PotterCast 93: Disneyland Live! Transcript

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Melissa Anelli (MA): Sort of live from Santa Fe! Welcome to PotterCast Ninety-three.

Sue Upton (SU): Whee!

John Noe (JN): Sue!

SU: Squee! (SU and JN laugh)

MA: I'm actually touching the legs right now of John and Sue. I'm touching them. They're here.

JN: That's not my leg. (all laugh)

SU: Oh!

MA: It so was his leg.

JN: That was my arm.

MA: Anyway, welcome to Pottercast Ninety-three. (laughs) We are in Santa Fe, New Mexico, not in front of a live crowd like you'll hear the rest of our live PotterCasts. We are just hanging out for one day before our first big show of our tour with Harry and the Potters, (JN: Toot, toot, toot, toot.) which is tomorrow in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and will be out shortly after you hear this podcast. (JN quacks) But we have some new things to say from certain friends at a certain bookstore.

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MA: Yeah, we were all a part of that and...

SU: It was awesome.

MA: It was great. I loved the conversation.

JN: It was. It was very fun conversation. The only problem was I had a Ravenclaw banner behind me, which was grossly inappropriate (SU: Yes.) and they wouldn't change it. I asked them a hundred times but (SU laughs) sadly. Oh, well. It kind of threw me off my game, but I think it turned out okay.

SU: I had my robe on and a Hufflepuff banner. Life was good. Life was good.

JN: Much love to Sue.

MA: I had the face of somebody who hadn't slept in three days, which is accurate. (SU: Yes.) (JN: Aw.) No, it was totally true. Anyway, we have a very special live edition of Sue's News, coming right at you right now.

JN: Yes!

SU: We have lots of news. The big news is the door is opened up, but now it's closed. Did you take your W.O.M.B.A.T.? It's in the mail. Woo.

JN: I actually did take it this time.

MA: Sue, that was right off the cuff. That was great. Did we take the W.O.M.B.A.T.s?

JN: This was my first ever W.O.M.B.A.T. I took, actually. And I did miserably. Actually, no. If you didn't do the first two W.O.M.B.A.T.s, I think you had a chance to take them again because it was like in three parts wasn't it?

MA: Once the door closed you were done.

JN: But was this latest W.O.M.B.A.T. a three-part W.O.M.B.A.T.?

SU: It was. No. Well, yeah, there were sections to the W.O.M.B.A.T., yeah.

JN: Oh.

SU: You know there was the first part about and then they...

JN: Oh, I thought that was W.O.M.B.A.T. one or something. That you had to take all of them. I'm stupid.

SU: No, there were three different W.O.M.B.A.T.s; but this last one W.O.M.B.A.T., like the other ones, had sections in it. (JN: Holy moly.) Yeah.

MA: Well, the thing with the W.O.M.B.A.T.s that we wonder now is, now that there have been three, is that it? Three is done, right? Three is it?

SU: Mm-hm.

MA: What has this all meant? What do you guys think?

JN: Well, of course it means that those who have taken the time to take the W.O.M.B.A.T.s are eligible to go to one of the four live Jo book readings as she tours the United States.

SU: Yes, in October of 2007, our miss Jo is coming here to the United States and she's having a raffle. Although, I think the contest is not open yet but (MA: July 30th.) on Scholastic.com, you'll be able to enter for school children to be able to go. Except for the one in New York City.

MA: Carnegie Hall!

SU: I know, I know!

JN: Oh!

SU: The site of great performances, and there's our Jo.

JN: Which would also be great.

SU: Pretty much.

MA: Just to disclaim before we get email: We don't know that that's what the W.O.M.B.A.T. tests mean. Because John said that very seriously, people will think that. We have no idea what the W.O.M.B.A.T. tests really will amount to.

JN: Well, I think that's a very good chance. There will be people who have never had a W.O.M.B.A.T. I guess you're out of luck of ever seeing Jo. So, I feel very sad for you.

MA: If it was all up to him.

SU: That would be an awesome thing John, but I don't know, I kinda thought she would give us an excerpt from the book.

JN: Yeah, a passage from the book.

SU: Yeah.

JN: About Rufus Scrimgeour, again. That would be really cool. If it was about Scrimgeour, again.

MA: Like if you had a W.O.M.B.A.T. key. (JN: Yeah.) You know, the thing about Scrimgeour is that we thought he was going to be so important.

JN: Yeah.

MA: And yes, he was important but psshh.

JN: Ugh, Scrimgeour. Well, we know he's an animagus lion, though. That's pretty cool.

MA: We don't know that.

JN: Yeah, we do, don't we know that? It was in one of the F.A.Q. on JKRowling.com.

MA: No.

SU: No.

JN: You didn't see it?

MA: No. (SU laughs)

JN: No?

SU: No. (MA laughs) It's a John vision. (laughs)

JN: I could have sworn it was in there.

MA: A John vision.

JN: It was a dream of mine, I guess.

MA: Oh, a John vision. (SU laughs) Anyway, Jo is coming to the United States to tour. That is amazing. We've talked about this on PotterCast before. (SU: Yes, we have!) We've said that we've thought and hoped that she would do something in more than one place for this book.

SU: I think it's really particularly great because one of the places is New Orleans, where we just were, and I can't think of a better place for Jo to say look. Hopefully, it will be good for (MA: The city.) the city. For school children, I mean. You know, a lot of the libraries lost a lot of their copies of the Harry Potter books, as well as many other books obviously. But I just thought that was really cool.

MA: You know what's funny is we were talking about this another time, I can't remember if it was on PotterCast or off, but we were saying that if she did a tour in the U.S., where could she possibly go? Because she's so big. (SU: Right.) She's bigger than any act. (SU: Yeah, pretty much.) So, she would have to go, we said, oh you go to New York and you go to LA, and that's it. And now I we've got New Orleans, but I'm sort of surprised she didn't go to Chicago.

SU: You know, 'cause she did. I thought she might go back to that bookstore.

MA: Oh, never!

JN: Oh!

MA: (laughs) Could you imagine!

SU: Because, that would be wild, though. I think I remember actually reading about that visit. That was pretty phenomenal that this author came to that store.

MA: Well, no. Back then it was '99, she was a big author but it wasn't...

SU: Right, a huge thing.

MA: Right, it wasn't like now.

SU: Yes.

MA: But, we will be there for the release of the book.

SU: Yes!

MA: It is the biggest Harry Potter party ever reported over by times four.

JN: Huge!

MA: I don't know if there are bigger ones, but I think that it's safe to say that fifty to sixty thousand people is a pretty large party. We're going to be having a huge PotterCast, we'll be on the stage right before midnight to do some events with the audience. Be part of the countdown.

JN: Spoil the book.

MA: Spoil the book. (SU: No!) (JN: Ah!) (MA and SU do the spoiler warning sound effect) We've gotta do the live spoiler warning.

SU: You know what I think is so fun?

JN: Snape kills Professor Sprout?

SU: No. He does not!

MA: Did you hear me hit him?

SU: You know I've been ignoring the whole bashing. I've been good so far. Even though I've been here just one day with John. (JN laughs under breath) Been ignoring the bashing on the Hufflepuff. (JN: Oh.) Just saying.

MA: No she hasn't. (SU: Well, okay.) I'm sorry, impartial party over here.

SU: Well, not too much. (MA: Hasn't ignored a thing.) Not too much. Okay. You know how in...? I thought it was in Goblet of Fire. You know how when they have gatherings of witches and wizards, they always have like an invisibility...or like in Grimmauld Place, you can make it unplottable. You can find Naperville. You can find it (whispers) on PotterParties.com.

JN: Ooh, it is on PotterParties.com, isn't it? (Ma: Yeah, we're going to talk about that entry in a little bit.) Totally. (MA laughs)

SU: Sorry, shameless plug.

MA: We've got a lot to do. Anyway, we'll see you there. We hope. We'll see at least 50,000 of you there, which is great.

JN: Which is probably double.

MA: (laughs) Probably double.

JN: If they'll bring a friend.

SU: Professor Sprout is not dying.

JN: Professor Spout is getting whacked off in Chapter Five.

SU: No, she's not.

MA: Okay. Well, I'm leaving because we have a very special rest of the show. (SU: Woo.) We have a Canon Conundrums that we did live at the unofficial Disneyland day, which was last Friday in Los Angeles. (JN: Woohoo!) We also have a special interview with our friend Alex Carpenter, who is The Remus Lupins. He has a brand-new record. He also gives us a special cut of that record to play on the show. And then the next time you hear from us on the wrap-up will be live from Albuqueuque, New Mexico.

JN: Whoa! And keep your eyes on PotterCast.com for all our blogs and vlogs and videos including stuff from Disneyland day and Chicago that will be up probably by the time you hear this. Maybe.

MA: We've had many, many text blogs. A couple of video blogs by now. Lots of pictures. And, also soon you will be hearing the results of the Ultimate Whiffle Ball Smackdown. (SU: Oh, no!) A challenge issued by the elder Harry of Harry and the Potters. We really can't turn away a challenge like that, but the problem is that we're not athletic.

SU: Not at all.

JN: Hey, I don't know. I'm going to do pretty good.

MA: This is John who says this. John who says "now, whiffle ball; is that like baseball or football or like tennis?"

JN: There's whiffle versions of all sports.

MA: Okay.

SU: Uh-huh. We're doomed.

MA: Yeah, we're a little doomed

JN: I like whiffle pool. Whiffle pool is kind of difficult though because the balls don't go very fast.

MA: Well, we've been trash-talking each other for a day now. I get messages saying, "PotterCast is going down!" And, I tease half-heartedly back knowing the truth.

SU: Yeah. We'll try! We'll give it the ol' Hufflepuff try.

JN: I'm not really going to try.

SU: Yes, you are.

JN: Nah.

MA: Well, go listen to the rest of the show and we'll be back to...

JN: I want a Corn Dog.

SU: We're going to go have some good Mexican food and no...

MA and SU: Chipotle!

JN: That's what you think.

MA: There are no Chipotles in New Mexico.

JN: I've seen three of them, already.

MA: No, you've seen three Taco Bells, which is amazing. There are no Chipotles in New Mexico. But there are a ton of Taco Bells. It's wrong! It's having an Olive Garden in Sicily.

JN: Chipotle goes by the Flying Tortilla name out here. You think it's a tortilla place, but it's a Chipotle. It was like some kind of name dispute.

MA: Okay, we'll see you later at the end.

JN: All right, bye.