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September 9, 2025 87 mins
Thanks for listening to Season 6, Episode1 of Dialogue Alley! In this episode, Melanie, Carly, Peter, and Erik talk about:

News: More HBO updates
New German Books!
Other small news snippets

Main Segment: We discuss the announced dramatized audiobooks. 

Translation of the Show: Brian Selznick Cover of the Hebrew Philosopher's Stone. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Three, up, two across, tap that play button three times,
and walk through the archway into Dialogue Alley. Hello, and

(00:22):
welcome to Dialogue Alley, the Official Potter Collector podcast about
Harry Potter books, book translations, and all other things magical.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm Eric, I'm Carly, and I'm Melanie.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
And the three of us are Harry Potter Book translation Collectors,
which means we collect Harry Potter books from all over
the world as well as other amazing Harry Potter's stuff.
And I say the three of us, there really are
four of us. Peter the Potter Collector is on this
show as well, but he could not make it to
the recording session tonight due to acquire engagement. So actually,

(00:58):
Carly and I did a small segment with him the
other night, and we're just going to insert that into
the show, not just randomly. We'll let you know when
it's coming, so it's not like it's going to happen
like right now, but it'll happen at some point. But
he wanted to be a part of this because this
is the first episode of season six, so we have

(01:19):
a little break and we're back, so season six.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
I will even believe that this is our sixth. See, like.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
It's gone so fast, and I feel like we've come
such a long way already, and we've gone through so
many different phases and growth and developments and things, and like,
you know, now we're at the Official Potter Collector podcast,
which is so cool and I feel like that was
something we always wanted and here we are. We have

(01:49):
merched now, like we're just like a grown up, little
niche podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
We got a flow chart for only the American.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
Books, but the other will come, But the other one
will come.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, this I need like.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
A season six project.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
And there's the motivation.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, I just like I had one day where I
was like, I'm really motivated to do this and I
just like knocked out so much of that flow chart
and it took me like a week and it was beautiful.
And I just need to have that motivation again. However,
Like my son is ten months old and wild now,
Nora just started preschool and we just got a puppy.

(02:30):
So life be crazy right now, Life be life indeed.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
But you know what else is crazy, Like the stuff
that's happened in the Harry Potter world since we last recorded,
which was over a month ago. So now it's September fourth,
is today that we're recording, so this episode will come
out the second week of September. But let's let's talk
about some of the some of the news items that

(02:58):
have happened. And one of our main topics, or our
main topic for this episode is going to be about
the news that a fully like voice cast audiobook is
coming out and we are so excited about that, so
that's going to get most of our focus, so we
won't really talk about that in the news, but there
are a couple news items that that we do want

(03:19):
to mention, so we'll get to that right now.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
New German books.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
I know nothing about this. I'm so i guys, please
tell me everything.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
I am so excited about these new German books. It
is brand new art. You need cover art to Germany
new illustrator, and we have new scenes that have never
appeared on books before ever.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
So like sster Trelawny on the spine of book three.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
I know, I know, I'm trying to remember who the
illustrator is right now, and I'm blanking. I know her,
I know who it is, and I'm blanking right now.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Eric is it is? It still Carlson.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
It's still the publisher.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Amazing. I mean, that's amazing, and we love Carlson.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
At this time, I don't know of a box set,
but if they put one out after I buy all seven,
I'm going to send an angry Howler.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
These books. They're not hard to get. I I haven't
pre ordered mine yet. They still don't come out officially
until next week. Yeah. I think it's the twelfth of
September already.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
So soon. Oh god, yeah, it.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Is so soon. But you can preorder it now. And
like Carly mentioned, they don't have a box set for them,
which I was slightly disappointed with. But you can just
buy them all from Amazon Germany, which which.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
Is Amazon dot Be for those who don't know correct.
And you can also switch if you're on the app
on your phone, you can go down to your account
and you can switch on your settings to which country
you want to be in, and you can just choose
Amazon Germany. And I believe it's available in English, but
I could be wrong.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
It is available in English. I checked yesterday, so it's
it's really easy to navigate, especially if you just type
in Harry Potter. You don't have to you have to
do some scrolling if you just type in Harry Potter.
But if you can type it in the German title,
which you can easily find if you just Google.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
I'm literally doing I'm literally doing this all right now.
I'm like doing this live as you guys are talking
about it. So I'm in Yeah. I typed in Harry
Potter Books into Amazon Germany. Nothing really came up.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
But and if you type in Harry Potter you.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Literally can just type title and like stuff comes up.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
All right, let's under sixteen device, and then there will
be like a Carlson Oh wait Amazon that you can
click on.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Okay, I see as Caban. I feel like once I
click as Caband, then I'll be able to see like.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Ye, that's how i got like, yeah, pretty spectacular.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
Yeah, I'm so excited for these. So I'm gonna buy
all seven. I've already prepared. I've already had to like
reorganize myself preemptively.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Wow, I can't decide if this is going to be
a buy all seven for me or buy book one
and then like have like good gift ideas for other
people for holidays for like the next six holidays.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
I think it's not a bad idea.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
I think, well, I know for me, especially since it's
not only unique cover art, it is a new illustrator,
and we have scenes that have never appeared on any
book before. Really like, yeah, I want to own those.
I want to have those moments because they Carlson does
books well. They're one of the publishers who they They

(07:00):
do books very well, they do art very well. They
always create a stellar product, and I know that I'm
going to want to own them.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up? What am
I about to ask?

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Is there a ribbon bookmark?

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Now?

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Do there's going to be a box set? Is there
going to be a box set? That's what I want
to know, because like, oh, we don't know.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
We did have somebody email Carlson and ask from the
Discord See this is the perks of the Discord people.
Some yeah, but Discord did email Carlson. Carlson said, not
at this time, but it could be kind of like
the twentieth anniversary.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
And it eventually did come out the fact, I know,
And then I was so mad that I didn't get
the box set, like I don't want.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
To, but I've already kind of decided that if there's
a box set later, I'm not going to worry about it.
I'm going to buy the books now.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
That's why I'm I'm thinking of just getting book one
and waiting a little bit because they're not going to
go away, Like they're not going to go way. These
will be easy to find for the next five years,
Like they're not hard. So I haven't decaid, but Book
one for sure. And I don't want to like speculate
and talk too much about these because they're coming out
next week, so like I would love to just get

(08:18):
one in hand and actually talk about it.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
And it'll wind up as our tots like the second
it can anyway.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Why, Yeah, I still haven't seen book one.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
I'm like adding all these my cart right now, like
on Amazon, just just so I can see them all.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
In one place.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
One That's what I did. But I'm like, I don't
have them an order, so now I'm like missing song
or as a Phoenix, you.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
Will usually pull up a book one like and the
bot together for Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
That's what that's what we're working on. What is this
one that one?

Speaker 1 (08:54):
See everyone? It's just it's this easy, so easy you too,
Actually it's not different. Call that just takes a little
bit more time, and you two can can find books
on Amazon Germany. I guess while Melanie's looking at this, Carly,
there's there's not like a whole bunch more news. But
we did talk with Peter about just more.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
From that Understein device.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah you gave the load the low German.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
In the low German mode.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
But yeah, Carly and Peter and I talked a little
bit more about the HBO show, so you'll hear us
talk about that in a little bit. But Melanie, essentially
we're just really excited, Like the more we hear about
this show and the more we see, like you know,
stills of the filming and stuff, like I just I'm
getting really jazzed about this.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
It's so hard because I feel like there are so
many like mixed opinions on it right now. Like I
feel like you get the people where the more information
that comes out, the more people are skeptical, And I
just feel like the more stuff comes out, like I
do question a lot, and I'm skeptical about certain things
as well, but in the same breath, like I don't know,

(10:09):
I'm obviously I'm gonna watch it, and obviously I'm excited
about it, but The thing is is like I am
holding so tightly to the fact that they said true
to the books, and obviously we know a lot of
the things that they've already chosen are like not so
true to the books. But some things are going to
have to be and then some things are gonna have

(10:30):
to be close to what the movies were, because like
there are things that the movies were close to the books.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
About, you know. So I don't know.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
I'm I'm excited to see what their interpretation is going
to be. Obviously, I'm gonna watch it. Did you guys
talk about Warrick Davis?

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yes, we did.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, what are your thoughts on that?

Speaker 3 (10:49):
Sorry I missed out yesterday was a y.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
I don't know. Well, you could listen to our thoughts,
but the general vibe was we all thought that was
the thumbs up. Surprisingly consider that we didn't we weren't
really jazzed on recasting other people that were in the
previous you know, seven eight films.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
I think Davis is so different though, because of how
that's what we talk He's like costumed and everything like that,
and how they transform him and how transformable he is.
I feel like that's why it's going to be fantastic cool.
I'll just have to listen to this episode after it.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Comes, You'll have to listen to that because yeah, that
was We talked about that for a while and.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
It looks like is the illustrator of the new German books?

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Sorry, we're back to the German illustrator. Yeah, I wanted to.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
Make sure to say who the illustrator was. That's important.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
That is important, I will say. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
The more that I do see about like the cast,
seeing them in costumes, seeing like screen grubs and things
like that, I mean, I'm I'm very excited and I
think it leads really well. Do we have any more
news because I have a really good way that leading
into our main segment.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
No, not not really. I mean there's stuff that's been
announced throughout the summer, but I feel like we should
just talk more about that when it happens. Nothing like
super you know, super crazy, Like I think there's a
new Mallory Chamber of Secrets that's been announced. I think
there is, uh.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Oh yeah, that's great news. That is that's great news.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
And then man, what was the other thing that I
was thinking of? Oh, the illustrated Goblet of Fire Interactive
is coming out soon if you're into that sort.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Of you know what.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
All of the feedback that I've been reading on that,
like people are not super happy about it. I feel
like the people that are true like bookies, like I
feel like you're if you're gonna be a millennial and
buy Harry Potter for your kids, like you're just a
right off the street millennial. I'm not talking like Harry

(12:48):
Potter book collectors. I'm just talking about someone that like
I went to school with that happened to read Harry Potter.
You are not going to go out and buy like
the Mina Lima books for your kids. You're gonna buy
the merygrund Prey books your kids because you're gonna want
them to have the same books that you had growing up, right, So,
like they're not going to know so much about the
men A Lima editions. And they might be the people that, like,

(13:12):
after the facts might be like, oh this is kind
of cool, not know who mean A Lima are to
differentiate between the first three books and the fourth, Like
they might go out and get it. But I feel
like the people that are like avid into Harry Potter,
into collecting, or just knowledgeable about who mean a lima
are what they mean to this fandom. They're not going

(13:35):
to buy book four, Like I'm I'm not buying it.
I can't do it.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
No, I feel I feel I feel real, real icky
about it.

Speaker 4 (13:43):
Mine stops at three from from the Interactive Series, and
I mean, it's not the first time we've had fun
series stop at three with.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, I feel the same way. So, yeah, I feel
the same.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Does you're really cool work?

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Oh well, I mean no, sort of like I was.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
We were talking, No, justin talking about like we were
talking about the show coming out casting and like seeing
all of everyone liking costume and everything. And I feel
like I've expressed like I love the Golden Trio and
I love what they've done the way that they are
so typecasted to the book. I feel like they just

(14:27):
look like that looks like Harry, that looks like Ron,
that looks like Hermione. And what's so exciting is the
little girl who's playing Hermione is the voice actress for
the dramatized audio books like that I am like the
second I saw that she's also doing the voice for
Hermione in the audio books, I was sold, like I

(14:51):
was instantly. I'm a big fan of the dramatized audio books.
I pretty much solely do my like quote unquote reading
with audiobooks because it's all I have the time for,
and I love dramatized audio books. I don't know if
Rita listened to the dramatized Imperian like, but I.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Think I do not know.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Oh my god, I'll have to ask her, because ask her.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, I listen to all of like the Fourth Wing
books obviously like the first time around, but now Alan
and I are listening to the dramatized versions and they
are just so good. I can't imagine the Harry Potter
books disappointing in any way, like they are gonna be phenomenal.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
No, I can't either. So let's let's uh, let's let's
pause here, and then uh, we'll hear from Peter Carly
and I from the past in the present with the
time turner and the magic of digital computer. Oh yes,
things anyway, and then and then we'll we'll resume the
conversation about our main segment, which will be about the

(15:57):
dramatized Torry Potter audiobook that was announced. All right, hi, everybody,

(16:19):
and welcome to a special bonus segment the first episode
of season six featuring Peter because he's not available Thursdays
when we usually record, So here we wompomp, So here
we are Wednesday, because we couldn't do the season premiere
without him being here.

Speaker 5 (16:40):
And we also couldn't do it without Mel. So it's
like Mel couldn't do today, I couldn't do tomorrow. But
Mel is like one hundred percent more important to be
in the season opener than I am. But I wanted
to be in the season opener. So we're like, let's
just do a little segment we just made Wednesday and.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
Work you guys. I can't wait to sit and talk
to everybody I know.

Speaker 5 (17:01):
I can't wait to actually be free on a Thursday
so that I can actually talk to you guys. We
have episode.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
We have a full month this month anyway, Like this
month is a month We've got a lot going on, it.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Is, well, so why don't we, Well let's just start there.
Like you mentioned, you're not you're excited to be finally
free on Thursday. How is what your summer was packed? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (17:25):
There was a lot. Yeah, between plays and life changes
and work and it's just been a lot. So I mean,
there's honestly not that much to report. I haven't really
done much with The Potter Collector because life's been crazy.
What have I done with the Potter Collector. I'm finally
like in a place where I can start getting the videos.

(17:49):
So I actually started cleaning my library because the library.
When the library is done, I don't want to be
in here. And when I'm not in here, I'm not
filming videos. And when I'm not filming videos, I'm not
putting them out on the channel. So finally cleaning the library,
have time to do that, and I have probably twelve thirteen,
fourteen videos on deck ready to be filmed, So lots

(18:14):
is coming soon.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Awesome. Do you think when do you think those are
going to start rolling down the pipeline here?

Speaker 5 (18:23):
I think I'm going to start filming them. I'll be
filming them next week. So by next week we'll start
getting the Wizarding Trunk opened up again. And I've got
mystery wands. I've got Harry Potter Chicago merchandise, new wands
that were released, rare books. We've got to get back

(18:44):
into the Top ten Covers series. There's a lot a
lot of stuff here. I want a wallpaper in my bathroom.
I'm kind of maybe not going to do it. I
may have decided I don't want to do it myself
because I've never wallpapered myself and the paper I bought
is kind of expensive, so I don't want to mess
it up. So I might actually end up hiring someone.
But I was thinking, if I do do it myself,

(19:06):
I'm going to film that. But maybe I don't want
to do that, So so that was also a potential video.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Is it Harry Potter themed wallpaper?

Speaker 5 (19:18):
It's not Harry Potter themed WALLPAPERA no Harry Potter is
is is strictly kept in the library. Otherwise the entire
house would be flooded with Harry Potter and I like
my minimalistic living space. So but it's yeah, it's just
real wallpaper. Oh yeah, okay, I have to send you

(19:42):
that my picture.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
One of the send me a picture. Because we had
like four or five options for blue and gold that
we did for our wall, and we ended up not
picking any of them and just painting it. But we
saved all of the samples and framed the samples and
with them on the wall, so it actually looks pretty cool.
Like with the wallpaper samples as art. Yeah, we are

(20:06):
going for that. We're going for that blue and gold
aesthetic also, And one of the choices we had was
on one of the commercials for Discover Card. I can't
remember her name she's in She's in White Lotus and
American Pie. I can't remember her name.

Speaker 5 (20:24):
Yeah, yeah, blank, Yeah, I know, yeah her very anybody. Yeah,
it's actress.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, she's like talking about Discover Card and like I'm
looking in the background, I'm like, hey, that's one of
the wallpaper samples that we Jennifer Cool and I don't
know if I want that one.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
Really funny. I remember her from Legally Blonde.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, she's been in a lot of stuff she has
she's still still cranking out the well White Lotus. I
don't know spoilers never mind. People haven't watched it. So yeah, okay,
so you are, you're gonna wallpaper your bathroom. We're putting,
uh putting getting back in the video series into.

Speaker 5 (21:09):
The realm of things.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah, your show was Your show was good.

Speaker 5 (21:14):
Yeah, the show was great. I'm I'm happy it's it's done.
Usually by the fourth weekend, I'm ready to be done.
But it was such a fun experience. And one of
my best friends, Jessica, played Dolly and she was the
narrator or one of the narrators and in my dream role,
which was Joseph, and Dolly is her dream role, so
I was kind of able to repay the favor and

(21:36):
be in her show her dream and yeah, so it
was Yeah, it was really nice. It was fun. And
then yeah, I'm Carly. I'm also going on a trip,
so that'll be fun. I'm gonna be going to Hawaii,
so yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
You're going You're going away. I'm going away, and.

Speaker 5 (21:54):
It's gonna be so, yeah, it's gonna be great.

Speaker 4 (21:56):
Yeah, we'll be going separate ways on the planes, but.

Speaker 5 (22:00):
Yeah, we're going to opposite directions.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
One of my funnest trips was when I was going
to South Korea. I was flying from Dallas to San Francisco,
and from San Francisco is flying into South Korea into Seoul.
And while I was in the San Francisco airport waiting
on my flight, I see my friend's dad, who worked
at the Pentagon at the time, who was on the
same plane with me going to South Korea.

Speaker 5 (22:24):
Crazy, I was like, what are.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
You doing He's like, I'm going to South Korea, what
are you doing? Is that clearly the same? So we
took a picture in South Korean customs to prove that
we were there at the same time, like all the
same plane. Every time I've left the country, literally every
time when I've left the country a lot when I
lived overseas. Every time I've left the country, I've always
ran into somebody that I know.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
I know it's not going to be me this time.
So sorry, I will.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
Not look out for Eric there or Peter.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
No, don't look out for me. I won't be there.
I found.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
I'm excited to see who I may run into, like
because I always run into someone, I'm excited to see
who it'll be this time.

Speaker 5 (23:11):
Watch, no one's gonna happen. No one's gonna run into
you because you I'm gonna.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Be so sad.

Speaker 4 (23:15):
I know I'm gonna be so sad. Like I've ran
in I've sat by name. I sat by my neighbor
on the plane back from when I went to Hawaii.

Speaker 5 (23:23):
That's crazy, I know.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
I went ran into like a friend of mine from
high school when I lived in France. We were at
the same study abroad program, just different cities. We sat
and chatted about how much we hated high school you
know what as you do. So, yeah, I've always ran
into someone I know, so I'm curious to see who
it'll be this time. And if it's no one, I'm

(23:47):
gonna blame Peter now for jinxing it.

Speaker 5 (23:50):
No, you jinks it by talking about it.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
I didn't know.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
But yes, I'll be really excited. I'll be gone this
the fifth through the thirtieth pretty much.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Well, send pictures all the bids please.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
Yeah, that was my summer.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Good summer. Well, I think we should get your thoughts
because I know our main segment is going to be
about like the new audiobook that's coming out, so without
Carly and I talking too much about it, because we'll
probably talk a lot about it with Melanieu. Like any
initial thoughts, I'll tell you, I honestly don't know as

(24:34):
much about it as I should, so between now and tomorrow,
I'm going to have to learn more about it. But
from what I hear, I'm it's kind of exciting.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
The thing that I'm really excited about is the fact
that the same actress who's playing Hermione in the series
is playing Hermione in the first three audiobooks. I think
that's so so fun. Yeah, Arabella Stanton Is will be
voicing Hermione, and and the just that I don't know

(25:04):
if you guys have seen the little interview clips of
the trio, they sound just like they're gonna be fantastic,
you know, Frankie Frankie uh tread Away, Frankie tread Away
I think is his name is Harry, and then Max
Lester for Ron, and then we've got some like big

(25:25):
names who will be who will be voicing the other characters,
like Hugh Laurie is voicing Albus Dumbledore.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
So excited about Hugh Laurie. Is Albus Dumbledore. I love
Hugh Laurie.

Speaker 5 (25:39):
Yeah, So, like just it's it's gonna be amazing. I
cannot wait and it comes out comes out? When does
it come out? November? Like the first week of November,
I think, And it's gonna be incredible. They're releasing the
books monthly, so then yeah, so then Chamber of Secrets
will be out in December, and then ask a Band

(26:01):
like they're like pumping them out, so Askaman will be
out in January. And but then they'll be a different
cast because I think that the Trio U well obviously
the younger kids will be different because the Trio is
or the current Trio actors are just for the first
three books, right, Yeah, So I'm so excited. Cannot wait

(26:23):
to have that in my car anywhere I'm going.

Speaker 4 (26:27):
And it's really fun to be waiting on the books again,
but for a different reason, right because we can yeah, yeah,
be dramatized.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
Yeah, totally yeah. And then they'll be like narrated to
by I forget what her name is, but she's you know,
anything that's not a character speaking will be narrated by
by this this actress, and uh, they're going to be incredible.
These books are gonna be These audiobooks are going to
be absolutely perfect. I just know they or no, they're

(27:00):
through Audible.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
Yep, I may have to restart my Audible subscription. I'm
a bit mad.

Speaker 5 (27:06):
Oh I'm going to have to for sure.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, not me, I'm just kidding. The problem. I'm doing
the audiobooks through the library right now, not just just
any random books that I'm listening to, And it always
happens where like I'm waiting, waiting, waiting, and then four
of them are like they're available now, and I'm like, ugh,

(27:30):
like I have two weeks, I gotta listen to them now.
So yeah, hopefully I'll make sure to pause all of those.
But when these come out so I have time to
actually sit and listen to them, yeah, yeah, it's gonna
be cool. And then I also, have you seen the
pinball machine out in the wild yet.

Speaker 5 (27:48):
Because I'm not I've not seen the wild I've so
the companies is like forty five minutes from me. Beat
it so yeah, so when me Or and Eduardo were
in I think I can share this. Yeah, when they
were in Chicago for their their mini Us tour, they

(28:08):
had a they were able to see the pinball machine
because they helped design it, which is pretty crazy. Yeah,
so they did. They have one in their shop in London,
which is actually Carly. You're going to go see their shop, right.

Speaker 4 (28:21):
I think you? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (28:24):
Yeah good, Yeah, so you'll be able to see the
pinball machine there.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (28:28):
And then if you're are you going to Edinburgh?

Speaker 4 (28:31):
No, I don't have time.

Speaker 5 (28:32):
Okay, I actually did see their new shop in Edinburgh too,
if you do, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
I was. I did try to Actually, Yvon and I
talked about trying to go there, but I am only
allowed right around two weeks off from work and that
is not enough time. That's four cities in two weeks
is not enough time.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
Well, you definitely need to to hit House Amina Lima
in in London.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
We will that. That is definitely on my list of
things to do and see along with like the tour.
Like I've got four days in London and I only
have like a few free after like afternoons. I think
I've one and a half free afternoons and that's about it.
Everything else is cool because the play is long. And

(29:20):
I've found an Italian It's called the Italian Bear Cafe,
and it's this chocolate cafe pretty much dessert cafe where
they put three different kinds of chocolate on this cake.

Speaker 5 (29:30):
And if I've been there, and you're going to die
of happiness.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
Okay, because goodness, And I said, if I don't go,
I'm revolting. I don't know how you.

Speaker 5 (29:43):
Have yet, but skip, carry Potter the curse child and
go to the cafe.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
Okay, I'll tell you that you said to do that.

Speaker 5 (29:52):
So so good, so good, And they have all these
other types of desserts that you can.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
You can?

Speaker 4 (29:58):
They do at Chocolate and they have milkshakes and hot
chocolate and waffles.

Speaker 5 (30:05):
But I'm I'm the hot chocolate was a little bit disappointing.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
I think it would be for me. I think it'd
be too too thick for me to enjoy.

Speaker 5 (30:14):
No, it wasn't because it was too thick. It was
just like it just wasn't. It didn't taste like it
should based on the videos that I've seen on social media.
But the cake and what else did I get?

Speaker 1 (30:29):
I got it.

Speaker 5 (30:30):
I think I got a like a brown like a
caramel brownie or something.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
And the yeah they have that that looks.

Speaker 5 (30:36):
So good, so good, you're gonna love it.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
I'm which did you go to the Fitzrovia the Soho location?

Speaker 5 (30:44):
I think it was so Ho.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
That's the one I'm writing. I love Soho area, So
that's the one I've told you.

Speaker 5 (30:51):
And that's where that's where House Amina Lima is located,
That's where the Noble Collection store is located. It's a great.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
Area for sure.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
Yeah, so Soho is where it should be anyway.

Speaker 5 (31:01):
Yeah, and well.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
I think she said she'd make the reservation. I don't know,
but I've already told her, if I don't get to go,
I'm throwing like an epic style tantrum and I'm not leaving.

Speaker 5 (31:15):
Have you been to h what's it called Regent Park?

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (31:24):
It was a kilely go but yeah, okay.

Speaker 5 (31:26):
Well that I was gonna say, that's That's a if
you're going to go to any park or garden, that
is the one to go to. It is stunning. I mean,
Hide Park is great, but Regent Park to die Forgion.

Speaker 4 (31:39):
I ate a sandwich and Regent Park perfect.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
You're gonna last a great time.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
I love London. It's it's my second favorite city. I'm
so excited to be getting to go or getting to
go back. I should say, yeah, and I've not got
to do. I've done like the Harry Potter tours and
filming location tours and stuff like that, but I've not
got to do the studio tour, and I've not gotten
to do of course House of Mina Lima because i
haven't been in a little bit. So it'll be exciting

(32:07):
to get to go back and do the Harry Potter things,

(32:39):
you know, So that'll be really fun. And see kurs
Child and Yvonne is like a pro at the studio tour,
so she knows the ins and outs. She's gone quite
a bit, she knows the thing. So it'll be nice
to go with somebody who knows what's going on essentially
and can help me out.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. I'm very fun.

Speaker 4 (33:05):
Yeah, I'm super super stoked.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
And that was the discussion on the Harry Potter pinball machine.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
It was mentioned.

Speaker 5 (33:18):
We this is what happens even when Mel's here, is
like it's like we just go off on tangents, but
then we we always come back.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
To the main road.

Speaker 5 (33:28):
But sometimes when we come back to the main road,
we just like continue on.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
We haven't talked.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
We've never merged back onto the highway. We approach it
and then just get.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
Off at the next Yeah, so I haven't So to
answer your question, no, I have not seen it in
the wild, but they are very close to my location,
and it looks pretty darn cool, looks pretty amazing, actually,
it sure does.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
I haven't seen it yet either. And Jersey Jack isn't
that who makes it? Yeah? Yeah, yeah something yea, every
it's Jersey Jack, I think, and then every every other
one they've made that I've seen in the world. This outstanding,
like The Beatles One's super cool. The Wizard of oz
One is like unbelievably crazy fun if you've never played
it and you have no idea what you're supposed to do,

(34:17):
and it shouts at you like save Toto and you're like, okay,
where is I don't know? It's like quick spell slippers
and you're like, where's the pe the l I don't know.
It's like all the monkeys have your ball. It's like, rescue,
rescue the ball quick. The tin man's rusted, get the oil.

Speaker 5 (34:37):
Yeah you so I would be.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
I'm hoping this one kind of does the same thing
where it's like you're stuck in a trap. A fake step, quick,
get out. I'll try. I'll do my best. There's Baltimore
kill him, so we'll see. I'm really excited to play it.
What I don't like is that pinball now is like
two dollars a game, and the game always ends in

(35:02):
like thirty seconds.

Speaker 5 (35:03):
So it's like, I remember.

Speaker 4 (35:05):
When pinball was like twenty five cents or a quarter
or what is it fifty cents? Like cheap.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Well, the one that I own is from nineteen seventy nine,
and it says twenty five cents on it, but it
is free. So I just played that one oh.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
One of my friends had a Vegas slot machine in
his house by his mini bar, and we would just
sit and play slot machine and it was great because
we always won. I will never be that lucky again,
but it was fun. You had to have quarters, like
you actually had to pay it, but it would just

(35:43):
spit it back out even if you lost.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Well, but it might be someone else's quarter, so you're
winning someone else's money my own.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
Quarters that time, so I won my own money back.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Tasting Well, I know, Peter, anything else that you're wanting
to chat about or anything that you're looking forward to
this season?

Speaker 5 (36:08):
I know, I mean it's it's not this season, but
I mean I'm well, no, it is this season. We
will be totally talking about the new HBO show as
details are revealed. It's like, so Warwick Davis is reproprising
his role as Flitwick.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (36:26):
I think originally I talked about a past podcast. I
think we be guys. We we all talked about how
we didn't want someone from the cast to be in
the show. I just everyone knew, but something about Warwick
Davis did not mess with that in my In my opinion,

(36:46):
I'm I'm totally cool with it. I think it's really
cool to have his back as Flitwick.

Speaker 4 (36:53):
I don't know. I wish I could have had like
Tom Felton back, but as Lucius this time. That's what
I would have preferred. But I think it's just because
I enjoy the actor Tom Felton so much on social
media that I'm biased.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
I think having Oric Davis back like gives an opportunity
to further develop a character because he did a great job,
but he was he was playing so many other characters
as well, and like Flitwick never really got a ton
of screen time. Yeah, because it's it's it's you know

(37:31):
really for the first I don't know, most of the
first movies, his role is just a teacher in the school.
It's not like he's a pivotal you know, plot point.
So it's kind of like, oh, there's Harry and Charms
class making the feather float, you know. Great. Actually it's
not because I don't think he actually does any magic
in the first movie, which is crazy. But I think

(37:54):
that'll be a good opportunity for him to actually, like
act because there wasn't a lot of that in the movie,
and and then it just kind of felt like here's
another character.

Speaker 5 (38:03):
And then Ascaban they totally changed his appearance and make
him a fire director and yeah, it's like what so
this this way. That's the other thing I'm so excited
about just the behind the scenes photos that we've seen
of the costumes and just like cars in London from

(38:25):
the early nineties, that's much clothing, like they're we're not
modernizing it. That's something HBO does great is they stick
with the time period. You know, Prisoner of Azkaban the movie,
everything changed. Hermione's in this like hip pink sweater and
they're not wearing robes anymore at class, and like it

(38:48):
just it told everything changed with Prisoner of Azkaban. I think.
I mean I've said this before, but you know, SORCER's
Stone or Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets, those those
were the most you know, true to the book in
my opinion, and I'm just I'm so excited that HBOS

(39:08):
it will for every season. The costumes will be accurate
to the time period, and cars that are shown will
be accurate and things or you know, whatever so if
people are walking on with cell phones, like, they will
be accurate to the time period, so that I'm very exciting.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
I mean, they're black, they'll have a BlackBerry.

Speaker 5 (39:31):
Yeah, they'll have a BlackBerry, you know in the later
in the later episode or the later seasons. So that
I'm very excited about a lot.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (39:42):
As soon as I saw Dudley in that that pink
and blue jacket, I was like, Okay, this is going
to be good.

Speaker 4 (39:50):
I've enjoyed the looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Yeah. Yeah, I think I think what you mentioned the
costumes in the just the whole era of the movie.
Now that we're in twenty twenty five and we're you know,
this movie is taking place thirty years ago, Like, I
think it's gonna be cooler. Like it it's more removed
from the time period in which it's happening. Yeah, Like
when they were coming out initially, like you knew it

(40:15):
was in the past, but it was so close to
the present almost that when I was reading the books,
I always felt like it was happening right now, or
even like when I saw the first couple of movies,
I felt like the time in the movie was the
same time now, and I don't know if that's because
I was a kid or just because it was actually
pretty close, But I do like this kind of step

(40:36):
back and re examine how things were and in that
time period and keeping everything kind of congruent. So I'm
excited about that because when you're being more intentional about it,
it is apparent. And so all the screenshots I've seen
too just look really really exciting, like it's it's a
cool it's a cool vibe. I'm getting a really cool vibe.

(40:57):
And I keep going back to that panel I was
on with all the other like podcast hosts from MuggleNet
where they interviewed all of us and I was the
only one that was like excited about this show and
everyone else was not. And I'm just like proving myself right,
Like I the more that comes out with it, or
the more they come out about this show, the more

(41:19):
excited I am. And that's good. Like I would rather
like start kind of like yeah, it's going to be
good and then have it grow versus have really high
expectations and see things coming out and just going to
be let down. So yeah, I like the trajectory that
this is on. I really like the all the shots
that they've taken of people walking around London, like there's

(41:41):
Haggard and Harry on the you know, like walking down
the street next time. It's just really cool looking. And yeah,
I'm just really excited, and I'm I'm trying not to
get too pumped up because I don't want to be
let down, but I like the way.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
That's really hard to be pumped up about it, though,
because from what we've seen, I think it's going to
be so much fun. And I agree with you in that, Yeah,
we're further removed from it. Also, it feels when we
see the nineties cars and whatever, it feels dated. I
remember it feels like when we're in the nineties watching
movies from the sixties, which is weird, but that's essentially

(42:18):
the same time.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
Well, yeah, and I had this thought last night. I
love watching YouTube videos from people that do like retrospectives
on theme parks and defunct attractions and stuff. And I
can't remember which one. I think I don't remember the channel,
so I'm sorry that I'm not giving this person credit.
But it was a retrospective on the Marvel's Superhero Island

(42:43):
in Islands Adventure and how it really can't change because
of all the licens licensing agreements with Marvel and now
owned by Disney, and they were just talking about how
like part of the contract is to keep the appearance
of Marvel Superhero Island like clean and nice and pristine

(43:04):
and not let things fade otherwise they lose the rights
to that. But they don't have the rights to incorporate
like the new Marvel characters, so they have to use
like the Wolverine and Spider Man from the comic book
area pre Marvel Cinematic universe. And to me, it's like
that's still Spider Man, that's still the Fantastic Four, that's
still the X Men, but it's it's totally different than

(43:26):
the Disney MCU versions of all those characters, and there's
a place for both of them. And I think that's
really cool to have a a theme park that's still
really really well attended with these characters that we all like.
It is just done in a different way from a
different era, like it's from pre MCU. And I'm hoping that,

(43:48):
you know, this new show can simultaneously exist with the
movie universe that min Alma helped create visually and they
can just coexist somewhere and not saying it has to
be a theme park, but like that doesn't mean that
theme park Harry Potter vibe is going to die, Like
there is still a place for that, and I don't
think it's trying to replace that. So watching that take

(44:09):
on how Marvel handled the two different time periods and different,
you know, totally separate, yet the same character likeness, it
gives me hope that like people that were saying, oh,
this is just going to replace the movies or it's
going to be different, I don't think they're going to
try to cram this down people's throats and replace anything.

(44:29):
So that that thought from yesterday just made me feel
a little bit more optimistic to about the future of
the of the theme parks and how Harry Potter exists
in the theme park universe as well.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
And I think anytime you have anything new, you're going
to have resistance to it, especially when it has a
loyal fandom attached around it, and so that's we're going
to see some pushback anyway. But I think once they
get used to this realize they do like the show
and that it has its own place, like you're saying
that it does belong and it fits well here, and

(45:03):
that it's not going to remove the movies. It's not
going to take the place of what they've you know,
grown up with. They'll be fine. I would. I am
interested to see how it affects what we already have,
just because I'm interested in those things. But I don't
think it'll be for the bad.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
Well, I don't know, and I don't think Peter, you
would probably know more about this than than I would.
But I don't think the Universal arcs have rights to
sell merchandise or anything from the HBO show, do they?

Speaker 5 (45:37):
I don't know. That'll be really interesting to see. Actually yeah, yeah,
I mean, but I mean it's Harry Potter is Harry
Potter though, you know, so it's But it.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
Would depend on what part of the contract because it's
going to be really really finely contracted. So if mean
a Lima is not a part of it, and mean
Alima is a part of you Universal, so yeah, it
would be a part of I mean, there may be
some non competes in there that we're not aware of.
I could see that going on. It would be interesting

(46:11):
to talk to somebody who actually professionally does a law
because I would be curious to know about how this
would be contracted. I would think it would be finally, finally,
heavily contracted. And then what part of the Harry Potter
franchise did they buy? Did they just buy the rights

(46:32):
to reproduce the books essentially, so the rights to use
the characters, or because they're not using men aalima and
they probably are very specifically not using mean a lima
for copyright, trademark and all of that kind of thing,
so and creating their own so they're going to own

(46:53):
all of that stuff essentially, So they're going to have
their own use of stuff. Does that make sense? They're
creating their own world over here.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
Yeah, it's the same thing. I'll send you guys the
link to that that video about the Marvel Superhero because
that's a lot of like the similar wonderings where they
talk about the merch like they can't sell merch from
the MCU. They can only sell merch with the comic
book character depictions. It's the same character, but.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
It's a different contract.

Speaker 4 (47:23):
Get to be a part of that, or at least
the Harry Potter shops trying to get to be a
part of that, But they're so closely tied to min
A Lima and the movies that I don't know I know.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
So it's it's interesting, like and then will the Universal
Parks really even acknowledge that this show is out because
if they don't have any rights to have merch or anything.
Probably not.

Speaker 4 (47:44):
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how it does legally.
I would love to read the contract, like I know
I can't obviously, but I would love to.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
Well, you're going on You're going to Europe, so you'd
have a whole flight to.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
Sift through that I know, but but I would like.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Its way more fun than watching a movie.

Speaker 4 (48:01):
I know. Actually, I'm very nerdy on planes. I don't
sleep on planes. I love the I love flying and
traveling in the whole nine I'm very terrible to fly
next to because everyone's like Carly, just go to sleep,
Like no, I'm too excited. Then I get there and
I'm like zazz the whole day. So yeah, but I

(48:22):
would love great the contract and how they've done it.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
I was gonna say, well thanks for ten to fifteen
minutes of your I know.

Speaker 5 (48:29):
Yeah, it was like, this is gonna be a really
long episode, so I need to like bow out so
that you guys can have a long chat tomorrow too.
But this was so fun, fun talking to you guys
and obviously missed Mel and looking forward to getting the
four of us back together in a few episode. But

(48:51):
I hope you guys have a fun chat tomorrow. Great episode,
and congratulations on a new season. It's pretty crazy.

Speaker 4 (48:59):
Yeah, we're super excited.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
All we did was take a month off and change
the number to six. That's a big deal. It's a
big deal.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
It's a big deal.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
It's on the dropdown menu five to six.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
I said that.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
That's crazy though. I'm so proud of us.

Speaker 5 (49:18):
You should be.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
All right, Well, Peter, thank you. We'll have you on
as soon as you can be here, all right.

Speaker 4 (49:26):
It's great to have us back, all right.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
So yeah, awesome hearing from Peter. I can't wait to
listen back on this episode so I could like hear
fully everything that he said, Like, I'm gonna listen to
all of that.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
So going back, but.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
You just heard you, just you just heard him talk
just now, my god.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
Just how magical? Was that?

Speaker 1 (50:09):
Mad?

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Crazy?

Speaker 3 (50:12):
No, But again, I'm so so looking forward to these
dramatized audio books.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
I think just like as a busy adult.

Speaker 3 (50:22):
It's my main ability to read and absorb books at
this time, and within the last couple of years, I've
just become so much more of an avid reader. I
think I've kind of put like I went through a
big podcast phase and only listening to podcasts.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Now I really only listen to our podcast and.

Speaker 3 (50:42):
Then and then I'm listening like to audio books all
the time. I have like an hour or two and
from work, and if, like my daughter's not making me
listen to K pop demon Hunters, then I get to
actually listen to my books. So I personally have not

(51:05):
listened to the Harry Potter audio books. I think since
Nora was born. I've listened to them here and there
when I'm in the car with Alan, but Alan listens
to them on loops, so I never want to like
interrupt where he is because we share our audible account.
So I haven't listened to the Jimdell audiobooks in full,

(51:26):
like all seven books in such a long time. I'm
so excited to listen to the dramatized versions, like I
can't wait and let's.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
Let's because this is our main segment and maybe people
don't know the history of the Harry Potter audiobooks. There
were two versions released in English. The Stephen Frye version
was the actor and voice actor that voiced everyone, every character,
including the narration for the UK and it the US.

(52:01):
Jim Dale, who's also a British guy, but did the
American versions, and he also voiced every character and the narrator,
and both Stephen fry and Jim Dale would change their
voice accordingly for characters, and in my opinion, like Jim
Dale's like just scale of how different all the characters were,

(52:24):
and like it's incredible, it really is. And so when
when we talk about this new audio book, it's hard
because I'm excited about it, but the Jim Dale version
to me still just it feels it's not dramatized. And
I'll explain that in a second, but it still feels
like it is a diverse cast of people because of

(52:45):
the amount of effort he puts into each individual character
and more or less the consistency of that character throughout
the book. Things sometimes start to change a little bit,
but it's it's really pretty outstanding. Now. The dramatized audio
book books are a little bit different because they feature
like a full voice cast of different actors, so you'll

(53:06):
have the same actor playing the same part for the
entire book. You'll have a narrator reading the narration, you'll
have sound effects, you'll have music in the background. If
you look at the little presser for the Harry Potter
audio books, the dramatized versions, I mean, it says over
two hundred actors, so like that's a lot of people.

(53:29):
You know, it's in Dolby surround sound. It's in it
says original music's going to be coming out, so they'll
have I don't know if that's like backron music the
whole time, or like little snippets here and there. They
have real world sound capture. So it's just really like
like you're listening to these people tell the story, and

(53:50):
it's almost like you're watching a movie, but you're just
not watching it with your eyes. You're only watching it
with your ears or listening to it with your ears,
I should say, which I'm just really excited for. I know,
The Christmas Pig has a dramatized audiobook, The Christmas Pig,
which was really good.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
It was beautiful and it also had like like the
music was absolutely beautiful in it. I think what's so
h like just going back and touching on like some
of the stuff that you were saying, Eric, Like, I
think that some of the things that, like I think
are going to be so interesting for us listening to

(54:27):
them having grown up with Jim Dale, Like, I can't
un read the books in Jim Dale's voice. I feel
like even when I if I pick up a Harry
Potter book right now and I read it, in my brain,
it's in Jim Dale's voice. The way that I pronounce
the characters, Like I will pronounce Hermione's name different in

(54:47):
the first three books if I'm reading them versus four
or five and six and seven, because Jim Dale did that.
He pronounced Voldemort different from the first three books on
like I pronounce things the way that he when I
read them, because I've listened to Jim Dale so many
times and I can I hear his voice in my head.

(55:08):
It's just it's so ingrained. It feels like Jim Dale
is like a family member, you know, And I feel
like this it really is. It's going to be like
more of like a movie or like, honestly, it almost
feels like a like compendium of the show that's coming
out in that the show is going to be like

(55:29):
one episode and a full cast and whatever.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
This is kind of going to be like that.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
It's just you're not seeing it, you're just hearing the
full episode per chapter.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Yeah, that's That's the only part that potentially worries me
is that this dramatized, very high production audiobook that's going
to be I mean, I was going to say true
to the book. It is the book, it's the same.
But then the HBO series that's going to be true
to the book or all the books supposedly, Like is

(56:04):
it going to be like how much of the lines
are going to overlap? Like are there going to be
like in the movie where they have like lines that
they've pulled out of the book that are just so
iconic that they're going to keep in the show and
the dramatized audiobook and the original film, like, or how's
it going to work? So I have faith that there's
going to be a place for each but that is

(56:27):
a kind of kind of worrisome for me that they're
coming out so simply so close together, and it's going
to be as promised a like true to book representation
on screen, and then we just have the book again
by by the actors, including the actor of the place, Harmione,
and like that's going to be kind of weird, Like

(56:49):
is it gonna be hard? Is it gonna be cool
that she's doing both or is it going to be
hard to separate? Like, oh, is this the movie or
the book?

Speaker 2 (56:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
I feel it's these are all just things I'm wondering.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
I think it's going to be fine. I think that
it's two different mediums.

Speaker 3 (57:03):
Like I feel like it's going to be easier to
separate and easier to not compare than dramatize audiobooks and
the show versus the show and the movies. Like I
feel like everyone is going to compare the show in
the movies, and that's just because like majority of people
are visual learners, Like I feel like that's just I know,
like me in school, I have to see things pictorially

(57:25):
in order to understand, comprehend, and decipher, you know, So
I feel like it just sticks in my brain better
when I see something versus hearing something. The only reason
why Jim Dale sticks out in my head so concretely
is because of the number of times that I've listened
to the jim Dale audio books and Grinton. It's been

(57:48):
a few years since I've listened to them, but I
still hear things in his voice because it's in long
term memory. At this point, like Alot and I were
listening to we started listening to like one of the
books at one point, and we like recited the first
paragraph of the first Harry Potter book in jim Dale's
voice at the same time, because we've both listened to

(58:08):
it so many times. And like Eric and Carly, I'm
sure you're like the exact same way when it comes
to the audio books.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
Oh okay, well I'm sure, sorry.

Speaker 1 (58:17):
Carly, I am for sure. I've listened to those each
probably fifteen times each, so many it's.

Speaker 3 (58:23):
So many times I can't couldn't even could not even
tell you I started it like when I was in college.
I went to the library, I borrowed the audiobook CDs.
Well actually started way before then. It started when the
audiobooks first came out. That was how I first got
introduced to Harry Potter, was listening to the audio books.

(58:43):
My mom would borrow the cassettes from the library and
we would listen to the cassettes in the car. I know,
I've actually recently thrifted a whole bunch of the cassettes.
They have them at my thirst store all the time
for like three bucks, so I just get them because
I'm like, I feel like I need to have these.
But that was how I was first introduced to Harry Potter.
And what was crazy was I haven't told this like

(59:07):
in such a long time. But we didn't listen. I
didn't listen to the books in order because my mom
just kind of borrowed what was available at the library.
They were so popular already. I think books one through
four were out by the time we started like listening
to them, and my mom played I remember distinctly listening

(59:32):
to Book one. I remember stealing the last few cassettes
because I didn't want to wait to finish listening to
the book in the car, and I played it in
my stereo in my bedroom and just laid on my
bed and listened to the Harry Potter book. Then I
listened to book two, and then we couldn't get book three,
so we skipped book three, and I listened to Book four.
I didn't read read the third Harry Potter book until

(59:58):
like book seven had just come out, like it had
been so long after that, I finally went back and
I had seen the third movie like a ton of times,
so I've had like kind of.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
A grasp of what happened.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
But like, obviously the third book is like the first
one that differentiates in the movie where they leave out
a lot of details from the third movie to the book.
So when I went back and read the third book,
I immediately was like, Oh my god, what else have
I been missing? And I had to go through and
read them all so quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
So I think, what, like.

Speaker 3 (01:00:31):
What I think is that, like the core of my
thinking when it comes to these Harry Potter books and
the audiobooks is just like, how is it going to
impact to the next generation of audiobook listeners? Like this
is something I would love to listen to these with
Nora at bedtime and listen to a chapter or something
along the lines of that, because I think that listening

(01:00:53):
to these would excite her a lot more than listening
to my boring voice reading them. She just her attention
span is just not there, but it might be for
something like a dramatized audiobook.

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
Well, it makes it more of an event. It's like
like the Tony barks right, It's like it makes it
more of an event.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
Wait should I figure out how to make a tony
of the Harry Potter books? How crazy? Would that be?
Too long?

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
I think you should try. You heard it here first?

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
Can do you imagine everything?

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
We should give a couple bits of information logistics wise.
So this dramatized audiobook is available exclusively unaudible, and I
don't know if that will ever change, but right now
it is only going to be available on audible. The
first book will come out November fourth of this year,

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twenty twenty five, and then every subsequent month will be
another book until they're all done. So this will finish
out in twenty twenty six. But there's just going to
be one every month. So I mean, I think you
can buy them individually unaudible, or you can get an
audible subscription. Either way, they're going to have you for

(01:02:04):
seven months if you if you're starting in November, so
you could either face that out.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
Did you say it's one coming out a month or yes?
Honestly like that that's the plan. I guess I'll be
okay with that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
I wonder what did we know?

Speaker 4 (01:02:20):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
Like the durations are yet of them.

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
No, I don't think so, because I feel like.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
They're obviously going to be so much longer than the
Jim Dale ones. But like even the first audiobook is
really not that long. I feel like it's only like
seven hours.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
It's under I was gonna say, it's for sure under
eight hours. Yeah, and Jim Dale like when I listened,
I mean I listened to them constantly, so it's it's
not like a fast read either, so you know, because
he does all the different voices. Still, it's not just
like a typical audiobook where you know someone's just reading it.

(01:02:59):
There there is a bit of of you know, strong
acting on his part in his version of the audiobook.
So I don't anticipate these being that much longer unless
there's like, you know, a four minute musical interlude between
chapters or something.

Speaker 5 (01:03:14):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
But I will say, like in listening to like right now,
I'm listening to the dramatized Iron Flame, and there are
a lot more like pauses and things for like sound
effects and things like that, Like it does add up.
I'm gonna I want to look and see how long
like the original is versus the dramatized, and then maybe

(01:03:37):
that'll give a better idea. Sorry, guys, what I was
doing was I wanted to look at a not Harry Potter,
but I wanted to look at like the Iron Flame
is what I'm listening to now in the Imperian series,
and like they have the dramatized version and the standard version.
So I wanted to look on my phone and see
how long the standard version was, and then see how

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long the dramatized version was and see what the difference was,
because then maybe it would get a better idea of
what we're thinking for these Harry Potter books. Now that
I figured it out on my phone, I can do that,
which is amazing. That was that was the intent there.
So let's go ahead and see this one is a

(01:04:20):
gajillion hours a gagillion?

Speaker 4 (01:04:24):
Is that the draged one?

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
Yeah? I just want to see to show it to
me in a list, like why why are we being
so crazy?

Speaker 6 (01:04:35):
You know what?

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
I should have just asked chatchypt It would have told
me probably, you know what. Honestly, guys, I'm just gonna
go ahead and say that it's longer. You don't need
no one needs to know that it's uh. No one
needs to know the exact lengths. Everyone could just look them.

Speaker 4 (01:04:50):
It's eleven hours and thirty eight minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
Is iron Flame.

Speaker 3 (01:04:56):
Yeah, okay, that's the regular version because dramatized is definitely
significantly more than that, because I've been listening to.

Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
A jillion a bajillion was it a bajillion or a gazillion?

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
I don't know, I can't remember. Yes, there are two parts.
I'm on the second part.

Speaker 4 (01:05:17):
Wow, part one of two for the dramatized the Imperian
m h. It says eleven hours thirty eight minutes for.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Just part two, part one or just part one.

Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
Part one of par part one of two.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
Yeah, it's much longer, so it's going to be really long.
I think it's going to be very long.

Speaker 4 (01:05:40):
I mean that makes sense that it would be, though,
because you've got a lot more going on.

Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
Yeah, I don't know. I am excited. I mean looking
at audible, you could look at Audible and you could
see kind of it talks a little bit about it.
It does have their release dates on for each of
these dramatized Harry Potter books. I like that they're coming
out with one a month, Like that's what I'll end
up doing.

Speaker 4 (01:06:03):
So Yeah, and the part two of Imperi of the
Iron Flame one. The part two is nine hours twenty
seven minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
Yes, so it comes like that was double Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
See that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
See, okay, fine, you win, you win.

Speaker 3 (01:06:21):
I didn't even need to know that answer. What I
do need to know is what your thoughts are on
the book that we chose for the translation of the show.

Speaker 4 (01:07:07):
Well, tell us about it, and then I'll have thought.

Speaker 3 (01:07:10):
Fabulous okay, because the translation of the show today is
a book that I'm the only one that has this book.

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
It's a brand new book to my collection.

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
I just got it this past weekend, which it's very
exciting for me to get new Harry Potter books.

Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
That doesn't happen often.

Speaker 4 (01:07:28):
It is you buy the box set or did you
buy it individually.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
I'm going to tell you the whole story, Carly, Fine,
hold on to your seats.

Speaker 4 (01:07:36):
Hold on, hold on, holding, I'm holding all right.

Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
The book that I am talking about is the Brian
Selsnik Philosopher's Stone.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
In Hebrew.

Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
Oh my god, there isn't just a regular Brian Sellsing
Philosopher'sone in Hebrew. So my father in law was just
an israel visiting family and and he called us ransomly
and asked if uh I wanted Harry Potter books. And
I turned to Lone and I was like, oh, I

(01:08:09):
already have the Harry Potter books in Hebrew. And he's like, oh, well,
I'm holding onto a box set, And in my head,
I'm like, well, it's either the box set of books
one through four Gold Edition, which I'm dying to have,
or it's the Brian Selznick Edition box set, which I'm
also dying to have. So I said, whatever is in
his hand, by it and bring it back because I

(01:08:31):
want the box set. And he brought me back the
whole box set of all seven books. They are paperback,
but what's so cool about the Hebrew paperbacks is that
they have like a little flap on the inside the cover.
It's i would say, like a lot thicker feeling than

(01:08:53):
a lot of standard paperbacks. But the Mary Grim Pray
Hebrew Editions, which are the original format all so came
out with those little flappies as well, which is so cool.
I was dying for this set. I've talked a thousand
times about how nostalgic the Hebrew books are to me
having them, They're really like the books that got me

(01:09:16):
into collecting translations, so I have always wanted whatever Hebrew
books I could get my hands on. And I also
always talk about how much I love the Brian Selznick
cover art. It's some of my favorite in the world.
I just cling to this artwork.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
I love it so much.

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
So to have like my favorite translation with one of
my favorite cover arts is just an unstoppable combination, like
look at this. Sorry, guys, I'm going to try to
sell you guys on these.

Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
It's great.

Speaker 4 (01:09:51):
And for those who don't know that, the Brian Salesnik
or Brian Salesnick is who illustrated the US Mary or
the US Anniversary Edition, and then his cover art is
found on translations now including Hebrew.

Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
What's really interesting about this, and a little nod that
I just think is like silly but so cool, is
the fact that if you take the covers of all
of Brian Sell's next books, you put Book one face
up next to Book two, Book three, Book four. In
the US books, they make one continuous image, and the
Hebrew books are read from right to left instead of

(01:10:30):
from left to right. However, because of the numerical way
in which the books come out and the artwork is
you still have to line up the artwork from left
to right, even though they're read from right to left,
Like you can't reverse, you can't like mirror image the
cover art. Well, I guess you could mirror image the

(01:10:51):
cover art and do it that way, but they did
not do.

Speaker 1 (01:10:53):
That, which is interesting because on the Mary grand Pray Hebrew,
it is mirrored yep.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
So like, how interesting is that?

Speaker 5 (01:11:06):
I know?

Speaker 3 (01:11:07):
I thought that that was like a really like silly nod,
and I pointed that out to my father in law
and I was like, I was like, look, if you
put them together, it makes one continuous image. But yeah,
the image is not it's not mirror it's not mirror imaged.
So when you put the when you put all of
the books together in order to have that one continuous thing.
So I wonder if that's something that like Hebrew readers

(01:11:28):
like miss if they aren't familiar with Brian Seal's nick
artwork because they don't know to put it in order
from left to right.

Speaker 2 (01:11:39):
I don't know. I just thought that that was like
really quirky and interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
Also, in buying the box set, the box is set
up one through seven left to right, not seven six, five,
four three two one, which also interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
Also interesting. Yeah, I wonder if, like I don't know
what the rules are about mirroring artwork, you know, like
is would that be like another request that they'd have
to like remainbe to see whoever owns the copyright for
the illustration and maybe they say like no, because it's
one continuous image and it's like this is it. It's

(01:12:17):
like if you want to use this, you got to
use it as it originally came out. I don't know.
That's just a speculation, but yeah, it could happen.

Speaker 2 (01:12:26):
See, And I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:12:27):
What the rules are with like Hebrew books, Like if
I was just someone in Israel, like Hebrew is my
first language, and I was trying to alphabetize like sets
of books, would I do each set like one through
seven left to right and then do like I don't

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know if they have different rules for organizing their books.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
I don't know, like if they put them in numerical
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
I just thought the whole thing, that's right. We could
ask this of an speaker too, like a Farsi speaker,
like yeah, and that's why I still love and this
isn't exactly the same. But whenever you see pictures of
different translation collectors' shelves, how they have them ordered, Like
it's just cool because there's no perfect way to do it.
And sometimes they have them alphabetized by the name of

(01:13:19):
the language in their language, like in German, like what
all the languages are in German, So their first book
isn't necessarily like the a's that we're used to seeing,
like Afrikaans and Arabic and Armenian like, and the last
one is in Yiddish, so like that's it's just cool
to see how people do that. So that's a great question.
I would love to know the answer, So if if
anyone listening.

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
It definitely like sparked thoughts. I don't know, as I
was when I was first taking a look at the
box set. The box set in general is absolutely beautiful.
What I like is the books, all seven books are
not like slammed in this box. There's like a little
bit of space, which I feel like is missed out
in a lot of box sets. A lot of times,

(01:14:02):
like the book's very squished and it's hard to get
the books out. This doesn't have that problem, So that's
really cool. They also have like all of the detailing
that the US box sets have. It's the same translator,
same publisher. So and I'm not gonna get into like
Hebrew language. I feel like we've we've done it pretty extensively.

(01:14:24):
But I will do the top scale on it. And
I have got to tell you it is one of
the best smelling books that I have experienced.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
It's so good. It's so good, you guys, I'm not
kidding it.

Speaker 4 (01:14:41):
I don't pray.

Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
I don't have the grand Prey in front of me
to tell you.

Speaker 3 (01:14:46):
Uh from memory, I will say yes, like I think
that it smells unbelievably good, like the smell I would
give an out landing.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
I like the grand Is this the same publisher, by
the way.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
Yes, I'm pretty positive it was in Hebrew? And when
I compared it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
Yadio sfar reim, that was my Hebrew pronunciation.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
You look at the back, yes, yes, if I could
hair hold it up again, it's really little.

Speaker 3 (01:15:22):
Uh. So the website isn't written on here, but I
hair hold it so I can see the Hebrew. It's
a different website now, oh on the bottom. Yeah, ah, okay,
So the first name is the same that is that's

(01:15:44):
the same. Oh it's in a different order. Yeah, it's
all the same publisher.

Speaker 1 (01:15:48):
Okay, cool. So I would expect similar quality because the
regular Hebrew is awesome too, like like for being a
soft cover book, it's like one of the best it
softcover books.

Speaker 3 (01:16:00):
Which great stand out. It's stand out as one of
the nicest soft cover books. I totally agree, so Smell,
I would give outstanding size and proportions. I also would
give an outstanding. They're definitely bigger than the US Bryan
Sells nickbooks. I'm trying to see if I have a
quick grab one now they're bigger. So I just love

(01:16:23):
getting to see this artwork and you see so much
more of it because of how big the book is.
I would give an outstanding for size and proportion as well.
I just think that it's it is nice. It is
so it's just so nice how the book feels in
your hands. Again, I'm going to give it an outstanding.
I'm sorry, I'm like cruising through. I'm the only one

(01:16:44):
that's doing it, but it is super soft, buttery texture,
like it feels so good to hold.

Speaker 4 (01:16:51):
It.

Speaker 3 (01:16:53):
Actually, you know what, I'm going to change it to
exceeds expectations. It feels really nice. The binding is very tight,
so you have to crack it in order to hold
this book open.

Speaker 2 (01:17:02):
Is my beef.

Speaker 3 (01:17:04):
And that kind of goes along with how it feels
in your hands, like you could kind of see, oh
it's hard to open. But I mean the quality of
the book, like if you look, there's so much glue
in that binding, which is why the binding is so tight. Like,
I think the quality is outstanding. That's it's a paperback,
so they really paid a lot of attention to detail

(01:17:26):
with the paperback to make it nice quality, so it
holds up over time, because typically paperbacks don't hold up
as well as like.

Speaker 2 (01:17:35):
A hardcover book in my opinion.

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
But yeah, I would say that the quality for a
paperback what it is, I think is outstanding. The paper
is super super bright white. It's very contrasted to the text,
cover art interpretation to the cover art. The only reason
I'm getting in exceeds expectations and not an out standing

(01:18:00):
is because my favorite thing that the Hebrew books do
is that they change the foiling cover color and it's
not the same as the US Mary grind Prey, which
I think is like.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
It's so.

Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
It's just such a cool effect that it has. I'm
missing that in the Brian seals Nick books. And granted,
the reason why the foiling colors are so phenomenal in
the Mary Grand Prey books is because they chose contrasting colors.
So for example, Deathly Hallows, which is a mostly yellow cover,

(01:18:42):
has a bright blue foiling which is opposite on the
color wheel, and it looks amazing on those books. These
they chose the same foiling colors as the standard Brian
Sealsnic books, which is fine. I think is really nice,
but it kind of takes away a little bit of
the thing that made the Hebrew book special in my opinion,

(01:19:03):
That's my only gripe with the interpretation of the cover
art other than that, like would it have been cool
to see like a mirror image of these covers?

Speaker 2 (01:19:12):
I think yes.

Speaker 3 (01:19:14):
So yeah, I'm not gonna give an outstanding I'll give
it exceeds expectations, but I do love seeing Brian Selznick
art with the Hebrew and I think my ex factor
is I just think the maintaining of and the US
books did this as well. The maintaining of the Mary

(01:19:35):
Grand Prey images for the like the chapter art.

Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
I just think it's hilarious.

Speaker 3 (01:19:45):
Like I love that it's still the Mary grand Prey
chapter art after all these years, Like those things have
stayed even though it's Brian Selznick's artwork at this point.

Speaker 1 (01:19:56):
So that's for the longest time. Those were like what
we went off of to if you wanted any sort
of glimpse all we have a character looked like that's
all we had.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
M h, that's it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:09):
Which, man, that's cool. I think we should do an
episode on like our favorite chapter art from the Mary
grand Prey, like we each pick like one or two.
That'd be fun because there are some ones that, like
I go back and look and I'm like, I don't
even remember that one, you know, it's like from a
chapter or like I must not have really understood what

(01:20:30):
it was when I was a kid reading the paper version,
and now as an adult, like flipping back, you're like, oh,
that's read a skeeter.

Speaker 2 (01:20:37):
Or like, oh, that's uh umbrage.

Speaker 1 (01:20:39):
I don't know, I think the umbradge or something. Well,
that one's pretty obvious.

Speaker 3 (01:20:42):
Yeah, the troll sticks out to me like a sore thumb,
like just that. I like the image of the troll
holding onto his like dragging his club behind. I feel
like that's just such like an iconic Marry grand Pray
chapter art image. Yeah, but all in all, this box
set is gorgeous. I think it's my only other Brian

(01:21:04):
Selznick art that's not the US art, that's not Beller Russian.
I was gonna say, well, but Belarussian is only printed
with Brian Selznick.

Speaker 2 (01:21:14):
So that's why I have it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:15):
But I don't have something that was like originally printed
in something else. I wouldn't get a Brian Selznick art
if it was original to us, but like this, I
felt like I had to have.

Speaker 2 (01:21:25):
So I was so thankful that my father in law
picked it up for me and that I have it now.

Speaker 1 (01:21:31):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (01:21:31):
I think it's neat that it came from over there
instead of you know, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:21:35):
Oh yeah, and where did I put it?

Speaker 6 (01:21:39):
He bought it for me in like a bookshop, right obviously,
so like I kept the bag from the bookstore that
is like all in Hebrew and stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:21:53):
Oh that's a good bookstore bag.

Speaker 2 (01:21:55):
Is that so fun?

Speaker 1 (01:21:57):
Yeah, that's great.

Speaker 2 (01:21:57):
I think it's the Little Prince and.

Speaker 1 (01:22:00):
It is the little prince saying Hebrew.

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
Friends in Hebrew, I have an extra one. There's like
another bag in here as well, but yeah, I don't know.
He was like, do you want the bag?

Speaker 3 (01:22:12):
And I was gonna have him throw it out, but
then I looked at it and I was like, actually,
I'm going to keep the bag.

Speaker 2 (01:22:16):
That's really cool.

Speaker 1 (01:22:18):
Keep the bag.

Speaker 4 (01:22:20):
I love some bookstore bags. I still have some.

Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
It's pretty awesome. But yeah, that was our translation of
the show.

Speaker 1 (01:22:57):
Well, if you'd like to, uh learn more about other
translations of the shows, I don't know if that's the
correct plural Are we gonna pluralize translation.

Speaker 4 (01:23:08):
Of the show of the show translations.

Speaker 1 (01:23:13):
Translations of the shows of the show show that shows? Yeah? Okay,
well Tommy, well let's let's start that over again. That
was a humorous rambling until it wasn't. Okay, all right,
starting the outro again, here we go. Well, and that

(01:23:36):
is all the time we have today for the debut
episode of season six of Dialogue Only podcast. Insert celebration here.

Speaker 6 (01:23:45):
Yay.

Speaker 1 (01:23:47):
Yeah, that was like a C minus. That's okay. If
you like to follow our podcast, we're on lots of places,
especially if you're new. If this is the first time
you're listening. We're really happy or here listening to us,
which is why we do the show, because we love
talking about Harry Potter books and if you like listening

(01:24:08):
to us talk about it, fantastic. But we are on
lots of places. We are all on Instagram. The podcast
is at Dialogue Allie podcast. The four of us are
on there. Carly's at All the Pretty Books, I am
at Noctor and Eric, Melanie is at the Harry Potter
Collection and Peter is of course at the Potter Collector.
We have a great website for this podcast that we

(01:24:29):
briefly talked about in the intro Dialogue Ali dot com.
That really is the homepage of that flow chart to
find out if you're American Harry Potter book as value
or not. I think it's a really great resource. We've
had great feedback about that, so that's also great news.
Also a couple other things. If you'd like to support

(01:24:52):
our podcast, congratulations, you're already doing it by listening, but
if you'd like to take it a step further, we
are on patreons. So if you go to patreon dot
com slash Dialogue Alli for as little as three dollars
a month. You can become a Patroon supporter and get
access to our discord, which is a community of collectors
and Harry Potter appreciate tours and it's just a great

(01:25:15):
community and we can chat about books and have group orders,
like I'm sure there's going to be one for the
new German books that we just talked about. I'm sure
there's going to be a group of people buying those
together to save on shipping. So we just we have
a lot of fun in there. It also gives you purpose,
like ad free episodes and bonus episodes, so there is that.

(01:25:36):
And then I will also say if you go to
Dialogue Alley dot com, we now have the merch store,
So last, but not least, if you were waiting to
get that special gift for this holiday season. I know
we're early, but you know we're going to start now
because you better get it before it's all sold out, right.

Speaker 3 (01:25:54):
It's not going to sell out, but get it because
like I got all of my stuff for summer, like
I have T shirts and that sort of stuff, Like
my daughter has a T shirt, I have a T shirt,
my husband has a T shirt. But now it's starting
to get cold out, So if you want to get
your hoodies, your long sleeve shirts, we've got those two.

Speaker 2 (01:26:15):
Or your beanie hat, beanie hat, stay nice.

Speaker 1 (01:26:18):
Yeah, keep those ears, keep those ears toasty. Yeah, but no,
for real, like, it's actually a pretty pretty great I'm
very happy with how that's turned out. So if you're
interested at any sort of merch, you can find that
on our website as well. But with all of that
being said, it's time to walk back through the archway
and into all of our daily lives and we'll catch

(01:26:39):
you later on Dialogue Out. Bye bye yah

Speaker 4 (01:27:00):
Yah
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