is going to be focused on can we talk about the trolley Witch? Now you can talk about it. So basically, you know the trolley witch who walks down the paste these day, iconic do you want?

That's it? That's that's literally all she does in the books iconic great So in Harry Potter and the Curse of True iconic truly, I'm no neither I Harry Potter and the Curse of Child they there's a scene where they try to get off the train. So Albus and Scorpius who's Scorpius, now, boy, he's the son of Drake has a crush on Rose Granger, because of course it's got to be that. They're trying to the train and meet with the Diggeries. No, they're trying. Yeah, So they're

trying to leave the train. All of a sudden, the trolley Witch is on top of the train. She's on top of the train. She's like, what's going on? And they're like what the fuck, Like, what are you doing? So she's like her hands turned into spikes and she screams a bellow scream, and says, no one leaves this train. You find out that the trolley Witch is not really

a person. She's more of like an entity and part of the train element of the trains there for hundreds of years, she's never let anyone get off, which, honestly, oh, I hate Yes, you better work, you better kids on the train that she becomes that sucking Union X two with the nails. She literally turns into Wolverine, screams a horrifying scream. They get away from her, but then later on her mind, he says, well, the trolley Witch is just so embarrassed and so frustrated, very upset. Other two

biggest revelations of Cursed Child. Also, she comes out and says she has no name. She's forgotten. Now this is none of this is cannon. I dismiss it. Other two biggest revelations of Curse Child. I will say, uh, confirmation that Baltimore and Bellatrix fu wait, I did not know that I spoiler. Oh my god, I need yes, So confirmation that Baltimore and Bell Jakes did it, which thank god they both needed it. Come on, Honestly, it probably was amazing it probably it was probably they were probably

flying around. Honestly, it probably was amazing. Honestly, at least it is getting her fan fiction. There's probably some snake player. Yeah, you know there was snake, but you know, Nighini got into it. Negini was involved, all of the all the different objects were involved. Beatrix is like primal screams were probably absolutely horrifying but sexy, and they know, Wait, what's the second revelation, what's the next relation that moaning? Myrtle's real full name is Myrtle, not a grand Day, No,

it's Myrtle. Elizabeth Warren, Yes, I saw that. Oh my god, that's so funny. Elizabeth Warren Myrtle first of all Warrent. Yeah, I guess it's a British. I feel like even if she knew, even if even if Jakie Rolling knew and named her that or did it, I don't care. I love that so much. There's another revelation in the book. Dobby Still named Dobby barbera boxer. This female senators and

of course nin Hillary Clinton. That's so funny. Well, can I just so now that I've heard that, the confirmation that Belitrick and Baltimore did fun Yes, I just want to ask have you treated yourself to a trip to Universal Orlando to go to the Wizarding World. Alease, Oh my god, I know, I know five times. Just Producer Joe just lost his mind. Yes, I've spent thousands of dollars on my trips. I've heard so much about it.

I know that, like you can buy the special wand and go to the little places and do a thing. But like so all my Florida family is in Miami and every time we go, I'm like, guys, can we please go to Orlando? And they're just like, my family won't go with me, so I have to go with friends. Like I've kind of decided that this is the year, like you know, you must go. We are we you might go in early October. We should go, just saying

please please invite me because I will come. Honestly, at least you should come because also, like I, I truly enjoy going with and I think so David Mazzoni and Bowen and I went to Orlando, and what I mean it was a transcended. It was the most fun. I was kind of honestly, I was managing my expectations a little bit as like, well, how much fun are we really going to have as adults going to like these theme parks that are like designed for kids. But oh

my god, I'm a huge Disneyland freak. Yeah. I love because when I was a little kid, I grew up in l A. And my mom's best friend did the window displays from Main Street us A. Yeah, and so she would get us free tickets all the time, and so we would go to Disneyland. And so I like, when I was a kid, I went to Disneyland all of the time. So as far as theme parks go, like that is the type of theme park that I enjoys. Immersive world. And that's and you will love when world.

When you so for I would so here. I'm gonna actually map out a night tinperary for those of you who might want to go here. Here here's what you must do. You have to go. You have to get a multi day pass, yes, because because it's the Studios University of Florida. And on adventure, you go to Diagon Alley like you would if you were a student. You go to Diagon like you produced the shops, you get

your gig. You you know, maybe you maybe go into Olive Handers, perhaps be chosen by the wand Attendant and have a haven. I have a moment. I have a moment, honey. So you go into Green Goots Bank you do the ride of your life, the Green Goots Ride, which features Helena and Ye finds as Baltimore and bellotracks. They get up in your face. It's a roller coaster experience that's also three D and also like an immersive ride, and they get up in your face and it is It's incredible,

it's amazing. It is so good. So basically it takes place the ride like in between books like six and seven, when they need to break into the vault, it takes place I think during seven, during seven when you're in the vault, when they're in the vault in Aran Horntail, there is a Hungarian hortail blind dragon un that's a blind abuse to dragon, like I'm talking about thrill ride, multiple launches, like so good. Honestly, I need to pause

that part in the book. Incredible, the way the fact that you was able to write an action sequence like that, like they're breaking into Gringots and like making it feel like high optinge high adrenaline. It's incredible. I'm like getting chills, just thinking about that in the book, I mean me reading it when I was that age, I was like, well, this is gonna be that's takes off because the beginning

of seven is like kind of a rough rod. It's very upsetting Ron Ron, just like that when Ron goes away, it's like yeah. Also, Potter Con was this weekend and there were a lot of amazing silver doughs. A couple beautiful that's cool, just like hot girls dressed as the silver dough and they were awesome. There was one girl in like an all white body suit and she had wrapped Christmas lights around herself and then done like dear makeup, like really good, and I was like, girl, that beautiful.

Also in Taigon Alley is um oh God, the Weasley shop is amazing and um bertie Bots, which is like in Florian's ice cream shop. So he gets kidnapped. Well luckily, luckily there's some quote unquote British people to man the store because everyone's British too. Actually, I think they do hire a lot of people from the UK for the especially when it first opened, because I went when it

first open. The first time I went was Christmas when it first open, So you can imagine there was a First of all, there was a three hour wait to get into the part of the theme park of the Islands, a enter that was Harry Potterworld, and my sister and I we just felt like better than everyone else, and we we're like, we feel as if we shouldn't have to wait on this line. So we literally walked past it into God no one stopped us. That It was crazy.

You can do that. I did that at Cafe DuMond in uh in New Orleans, like that, playing that like tourists wait on such a long line to go. Me and my group we just passed the line and seated our out and it worked. I was like, I've given my life. I was like, these people are here because their tourists and their family brought them here and don't know that, No, they didn't deserve it as much. I walked right in. I'm sorry. That's the thing is what

would Harry do. Harry would would walk right in, you know, and like I felt very you know, her himself into sort of like a park attendant, and he would be in the park. What if what if someone had stopped me? And I just went like Imperial and they're like Okay, they walk in. We're dealing with a true crazy person. Please, okay,

so wait, let me so. After you do Green Goods the Bank the ride which features also true goblins like over yes, um, you get on the Hogwarts Express, which is a true train that takes you to the other theme park, and you get off the train and then you're in right because it's hogs Meade Village as well. So there's a diagon alley and then there's the original

hogs Mean Village. So you walk through hogs Mean Village, you turn the corner, there's like amazing uh dueling dragons rolling coaster called Dragon Challenge, its theme to the Triworsard Tournament. There's like Hagrid's House is like a little roller coaster that goes through it called Fly to the Hippograph. It's like there's like a little hippograph animatronic that's very cool, very cute. And then you round the corner and there's Hogwarts and it takes your breath away. It is shocking

throughout the whole throughout the whole park. There of course pumping the music, which is just like the best, the best John Williams score is just pumping through the whole thing is u that's the best part of the see I love the more like epic versions of it, which I really honestly, there's a moment where you're waiting online

for uh, the Hogwarts ride, which honestly it's indescribable. I mean, you get, you start, you get on the line for the Hogwarts ride, and you essentially walked through the grounds of Hogwarts and you walk through you see the mirror said you see amazing. You see um, the the scores of the houses, you see the dark Defense against the Dark Arts classroom. You go, you walk through the Defense Against Arts classroom, which is amazing. We created to scale

with the film. It's incredible. Double Door's Office, You walk through the herbology gardens, you literally walk through all of it. And then you you do. You walk through this part of the hallway where the four heads of houses are in portraits having conversations with each other, and it's just like so fascinating to be a fan of the books and listen to them talk. It's just so cool and

there it's really for us. Yes. Then the last thing you see before you get on the ride, which is mind blowing, is the sorting hat basically like breaking reality. I'm like telling you about safety, don't put your arms and feet out, You'll be whatever splirched or whatever Harry Potter words. So basically, then you get on it and it's this unbelievable. You do the ride, it's like two and a half minutes long, and your feet touched the ground and you can't believe what you've been through. Um,

that sounds so incredible. At so at part Con there was also a really good mirror of Ari said costumes. She won the costume contest because she made the entire like structure of the mirror and it looked perfect. And then she was Ron Weasley holding the House cup with all of the medals. It was like it was unreal. Also, So I haven't been to Harry Potter World, but what I did do was the Warner Brothers Studio tour in England when I went, and it was just the greatest.

So you when you go in, they like show you this movie that's like all about They put you in this movie theater and then they showed you like all this behind the scenes stuff of the movie and they and it's narrated by like like thirteen year old Emma and Daniel and the like, we love being in the films. But and then the screen, the screen lifts up and it's the doors to Hogwarts and they open and it's the full set for the Great Hall and you walk

in and it's just like the most insane thing. And then the tour is like self guided, so you're allowed to be in there for as long as you want. And they have all of the costumes, a ton of the original sets, so Dumbledore's office is in there. They have the full diagon Alley set, so you walk down and you see like Weasley, Swizard Weels was like the big guy picking his hat off, and like you can walk through the full platform nine and three quarters set

and get on the train. It's like all these different things, things like um they showed all of Umbradges costumes from the fifth movie and they were like, as she gets more powerful, her outfits get pink, like more intensely pink. And I was like, oh, I didn't know any of that. They have the statue from the Ministry of Magic of like the Wizard's trampling on all the Muggles, like the Evil Boltimore statue and stuff. It was where is the Scotland, Ireland.

It's in the It's like in Britain, you have to like take you can take a bus. It's like a bus from some train station that wasn't hard to get to. When Henry and I were there, we saw advertisements for it. We only had a limited time and I think it was sold out or something or like it was really expensive, so we couldn't go. But I now am having such

regrets because I really want to go. It's so cool and they have everything, and they just they also have like interesting things like, um, a lot of like the cast and crew are in the portraits and so they showed you like the portraits in the in Hogwarts and then like which cast and crew member director of the

movie it actually is and stuff like that. So I literally live talk about Poticon because what what was it so so pot icahn This girl Margaret and Kaminsky, who's great, I guess, just started it as it started as a get together for her friends and that's how it first started, and then it got bigger and bigger, and then last year and I think the year before it was at the Bellhouse, I got involved with it. Last year she had contacted me because I've made it known to the world.

I love Harry Potter and then I do comedy. So I got in touch with her um and that was like at the Bellhouse and it was awesome. It was so much fun. But this year it was at Irving plas insane and it was two days at Irving Plaza. I did I like I don't did the sorting ceremony on the first day, so I got to do the opening sorting and it was very fun. And I brought Pat Wise, who would never who is not he's only seen the movies person um and he was my double door.

Yeah it's well. Also Muggle Nat. So Muggle Nat did a review which was awesome and they my name's on muggle Nat, something that has never Yeah, they plugged my Twitter on muggle Nat. It was that. They also they also were like Pat Wise, star of the Evening's furious. They were like, he played a very casual Dumbledore. It was hilarious. So we ran this racket where like we only got one free drink, but the drinks at the Irving Plaza were like mad expensive and we were like, Okay,

this is not going to fly. So we decided to tell the audience that anyone who brought drinks for us to the stage would get um sorted immediately into whatever house. And so by the end of both Pat and I, the article suggested only Pat did it, but we both did it. Looked that night were double fist beers, which was awesome. We got a bunch of free drinks from it. I was I was supposed to have a second show in the evening. Literally went to the show, said I'm too drunk to be here. Left the show, had to

go home. I got up at least and said I showed up. I walked in. I was like, it's not gonna happen. I cannot work out these new characters right now. My god, wait, can I ask what the vibe was like? Okay, so they come up on stage walk us through it.

So the vibe is really good because it is a twenty one and over event, so it's like very fun I also think that in general because the original Harry Potter, not this cursed child mass, but the original Harry Potter is so funny, Like that's such a huge part of the heart of the series that the Harry Potter fans are a very good humored But so it's like a

very fun thing. The way the sorting ceremony works is that people all put their names into a goblet of fire, and then I come up with it, and then there's another cauldron that has personality questions, and so I just pulled names. It was literally now me pulling names, bringing people up. We'd ask them the questions. I throw it to the audience to sort them, and Dumbledore makes the final car which for him, yes, Pat did. One dude brought him a beer and Pat did not sort him

into the house of his choice. And then so he came up to the stage and he did that, and then Pat sorted him into Hufflepuff, not very rude. And then I pulled the guy's name later, so he came back on stage and was like hey, and it was very tense, but he did get to go to Griffin Door eventually, which is good. What house do you think

that you're in? Griffin Door? I feel very strongly about it. Yeah, I believe that either I've been told I would be a slyther end, but I feel like, and I think you can speak this, I feel like a vast majority of people self sort themselves into raven Claw. Yes, I think it's I think it's what a lot of people do when they're like, I want to say that I'm in a cool house and then I'm smart, But I don't want to be um as braggadocious as to say that. Just why Yes, so a lot of people say raven Claw.

I think also like probably the crowd that we're hanging out with has like a like an intellectually liberal vibe, and they want they want to be like they want to be Raven Claws. What I always say about myself is I really feel like, depending on what phase of my life you talk about, like I would have been in different houses, like when I was a kid, when I was eleven years old, you have to put me

in Griffin door for sure. In my early for sure Slytherin absolutely, late teens, early twenties, Slytherin down right now in my life, I feel like I'm a hufflepuff. But I will but I will die even Okay, So interesting that you're like, get allowing yourself the flux to change houses. Why are you a hufflepuff now? Right now? I feel like I'm a hufflepuff because I'm very less a fair

about the whole thing. Like, no, I think it does, I think because I'm embracing the fun and trying to be like like kind and just really trying to be like like in this new phase of my life, like just trying to be like, hey, you know, let's enjoy life. Like I really don't feel like that lines up with any other house. And you know, we did this last week with Sam Taggart. We talked about sex in the City and we talked about the sex ladies and one of the reasons why I feel like I identify as

it carries because I strongly feel disconnected from the other three. Yes, And I would say, like if you were to break them, all four of them down into traits, like, yeah, I feel like a hufflepuff right now, which Henry, my boyfriend, gets mad when I call him a hufflepuff, but he is and it's not but so but solf a puff thing is like unafraid of toil, Like that is not

not rob you think I'm afraid of toil cocktail. During Podokahon, the first girl who got sorted into huffle puffs said that she liked to watch Shameless, So we all decided that Shameless was another huffle puffless like like unafraid of to great friend shameless. Ye, but so like I don't know. I will think about huffle Puffs as like the people from my high school who went to u v A, Like they worked very hard and they got that is true. Well, listen, you Delawares, it's um you have to be brave to

get through it. It's a huge school because I had seven of friends that went there, and it's a big it's a big little school because you know, like Delaware is a small state, so I feel like it's a it's a state school but for a small state. So it's kind of like I think it's like twelve thousand undergrads or something, so it's like size a ball. Right.

It's that situation where I could throw out three names and like, of course you wouldn't know them, but there's that chance you would know one where Yeah, I feel huffle Puffs work very hard and they're generally likaball, but I'm not. I mean, I guess Cedric to you, it depends on what he looks. I think I would ghost Cedric before we move on. I think what at least I just want to point out something underlying, something at least mentioned, is that Harry Potter fans have a sense

of humor because the books are funny. You would not be able to do the same thing with Lord of the Rings fans because we would take so serious. Yeah, it's very serious, and I think probably like Game of Thrones saying yeah a little bit, the Game of Thrones has some humor because of like Terrian and stuff. But are you sorry. I've read the books and I watched the show, but it's not the same, Like I'm not as into like I'm not like an encyclopedia for that stuff.

But I think that Harry Potter has a very fun light heart and that like showed up in Potter Con, like everyone is there to have a really good time. People are drinking there, they have funny costumes, Like there were a lot of really really amazing costumes. There was just one Baltimore there who had like full prosthetics. It

was crazy. But there was also like cute friends who came as Ron and Padma Patil and like like like it was two gals and one was wearing like the shitty frilly robes that Ron had online, and then the other one had like the like an orange sorry, and they like went on and just like they would walk around looking piste off at each other, and he was like like they like they would kind of hold hands and I'd be like, you know, what's your favorite book?

Goblet of Fire. Absolutely think it when you look back on this series, like Goblet of Fire was the one I think because like of how it starts and how its like just the procession of like you know, you got the eule Ball, you got the tribe as a tournament, like then in the thick of their like adolescence, yes,

and then it ends with the Dark Turn. And the books are never perfectly paced because the first three books I'll let up to some big event at the end, whereas Goblet of Fire had like three four based out

it was like high energy events. It's stratas the Goblet of Fire is the book that lives in the two worlds that exist in Harry Potter, which are like the light frivolous like Tumbledore's password is Lemon Drops the world of like the first three and the upside Down and then the like like you need to confront Death, Harry the last like it lives in kind of both of

those worlds. They're like silly, goofy things like the Rita Skeeter plotline, I think is like very there's so many fun subplots in Fire Rita Skeeter and then like Harry loving cho Cheng starts. Then that's when you get the first hint of Ron and Hermione realized, which is very fun and hot. Hermione, Hermione, I'll never hot Hermione was

a moment in time. I will never have we talked about this on this podcast before, because I'm having deja vu right now about her about this um moment of So I will never forget a moment in my life that changed my life was when Um, I remember I was reading Goblet of Fire and I was sitting by by the pool and I was like reading it, and I remember it was the moment when they've grabbed Harry and have decided to grab the cup together and it's a port key and they get transported to the manner.

And when Cedric was murdered by Baltimore, that absolutely I had to put the book down and I had to do several like laps around my yard. I was like, my life has changed because it had not happened to me. It had never happened. And also I think in my like short life at that time, like I had never like actually understood like kids die, like like I really like that was a choice. It also happened so fast.

It happens in an instant. And like the line he was dead before he hit the ground, never forget the line, We'll never forget that the ghost of his last last still on his face when he died, the ghost of his last laugh still on his face. That really wow, my god. The seventh book too, is phenomenal. Seven. She could have sucked that up for real, and she like hit a home run. The Battle of Hogwarts is one

of the coolest things. And then like Harry meeting Dumbledore at King's Cross and like that, so like the gross like fetal Baltimore just like dying. Also, I just feel like it's so rare as an artist like that you truly, like, especially at that level of commercial success for her, like where you truly nail something like she stuck the landing so hard, and so for her to be on her Twitter and say, gosh, I wish I hadn't put her money and ron together, so ridiculous, Like that's so ridiculous.

Because also it's so much cooler that Harry and her min here are just good friends. It's absolutely way cooler, I think, Like I think that show having a strong platonic male female friendship at the heart of the story like is huge. I mean it's like, like you don't see that in books. It would have completely undercut all this stuff, Like it would have made her instead of her being her mine, it would have made her Harry's

her Harry's girlfriend exactly. And she stands on her own more when she's with like yeah, and also just like yeah, just like you can't take her mine's power away from her. That does take away everything. And also if she had a regret, then come out and say that it's you put her money with anybody, like like I just hated that. I just thought it was so disrespectful. And I was like,

because we all were with her, you know what I mean. Like, and then to hear how she would change other things about the books, Like I can't really relate any specifics right now, but just I don't want to hear how she would have rewritten that j K is a little too like eager to like, yeah, the keyboard, and I know I think she's a drift a little bit with what to do with this thing, and news flash, what she should do is write the Marauders prequel. That's exactly

what I've been thinking since the third book. News Yeah, it's just like, well, I think she doesn't want to do it because it's precisely the thing that everyone wants her to do. But it's all it's so there, it's all there. And I said that she on stage at Potter Con and it got like raucous applause, like people want it and it's like an irving Plausa gave you like a huge applause break that's crazy, Like just we need to know. I was like, we need to know

how Lillian, how did Lily start liking James? We like don't really get the answers to that. And then the other thing is like serious is really hot and like I would love to explore that they were all hot. James Potter was hot and like a like a cute little way pedigree Now that was my one thing. I

was like, why has pedigrew friends? I know? And it's also like when your friend turns into a rat, when the animal that expresses his heart is that he's a rat, It's like maybe we need red flag when his animogous as a rat red flag. Like their part of the seventh book was exploring the seventh exploring Snap and you're finding a total asshole. Yes, and it's like that like

that James. It's so interesting because in the first books there's so much James adoration, Like Harry's focus is so much on James, and like knowing more about James, his father, and towards the end it really becomes so much more about Lily, and you like find out that Lily was like really the heart of everything and that like she was the one who was like good and kind she saved and that she saved him with her mother's laugh. Loved that that snape story from from the Princess Tail

truly well done. And that's like for like for me, it's like I haven't finished this. I will finish it um in course the child. But the thing is like I don't need this, you know what I mean, Like when she ended the last book with an always well, yeah, I actually didn't want to continue further in Harry's life. I would like to know back more, or I do think it's interesting that she's doing fantastic beasts. I'm interested

to see what she's going to do. Have you guys read any of the like Potter More stuff about like the other wizarding schools and stuff in America. So there's the one in America, there's one in a Gilver Morney is the American one, and then the house names also said this at Potter Con was like a first draft. They're so bad, very bumpus, which is what I got. It's like some sort of large cat puckwagi, which is like a tiny humanoid figure, horned serpent, what the hellbird?

Thunderbird and those are them? This is very bad. Every kid like names the ship that they draw. It's a cursed child, feels like it feels like fan fixure. I think that J. K. Rowling is also like a profoundly British woman, and if she's going to be writing about other people in other places, she needs some other hands on deck. Because so she was writing about the other schools.

I think it's very cool. There are some problems. One Africa has one school and they don't and they don't use ones and they all learned to turn into animals. So South America also has one school. It's in Brazil. All of Asia has one school it's in Japan. So let's talk about how China has nowhere. First of all, the Japanese are not letting like Koreans and Chinese people

come to their school. No, that Japan is not doing that, so like, but also Japan does have a cool backstory where like they get these robes at the start of their learning, and as they grow, the robes change color, like as they learn more about magic, and then if they if they like become a dark magic person, they're like a dark wizard, they turn white and it's like dishonor on your family, which is like, well cool to for you to bring in dishonor on your family. She

just needs, so let's on pottermore. So, there are three schools in Europe dirm String, Bobaton, and Hogwarts, and then every other continent has one. Australia has none, and it's just a mess. And I'm like, girl, this is very cool, but like you need she already got in trouble for

like the way she talked. She did a whole series on magic in North America and like wove in a lot of like Native American things and did it in a way that Native American people didn't like and I was like, you shouldn't have touched this, you should have gone here with this, which like, obviously she's going to

write about magic and North America. It's good for her to include like Native American people, but maybe get some of those people on your team to help you, right, because I guess she like took this very like skin walkers are like a sacred like thing, and she was like, they're really just wizards and people were like, no, they're not really just wizards. I think she's an extraordinarily talented person.

I think that there's a time to say goodbye. Yeah, and like I think, you know, she is in a place right now, she's certainly enough financial place where she can afford to say goodbye. Yes, I really don't think it's that she needs money. I think she's a creative person who wants to create more. And I truly think like she thinks that she's contributing as she puts more and more in the world. And also I do think there's a lot of pressure on Earth from the industry

to keep doing it, keep going. But the thing is like within what she's set up, like like I have no problem with fantastic beasts. I have no problem with that. I think that's kind of fun. I think it's gonna be cool that it's in the US and the twenties and stuff. I think that's really funny. Redman, it's awesome. I guess, like, don't funk up what you've already perfected,

because that's what First Child feels. Yeah, And honestly, I like, there is an element and I'll just say on here, like spoiler alert, maybe turn the volume down from the next ten fifteen seconds. There's an element of time travel, and I feel like it's going to be very back to the future where it's going to sun up, and

I'm not happy about it. It's very like it's very winky because now it's like your go back to all these moments that people Yeah, and yes, I mean it read's kind of like a fan fiction to be honest like that. It's like these characters but they're not exactly right, and they're like doing they're doing things that I don't know. I think. I don't. I just don't think that Curse

Child is what people wanted. I don't think. Like, actually, I think the story of Harry was done at the end of the seventh book, and it kind of like ruins it to have like these people and things coming back, like you know, another potential spoiler or whatever. But there's Baltimore stuff in there, and I'm like, no, Baltimore's defeated. He killed the people, like he sacrificed himself and died and came back to fucking life and then like Nevill

killed the snake and Baltimore it's done. And it's the same problem I have, really, And I did love The Force Awakens. I did like Star Wars a lot, but it's the same problem I have with that. It's like the Republic has risen. It's like, what are you talking about? How where did they come from? How honestly like answer the question, like where did they come from? Because they were wiped out and and what you know, I I understand there's conflict again, make it an entirely new conflict.

That was my thing is. I was like, get a new dark Wizard here. Like my thing with this is towards the end. And this is just from synapsis because I don't really feel like I care about this book enough to read it or this play enough to read it. But there's some plot elements in the end that just feel very Daisex Mock and I eat like it's like, oh, all of a sudden, there's this thing that we didn't of course address before, and which the books never did.

The books were self contained and realized enough to have everything makes sense, and this just feels like it's pulling stuff out of its ass because it's trying to be too epic and and it's trying to cover so much ground time wise, you go through what four years in

this It's it's pretty crazy. It's crazy, and there's so much of like characters coming up like um Like like one example is like a scene at the very very beginning where you meet Scorpius Malfoy and Rose Rose Granger Weasley is like, you're the boy who everyone thinks is Boltimore's real son. This is your backstory and life goodbye. It's just like I can't. I don't. Like it's very bad.

It's not. All of the things that are great about Harry Potter, like the law, like the development of things, whatever, is like completely undercut in this thing. And also like she should have gotten that lady to do some of the illustrations. Something brought some of that back, yes, but I know, I just think I think expanding the world is cool. I think that if she wants, well, my my prediction is that so we're doing this magic in

North America thing with Fantastic Beasts. But Fantastic Beast is kind of like it's obviously gonna be a franchise, and it's a perfect franchise to travel around the world. So I think she released the stuff about the other wizarding schools because Fantastic Beasts is gonna take It'll be a like around the World's definitely cool. I'd like to read an except of some bad writing from the girls in side.

So this is a scene where um, all the all the adult characters arrived at Professor Minerva mcgonagall's head mistress of so Minerva McGonagall, who has now got to be three thousand years old, who's still living, is head mistress of Harry Potter, had mistress of Hogwarts. She's had mistress of Hogwarts, and she all of a sudden she's in her office and everyone arrives through Flo Plotter flo Powder through the chimney, and this exchange happens between Harry and

Draco malfoy. Quite a surprise to see you, Draco. I thought you didn't believe in my dreams. Draco says, I don't, but I do trust your luck. Harry Potter is always where the action is at, and I need my son back with me, safe and safe and sound. Jenny says, Then let's go to the Forbidden Forest and find them both. And seen it's just like such middle school play. Yeah, it's like very it's let's go here. It's so much

of that. It's so much of that. And also there's like a weird element of like albics severus knowing like everything that's ever happened in Harry's life, as if he's read the books and it's like, you know, like I don't know about everything my parents have done, and they're like like like literally, he's like, well, the second task was the one where they went into the water and blah blah blah, and it's like, why the do you know that? Like who would know? Like why would you?

Like I don't know about like what like my mom's cheer competitions or whenever, Like I don't know, Like he just knows everything about Harry's life, and like it's it's very black, and I feel like there's going to be a lot of people out there that are going to be here that there's criticism. Of course, the child, there's those people that it's like me, when I watched like season five and six have lost, I was like, no, it's still good. It wasn't And it's like, those people

are going to be out there for this book. But here's what I would say to them. It's like we have earned the rights to criticize these books. I mean, because like I said, there's nothing better than the original, you know what I mean, Like the original series, it's it was amazing, Like this does not feel right, and we're allowed to say that doesn't feel right. Yeah, it's

you can tell it's not purely her. She just she she just supervised the story and you can tell because the characters are all wrong and it just lacks the spark of the original. My hope is that we'll see some of that in um Fantastic Peace. I have really liked the previews of Fantastic I think it. I also think it's great that she herself wrote the screen. But and I didn't know that that was true. I don't know. I didn't know that they would have Like Hollywood is

so weird. I didn't know that they would have like trusted her a novelist to write a screenplay for it, but looks like they did. And that's exciting for me because I do think she's fantastic. Yeah, I think it's gonna be. I mean, I have really enjoyed, like all the little hints at it. I think that it's really fun um and I am excited to learn about American

wizards and stuff like that. Like it takes place like there's that scene where it shows like the seal for the Magical Congress of the United States, which is right here in New York City under the Woolworth, So it's Colin Farrell, Eddie Redman, and then is the rest of it kind of just like yeah, yeah, new people. I think that part of it is that he's running around

with a Muggle. He actually has a Muggle friend, which is one of the things that I did think was it was something that maybe could have been done in the original series, was have there be like one actual Muggle who was like a good person or that wasn't

like a full idiot. Yeah, it wasn't just like the worst I mean, I get you can't do everything, but like the only ones were the durs leads, and it was just so bad, even if Dudley was like okay, kind of had like an epiphany at the end because when he because the dementor showed him himself as he truly was. Yeah, honestly, afterwards, like so are to wrap the Harry Potter conversation up. We do not necessarily endorse

Harry Potter and the child. However, you know what, fans, go ahead and read it, and you know, make your own opinions, make your own there there are interesting revelations in it. Yeah, we're the biggest, of course being myrdle Elizabeth Warren, which of course, honestly I also have got have yet to get to the part where Belitrick's and Baltimore fuck. I mean to that, I don't see it. We don't see its staged. Unfortunately, don't tell if you're

gonna you need to walk the walk, Honeie. Yes, honestly, give me an intimate two person play, which is Bellatrix and Baltimore, our producer Jelly shaking his head, yes wildly, and give me the fool for Love Helena, And give me a fool for love with Helena and Ray fines as Baltimore and Bellatricks strange and I give you my money, I love it, I give it twice over. We're at a segment in our show called I Don't Think So Honey.

Now this is the touchsnowe of lost cultures. By the way I should, I should mention that we have, of course and rocking our cultures to have. Yeah, and we feel very much like like we are um cruising down the the the river that is culture. Yes, interesting beasts along the along the coast. Remember any seven of culture cruise down the river? Rule number seven of culture cruise down. You haven't come up with rules in a mile? We haven't. Well that's n So that's we'll make a note of

that that we should remember. Our pattern will catalog it improv people. So I don't think soody. We're going to rail against something in culture just for one minute. You have one minute on the clock, release and you're gonna select something in the culture. It can be anything, and you have one minute to provide to make a case

about why it sucks. And you need to say the words I don't think so honey, as much as you can to drive home the point, because you know what that's really what this is about, and just we're gonna we're gonna lead by example, and you're gonna see how this is done. Matt. I've gone first every single episode, So how about you go first. You're thinking that I should go first because you already it sounds like you already have something. Okay, well, I had something really good

and then the trolley witch. The trolley witch. But I feel like I've already railed against the trolley way. I'm not going first. I don't have anything, okay, all right, um, okay with that bitch ready? All right? Yes, I got one, and clock starts now. I don't think so, honey. Not enough trailers for Beauty and the Beast the movie. I have been waiting for too goddamn long to wait for a fucking trailer which is mostly voices off screen. I haven't seen any of the of the animal anamorphic objects

around the house talking. I want to know how it's gonna look. I don't think so, honey. Me just hearing their voices, I don't think so, honey. One shot of gorgeous Emma Watson bending over to touch of Rose, I don't think so, honey. I want to hear Emma Watson sing, I want to say, if this is a musical, stop being afraid of the music. My problem with Hollywood trailers that are about musicals. You're afraid of the music. Into the Woods, you were afraid of the music. You confuse

the viewing public. I don't think so, honey. It's a musical at Stan Sondheim. You disrespect Sondheim. I don't think so honey. You have to have a trailer pact of music, beauty and the beast iconic musical. Don't be afraid of the music. Don't be afraid to show me imagery, glory, glamour. I want to see Emma Watson had to tell in a yellow gown. I don't think, so, honey, anything less. If you don't give me trailer, I don't give you life. I don't think so one minute. I'm sorry, but that

was my best. If you don't give me a trulier, you don't give me life. I just feel like it's coming out in March two seventeen, and like it's like we've got nothing. We've got really close to nothing. We've got table scraps, and I want more. Yes, I agree with me. I am ready for Emma Watson's next phase. I really am. I'm a huge fan. I think she's fucking brilliant. Yes, we got a trailer. I know exactly what we're talking aboutause you mean studio and go see

Bad Moms. Last week they played a trulier. We got so excited and then it was a fucking cop out. Didn't see a face. Everything was was disembodied her face for a second. Emma Watson's last movie in the UK made only sixty nine. What it's not her fault. It's not her fault. It's not her fault. But it did make sixty Oh my god, that's perfect. Well I will say this, sixty nine what does that mean? Like six people saw it, like it's like very a very few, like the gross and it's only like that's only like

forty euro. It's crazy, it's a thousand years. So I just like my thing is like we're watching that trailer and I was so excited because I was like, oh my god, it's Beauty and the Beast because but I hadn't seen it on like the big screen. And it's when she bends down to touch the roles and you see her like a beautiful face and you're just like, oh my god, she's Bell. Now she was her mind like, now she's Bell. Literally I started a plotting I was

that person in the movie. Didn't you want more, honey? But I need more? And honestly I waited too long. I love Beauty and the Beast. I love Beauty and the Beast. I think my favorite is Little Mermaid. Also need the live actually Little Mermaid. I don't know how they'll do it, but like needed, I love, love, love, Beauty and the Beast. Um, don't worry, You're gonna get more come November when Moana comes out, that new Disney movie. You're gonna get a full trailer. But I'm sure. I'm sure.

Also would of a live action Mulan would love Aladdin action. Also would love for them to revisit Pocohonas and maybe do it right and get a live action Pokehonas because I think that there's there's elements of Pocahonas that are incredible. Yes, it's historical interpretation is and I would love for them to do like a more adult, stark, kind of realistic portrayal of what what the life of Pocahonas was with that kind of you know, romantic type of um cinematic feel.

I would love to see what that is. I think it could be amazing. I love it, Thank you, thank you. I'm down for the live action Disney stuff. I'm so down great. Also, I love musicals. I love musicals. That's mine. Okay, um, I guess I'll go and then okay, So I'm gonna put one minute on the clock for don't think so honey, and one minute o'clock ago. I don't think so honey. American wait staff who make a huge fucking deal out of splitting the check. I was just in Montreal this weekend.

Every single wait person was happy, more than eager to split the check for us and split dishes for people who shared and people who split. I don't think so honey. Waiters who just who are complacent, who are lazy, who don't want to put an effort to please and satisfy their customers. Bitch. I don't think so honey. American service industry for encouraging this and propagating this in the culture

of American service. I don't think so honey. Customers who feel bad about and don't feel empowered to demand this from their weight staff. Um, I don't think so honey, rude weight staff and slow wait staff, so this is this is equal opportunity. I don't think so honey. Canadian wait people very slow because you know what, they're too laid back and they're too nice, and you know, nothing's a rushed. So I don't think so honey, wait staff

Canadian and American American. I can't speak to Mexican wait staff. I'm sure they're lovely. Maybe they balance it out for symmetry, who knows, But I don't think so honey. Wait people across North America. Bitch, that's one minute that's ever waited at a table in your life. But shut the funk up right now. I don't think so honey, that I am not in the I'm not. That's not my job. I've been. I know. My first job was at Maggie Moves at an ice cream shop. It was a really

it was like the poor Man's Cold Stone. Um, but I did my job fantastically. I'm just saying I if it depends on how many cards you split it from, I'm a server. And if if a party of eight is like, hey can you split this eight ways? Sorry, girl, I didn't mean to make this a personal you attacked me personally. To listen, we were dining out six people every night and we didn't even bring it up the way.

People would just be like, should I split this? And we were like, if it's not, if it's not a big deal, and they were like, no, not at all. I'm happy. I think it truly depends on the establishment, but all of these establishments throughout Montreal were just more than eager to do it. Matt, I think we have a lot to learn from the Canadians. I've absolutely that's true. I can say this. I also think, you know, you need to cut people some some slack. I think that

you really aggressive. I think that Bowen Yang is a villain, and Bowen Yang is a restaurant villain, which you cannot turn this around on me. That was my I don't think so, honey. You do not undercut my I don't think so, honey, at least. Are you ready? I'm ready, I'm ready. I'm gonna do. I'm doing a Harry Potter

because I do. I do have something to say. All right, I'm going to say and I can tell it's good because she's been sitting quietly and I can tell she's and she's ready to right now woman, and and go okay, I don't think so, honey, that sucking Potter more waits Hufflepuff more than other houses to put people into Hufflepuff because j K did not do the work of making

Hufflepuff cool. And it's like, I don't think so, honey, because listen, if you wanted there to be any cool redeeming people from Hufflepuff, that was on you to put it in the book. You made one person from there who was hot, yes, but boring, and he died. So it's like, I don't think so, honey. I've been buying Griffin door Ship for years. To have some fucking quiz online tell me that I'm in Huffabuff because it's waited some kind of way is ridiculous. Also, the sorting hat

takes your choice into consideration. I know this, So I don't fucking think so, honey. I would tell that hat I'm transferring darts strength, I would try. I would transfer schools. There are other schools that I can go to. I should be able to click no no no, no no no no before my choice if the website is going to be accurate. So I don't think so, honey, I'm not in Hulff, I never would be in hubbleb of Goodbye Why that was incredible. Honestly, we also now know

how at least really feels about the Badger. I trust me, I know there's so much wrong. There's so much wrong. There's so much wrong, Like why why why make the fourth one? I mean you could even call it the fourth one? Why make up so much worse or less opion? I mean he could have had one friend from that house. That was cool because like Luna held it for raven Claw and yes, also cho Cho, you know, she had her good in her bad. But like Harry wasn't friends

with Cedric degree. He was like a character, but he was kind of like you kind of like didn't like him that much. In the same book, well, here's yeah, he was mentioned throughout. He was mentioned because he played Quittits right here, right, So I feel like he was mentioned throughout and like sure, for sure, but then like he was developed in this way that was like, oh, but he was cool the whole time, and I was like, you're just throwing huff bone where you could have done

this the whole time. You really meet him in the third book, Harry falls off his broom with the demandors in a game against huff Cedric catches the snitch of that because of that. Also, there are members of Griffin Or who belong on Hufflepuff. And I will say his name. I'll say first and last names. Colin Creevy. Yes, what's going on with the Hufflepuff? All the do doc day he did fight in the Battle of Hogwarts and die. Absolutely, maybe he was retroactively brave. What m and Dean? I

feel like Dean Thomas Thomas Belonga's huffle Puff pitch. I mean the other one, the one who the lavender Avander brown. Name one other huffle Puff besides, I can't think of one there. Hannah Abbott marries Neville in the end, apparently

she becomes the Neville. Honestly Hufflepuff until that, but until the end, But at the end you find out, well, no, because in the first one he stands up to them and shows that he's brave, and then he helps Harry with the task, he gets him the gilly weed and um, and then in the end he kills the snake with the sword of Griffin Door which he couldn't fut that all the whole time he had been like a punk gass.

What was I gonna say? Um, he wears an amazing m hooded sweater in the last movie and also never got so crazy how hot he got, and then like they put him in this really nice hoodie and you you can see that it's a hoodie when he runs away from the Dementurs and from the death theaters, and I remember being like, no, they all sort of wear hoodies when they got older. Huffle Puffs, like Professor Representative was who Sprout just even not even you could have

made maybe the huffle of Future be cool. There is Tonks. It was in Hufflepuff, but you don't associate her with the house because you don't see her at Hogwarts. Who was raven of house Flitwick Flitwick. Okay, somebody told me it was Trelawney recently, and I was head of house for Hufflepuff. I guess that would have made sense. It

would have been cooler than Sprout. Also, they keep mentioning simple Trelawney and Harry Potter and their curson child, and I'm like, like, that's not the character we want, like called back, no no, But that was one of the funniest characters that was ever in the books. I mean I also loved the fact that her Mine hated her. It was like she was dropped. Yeah, that she was such like a like cook. She was like so crazing, was having none of that. Now she was like this

is fake. And then they say in the book, I'll throw her Harry Potter a crystal child one bone, and it's like, well, you know, her Mine Granger hates divination, like the world over knows that her mind denounced divination and in her like Room of Banished Books is like Sibyl Trelawny's book, which I kind of love was yeah, Sibil Trelanne and Red Skeeter, where the two characters when I was like, you guys are stirring it up. You finna mix it up up with the Rids Skeeter, But

I do love Rita. Skeeter is one of the best comical comical. The first scene where she's introduced in the books, it's like a sketch. It's like it's so well written in kind and she has the quick quotes quill and she keeps saying he still It's so funny. The books really are from and also who played her in the movie oh whoever it was, she was perfect before Should we just shout out before we go? Like the best movie performances, because I feel like Rita's theater. Alan Rickman

obviously till as Old as Times Lace. Also here's a here's a little culture plug. Check out Emelda Staunton performing as Rose in Gypsy on the West. Her performance of Rose's turn is like one of oh my god, I had no idea. She sings to she's amazing and it's so different than the way Patty do it, but it's really good. Like it's acting first, she's an amazing singer. She's incredible on the part. Luna love good also amazing. I forget her. It's like Amelia or something I can't remember.

I forget. And she was not an actress. She was just a fan of the books who went in and love it. He locked it down. I also, I'm you have Emma Thompsons and also maybe the best performance in the whole series, I would say, yeah, personifying the role exactly how no, I would say Helena giving quintessential Helena in an amazing part for her just like killing it and also finding out she was not the first choice

for the part. The woman that plays in Narcissa malfoy was the first choice for that part and she got pregnant couldn't do it, and Helena Bottom Carter was like, well, I'm available, and they were like, oh, that's okay, that's the perfect shore Maggie Smith. But like, just like Maggie Smith, one of the actors that's like so good that you forget that they're acting, because then you see her on Downtown and you're like, oh my god, it's so good. Yeah,

she's incredible, incredible. Well, hey, this has been a fantastic, magical episode of like, I'm so happy we were to have this out. I'm so happy that we're all on the same page about that. I do encourage you to read a Bowen Child. And also, you know, to everyone out there saying like you know, well, I'm sure the effects are amazing to see on stage, Like that's not what theater is. I'm sorry, but that's not that's not what theater is. Theater is moments. Theater is giving you life.

Theater is giving you energy. Theater is giving you conflictator is giving you drama. Theater is not giving you lights and sounds. And with that, I say goodbye at least, Thank you so much. Where can people find you on social media? You can find me on Twitter and Snapchat. At at Least, that's a t I s eaten on Instagram. At Pandelius, that's p A N d A, which is truly away, something that we've stolen from important show that doesn't matter us plugging on that And where can we

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