Episode 6: The One With the Ballet Shoes
Introduction
Terrance: You’re listening to Hogwarts Radio, Episode 6 for September 1st, 2008. Oh yeah.
Harry Potter Theme Song plays
Terrance: Hey everybody and welcome back to another week of Hogwarts Radio, your new number one,internationally-known Harry Potter podcast. I’m Terrance.
Greyson: Yay. I’m Charity Burbage.
Jackie: I’m Jackie.
Alex: I’m Alex.
Tatiana: I’m Tatiana.
Terrance: And we are back like I said for another week, another exciting week. Fun ah, fill of, filled with fun discussion uh, new segment. We just got everything going for you guys. Um… We are actually having two guests on the show today. Eric Scull is joining us from MuggleCast and uh Kristin my biggest fan girl is joining us as well.
Kristin: Hi.
Alex: Great to have you here.
Terrance: How are you guys doing today?
Kristin: Awesome.
Eric: We’re doing great. Hey everybody. Hey Hogwarts Radio.
All: Hi.
Eric: Gosh I, you know I tried most my life to get on Hogwarts Radio.
Jackie: I know me too!
Greyson: Yeah.
Terrance: Wow now you guys finally achieved your life’s dream.
Tatiana: Exactly.
Greyson: Awesome.
Alex: So true every week.
Jackie: We make dreams come true here on Hogwarts Radio.
Daily Prophet
Terrance: So now that your on- now that you guys are on the show let’s go ahead and get to it today. So I’m going to go ahead and throw it on to Andy whose got the uh top news stories of the week. Andy what’s been going on with Harry Potter news?
Andy: Alright well the first bit of news we have to discuss this week are the photos from Emma Watson’s Italian Vogue magazine feature which are now online courtesy of Pottershots.com so thankyou to those guys for providing those with us you can go to Pottershots.com to view those. And, now these photos of Emma Watson in the magazine scans show her in a very artistic style. We see her modeling and we’re going to discuss that in a little bit. The next bit of news we have is new Half-Blood Prince action figures are now available online and these action figures include young Tom Riddle, Professor Snape, Bellatrix, Luna Lovegood and a couple of other characters. Now you can find these on our website at hogwartsradio.com. And the last bit of news we have this week are the as we discussed last week Dan Radcliffe appeared on Conan O’Brian and the videos can now be found online you can search that up on You Tube or find the link on hogwartsradio.com and those are all the stories we have for you this week.
Terrance: So uh Emma Watson did an Italian Vogue photoshoot. Did you guys get a chance to see the scans online?
Andy: Yes.
All: Yes.
Tatiana: Yep we did.
Alex: No.
[All laugh]
Terrance: Oh he was so crestfallen. He was so like “oh.”
Jackie: Oh.
Andy: Ok well…
Jackie: We still love you Alex.
Terrance: Actually actually real quick here before we start the show I mean not before we start, before we started discussion I’m, I’m coming to you live from a special location this week.
News Discussion and Terrance’s TMI
Terrance: …I’m coming to you live from a special location this week. I am actually pulling a Ben Schoen. I am sitting in my car with the windows cracked, stealing somebodies internet …
Andy: Hemhemhem.
Terrance: …I’m half naked…
Kristin: Yeah, half-naked.
Terrance: I was told to take off my shirt…
Andy: No shoes.
Terrance: …So I am parked underneath a carport, and somebody just walked by, so they are probably wondering what the heck is going on. And yes…
[Andy laughs]
Terrance: …I don’t have any shoes on at all. Nothing on. And…
[Andy laughs]
Terrance: …And I’m looking at Emma Watson pictures, I mean…
[all laugh]
Eric: Yeah, see I’m not sure even the illustrious Ben Schoen, when he pulled a – you know…
Kristin: A Ben Schoen.
Eric: …The ‘Ben Schoen’, the first time – I’m proud to say that I was there to witness it, but I certainly don’t think that he was half-naked in his car and…
Alex: And looking at pictures of Emma.
Eric: Certainly not pictures that were this provocative or – I would say – adolescent or mature.
Tatiana: Yeah mature.
Kristin: So what did you think of the maturity level of these photos? That was kind of, kind of shocking to me – I don’t know that I like to think about my Hermione Granger like that.
Tatiana: I am so excited that she came out with pictures like that – but I don’t think they were provocative though.
Eric: Yeah, that’s a good point to make…
Andy: I agree.
Eric: …Yeah Tatiana, because they are mature in the way that she – they just sort of showcase her early adulthood, like – you know…
Tatiana: Mmmhmm.
Eric: …She just looks like a young woman who – you know – is in these long flowing dresses – you know – who – which is actually – I think – a good look for her. Actually I think she’s growing up and she doesn’t do the provocative sort of half-naked, though she is is a tub, but that’s…
Kristin: I don’t know. Call it typecasting, but I prefer her in Gryffindor robes if it’s all the same.
Eric: Hmmm.
Alex: In a tub?
Kristin: Sure.
[All laugh]
Kristin: I – in my imagination, Hermione wears her Gryffindor robes in the bathtub.
Eric: So what do you guys think about that? Do – like – what do you think of the pics?
Andy: Well I thought they were artistic. I didn’t have a problem with them. I didn’t think they were beyond her maturity level, and I didn’t think they were like Miley Cyrus’ pictures that we all saw, wink wink. But yeah I don’t think they were provocative in any way. I thought they were artistic and they were just what you’d probably see in Italian Vogue, so I liked them.
Terrance: Yeah, I thought they were particularly good. It’s a side of her we haven’t seen yet, and I think it’s exciting for her to actually come out with something like this, though I don’t think she should be a model, I think she should stick to acting. But still, the pictures were – they were pretty good. I’m…
Andy: I agree.
Terrance: …I’m looking at a couple of the scans right now, and it’s – the particular one I’m looking at, she’s laying on the ground with her – I guess – with her arm, and her head propped up on this old guy…
[Kristin laughs]
Andy: What is up with that guy?
Alex: She’s thinking about you Terrance.
Andy: I bet that is Terrance.
[Alex and Eric laugh]
Eric: That’s Terrance? The creepy old guy pushing her in the wheelbarrow?
[Alex laughs]
Andy: You know what? Terrance can even do the voice.
Terrance: Mmmm. I bet ya’ll like popsicles.
[Kristin and Andy laugh]
Eric: Wow.
Terrance: There’s something in the wheelbarrow. But I didn’t think it was no Emma Watson. Probably young Harry Potter.
[Andy and Kristin laugh]
Kristin: That is really disturbing.
Andy: That is so win.
Terrance: So, let’s just go ahead and go around the panel, what we think. We’ve obviously heard from Andy and I. Tatiana do you have any – I’m sorry – Jackie, do you have any thoughts on the photos?
Jackie: Yeah. I think she looks absolutely beautiful. I think she looks really good, but some of these pictures are just really funny to me. Like the one that she’s in the wheelbarrow, it just looks like she’s – just the bonnet she’s wearing, it’s just so funny.
Eric: Hey I’m pretty sure that creepy old guy was supposed to be…
Andy: It’s Terrance.
Eric: …Ben Franklin.
[Jackie laughs]
Andy: What the hell?
Eric: Yeah I’m pretty sure that’s supposed to be Ben Franklin. Well like Terrance said, this was kind of – I think this was probably what Italian Vogue does, like this is the kind of stuff that does appear, the highly artistic sort of period sort of momentuous sort of really cool, elegant – elegance – elegant photos.
Andy: In other words ‘vogue’.
Kristin: Right. Whatever does it for them, that’s – I’m not a fan, I’m not a fan of these photos – I mean – I think, I think she looks very nice, but – it – again, call it typecasting, but I like my Hermione Granger in Gryffindor robes. And I understand that she’ll take other roles throughout her life, but just like Dan Radcliffe will always be Harry Potter as far as I’m concerned, she’s always going to be Hermione Granger, and – you know – the thought of her sprawled out on the ground in an evening gown is just not appealing to me.
[Andy laughs]
Eric: Well, speak for yourself.
[Andy and Terrance laugh]
Andy: Ooooooh.
Kristin: And I am.
Eric: Indeed, indeed. And she is, so. Yeah.
Tatiana: Ok. So I don’t think she really came out, or agreed to do these pictures so much as to try – you know – to get a modelling career out of it, I think it was just more of like ‘Hey, I’m not just Hermione Granger, I’m older now and I’m growing up and – you know – I can be mature’ – you know what I’m saying? I think that was the whole point of the pictures…
Andy: Yeah I agree.
Terrance: Exactly. I’m looking at the particular picture that Kristin was just mentioning. She’s in the evening gown, laying down sprawled out on some kind of a dock, and she’s wearing some sort of a tiara on top…
Alex: It’s Ravenclaw’s.
Terrance: …And there’s mist in the background – I mean – it looks like she’s just got knocked over and Dementors are coming after her or something.
[All laugh]
Alex: It’s Ravenclaw’s tiara.
Eric: Expecto Patronum!
Andy: You know what?
Eric: Yeah like she’s on the edge of that lake.
Andy: Have any of you guys seen the DVD cover for a movie called Prom Night?
Eric: Yeah.
Tatiana: Yeah.
Andy: I was totally reminded of that film when I saw that picture, with the tiara and the dress and she looks kind of – with the mist and the mystery and…
Terrance: So the video of Dan Radcliffe on Conan O’Brien is now available online. You should be able to view that on our site hogwartsradio.com like Andy was just telling you. Pretty soon, we’re working on the new site design right now, so the news might be a little sporadic until we get it up but you should be able to see it there and basically I thought that was a good show for him to go on. It was a good fit for him – I mean – better than being on Jay Leno or anything like that, I thought that this was just a good fit.
Eric: Yeah, Conan…
Alex: I’m a little bit out of the loop guys. Is Dan living in New York now?
Terrance: Yes. He is staying in his penthouse that he was renting out for $20,000 a month [laughs]…
Alex: Holy crap.
Terrance: Yeah. 20,000 dollars a month. He’s staying there while he’s filming – I mean – while he is rehearsing Equus, so yeah wow.
Andy: No comment.
Eric: Yeah. But, that interview was pretty good, it was really funny, and Dan told good stories, and I think I agree with you Terrance that definitely Conan and Dan are sort of a good fit. I like Conan a lot, and Jay Leno and Conan and all the other late night talk show hosts are all cool, but I’m glad that this was on Conan and I’m also glad that it hasn’t been pulled from YouTube yet.
Terrance: Yeah.
Alex: Action figures.
Terrance: So the next news topic was the action figures that had just recently come out, and we are going to give you a little run-down about those, but what were your basic thoughts about them? I know Andy…
Andy: They are so so so ugly.
[Jackie laughs]
Andy: Like when I first saw the picture – no, the Luna Lovegood one, at first I thought it was Draco Malfoy in a dress – I mean…
Jackie: I don’t know – I liked the Luna one.
Kristin: I’ve read a few fanfictions like that, you never know. It could be Draco Malfoy in a dress.
Eric: Yeah that’s the scene they added into movie six to make it more – I don’t know – shock value or something.
Kristin: Right. You never know what Warner Brothers is going to do.
Eric: Yeah [laughs] we thought we…
Alex: He spent the whole book running around trying to fix that cabinet, maybe it was a closet.
[Andy laughs]
Kristin: Yeah, there you go.
Eric: Yeah maybe he came out of that closet.
Kristin: He’s officially out, and speaking of fanfic that would make fanfic-ers around the world very, very happy.
Eric: Yeah, no. But what do you guys think of the rest of these action figures? Like the Tom Riddle one, the young Tom Riddle, like that just looks strange to me. They kind of look weird and off-beat and if there’s – if the news of action figures is supposed to make us feel any better about the movie deleay – you know – it just these are kind of weird. They always are though. Like all the action figures are always weird.
Andy: To be honest, if WB’s trying to reconcile anything, this is sort of like a kick in the nuts because these suck.
[Eric laughs]
Eric: Well I didn’t mean – I didn’t want to bring that up as far as – you know – WB trying to console us. There’s an action figure developer toy company…
Andy: Yeah.
Eric: …That has come out with these and we’re just getting scans of them now. But, yeah I don’t think they’re terribly exciting but – I mean – if you’re into that sort of thing.
Alex: Guys, are the action figures coming out for the November release, or are we just getting a look at them now and they’re coming out next summer?
Terrance: Exactly.
Eric: That’s a question.
Alex: That was a question, yeah.
[Eric and Kristin laugh]
Alex: Anybody?
Tatiana: Aah, I don’t know.
Alex: Okay, moving on.
Terrance: Okay, so was that all the news stories Andy?
Andy: Jackie has something.
Jackie: I don’t know if I can say it.
Andy: Do it, it’s funny.
Kristin: Oh I was thinking it too Jackie, totally.
Jackie: Okay…
Andy: We were all thinking it.
Jackie: …The crotch of Ron looks very awkward, I didn’t know if it was just me.
[Andy laughs]
Kristin: No, they all do, with their little plastic legs all attatched like that, they just look really…
Jackie: It looks weird.
Kristin: Yeah, they just look really strange, they look like they’re wearing little plastic underpants.
[Andy and Alex laugh]
Andy: Adult diapers.
[Kristin laughs]
Eric: Yeah, the first comment on the Leaky Cauldron is ‘not sure I like them’ on the post with the action figures.
Terrance: And that pretty much hit the nail on the head.
Kristin: Yeah.
Jackie: Yeah. Not sure I like them either.
Andy: I agree with that person.
Terrance: So that wraps up our news discussion for this week.
Announcements
Terrance: We had a couple of announcements that I wanted to go ahead and get our guests involved with us, so we’re going to have Eric and Kristin read our announcements today, let you all know whats going on with the latest of the latest with our show.
Eric: Kristin do you want to take the first one here.
Kristin: Woohoo. Announcements, announcements, anouncements! I love it! Can I sing the – oh I can’t sing the Blue’s Clues song, that’s really PotterCast isn’t it? Okay …
Alex: No. Sing it, sing it.
Kristin and Eric: Oh, Here’s the mail, it never fails, it makes me want to wag my tail, when it comes I want to wail, MAIL!
Kristin: See it was a sing-a-long, that was fun.
[All laugh]
Alex: Woooo.
Kristin: The Hogwarts Radio t-shirt contest is still open, and you can email your t-shirt designs to staff at hogwarts radio dot com. The deadline for submissions for the t-shirt contest is September 26th, so get your designs in soon and the winning design is going to appear on the t-shirts obviously, and the winner is going to get a free t-shirt with the design on it.
Terrance: Awesome.
Kristin: Awesome.
Eric: That sounds awesome guys. Okay, second announcement here for Hogwarts Radio. You can follow them on Twitter. Says here “Follow us on Twitter to get the latest updates on our show. Just log into twitter.com/hogwartsradio and hit follow.” So you can actually – you can stalk them now.
Kristin: Hey, cool. Now we know how Twitter works too. And also, there’s a Facebook group for Hogwarts Radio, so search Hogwarts Radio on Facebook and join the fan group.
Eric: And last – actually, no, second to last, but certainly not second to least. The forums. The Hogwarts Radio forums are now up. Just go to hogwartsradio.com/forums and sign up to discuss everything relating to Hogwarts Radio.
Kristin: And don’t forget about Myspace, the Myspace is coming soon, and as soon as the Myspace is around I’m betting that link is going to be on hogwartsradio.com too.
Eric: Yeah just check hogwartsradio.com and I’m sure they’ll try to make sure that all the links work. Right guys?
Jackie: Right.
Tatiana: Right.
Andy: Awesome.
Terrance: So that does wrap up the announcements, thank-you very much for providing that to us.
Owl Post
Terrance: And we’re going to go ahead and get to our next segment, the Owl Post. Our Owl Post is actually – we got one email and one comment this week, just a little bit of a slow week. So with the first one, comes from Kelsum Morkovski, 24 from Russia. She just says, “Hey Hogwarts Radioers. I just wanted to say you guys and gal rock. I’ve listened to all of your episodes and have to say that you guys are awesome. I love the concept of keeping new ideas flowing around, and your episodes are always really planned out and good for a laugh. I think your show is going to become one of the top Harry Potter podcasts granted you keep up the good work, which you guys are. can’t wait for future episodes, Kelsum Morkovski.” Wow, Russia.
Andy: Thanks.
Jackie: That’s pretty awesome.
Terrance: That’s crazy.
Andy: That’s really nice.
Kristin: You’re international.
Terrance: We are international.
Jackie: Indeed we are.
Terrance: Let’s see. Australia, Egypt, Russia, the United States.
Alex: Don’t forget America.
Terrance: Yeah exactly. That’s what I meant when I said United States, so. [laughs] No…
[All laugh]
Terrance: Sorry Alex. So we have one comment this week and Jackie’s going to go ahead and read that to us.
Jackie: This week’s comment is from Alice and she says, “Hey guys I’m Alice. I was just browsing podcasts and you guys are my first Harry Potter podcast. Andy rocks.” And she’s got a whole plethora of smilies after it so she must really love Andy.
Alex: She’s a vampire isn’t she?
Andy: Aaahh, what?
Jackie: She’s not a vampire. Oh! Got it, Twilight reference.
Andy: Oh [laughs]
Terrance: Wow.
Alex: Sorry Alice, I just…
Eric: Wow, I thought Mugglecast was the only Harry Potter podcast with Twilight references.
Jackie: Oh no. Unfortunately not.
Terrance: Aww.
Jackie: Thank you Alice, that was very nice.
Terrance: So that – to everybody that emailed us in, thank-you very much for that.
Wizard Rock Song of the Week
Terrance: And we actually have out next segment that we’re moving on to is the Wizard Rock Song of the Week, has become a fan favorite, we actually get replies from people about the songs that Jackie picks and they’re pretty positive…
Jackie: Oh, yay.
Terrance: … So Jackie, what’s the Wizard Rock Song of the Week?
Jackie: This weeks Wizard Rock Song of the Week is “I wish you’d be my Witch Tonight” by the Mudbloods.
Kristin: Which is an absolutely awesome song, we heard…
Eric: And an awesome band.
Kristin: …An awesome band, we heard them live at Terminus. The first – I think the first we’d heard this song was live at Terminus, and it was absolutely fantastic, I know Jackie was dancing in the aisles…
Jackie: Yeah, me and my friend Becca were up and dancing. It’s just an all-round fun song so…
Kristin: It is, absolutely. I think what the band said about it was that this was the song that everybody used to have a crush on, but now nobody talks about it anymore.
[Jackie laughs]
Eric: [laughs] Because it’s kind of about Cho Chang. It’s kind of written in Harry’s perspective towards Cho Chang, or something similar – you know – that was the idea. The band the Mudbloods. So yeah – I guess – it’s a good song, it’s a great song.
Terrance: So, here it is, for all you listeners out there, the Wizard Rock Song of the Week, “I Wish You’d be My Witch Tonight” by the Mudbloods.
[I Wish You'd be My Witch Tonight by the Mudbloods]
Terrance: Wow you guys were right that song was just – wow, that was totally awesome.
Eric: Yeah.
Andy: I love it.
Jackie: Were you guys up and dancing? Because I was.
Kristin: Yes I was dancing.
Andy: With a lampshade. I had a lampshade on my head.
Alex: I’ve been changed forever.
Jackie: That’s the way to go buddy.
Eric: That’s how you podcast isn’t it Andy?
Andy: When I use a lampshade I get better WiFi reception, so.
[Terrance laughs]
Eric: Doesn’t it also stop aliens from – you know…
Alex: No, that’s tin foil.
Eric: Oh. So getting back to that totally awesome song…
Jackie: I’ll send everybody the link to their Myspace.
Kristin: And while you’re there listen to “A Penseive Full of Unrequited Love” and get your Kleenex out because it will make you cry.
Eric: Yeah.
Jackie: Yeah. They performed that live too and it was amazing.
Kristin: And Eric cried, he really did.
Eric: Yeah I really did.
Jackie: He cried? Awww.
Eric: Yeah. Wizard Rock and the Mudbloods. That song, “A Penseive Full of Unrequited Love” was just – it’s an amazing song, and it’s probably the most powerful song I’ve heard for wizard rock, written by – you know – from Snape’s perspective talking to Lily Potter so that’s…
Andy: Awww.
Jackie: Does anybody want to hear Kristen cry? Ready…
Kristin: No.
Jackie: Don’t you ever…
Kristin: Don’t because I will – literally all you have to do is even start and I will cry.
Jackie: Awww.
Alex: Awww.
Eric: So.
Kristin: I get really upset.
Alex: So…
Jackie: Awww.
Andy: Awww.
Main Discussion: Ballet Shoes
Terrance: So before we actually get to this weeks main discussion, let me go ahead and let you know whats going on a little bit with our regular main discussion “Into the Penseive.” Since half-Blood Prince was pushed back, what’s going on now is, we’re going to go bi-weekly with that segment, meaning we’re going to go once every other week because we want to be finished right in time for Half-Blood Prince release and our last one should be right before we go to Azkatraz in July of 2009. So next week we’ll be back with Chapter Three, but this week we actually have a main discussion which Eric is going to provide to us. He went and rented Ballet Shoes the other day and is going to go ahead and give us a review and then involve the rest of the hosts in some way, shape or form. So Eric go ahead and let us know what’s been going on with Ballet Shoes.
Eric: Alright, well thanks Terrance, and as you guys know – well you may know that Emma Watson did this movie called Ballet Shoes which just actually – it did premiere last year on the BBC for TV, did you guys hear anything about this?
Alex: I heard about it through something called MuggleCast.
Eric: Oh really.
Alex: I did.
Tatiana: As did I.
Eric: What’s that?
Andy: What’s that, yeah.
[Terrance laughs]
Eric: What’s a MuggleCast?
Terrance: Actually I heard about it on – if you go – If you went, a couple of months ago, right when the movie came out, to Emma Watson’s official website, it changed layouts and she actually had something pertaining to Ballet Shoes on there and she was really excited about it so I remember reading something there.
Eric: Yeah, it’s – and that – her websites really good too, it’s really – kind of really flashy, obviously – you know – because it’s designed by the same guy that does J.K Rowling’s site. But, anyway I went and saw Bellet Shoes which is actually not available, but it will be available to rent on Tuesday, or actually to buy as well. You can get the movie – the movie comes out on Tuesday and it’s pretty much – I mean – I would say, a wide DVD release it’s not going to be as hard to find as Driving Lessons at first was to people and it’s coming out in the States on Tuesday. So I saw the movie and really, really enjoyed it so I wanted to give a little bit of a review, and Terrance mentioned I’m going to be involving you guys, I’m going to just ask you a few questions and see if you have any questions about the movie. So does that…
Alex: Yay, we get to be in involved.
Eric: Yeah you’re going to get involved, so that’s pretty cool. So I guess I’ll do a query. Does everyone know who Richard Griffiths the actor is?
Kristin: Of course, they can’t make a British movie without him.
Terrance: Exactly.
[Alex laughs]
Eric: Yeah, yeah they can’t. They pretty much – they write the script and say insert Richard Griffiths here, right?
Kristin: Right, pretty much.
Eric: Yeah, no. Anyway, Richard Griffiths plays a guy who really likes collecting these ancient artifacts, or like fossils or whatever, and he finds out that he has been made guardian for this little girl who then grows up sort of with him. And he goes away on an expedition and ends up coming back with three little baby orphans, actually three girls through this course of a few years. So they’re a couple years older than each other and these girls, whose surname is Fossil, grow up and are – I think about twelve to sixteen when the story is set, and it’s set in 1930′s London and it’s a story about these young girls who are growing up, they’re not terribly rich, because Richard Griffiths’ character is away on expedition – you know – they haven’t seen him since their young childhood, and they’re being raised by their – this woman who’s the girl who he was put in charge of and their nanna, and they all have these different aspirations. The oldest one, played by Emma Watson, wants to be an actress, and the middle-aged one – the middle child wants to be an aviator, which is a really different sort of aspiration, not a really common goal for girls at that time period and the youngest one wants to be a ballerina because when she was found, by Richard Griffiths, the only thing that she had with her were her mother’s dance shoes, which were sort of her mother’s dying wishes for her to have. And so these three girls are in 1930s London sort of – you know – growing up and facing these hardships but trying really to reach their goals, and I just found it to be this really enlightening movie, this really – you know – empowering movie about these girls.
Alex: Wow.
Terrance: Awesome. So was – how did you see – whenever you were first watching it – I mean – did you kind of see Emma still as Hermione? Did she break out of that, did she seem as the movie went on?
Eric: Yeah it’s interesting. The initial shock – I mean – there was sort of an initial sort of ‘well, wait a minute, is this Emma?’ and will she act or will she sort of – I think in the end she actually did it quite well because the characters – the character that she plays in this is – it’s kind of interesting because she does, she plays this girl who wants to be an actress and she does a lot of stage acting, and eventually does a few – does like a movie, and has this opening night scene where her character is freaking out about being in the movies, which Emma said she could relate to, in the special features of the disc. But no the characters are different and after a while you really kind of get a sense – I mean – I think what made it so different for me was that the cast is almost entirely female, of this movie Ballet Shoes. There are a lot of women, a lot of female characters, and she’s part of a trio, but of all girls this time, so that made it quite a different movie and it gave Emma quite a lot of room for range of acting.
Alex: Is the first movie that she’s done since Harry Potter?
Eric: Yes. it’s the only thing she’s done besides Harry Potter with the exception of…
Alex: The Tale of Desperaux.
Eric: … The Tale of Desperaux. Which hasn’t come out yet but it has been worked on. It’s that…
Alex: December.
Eric: …Yeah December. It’s that cute animated film they’re doing about the mouse.
Kristin: Yeah we saw the trailer for that with which movie? With Indiana Jones maybe.
Eric: Maybe.
Kristin: I think so, I think it was with Indiana Jones. About a mouse with … it looks really cute.
[Alex laughs]
Terrance: Is it a Disney Pixar movie?
Eric: I mean – that’s true, it’s not Disney Pixar I think it might be still Disney though.
Kristin: Ah I don’t know that it’s Disney, it’s animated but I don’t know that it’s Disney.
Andy: Actually…
Eric: maybe Dreamworks.
Andy: Actually, it’s not – no it’s – hang on let me check. It’s by Universal Studios.
Eric: Oh, Universal.
Andy: Yeah. Yeah. And interestingly enough, she plays a character called Princess Pea.
Eric: Princess Pea. So yeah I just wanted to share with you guys about this movie which – you know – I had the luxury of seeing it before it was actually released but did you guys have any other – what do you guys want to know about it, like other than that I mean?
Andy: Well tell us a little more about the supporting actresses or, yeah.
Eric: Ok well a lot of the characters are all the people that live with these girls, there are a few boarders who come and stay at the house – you know – well actually one of them you’ll know, the woman who plays Madame Pomfrey in the – at least Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets the movie, Gemma Jones is the actress’ name and she’s this eccentric Shakespearean teacher who ends up teaching the girls. But the little – the smallest child, the character’s name is Posy, Posy Fossil, is just really, really awesome and just really talented and fun to watch – I mean – obviously the story is kind of mostly about her – I would say – because it’s named Ballet Shoes so – you know – and the idea that she was – you know – when she was found she had her mother’s ballet shoes, it’s really just like a quest story and that’s kind of really good, it’s like – you know – your life long ambitions, but it’s a good period piece as well and thinking about it as a BBC ‘made for TV’ movie, I’m really surprised at how available it’s going to be for the US, so I think we should all go see it, just to support Emma, but also because it’s actually a good story and it’s heartwarming. But it’s good to – it’s a good watch, it’s a fun watch?
Jackie: When does it come out in the US?
Eric: Tuesday, Tuesday September 2nd.
Alex: Without spoiling the ending, are each of the girls able to achieve at least some small step towards their dreams?
Eric: It’s a happy, it’s a happy story and they do get further along in achieving their goals, and yes I won’t ruin it, there are quite a few struggles on the way but it really is – it kind of ends the way a Shakespearean comedy would end in a way, it’s, but it is a – which means ‘happy ending’ basically it’s – you know – in Shakespearean comedy it ends in a wedding and in Shakespearean tragedy it ends in death, so [laughs] it doesn’t end in death, let’s just say that.
Terrance: Awesome. Just…
Alex: I like it when it doesn’t end in death.
Eric: Yeah, no me too.
Terrance: As – since we’re on the line of casting roles here, I just wanted to go ahead and point out, or add a comment that the twin identical – the identical twin girls Lucy and Nina Watson who play young Pauline, are Emma Watson’s younger half sisters, and they’re only going to appear in the uncut version of the DVD.
Eric: Yeah, interestingly enough – yeah there are deleted scenes, the special features that come with this DVD, and it’s kind of cool, they have an excerpt from the audiobook because this book is based on a novel, so they have an excerpt from the audiobook, and that’s pretty cool actually. It’s kind of – I imagine it would be a good book to read for probably teenage girls, I won’t pick it up but I think that it should be a good book, and they had this twenty minute interview with Emma Watson, it’s actually like – that the BBC held, which is really cool, and then deleted scenes and in the interview Emma talks about her younger half-sisters who played sort of a baby her – you know – because they needed that, just the scene where the young Pauline was in there so – yeah that was her younger sisters, she says which one actually shows up on screen, even in the movie i think one of them makes half a second in the scene – you know – but that was cool, that was cool. And of course Richard Griffiths is – he’s just so fun to watch and he has a good role in it as well, but he doesn’t play too much of a role in the girl’s young lives, because he’s away sort of on expedition and that leaves his daughter and – you know – the whole family to more or less use up all the money and they face some tough financial moments.
Terrance: What do you think of the – of her co-stars – I mean – were they – I mean Jasmine Page and Lucy Boynton, how do you think they did?
Eric: You know I was surprised because I’ve seen Emma act and – I mean – I still don’t think in the Harry Potter movies she gets – like – I don’t think her or Rupert really get – you know – the ability to express themselves as much as they would in other projects which is why I did in fact like Driving Lessons but – you know – Emma Watson – you know – Lucy Boynton and Jasmine Page were both amazing in this movie, they were – if they could, and you could tell they all got on quite well, like all the girls who were playing sisters and they had these moments in between each other, like – it’s a movie about sisters, about family and again, all the female characters and all the actresses really did strong performances, all of them.
Alex: Awesome.
Jackie: You know who we don’t see a lot of in the Harry Potter movies? Madame Pomfrey, who’s also in this.
Eric: Yeah, I agree but she’s not really in the books that much too – I mean…
Jackie: Well, what was her character like in this movie?
Eric: Oh, her character in this movie was completely different. Her character – I mean – it was really kind of – I was kind of – not whimsical, just really upbeat. It’s – you know – a really upbeat film and her character shows up at the house, being a retires professor, and just can’t help herself to teach the girls classical education, because the other thing about this movie is that all the girls each have their own aspirations, but they all end up learning to dance they all take dance lessons and they end up learning to act in stage and theatre because that is where the money is at at that particular time period, and that is what they choose to support themselves with and that is sort of how they have to support their family regardless of what the want to do individually, and then they try and do their own individual stuff.
Terrance: So do you see – how was – let’s talk a little about Richard Griffiths’ character, Great Uncle Matthew, or as he is referred to – I think it’s Gum in the movie.
Eric: Yeah Gum, which I guess – I just found this out too – that it’s Great Uncle Matthew, G-U-M, Gum, they just call him Gum. It’s interesting and it’s one of those things where it probably would have been better explained in the book, while you’re reading. Because they call their mother, who’s the woman who raised them who is the girl from the beginning of the movie – or book – they call her Garnie, and in one of the deleted scenes it’s mentioned that they call her Garnie because when they were young they couldn’t pronounce Guardian or something, she was trying to think of names and the Nanna suggests ‘Well why don’t they call you Garnie?’ So they call her Garnie, but it’s never explained in it’s kind of like this implied family tie sort of thing, which sort of goes in the movie and even though it’s never explained – kind of – they know what it means – I guess – obviously, probably, not having read the book or at least script … really, like – I mean – the movie’s kind of like that, there are things that you won’t know about, but could always look up and find more interested. Even re-watching the movie.
Terrance: How would you – would you say – how would you describe Emma’s character? Is she a humble kind of a – kind of girl, or is she – you know more along the lines of just laying low, not disturbing anybody, just minding her own business, or does she stand out or…
Eric: Yeah, that’s a good question because her character actually gets quite selfish at one point, and really self-centered and learns a lesson obviously, but what was so interesting about it was instead of being pushed around by the, by Harry and Ron – you know – or talked into things, or even offering position, Emma was able to show like an emotional side – like – that wasn’t as expressed, it was more of a subtle – you know – inside the head sort of thinking, and there’s a moment, speaking of Emma’s acting too, there’s a moment where Emma’s character recites Shakespeare and I think that was really well done, I think Emma mentions liking that scene too but you can kind of see that she has got some acting experience in her.
Andy: I’m glad we definitely get to see another side of Emma, another side from Harry Potter.
Eric: Yeah it’s a shock, actually it is good to see, it’s refreshing – you know – I mean – it was always – I enjoyed Driving Lessons and December Boys, both very much. Watching Ballet Shoes…
Andy: Yeah. It shows us that – especially Emma can kind of break out of their Harry Potter stereotype, type cast role.
Eric: Exactly it was just like we were saying in the beginning of this episode with – you know – the Italian Vogue magazine, that it’s just, it’s really just that Emma’s trying different things and doing different things and she mentioned that she had just been done with the fifth Harry Potter film and someone contacted her, like her agent or something with this script and she just wanted to try it because it would be fun, and it seems like that’s the kind of girl she is, like she is really down-to-earth and really just…
Andy: Yeah…
Eric: … Wants to have a good time …
Andy: I think you definitely see that with her animated film…
Eric: Alex what was your question?
Alex: Oh no, I was just going to say that I think all of the Harry Potter actors, and especially the trio, are a lot better than what we’ve seen them do it’s just that sometimes the script is very limiting to what they are able to show off for their talents.
Eric: Oh yeah, well take even the adult actors like Gary Oldman or even Alan Rickman who don’t really get much treatment – you know – from the script, though we know that they act well.
Kristin: Well sure…
Alex: Alan Rickman has like two lines per movie.
Eric: Yeah.
Kristin: Sure. Even the major characters we don’t see enough of Emma Watson and Rupert Grint to decide whether they can act or not.
Andy: Yeah, Harry Potter kind of – I don’t want to say it like the way I’m going to put it but I think Harry Potter kind of holds back a little bit from …
Eric: Yeah.
Andy: …Showing the world what they can do.
Eric: Yeah that’s just the way the movies are made though, and that is something to note. For sure.
Terrance: You know – there’s been a lot of talk lately about Emma coming under fire from – what are they called – ‘overacting’. Did you see that at all in this film?
Eric: No, and that – thank-you for bringing that up too because, yeah there is that whole – well, yeah – again it just brings up the restriction is on everyone’s acting in the Harry Potter movies. I don’t know what to think about Emma either over – it’s not that she overacts at all, it’s just the lines they get, the dialogue is very – you know – catchy. No, not catchy …
Alex: Cliche.
Eric: The dialogue they get is – you know – in that it’s very tricky, and – kind of – you know – for a fault. It’s, no. There’s no overacting in this movie, and I really do mean that, I think it’s quite amazing – the only thing that sticks out actually is Emma’s height – you know. Because she’s quite a tall girl I think, and even though she was, I checked IMDB because I wasn’t sure, she’s playing a sixteen year old, she was probably sixteen or seventeen at the time. So it is actually – you know – fitting. Surprisingly. But – you know – she is playing someone her own age more-or-less and so, yeah. And there’s no overacting, she really does so a good job. And it’s a really fun movie to watch.
Alex: Awesome.
Terrance: So…
Alex: Were her eyebrows going crazy?
Terrance: [laughs] I think that lies in the whole overacting thing.
Eric: No, but there was a cameo appearance by David Thewlis’ moustache.
[all laugh]
Terrance: Wow. You know I didn’t know this until I saw Prisoner of Azkaban but David Thewliss – whatever his last name is, he played – what is it – Wart in Dragonheart. Didn’t he?
Eric: Yeah, Dragonheart…
Terrance: He looks so young.
Alex: I was thinking Wormtail, I’m sorry, never mind.
Eric: What a good movie.
Terrance: He looks so young in that movie.
Alex: Speaking of Dragonheart. Did you all know Jason Isaacs was in that too?
Kristin: Absolutely, in his underwear.
Jackie: Wait, what?!
Kristin: Jason Isaacs, in his underwear in Dragonheart. Heavens yes!
Jackie: I have to rent that.
Kristin: And if we’re talking about great Jason Isaacs/David Thewliss movies, we can talk about Divorcing Jack. Has anyone ever seen that? Fabulous movie, although you have to watch it with subtitles because the Irish accents are so strong.
[Everyone laughs]
Eric: That’s how you tell a good actor. If they can do an Irish accent so perfectly that you cannot understand it.
Terrance: You know – has anyone heard Jason Isaacs is also in Harry Potter?
Alex: Really?
Eric: Oh my god. Lucius Malfoy. Wow.
Terrance: Yeah, exactly.
Kristin: Jason, and his Paris Hilton wig. It’s fabulous.
Eric: That’s what he called it by the way.
Kristin: Yes. That’s his, not mine…
Eric: Yeah.
Kristin: … He calls it his Paris Hilton wig.
Terrance: So. Do we have any other comments from anybody on that before we wrap up …
Eric: On Ballet Shoes? Maybe a red box plug?
Andy: Oh my god. I went to a Red Box today.
Eric: Yeah. Guys…
Alex: So Eric, where did you get that copy of Ballet Shoes a few days ahead of time?
[Eric and Kristin laugh]
Kristin: Yeah.
Eric: Well. No actually and I’ll mention this too, if you guys really do want to see this movie, which I highly recommend, and all the listeners out there, there’s – I would go to www.rebbox.com and at the top just click Find a Red Box. What it is, it’s a DVD rental machine for a dollar a night. And now I recommended this, not because I work for the comapany, even though I work for the company, but because these DVD rentals are a dollar a night, and I know, I guarantee that this movie Ballet Shoes is being made available at these Red Box things on Tuesday when the come out, so find the nearest Red Box near you and go to it, you’ll be able o rent Ballet Shoes again for a dollar a night.
Andy: Yeah.
Eric: So you’ll have over twenty-four hours if you rent it and it’s definitely, probably the best way, and the cheapest way for everyone to see this movie, which is why I recommend it because I know that we have it in because it’s coming in this week. So definitely check that out. Please. And thank-you for letting me review that here, that’s exciting.
Terrance: No problem. Is there any final thoughts or questions for Eric before we move on to the next segment?
Jackie: What is this movie rated?
Tatiana: Yeah.
Eric: That’s a good question, this movie is – I think PG. This movie’s PG.
Jackie: Okay, good. No maybe I’ll watch it with the kids I babysit.
Eric: Yeah. Oh please do, I think it’s great for kids. I think it’s going to be a great kids movie, it’s great to watch. Even a family movie too, but it’s rated PG.
Terrance: Awesome. So I guess that wraps up today’s main discussion of Ballet Shoes and thank-you Eric for providing that to us.
Marauders’ Map/Guess That HP Character
Terrance: Next up we’re moving on to your “Maurauder’s Map” segment. And we’ve actually added a little twist to this. It’s “Guess that Harry Potter Character,” it’s a random quote and one of the hosts does a voice, and originally the listeners had to guess who it was and email us in. Well, we’re going to – since we don’t have quite a segment for the hosts yet, we’re going to make this a host segment. So, now instead of the listeners coming in, emailing us in, the hosts are actually going to guess that and we’re going to have a lot of fun with it and see how it goes, and see it we can get some positive feedback about this. So who wants to go ahead and kick off the first Guess That HP Character?
Eric and Alex: I’ll do it!
Terrance: [laughs] Jinx.
Jackie: Well why don’t the guests go first?
Terrance: Okay. Let’s go ahead and let the guests go first.
Eric: Okay. Well, yeah yeah – see this is just the lead in to Alex’s fantastic voices, so – okay here we go. “I wondered when I’d be seeing you Mr Potter.”
Terrance: Ah.
Andy: Ollivander.
Eric: Ollivander. [laughs] Okay.
Andy: I win.
Jackie: No, I was so going to say that.
Alex: “It seemed only yesterday that your mother and father were in here…”
Alex and Eric: …”buying their first wands.”
[Andy laughs]
Terrance: “Well. Give it a wave.”
Eric: [laughs] “Well. Give it a wave.”
Andy: “Well. Give it a wave.”
Terrance: Awesome. Okay, so that was Ollivander. Who wants to go ahead and do the next one? Or is there any more – Eric do you want to go ahead and give us another one?
Eric: No I’m thinking let Alex do one.
Terrance: Okay. Alex?
Alex: Wait. Do I have to come up with it?
Kristin: Yes.
Terrance: Just, off the top of your head.
Alex: Okay, my head is empty right now. Ah so much pressure, so much pressure.
Jackie: Don’t give in…
Alex: “You seem to to have given this a fair bit of thought, Mad-Eye.”
Jackie: Oh oh oh oh…
Terrance and Jackie: It’s Karkaroff.
Eric: Oooooh.
Jackie: No I said it first. [laughs]
Eric: She did say it first. Wow.
Alex: She did say it first.
Eric: Wow.
Terrance: Awww come on.
Jackie: Sorry. Well, well at least you got it right.
Terrance: Okay. Andy do you have one?
Andy: Nope.
Terrance: Nope. Okay. I guess that means who else?
Eric: “I demand you leave at once sir, you are breaking and entering.”
Jackie: Vernon.
Terrance: Vernon Dursley, Sorcerer’s Stone.
Eric: Or is it Philosopher’s Stone?
Terrance: Whichever.
Eric and Andy: Ooooh.
Jackie: It depends on what country you’re in.
Eric: “Just so’s you know.” “I’da, I’da be in that horrible place if it weren’t for you…”
Jackie: Hagrid.
Eric: “I’d appreciate…” [laughs] I don’t know the lines.
Terrance: He said, okay – well this is sort of giving it away but …
Jackie: I already said Hagrid.
Terrance: Okay, well I know – but I want to do something else. Shh. No I’m just kidding.
Eric: “There’s no Hogwarts without you Hagrid.” [laughs[
Terrance: "Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts." No?
Jackie: [laughs] No.
Terrance: See I figured I had the complete double Ben Schoen circle. See I’m sitting in my car…
Eric: Yeah Alex, go ahead.
Alex: “I wouldn’t expect you to know me, who would ever talk about ugly, miserable moping …”
Kristin: Moaning Myrtle.
Eric: Oh my god.
Terrance: [laughs] Oh my god.
Jackie: [laughs] That was beautiful.
Terrance: That was…
Kristin: That was amazing.
Terrance: … Really amazing.
[Alex warbles]
Jackie: Oh my god. [laughs] Oh my god ,Alex. Alex, you are made of win.
Terrance: Yeah. Okay…
Eric: Here’s another one, here’s one. “Your bird may have blinded the basilisk, but it can still smell you.”
Tatiana: Tom Riddle?
Alex: Is it the Horcrux?
Jackie: Tom Riddle.
Eric: Oooh.
Terrance: Tatiana got it.
Eric: Oooh.
Jackie: Yeah, good job.
Tatiana: Yep.
Alex: What did she say?
Andy: I have one.
Eric: Go ahead.
Andy: Okay [clears throat] “Three Dementor attacks in a week, and all Romilda Vane does is ask me if it’s true you’ve got a Hippogriff tattoo across your chest.”
Jackie: Ginny.
Kristin: That is Ginny Weasley.
Andy: Yep.
Terrance: Woo.
Andy: Wooo!
Terrance: Okay, I’ve got one.
Eric: Ginny Weasley, Ginny Weasley.
Terrance: Yep. “What would your head be doing” – okay – “what would your head have been doing in Hogsmeade, Potter? You’re head is…”
Jackie: Snape.Terrance: …”Not allowed in Hogsmeade, no part of your body has permission to be in Hogsmeade.”
Tatiana: Malfoy?
Terrance: No, Jackie got it. Snape.
Tatiana: Oh.
Jackie: Snape.
Alex: Okay, okay I got it. Nobody will ever guess who this is. Are you ready?
Terrance: Okay.
Alex: [makes a gargling bird noise]
Eric: Buckbeak.
[Andy laughs]
Terrance: It’s Fawkes.
Alex: Ahh, try again.
Terrance: It’s Fawkes.
Jackie: Oh my god.
Terrance: It’s Fawkes.
Eric: Oh I thought that was Buckbeak getting the axe…
Terrance: Fawkes, it’s Fawkes. I said it, woohoo!
Eric: He did say it.
Andy: Fawkes. You know what Fawke you. Fawke you.
[Terrance and Kristin laugh]
Eric: Fawkes you? Anyway.
Terrance: Okay, one more.
Eric: Oh okay.
Terrance: Hang on, let me get this right, [clears throat] “It is our choices, Harry, that shows what we truly are. Far more than our abilities.”
Eric: Ben Schoen.
Terrance: [laughs] Haha yes! You got it!
Eric: That’s Ben.
Kristin: Okay.
Eric: That’s Ben. Hey, I know one, I’ve got one, name the character: Okay go ahead.
Kristin: Oh God, if you’re going to do a Mason impression, I will be really upset.
Eric: No I’m not going to do the Mason impression. Hang on I’ll…
Andy: I have one.
Eric: Okay, go ahead.
Andy: I have one that no one will ever guess. Okay. “Think your little jokes will help you on your deathbed then?”
Terrance: Snape.
Alex: That’s not Harry Potter.
Andy: Yeah it is.
Terrance: Snape.
Andy: Nope.
Eric: Draco Malfoy.
Andy: Nope.
Eric: Neville Longbottom.
Andy: It’s a female.
Alex: Bellatrix.
Andy: No.
Terrance: Cho Chang.
Andy: No.
Alex: Your mom.
[Alex, Eric and Terrance laugh]
Andy: No.
Eric: Who was it, who was it?
Andy: Alecto.
Eric: Carrow.
Andy: Uh huh.
Kristin: Oh.
Eric: [laughs] I like that whole, Carrow. Marco…
Andy: Page 593, “The Lightning Struck Tower” of Half-Blood Prince, the best quote in the history of Harry Potter.
Eric: Okay, okay. Whoever is first to guess the name of this character gets to choose which segment we do next, okay?
Terrance: Okay.
Jackie: Okay.
Eric: “Why the long faces?”
Jackie: Oh the talking doll.
Alex: The head.
Jackie: The heads in the…
Alex: The head.
Eric: Yeah, but what’s his name?
Terrance: The shrunken head.
Alex: It doesn’t have a name.
Kristin: I think Ernie.
Eric: “Yah, take it away Ern.”
Terrance: “Yah take it away Ern. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.”
Eric: “It’s going to be a bumpy ride.”
Andy: “It’s going to be a bumpy ride.”
Eric: That’s awesome. Okay, we should move on.
Terrance: Okay.
Andy: “Watch your head.”
In the Muggle World
Terrance: Moving on now to the next segment. It’s “In the Muggle World” that’s going to be with Andy this week. And he’s going to go ahead and let us know what that segment’s all about, and what is going to be involved with it this week. So Andy what’s in the Muggle World?
Andy: Well this week’s – well normally, “In the Muggle World” is a segment where I bring up a topic that is completely irrelevant to Harry Potter, as in something in the news or something like that, as in politics, whatever. And we pretty much discuss it for a little bit then move on. Well instead of doing a normal In the Muggle World this week, I’m just going to tell a quick funny story, it’s nothing big, but … A couple of nights ago I was just lying in bed reading a book, and suddenly I decided ‘You know what, I’m going to call the Hogwarts Radio hotline, just to leave a funny little message. And so I called the hotline and I disguised my voice as a fifty-year old woman and I left a message, and so the next day I log onto Skype and Terrance’s messaging me, and he’s all excited about a voicemail that he got from a fifty-year old woman.
[Alex laughs]
Terrance: That’s mean.
Andy: … and hey, Terrance, what was her name?
Terrance: Matilda.
Andy: Yes, Matilda.
[Alex laughs]
Andy: And he totally thought it was an actual person [laughs]. And I was so delighted.
Eric: What did you say?
Andy: And that, yeah, I let him down, and that was mean, Terrance.
Terrance: What?
Eric: [laughs] As Matilda what was the message about, what was the content.
Andy: Oh I just said that I love the show and stuff – you know – in my fifty-year old woman voice. That I liked it. Nothing major, nothing life-changing. But yeah, that was In the Muggle World this week. And next week we’ll have – if Greyson’s on, we’ll have an actual In the Muggle World topic to discuss, so that wraps up that segment.
Terrance: So that pretty much wraps up today’s show. I want to go ahead and use this time to thank Eric Scull and Kristin for being on the show today, you guys are just totally awesome. We love you guys over here.
Jackie: Yeah, thank you.
Alex: Thank you.
Eric: Thank you, thank you…
Kristin: Thank you.
Eric: …We love you guys.
Alex: You wrock with a “w.”
Kristin: Aww, we love you too.
Andy: Lots of love. Love love love love love. And Kristin.
Terrance: And having you guys – having you guys on was such an honor, and so we do thank-you very much for that. The whole reason that Hogwarts Radio got started, believe it or not was because of – you know – MuggleCast and giving people, giving listeners what they want, so thank you for being our inspirations. And Kristin, thank you very much for the whole fangirl thing, very much obliged.
[Eric and Kristin laugh]
Eric: Thanks for playing your part.
Andy: Kristin is made of awesome.
Krisin: Aww you guys are so sweet.
Alex: No no no. Awesome is made of Kristin.
[all laugh]
Terrance: So actually, before we wrap up the show today, is there anything that our guests would like to say or any comments that you want to go ahead and – anything you want to say basically?
Eric: Yeah you guys have good chemistry and I think that’s what’s going to make this show. That and the titles of each episode, I really like, in the style of Friends where you’ll do “the one with,” “the one where,” all that for episode titles, I think that just goes to support the friendship mentality and being ‘Hogwarts Radio’ it’s – you’re already like an alliance of students and stuff like that.
Kristin: Right. And I, I make a hobby of listening to new Harry Potter podcasts – you know – being involved with Eric, and having listened to MuggleCast for as long as I have and being a fan of Harry Potter podcasts I listen to a lot of the new ones that come out, and honestly this is the first one that I’ve heard in a long time that has really struck me as something new and fun and different and exciting, and you guys just have great energy. I appreciate you so much, and you really keep me entertained during the day at work, I love that. So thank you, keep up the good work guys.
Jackie: Awww.
Tatiana: Awww.
Jackie: Thanks Kristin.
Terrance: Aww thank you very much.
Alex: I have something to say before we go. Real quick. At the risk of sounding like PotterCast, what are you guys’ houses?
Eric: Yeah that sounds too much like PotterCast. An alarm is going off.
Kristin: Oh, there is no alarm going off. I am 100% Hufflepuff.
Alex: Rocking.
Andy: Woo-hoo.
Kristin: I am all Hufflepuff. I am full of squee.
[Alex laughs]
Eric: And I am Gryffravenhuffleslytherin.
Jackie: I agree, I agree with Eric, I think that’s my house too.
Eric: Gryffravenhuffleslyth.
Kristin: Yeah as far as houses go, Eric’s a little bit of an enigma.
Eric: Gryffravenhufflrin.
Kristin: Everybody that knows him would tell you that he’s a Slytherin but…
Eric: That’s bull.
Kristin: …He’ll tell you he’s a Gryffindor.
Eric: Jackie knows me, what am I, Jackie?
Kristin: He’ll tell you he’s a Gryffindor because he’s a Slytherin.
Eric: Jackie?
Jackie: I don’t know, I – it’s very murky, those areas. Very murky.
Eric: Okay, well.
Alex: I’m still a Gryffindor.
Jackie: I would say that you’ve got qualities from all houses Eric.
Eric: Oh well thank you, thank you, Jackie.
Andy: Oh well I live…
Alex: He’s in the House of Awesome.
Eric: Yeah.
Andy: Well I live…
Eric: Whompy started a new house …
Jackie and
Eric: And it’s called Awesome.
Jackie: I think I’m in that house.
Andy: Well I live in a two-story house.
[all laugh]
Jackie: Are you saying that you’re a Muggle, Andy?
Andy: No. I just live in a two-story house.
Terrance: So that does wrap up today’s show.
["End of an Era" by Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls plays]
Contact Information
Andy: Contact Information.
Jackie: Okay if you want to leave us some love, you can Skype the username HogwartsRadio, email us at our first name at hogwartsradio dot com, call us on the Hogwarts Radio talkback line, which is 210-807-4088, we’re still working on a P.O Box, so Terrance will get one eventually. We also have a Facebook group so look that up, we have a Twitter twitter.com/hogwartsradio. Vote for us on Podcast Alley, rate and subscribe to us on iTunes and episodes are available on our site which now has a www. in front of it, which was our big discovery of the week.
Terrance: Yeah.
[Eric laughs]
Terrance: And actually we have a brand new site coming up very very very soon. So I guess that’s where we’re going to leave it this week. So for Hogwarts Radio, Episode Number 6, I’m Terrance.
Andy: I am Bill Nye the Science Guy.
Jackie: I am Pat Cashman.
Alex: I am not associated with Andy.
Tatiana: And I’m Tatiana [laughs]
[Andy laughs]
Terrance: And thanks for listening, see you guys next week.
All: Bye.
Andy: Love you. Later.
Jackie: Penguins.
Andy: Penguins and Lemon lemon lemon lemons.
["End of an Era" by Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls plays]
Bloopers
Terrance: I’m here.
Kristin: Oh hey Terrance.
Eric: Terrance. How’re you doing?
Terrance: I’m good.
Kristin: Okay that’s everyone in. Everyone ready with Audacity?
Eric: Okay, everyone on Audacity? All right. Three … two … one.
Andy: Oh my god [repeats] froze last minute.
Kristin and Terrance laugh
Jackie: All right, everyone start with the tracks all over again.
Tatiana: Hold one.
Kristin: That happens to Eric all the time it’s okay.
Alex: Where’s my flux capacitor when I need one.
Andy: I wanna get back, get back.
Terrance: So I’m shirtless, sitting here doing a podcast, in nothing but shorts because I don’t have shoes on, and a cop will come up to me – and I’m stealing internet, so I’m like totally screwed.
Eric: You’re not stealing internet it’s unsecured.
Kristin: If they didn’t want you to take it they’d protect it with a password.
Alex: Yeah exactly.
Andy: They would put a condom on it.
Alex and Jackie laugh
Kristin: They’re practically begging you to take it.
Kristin and Eric: You transfigurated my heart.
Jackie laughs
Terrance: Wow.
Kristin and Eric: Now it only beats for you.
Eric: Yeah. If I could apparate…
Eric and Kristin: …Into your, arms.
Eric: Ummm.
Andy: Insert song here.
Alex: That has to go in the outtakes guys [laughs]
Eric laughs
Eric: I really wish you’d be my witch tonight. [Sings] Banana phone.
all laugh
Eric: Sorry.
Terrance: Okay, no problem, appreciate it.
Eric: You okay Terrance?
Terrance: Yep.
Tatiana: What happened?
Terrance: Some guy asked me if I lived here.
Jackie laughs
Tatiana: What’d you tell him?
Terrance: Yes.
Eric laughs
Tatiana: What’d he say?
Terrance: So that does wrap up today’s show, and Jackie, if anybody wanted to get a hold of us how…
Andy: Cough MuggleCast cough cough MuggleCast cough.
Terrance: Shut up Andy.
Jackie: How else can I say it?
Andy: Don’t be so rhetorical, that’s so, that copies MuggleCast if you do the whole…
Jackie: What?
Eric: Just say you guys have any ideas on how you can improve our show, or if you want to give us a comment and tell us how much you love our show, you can do so here.
Andy: And love Andy cough.
