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1:00

it's me, the Spirit of Birthdays. This

1:02

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1:05

which is the birthday of arguably

1:07

the greatest Michael of all time, who you

1:09

might know for his basketball prowess. You're

1:12

right, that's me, Mike Schuber. It is also Michael Jordan's birthday.

1:14

That was the joke that I was going for there. If

1:16

you didn't get it, you should listen to my basketball podcast,

1:18

Horse. But it's also

1:20

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1:22

birthday thing. So birthdays all around. But, you know,

1:25

what's the best way to celebrate a birthday? I think

1:28

the best way to celebrate is by listening to

1:30

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1:32

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1:37

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then I've got two shows that are going to be

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2:42

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2:58

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3:00

Adults. We did an episode with Dara O'Briain, who

3:02

is an incredible comedian that I have been a

3:04

fan of for quite some time. Having him on

3:06

the show is absurd. Lots of cool

3:09

stuff happening. But let's talk about the cool thing that

3:11

you are about to listen to. This is a live

3:13

show that Johnny Frolicstein and I did in his hometown

3:15

of St. Louis in I think August of

3:17

2022, July of 2022, summer of 2022. It

3:24

has been a minute. It has been some time since we

3:26

recorded this, but I'm excited to put it out into the

3:28

ether. We did another one of our brackets where we

3:30

were determining the funniest moment of the

3:32

Harry Potter books. A note here is

3:34

that the beginning of the recording got

3:37

cut off. The guy running the booth

3:39

made a slight goof and didn't record

3:41

until a couple minutes into the show.

3:44

But all you really miss is us

3:46

introducing the theme and some of the

3:48

brackets and stuff. So you will

3:50

get all of the context. Don't worry. You're

3:53

a smart cookie. You will figure it out. So

3:55

without further ado, let's get into this episode of

3:57

Potterless where Johnny Frolicstein and I try to figure

3:59

out what's the. funniest moment in the Harry Potter

4:01

books live in St. Louis. Those

4:19

brackets, they are themed, so the first

4:22

one is just things that Fred and George

4:24

did. That's the Gryffindor bracket.

4:26

It always does work out where they

4:28

fit into the houses. Our Ravenclaw bracket

4:30

is the Whitty Funny Things bracket. The

4:33

Slytherin bracket is the Dises, Digs,

4:35

Clapbacks, all sorts of put-downs, things

4:37

like that. And then the

4:39

Hufflepuff bracket is everything else. They'll

4:43

take the lot! So we have a whole

4:45

bunch of fun things prepped here. What we're

4:47

going to do for the first round is

4:49

just really quickly, we're just going to talk

4:51

through what we think would win between the

4:53

two, just like quick little discussions. Since there's a

4:55

lot to get through, let us just kind of

4:58

like get through that. Every other round after the

5:00

first round, we'll have audience participation. So at that

5:02

point, you can get the applause-o-meter going and all

5:04

of that. I think before we get into it,

5:06

we should give a shout out to some special

5:08

folks in the crowd. Notably,

5:10

your mother, Carol Froelichstein,

5:13

in the crowd. Hi, mom. Did

5:15

you buy a shirt? Oh, she bought a shirt. Oh,

5:17

my gosh. That's great. This

5:23

is the first live show where I've seen

5:25

someone wearing the new Mike Schubert Money Guns

5:28

t-shirt. So you look great, Carol. All

5:31

right. So

5:34

we're going to start in the Gryffindor

5:36

quadrant, the Fred and George Doing Fun

5:38

Stuff quadrant. The one

5:40

seed we have here is Oi

5:43

Angelina. So when

5:45

Fred asks Angelina out

5:47

to the Yule Ball, Oi Angelina, against

5:49

the number eight seed, which is after

5:52

Percy has been called Weatherby quite a

5:54

bit by his boss, Barty Crouch, eventually

5:57

Fred and George sang Shut Up,

5:59

Weatherby. One

6:02

verse eight between those two. So

6:04

I'm extremely jealous of OI Angelina

6:06

because when I was in high

6:08

school promposals were like the biggest thing and it was

6:10

like you had to do such an elaborate set up

6:13

and it was like it took so much time and

6:15

what I would have given when I

6:17

was in the 10th grade or the 11th grade or

6:19

whatever to just say like OI prom date and then

6:21

like have that be it that would have been amazing.

6:23

That would have been good. I didn't have to do

6:25

this because I went to an all boys Catholic high

6:28

school so I did not ask people in my school

6:30

to go to prom with me so I got to

6:32

avoid the promposal thing but yeah I've heard it gets

6:34

intense like there's posters and you rent

6:36

out classrooms and... Did y'all not do the

6:38

like partner school thing that you did prom together

6:40

or anything like that? Basically we

6:43

had three all-girls schools in our vicinity and

6:45

you would ask them to the prom but

6:47

there wasn't necessarily... I would have to like

6:49

send a telegram though. Oh that would have

6:51

been good damn it. I

6:53

should have sent a telegram. Damn

6:57

it. One day I'll travel

6:59

back in time anyway but between

7:01

that the show of Weatherby. The show of

7:03

Weatherby is very good. I think it's very

7:05

clever of them to notice what is

7:08

happening to Percy. Clearly it's gonna rip him

7:10

the wrong way. They're picking up on his

7:12

boss not knowing his name and unlike me

7:14

who when I read this famously in Potterless

7:16

I thought that Weatherby wasn't even close to

7:18

Percy because I didn't think that he would

7:21

call him by his last name and then

7:24

I got 7,000 emails correcting

7:26

me so much so that if you listen to

7:28

episode 15 or whatever it is I've put

7:30

in audio back into the old episodes that

7:32

says stop emailing me

7:35

about this. That's how bad it got. So

7:37

maybe I'm biased but I'm leaning towards Oi Angelina. It's

7:39

just a good power move. I don't know shut up

7:42

Weatherby is just such like a good twist of the

7:44

knife because the fact that his boss calls him the

7:46

wrong name is just a knife and then like they're

7:48

just like little twist but I think I'm with you.

7:50

Oi Angelina is too iconic not to move on. Yeah

7:53

because we're going for funniest moment not just funny is

7:55

cool and I think that the Oi Angelina is just

7:57

like a whole funny endeavor so that one moves

7:59

on. Let's go to the next round.

8:01

This is between the four seat and the

8:03

five seat The four seat is when Fred

8:06

and George sent dung to Percy in the

8:08

ministry and he tries to act like he

8:10

has some fancy Fertilization sample, but then Fred

8:12

admits no I sent that yeah And

8:15

then the five seat is when in the first book friend

8:17

George are messing with Molly and they keep lying about which

8:19

one Is Fred which one is George? Pranked

8:21

on the old mom. I feel like

8:23

these are both pranks I feel

8:25

like dung to Percy is like one step

8:28

more elaborate that I'm leaning towards that but

8:30

how do you feel? I just love that

8:32

he's letting Percy live in his little Fantasy

8:34

world that like this is some official business

8:36

that's fallen onto his desk when in reality

8:38

It's literally a piece of shit sent by

8:40

his brother. That's amazing But like Fred and

8:42

George name switching is sort of like twin

8:44

humor 101 a little bit It feels a

8:46

little it feels a little basic as I've

8:48

heard from some British Podcasts that I listen

8:51

to notably the taskmaster podcast when they say

8:53

something is a bit like the first thing

8:55

you think of they call it Route one which

8:57

I think is really good, and I want to start adopting

8:59

But yeah, it does feel like a route one joke of

9:01

like yeah, of course your twins you look at the same

9:04

I like route one right. It's good Yeah, there's so many

9:06

good British systems that I wish I could steal without sounding

9:08

weird like in it is the best But

9:10

I can't say it yeah. Yeah, the other thing

9:12

that the dunk to Percy reminds me of is

9:14

I like that Percy tries to

9:16

take credit for it because this reminds me of when Kelly and I

9:19

Were in our apartment and they had first

9:21

like after the initial lockdown of COVID they

9:23

finally opened up the where could this be going? Get

9:26

ready it's a relevant

9:29

tangent we have a gym

9:31

in our apartment's basement and they finally started

9:33

letting people in and What

9:35

you were supposed to do the whole time is you're

9:38

supposed to wear a mask if you were there with

9:40

anybody else and Kelly And I would wear masks and

9:42

nobody else in our apartment would want to so Kelly

9:44

Printed off signs that looked official like they were from

9:46

our apartment that said mask must be worn at all

9:48

times in the gym So she printed them

9:50

off and taped them up at all different points in the gym

9:52

and then at one point we were like in the elevator with

9:54

our super and Somehow like I think

9:57

Kelly was in her full gym clothes in a mask so

9:59

like started talking daily him about like, yeah, you

10:01

know, I wish more people would wear masks in

10:03

the gym. And then our super Benny said, yeah,

10:05

I put signs up in the gym and everything.

10:09

And people still aren't wearing them. And we're like, that

10:13

was not you, but like Kelly couldn't say

10:15

anything because you couldn't like tell Benny that

10:17

she did it. But I liked that he

10:19

saw the signs and didn't just leave

10:22

them there, but also took credit

10:24

for them. That's like sociopathic.

10:26

What else is Betty lying about? I don't

10:28

know. That is so fucked up. I

10:32

don't know, man. It's weird super stuff. Anyway, I feel

10:34

like this is a long way to say, I think

10:36

Dunk to Percy is the winner. Do

10:40

you agree or do you agree? Yeah, no

10:42

brainer. We can now move on to the

10:44

number three seated Fred and George throwing snowballs

10:46

at the back of Quirrell's head, which is

10:48

Voldemort's face. And the number six seated when

10:51

Molly is so happy that Ron has become, is it

10:53

that Ron has become a free fact and this is

10:55

everyone in the family has become a free fact, but

10:58

famously friend George haven't. So friend George ask, what are

11:00

we next door neighbors? Which is

11:02

a really good line. Again,

11:05

I see, I feel like we're going against good quote

11:07

versus like funny bit slash moment.

11:09

And that's what makes me feel like snowballs is

11:11

a slight advantage. I don't know. I love the

11:13

zinger of like, what are we next door name?

11:16

That, I mean, that is like extremely like on

11:18

the spot, quippy and witty to come up with

11:20

that on the spot is brilliant. I've even planning

11:22

it because he knew his mom was going to

11:25

say that, which is also a possibility. I also

11:27

guess the difference is that they were just throwing

11:29

snowballs at Quirrell because

11:32

like, it wasn't like they knew, like it's funnier

11:34

when you know what's behind it, but they didn't

11:36

know. So like they were just, I

11:38

mean, I guess it is weird that white guy

11:40

Quirrell wears a turban to school like that is

11:42

strange, but I get

11:45

red flag. Yeah. I might,

11:47

I think what are we mean neighbors might be the upset.

11:50

Okay. Great, great, great. So neighbors pulls off

11:52

the upset according to our ranking system. And

11:54

now we go on to the final matchup

11:56

of the Fred and George bracket in the

11:58

first round. Number two, not. giving Ron

12:00

a discount at Weasley's Wizarding Weasel. I think

12:02

it's very funny that they adamantly do not

12:04

give him a discount. And then number seven,

12:07

a moment that I forgot that I would

12:09

love for you to clarify is when they

12:11

hum the funeral march. Yeah. Okay. In the

12:13

Hogwarts school song, like the whole rule is

12:15

that you all say the same lyrics, but

12:17

you do a different tune within the first

12:19

book. That sounds like a mess. That's a

12:21

mess. But yeah, it sounds

12:23

terrible. But at the very end,

12:26

like everyone's done singing the song, except friend George

12:28

go on for like an extra minute while everyone

12:30

else is quiet because they're singing it to the

12:32

tune of a funeral march, which is objectively hilarious.

12:34

I think that is very funny. I just

12:37

feel like not giving Ron a discount is so

12:39

good, though. It's so good. I don't

12:41

think it's toppable, at least in this moment. Oh, I'm

12:43

totally with you. That's next level. I just like how

12:46

they don't do it. And then they really don't back

12:48

down when Ron tries to push it. They're like, no,

12:50

we're not giving you a discount. It's anything. We're going

12:52

to charge you more because you're our brother. Okay.

12:55

We can now move on over

12:57

to the Ravenclaw bracket, the witty

12:59

stuff. So the first number one,

13:01

when Ginny lies to Remilde Vane

13:03

about different tattoos that Harry

13:05

and Ron might have on their chests. And

13:07

then number eight when Moody sasses lavender. What's

13:09

the quote? Yeah, something like, you know, you

13:11

need to be prepared. You need to be

13:13

alert. You need to not look at that

13:15

in my class because he's looking at her

13:17

through the back of his head, which is

13:19

like quite an incredible

13:22

transition from him. But Ginny's

13:24

iconic tattoo story. I

13:26

don't know if that's beatable, maybe in this whole

13:29

tournament. It's the number one seed for a reason.

13:31

I mean, it's really good. It's really clever. It's

13:33

funny in that, like it's Ginny messing with her

13:35

brother and the boy that she likes. It's

13:38

like such a specific thing. Like it is

13:40

so specific to give Harry a Hungarian horn

13:42

tail tattoo and then Ron a pygmy puff

13:44

tattoo. Right. And then not say where it's

13:47

just really good. Do you, I know you

13:49

don't have any tattoos. Would you get a

13:51

tattoo? Yes. I have two ideas. Pick me

13:53

puff. Don't know where. Pick me puff forehead.

13:56

No, I want the two tattoos. I want to

13:58

get, I was in. For many years,

14:00

I was in a hip hop themed improv

14:02

trip in Seattle called A Tribe Called Yes.

14:05

So it was all like a tropical quest themed kind of

14:07

like improv and stuff. And me and that group of states,

14:09

super tight, silver group, chat, anytime I go to say I'll

14:11

hang out with them. There's a refrain from the song that

14:13

we always open the show with. We do an improvised version

14:15

of it, but we say the chorus of from Can I

14:17

Kick It, which is, can I kick it? Yes, you can.

14:20

And the last time I performed with Tribe in

14:22

April of this year, one of the

14:25

guys, Michael Draper, said he was thinking of getting a tattoo

14:27

that says, yes, you can on it. And I was

14:29

like, fuck, that's so good. It's

14:31

positive. It's a joke without

14:34

being too specific. It's like a good uplifting

14:36

message. It's simple. It pays homage to this

14:38

group that I like and my favorite rap

14:40

group. It checks all the boxes. Really

14:43

good. The other one is my buddy Tim and

14:45

I. We were interns at the same company, but

14:47

in different locations. We were YouTube friends, but then

14:50

we happened to be interns. And we used the

14:52

precursor to Microsoft Teams, which is Microsoft Office Communicator.

14:54

I don't know if anybody. Oh, yeah, big. All

14:56

right, yes. 90 kids from that group.

14:59

They had a couple of different emojis and stuff that

15:01

you can send, and they were all work themed. But

15:04

one of them was called working on it. They were

15:06

all gifts. So when you would send working on it,

15:08

you would send, in parentheses, W-O-I. And it would do

15:10

a block and a block and a block and then

15:12

a block and a block and a block. It would

15:15

build a pyramid. But then also one of the emojis

15:17

was a sheep. Don't ask me why. But

15:20

the thing to do with sheep was

15:22

you go parentheses, B-A-H, close parentheses, like,

15:24

bah, like a sheep. Now, if you

15:26

lined up the sheep and then the

15:28

pyramid one, it looked like the sheep

15:30

was pooping a pyramid. So

15:32

Tim and I would just send this to each

15:34

other, bah-woy, to us all the time. And

15:37

we would joke that one of us would

15:39

get the sheep, and one of us would

15:41

get the pyramid being built with the six

15:43

blocks as matching tattoos. Deep and meaningful. Yeah,

15:47

really. And of course, that one. I'll get that one

15:49

on the inside of my lip, one of those very cool

15:51

tattoos. I have to do this to show. Yeah, yeah, for

15:53

sure. I'm not going to do that. I'm kidding. Well,

15:57

yeah, if I got yes, you can, I would get it on

15:59

my bicep here. And if I

16:01

got the bar one, I'd probably like hide it on

16:03

my upper thigh. Because I don't know that that needs

16:05

to be publicly shown. What about you? With your mom

16:07

in the crowd, tell us about that tattoo as you

16:09

want, Johnny. Well, I have a tattoo. I have a

16:11

little bite on my thigh. And then I have a

16:13

dot on my butt from a party. Um...

16:16

But if I already know about the dot on your butt? I don't know.

16:20

But if I were to get another one, I would get a

16:22

big heart with mom on my bicep. That'd be very good. Anyway,

16:27

Ginny wins. This is a very long way to say

16:29

Ginny wins the tattoo thing. Anyway, Harry Potter, yes, yes,

16:31

yes. Now, the next match up, number

16:34

four seeded Harry and Crumb at Bill and

16:36

Fleur's wedding with Crumb trying to

16:38

go out with Ginny and then Harry

16:40

disguised as a different Weasley, saying like,

16:42

oh yeah, she's taken by a real

16:44

jealous macho type you wouldn't want to

16:46

mess with Harry. And then

16:48

Crumb saying, what's the point of being an international

16:50

Quidditch star if you can't get the girl? Yeah,

16:52

I know. And

16:55

then number five, Harry admitting to Dumbledore

16:57

that he fell asleep in divination class

16:59

and then Dumbledore saying... Understandable.

17:02

Understandable, please continue. Both

17:05

very good. I think I

17:07

want to give the edge to the Harry and

17:09

Crumb thing because I think both parts are very

17:11

funny. Like Harry doing the whole like, oh yeah,

17:13

it's this big tough dude you wouldn't mind a

17:16

mess with him thing without Crumb knowing. And then

17:18

I do find it funny that Crumb is just

17:20

like mad that he's famous as hell and can't

17:22

pick up some girl at a wedding. I also

17:24

love that Harry's strategy works because like, Victor Crumb

17:27

is supposed to be like the burliest of anybody,

17:29

right? So like, you're like, it would be like...

17:31

In the books, he's notably lanky. It's just because

17:33

they cast... That's right. ...Husband

17:36

Stanislaw of Yonesky, who had the pleasure of meeting last weekend

17:38

at LeakyCon. He is a gem. He

17:41

is so nice. But he is

17:43

very into fitness. Got it.

17:45

Okay, that makes a lot more sense then if he's a

17:47

lanky boy in the books. I totally got it. I had

17:49

to ask him and basically the director just

17:51

like saw the book and saw that that was what

17:53

Crumb was supposed to be and then just decided like,

17:55

nah, I want a big rips, dude. Yeah,

17:57

total jock is what we need. Yeah.

18:01

Heria and Crumb though, yeah, that one went for

18:03

sure. I do love Dumbledore, and I appreciate this

18:05

about Dumbledore, I appreciate this about McGonagall. Like when

18:07

they don't like a teacher, they don't really hold

18:09

back, and I appreciate it, but also Dumbledore, maybe

18:12

hire a better teacher. You're

18:14

in charge of the school! Like what are you

18:16

doing making fun of bad professors? Fire

18:19

them! I guess like she has a function, but like,

18:21

I don't know, maybe don't make her a teacher, make

18:23

her like... Well, isn't it implied that

18:25

he kept her around because like she was dangerous

18:27

out in the wild because of the prophecy or

18:29

whatever? It was, she, like he did it to

18:31

protect her, it was like for her safety. Right,

18:34

but like put her on staff, not as a

18:36

teacher, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but she doesn't have

18:38

to teach a class. Like that was, you can

18:40

do a thing where you just make them the

18:43

gym teacher. Like at my high school, Craig Bizio,

18:45

the famous baseball player, his kids went to our

18:47

school and he was the baseball coach, but in

18:49

order to be a coach at my school, you

18:51

had to be a teacher, so they made Craig

18:53

Bizio a gym teacher, and he taught

18:56

zero classes. So it

18:58

was just like, yeah, world famous Hall of

19:00

Fame baseball dude had his own office in

19:02

our school and did jack shit. That's wild.

19:04

Except mow the baseball field every morning and

19:06

then I guess play solitaire until 3 p.m.

19:09

when baseball practice started. I mean, Craig Bizio,

19:11

so you do it! Life of a retired

19:13

baseball player, you're done at 40 and then

19:15

you're hanging out. Maybe

19:18

I can do the same if my kids, you know, they hired me to

19:20

be like the podcasting coach and then I can just like, you know, goof

19:23

off and play wordle and

19:26

teach people podcasting. Anyway, the next matchup is between

19:28

the number three seed, Lee and McGonagall. Their sweet

19:30

banter back and forth during all the Quidditch games.

19:33

It happens multiple times throughout the series. Just good

19:35

stuff. Lee at one point, I think the book

19:37

implies he calls someone a bitch because then I

19:39

was like B and then a hyphen and then

19:41

they like don't fill it in. I think the

19:43

implication is she stopped him before he said it.

19:46

Okay, yeah. It's not like B star,

19:48

star, star, star. But

19:50

they have great back and forth and stuff. There's

19:52

ports where like Lee is hitting on Angelina Johnson

19:54

or not hitting on her, but he's like saying like, oh,

19:56

she's very attractive, like trying to make some moves. There's a

19:58

whole bunch of stuff. versus the Six-Seed,

20:01

when Harry is threatening Dudley with

20:03

using magic, but he doesn't actually

20:05

use magic because then he would

20:07

get in trouble. He says vague

20:09

things like hocus focus, jiggly wiggly

20:12

wiggly, and it terrifies Dudley. I

20:14

think that's pretty good. I know that League of McGonagall

20:16

are classic, but I think that that's like, so

20:19

just like perfectly benign, but also pretty evil

20:21

of Harry to freak Dudley out like that.

20:24

I don't know. That's like expert levels rolling.

20:27

Right, I think, I do want to give the edge

20:29

to Harry there because I feel like it's very clever

20:31

and witty and it's a great way to get around

20:33

the rule of like you aren't allowed to do magic,

20:35

but like you still need to intimidate your rival, I

20:37

guess. The League of McGonagall thing,

20:39

it is very funny, but I just think

20:41

that extra level of clever from Harry should

20:43

be rewarded. I'm with you. Great, okay, hocus

20:45

focus advances. And now we'll get

20:48

into our final Ravenclaw bracket first round

20:50

matchup, which is between Harry and Ron just BSing

20:52

their way through divination class, doing the homework where

20:54

they say they've died like multiple times in a

20:56

month and then getting A's for it, or

20:58

like Ron looking at a crystal ball and saying,

21:01

I think there's gonna be a lot of fog.

21:03

Yeah, it's really good stuff there. And then number

21:05

seven, it's a similar thing to the Harry falling

21:07

asleep. I think Harry calls Rita Skeeter a cow,

21:09

which is very British of him. And then Dumbledore

21:12

says something like, I've lost my hearing temporarily and

21:14

I can't, recall what you just said or anything

21:16

like that. I feel like the BSing

21:18

their divination is so funny, especially because like not

21:20

only is it just funny that they do it,

21:22

but that they also get better grades because of

21:24

it all the way through. The more depth, the

21:26

better grades. That's

21:29

definitely better. I do love Dumbledore, like totally

21:31

excusing Harry for being like a little twerp,

21:33

you know, 14 year old, not

21:35

12 year old, because it's book four. Don't

21:38

I know that now. And

21:41

at least that's justified because Rita Skeeter is

21:43

like a bad journalist, like she's like

21:45

a corrupt person. It makes sense for Dumbledore

21:47

to trash her as opposed to a

21:49

teacher that Dumbledore has willfully given a job

21:51

at the school that he runs. Yeah, it's

21:54

crazy how the writer's model took her Carlson

21:56

after her. God,

21:58

that guy sucks. So

22:00

much! Let's

22:02

go on to the Slytherin Bracket, speaking of the worst people on

22:05

Earth. And... You

22:07

like Tucker? Ugh. Oh,

22:09

okay, okay, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. That way

22:12

better answer. Oh my goodness. I was gonna

22:14

say, your shoes are way too cool to

22:16

like Tucker Carlson. But,

22:19

Slytherins, let me clarify, let me clarify. Book

22:21

Slytherins. Not real life people. You look great.

22:23

I like your shirt and your beard and

22:25

your shoes. Moving on to Book Slytherins, the

22:28

worst people on Earth. This

22:30

bracket is instead all the disses, the

22:32

digs, the comebacks, all that kind of

22:34

stuff. Number one seeded when Harry is

22:37

messing with Vernon Dursley and Vernon says

22:39

to him, oh, you're watching the news

22:41

again. And Harry says, well, you see, it changes

22:43

every day. Which is really

22:46

good. And

22:48

then number eight, when Phineas Nigellus just sasses

22:50

Harry Potter all throughout. Big get off my

22:52

lawn energy. What's the specific quote we had

22:54

written down in our news? Yeah, something about

22:56

like, you know, adolescent troubles of these people

22:58

that he doesn't care about. Now, if you'll

23:00

excuse me, I have better things to do

23:03

than listening to adolescent agonizing. Good day to

23:05

you. Adolescent agonizing

23:07

would be a great band name or

23:09

album title or something. Totally. But

23:11

I just think listening to the news again, I

23:14

laughed out loud when I read it. It's so

23:16

funny. Yeah. And in the research I did for

23:18

this today, instead of doing my job, I like,

23:20

You did your job. It was after your job.

23:22

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's right. It

23:24

is my job. So it was still my, the

23:27

whole time. I was looking for Phineas Nigellus quotes

23:29

and like, he's like good and dry and sassy,

23:31

but there's not like any like peak moments for

23:33

him. So like, I think his general sass is

23:35

great, but like, I don't know that he gets

23:37

like a moment. So I'm with you. The news

23:39

one is too good. All right, the news

23:41

advances. And now we go to our next

23:43

matchup, which is between the four-seeded Moody turning

23:46

Draco into a ferret and

23:48

the number five-seeded Dumbledore enchanting the plates

23:50

and the cups to hit the Dursleys

23:52

in the face when they refuse to

23:54

eat slash drink out of them because

23:56

they are afraid of Dumbledore.

24:00

Draco Ferret's pretty fucking

24:02

iconic. I mean, yeah, it's really good. Especially

24:04

just like the whole scene of it. Like

24:06

the act of doing it is very funny.

24:08

But then also McGonagall having to go to

24:10

Moody and explain to him, you

24:12

can't do this. Well, she asked him, she's like, what

24:14

are you doing? And he's like, teach him. Yeah, that

24:16

is his answer is teaching, which is very funny. It's

24:18

not even Moody, which is weird, but. Yeah,

24:21

when you think of the next level of like, right,

24:23

that is what Barty Crouch Jr. decided was the right

24:25

course of action. But like, maybe he had bad run-ins

24:27

with- Well, it's even funnier, no one would like, that's

24:29

not Moody. It was like, yeah, he would, apart from

24:31

the course. He's a great method actor.

24:33

But it is also funny, because

24:35

maybe he was like taking out his frustrations

24:38

with Lucius vicariously out on his kid. There's

24:41

levels to it. Wow. I think it's very good. So

24:43

my vote is for the Ferret. Yeah, totally.

24:45

As much as I love the plates and the cups.

24:47

All right, the number three seed is between Molly sending

24:50

a howler to yell at Ron Weasley after they

24:52

steal the car and embarrassing him in front of

24:55

all his friends. And the number six seeded Aunt

24:57

Muriel being drunk at the wedding and just kind

24:59

of yelling at everybody and asking, who are you?

25:01

What's all, there is another- She's like, Zenophilius

25:03

Lovegood looks like an omelet. Who are you? Yeah,

25:06

it says Zenophilius Lovegood looks like an omelet,

25:09

which is a great dig slash,

25:12

gotta see what he's wearing that makes him look like

25:14

an omelet. Here's the thing, if

25:16

I could only hang out with one type of

25:18

person for the rest of my life, it would

25:20

probably be drunk old ladies at weddings. I

25:24

mean, come on. There's

25:26

just such good content, absolute fire being spit

25:28

the whole time. I'm on Team Muriel all

25:30

the way here. Man,

25:33

the howler is just so

25:35

good, especially because I feel

25:37

like it's a very adaptable thing that Kelly

25:39

and I will sometimes yell at each other,

25:42

but jokingly, as if we have written howlers to

25:44

each other or something the wrong way. I

25:47

don't know, it's just good. And it's a

25:49

great mom move because Molly knows full well

25:51

what's gonna happen. She is sitting down, I

25:53

don't know how you craft a howler. I

25:55

don't know if it's a spell or you write it or

25:58

however it works, but she's doing it knowing like, yes. This

26:00

is going to be delivered in the middle of

26:02

the cafeteria. And the best way for me to

26:04

show my disdain towards Ron and make sure that

26:06

he never pulls these shenanigans again is I will

26:09

embarrass him in front of the entire school. And

26:11

it's so, I just think it's

26:13

a great like mom move. It's

26:15

just a, it's a great way to kind

26:17

of like scare your kids straight in a

26:19

low stakes, non-harmful way. Yeah, as much as

26:21

I love Drone Gang Green

26:23

Muriel, who is basically just Lucille Bluth

26:26

from Arrested Development. I'm

26:29

willing to acquiesce on this one and

26:31

go howler, only because you and Kelly doing that

26:33

when like one of you didn't do the dishes

26:35

or something is very adorable. Yeah,

26:38

it's usually me not folding the hand towels by

26:40

the kitchen, like the drying rag thing. It's actually

26:42

like dry rag and like throw them back over

26:44

the little hook. And Kelly wants them to be

26:46

folded in ice, which is understandable. They're an animal.

26:48

You're just an animal. How do

26:50

you live like that? She puts up with

26:52

me. All right, the final matchup, the number

26:54

two seated. Ginny flying into Zacharias Smith after

26:56

the Quidditch match because he was

26:59

being annoying in the commentary booth. And number

27:01

seven, what's the Dudley toilet head thing? You had

27:03

a better read on this. Yeah, Dudley like threatens

27:05

to put, he like

27:07

implies he's gonna put Harry's head in the

27:09

toilet or something. A classic swirly situation. Classic

27:11

swirly. 90s kids remember. You

27:14

ever get swirly? I've been attempted at

27:16

swirly, but I survived. You did? Yeah, it

27:18

was like in K-3. That's real? Not

27:20

like a real bullying thing, but it

27:23

was like a rough housing with friends that you like. And it was

27:25

like, what did you grow up in a sitcom? Oh,

27:29

okay. It's got me. What's the, no,

27:31

what's the, by the bell. No, what's

27:33

the like, why am I thinking of

27:35

beaver? What's the, there it

27:37

is. It's me. Leave it to beaver.

27:41

Yeah, but anyways, Harry's like, oh, that toilet

27:43

never had anything as disgusting as your head

27:45

down it or something. Pretty good. Which I,

27:48

as much as I love Ginny flying

27:50

into Zacharias Smith, I think that again,

27:53

Harry's like immediate witty retort here is

27:55

like, that's tough to

27:57

beat for me, even though it's seated lower. It is,

27:59

it is good. I think it is a

28:01

great comeback and stuff, but I just she

28:03

didn't need to do it But it's so

28:05

good that she did and she didn't get

28:07

in trouble for it Even though she like

28:09

damaged school property and they didn't care because

28:11

McGonagall is like you're right He was annoying

28:13

and that was okay. Yeah the rules of

28:15

this place They're just I mean you can

28:17

be mean as long as it's justified But

28:20

I don't know I'm I'm partial to the Ginny

28:22

and does that grice myth. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm

28:24

I'm with you Okay, I just well, I just

28:26

like that It's just part of the big like

28:29

Ginny come up arc in that

28:31

whole sixth book and Zachary Smith is also

28:33

so annoying He's such a little twerp that

28:35

I like to see him put in his

28:37

place Especially because like you go from the

28:39

high of Lee Jordan commentary down to Zachary

28:41

Smith just like being a snot nose brat

28:43

to everybody Yeah, and

28:45

here's the thing. I love potty humor. I know it's not

28:47

for everyone So

28:49

yeah, I'm with you. Okay now we

28:52

will go into the Hufflepuff quadrant This

28:54

is just everything else. So it's a

28:56

grab bag of stuff number one seeded

28:58

runal was Lib So this is

29:00

when the quick quill doesn't write Ron's name

29:02

as Ronald Weasley It writes it as runal

29:05

as lib and then later when the book

29:07

gets confiscated by Snape Snape says Why does

29:09

it say runal as lib on it and

29:11

Harry goes that's my nickname It's

29:14

really good. Runal as lib is also a

29:16

great Harry Potter band name Oh, yeah, I

29:18

would be so good surprised that or maybe

29:20

there is like a wizard rock band called

29:22

that also great trivia Name if you want

29:24

to do that number eight seed is lock

29:26

heart after he loses his memory He

29:29

is all weird and yeah He's like get asked about

29:31

the sword and he's like I don't have a sword

29:33

that guy's got a sword and he's like He

29:36

asked Ron if he lives in the chamber Very

29:42

funny love seeing walk harpoon his place. Yeah, very

29:44

rude, but now runal as lib is just come

29:46

on. Can't tell it's the best Alright,

29:49

so here's a fun four or five seed

29:52

matchup. This is both Ron not understanding how

29:54

the muggle world works Number four Ron

29:56

putting way too many stamps on

29:58

the letter that he sent to Harry And

30:00

then number five, Ron yelling into a phone and

30:02

demanding that he wants to talk to Harry Potter,

30:05

not understanding that Vernon can just kind of hear

30:07

him plain and clear on the other end. I

30:10

like both of these. The visual

30:12

though of the stamps, I think is

30:14

very funny, just to have a bunch

30:16

of stamps. Like they're just stickers on

30:18

the envelopes. If you asked me to

30:21

go buy a stamp from my house, I wouldn't know where to

30:23

go. I don't know how to buy a stamp. To buy a

30:25

stamp from your house? I don't know where to go.

30:28

So I'm really impressed that Ron got so many stamps.

30:30

Got so many stamps. There you go. Oh,

30:32

yeah. Now I know where to go. I

30:35

got a stamp person now. In

30:37

New York, we have guys, you know, like I got a stamp guy.

30:40

Doesn't matter if they're a guy. No, I

30:42

love the stamps. I'm a big USPS guy. I

30:44

did just buy like $300 to $400 worth of

30:46

stamps a

30:48

couple of days ago, because they really, not a couple of days

30:50

ago, like in the end of July, or

30:53

the beginning of July, because they upped the prices

30:55

a little bit. And I know I'm gonna be

30:57

using stamps to mail out patron stuff for the

30:59

New Salimian, like for the foreseeable future. So Kelly

31:01

and I bought out the stamps at the local,

31:04

at least, where? At the Sam store? At

31:07

the post office in Seaside Park, New Jersey. We walked

31:09

in and we were like, can we have $200 in

31:12

international stamps? And they said, we have $120 worth. And

31:15

I said, we'll take them. And then

31:17

we went into the USPS website and then ordered a

31:19

bunch of fun, different stamps and stuff. But yeah,

31:21

we got them before the price raised. Let me tell you, the

31:23

whole USPS needs to be

31:25

profitable discourse is infuriating, but that's a different

31:28

podcast, but it's infuriating. I wanna punch Louis

31:30

DeJoy in the face every day. I love

31:32

the USPS so much. Why does a government

31:34

institution have to run a profit? It's not

31:36

a business, it's a service. I wish I

31:39

knew the- I don't get it. I wish

31:41

I knew the postmaster general's name for

31:43

a good DeJoy. No, no, no, I'm saying, I wish I

31:46

knew his name for a good reason. Oh yeah. I

31:48

would love to have like a heroic postmaster general. Wouldn't it be cool to

31:50

know who a politician was because they were good?

31:52

Whoa! All right, so now we have

31:54

the number three seeded and we see

31:56

these getting stuck in the fireplace and then giving taffies to

31:59

DeJoy. and then

32:01

his tongue gets all big and

32:03

all of that put into one

32:05

ridiculous situation. And then the number

32:07

six seeded Luna telling Harry in

32:09

all sincerity that sometimes people didn't

32:11

think that Crumplehorn Snorkhacks were a

32:13

real concern to look out for.

32:16

They're both really good, but I just, the Luna

32:19

just being so convinced that

32:21

this is a real thing, I find

32:23

endlessly hilarious. Yeah, she like thinks she

32:25

has a gotcha. She's like, well yeah,

32:27

once upon a time people didn't think

32:29

blibbering humdingers were real. Right.

32:32

Come on, like people come around.

32:34

So yeah, I think that's great.

32:36

I do love the absolute insanity

32:38

of the Weasley's getting stuck in

32:41

the electric fireplace, blowing it up

32:43

and then making Dudley's tongue quadruple

32:45

in size. That's incredible. But Luna

32:48

hasn't gotten enough love, so even for that reason,

32:50

I think we should advance Luna. Okay,

32:52

great. So we're going to

32:55

do that. We've got the number two

32:57

seeded guy saying that the breeze between

32:59

his privates is very fun and that's

33:01

why he likes to wear dresses at

33:03

the Quidditch World Cup. Shout out to

33:05

RG, our good pal. And

33:08

number seven, Fred and George

33:10

telling Ron that the proper spell to

33:12

transfigure scatters is to say turn this

33:14

stupid guy right low. Like the whole

33:17

rhyming couplet, which if every spell in

33:19

Harry Potter had to be a rhyming

33:21

couplet instead of just a Latin word,

33:24

it would be a butchering of a Latin word. It

33:27

would be way better if there was a rhyming

33:29

couplet every two pages. I would love that so

33:31

much. You should write a YA fantasy series and

33:34

then it's magic based and everybody has to do

33:36

cool rhyming couplets. And because

33:38

then duels become rap battles. It

33:42

writes itself, Johnny. All

33:44

that being said, who doesn't love the

33:47

breeze between their privates? I mean, come

33:49

on. It's pretty good. It's just so

33:51

funny and it's just so different from

33:53

like anything else that you see that

33:55

I think Archie's breeze between his privates

33:57

desires. Totally with you.

34:00

Cool. All right, so we finished the first round.

34:02

Yay! Whoo! We did it! We can

34:04

now get into round two that has audience participation.

34:06

So for this round, we're going to add some

34:08

rules to make things a little more challenging for

34:11

us and a little more fun for you to

34:13

listen to. So it's not just us talking for

34:15

90 minutes. There's some different

34:17

stakes here. Whoa! So what we're going to do now

34:19

is we are going to argue between these two things,

34:21

but each of us will pick one of the things

34:24

to defend. We will only have 10 words to make

34:26

our case, and then you, the audience, will use the

34:28

applause meter to determine what moves on to the

34:30

next round. So our first matchup here

34:32

is between Oi Angelina and the

34:35

dung delivery to Percy. Which of

34:37

these two would you like to

34:39

defend? Ooh, I'll take Oi

34:42

Angelina. Okay, and I will do dung

34:44

to Percy. You want to lead us

34:46

off? Yeah, sure. How should I ask

34:48

her? I'm so nervous. Oi!

34:51

Angelina! Ha ha! Okay,

34:55

Percy thinks he's hot shit,

34:59

so let's send him shit. If

35:05

you think Oi Angelina should advance, make

35:07

some noise. Oh!

35:10

What's that? Wow! You

35:13

can, okay. We've devastated. We thought that one

35:15

might win. If you think sending dung, or

35:17

here, we'll do it again. If

35:20

you think dung to Percy should advance, make some noise.

35:24

Okay. If you think Oi

35:26

Angelina should advance, make some noise. Yeah,

35:29

watch. Wow, I think

35:31

dung upset. I think dung

35:33

win. Wow! All right.

35:35

Spicy. Shout out to Sherry

35:37

Glow in the crowd, who has helped edit a bunch

35:39

of my podcasts and produced them and all that kind

35:42

of fun stuff. Backstage, she asked, do you guys ever

35:44

try to make sure one wins? And we're like, we'll

35:46

put some of the onesie that we think will do

35:48

well. And the example we give is, we feel like

35:50

Oi Angelina will go pretty far. Nope. See,

35:53

it's all improvised, Sherry. Anything

35:56

can happen. Okay, the next

35:58

matchup is between... What are

36:00

we next door neighbors and Ron not getting

36:02

a discount? What would you like to do

36:04

here? I'll do the

36:06

discount. Okay, I'll start it off with what

36:08

are we next door neighbors. Hey neighbor, could

36:11

I borrow some sugar? Also

36:14

we're family. We're

36:18

family. Ah. All

36:23

right, touche, touche. If you think,

36:25

hey we're next door neighbors, sit advanced, make some noise. Okay.

36:29

If you think not giving Ron a discount should advance,

36:31

make some noise. All right,

36:33

there you go. All right, all right. Cool.

36:37

So now we will go on to the

36:39

Ravenclaw section. First matchup is between Ginny lying

36:41

about the tattoo situation or Harry and

36:44

Crumb, the whole back and forth can't

36:46

get girls at the wedding. I'll do

36:48

Harry and Crumb. Okay, cool.

36:50

You start that off and then I will

36:53

do the Ginny tattoo situation. If an

36:55

athlete was into

36:57

my fiance, uh

37:00

oh. Okay,

37:04

let's see. Embarrass

37:07

my brother. Make

37:10

my crush look cool. Win-win.

37:15

Winnie Weasley, am I right? Okay. If

37:18

you think that the Harry and Crumb debacle should

37:20

advance, make some noise. Okay.

37:22

If you think the Ginny tattoo situation should

37:25

advance, make some noise. All

37:27

right, all right. Ginny tattoo.

37:30

Now we will go between Harry

37:32

saying Hocus focus jiggly wiggly

37:35

or Harry and Ron BSing their way through divination.

37:37

I would love to defend Harry and Ron BSing

37:39

their way through divination. Perfect, I would love to

37:41

defend Hocus focus. Okay, I will start us off

37:43

with divination. This class sucks. I'm

37:46

gonna goof it. Oh wait,

37:49

A plus? Hocus

37:52

focus jiggly wiggly shmiggity

37:54

shmaggity wiggly wobbly whoa.

37:59

That's an argument. You have

38:01

such a way with words, Johnny. Why aren't

38:03

you the professional podcaster? If you

38:06

think that Harry being in divination

38:08

class and him and Ron BSing should advance,

38:10

make some noise. Okay.

38:12

Okay. If you think

38:14

Hocus Focus Wiggly Jiggly should advance, make some noise. All

38:17

right. Shout out to that person

38:19

who supported your argument. Okay.

38:21

And now we can get to the

38:23

Slytherin section, the comebacks, the put downs,

38:26

the clap backs. We've got Harry saying

38:28

the news changes every day and we

38:30

have Moody turning Draco Malfoy into a ferret.

38:33

What would you like to defend? I'll

38:35

be on team ferret. Okay, great. You start us

38:37

off and then I'll do the news. What's

38:40

worse than common core?

38:44

Turning students into a ferret. I

38:47

don't know if common core is good or bad. What

38:50

is common core? It's like new age, like math

38:52

learning style that they like trying to impose on

38:54

everybody. I don't know if it's good

38:56

or bad. Kids these days. It's good.

38:59

Yay. What's better than common core?

39:01

Okay. I

39:04

thought that common core was like when things are like,

39:06

I don't know, like cottage core where it's like,

39:08

Oh, I'm wearing a bunch of platter. I was

39:10

like, is common core when you're just like exceedingly

39:12

normal? No, that's norm core. Norm core. You're right.

39:15

You're right. You're right. That

39:17

is the thing I've heard. Okay. What

39:19

better way to zing your stepdad than

39:22

insulting intelligence? All right. Well,

39:25

if you think that turning Draco into

39:28

a ferret should advance, make some noise.

39:31

Okay. Okay. If you think,

39:33

Hey, the news changes every day should advance, make

39:35

some noise. Okay. The

39:37

news. The news has it. Good. Cause

39:40

I didn't feel strong about the argument. So that's

39:43

okay. Now the final Slytherin bracket matchup is between

39:45

Molly sending Ron a howler and embarrassing him in

39:47

front of all his friends or Ginny flying into

39:49

Zachary Smith. I felt like I was more pushing

39:51

on the Zachary Smith. So I feel like you

39:53

should do that. I'll start

39:55

off with the Zachary Smith. Let's

39:58

see. Talk shit. hit

40:00

by me, Ginny Weasley.

40:02

Ha ha, loser! If

40:06

you put one more

40:08

toe out of line...

40:11

I don't

40:14

know what came over me. If you

40:17

think Ginny flying into Zachary Smith should advance,

40:19

make some noise. Alright, if you think the

40:21

Howler should advance, make some noise. Okay,

40:24

okay. The Howler has it. We

40:26

can get into our final round

40:28

two match-ups in the Hufflepuff section.

40:30

We've got Runal Wazlib or Bunch

40:32

of Stamps. I

40:35

feel like you're a big Runal guy. I can

40:37

tackle the stamps. Yeah, sounds good. Alright, I'll start

40:39

off with stamps. Lick place,

40:41

lick place, lick place,

40:43

lick place and post.

40:47

Shout out to Lupe Fiasco.

40:51

Lupe Fiasco is a rap artist who has a

40:53

song called Kick Push. And the chorus goes kick

40:55

push, kick push and coast. Deep cut, so I

40:57

did lick place, lick place and post. Like

41:00

a paper cut. My

41:05

name's John. My

41:07

nickname's Johnny. Wish

41:09

it was Runal. If

41:12

you think stamps should advance, make some noise. Okay,

41:15

polite applause. If

41:18

you think Runal Wazlib should advance, make some noise. Alright,

41:21

the Runal has it. Yeah,

41:24

not good when I had to explain the joke.

41:26

Didn't have high hopes for my argument. That's how

41:28

you know a joke is funny. Okay,

41:30

now the final match-up of this

41:33

round is between Luna and all

41:35

sincerity saying that people didn't think

41:37

Crumplehorn, Snorkax, and Blibering, Humdingers were

41:39

things that were real. Or, breeze

41:41

between the knees from our good

41:43

pal, Archie. Come on team breeze,

41:45

baby. Okay, why don't you start us off? For

41:53

the folks listening at home, Johnny has spread

41:55

his legs to allow for a breeze

41:57

between his knees. He

42:05

has now done one ah but

42:07

counted to ten. Good

42:10

arguments. Okay. Crumplehorn

42:13

Snorkaxes, Blibbering

42:16

Humdingers, these

42:18

aren't candy bars, they're

42:21

animals. Great

42:24

point. If you think

42:26

the Crumplehorn Snorkax moment should advance, make

42:29

some noise. Correct. If you

42:31

think Breeze Between the Knees should advance, make some noise.

42:34

Very, very good. Very, very good. Okay. That

42:37

brings us to the end

42:39

of round two and also the end of

42:41

act one, which means we need to pass

42:43

it over to my good pal, Editing Mike.

42:45

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42:50

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discuss. So let's just recap so we all know

47:56

what is at stake. here

48:00

in the Elite Eight we have a final

48:02

matchup now in each of the brackets so

48:04

the final Fred and George matchup is between

48:07

sending Dung to Percy and him thinking it

48:09

was a gift and Ron not getting a

48:12

discount. In the Ravenclaw section we've

48:14

got Ginny lying about the tattoos and Harry

48:16

and Ron BSing their way through divination class.

48:19

In the Slytherin section we have Harry saying

48:21

the news changes every day and Molly sending

48:23

a howler to make Ron look like a

48:26

silly silly boy and in the Hufflepuff section

48:28

we've got Runal Laslib that's my nickname

48:30

and Breeze between the knees what a powerhouse

48:32

combo my goodness. Now what

48:34

we're going to be doing for this round here

48:37

is we are going to be similarly

48:39

each picking one to argue on behalf

48:41

of but instead of arguments needing to

48:43

be ten words they will have to

48:46

be in the form of a rhyming

48:48

couplet or multiple rhyming couplets if

48:51

you're feeling very spicy so you will argue

48:53

for one of the things you gotta rhyme

48:55

the whole time. So first

48:58

matchup Fred and George bracket we've got

49:00

sending Dung to Percy we've got not

49:02

giving Ron a discount what would you

49:04

like to rhyme about? I'll rhyme about

49:06

Dung to Percy. Okay I will do

49:08

Ron with the discount do you want

49:10

to go first or second? I'll go

49:12

second. Okay all right Ron with the

49:14

discount. You come into

49:16

our store and we see there's something

49:18

you've bought you

49:20

were hoping for a discount but

49:23

obviously not. Not

49:27

onion. Just

49:29

because you're our brother you think we're

49:32

giving you a discount

49:35

you're lucky we don't make you pay

49:37

twice the amount. Thank

49:40

you for the snacks. I'll get my

49:42

beret from backstage. I

49:44

look like Judy from Doug. Shout

49:48

out to the people older than 30 in the

49:51

crowd. Ministry

49:54

of Magic where Percy's hat is hung.

49:58

Climbing that corporate ladder

50:00

climbing every rung.

50:03

Don't know where he's going, don't know

50:05

where he came from, all I know is on

50:07

his desk he's got Doug. There you go, there

50:09

you go. If you think giving,

50:11

making sure the rung does not have a

50:14

discount should advance, make some noise. Alright,

50:16

if you think sending Percy dung should advance, make some

50:19

noise. Alright, a lot

50:21

of poop fans here in the crowd

50:23

tonight. Alright. Okay, so now over in

50:25

Ravenclaw town we've got Ginny lying about

50:27

the tattoos and Harry and Ron lying

50:29

about divination class. What would you like

50:31

to rhyme about? I'll

50:33

do a Harry and Ron lying

50:35

about divination. Okay, you start us off. Trying

50:38

to think about what happened here, give my

50:40

memory a little jog. Why don't I look

50:42

into this crystal ball? Ah shit, there's gonna

50:44

be fog. Okay, there's a girl in school,

50:47

the existence she

50:53

is your bane. I had

50:55

to go talk to your enemy,

50:57

Remilde Vane. I will inform

50:59

you I've got a bit of bad

51:01

news. I told her

51:03

that you and Ron have embarrassing tattoos.

51:08

If you think that Harry and Ron lying in

51:10

divination class should advance, make some noise. If

51:15

you think Ginny lying about the tattoos should advance, make

51:17

some noise. I think

51:19

slight edge to the point where

51:21

you have very close. Okay, so

51:24

now in Slytherin town we've got

51:26

the news changes every day or

51:28

sending Ron a howler as Molly.

51:30

What are you feeling? I'll take

51:32

the howler. Okay, I will

51:34

start off with the news. Having

51:37

Vernon Dursley as your dad

51:40

is like an assured doom. He's

51:42

not the brightest lamp in

51:45

the living room. When

51:47

he is sassy

51:49

to me, what more can I say

51:51

than to rudely

51:54

inform him that the

51:56

news changes every day? Ronald

52:00

Weasley, you're no son of mine.

52:03

How dare you, how dare you take that

52:05

car flying? You

52:09

literally went out there and committed a crime.

52:12

Don't you dare send another toe out of

52:14

line. Hee hee, very

52:16

good. If you think telling Vernon

52:19

that the news changes every day should advance, make some

52:21

noise. Okay, if you think

52:23

the howler should advance, make some noise. Yeah,

52:26

well played, Johnny. Okay,

52:28

now we can get into the

52:31

final rhyming couplet duel. It is

52:33

between Runel Wazlib and Breeze Between

52:35

the Knees. I'll

52:39

take Team Runel. You'll take Runel Wazlib? Okay, why don't you

52:41

start us off and then I'll do the Breeze Between the

52:43

Knees. Don't know what to

52:45

say here, gonna do an Adlib. Wish

52:47

my name was fucking Runel Wazlib. Ha

52:49

ha ha ha! Oh

52:53

man. Oh, okay, okay, okay. All

52:55

right. Just

52:57

went to a Muggle store, picked

52:59

up some clothes that are the

53:01

best. I look absolutely stunning in

53:03

my brand new dress. It

53:06

flows nice and well. It's not

53:08

rigid and starchy. Check out the

53:10

Breeze Between my Knees. It's your

53:12

boy Archie. Ha ha ha ha!

53:16

Wow, wow! If

53:19

you think Runel Wazlib should advance, make some

53:21

noise. All right, shout

53:23

out to that guy. If you think that the

53:25

Breeze Between the Knees should advance, make some noise.

53:28

Okay, there we go. We

53:30

have it. Our final four is

53:32

now set. Finally, we will be

53:34

having the bracket categories fighting against

53:36

each other. And the

53:39

final four is sending Dung to Percy, lying

53:42

about tattoos, the Howler sent to Ron,

53:44

and the Breeze Between the Knees. Now

53:46

for the final four matchup, we had

53:48

to get very creative here. Normally for

53:51

the brackets, we do things like acrostics, but

53:53

that's not gonna work, because some of these are quotes, and

53:55

some of these are scenes, and it would be really hard.

53:57

So what we're doing instead to switch it up here is...

54:00

a little bit different. If you were

54:02

in middle school and you were assigned

54:05

to make an art project about this

54:08

scene or quote or situation,

54:12

what would you make? It could be a

54:14

diorama, it could be a poster board presentation,

54:16

it could be like an interpretive dance, it

54:18

could be lots of different things. How

54:22

do this professionally? You know? I'm just a guy.

54:27

So the first matchup, and we will just

54:29

kind of lay out what we would do

54:31

in this case, you can list multiple options.

54:34

I'm not your mom, Carol is. So the

54:36

rules are loose here. So

54:40

the first matchup is between sending dung to

54:42

Percy Weasley and the breeze between the knees.

54:44

What would you like to make

54:47

an art or science project even

54:49

about? I

54:51

guess dung to Percy Weasley. Okay, all right.

54:54

If you were doing dung to Percy Weasley,

54:56

what would, how would it shake out? So

54:59

in the book, he

55:01

talks about how he opens a folder

55:03

in what's called his intray. And

55:06

I don't think we're

55:09

on the same page for what it's worth. Intray

55:14

sounds like entrails. No,

55:16

that's not what I'm doing. I'm not that clever. I don't

55:18

do this for a living. I'm just a guy. And

55:21

so I think what I would do

55:24

is I would sit at

55:26

a desk and

55:28

have an intray, which I think is

55:30

like what they have when they don't

55:32

have email. Yeah, actually inbox or papers,

55:34

letters. But I think what I

55:36

would do is I would sit at this desk

55:38

with the intray and build like

55:41

a really elaborate like Rube Goldberg invention

55:43

that ends with like, I don't know,

55:45

something that looks like dung ending up

55:47

in the intray. And I would just

55:49

sit there and then like the moment

55:51

it landed in there, I would like look at

55:53

it and then I would open it and then I would make,

55:55

you know, a stinky face. And that would be that. And that's

55:57

all I got. It's good. It's very unbranded.

56:00

So what I would do for the breeze between the knees for Orgy is I

56:02

would do it like the science fair. I

56:05

don't know if you do have to do the science fair like in

56:07

middle school and all that. Okay so I would do

56:09

like a science fair project where I would have like

56:11

a blow dryer kind of

56:13

like fastened and pointing in a set direction

56:15

and then I would have like a turn

56:18

style thing with hangers on

56:20

it and clipped to each as like

56:22

different fabric and then what would happen

56:24

is the blow dryer would like have

56:26

the things blow like it's a breeze

56:28

and then it would also move it

56:30

in a circle and it would be

56:32

all different types of fabric so it

56:34

could be like cotton or wool or

56:36

chiffon or silk or lace and just all

56:38

these different things and then that way you would

56:40

get to be able to determine a dress

56:43

made out of what material would

56:45

allow for the best breeze between

56:47

the knees situation. So you

56:50

could find like the right balance between what

56:52

gives me a nice breeze but isn't too

56:54

much to where I'm exposing my private parts

56:57

that Orgy does reference in the quote so

56:59

trying to find that perfect balance between lots

57:01

of breeze but not too much breeze where

57:03

I'm putting on a show. Kind

57:06

of sounds like one of those science fair projects that

57:08

your parents help you out with. Oh

57:11

man. So

57:13

applause on meter time if you think

57:16

that Johnny's Rube Goldberg to make poop

57:18

appear should advance make some noise. Okay.

57:21

Okay. So you think the

57:23

science fair project of breeze between the knees fabric

57:26

should advance make some noise. All

57:28

right. The breeze has

57:30

it and it enters the

57:32

finals. Now on the other side we've got

57:34

the tattoos and the howler. What would you

57:36

like to make an art project about? I

57:39

reckon the howler. Okay. Then

57:41

I will start it off with the tattoos. Oh

57:43

yeah. So I would get like maybe like

57:46

two Ken dolls and then

57:48

I would draw on the Ken dolls like

57:50

what the tattoo was meant to look like.

57:52

But then I would have it in front

57:54

of like a trifold poster board was kind

57:56

of like a zoom in you

57:58

know blow up the image. And

58:00

then, I don't know if this might be

58:02

hyper-specific, but you know when NBA teams or

58:04

sports teams are released in New Jersey, and

58:06

then they write like 70 paragraphs to like

58:09

BS why they made the sleeves purple and

58:11

the stripe yellow, and they're like, this is

58:13

about the heritage of our city. Like I

58:15

would just make a really intense like blown

58:17

up thing with all the different like lines

58:19

to like the drawing and why the colors

58:21

were chosen and what things represent and all

58:23

of that. So just be like a very

58:25

in-depth, thorough analysis of this Hungarian horn tail

58:27

tattoo and the pygmy puff tattoo. I

58:30

hate to tell you that no one in this

58:32

room understood your NBA reference because we don't have

58:34

a team and we're all very sad about it.

58:36

St. Louis, what did you, ah, the Hawks. The

58:39

Hawks, they moved. You should have a team. They

58:41

usually get a team before Las Vegas does, which

58:44

is what they're always like talking about doing. It's, yeah, it's unfair.

58:46

St. Louis should have a basketball team. So

58:49

for my Howler school project,

58:51

I think it would

58:53

be like a combination

58:56

of origami sock puppet situation

59:00

where I like make a little Howler

59:02

and then I like duck down beneath a little

59:04

sock puppet set up. And maybe even I

59:06

have a Ron on the other hand. I don't

59:09

know, like a little Potter puppet towel. And I

59:11

hold him up and I hold my Howler up

59:13

and I do like a whole sock puppet

59:15

Howler scene situation with origami. That's what I would

59:17

do. That's really good. I like it. I'm also

59:20

imagining the like foldy things that you do to

59:22

like do people's. Cody Katter. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

59:24

Three, four, five. Oh, your crush is gonna murder

59:26

you in your sleep. Yeah, but he screams it. Yeah.

59:29

Your crush is gonna murder you in

59:31

it. Okay, if you think that the

59:34

tattoo diorama art project should advance, make

59:36

some noise. All right,

59:38

all right. If you think that the Howler origami

59:40

puppet show should advance, make some noise. Okay.

59:44

Well done. We have an

59:46

interesting matchup in the finals here.

59:49

For the funniest moment in the Harry Potter

59:51

book series, we have the breeze between the

59:54

knees of Archie and Molly sending a howler

59:56

to Ron Weasley for stealing a car. Now,

1:00:00

for this final round, what Johnny and I will be doing is

1:00:02

we will be giving three minute TED talks about

1:00:04

each of these two things, arguing

1:00:06

why we think either of

1:00:09

these is the correct answer. So

1:00:11

Johnny, I will defer to you which of these

1:00:13

two would you like to give a three minute TED talk about? I

1:00:16

think I wanna go team Breeze here. Okay, I love the

1:00:18

Breeze. I will let you start us off with the Breeze

1:00:20

and then I will finish with the Howler, unless you wanna

1:00:22

go second. No, go first. Let me get

1:00:24

three minutes on the clock so

1:00:27

you don't run away. Begin.

1:00:31

What is it about 70 degrees,

1:00:36

sunshine, a

1:00:38

rainbow, and

1:00:40

a soft Breeze that

1:00:43

just feels so right? I'll

1:00:47

tell you what it is. It's

1:00:49

the fact that you have no

1:00:52

undergarments on in

1:00:55

this situation. And that

1:00:58

you're wearing a dress. And

1:01:01

here's the thing. Archie,

1:01:03

what did this come out? When it was in the mid 90s, early 90s when

1:01:07

we're in book form. Archie

1:01:09

was just ahead of his time. I'd

1:01:12

love to wear a dress tomorrow. He'd love to wear

1:01:14

a dress tomorrow. Any of us can wear dresses tomorrow.

1:01:16

And Archie nailed it when he said, these are mogul

1:01:19

clothes, moguls wear them, why

1:01:21

can't I? And I think Archie speaks for

1:01:23

a lot of us. For a lot of the, not

1:01:26

even us, I shouldn't say

1:01:28

us because I'm a privileged white dude. But a

1:01:31

lot of the marginalized and the unheard

1:01:33

when Archie says, moguls

1:01:36

wear it, why can't I? And

1:01:38

I think that if I'm gonna take anything

1:01:41

away from this lovely evening that I've spent

1:01:43

with all of you. Aww. Aww.

1:01:48

It's that we

1:01:51

should all be true to ourselves. Just like

1:01:53

Archie was on that fateful

1:01:55

day when he

1:01:57

felt a nice breeze. round

1:02:01

his privates and wasn't

1:02:03

willing to sacrifice himself to

1:02:05

give that up. So tonight,

1:02:08

pour one out for Archie. But

1:02:11

don't because don't pour stuff onto the floor of this venue

1:02:13

that was very nice to host us. Metaphysically

1:02:16

pour one out for Archie. There we are. Because

1:02:19

he is a goddamn British hero.

1:02:24

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Well played, well played. Okay.

1:02:32

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. I

1:02:34

will be discussing why Molly sending Howler to Ron and

1:02:36

embarrassing him in front of all his friends is the

1:02:38

funniest thing that happened in the books. Now, you're

1:02:42

Molly Weasley. You have 75 children.

1:02:44

You are holding your

1:02:48

house together

1:02:51

literally and figuratively

1:02:54

by a thread. You're doing so much. You

1:02:56

have to worry about getting all

1:02:58

of your kids in order, getting

1:03:01

them to stop fighting each other and playing

1:03:03

pranks on each other. You have to deal

1:03:05

with Percy. You have to deal with Bill

1:03:08

and Charlie who both have incredibly dangerous jobs.

1:03:10

You're stressed out. It's a stressful situation. And

1:03:12

you also have on top of all of

1:03:14

this your kid Ron who's just making it

1:03:17

even more difficult. All he's got to do

1:03:20

is go to school and get on a

1:03:22

train. Easy? Yes. Does he figure it out?

1:03:24

No. He has to make it more challenging

1:03:27

than it needs to be. Now, Ron doesn't

1:03:29

get through platform 9 and 3 quarters with

1:03:31

his friend Harry to get to school. So

1:03:34

what does he do? Does he take another

1:03:36

train? No. Does he, I don't know, just

1:03:38

tell his parents and have them drop him

1:03:40

off at school? No. What does he do?

1:03:43

He steals a car and goes himself.

1:03:46

And he doesn't just steal a car, which he

1:03:48

does not know how to drive. He doesn't have

1:03:50

a learner's permit. I'm sure there's a British word

1:03:52

for it that's like way more verbose and

1:03:55

silly sounding like, you know, the drive

1:03:58

you why you rectangle time or whatever. whatever.

1:04:02

I'm sure that they, yes, I'll call Dottie,

1:04:04

but I'm sure that Ron does

1:04:06

not have his permit. He's not old enough to

1:04:08

be pulling these shenanigans. He's not old enough to

1:04:10

drive a regular car. How in the world

1:04:13

would he drive a flying car and know

1:04:15

what to do? Just because he's seen Fred

1:04:17

and George do it, just because he's ridden

1:04:19

as a passenger sometime, that's not good enough.

1:04:21

So he steals a car and

1:04:23

he doesn't just steal the car,

1:04:26

but he wrecks the car by

1:04:28

driving it into a tree. You

1:04:30

know how many trees are on Hogwarts campus?

1:04:32

One. And he

1:04:35

drives into 100% of the trees on Hogwarts campus and the car

1:04:37

gets destroyed. This

1:04:42

car that I'm sure is not common, it's

1:04:44

made out of a Ford Anglia, so I'm

1:04:46

sure like this is Arthur's pet

1:04:48

project on weekends. He's just refurbishing this car and it's

1:04:50

his baby's pride and joy and then Ron wrecks it

1:04:53

for no good reason. So what do you have to

1:04:55

do? You have to set this kid straight. You've got

1:04:57

to make sure that Ron is not going to make

1:04:59

this kind of mistake again. And what can you do?

1:05:01

Do you want to yell at him? No. Tough love

1:05:04

isn't going to do it. You're going to give him

1:05:06

the I'm not mad, I'm disappointed thing? No. Ron is

1:05:08

too thick to recognize that and understand disappointing his parents.

1:05:10

So what do you need to do? You need to

1:05:13

embarrass your kid. You've got to make him look like

1:05:15

a fool in front of his friends if he even

1:05:17

has any. So you need to find a way to

1:05:19

make sure that he's scared straight. What do you do?

1:05:21

You find the time when the most kids are around

1:05:24

and everybody can hear and that little twerp jerk on

1:05:26

Malfoy can make fun of him again in front of

1:05:28

everybody else. You write a howler that's going to

1:05:30

scream at the top of his lungs in front of everybody

1:05:32

and you know what's funny? Messing with your kids. Thank you

1:05:34

for coming up at TED Talk, I rest my knees. Big

1:05:42

moment. A battle. Big moment. It's going to be

1:05:44

close. The poles are neck and neck. So

1:05:51

if you think that the breeze between the knees

1:05:53

is the funniest moment and should win this

1:05:55

battle, make some noise. All right. Ooh.

1:06:00

gonna be close if you

1:06:03

if you think that sending on the howler should

1:06:05

advance and win make some noise I

1:06:09

was really close to one order but

1:06:11

yes it will do it will do it again will do their

1:06:13

birth so it's not just like a first second thing if you

1:06:15

think that the howler should win make some noise if

1:06:20

you think that the breeze should win make some noise

1:06:25

what did you think I think like our by

1:06:28

an edge yeah howler by an edge so the

1:06:30

funniest thing is the howler shout out

1:06:32

to Molly Weasley and we've done it we've determined the funniest

1:06:34

thing in the Harry Potter series thank you all so much

1:06:36

for helping us with your applause I

1:06:39

also found it funny that I feel like this side

1:06:41

of the room voted for breeze and this side of

1:06:43

the room voted for howler and you are sitting on

1:06:45

the side that voted for you and I'm sitting so

1:06:47

maybe it's just like proximity bias it's where we campaign

1:06:49

well it's like medieval times when you sit in the

1:06:51

blue night section you're like I love the blue night

1:06:53

I met him five minutes ago I would die for

1:06:55

him oh well past Mike hold

1:06:58

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1:08:23

apparently a long time listener of the show.

1:08:26

Kelly says, hi B, love you, through

1:08:28

exclamation points, and a heart emoji, nice,

1:08:30

love you too, Kelly. She

1:08:32

says, what is your favorite flavor

1:08:35

of Pop-Tart? If you

1:08:37

could invent a Pop-Tart flavor, what would it be?

1:08:39

If it's not obvious from this question, I

1:08:41

just ate one of your Pop-Tarts, sorry. I

1:08:46

did recently buy some Pop-Tarts because I was

1:08:48

walking home from grabbing drinks with my buddy,

1:08:50

Stephen Parra, and I wanted to pick up

1:08:52

some snacks because Kelly

1:08:54

had been flying home. I was like, do you need any

1:08:56

snacks? I'm into CBS. She was like, no. And then I

1:08:58

saw Pop-Tarts were on sale and I bought my favorite flavor

1:09:01

of Pop-Tarts, the one true flavor, brown sugar cinnamon. The

1:09:03

true flavor of Pop-Tarts. They're good. You're

1:09:05

wrong. I'm sorry. I feel

1:09:07

bad for your taste buds, but I'm sure they're

1:09:09

fine. I think they're great, but they're not the

1:09:11

best flavor. Oh, what do you think is the

1:09:14

best flavor? The best flavor is extremely slept on

1:09:16

and you can like really only find it in

1:09:18

Target. Okay. And it's wild berry,

1:09:20

which is so good. Wild berry is good.

1:09:22

It's like the purple frosting with the little

1:09:24

red lines. Oh my God, it's insanely good.

1:09:26

Wild berry is very good. Now, if we

1:09:28

could invent a flavor of Pop-Tart, what would

1:09:30

you go with? I personally, and it's similar

1:09:32

to it, but it's just my favorite flavor

1:09:34

of cinnamon type thing. I would make a

1:09:36

horchata Pop-Tart. And horchata is

1:09:39

just like Mexican rice milk, cinnamon,

1:09:43

almond milk dish. It's like, it's

1:09:46

God, it's so good. And it's really easy to

1:09:48

make. You can make it just with like a

1:09:51

blender and then rice, almonds, cinnamon sticks and milk.

1:09:53

It's super easy. Look it up. It's

1:09:55

delicious. I would make horchata Pop-Tarts.

1:09:58

What about you? Good butter cake. Gooey butter.

1:10:00

Oh, that would be good. We're

1:10:03

toasted ravioli. Not that less good.

1:10:05

But it does bring up the important question, is

1:10:08

a pop tart just ravioli? It's

1:10:11

not, it's not, it's not pasta. It's not, it's not, it's

1:10:13

not made of pasta. It needs to be made of pasta.

1:10:16

Now this next question, because the subject line is

1:10:18

toasted ravioli built the arch, which sure, I would

1:10:20

believe that toasted ravioli built the arch. Made of

1:10:22

those. Toasted ravioli, ah, they didn't, what's the whole

1:10:25

thing with the arch? They like didn't line it

1:10:27

up properly, so they had to like, yeah, it's

1:10:29

an old urban legend. They had to

1:10:31

like redo all the calcs or something.

1:10:33

Yeah. So Janelle asks, who would win

1:10:35

in a fight, Hermione Granger or Percy

1:10:37

Jackson? Which is good. I've gotten

1:10:39

this question, obviously, because they're doing the newest

1:10:41

Olympian. It's usually Harry versus Percy though. Hermione

1:10:43

verse Percy, I feel like I'm

1:10:45

gonna give the edge to Percy Jackson because,

1:10:48

okay, look. First

1:10:50

off, this is my podcast

1:10:52

live show. You can

1:10:55

do yours tomorrow. But

1:10:57

I think Hermione Granger, definitely very smart,

1:10:59

but Percy Jackson, without giving

1:11:01

away any spoilers in case anybody reads the Percy Jackson

1:11:03

books for the first time with my podcast, he does

1:11:05

in the first book defeat someone in a duel that

1:11:07

is like seemingly undefeatable

1:11:09

in a duel. So

1:11:12

I feel like he would do quite well.

1:11:14

But if there were more smarts and stuff

1:11:16

involved, I think she'd do great. Okay. This

1:11:18

one is from Kayla, whose email subject line

1:11:20

is, it's not Panera, it's breadco. Kayla

1:11:23

says, after Percy Jackson, do you have any other book series

1:11:25

in mind? I think I'm gonna be doing Percy Jackson for

1:11:27

a while because there's like a million sequel series books and

1:11:29

stuff, which is good because I love

1:11:31

job security. But

1:11:33

I think if I ever was to do a

1:11:36

thing afterwards, I've never watched Avatar the Last Airbender.

1:11:38

So I think I could, if I am still

1:11:40

in the hole not consuming things, then consuming them

1:11:42

thing, I would probably do that. This

1:11:46

one is from Sierra. The subject line

1:11:49

is, nothing about St.

1:11:51

Louis. So I'm guessing it's I know nothing about

1:11:53

St. Louis. Sierra says, will we ever get Barb

1:11:55

and Joel on a future pod aside from meddling

1:11:57

adults? I don't think that we would ever get...

1:12:00

get them on Potter Oates because they have not consumed all

1:12:02

the Harry Potter books, maybe in like a live show or

1:12:04

something. What I do think would be very fun to get

1:12:06

them on for though is when I start

1:12:08

doing the movie episodes of The New St. Olympian, what I'd

1:12:10

like to do in the past is have one person who's

1:12:12

read the books and one person who hasn't. My dad has

1:12:15

started to read the books, but he's a little bit further

1:12:17

behind. My mom likes to be up

1:12:19

to date with The New St. Olympian and then call

1:12:21

me about it after, which is adorable. So

1:12:23

I think having them on for one of

1:12:25

the movie episodes of Percy Jackson could be

1:12:28

very fun. So I think there is

1:12:30

a chance because they've been keeping up that they could

1:12:32

show up on TNO in the future.

1:12:35

Now this next one is

1:12:37

from Elizabeth. This is her question

1:12:39

has two parts. I drove two hours to see you in

1:12:41

St. Louis. That is dedication. Thank you very much for doing

1:12:44

that. My question has two parts. One, Mike,

1:12:46

you seem so intelligent, well traveled and well spoken. Did

1:12:48

you take Latin in high school? Yes, I did for

1:12:50

three years. Number two, my serious

1:12:52

question. Do you have a favorite episode or favorite series

1:12:54

of episodes you've recorded? I, just to

1:12:56

be safe, will say all the episodes with my wife.

1:13:00

So leave it at that. What do you think

1:13:03

that's safe? The

1:13:05

episode that I did with Kelly and Johnny

1:13:07

at the same time is my favorite episode.

1:13:09

Good answer. Do you have a favorite

1:13:12

run of episodes or episode that you

1:13:14

were on? Our Crenelated Ramperts run was

1:13:16

a classic. Well, I really, there

1:13:18

were a few guests early on that I

1:13:20

really loved. Sydney Adams was a hilarious guest

1:13:22

for those that remember her, who

1:13:24

I still have never met. You had to record that

1:13:27

one in her bathroom because her roommates were being loud.

1:13:30

Sounds about right. Made

1:13:32

for good podcast audio, you know, tiles, really

1:13:35

what you want. Early

1:13:37

Potter goes, what was I doing? Okay. Ooh,

1:13:41

this is a fun one from Sierra. If Harry

1:13:43

Potter had basketball teams instead of Quidditch teams, already off

1:13:45

to a great start, what would

1:13:47

each house's jersey look like? What would the

1:13:49

jerseys look like? I feel like the Gryffindor

1:13:52

jerseys would be kind of simple where there

1:13:54

would just be like a big Griffin and

1:13:57

just, it would say like Gryffindor, very. High

1:14:00

school musical 3 wildcats jersey where it just says

1:14:02

wildcats and then has a paw print like very

1:14:04

kind of just like standard looking I

1:14:06

feel like Ravenclaw would go University of North Carolina

1:14:08

where they have Argyle down the side of their

1:14:10

jersey I feel like that could be a good

1:14:12

Ravenclaw look like very studious, but still can be

1:14:14

sporty. I feel like Slytherin

1:14:17

would do the thing that a lot of NBA

1:14:19

teams are doing right now where they have black

1:14:21

jerseys with their main colors Just like an accent

1:14:23

so they could have like an all-black jersey, but

1:14:25

then with just like green and silver accents Maybe

1:14:27

it's like it says Slytherin in green, but it

1:14:29

has like an outline of it in like a glittery

1:14:31

silver So it kind of catches in the light and

1:14:34

then Hufflepuff would just be like go team. Yay

1:14:36

I hope we all have fun like it would

1:14:38

be a very no But like in all sincerity,

1:14:40

I feel like they were just have like very

1:14:43

bright yellow jerseys That would maybe have like a

1:14:45

cool like honey badger kind of pattern on

1:14:47

it any Jersey thoughts My

1:14:50

only question was which one says mix on

1:14:52

the front. No, I'm not gonna shoehorn it

1:14:54

That's me in the crowd wearing a manual

1:14:56

quickly Jersey saying yay. I'm glad you guys

1:14:58

are funny playing basketball This

1:15:00

room Amy the summer to plan is st. Louis

1:15:02

likes cabbage. What's that about? Does he

1:15:04

lose like cabbage? No, oh

1:15:08

Is you've brought a cabbage

1:15:10

to the show? Are you Amy or okay?

1:15:14

Why did you bring a cabbage? Okay,

1:15:19

oh That's

1:15:22

fun Yeah,

1:15:26

yeah, my are my Sister-in-law

1:15:28

Kelly sister had the thing with like the

1:15:31

now it's as big as an avocado. Yeah,

1:15:33

congratulations by the way What

1:15:36

I thought was gonna be the answer was

1:15:39

she's 26 weeks pregnant and was really craving

1:15:41

raw cabbage So

1:15:45

apparently saying loose like cabbage Amy says

1:15:47

if oh, oh here's this makes sense

1:15:50

If I gave you a cabbage, would you take a picture with

1:15:52

it a 26 week? So he's

1:15:54

about to say but the cabbage case you're wondering Yes

1:15:57

At the end of the show toss me the

1:15:59

cabbage and we continue entering. Me owning that has

1:16:01

nothing to be. So when we do socially distance

1:16:04

moto taxi they give up. The upgrade was never

1:16:06

had that happened before. Who

1:16:08

this is a fun one from coordinates

1:16:11

Courtney says what alcoholic drink with each

1:16:13

of the main squad be and why.

1:16:16

Harry would want like a cool looking

1:16:19

during I feel like he would wanna

1:16:21

drink. That is fun but like cool

1:16:23

I feel lucky to be like a

1:16:25

Moscow Mule kind of thing. Worse is

1:16:27

kinda like it comes in a cool

1:16:29

cops only a matter of Manhattan. I

1:16:32

don't even know it's into Manhattan area of I

1:16:34

know it comes in the last. Ah yes I

1:16:36

do. It must have mucus. It's like the other

1:16:38

funding about the original Moscow Mule. It's like. It's

1:16:41

funny cause it's just like vodka, ginger beer,

1:16:43

simple syrup and line which like if you're

1:16:45

going by like conventional drinks like I don't

1:16:47

agree with this puppy will be like if

1:16:49

you just described that trying to someone to

1:16:51

be like that's a girl, he drinks students

1:16:54

But I do like that the way that

1:16:56

they got around it was like how do

1:16:58

we get men to order this appointed a

1:17:00

bronze Mcgregor is viable. I feel like Harry

1:17:02

would be like that because he's like fly

1:17:04

have friends but I can't hug them poster

1:17:06

boy such as How wrong I love their

1:17:08

prefer. That's pretty good advocates of itself. I

1:17:11

feel like harry be Moscow mule her money

1:17:13

would be so her money would be something

1:17:15

light like. It's really good but it's a

1:17:17

little difficult like a most ito or something

1:17:20

like. It's nice and refreshing though I'd kind

1:17:22

of annoying or something with egg whites are

1:17:24

vanilla. The gag to be like a sour

1:17:26

some neglects mosquitoes like know bartender like sumitomo

1:17:28

heat. oh it's like a forum worked out.

1:17:31

it's not fun so her mind you know

1:17:33

she's fun bilic sometimes or hard to deal

1:17:35

with the like run for to speculate viruses.

1:17:37

it is straight fireball for like a we

1:17:39

a lot or something. That will be

1:17:42

one of it's you. Yeah, so yeah. I like it.

1:17:45

Very good. Got on the same bid against

1:17:47

this out from sharing. What no family discounts

1:17:49

is the subject line series. As friend George

1:17:51

have asked you to invent a new items

1:17:54

a cylinder joke shop what is your proposals?

1:17:56

Great question Gray Crisis I feel like I

1:17:58

would make like you know. I'll they

1:18:00

have that like help you find your phone or

1:18:02

your keys or whatever when you one of them.

1:18:04

Yet every help her Me: arctic the inverse of

1:18:07

that so tiles we can click a button and

1:18:09

make that thing disappear for like two hours. like

1:18:11

where's my teeth I have not Your messages are

1:18:13

that would be really got absolutely and as really

1:18:15

good. I feel like I I think

1:18:17

that they they have a lot of good

1:18:19

like jokes and stuff. I don't think they

1:18:22

have enough like fun deems and I am

1:18:24

I feel like the could do one of

1:18:26

those plates. Kind of like a dream

1:18:28

where the stakes are high were something embarrassing kind

1:18:30

of happens to you. I could dunk tank or

1:18:32

something like pick it up some sort of dimwit

1:18:34

media of some sort of toy wand and you

1:18:36

have to do some sort of duel. butts it

1:18:38

out of know it just makes me think of

1:18:40

like don't wage daddy were like every now and

1:18:42

then something incredibly terrifying happens. Or you could have

1:18:44

some sort of like dueling game or like you

1:18:46

know you have to say a spell. Maybe it's

1:18:48

maybe you can do like would Potter Castles in

1:18:51

oh sure that she does with Mr. Management's they

1:18:53

do a game and we did a why do

1:18:55

we get onwards expelled or to go back and

1:18:57

forth. And you have to to say any

1:18:59

sort of spell in the first person who can

1:19:01

think of one loses kind of like your classic

1:19:03

impromptu sleep you have won like that. but then

1:19:05

if you lose it like slaps you in the

1:19:08

face or like squirts you with something like smelly

1:19:10

year like like because if I grew up of

1:19:12

thing comes alec one of those like robotic arms

1:19:14

and legs cream hon I'm like I whipped cream

1:19:16

pie gallagher like I like clown already. Alianza is

1:19:18

always is it's different versions of that like it

1:19:21

either hits you with like a pie or it

1:19:23

does the like water clowns they would earn it

1:19:25

suits is like by you're you're you're ya snail.

1:19:27

That you is like all those like classic bits

1:19:29

all over the place again. Sam asks if you

1:19:32

could turn a Harry Potter food or drink into

1:19:34

a popped her. What would you make? a

1:19:37

good on i'm you know what i'm open

1:19:39

minded a handsome guy that become familiar okay

1:19:41

years or something i sorry i cleared by

1:19:43

as i stated of all of a lot

1:19:46

is is not to notice not cool that

1:19:48

elicits just like a god nickelback you're not

1:19:50

afraid of i don't want either yeah i'd

1:19:52

we've heard it before it's just like what

1:19:54

people drink what they want to drink who

1:19:56

cares you're at starbucks but you can't be

1:19:58

holier than thou your ass I

1:20:02

think would be interesting, a fire whiskey

1:20:04

one, because what would a spicy Pop-Tart be like?

1:20:06

I'm just intrigued by the prospect of it. I

1:20:08

like spicy desserts, like when you have chocolate with

1:20:10

a little chili. I think that could

1:20:12

be a really fun situation. Sweet heat action?

1:20:14

Yeah, yeah, that would be my thing. Okay,

1:20:16

this one is from Aggie, and I'm glad,

1:20:18

because this is a basketball question. This is

1:20:20

Aggie who's a Hufflepuff, asks, which basketball defense

1:20:22

plays do you think each house would be?

1:20:25

I only have one opinion. Ravenclaw's running a

1:20:27

zone with a lot of switching, and a

1:20:29

very cerebral D. Yes, I would say they're

1:20:31

probably running a 1-3-1 zone. I've

1:20:34

lost it. It's very like, I'm from

1:20:36

here, remember? I think

1:20:38

that Slytherin would be a full

1:20:41

court press, get it like the

1:20:43

news, a full court press, which is just where

1:20:45

the whole point of it is to scare people

1:20:47

into making a mistake. So it's just high intensity

1:20:49

kind of thing, lots of traps and taking up

1:20:51

the whole court. I feel like Hufflepuff

1:20:54

would just be a simple

1:20:56

man-to-man defense, where it's just like, we are following

1:20:58

the rules, we are trying to be nice. I'm

1:21:00

gonna guard you, you'll guard him. And

1:21:02

I feel like Gryffindor could be, Gryffindor's,

1:21:04

oh, they would run this play in basketball called

1:21:06

a box-in-one, which is where you have four players

1:21:09

just kind of like stand in a box and

1:21:11

run like a zone defense, but then one person

1:21:13

just guards the best player on the other team

1:21:15

and just follows them around the whole time, and

1:21:17

I feel like Gryffindor would take that approach because

1:21:19

it's very like main character based, like, clearly there's

1:21:21

one person that we have to pay attention to,

1:21:23

and they would just have that person following all

1:21:25

around. And the other six people on the team,

1:21:28

that's right, six, don't matter. Quidditch.

1:21:32

Okay, this one is from

1:21:34

Kristin. Kristin asks, how

1:21:36

do you think the Harry Potter series would be

1:21:38

taking place in 2022 with modern technology? Short,

1:21:42

it would be short. It would be very short, yeah. I

1:21:45

mean, this is one of those things where like,

1:21:48

I feel like it's okay that this was written

1:21:50

into the story that they had to like have

1:21:52

the work around, because I think as I've gotten

1:21:54

older I've been a little less snarky, as you

1:21:56

can hear, as Potter List goes on, and I'm

1:21:58

not like beefing with. 12

1:22:00

year olds. I feel like I

1:22:03

got to a point and I've gotten to where the

1:22:05

new is, no I only be three old all year

1:22:07

olds. I feel like I've gotten to this point the

1:22:09

New Olympian where she's kind of like you accept things

1:22:11

that just like are so that

1:22:13

the book exists. Like there's certain things that

1:22:15

happen in the Percy Jackson books like oh

1:22:17

cell phones don't work because monsters can smell

1:22:19

them. It's like yeah because if they could

1:22:22

use a cell phone it would

1:22:24

just be silly. Like it would just not be

1:22:26

a fun book to read. So like I've gotten

1:22:29

better just kind of accepting those things. I guess

1:22:31

it was harder because Rick Riordan feels much more

1:22:33

open to being like look it's a kid's book

1:22:35

we gotta do or is J.K. Rowling's like everything

1:22:37

I've written is perfect and I'm the greatest storyteller

1:22:40

of all time. Look at this weave I've woven.

1:22:42

So I feel like I've come to groups

1:22:44

with the whole

1:22:50

technology doesn't work in the Wizarding World thing.

1:22:53

The thing that more upsets me is like

1:22:55

aside from the one time they reference Dudley

1:22:57

having a PlayStation it just doesn't feel enough

1:22:59

like they're in the 90s. Like it would

1:23:01

still be cool if technology existed when they

1:23:03

hung out with their muggle friends and Hermione

1:23:05

could be like oh yeah my parents got

1:23:08

you know like whatever yeah

1:23:10

right like you can have different bands. Imagine

1:23:12

like movie one like a montage of Harry

1:23:14

like to Smash Mouth just being down on

1:23:16

his life. Yeah that would be so great.

1:23:18

Be very good Hermione's like oh I got

1:23:20

these new things called hit clips. They played

1:23:22

five seconds of songs. Yeah shout out to

1:23:24

the people who were over 30 in the

1:23:26

grass. Ron would be

1:23:28

a tech deck kid. Yeah Ron would love

1:23:30

a tech deck. God

1:23:32

I had a lot of tech decks. Okay this one

1:23:34

is also from Courtney. Courtney

1:23:37

who also asked a drink theme question prefaces this

1:23:39

question by saying I'm not an alcoholic. What

1:23:42

is the potterless drink if you could

1:23:44

create one? Hmm if we're

1:23:46

going to like the essence of potterless it

1:23:48

has to be like they

1:23:51

make grape schnapps. It's got to be purple. Yeah it would

1:23:53

definitely yeah you would want it to be purple. I feel

1:23:56

like it would have to have it would have to have

1:23:58

like a little bit of spice to it. because

1:24:00

I'm always like trying to bring the heat and like

1:24:02

call stuff out. But a little bit of sugar. A little

1:24:04

bit of sugar cuz it's sweet so you need the

1:24:06

sweet and the heat. You know what? Maybe maybe

1:24:09

you could do something with like a spicy margarita, which

1:24:11

is one of my favorite drinks. You

1:24:13

could, cuz that's like you have the little bit of

1:24:15

the sweet of the simple syrup or the agave, whatever

1:24:17

you're putting in. You've got a

1:24:19

little bit of the spiciness because I usually like to

1:24:22

use jalapeno syrup when I make a spicy margarita or

1:24:24

like dashes of tajin in it.

1:24:26

So you've got a little bit of that. It's it's

1:24:28

so refreshing. It also could be like it would be

1:24:30

fun to do something where if there's a way to

1:24:32

make it like change over time. So

1:24:34

oh, you know what you do? You do one

1:24:37

of those you put a you make a spicy

1:24:39

margarita but you put a very very tiny drop

1:24:41

of dry ice into it because then what

1:24:43

would happen is it would start very cloudy and

1:24:45

then eventually it would become clear because at first

1:24:48

I didn't know anything about the books and now

1:24:50

I understand how the

1:24:52

books work and now catch me at the

1:24:54

next Potter of the show where we have

1:24:56

very expensive these drinks for $30 a pop.

1:24:58

Also it'd be purple dry ice. Yeah,

1:25:02

we could yeah, you could you could use

1:25:04

food coloring in the dry ice and then it

1:25:06

would make like a purple fog around it. Yeah,

1:25:09

shout out to me making the logo of Potterless Indigo

1:25:11

in between blue and purple the exact colors I can't

1:25:13

see due to my color blindness. Really quick. Look at

1:25:15

me go! I'm really bummed

1:25:18

that none of these subject lines reference Ted Roos.

1:25:20

Y'all I'm so excited to have Ted Roos.

1:25:22

What is Ted Roos? It's not too late.

1:25:24

You can send in an email and make

1:25:26

it Ted Roos. It's custard. What are their

1:25:28

like particular go-to flavors? Are there like go-to

1:25:30

styles? Is it like soft serve in a

1:25:32

cone? Is it all of them

1:25:34

all of the flavors? Okay, they you know, they

1:25:36

turn it upside down when they give it to

1:25:39

you that whole thing. Yeah, they do it before

1:25:41

Dairy Queen Blizzard or you should

1:25:43

the City of St. Louis should sue Dairy

1:25:45

Queen. Yeah, I've been saying that for you.

1:25:48

If there's one thing about Johnny He's

1:25:50

always said that St. Louis should sue

1:25:52

the Dairy Queen. Yeah, that's my catchphrase.

1:25:56

Okay, this one from Kellen. Kellen asks, what

1:25:58

is the funniest overall? The role in there

1:26:01

are also showed a cheery love you too

1:26:03

you know episodes Hey there you go Luxury

1:26:05

Shout Outs The Funnies over a book. I

1:26:07

feel like the sixth book is the funniest

1:26:09

one cause you get like you get some

1:26:11

really good Fred and George funny moments. That's

1:26:13

when you get to think of them not

1:26:15

given run the discounted the leave. The unit

1:26:17

is both seated that in the beginning of

1:26:19

six which is very fun. I think like

1:26:21

that's when Harry and Ginny start to become

1:26:23

a thing and Genies preferred method flirting which

1:26:25

is my preferred method of flirting were being

1:26:27

ported to is like poking fun at the.

1:26:30

Person that you like and like a

1:26:32

fun quirky way so I really just

1:26:34

remember laughing the most and then also

1:26:36

riddle was labor's in the six bucks

1:26:38

so like lots of backers to meet

1:26:40

according to this gang the second one

1:26:43

of the funniest code. as funny as

1:26:45

it allows the funniest moment as how

1:26:47

that works. Ah yes right Well if

1:26:49

we ran apologize for being I love

1:26:51

with ass. Thank you so much

1:26:53

Santa Johnny Other Shudder to everyone here at the

1:26:55

Blueberry Hill Doc Rivers for helping the show. We've

1:26:57

already given a shot. I did. He sounded a

1:27:00

wonderful body on the music. Shudder to Markets for

1:27:02

running the house out of the alley. Who have

1:27:04

that with emerged all wonderful stuff. They made the

1:27:06

show run smoothly. Shudder to show For been years

1:27:08

Addict Carol Frolics The For Been here for a

1:27:10

lot of fun stuff going on flats but I

1:27:12

we face are you so much for coming? I

1:27:14

really do appreciate it. This is cool to be

1:27:16

able to do a show years but is potentially

1:27:19

the last Fall Potter the show. Can't think of

1:27:21

a better way to go out. This. Was very

1:27:23

fine and you are all lovelies and a

1:27:25

very very much appreciate you being out here

1:27:27

and sit around with the show. It has

1:27:29

not posted episodes for almost a full year.

1:27:31

Get here you all are seeing it live

1:27:33

which is super duper cool so I thank

1:27:35

you very much. Dining out can clean up

1:27:37

the dollar bill related messy made here and

1:27:39

then get out of here I pretty awesome

1:27:41

it's recommend else and as they say and

1:27:43

that was in World of Harry Potter when

1:27:45

when they me to cup just served before

1:27:47

they be because twice in the same day.

1:27:52

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a few more extraneous things. I finished the main

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the movies and the musical, and then I'm getting into the Heroes

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to take time to be on the show. So,

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