PotterCast 148: The Trial Transcript

News Talk (0:00 - 7:49)

Melissa Anelli (MA): Hope you're not late, it's PotterCast 148.

Frankie Franco III (FF): One forty-eight! Appreciate!

MA: Wah-wah! Welcome to PotterCast. (FF: Don't hate!) How's everybody doing?

John Noe (JN): Spectacular!

MA: It's an interesting week we got. I'm Melissa, again, I'm here with John, Sue, and Frak, and we're going to have a little guest here in a while. (FF: Hello!) (JN: Frak?) And we have a talk about this week's trial that was in New York, with the...

FF: Hm.

JN: With special guest Mr. Hammer!

MA: Mr. Hammer! (laughs) Stop, stop.

FF: Mr. Hammer? What?

MA: We will explain that joke in a minute. We will explain this in detail in a minute. (MA and JN laugh)

FF: We're going to need an explanation.

JN: Can we call Mr. Hammer?

MA: Because John is incorrigible and should not ever be in a courtroom...

Sue Upton (SU): Uh-oh.

MA: ...ever again. (JN laughs) So yeah. (FF: Nice.) Yeah.

JN: Yes. Melissa and I and our special guest this week sat for every day of the trial.

MA: Which amounted to about twenty-four hours of testimony. (JN: Yes. And I...) Which is enough to kill you.

JN: I only left the courtroom once to get a sandwich because I was bored.

MA: Yeah, okay.

SU: To get a sandwich. Shock! (laughs)

FF: I would have been there drawing them.

JN: We wanted you there drawing so bad! (MA: We did, we did.) We'll get to that, too. (sighs)

MA: Okay, but first, let's do our AudibleKids.com (FF: Dot com.) thing.

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MA: Okay, what's happening besides the obvious in the world of ze Harry Potter news this week?

SU: There was a little bit of film news. We heard from actor Jim Broadbent, who plays Professor Horace Slughorn. (FF: Ooh.) And get this! He says he has not read the books!

FF: Oh!

JN: Oh, no.

SU: Shock. Well, (MA: Boo!) I know. But let's clarify. He said he's read the first one, and now he's read the sixth book, but he is, quote- (MA: Okay.) yeah, at least he's read about his character, which is...

MA: His character. (SU: Yeah.) Yeah.

JN: His character doesn't even appear before Book Six, though, so (SU: I know. Right.) I'm okay with that.

JN: He's fine.

FF: And he can read it because he can can can.

Jim Broadbent: Because we can can can!

JN: Because he can can can!

MA: (laughs) I forgot about that. (SU: Can can can!) Because you can can can!

FF: Because you can can can!

JN: It's not like he was a major character that replaced another actor who has already done his part for two years (SU laughs) and hasn't watched the movies or read the books.

SU: No.

MA: Don't know what you're talking about.

FF: Am I confused.

JN: Certainly not Gambon.

SU: I give him a lot of credit for saying that he said, "I'm not a massive fan." But then he says, "It's not really part of my generation," which...

JN: It's everybody's generation.

SU: It is. (MA: Yeah.) Thank you, John.

MA: It's everybody's generation.

SU: Yeah, but I don't know if he realizes what he gets into when he opens- when they say "I haven't read the books." What kind of- people go "Ahh!" But at least he said he read the book that he's (FF gasps) in the movie. So that's- he gets points for that.

FF: Well, I'd rather have him be honest about it than lie, so...

SU: Yeah, that's true. (JN: Work it.) That's really true. When I...

JN: Work it. I like him. I can't wait to see his stuff.

SU: I know! I can't either! I'm dying to see what he looks like, his costumes, his little velvety things, and I don't know. (FF laughs) (JN: Yeah.) I'm thinking.

FF: Tufts of straw-colored hair. (SU laughs)

JN: (laughs) Well, what else is going on, Susie?

SU: We heard briefly, too, from actress Helen McCrory, who is filming her scenes as Narcissa Malfoy, and all she- yeah, all she did. (JN: Ooh.) But she's wearing couture! She's very haute couture. She said that a friend of hers- she's a friend, and she helped design the costume, so it's beautifully sculpted silhouette. (JN: Very cool.) I don't know, I never imagined her to be that fashionable, but I guess that makes sense. I don't know. What do you think?

JN: What do you think of the importance of the fashion for Narcissa, Frankie?

FF: Whenever I hear Narcissa, I think of Heather's drawings so much, (laughs) because she draws Narcissa so much, so whenever I read the books, I imagine that cartoon version of her.

JN: Fan artist Makaini? Makini?

FF: Makani.

JN: I can never say it right.

FF: Yeah.

SU: Heather is (JN: Yeah, she rocks.) awesome. I hope she gets you, John, for that. (laughs)

FF: Her artwork is beautiful.

SU: Not saying her name. You should know... (laughs)

JN: What? I'm just not good at pronouncing names I am not familiar with.

FF: I hate her because she draws so much better than me. But I love her at the same time 'cause she's so awesome.

MA: You guys are both wonderful, stop it.

FF: No, her- (MA: Stop it.) she's amazing.

SU: Yes, she is. I just have one more quick announcement that's important. That, as we reported last week, Amazon.com is having that contest to go see Beedle of the Bard book in London, and yes, and you have to write a one hundred-word- write your essay. So, if you haven't done it yet, it's due April 22nd. So hat will be very soon after this comes out, so hurry, hurry, hurry.

FF: That's Tuesday. (SU: Yes.) Yeah.

MA: Or primary in Pennsylvania day.

SU: Yeah.

JN: Will they accept a limerick, do you think?

SU: You know what, John? You might get- if it's a hundred words or less.

FF: A limerick?

JN: I'm planning to submit my submission (SU: Uh-huh.) in the form of a limerick.

SU: (laughs) Is it?

FF: Well, my form (JN: Do you think I'll win?) of a fuzzy drawing of a fuzzy dog has been rejected and spat upon. (JN: Oh.) They actually sent it back.

MA: (laughs) It's not a fuzzy dog by the way. I think you're mis- just a sec. I think you're mis-remembering, Frak.

FF: I'm just being silly.

MA: It's a dog in a fuzzy hat. (JN and SU laugh)

FF: What did I say?

SU: You said fuzzy dog! (laughs)

MA: A fuzzy dog. (FF and JN laugh)

JN: That would be pretty cute, too.

FF: Oh, wow. (MA laughs) We're just going to take that out of the show, then, because...

SU: No, we're not! (FF laughs)

MA: No, we're not!

SU: That's funny.

JN: That's not how we do things here, Mr. Frankie.

MA: No, that ain't how we do it here. No, no, no.

FF: This is my seventh episode.

SU: That's something I would say.

FF: That's the strongest magical number.

JN: Wow.

MA: You didn't get editing rights yet. (FF: What?) You're not up to editing rights. You're not up to editing rights yet. (JN and MA laugh) Seven shows in.

FF: One can hope, can't he? (laughs)

SU, JN and MA: Aw. (JN: Frankie.) I like it. (MA: Wah-wah.) No, just one more quick say, we all say "Happy birthday, Emma Watson," who's now eighteen. Yay!

FF: Happy birthday!

JN: Uh-oh!

SU: Oh, John. (laughs)

MA: Yes.

FF: We should sing her "Happy Birthday!"

JN: You know what that means, guys? (SU laughs) She can buy lottery tickets (SU: She can!) in the United States.

MA: Yep, yes, she can. I hope- 'cause she needs the money. Oh, that's the other thing. All the tabloids are reporting that she- her parents gave her access to her money.

JN: The keys to the kingdom? Is she going out buying fancy cars and dresses and things?

MA: No, I think that's why they did it, to show she's not that girl, so it's going to be fine, peoples. (JN: Oh.) Yay for her.

JN: Let her spend her money, whatever.

MA: Exactly. It's fine.

SU: If Rupert can buy an ice cream truck, she can go buy whatever. You know?

MA: Yeah.

JN: Isn't Rupert like nineteen now, or something? (SU: He's older.) Or twenty? How old's Rupert?

MA: He's older, yeah. He's older now.

JN: He's the oldest of the trio. Then is it Dan? Or then is it Emma? (FF: Dan.) (MA: Yeah.) 'Cause Dan's eighteen, right?

MA: Dan and then Emma. (JN: Right.) I think. I'm almost positive. (SU: She just turned eighteen, yeah.) Well, no, it's great. It's great. Let her have her money. It's funny, people get all touchy about Emma, but she's basically- imagine if you were her and you could be a teenager and have unlimited access to clothes (SU: Yeah.) and (JN: Oh.) (laughs) your social life. Let her have fun with it, God. You're only a teenager once.

SU: She's earned it.

JN: It's true.

SU: But yeah, she's being smart, which is good. But still.

FF: And honestly, it balances out, because the freedom she has financially, she lacks socially, because being who she is- (MA: Yeah.) famous people don't have it easy as walking out- they can't enjoy certain things that regular people can enjoy.

MA: No, they do not.

FF: So, it's a balance.