September 23, 2024 • 63 mins
In part 2 of this 2-part episode, Dave, Jon, Ben, and super duper special guest expert, Kathy, discuss their favorite scenes and quotes from Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban. Special guest Caden (9) and his uncle Ben battle it out in a Fat, Dumb, and Happy wizard's duel! The group also explores their favorite heroes and villains as well as some differences between the books and movies. They decide what they're "fatronus" would be (food that brings a level of joy to conjure a patronus) as well as what their "riddikulus" curse would be and why. It is a great time!
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Hey, welcome back. We hope you enjoy listening to part two of this episode.
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All right. Well, this next part, we're going to talk about the Chamber of Secrets.
Yes. So let's see, David, I think you have a little game here with our son, Kaden, right?
Little fat, dumb and happy wizards duel. All right, guys.
Now we have another special feature here tonight, a game that we're going to play.
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It is the fat, dumb and happy wizards duel. Yeah.
And we have a special guest on the show tonight. My boy, Kaden to Mander.
Kaden, how you doing tonight? Kaden is eight years old and he is about to duel his uncle Ben.
You ready, Kaden? So I'm just going to explain real quick the setup and rules.
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So both players have three health points.
Different spells cause varying damage, also depending on the other spell cast.
So like if somebody casts a protection spell or a counter spell, there may be several rounds,
but the first to lose all health points is defeated and the other is champion.
Now, Ben and Kaden have been given basic spell cards, including stupify, expel Yarmus, Protego, Lumos and Finite Incantatum.
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All right. And Ben and Kaden also have a number of advanced spells that they may choose one for the game during the round of their choice.
Kaden, being younger than a first year, he's only eight.
He's allowed to use one of his own special spells of his choice during the game.
Any spell except for no unforgivable curses. All right.
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He's like, dang it. All right.
The spells will be cast on the count of three and points deducted as appropriate.
So just like rock, paper, scissors, if you choose the same spell, there'll be no effects.
Unless you both choose Protego, then you'll both lose one health point.
That's just a rule that I added and made up. So that's how it works.
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Okay. Any questions? Be easy on him, Kaden.
Don't be like Snape when he gets Lockhart, right?
Shoots him across the room.
Do you have your first spell ready in your mind?
Yes.
One, two, three.
Confundo.
Oh, Kaden said confundo. What did you say, Ben?
Flipendo.
Flipendo. Oh, confundo. That means he's confused.
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So confundo causes confusion in the opponent for one round.
So next card, it'll be chosen at random.
That's a smart move, Kaden.
Yep. We just pick a random card for you.
Flipendo is minus one. So Kaden, you got minus one heart.
So Kaden, you have two. Ben has three.
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And this next time, we're going to pick the spell at random for Ben.
All right, Kaden, do you have your spell ready?
That was a funny one, Kaden. Good job.
Ben's getting his wand ready. He's swishing and flicking.
Things in his room are just floating in midair.
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I'm confundoed. He's all confundoed, man.
I hate when I get confundoed.
That's the worst, man. The older I get, the more it happens.
Yeah.
All right, Kaden, you ready?
You're going to cause some damage this time.
All right, I'm going to just point randomly with my eyes closed and pick one.
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Okay, ready?
Do I say anything?
No, I'll say it for you.
Okay.
I promise. I just closed my eyes and pointed. So this is what I got.
Ready, Kaden?
Uh huh.
One, two, three.
Confrigo.
Lumos. Ben said Lumos.
All right. And what did you say, Kaden?
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Confrigo. It does an explosion.
Oh, explosion. Nice.
I don't think Ben's little Lumos is going to help him there.
Yeah. No.
Lumos made Kaden's eyes, you know, squint a little, but he was okay.
It didn't cause any health damage. And Ben got exploded. That's a minus two.
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So Ben's at one now and Kaden is at two.
But now Ben can choose his spell again.
Okay. Get your spell, but not out of the book now.
Ken, you got to use the spells we have.
Get one in your mind. Ben, do you have one in your mind?
Yep.
But good job, Kaden. That was a good one.
Ben's so silly using Lumos.
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What a rookie.
He's so confunded is what the problem is, man.
Yeah.
It was bringing some light to his brain. Yeah, that was good actually for him.
All right. Ready, Kaden?
Okay. One, two, three.
Duro.
What did you say, Ben?
Silencio.
Silencio. And he said, Duro.
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Wait, so we basically can't do nothing for one turn.
Yeah, that's right. That's right, Kaden.
All right. So Ben, you would turn to stone for one turn and Kaden, you wouldn't be able to talk for one turn. So you both are out.
Can somebody make the Silencio a real spell in real life? That'd be awesome.
I know, man. I could totally use Silencio a lot.
Kaden knows about Sir Talks a lot at work, right, buddy? I would use Silencio on him for sure.
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I don't care how silly I'd look waving a wand around. I would use that. I go, Silencio, Silencio, Silencio.
Like I was playing the drums.
Harry would do that on Voldemort.
Two wands, the Silencio and everybody.
Why would Harry do that on Voldemort? Then he can't say a Vodacadabra.
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Yeah, that would be good. He's a powerful wizard, though. He might have been able to do with his mind. I don't know.
All right. Kaden, get one ready. Kaden, ready? Ben, ready?
I'm ready for you.
All right, here we go. One, two, three.
Bombarda.
Reducto.
Bombarda and Reducto. Bombarda is a minus two. It's another explosion and Reducto is only a minus one.
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I'm sorry to say this, Uncle Ben, but you are done and Kaden is the champion.
Kaden, Kaden.
I should have saved my special spell because there's a spell that heals.
Oh, yeah. You could have healed him and made the duel go longer.
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Good job putting him out of his misery, Kaden. That's what we really need you to do. Just kidding.
Good job, Kaden.
Thanks, dude. Thanks for joining us, Kaden.
Thanks.
See you.
Thank you for letting me be on.
You're welcome, Kaden.
You're welcome, buddy.
Thanks for playing, dude. That was awesome.
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Thanks.
Especially the confrigo. I like that one and the confundo.
He skipped one in his book. It was, what was it?
To disintegrate an object or something.
Oh my gosh.
I was like, yeah, let's skip that one.
Maybe not. What's that one called? Do you remember, Kaden?
Deletrius.
Deletrius.
It was the target to disintegrate.
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Deletrius Maximus.
Kaden, I got a friend named Demetrius, so I'm going to use that. I'm going to say, Demetrius Deletrius.
Nice.
I'm going to see what happens.
Disintegrate your friend Demetrius. That's hilarious.
Nice. Thanks, Kaden. See ya.
Bye.
Ben, you totally got beat.
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Yeah, Ben, you got slammed by an eight-year-old.
Oh, man.
Confundus.
Confundus.
Awesome.
All right, so this next part, okay, let's talk about your favorite hero and why. Dave, let's start with you.
All right. So for the second movie, I got to call out Ron as my favorite.
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I mean, he drives the flying car. He's what, 12 years old in this one?
I don't know. He faces his fear of spiders, and that's like a huge fear for him. We see it later in the third movie as well.
I just think Ron's the goat in this movie. How about you, Ben?
I got to agree with you, man. Ron is the MVP of this movie. And he's such a good actor in this one. You really see it.
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He is terrified.
Yes.
He goes along with them, you know, like he doesn't shy away from it.
I mean, he might want to, but he might complain. He might shake in his boots, but you see him go. And that's, I just love it, man.
Yes, that's true. Like the part in the Whomping Willow where he's like, what's happening? And he like squeaks it. Like, it's so funny, man. It's so good.
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What about you, John?
Yeah, the same. You know, Ron is definitely the best part of this movie.
I like when he gets the howler from his mom. And he's so embarrassed in like the red in front of everybody in the great hall.
And then, but just a little side note to that is where Jenny is also super embarrassed that she's getting congratulated on becoming Gryffindor.
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Yeah.
Through the howler. I think that's hilarious. She's like, oh my gosh. Okay.
Such an embarrassing mom moment. Yeah, so funny.
Oh yeah. She got both in one. Yeah, Ron did a really good job with this one.
Kathy, what about you?
Totally agree with Ron. I was going to say too, like, I love that he was really protective of Hermione and was like, he's a good son of a bitch.
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Yeah.
And then this broken blonde and poor guy, like, is trying to defend Hermione and that's anyways.
Oh man. And his acting in that is so good. So realistic. Like, you feel it. Slugs are in his mouth for sure.
So gross. I'm not going to lie to you all. There are two scenes in this movie where in this series where I just want to throw up.
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It just makes me want to throw up. Yeah.
And that's one of the slugs coming out of his mouth because they look so realistic. Yeah. Yeah. So gross.
I'm literally like.
He does such a good job. Yeah. Yeah.
It's just so disgusting. And then later on when Fester, what's his name? It has his Christmas, Slughorn has his Christmas party.
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And the guy, the Dragon Balls. Oh yeah.
It's still gross, but yeah, the slug is just like. And then when they're sitting there in Hagrid's little hut and he's throwing up in there too.
Oh yeah. Yeah, it's so gross.
All right, Cathy, who's your favorite?
So my hero for this one is Hermione because she like went to the library and she found out about the Basqualisc and I know me and she like pretty much saved everybody in a way, even though she was petrified.
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Yeah, she told them. Yeah, you're totally not wrong.
She, she pretty much figures out everything that Harry needs to do to get everything taken care of.
Yep. To help put it all together. Even though she was petrified at the time.
So yeah, that's definitely a good choice that he would for this one.
Hermione for that one, but I totally agree with the wrong one.
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So villains, who's everyone's favorite villain and why? Or your least favorite. Let's start with John this time.
So I'm going to go a little bit easier on this one. I mean, it's an easy pick.
But first of all, we can all agree that Hogwarts has an HR problem when it comes to their.
Their staff. Dark Arts teacher. Right. Yeah.
It's like I saw a meme that you guys know in the beginning of Shrek when he challenged everybody to go off and find Fiona.
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He goes, yeah, some of you may die. Right. But that's a chance that I am willing to take.
I saw a meme that showed that. But like him saying that as Dumbledore, like Dumbledore at the beginning of every school year.
Some of you may die, but that's a chance that I'm willing to take.
That's awesome. Yeah. So their defense against the Dark Arts is pretty weak department.
Gil DeRoy finding out that he stole everybody's stuff and just uses the oblivion charm to take all their stories and stuff like that.
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Man, what a what a bum. Yeah. And he was ready to leave them all down there. So I'm choosing him. Good choice.
Yeah. What about you, Ben? He's not technically a villain, but I would say Colin Creavy.
The camera that was like following Harry around. Yeah.
I put him like think of him as the kind of a villain is just like Harry's reactions to him. It's just hilarious. It's like it makes me feel like a villain.
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Yeah. Good choice. Good choice. Or at least favorite. Right. That was yeah. That works.
Okay. So a little fun fact for you. You know, we talked about Colin Creavy. The fun fact is that he plays a little photographer for Gryffindor.
He became a photographer in real life. Oh, no way. Yeah. That's what he does now professionally. That's awesome.
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Yeah. Yeah. I wonder if he ever got Harry Potter signature.
Dan Reckless like now stay away, Colin. You're the worst. That's the word I'm looking for.
Not fan fiction, but like where it's kind of the same. We're like people take the story a little above and beyond what it was. Yeah.
One of those was the only signature he ever gave out was to Colin Creavy. Oh, yeah. Nice. That's awesome.
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Dave, what about you? This is a tough one. So I think number one for me is Lucius Malfoy.
I mean, you hear it at the end. He's about to say Avada Kedavra to Harry. He's like going to literally kill Harry Potter.
So that was pretty bad. But up there closest Aragog. I mean, giant ruthless spider. He's even buddies with Hagrid.
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But he's like, no, I got to provide for my family. Go ahead and eat these guys. It's terrible. They're both pretty bad. Yeah.
I agree with all those. Yup. Yup. Ditto on all those. Okay. Let's see. What about favorite scenes? Ben, what about you? Your favorite scene?
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The battle with the basilisk. And you get your energy all pumped up for this big finale. I think they really played it well, man.
Like this was supposed to be the big bad. And you felt it. Like, you know, it felt like he was powerful and Harry was barely hanging on and made you root for him and everything.
Totally. I love that scene too. And they did a good job of like filming it and everything too. John, what about you?
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Yeah, I'm gonna get me a Phoenix in case I need some Phoenix tears in my future. My favorite scene though was when Harry figured out everything and freed Dobby.
By giving him the book knowing that he'd make Dobby take the book and having the sock in there. I think that's probably for me the best part.
And then he instantly protects him from Lucius. So if McGonagall had to let Harry Potter up the little spiral staircase with the magical password of Sherbrooke Lemmon, how did Lucius just walk right in?
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Am I wrong or like, he's just like, yo, aloha mora. Like, what the heck?
He's got some kind of doorbell or something. That's awesome. That's awesome.
That's probably my favorite scene of the movie.
Yeah, I love that part too. It's awesome. It's like so satisfying to watch it too.
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And just to see Dobby's allegiance to Harry and when he comes to the Dursley's house and fun fact for those that many people already know, Dobby's first and last words were both Harry Potter in the movie.
But he's like, no wizards ever asked a house off to sit, all that kind of stuff.
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He keeps them out of, they run into the platform and the platforms shut off and they run into the wall and fall over and lose control of their trolley.
And then the bloodshed and all that. So at times you're like, man, are you trying to kill him or what's going on?
But having that be the end was super satisfying. And then him being loyal throughout the rest of movies was awesome.
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Yeah, that's a good one for sure. Good scenes.
All right, what about you, Dave? Mine isn't as meaningful and powerful as Ben and John's.
It's when Ron says eat slugs to Draco. I love it because like you said earlier, Kathy, he's trying to defend Hermione, which is awesome.
And Ron just does the best job acting. I know it's like maybe John's least favorite scene, but it's like my favorite. It's so funny and so good. I love it.
(16:56):
His face. Oh my gosh. Yeah. He has the best faces. Yes. I feel like Harry didn't use enough of his money from the vault.
He could have easily bought him a new one. Like, what the heck? Yeah. His family takes him in and he didn't buy him any dress robes later.
Like that dude has so much bank, man. Like, what the heck? Come on, Harry. It really frustrates me.
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Like, it's so stupid to get worked up over, like, to be honest, but like, it bothers me. It really does. Come on, man. Help him out.
But with that being said, if he had bought him a new one, then Gilderoy Lockhart, he wouldn't have been able to obliviate himself.
So, yep, yep. Yeah. I guess. Pasty stingy maybe. I guess JK's right.
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Those are some of my favorite scenes too. Yeah, that slug one is definitely up there. So, John, Jelly Bean. Oh, yes.
You're supposed to get too deep into these and you're supposed to forget all about that.
Going about halfway down the box. All right. Let's see it. Show us. Okay. Oh, it's dark.
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Is it gray? I couldn't tell the color really. I'm hoping maybe. Oh, it's kind of a gray. It's saucy. Black pepper.
Oh, okay. I wish it were darker. That wouldn't be too bad. All right. Let's see it. Do it, John. Do it. Oh, it's bad.
Whatever it is, it's bad. Oh, no. Go do what you need to do, John, if you need to. Just spit it out. You don't have to swallow it.
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Oh, man. Oh, no. He just downed the whole thing. Yeah. Okay. So he's got some residual.
You wouldn't think it would be that bad, but that was black pepper. And that was disgusting. Oh, dude, I've done black pepper.
It literally is like a pinch of black pepper, like a lot of it. Oh, no. Yeah.
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You got the smell to go with it. So it's like a perfect smelly match, like however they do that. Yeah, man. I don't know how they do it.
You touch as much as you can, because I need to go grab another water. Okay.
It's like, you know, the little McCormick, like little black pepper things that you have in your little spice cabinet? I just ate that.
You just ate that? Yeah. So one of the other things, just real quick, guys, that I talked about the first movie about how Harry is just amazed by what magic can do.
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Yeah. So right out of the gate in this one, you know, when he sees the skillet in the Weasley home, just washing itself. Yeah.
Like, who doesn't wish that was a real thing, right? Right. The whole house, man.
Yeah. The clock changing from, you know, when the Weasley family, when they came home, I find it odd that one of the options was them in prison.
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Yeah. Yeah. One of the options, like, okay, just one other just note. I feel really horrible because this is the first time that Mr. Weasley has got the chance to meet Harry Potter. Yeah.
And he never gets to find out the purpose of a rubber duck. No, never gets the answer. He doesn't.
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He doesn't. Because their Hogwarts letters came. The book to see if they answer that.
You know, actually, that might be one of my favorite scenes is when Harry goes to the Weasley, the borough, right? Like, I love that. And Mrs. Weasley, like, I love that scene where she's like jumps out at them when they come home because they've left.
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Give me the impression. Come on. No car, empty beds. Oh, hello, Harry. Yeah. Where have you been? John, you did it way better.
Empty beds, no notes. Oh, hello, Harry.
Where have you been? Harry, how wonderful to see you, dear. Beds empty, no note. Car gone. You could have died. You could have been seen. Of course, I don't blame you, Harry, dear.
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I love that part. Her voice completely changes for Harry. So funny. So I do love that. I think that's one of my favorite, you know, to add to the favorite scenes. I think. Yeah, good one.
Heck yeah. Scenes too. Like how so. Yeah.
Let's move on to favorite quotes. What are some of your favorite quotes? And let's see, Dave, would you like to go? Sure. Mine's short and funny when Draco's talking to Crabbe and Goyle and the one's got the glasses and he's like, I didn't know you could read.
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I love that. Yes, that's pretty good. I heard that that was improv too. Like they kept it in. Like that actor just threw that in there. But I don't know if that's true. That's such a good pick, man. Deadpan like legitimately surprised. I didn't know you could read.
Yeah, it's so like serious. Yeah, exactly. So good. Yeah. He's like 12 years old.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was legit like asking like, yeah, interesting. Yeah.
Why are you wearing glasses?
I'm reading.
Reading.
I didn't know you could read.
That's a good pick, Dave. Good pick.
All right, Ben, what about you favorite quote? So this is after Hagrid gets taken off and he drops this hint of like follow the spiders. Yeah. And then he's like, why spiders? Why couldn't it be follow the butterflies?
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Why spiders? Why couldn't it be follow the butterflies?
It's funny because in the Hogwarts legacy video game, they have many quests that is follow the butterflies.
Follow these butterflies to like find, you know, different treasure chests and stuff.
That's awesome.
I love it.
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That's awesome.
That's cool. Thanks for sharing that. I think my favorite quote, well, there's two and they're short, but Albus Dumbledore when he's talking to Harry and this, you know, the famous quote of it is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are far more than our abilities.
I like that one.
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Our choices really do matter. Right. And, and then this one from Dobby. So Dobby says Dobby has heard of your greatness, sir, but of your goodness, Dobby never knew. And, and I love that.
Like, I love that like Harry Potter, you know, he was in an abusive situation growing up, you know, and Professor McGonagall when they're dropping him off, she's like, are you sure you want to leave them with these people?
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And it's like, I think it would be better if he's kind of away from all this, but, and not that he meant harm to Harry, but there were things in place.
Anyways, like I love that, like Harry, he has the empathy piece, right? Like that he's protective of other people and he looks out for those that are abused or treated unfair or poorly and sees everyone the same, you know, like he doesn't think he's one up or down, you know.
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I think that like, I just love that because it says something about Harry Potter and like how he treats people.
My favorite is to just like the way he treats everyone, you know, the same.
That's awesome. Good choices for sure.
Because there is like a famous fan fiction that's called Harry Potter and the methods of rationality. Yeah. And it explores what Harry might be like if he hadn't been raised by the Dursleys, if his aunt had married a college professor instead.
(24:59):
He didn't have a mean streak, but like inculcated Harry with a love of science, you know, and understanding things. And so then he picks apart. How do these spells work? And, you know, really delves into that.
You know, he's thinking things through that way. But another aspect of it is that because he hadn't been raised by the Dursleys, exactly what you said, he wasn't quite as empathetic to other people.
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It wasn't on his radar to think of how other people were going through things. And that book kind of shows absolutely right.
That like in some ways, going through hard times actually can help you to be a little more aware of other people going through hard times. Yeah.
It was interesting to see that actually played out in another book.
That's interesting. I think that before Ben and we haven't read it, but that's cool that they have that and a good thought. Thanks for sharing that.
(25:52):
That would be interesting to think about that like other version for sure.
Yeah. All right. This next part is pretty cool. So Professor Lockhart and the books in the movies had all these books that he wrote that really like he stole from other people. Right.
But they had some pretty hilarious titles to the books, right, that he authored.
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So Dave thought of some possible awards or books for each of us. Very clever. So we're going to read what Dave came up for each of us.
Dave, do you want me to go first with John? Yeah, sure. So one thing about Lockhart's books is that there's like oftentimes alliteration, you know, like starting with the same letter.
(26:35):
So you guys didn't know this, but John authored a book titled Goblets and Goaties, a Wizard's Guide to Delicious and Safe Facial Hair Producing Potions.
Yeah. I'm pretty awesome.
All right, John, you want to read Ben's? Yeah. So look, Ben, his was cool too.
He authored a very popular and somewhat controversial article in Transfiguration Times titled The Animorph Paradox, Ethical Implications of Human Transfiguration, a thought provoking piece exploring the moral and philosophical questions surrounding human to animal transformation.
(27:15):
That must have taken you a long time to do, Ben. Interesting, Ben. Very interesting.
I want to have to read that myself.
Who did I steal that from?
Kathy was the winner of the Witches Wardrobe, Bewitching Broomstick Award, Innovating, Daring, and Simply Stunning Fashion, Sweeping the Wizarding World Off Its Feet.
(27:39):
Nice. And for the listener, they don't know, but she's wearing like a McGonagall hat right now. So she's getting into it.
She's rocking it. It's a fake line like lace and all the like. Okay.
I like it. In the Wizarding World, that would be fun. Thank you, Dave.
All right. So Dave authored a book titled Sensational Slimming Sorcery, The Secret to a Smaller You. It sold five copies. It didn't work.
(28:10):
Nice.
Awesome. Thanks, Kathy. Good job, guys. Yeah, it was fun.
Okay, this next part, we're going to talk about some differences in the movie and the book. Yeah.
Some interesting facts here. So Mr. Weasley fixes Harry's glasses in the book, not Hermione.
(28:31):
Underage magic is a no-no.
I had to put those two together. She would be interesting.
No, yeah, she would know.
Didn't she do it twice?
Mm hmm. In the first. Yeah, she did the first round of the cycle, right?
That's right. That's right.
So also in the book, a fight breaks out between Lucius Malfoy and Mr. Weasley.
(28:55):
Oh, man, I want to see them fight. Yeah. It was like a real fight, not like a wizard's fight. It was legit.
Yeah. Which is saying something because Mr. Weasley is so nice.
Okay, this book is where you find out that Argus Filch is a squib.
And so he has no magical powers and he tries to go through a quick spell course to try and coax some non-existent magic from himself.
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Harry finds out and Filch lets him off the hook for making the Hogwarts floors all muddy after Quidditch training.
He's all embarrassed about it. So he's like, it never happens. Filch loves to punish the students.
So. And then in the book, Harry, Ron and Hermione choose to reluctantly skip Halloween after being invited to the nearly headless Nick's death day party.
(29:43):
It's here where Harry first starts to hear the villainous disembodied voice inside his head,
which leads to the trio discovering the petrified Mrs. Norris and message about the Chamber of Secrets being open once more.
That's right. It's like a whole chapter, the whole death day party.
That's a lot in the books, like the ghosts, their stories and interactions with them and stuff.
(30:06):
And in the book, Professor Benz is super boring and he actually is the one to share with the students about the Chamber of Secrets.
So not Professor McGonagall in the movie. He's shocked when he sees all the students engaged for once.
Yeah, that's pretty funny because he's like always so boring and they're like actually listening now.
It's funny. Mr. Benz does not make it into the movies, right? No, he's not even in the movie.
(30:31):
He teaches history of magic, I think. I think so. Yeah. Yeah.
Nice. Good job, Cathy. Just in general, I don't know if it was this particular movie, but I felt like Ron wasn't shown at his best in the movies compared to in the books.
He seemed a lot smarter in the books. He seemed like more engaged, I think. Whereas in the movies, I felt like he was more along for the ride, kind of scared a lot.
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You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's true.
All right. So I went back and found texts from the second movie in our text jam between John and I. And here's a few of them.
So where in the world did Harry and Draco learn those spells when they duel? Never hear them before or after. Right.
And when Harry was hanging from the car, Ron totally could have turned the car in the other direction to lift Harry up or give him better leverage instead of letting Harry almost dislocate his shoulder.
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The car thing upsets me, though. I'm not going to lie. Like he could have just tilted the car the other way to give him a advantage.
Yeah. Get back into the passenger seat. What the heck? Yeah. For real.
Those aren't the best drivers in thinking on their own.
Yeah, exactly. All right. So the next movie, Prisoner of Azkaban. Oh, such a great movie.
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First off, Ben, who's your favorite hero from Prisoner of Azkaban and why? I think Remus Lupin. Oh, heck yeah.
Best defense against the Dark Arts teacher. And he just was a cool guy, man. He was such a good mentor to Harry.
Yeah. He wasn't in any way condescending or anything like that. He just was friendly.
And I thought he was kind of wise giving advice to him. Yeah. Good choice for sure. What about you, John?
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Yeah, it's interesting you say that, Ben, because you could tell that Harry looked up to him as well because when he's teaching Dumbledore's army, he's wearing a vest just like Lupin wears when he's teaching his class.
And I thought that was kind of interesting that he kind of emulates him in that aspect. But I think the real hero of this movie is Fred and George. Nice.
Because they gave the Marauders map to Harry Potter. If that was if they hadn't, who would have seen Peter Pettigrew roaming around the castle? Yeah.
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Yeah, that's clutch. Yeah, they're the real heroes. Okay, for sure. All right, Kathy, what about you? Totally agree with that. Like, yeah, Lupin. It's like, oh, that's so nice because it's Harry's dad's best friend.
And yeah, talking to him. So I agree with John and Ben there. I think too, just what comes to mind is that scene where Dumbledore saves Harry in the Quidditch match. Yeah.
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He stops the world basically, like it just seems like they will just catch him and with his vast knowledge of magic save Harry and I don't know. So that kind of comes to my mind.
He's not so much in the movie a lot, but just so he's there, you know, when he falls, like, kind of literally and figuratively. That's true. That's true. The symbolism there too. Yeah, that's awesome.
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All right. So for me, I gave it to Hermione for this one. I mean, she straight punches Draco in the face. I mean, I love that scene. She kills it at school with the Time Turner.
She's going to multiple classes at the same time. And yeah, she's just a fun, good hero in this movie and book. All right. What about villains, guys, for the third one? Who's your villain of choice? Either favorite or least favorite? Okay, start with Ben.
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So Peter Pettigrew playing the long game, man. I mean, just to find out that he had been in their family for the years. Yes. Waiting for his moment. Like, dang, that's, you know, yes.
I surprised they ain't kind of there. That is a good call for sure. Yeah. Kathy, you have a favorite or least favorite?
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I think Draco for this one, Malfoy, because dang, he's so hairy. He's living in this trauma and he's had trauma. And anyways, I guess that part of me is like, it's so protective of Perry because he's making fun of him for passing out when the Dementors come and like giving him a hard time for it.
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And that just eats at me. So yeah, he tries to get Buck to be killed, too. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh. That too. So yeah, he's definitely the villain. And I totally love that Hermione punched him.
Yeah. Like, she punches him in the face. Yeah, in the face. Yeah. Maybe I'm just thinking I would have loved if she did that, too. Okay. Anyway, yeah.
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No punk with a capital P for sure, man. Draco's the worst. All right. For me this time, I mean, you guys are totally right. And I agree with all of them. All of these, like, it's so hard to pick a favorite quote, favorite hero, favorite villain, because they're all awesome.
But I pick Aunt Marge. I mean, she's like a female Vernon, but worse. Like, she's terrible. Yeah. I mean, thankfully, she's only a little bit in the movie, but just that little bit. You can tell she's a terrible person.
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She's just the worst. Yeah. So bad. So that's the one I picked. She got what she deserved. Yep. Yeah, she did. Have you seen the giant float they do in England of her? That's so amazing when you showed me that.
Yeah, I got it from Kathy. She showed me. So yeah, it's hilarious. Like the anniversary of Harry Potter, 20th anniversary, right? Yeah, the giant balloon.
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The fungus. Like a balloon thing of Aunt Marge when she's all blown up over the London Bridge there. So funny. So awesome. Yeah, that's so cool.
All right, let's talk favorite scenes. This is a great movie, so it's kind of tough. But let's see, Kathy, you got a favorite scene from this movie? Oh, man. I think I'm like the sentimental. I don't know. Yeah, that's cool.
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You know, but just all those scenes where he's talking to Lupin, and it's just they're just beautiful scenes and he's just and connecting to him and having someone else that cares about him in his life.
Yeah. And then when he finds out that Sirius Black is his godfather, it's not very long. It's just a short thing, but just oh my gosh, like that he has this family that love him that he's adding to it just makes me happy. Yeah, that scene when he can't go to Hogsmeade.
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So him and Lupin are sitting there on the bridge. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking about on the bridge and he's teaching him how to conquer the Dementors and things. Yeah. Yeah.
Building him up when he like it feels so shameful about being scared of the Dementors like having them affect them so bad and he builds them up about it actually. It's pretty cool. What about you, Ben? Do you have favorite scene?
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I love that night bus scene.
The characters in it are just fun. Just seeing Harry's face like smash against the window. Yeah.
Basically, I can't. Yeah. Exactly. Hey guys, guys, why the long faces?
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I like how the hunchback uses his wand to turn off the car alarm. Yeah, the beep. Yeah, the alarm. Man, man, that's gonna be mine too. And I'm just gonna do the little quote here. And this isn't my favorite quote, but he's like, what you doing down there?
I was like, I fell over. What you fell over for? Yeah, I didn't do it on purpose. Come on then. Let's not wait for the grass to grow. Yeah. And then he tries to lift up his trunk. He like he struggles to get his trunk on the bus and everything.
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Nice. Yeah, that's good. Good scene.
So for me, I chose when Harry Potter does the patronus to save himself. I think that's a powerful scene and it's cool to build up and the scariness of the mentors coming at him and then it dawned on him and he does like a super patronus. You know, that's awesome.
Yeah. I just want to say one little thing real quick. Like this is the first Harry Potter that I saw. My friend was like, you don't need to know the other ones to know what happened, which clearly he lied to me.
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Yeah.
That's one.
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With a little bit of extra acting. Yeah, a little bit there.
That's just me. No, that's cool. That's cool. Yeah, that's funny. I like the seeing themselves like like Hermione's like, is that what my hair looks like from the back? Like stuff like that. It's pretty funny.
All right, let's go with favorite quotes now. Kathy, what's your favorite quote from this movie? My favorite is this is in the book, but Ron is writing a little letter. It's just one little line, but I've seen it on mugs. It's on t shirts, but don't let the muggles get you down.
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Love it. Yes, sir. That is so true.
That's awesome.
I'll read another one because it's funny. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So Ron, when he's sitting bolt upright in bed and and he's dreaming or something and he's like, spiders, the spiders, they want me to tell them.
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Tell those spiders. Okay. Yeah.
Love that scene too. Yeah. It's just funny because he was dreaming or whatever. Right. Yeah. And then, and then later he's like, Harry talks in his sleep. It's so weird. Yeah.
That's right. Yeah. He knows how to do the parcel time because yeah. Yeah.
All right, Ben, what about you? What's your favorite quote from this one? My name is Trelawney's. Oh yeah. You know, and she's saying, your horror is pulsing dear. Are you in the beyond? I think you are. And Ron's like, sure.
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Yes.
It's so funny. So over the top. I actually love it too though. And now like the contrast between her and Ron being just like, sure.
Your aura is pulsing dear. Are you in the beyond? I think you are. Sure. Look at the cup. Tell me what you see. Oh yeah.
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Well, Harry's got sort of a wonky cross. That's trials and suffering. And that there could be the sun. That's happiness. So you're going to suffer, but you're going to be happy about it.
Rosma, I think Ron's my all time favorite man. He's so good. He's so funny. How about you, John? What's your favorite quote from this one? So Dumbledore is talking to Professor Snape and he says, in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let him swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.
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Yeah.
It's a cool quote and I like the way this scene transitions there too.
Can we address the fact that we got a new Dumbledore in this movie? Yeah. Let's talk about that. As everybody knows, this is a brand new Dumbledore. Yeah. Yeah. We lost Richard Harris. Do we have a preference guys? First or second Dumbledore?
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That's tough, man. I think it worked out. It's hard to say. I feel bad saying it almost, but he was good in the Chris Columbus movies and that kind of like the younger loving grandfather. I mean, I loved him so much and it was hard to make that transition. But then the new Dumbledore did great, especially in 437.
When we got darker, you needed to have the new Dumbledore. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. I can't really imagine Richard Harris in the last one. It just wouldn't really work for me. But yeah. What do you guys think? Ben? Kathy?
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I was just going to say, I agree with that. Like it was, ah, it was hard to accept that, you know, that acceptance like, oh, okay. But I agree. He was a softer gentler at first and, but Dumbledore is the most powerful wizard, right? In the world.
And so he did need to have some bite to him, some strength. And he did, you know, so it took some time, but I think it was meant to be maybe. Yeah.
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Done. Jelly bean, jelly bean, jelly bean. Oh, three times. You got to get three. Just kidding. Beetlejuice. Yeah, I was thinking too actually. Beetlejuice is hilarious.
Here we go. Here we go. Big money, no whammies. I mean, big whammies, no money. Just kidding.
I'm in his hands. Come on. Come on. Feel it. Feel the vibe. Is that like a bluish blue? What could blue be? A blueberry? Yeah, it could be blueberry. I think it could be a toilet cleanser. And you know, ours is blue.
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I think I lucked out. Blueberry? Yeah, that was blueberry. Thank goodness. What could it have been, John? What was the blueberry color? Blueberry. That's actually the only one for blue. Oh, there you go. That one doesn't count too to get. No, I'm just kidding.
Did we get a point? Because I guessed it. Did we get a point? Yeah, yeah. 50 points to Hufflepuff. Kathy's Hufflepuff. So if we're using the points like they do in the movie, that's like 500 points for guessing the right jelly bean. Good job, Kathy.
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Okay, oh yeah. That one's booger. I should not have said that. That one's booger. It's like Hagrid. Should not have said that.
Okay, look, I'm gonna do this one. Oh my gosh. There's no way this is a good one, guys. Brown, yellow. It's like a yellowish. I think it's boogers. Or earwags. Dave, what a booger tastes like, sir.
I have no idea.
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Oh, it's bad. Whatever it is, it's a bad one again.
It's reaction. I wish I could have video at these points. You guys, he's freaking out. Let me try to describe it. His eyes are closed shut. He's bending over his tongue. He's running off camera.
Oh man.
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Out of all of us, honestly, I think John struggles the most with bad taste, I think. He's so dramatic when he has something nasty. It's pretty funny.
It's just like Ron. He's facing his fears. He's following the spiders.
I'll need to eat another blueberry. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. That's a safe one. Find another blue one. Good call. He's gotta leave and go get something to eat, drink or whatever.
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Alright, John's back from dying. Hopefully. Go find a blue one, dude. That's what Kathy had a good idea. The blue one is safe. Find a blue one.
That was straight up either booger or... I called it. I get 50 points this time. 50 points of Ravenclaw. I think that was rotten egg.
Oh, that's what I got that first episode, man.
Alright, so sorry, John. Find a blue one. Get some blueberry in there. My favorite quote from that one though is, I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good.
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I mean, like John said, the real heroes of the movie, Fred and George, the Marauder map is such a cool idea to have and how that was a big part of the movie. I love it. It's really cool.
We have a mug that when you put in a hot drink, the I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good shows up. So that's pretty cool. Yeah, that's awesome. Mine doesn't do that. Mine just has the map on it.
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Nice. And John got me a Marauder's map blanket, which is awesome. Thanks, John.
Okay, so I just thought this would be really fun. This movie introduces the Patronus like we talked about. And I was thinking, you know, sometimes you have a food that's so good, you could conjure a Patronus. That's the kind of level of joy that that food brings. And I was thinking, what would be your food, that Patronus or your fat Tronus, if you will, and it could be either the food that makes you have that level of joy to conjure Patronus and or the animal you produce with that Patronus. So let's go around and talk about that.
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Ben, what's your fat Tronus?
Oh, you know, the food that would bring the joy to me is the Dunkin Donuts Boston Cream Donut.
Yeah.
Conjure my fat Tronus as the short mustache balding time to make the donuts baker.
That's awesome, dude.
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That's the time to make the donuts guy. That's awesome.
Just like glowing time to make the donuts guy coming out of Ben's wand.
He's just so happy eating that donut. I just love it.
That's amazing.
As a side note, Dunkin Donuts out west just goes out east, man.
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And this is, you really notice it with the Boston Cream.
I don't know what it is. Maybe like out east they use the true Boston Cream or something or what.
It's just not the same, man.
100%. I'm with you. I agree.
So all my fans back east. I know you guys just call it Dunkin, not Dunkin Donuts.
Yeah.
All of our Dunkins here, they are all attached to a Baskin Robbins.
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Nice. Like Jim Gaffigan says, a marriage made in obesity. I love it.
The old twofer.
The twofer. What about you, John? What's your fat Tronus?
My fat Tronus is most obviously a cow, like a big fat moo cow.
I love milk, I love burgers, I love ribs, but steak. I mean, come on.
What else is it going to be, to be honest?
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I just picture like a glowing cow coming out of John's wand and it's like covered in barbecue sauce or something.
Like an oversized cow.
Like in Shrek, Prince Charming's horse.
Yeah.
That little thing with his mane.
Yeah, exactly.
My cow does that, but barbecue sauce goes flying everywhere.
It just lays down on its side on a giant plate, just like I'm ready.
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That's awesome, man.
All right, Kathy, what about you? What's your fat Tronus?
So there's this Dutch bakery in Colorado Springs, Boone's Ayers, and they have like amazing cream puffs and eclairs.
I like copy them, you know, quite, you know, so I think that would be the food, you know.
Yes, yes.
And then I'm going to do like some cross worlds here, I don't know.
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Oh, here we go.
But my kids, my Pokemon that they have gifted me is Alchemy.
So it's like, it looks like whipped cream.
Yes.
You know, just like berries on it.
That would be my fat Tronus.
Perfect, yes.
I cross, I know I cross worlds there with Pokemon, but.
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Oh man, that's so good. That's awesome.
Our new Japanese audience will be grateful for you.
That's right.
I said it right. Alchemy anyways.
Yeah, that's awesome. All right.
So for me, yeah, Ben and John understand this level of joy, I believe.
But I go back to New Jersey to that Roman gourmet pizza, man.
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Slice of that definitely would bring me enough joy to conjure my fat Tronus.
And going back to our 80s cartoons episode, my fat Tronus would be a lazy fat cat like Garfield.
It would just be this. I don't know.
I could just tell it would barely walk and it would just be eating maybe like as I conjure it, it just be eating lasagna or something.
I don't know. It's in its little bed with the blanket pulled over him like Garfield.
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Yeah. While he's in the box, he's eating lasagna and stuff.
Yes.
Yeah. And I can only conjure it laying down to I'm like, I'm also just lazy.
Just like on my side. Just, you know, that's awesome.
John, you had a pretty fat cat, didn't you? Yep. 26 pounds. 26 pounder.
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Yeah. I remember that guy. That's awesome.
All right. Other spell that we learn about in Prisoner Rascal Band is the ridiculous curse.
So I thought that'd be fun to ask to what you guys think.
What scares you and how would you make it funny if you're willing to share?
So, Ben, what about you? So this brings me back to when I was young, a wet opossum.
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And one night I take the bag of garbage out to the garbage can and I and I lifted it up and I just saw like the glowing red eyes.
And opossums already are like kind of creepy. Yeah, dude. They're super creepy. Yeah.
Oh, gosh. Horrible. They're super good for the environment.
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They do a lot of great things, but they're just disgusting. Yeah, they're pretty gross. Yeah.
So to make it funny, I would imagine it by getting a hat and cane and dancing and singing like the Warner Brothers frog.
Nice. Hello, my baby. Hello, my darling. Nice.
That's awesome, man. All right, Kathy, what about you? If you're willing to share.
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I was like thinking about it. I'm not sure because this is very vulnerable, Dave.
Yeah, that's what we do on Fat, Dumb and Happy. We get vulnerable.
I was thinking about like when I lived in Colorado Springs, we lived in rainforests and we had all these pine trees and then the summer like moss were just everywhere.
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Yes, moth season. They were just everywhere and they would get in my room at night and they would just like attack me in the face, you know.
So maybe it would be funny if someone was standing me with money or something, you know. Nice.
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Just throwing money at my face and like that's not funny.
That's hilarious. One of those like tubes, you know, where they're blowing money.
Yeah. Grab it as fast as you can. Yeah. There you go. I love it. I like that. That's awesome.
All right, John, what about you? So mine is a out of this closet comes a very, very scary envelope.
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And the envelope has a bill in it. Oh, good one. That's a good one, John.
Yeah, the bill just flies into a paper airplane and goes away. Nice.
Nothing scares me more than an envelope in my mailbox.
That's a good one, man. That is a good one. All right. So for me, it's a call back to our first episode, our fears and phobias of fans at home listeners.
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If you haven't listened to it, go back and check it out because we face our fears. And for me, it's silly, but a spoon of sour cream.
It's gross. If anyways, so for me, I would turn it into a diving board and it's into a pool of whipped cream.
I think that would be awesome. Not so funny, but it's just kind of like, oh yeah, I can I can handle that.
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So. All right. Real quick. We'll go to differences in the book of movies.
By the time this episode is over, John, you're going to be like, I got to read these books.
So each movie, that's crazy. That's crazy.
All right. In the book, Harry plays Quidditch against Ravenclaw and Cho Chang is introduced as their seeker.
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She tells him in an attempt to find and catch the snitch, but Harry is able to catch it first and win for Gryffindor.
So instead of her magically appearing in the fourth one, we know about her in the third.
And she's also a seeker like Harry. Harry's happy memory in the book is learning that he was a wizard.
So an actual memory and knowing he would finally be free of the Dersleys. So I like that.
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The movie one's good, too. And the book, Harry gets the fireball about halfway through the book,
not knowing it was from Sirius rather than the end of the movie.
And what's cool about that is that Gryffindor actually wins the Quidditch Cup in the third book.
So, yeah, that's the only one where they win the Quidditch Cup. All right.
The last little fact, the film omits a lot of backstory concerning the Marauders, you know, the Marauders map.
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It is an explain that the Shrieking Shack and Whomping Willow were first used.
So Lupin had a safe place to go when he transformed into a werewolf during the night of the full moon.
There also isn't an explanation of how James, Sirius and Peter learned to be animagi or animagi.
How do you say it? We'll go with animagi. Yeah, sure.
So they could safely be with and support Lupin when he transformed into a werewolf.
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Additionally, the film doesn't fully delve into Snape's hatred of the Marauders and how this connects to their use of the Shrieking Shack.
So a lot of backstory around the Marauders that isn't in the movie.
I'd watch a prequel of the Marauders. That would be cool.
You know, like Dumbledore, like kind of set that up for Lupin too, so that he could like go to school there.
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He was really inclusive Dumbledore. Yeah. He could go to that Shrieking Shack.
That's right. I'm just curious. What drew you? What made you really like the series?
Oh, yeah, that's a good question. What was it about the series that really threw you in?
Why do you think it caught fire? I think there's so much to relate to in different ways.
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Like every character has something that you can relate to.
I think you talked about it in your psychology portion of the show about, you know, rooting for the underdog.
And I think kicking off from the first book and movie, there's this boy that doesn't have anything
and finds out that he has this special gift.
And I don't know, like it just it sucks you right in into this magical world.
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That's that's really cool. So I don't know what other thoughts you guys have.
For me, it was the opposite. I refused to watch this for a long time.
Yeah. And a lot of it, I'm not going to lie to you.
Baltimore, just looking at him like the bits I've seen freak me out because you have a nose.
Yeah, dude. And I was like, I don't want to watch that.
So then I went and watched the third one. And then I was like, you know what?
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Let me start over. Let me watch from the beginning. And now I watch twice.
Yeah. A lot of the CGI is what got me.
Like when you see them, like with the vaults and stuff, he's just like, you know, he goes down the vault.
And it does all the little things like that. You know, just like Harry finding out what magic is.
I kind of went along with that at the same time. Yeah.
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Because of the CGI and the things they were able to do to us. That was pretty cool.
That is cool. I think for me, like, yeah, just there's so much.
But you know, like how I feel about Harry Potter.
And yeah, I just agree with everything you guys have said.
And I think it's really cathartic for me to like watch the movies and just like the struggle.
And being able to problem solve and conquer and all the themes. I just love it.
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And I, J.K. Rowling did a phenomenal job of writing and inspiring the movies, you know.
And there's so much I'm going to put a plug in here, John, for reading the books again,
because there's so much more in there and the humor.
And she just gets the characters like these characters are fantastic.
Like the way she writes Fred and George and their humor and the wise Dumbledore and his wisdom and strength.
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I just love how she has developed this world for us to immerse ourselves in and relate to the characters and our own lives.
And it's just magical. I just love that.
Yeah. When we like read that first book, I was like, oh, this seems really popular.
I thought of the book store and like, well, this would be a cheap date.
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And we got a hug. Yeah, we did.
Yeah, I think the popularity stems from the book because of the books.
Yeah, for sure. Especially because like parents were having their kids read the books and the books were lengthy.
And then they got to go see the movie as a reward kind of sometimes. Yeah.
I think the books being as popular first as they were, I think that led to the success of the movies. For sure.
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And the books appeal to kids and adults. Like it's so good. Yeah.
So during the weekends that the Harry Potter books were released, the number of children who went to the ER with injuries dropped by half.
What? Yeah. They're all busy reading. Being safe.
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You know, they were released. They were reading the books at home. That says something.
Oh my gosh. That's insane. You know, you're sending.
That's an insane stat. Yeah. I just. Yeah. It's awesome.
Go read some books, kids. Yes. Maybe adults, too.
What about you, Ben? So for me, it's different for the books and the movies.
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For me, the books, what drew me in was just like the first one was just, you know, magical.
And like I say, taking a kid that is in a really rough place and then allowing him to be able to do amazing things.
Yeah. Love it. Taken out of poverty, in a sense, like rags to riches kind of story, in a sense. You know what I mean?
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And then I just loved throughout the series how much growth he has and depth.
Honestly, at the beginning, I kind of got annoyed with him sometimes because he's talking about people forgetting his birthday or, you know, just things like, you know, I can understand as a kid that age, but also kind of want to come on, man, grow up a little bit.
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Yeah. Yeah. Like, don't forget your own friend's birthdays and stuff, you know, and over the period of the books, you see him, you know, overcome those weaknesses and stuff.
Yeah. And so I love that about the books with the movies. It just came out at the perfect time, because if it had come out earlier, if you imagine, like John was saying, the special effects and just like the cinematography of all, like if it had come out during the clash of the titans,
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time, it would have just been kind of a little bit corny, you know, just like, wouldn't have been able to pull it off so well. And the acting, every single actor in this movie is like, and all of the movies are so phenomenal.
Yes. Especially that third one. I mean, these are like top tier actors coming in and doing these movies. And every little expression on their face.
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It's just amazing that they could pull that off of kids too, you know, even the kids were amazing, you know, usually when you have a lot of kids, like there's a couple of them that like are pretty good and you can tell the others maybe aren't so great.
But man, they really got good acting out of each of them. Those two things like the special effects and the quality of the acting made it something that I want to watch again.
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Totally agree. You know, but like actually really liked it. And the degree to which they kept to the books as much as they could was pretty good because so many other books to movies miss some of the heart of it.
They had to cut stuff out because of the length of these books, man. Like it's totally understandable. But I feel like they kept to the heart of it, like really pretty good compared to so many others.
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That's true. Coming back to it, you know, it's like it's a good movie. Yeah, well she helped with it. Right. I mean, yes, she comes all the way through. Yeah.
She's awesome. It was really good.
All right, everybody. Thank you so much. That was Harry Potter one, two and three. Next coming up. Well, obviously we'll do four and five, but I want to give a special thank you to our headmaster David Albus Dumbledore. We got our potions master, Miss Kathy, and we got Ben, our professor of the defense of the dark arts and me the muggle.
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All right. Well, this next part, we're going to talk about the Chamber of Secrets.
Yes. So let's see, David, I think you have a little game here with our son, Kaden, right?
Little fat, dumb and happy wizards duel. All right, guys.
Now we have another special feature here tonight, a game that we're going to play.
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It is the fat, dumb and happy wizards duel. Yeah.
And we have a special guest on the show tonight. My boy, Kaden to Mander.
Kaden, how you doing tonight? Kaden is eight years old and he is about to duel his uncle Ben.
You ready, Kaden? So I'm just going to explain real quick the setup and rules.
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So both players have three health points.
Different spells cause varying damage, also depending on the other spell cast.
So like if somebody casts a protection spell or a counter spell, there may be several rounds,
but the first to lose all health points is defeated and the other is champion.
Now, Ben and Kaden have been given basic spell cards, including stupify, expel Yarmus, Protego, Lumos and Finite Incantatum.
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All right. And Ben and Kaden also have a number of advanced spells that they may choose one for the game during the round of their choice.
Kaden, being younger than a first year, he's only eight.
He's allowed to use one of his own special spells of his choice during the game.
Any spell except for no unforgivable curses. All right.
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He's like, dang it. All right.
The spells will be cast on the count of three and points deducted as appropriate.
So just like rock, paper, scissors, if you choose the same spell, there'll be no effects.
Unless you both choose Protego, then you'll both lose one health point.
That's just a rule that I added and made up. So that's how it works.
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Okay. Any questions? Be easy on him, Kaden.
Don't be like Snape when he gets Lockhart, right?
Shoots him across the room.
Do you have your first spell ready in your mind?
Yes.
One, two, three.
Confundo.
Oh, Kaden said confundo. What did you say, Ben?
Flipendo.
Flipendo. Oh, confundo. That means he's confused.
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So confundo causes confusion in the opponent for one round.
So next card, it'll be chosen at random.
That's a smart move, Kaden.
Yep. We just pick a random card for you.
Flipendo is minus one. So Kaden, you got minus one heart.
So Kaden, you have two. Ben has three.
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And this next time, we're going to pick the spell at random for Ben.
All right, Kaden, do you have your spell ready?
That was a funny one, Kaden. Good job.
Ben's getting his wand ready. He's swishing and flicking.
Things in his room are just floating in midair.
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I'm confundoed. He's all confundoed, man.
I hate when I get confundoed.
That's the worst, man. The older I get, the more it happens.
Yeah.
All right, Kaden, you ready?
You're going to cause some damage this time.
All right, I'm going to just point randomly with my eyes closed and pick one.
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Okay, ready?
Do I say anything?
No, I'll say it for you.
Okay.
I promise. I just closed my eyes and pointed. So this is what I got.
Ready, Kaden?
Uh huh.
One, two, three.
Confrigo.
Lumos. Ben said Lumos.
All right. And what did you say, Kaden?
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Confrigo. It does an explosion.
Oh, explosion. Nice.
I don't think Ben's little Lumos is going to help him there.
Yeah. No.
Lumos made Kaden's eyes, you know, squint a little, but he was okay.
It didn't cause any health damage. And Ben got exploded. That's a minus two.
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So Ben's at one now and Kaden is at two.
But now Ben can choose his spell again.
Okay. Get your spell, but not out of the book now.
Ken, you got to use the spells we have.
Get one in your mind. Ben, do you have one in your mind?
Yep.
But good job, Kaden. That was a good one.
Ben's so silly using Lumos.
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What a rookie.
He's so confunded is what the problem is, man.
Yeah.
It was bringing some light to his brain. Yeah, that was good actually for him.
All right. Ready, Kaden?
Okay. One, two, three.
Duro.
What did you say, Ben?
Silencio.
Silencio. And he said, Duro.
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Wait, so we basically can't do nothing for one turn.
Yeah, that's right. That's right, Kaden.
All right. So Ben, you would turn to stone for one turn and Kaden, you wouldn't be able to talk for one turn. So you both are out.
Can somebody make the Silencio a real spell in real life? That'd be awesome.
I know, man. I could totally use Silencio a lot.
Kaden knows about Sir Talks a lot at work, right, buddy? I would use Silencio on him for sure.
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I don't care how silly I'd look waving a wand around. I would use that. I go, Silencio, Silencio, Silencio.
Like I was playing the drums.
Harry would do that on Voldemort.
Two wands, the Silencio and everybody.
Why would Harry do that on Voldemort? Then he can't say a Vodacadabra.
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Yeah, that would be good. He's a powerful wizard, though. He might have been able to do with his mind. I don't know.
All right. Kaden, get one ready. Kaden, ready? Ben, ready?
I'm ready for you.
All right, here we go. One, two, three.
Bombarda.
Reducto.
Bombarda and Reducto. Bombarda is a minus two. It's another explosion and Reducto is only a minus one.
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I'm sorry to say this, Uncle Ben, but you are done and Kaden is the champion.
Kaden, Kaden.
I should have saved my special spell because there's a spell that heals.
Oh, yeah. You could have healed him and made the duel go longer.
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Good job putting him out of his misery, Kaden. That's what we really need you to do. Just kidding.
Good job, Kaden.
Thanks, dude. Thanks for joining us, Kaden.
Thanks.
See you.
Thank you for letting me be on.
You're welcome, Kaden.
You're welcome, buddy.
Thanks for playing, dude. That was awesome.
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Thanks.
Especially the confrigo. I like that one and the confundo.
He skipped one in his book. It was, what was it?
To disintegrate an object or something.
Oh my gosh.
I was like, yeah, let's skip that one.
Maybe not. What's that one called? Do you remember, Kaden?
Deletrius.
Deletrius.
It was the target to disintegrate.
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Deletrius Maximus.
Kaden, I got a friend named Demetrius, so I'm going to use that. I'm going to say, Demetrius Deletrius.
Nice.
I'm going to see what happens.
Disintegrate your friend Demetrius. That's hilarious.
Nice. Thanks, Kaden. See ya.
Bye.
Ben, you totally got beat.
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Yeah, Ben, you got slammed by an eight-year-old.
Oh, man.
Confundus.
Confundus.
Awesome.
All right, so this next part, okay, let's talk about your favorite hero and why. Dave, let's start with you.
All right. So for the second movie, I got to call out Ron as my favorite.
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I mean, he drives the flying car. He's what, 12 years old in this one?
I don't know. He faces his fear of spiders, and that's like a huge fear for him. We see it later in the third movie as well.
I just think Ron's the goat in this movie. How about you, Ben?
I got to agree with you, man. Ron is the MVP of this movie. And he's such a good actor in this one. You really see it.
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He is terrified.
Yes.
He goes along with them, you know, like he doesn't shy away from it.
I mean, he might want to, but he might complain. He might shake in his boots, but you see him go. And that's, I just love it, man.
Yes, that's true. Like the part in the Whomping Willow where he's like, what's happening? And he like squeaks it. Like, it's so funny, man. It's so good.
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What about you, John?
Yeah, the same. You know, Ron is definitely the best part of this movie.
I like when he gets the howler from his mom. And he's so embarrassed in like the red in front of everybody in the great hall.
And then, but just a little side note to that is where Jenny is also super embarrassed that she's getting congratulated on becoming Gryffindor.
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Yeah.
Through the howler. I think that's hilarious. She's like, oh my gosh. Okay.
Such an embarrassing mom moment. Yeah, so funny.
Oh yeah. She got both in one. Yeah, Ron did a really good job with this one.
Kathy, what about you?
Totally agree with Ron. I was going to say too, like, I love that he was really protective of Hermione and was like, he's a good son of a bitch.
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Yeah.
And then this broken blonde and poor guy, like, is trying to defend Hermione and that's anyways.
Oh man. And his acting in that is so good. So realistic. Like, you feel it. Slugs are in his mouth for sure.
So gross. I'm not going to lie to you all. There are two scenes in this movie where in this series where I just want to throw up.
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It just makes me want to throw up. Yeah.
And that's one of the slugs coming out of his mouth because they look so realistic. Yeah. Yeah. So gross.
I'm literally like.
He does such a good job. Yeah. Yeah.
It's just so disgusting. And then later on when Fester, what's his name? It has his Christmas, Slughorn has his Christmas party.
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And the guy, the Dragon Balls. Oh yeah.
It's still gross, but yeah, the slug is just like. And then when they're sitting there in Hagrid's little hut and he's throwing up in there too.
Oh yeah. Yeah, it's so gross.
All right, Cathy, who's your favorite?
So my hero for this one is Hermione because she like went to the library and she found out about the Basqualisc and I know me and she like pretty much saved everybody in a way, even though she was petrified.
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Yeah, she told them. Yeah, you're totally not wrong.
She, she pretty much figures out everything that Harry needs to do to get everything taken care of.
Yep. To help put it all together. Even though she was petrified at the time.
So yeah, that's definitely a good choice that he would for this one.
Hermione for that one, but I totally agree with the wrong one.
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So villains, who's everyone's favorite villain and why? Or your least favorite. Let's start with John this time.
So I'm going to go a little bit easier on this one. I mean, it's an easy pick.
But first of all, we can all agree that Hogwarts has an HR problem when it comes to their.
Their staff. Dark Arts teacher. Right. Yeah.
It's like I saw a meme that you guys know in the beginning of Shrek when he challenged everybody to go off and find Fiona.
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He goes, yeah, some of you may die. Right. But that's a chance that I am willing to take.
I saw a meme that showed that. But like him saying that as Dumbledore, like Dumbledore at the beginning of every school year.
Some of you may die, but that's a chance that I'm willing to take.
That's awesome. Yeah. So their defense against the Dark Arts is pretty weak department.
Gil DeRoy finding out that he stole everybody's stuff and just uses the oblivion charm to take all their stories and stuff like that.
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Man, what a what a bum. Yeah. And he was ready to leave them all down there. So I'm choosing him. Good choice.
Yeah. What about you, Ben? He's not technically a villain, but I would say Colin Creavy.
The camera that was like following Harry around. Yeah.
I put him like think of him as the kind of a villain is just like Harry's reactions to him. It's just hilarious. It's like it makes me feel like a villain.
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Yeah. Good choice. Good choice. Or at least favorite. Right. That was yeah. That works.
Okay. So a little fun fact for you. You know, we talked about Colin Creavy. The fun fact is that he plays a little photographer for Gryffindor.
He became a photographer in real life. Oh, no way. Yeah. That's what he does now professionally. That's awesome.
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Yeah. Yeah. I wonder if he ever got Harry Potter signature.
Dan Reckless like now stay away, Colin. You're the worst. That's the word I'm looking for.
Not fan fiction, but like where it's kind of the same. We're like people take the story a little above and beyond what it was. Yeah.
One of those was the only signature he ever gave out was to Colin Creavy. Oh, yeah. Nice. That's awesome.
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Dave, what about you? This is a tough one. So I think number one for me is Lucius Malfoy.
I mean, you hear it at the end. He's about to say Avada Kedavra to Harry. He's like going to literally kill Harry Potter.
So that was pretty bad. But up there closest Aragog. I mean, giant ruthless spider. He's even buddies with Hagrid.
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But he's like, no, I got to provide for my family. Go ahead and eat these guys. It's terrible. They're both pretty bad. Yeah.
I agree with all those. Yup. Yup. Ditto on all those. Okay. Let's see. What about favorite scenes? Ben, what about you? Your favorite scene?
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The battle with the basilisk. And you get your energy all pumped up for this big finale. I think they really played it well, man.
Like this was supposed to be the big bad. And you felt it. Like, you know, it felt like he was powerful and Harry was barely hanging on and made you root for him and everything.
Totally. I love that scene too. And they did a good job of like filming it and everything too. John, what about you?
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Yeah, I'm gonna get me a Phoenix in case I need some Phoenix tears in my future. My favorite scene though was when Harry figured out everything and freed Dobby.
By giving him the book knowing that he'd make Dobby take the book and having the sock in there. I think that's probably for me the best part.
And then he instantly protects him from Lucius. So if McGonagall had to let Harry Potter up the little spiral staircase with the magical password of Sherbrooke Lemmon, how did Lucius just walk right in?
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Am I wrong or like, he's just like, yo, aloha mora. Like, what the heck?
He's got some kind of doorbell or something. That's awesome. That's awesome.
That's probably my favorite scene of the movie.
Yeah, I love that part too. It's awesome. It's like so satisfying to watch it too.
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And just to see Dobby's allegiance to Harry and when he comes to the Dursley's house and fun fact for those that many people already know, Dobby's first and last words were both Harry Potter in the movie.
But he's like, no wizards ever asked a house off to sit, all that kind of stuff.
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He keeps them out of, they run into the platform and the platforms shut off and they run into the wall and fall over and lose control of their trolley.
And then the bloodshed and all that. So at times you're like, man, are you trying to kill him or what's going on?
But having that be the end was super satisfying. And then him being loyal throughout the rest of movies was awesome.
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Yeah, that's a good one for sure. Good scenes.
All right, what about you, Dave? Mine isn't as meaningful and powerful as Ben and John's.
It's when Ron says eat slugs to Draco. I love it because like you said earlier, Kathy, he's trying to defend Hermione, which is awesome.
And Ron just does the best job acting. I know it's like maybe John's least favorite scene, but it's like my favorite. It's so funny and so good. I love it.
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His face. Oh my gosh. Yeah. He has the best faces. Yes. I feel like Harry didn't use enough of his money from the vault.
He could have easily bought him a new one. Like, what the heck? Yeah. His family takes him in and he didn't buy him any dress robes later.
Like that dude has so much bank, man. Like, what the heck? Come on, Harry. It really frustrates me.
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Like, it's so stupid to get worked up over, like, to be honest, but like, it bothers me. It really does. Come on, man. Help him out.
But with that being said, if he had bought him a new one, then Gilderoy Lockhart, he wouldn't have been able to obliviate himself.
So, yep, yep. Yeah. I guess. Pasty stingy maybe. I guess JK's right.
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Those are some of my favorite scenes too. Yeah, that slug one is definitely up there. So, John, Jelly Bean. Oh, yes.
You're supposed to get too deep into these and you're supposed to forget all about that.
Going about halfway down the box. All right. Let's see it. Show us. Okay. Oh, it's dark.
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Is it gray? I couldn't tell the color really. I'm hoping maybe. Oh, it's kind of a gray. It's saucy. Black pepper.
Oh, okay. I wish it were darker. That wouldn't be too bad. All right. Let's see it. Do it, John. Do it. Oh, it's bad.
Whatever it is, it's bad. Oh, no. Go do what you need to do, John, if you need to. Just spit it out. You don't have to swallow it.
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Oh, man. Oh, no. He just downed the whole thing. Yeah. Okay. So he's got some residual.
You wouldn't think it would be that bad, but that was black pepper. And that was disgusting. Oh, dude, I've done black pepper.
It literally is like a pinch of black pepper, like a lot of it. Oh, no. Yeah.
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You got the smell to go with it. So it's like a perfect smelly match, like however they do that. Yeah, man. I don't know how they do it.
You touch as much as you can, because I need to go grab another water. Okay.
It's like, you know, the little McCormick, like little black pepper things that you have in your little spice cabinet? I just ate that.
You just ate that? Yeah. So one of the other things, just real quick, guys, that I talked about the first movie about how Harry is just amazed by what magic can do.
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Yeah. So right out of the gate in this one, you know, when he sees the skillet in the Weasley home, just washing itself. Yeah.
Like, who doesn't wish that was a real thing, right? Right. The whole house, man.
Yeah. The clock changing from, you know, when the Weasley family, when they came home, I find it odd that one of the options was them in prison.
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Yeah. Yeah. One of the options, like, okay, just one other just note. I feel really horrible because this is the first time that Mr. Weasley has got the chance to meet Harry Potter. Yeah.
And he never gets to find out the purpose of a rubber duck. No, never gets the answer. He doesn't.
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He doesn't. Because their Hogwarts letters came. The book to see if they answer that.
You know, actually, that might be one of my favorite scenes is when Harry goes to the Weasley, the borough, right? Like, I love that. And Mrs. Weasley, like, I love that scene where she's like jumps out at them when they come home because they've left.
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Give me the impression. Come on. No car, empty beds. Oh, hello, Harry. Yeah. Where have you been? John, you did it way better.
Empty beds, no notes. Oh, hello, Harry.
Where have you been? Harry, how wonderful to see you, dear. Beds empty, no note. Car gone. You could have died. You could have been seen. Of course, I don't blame you, Harry, dear.
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I love that part. Her voice completely changes for Harry. So funny. So I do love that. I think that's one of my favorite, you know, to add to the favorite scenes. I think. Yeah, good one.
Heck yeah. Scenes too. Like how so. Yeah.
Let's move on to favorite quotes. What are some of your favorite quotes? And let's see, Dave, would you like to go? Sure. Mine's short and funny when Draco's talking to Crabbe and Goyle and the one's got the glasses and he's like, I didn't know you could read.
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I love that. Yes, that's pretty good. I heard that that was improv too. Like they kept it in. Like that actor just threw that in there. But I don't know if that's true. That's such a good pick, man. Deadpan like legitimately surprised. I didn't know you could read.
Yeah, it's so like serious. Yeah, exactly. So good. Yeah. He's like 12 years old.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was legit like asking like, yeah, interesting. Yeah.
Why are you wearing glasses?
I'm reading.
Reading.
I didn't know you could read.
That's a good pick, Dave. Good pick.
All right, Ben, what about you favorite quote? So this is after Hagrid gets taken off and he drops this hint of like follow the spiders. Yeah. And then he's like, why spiders? Why couldn't it be follow the butterflies?
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Why spiders? Why couldn't it be follow the butterflies?
It's funny because in the Hogwarts legacy video game, they have many quests that is follow the butterflies.
Follow these butterflies to like find, you know, different treasure chests and stuff.
That's awesome.
I love it.
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That's awesome.
That's cool. Thanks for sharing that. I think my favorite quote, well, there's two and they're short, but Albus Dumbledore when he's talking to Harry and this, you know, the famous quote of it is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are far more than our abilities.
I like that one.
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Our choices really do matter. Right. And, and then this one from Dobby. So Dobby says Dobby has heard of your greatness, sir, but of your goodness, Dobby never knew. And, and I love that.
Like, I love that like Harry Potter, you know, he was in an abusive situation growing up, you know, and Professor McGonagall when they're dropping him off, she's like, are you sure you want to leave them with these people?
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And it's like, I think it would be better if he's kind of away from all this, but, and not that he meant harm to Harry, but there were things in place.
Anyways, like I love that, like Harry, he has the empathy piece, right? Like that he's protective of other people and he looks out for those that are abused or treated unfair or poorly and sees everyone the same, you know, like he doesn't think he's one up or down, you know.
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I think that like, I just love that because it says something about Harry Potter and like how he treats people.
My favorite is to just like the way he treats everyone, you know, the same.
That's awesome. Good choices for sure.
Because there is like a famous fan fiction that's called Harry Potter and the methods of rationality. Yeah. And it explores what Harry might be like if he hadn't been raised by the Dursleys, if his aunt had married a college professor instead.
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He didn't have a mean streak, but like inculcated Harry with a love of science, you know, and understanding things. And so then he picks apart. How do these spells work? And, you know, really delves into that.
You know, he's thinking things through that way. But another aspect of it is that because he hadn't been raised by the Dursleys, exactly what you said, he wasn't quite as empathetic to other people.
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It wasn't on his radar to think of how other people were going through things. And that book kind of shows absolutely right.
That like in some ways, going through hard times actually can help you to be a little more aware of other people going through hard times. Yeah.
It was interesting to see that actually played out in another book.
That's interesting. I think that before Ben and we haven't read it, but that's cool that they have that and a good thought. Thanks for sharing that.
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That would be interesting to think about that like other version for sure.
Yeah. All right. This next part is pretty cool. So Professor Lockhart and the books in the movies had all these books that he wrote that really like he stole from other people. Right.
But they had some pretty hilarious titles to the books, right, that he authored.
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So Dave thought of some possible awards or books for each of us. Very clever. So we're going to read what Dave came up for each of us.
Dave, do you want me to go first with John? Yeah, sure. So one thing about Lockhart's books is that there's like oftentimes alliteration, you know, like starting with the same letter.
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So you guys didn't know this, but John authored a book titled Goblets and Goaties, a Wizard's Guide to Delicious and Safe Facial Hair Producing Potions.
Yeah. I'm pretty awesome.
All right, John, you want to read Ben's? Yeah. So look, Ben, his was cool too.
He authored a very popular and somewhat controversial article in Transfiguration Times titled The Animorph Paradox, Ethical Implications of Human Transfiguration, a thought provoking piece exploring the moral and philosophical questions surrounding human to animal transformation.
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That must have taken you a long time to do, Ben. Interesting, Ben. Very interesting.
I want to have to read that myself.
Who did I steal that from?
Kathy was the winner of the Witches Wardrobe, Bewitching Broomstick Award, Innovating, Daring, and Simply Stunning Fashion, Sweeping the Wizarding World Off Its Feet.
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Nice. And for the listener, they don't know, but she's wearing like a McGonagall hat right now. So she's getting into it.
She's rocking it. It's a fake line like lace and all the like. Okay.
I like it. In the Wizarding World, that would be fun. Thank you, Dave.
All right. So Dave authored a book titled Sensational Slimming Sorcery, The Secret to a Smaller You. It sold five copies. It didn't work.
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Nice.
Awesome. Thanks, Kathy. Good job, guys. Yeah, it was fun.
Okay, this next part, we're going to talk about some differences in the movie and the book. Yeah.
Some interesting facts here. So Mr. Weasley fixes Harry's glasses in the book, not Hermione.
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Underage magic is a no-no.
I had to put those two together. She would be interesting.
No, yeah, she would know.
Didn't she do it twice?
Mm hmm. In the first. Yeah, she did the first round of the cycle, right?
That's right. That's right.
So also in the book, a fight breaks out between Lucius Malfoy and Mr. Weasley.
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Oh, man, I want to see them fight. Yeah. It was like a real fight, not like a wizard's fight. It was legit.
Yeah. Which is saying something because Mr. Weasley is so nice.
Okay, this book is where you find out that Argus Filch is a squib.
And so he has no magical powers and he tries to go through a quick spell course to try and coax some non-existent magic from himself.
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Harry finds out and Filch lets him off the hook for making the Hogwarts floors all muddy after Quidditch training.
He's all embarrassed about it. So he's like, it never happens. Filch loves to punish the students.
So. And then in the book, Harry, Ron and Hermione choose to reluctantly skip Halloween after being invited to the nearly headless Nick's death day party.
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It's here where Harry first starts to hear the villainous disembodied voice inside his head,
which leads to the trio discovering the petrified Mrs. Norris and message about the Chamber of Secrets being open once more.
That's right. It's like a whole chapter, the whole death day party.
That's a lot in the books, like the ghosts, their stories and interactions with them and stuff.
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And in the book, Professor Benz is super boring and he actually is the one to share with the students about the Chamber of Secrets.
So not Professor McGonagall in the movie. He's shocked when he sees all the students engaged for once.
Yeah, that's pretty funny because he's like always so boring and they're like actually listening now.
It's funny. Mr. Benz does not make it into the movies, right? No, he's not even in the movie.
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He teaches history of magic, I think. I think so. Yeah. Yeah.
Nice. Good job, Cathy. Just in general, I don't know if it was this particular movie, but I felt like Ron wasn't shown at his best in the movies compared to in the books.
He seemed a lot smarter in the books. He seemed like more engaged, I think. Whereas in the movies, I felt like he was more along for the ride, kind of scared a lot.
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You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's true.
All right. So I went back and found texts from the second movie in our text jam between John and I. And here's a few of them.
So where in the world did Harry and Draco learn those spells when they duel? Never hear them before or after. Right.
And when Harry was hanging from the car, Ron totally could have turned the car in the other direction to lift Harry up or give him better leverage instead of letting Harry almost dislocate his shoulder.
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The car thing upsets me, though. I'm not going to lie. Like he could have just tilted the car the other way to give him a advantage.
Yeah. Get back into the passenger seat. What the heck? Yeah. For real.
Those aren't the best drivers in thinking on their own.
Yeah, exactly. All right. So the next movie, Prisoner of Azkaban. Oh, such a great movie.
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First off, Ben, who's your favorite hero from Prisoner of Azkaban and why? I think Remus Lupin. Oh, heck yeah.
Best defense against the Dark Arts teacher. And he just was a cool guy, man. He was such a good mentor to Harry.
Yeah. He wasn't in any way condescending or anything like that. He just was friendly.
And I thought he was kind of wise giving advice to him. Yeah. Good choice for sure. What about you, John?
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Yeah, it's interesting you say that, Ben, because you could tell that Harry looked up to him as well because when he's teaching Dumbledore's army, he's wearing a vest just like Lupin wears when he's teaching his class.
And I thought that was kind of interesting that he kind of emulates him in that aspect. But I think the real hero of this movie is Fred and George. Nice.
Because they gave the Marauders map to Harry Potter. If that was if they hadn't, who would have seen Peter Pettigrew roaming around the castle? Yeah.
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Yeah, that's clutch. Yeah, they're the real heroes. Okay, for sure. All right, Kathy, what about you? Totally agree with that. Like, yeah, Lupin. It's like, oh, that's so nice because it's Harry's dad's best friend.
And yeah, talking to him. So I agree with John and Ben there. I think too, just what comes to mind is that scene where Dumbledore saves Harry in the Quidditch match. Yeah.
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He stops the world basically, like it just seems like they will just catch him and with his vast knowledge of magic save Harry and I don't know. So that kind of comes to my mind.
He's not so much in the movie a lot, but just so he's there, you know, when he falls, like, kind of literally and figuratively. That's true. That's true. The symbolism there too. Yeah, that's awesome.
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All right. So for me, I gave it to Hermione for this one. I mean, she straight punches Draco in the face. I mean, I love that scene. She kills it at school with the Time Turner.
She's going to multiple classes at the same time. And yeah, she's just a fun, good hero in this movie and book. All right. What about villains, guys, for the third one? Who's your villain of choice? Either favorite or least favorite? Okay, start with Ben.
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So Peter Pettigrew playing the long game, man. I mean, just to find out that he had been in their family for the years. Yes. Waiting for his moment. Like, dang, that's, you know, yes.
I surprised they ain't kind of there. That is a good call for sure. Yeah. Kathy, you have a favorite or least favorite?
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I think Draco for this one, Malfoy, because dang, he's so hairy. He's living in this trauma and he's had trauma. And anyways, I guess that part of me is like, it's so protective of Perry because he's making fun of him for passing out when the Dementors come and like giving him a hard time for it.
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And that just eats at me. So yeah, he tries to get Buck to be killed, too. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh. That too. So yeah, he's definitely the villain. And I totally love that Hermione punched him.
Yeah. Like, she punches him in the face. Yeah, in the face. Yeah. Maybe I'm just thinking I would have loved if she did that, too. Okay. Anyway, yeah.
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No punk with a capital P for sure, man. Draco's the worst. All right. For me this time, I mean, you guys are totally right. And I agree with all of them. All of these, like, it's so hard to pick a favorite quote, favorite hero, favorite villain, because they're all awesome.
But I pick Aunt Marge. I mean, she's like a female Vernon, but worse. Like, she's terrible. Yeah. I mean, thankfully, she's only a little bit in the movie, but just that little bit. You can tell she's a terrible person.
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She's just the worst. Yeah. So bad. So that's the one I picked. She got what she deserved. Yep. Yeah, she did. Have you seen the giant float they do in England of her? That's so amazing when you showed me that.
Yeah, I got it from Kathy. She showed me. So yeah, it's hilarious. Like the anniversary of Harry Potter, 20th anniversary, right? Yeah, the giant balloon.
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The fungus. Like a balloon thing of Aunt Marge when she's all blown up over the London Bridge there. So funny. So awesome. Yeah, that's so cool.
All right, let's talk favorite scenes. This is a great movie, so it's kind of tough. But let's see, Kathy, you got a favorite scene from this movie? Oh, man. I think I'm like the sentimental. I don't know. Yeah, that's cool.
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You know, but just all those scenes where he's talking to Lupin, and it's just they're just beautiful scenes and he's just and connecting to him and having someone else that cares about him in his life.
Yeah. And then when he finds out that Sirius Black is his godfather, it's not very long. It's just a short thing, but just oh my gosh, like that he has this family that love him that he's adding to it just makes me happy. Yeah, that scene when he can't go to Hogsmeade.
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So him and Lupin are sitting there on the bridge. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking about on the bridge and he's teaching him how to conquer the Dementors and things. Yeah. Yeah.
Building him up when he like it feels so shameful about being scared of the Dementors like having them affect them so bad and he builds them up about it actually. It's pretty cool. What about you, Ben? Do you have favorite scene?
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I love that night bus scene.
The characters in it are just fun. Just seeing Harry's face like smash against the window. Yeah.
Basically, I can't. Yeah. Exactly. Hey guys, guys, why the long faces?
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I like how the hunchback uses his wand to turn off the car alarm. Yeah, the beep. Yeah, the alarm. Man, man, that's gonna be mine too. And I'm just gonna do the little quote here. And this isn't my favorite quote, but he's like, what you doing down there?
I was like, I fell over. What you fell over for? Yeah, I didn't do it on purpose. Come on then. Let's not wait for the grass to grow. Yeah. And then he tries to lift up his trunk. He like he struggles to get his trunk on the bus and everything.
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Nice. Yeah, that's good. Good scene.
So for me, I chose when Harry Potter does the patronus to save himself. I think that's a powerful scene and it's cool to build up and the scariness of the mentors coming at him and then it dawned on him and he does like a super patronus. You know, that's awesome.
Yeah. I just want to say one little thing real quick. Like this is the first Harry Potter that I saw. My friend was like, you don't need to know the other ones to know what happened, which clearly he lied to me.
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Yeah.
That's one.
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With a little bit of extra acting. Yeah, a little bit there.
That's just me. No, that's cool. That's cool. Yeah, that's funny. I like the seeing themselves like like Hermione's like, is that what my hair looks like from the back? Like stuff like that. It's pretty funny.
All right, let's go with favorite quotes now. Kathy, what's your favorite quote from this movie? My favorite is this is in the book, but Ron is writing a little letter. It's just one little line, but I've seen it on mugs. It's on t shirts, but don't let the muggles get you down.
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Love it. Yes, sir. That is so true.
That's awesome.
I'll read another one because it's funny. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So Ron, when he's sitting bolt upright in bed and and he's dreaming or something and he's like, spiders, the spiders, they want me to tell them.
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Tell those spiders. Okay. Yeah.
Love that scene too. Yeah. It's just funny because he was dreaming or whatever. Right. Yeah. And then, and then later he's like, Harry talks in his sleep. It's so weird. Yeah.
That's right. Yeah. He knows how to do the parcel time because yeah. Yeah.
All right, Ben, what about you? What's your favorite quote from this one? My name is Trelawney's. Oh yeah. You know, and she's saying, your horror is pulsing dear. Are you in the beyond? I think you are. And Ron's like, sure.
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Yes.
It's so funny. So over the top. I actually love it too though. And now like the contrast between her and Ron being just like, sure.
Your aura is pulsing dear. Are you in the beyond? I think you are. Sure. Look at the cup. Tell me what you see. Oh yeah.
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Well, Harry's got sort of a wonky cross. That's trials and suffering. And that there could be the sun. That's happiness. So you're going to suffer, but you're going to be happy about it.
Rosma, I think Ron's my all time favorite man. He's so good. He's so funny. How about you, John? What's your favorite quote from this one? So Dumbledore is talking to Professor Snape and he says, in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let him swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.
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Yeah.
It's a cool quote and I like the way this scene transitions there too.
Can we address the fact that we got a new Dumbledore in this movie? Yeah. Let's talk about that. As everybody knows, this is a brand new Dumbledore. Yeah. Yeah. We lost Richard Harris. Do we have a preference guys? First or second Dumbledore?
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That's tough, man. I think it worked out. It's hard to say. I feel bad saying it almost, but he was good in the Chris Columbus movies and that kind of like the younger loving grandfather. I mean, I loved him so much and it was hard to make that transition. But then the new Dumbledore did great, especially in 437.
When we got darker, you needed to have the new Dumbledore. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. I can't really imagine Richard Harris in the last one. It just wouldn't really work for me. But yeah. What do you guys think? Ben? Kathy?
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I was just going to say, I agree with that. Like it was, ah, it was hard to accept that, you know, that acceptance like, oh, okay. But I agree. He was a softer gentler at first and, but Dumbledore is the most powerful wizard, right? In the world.
And so he did need to have some bite to him, some strength. And he did, you know, so it took some time, but I think it was meant to be maybe. Yeah.
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Done. Jelly bean, jelly bean, jelly bean. Oh, three times. You got to get three. Just kidding. Beetlejuice. Yeah, I was thinking too actually. Beetlejuice is hilarious.
Here we go. Here we go. Big money, no whammies. I mean, big whammies, no money. Just kidding.
I'm in his hands. Come on. Come on. Feel it. Feel the vibe. Is that like a bluish blue? What could blue be? A blueberry? Yeah, it could be blueberry. I think it could be a toilet cleanser. And you know, ours is blue.
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I think I lucked out. Blueberry? Yeah, that was blueberry. Thank goodness. What could it have been, John? What was the blueberry color? Blueberry. That's actually the only one for blue. Oh, there you go. That one doesn't count too to get. No, I'm just kidding.
Did we get a point? Because I guessed it. Did we get a point? Yeah, yeah. 50 points to Hufflepuff. Kathy's Hufflepuff. So if we're using the points like they do in the movie, that's like 500 points for guessing the right jelly bean. Good job, Kathy.
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Okay, oh yeah. That one's booger. I should not have said that. That one's booger. It's like Hagrid. Should not have said that.
Okay, look, I'm gonna do this one. Oh my gosh. There's no way this is a good one, guys. Brown, yellow. It's like a yellowish. I think it's boogers. Or earwags. Dave, what a booger tastes like, sir.
I have no idea.
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Oh, it's bad. Whatever it is, it's a bad one again.
It's reaction. I wish I could have video at these points. You guys, he's freaking out. Let me try to describe it. His eyes are closed shut. He's bending over his tongue. He's running off camera.
Oh man.
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Out of all of us, honestly, I think John struggles the most with bad taste, I think. He's so dramatic when he has something nasty. It's pretty funny.
It's just like Ron. He's facing his fears. He's following the spiders.
I'll need to eat another blueberry. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. That's a safe one. Find another blue one. Good call. He's gotta leave and go get something to eat, drink or whatever.
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Alright, John's back from dying. Hopefully. Go find a blue one, dude. That's what Kathy had a good idea. The blue one is safe. Find a blue one.
That was straight up either booger or... I called it. I get 50 points this time. 50 points of Ravenclaw. I think that was rotten egg.
Oh, that's what I got that first episode, man.
Alright, so sorry, John. Find a blue one. Get some blueberry in there. My favorite quote from that one though is, I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good.
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I mean, like John said, the real heroes of the movie, Fred and George, the Marauder map is such a cool idea to have and how that was a big part of the movie. I love it. It's really cool.
We have a mug that when you put in a hot drink, the I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good shows up. So that's pretty cool. Yeah, that's awesome. Mine doesn't do that. Mine just has the map on it.
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Nice. And John got me a Marauder's map blanket, which is awesome. Thanks, John.
Okay, so I just thought this would be really fun. This movie introduces the Patronus like we talked about. And I was thinking, you know, sometimes you have a food that's so good, you could conjure a Patronus. That's the kind of level of joy that that food brings. And I was thinking, what would be your food, that Patronus or your fat Tronus, if you will, and it could be either the food that makes you have that level of joy to conjure Patronus and or the animal you produce with that Patronus. So let's go around and talk about that.
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Ben, what's your fat Tronus?
Oh, you know, the food that would bring the joy to me is the Dunkin Donuts Boston Cream Donut.
Yeah.
Conjure my fat Tronus as the short mustache balding time to make the donuts baker.
That's awesome, dude.
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That's the time to make the donuts guy. That's awesome.
Just like glowing time to make the donuts guy coming out of Ben's wand.
He's just so happy eating that donut. I just love it.
That's amazing.
As a side note, Dunkin Donuts out west just goes out east, man.
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And this is, you really notice it with the Boston Cream.
I don't know what it is. Maybe like out east they use the true Boston Cream or something or what.
It's just not the same, man.
100%. I'm with you. I agree.
So all my fans back east. I know you guys just call it Dunkin, not Dunkin Donuts.
Yeah.
All of our Dunkins here, they are all attached to a Baskin Robbins.
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Nice. Like Jim Gaffigan says, a marriage made in obesity. I love it.
The old twofer.
The twofer. What about you, John? What's your fat Tronus?
My fat Tronus is most obviously a cow, like a big fat moo cow.
I love milk, I love burgers, I love ribs, but steak. I mean, come on.
What else is it going to be, to be honest?
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I just picture like a glowing cow coming out of John's wand and it's like covered in barbecue sauce or something.
Like an oversized cow.
Like in Shrek, Prince Charming's horse.
Yeah.
That little thing with his mane.
Yeah, exactly.
My cow does that, but barbecue sauce goes flying everywhere.
It just lays down on its side on a giant plate, just like I'm ready.
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That's awesome, man.
All right, Kathy, what about you? What's your fat Tronus?
So there's this Dutch bakery in Colorado Springs, Boone's Ayers, and they have like amazing cream puffs and eclairs.
I like copy them, you know, quite, you know, so I think that would be the food, you know.
Yes, yes.
And then I'm going to do like some cross worlds here, I don't know.
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Oh, here we go.
But my kids, my Pokemon that they have gifted me is Alchemy.
So it's like, it looks like whipped cream.
Yes.
You know, just like berries on it.
That would be my fat Tronus.
Perfect, yes.
I cross, I know I cross worlds there with Pokemon, but.
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Oh man, that's so good. That's awesome.
Our new Japanese audience will be grateful for you.
That's right.
I said it right. Alchemy anyways.
Yeah, that's awesome. All right.
So for me, yeah, Ben and John understand this level of joy, I believe.
But I go back to New Jersey to that Roman gourmet pizza, man.
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Slice of that definitely would bring me enough joy to conjure my fat Tronus.
And going back to our 80s cartoons episode, my fat Tronus would be a lazy fat cat like Garfield.
It would just be this. I don't know.
I could just tell it would barely walk and it would just be eating maybe like as I conjure it, it just be eating lasagna or something.
I don't know. It's in its little bed with the blanket pulled over him like Garfield.
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Yeah. While he's in the box, he's eating lasagna and stuff.
Yes.
Yeah. And I can only conjure it laying down to I'm like, I'm also just lazy.
Just like on my side. Just, you know, that's awesome.
John, you had a pretty fat cat, didn't you? Yep. 26 pounds. 26 pounder.
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Yeah. I remember that guy. That's awesome.
All right. Other spell that we learn about in Prisoner Rascal Band is the ridiculous curse.
So I thought that'd be fun to ask to what you guys think.
What scares you and how would you make it funny if you're willing to share?
So, Ben, what about you? So this brings me back to when I was young, a wet opossum.
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And one night I take the bag of garbage out to the garbage can and I and I lifted it up and I just saw like the glowing red eyes.
And opossums already are like kind of creepy. Yeah, dude. They're super creepy. Yeah.
Oh, gosh. Horrible. They're super good for the environment.
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They do a lot of great things, but they're just disgusting. Yeah, they're pretty gross. Yeah.
So to make it funny, I would imagine it by getting a hat and cane and dancing and singing like the Warner Brothers frog.
Nice. Hello, my baby. Hello, my darling. Nice.
That's awesome, man. All right, Kathy, what about you? If you're willing to share.
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I was like thinking about it. I'm not sure because this is very vulnerable, Dave.
Yeah, that's what we do on Fat, Dumb and Happy. We get vulnerable.
I was thinking about like when I lived in Colorado Springs, we lived in rainforests and we had all these pine trees and then the summer like moss were just everywhere.
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Yes, moth season. They were just everywhere and they would get in my room at night and they would just like attack me in the face, you know.
So maybe it would be funny if someone was standing me with money or something, you know. Nice.
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Just throwing money at my face and like that's not funny.
That's hilarious. One of those like tubes, you know, where they're blowing money.
Yeah. Grab it as fast as you can. Yeah. There you go. I love it. I like that. That's awesome.
All right, John, what about you? So mine is a out of this closet comes a very, very scary envelope.
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And the envelope has a bill in it. Oh, good one. That's a good one, John.
Yeah, the bill just flies into a paper airplane and goes away. Nice.
Nothing scares me more than an envelope in my mailbox.
That's a good one, man. That is a good one. All right. So for me, it's a call back to our first episode, our fears and phobias of fans at home listeners.
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If you haven't listened to it, go back and check it out because we face our fears. And for me, it's silly, but a spoon of sour cream.
It's gross. If anyways, so for me, I would turn it into a diving board and it's into a pool of whipped cream.
I think that would be awesome. Not so funny, but it's just kind of like, oh yeah, I can I can handle that.
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So. All right. Real quick. We'll go to differences in the book of movies.
By the time this episode is over, John, you're going to be like, I got to read these books.
So each movie, that's crazy. That's crazy.
All right. In the book, Harry plays Quidditch against Ravenclaw and Cho Chang is introduced as their seeker.
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She tells him in an attempt to find and catch the snitch, but Harry is able to catch it first and win for Gryffindor.
So instead of her magically appearing in the fourth one, we know about her in the third.
And she's also a seeker like Harry. Harry's happy memory in the book is learning that he was a wizard.
So an actual memory and knowing he would finally be free of the Dersleys. So I like that.
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The movie one's good, too. And the book, Harry gets the fireball about halfway through the book,
not knowing it was from Sirius rather than the end of the movie.
And what's cool about that is that Gryffindor actually wins the Quidditch Cup in the third book.
So, yeah, that's the only one where they win the Quidditch Cup. All right.
The last little fact, the film omits a lot of backstory concerning the Marauders, you know, the Marauders map.
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It is an explain that the Shrieking Shack and Whomping Willow were first used.
So Lupin had a safe place to go when he transformed into a werewolf during the night of the full moon.
There also isn't an explanation of how James, Sirius and Peter learned to be animagi or animagi.
How do you say it? We'll go with animagi. Yeah, sure.
So they could safely be with and support Lupin when he transformed into a werewolf.
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Additionally, the film doesn't fully delve into Snape's hatred of the Marauders and how this connects to their use of the Shrieking Shack.
So a lot of backstory around the Marauders that isn't in the movie.
I'd watch a prequel of the Marauders. That would be cool.
You know, like Dumbledore, like kind of set that up for Lupin too, so that he could like go to school there.
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He was really inclusive Dumbledore. Yeah. He could go to that Shrieking Shack.
That's right. I'm just curious. What drew you? What made you really like the series?
Oh, yeah, that's a good question. What was it about the series that really threw you in?
Why do you think it caught fire? I think there's so much to relate to in different ways.
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Like every character has something that you can relate to.
I think you talked about it in your psychology portion of the show about, you know, rooting for the underdog.
And I think kicking off from the first book and movie, there's this boy that doesn't have anything
and finds out that he has this special gift.
And I don't know, like it just it sucks you right in into this magical world.
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That's that's really cool. So I don't know what other thoughts you guys have.
For me, it was the opposite. I refused to watch this for a long time.
Yeah. And a lot of it, I'm not going to lie to you.
Baltimore, just looking at him like the bits I've seen freak me out because you have a nose.
Yeah, dude. And I was like, I don't want to watch that.
So then I went and watched the third one. And then I was like, you know what?
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Let me start over. Let me watch from the beginning. And now I watch twice.
Yeah. A lot of the CGI is what got me.
Like when you see them, like with the vaults and stuff, he's just like, you know, he goes down the vault.
And it does all the little things like that. You know, just like Harry finding out what magic is.
I kind of went along with that at the same time. Yeah.
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Because of the CGI and the things they were able to do to us. That was pretty cool.
That is cool. I think for me, like, yeah, just there's so much.
But you know, like how I feel about Harry Potter.
And yeah, I just agree with everything you guys have said.
And I think it's really cathartic for me to like watch the movies and just like the struggle.
And being able to problem solve and conquer and all the themes. I just love it.
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And I, J.K. Rowling did a phenomenal job of writing and inspiring the movies, you know.
And there's so much I'm going to put a plug in here, John, for reading the books again,
because there's so much more in there and the humor.
And she just gets the characters like these characters are fantastic.
Like the way she writes Fred and George and their humor and the wise Dumbledore and his wisdom and strength.
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I just love how she has developed this world for us to immerse ourselves in and relate to the characters and our own lives.
And it's just magical. I just love that.
Yeah. When we like read that first book, I was like, oh, this seems really popular.
I thought of the book store and like, well, this would be a cheap date.
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And we got a hug. Yeah, we did.
Yeah, I think the popularity stems from the book because of the books.
Yeah, for sure. Especially because like parents were having their kids read the books and the books were lengthy.
And then they got to go see the movie as a reward kind of sometimes. Yeah.
I think the books being as popular first as they were, I think that led to the success of the movies. For sure.
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And the books appeal to kids and adults. Like it's so good. Yeah.
So during the weekends that the Harry Potter books were released, the number of children who went to the ER with injuries dropped by half.
What? Yeah. They're all busy reading. Being safe.
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You know, they were released. They were reading the books at home. That says something.
Oh my gosh. That's insane. You know, you're sending.
That's an insane stat. Yeah. I just. Yeah. It's awesome.
Go read some books, kids. Yes. Maybe adults, too.
What about you, Ben? So for me, it's different for the books and the movies.
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For me, the books, what drew me in was just like the first one was just, you know, magical.
And like I say, taking a kid that is in a really rough place and then allowing him to be able to do amazing things.
Yeah. Love it. Taken out of poverty, in a sense, like rags to riches kind of story, in a sense. You know what I mean?
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And then I just loved throughout the series how much growth he has and depth.
Honestly, at the beginning, I kind of got annoyed with him sometimes because he's talking about people forgetting his birthday or, you know, just things like, you know, I can understand as a kid that age, but also kind of want to come on, man, grow up a little bit.
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Yeah. Yeah. Like, don't forget your own friend's birthdays and stuff, you know, and over the period of the books, you see him, you know, overcome those weaknesses and stuff.
Yeah. And so I love that about the books with the movies. It just came out at the perfect time, because if it had come out earlier, if you imagine, like John was saying, the special effects and just like the cinematography of all, like if it had come out during the clash of the titans,
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time, it would have just been kind of a little bit corny, you know, just like, wouldn't have been able to pull it off so well. And the acting, every single actor in this movie is like, and all of the movies are so phenomenal.
Yes. Especially that third one. I mean, these are like top tier actors coming in and doing these movies. And every little expression on their face.
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It's just amazing that they could pull that off of kids too, you know, even the kids were amazing, you know, usually when you have a lot of kids, like there's a couple of them that like are pretty good and you can tell the others maybe aren't so great.
But man, they really got good acting out of each of them. Those two things like the special effects and the quality of the acting made it something that I want to watch again.
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Totally agree. You know, but like actually really liked it. And the degree to which they kept to the books as much as they could was pretty good because so many other books to movies miss some of the heart of it.
They had to cut stuff out because of the length of these books, man. Like it's totally understandable. But I feel like they kept to the heart of it, like really pretty good compared to so many others.
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That's true. Coming back to it, you know, it's like it's a good movie. Yeah, well she helped with it. Right. I mean, yes, she comes all the way through. Yeah.
She's awesome. It was really good.
All right, everybody. Thank you so much. That was Harry Potter one, two and three. Next coming up. Well, obviously we'll do four and five, but I want to give a special thank you to our headmaster David Albus Dumbledore. We got our potions master, Miss Kathy, and we got Ben, our professor of the defense of the dark arts and me the muggle.
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Thank you so much for listening. I know this is a little bit longer, but you know, we'd love this stuff, man. It's fun. It's good clean fun. It's just a good time, dude, for real. And so we hope you all got a lot of it, too.
So thank you to everybody for participating. Thank you all for listening. Don't forget to rate and subscribe. And obviously you have to stay fat dumb and happy. Take it easy, everybody.
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