Our live Leaky Mug podcast (a joint show produced between MuggleCast and PotterCast) from Prophecy 2007 in Toronto is now available! Join us for over an hour of Deathly Hallows discussion, pajama contests, and much more!

To download, subscribe to the Leaky Mug feed available right here in iTunes. If you can't subscribe, here is a direct download link (just right-click and select "Save Target As..."). Enjoy!

If you'll be in the LA area tomorrow for the Order of the Phoenix US premiere, make sure you come to our live podcast Monday at the Borders of Westwood. The show will start at 5 PM, costs nothing to attend, and all are welcome! We'll be having a good time discussing the movies, the stars, and whatever is on your mind.

We ask that if you plan on coming, please RSVP by e-mailing hplive at gmail dot com with how many people you plan on bringing.

The address of the store is:

Borders Books and Music
1360 Westwood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90024

We hope to see you there!

Attention all UK visitors: We'll be hosting a live Leaky Mug podcast after the Order of the Phoenix premiere on July 3rd! Join Jamie, Kevin, Melissa, John, Sue and me at the Piccadilly Theatre at 7 PM for the show. The address is:

Piccadilly Theatre
16 Denman Street,
London,
W1D 7DY

We apologize for the delay in announcing this event, but we hope everyone can still make it out! As you can see, it was for a good cause: We've never been in such a big or beautiful theater, and send big thanks to Borders for making it happen!

Attention all US premiere-goers: We will be doing a live Leaky Mug on July 9th at 5 PM in the Borders of Westwood - the same place where we hosted a Leaky Mug in September. The address is:

Borders Books and Music
1360 Westwood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90024

As with all Leaky Mugs, we ask that you please send an e-mail to hplive at gmail dot com if you plan on going. In your e-mail, please include which podcast you plan on attending and with how many people. See you there!

In the second preview of our full OOTP set report, Melissa, John, and I visit the Atrium, Room of Requirement, Great Hall, and courtroom sets at Leavesden Studios! Listen in as we give you guys the inside scoop: everything from the architecture of the Room of Requirement to what is etched onto the tables in the Great Hall.

To download, subscribe to the Leaky Mug feed within iTunes and grab the latest episode. This podcast is a joint production between MuggleCast and PotterCast. Enjoy!

The LeakyMug is back and this time it's with the announcement that most of you guys sorta, kinda, totally knew was coming. We'll be doing a live LeakyMug at the Prophecy Harry Potter convention in Toronto, Canada, on August 3rd, 2007! And this one's a pajama party, starting at midnight on Friday night. (So, technically Saturday. Yeah, you're confused, so are we. Don't worry, we'll find each other.)

We've recorded a special LeakyMug to talk about and celebrate this announcement, so click here to get it on iTunes, and click here for a direct download. Enjoy!

EDIT: This podcast was recorded back in early January before we knew the release date for Deathly Hallows. That is why we briefly discuss what we'll do if the book is out. Don't think we forgot!

Back in September, I had the honor of visiting the Order of the Phoenix set with Melissa and John from Leaky. We promised a special Leaky Mug podcast with set reports and cast interviews; those will be available around the movie's release in July. For now, though, we have a special teaser of what's to come - now available in our report on the Leaky Mug feed.

Learn first details of how Grimmauld Place will appear in the fifth film, hear about the Potter set in general, and much more in this special episode of The Leaky Mug. You can directly download the show here, or update your Leaky Mug feed in iTunes. Enjoy!

Update: A transcript of the podcast is now available!

We're proud to announce that MuggleCast won the top prize at the 2006 Podcast Awards last Friday. The Peoples Choice category was awarded to our Harry Potter podcast after receiving over 100,000 votes from listeners and fans. Thanks to everyone who provided their support through the entire voting process, including our friends at PotterCast who we teamed up with! We'll talk more about the win on episode 58 of MuggleCast.

Now begs the question: Where's MuggleCast #57? It was recorded nearly two weeks ago right before our trip to California. Unfortunately, the show didn't go too smoothly. In fact, the audio decided it didn't want to cooperate either. The combination of the two made for a difficult release, especially since we were busy getting ready for the trip. Now we're busy making up a week's worth of school work, so there's no time to fix it.

So, what are we going to do? MuggleCast #57 is going to stay unreleased for a few weeks until we can fix all of its issues. In the mean time, we'll be recording our 58th show this week, and that will be released this Sunday. To make it up to everyone, we promise that #58 will be a doozy of a show. So much so, you might want to have a spare pair of pants standing by. We'll see everyone this Sunday!

In other news, the live Leaky Mug from California is now available for download! Join the MuggleCasters, along with our friends at PotterCast, for some Potter podcasting fun. You can subscribe right here in iTunes or direct download at this link. The show was recorded at the Borders of Westwood in Los Angeles, California on September 28th. Special thanks goes to our audio guy Chris who provided a flawless setup, and Borders for a fantastic job handling the event!

The next live Leaky Mug, the joint podcast by MuggleCast and PotterCast for special occasions, will be on September 28th, at Borders in Westwood, located at 1360 Westwood Blvd. in Los Angeles. It will start at 7 PM sharp, and we hope to see you there for some fun Harry Potter discussion and more.

We once again need an idea of how many of you are coming, so please visit LeakyMug.com and follow instructions there to let us know you plan to be there! Once again, this doesn't guarantee seats, but this way we can plan accordingly and make everyone happier.

For our younger listeners: we're aware this is a school night and have made the show as early as possible to accommodate this. Our schedules in California are such that we only have weeknights available; the show should be over by about 8:30 PM, which we hope is enough time to get you home for school/work in the morning!

The transcript from our live New York City Leaky Mug podcast at the Barnes and Noble in Union Square is now available.

Thanks to the MuggleCast transcribers and the elves over at Leaky for all of their hard work!

EDIT: You can also see the video version of this podcast over at Google Video. Visit LeakyMug.com for the link!

The transcript of our live podcast at Lumos 2006 in Las Vegas is now available. Thanks to the MuggleCast transcribers and those over at Leaky for all of their help!

MuggleCast Episode 51 will be released shortly!

Our live LeakyMug from New York City is now online! You can subscribe to the all-new, all-on-its-own LeakyMug feed via iTunes right here. If you're anti-feed, you can download it here by right-clicking and saving. In this show we go over some of the highlights from Vegas and the New York readings, and just have lots of fun in general. The video actually will be out shortly, this time, so stay tuned!

Don't forget that today, tomorrow and Friday are your last days to vote for us at the Podcast Awards - by doing so (MuggleCast for People's Choice, PotterCast for Best Entertainment!) you can help send the LeakyMuggers to California to do (hopefully) another live podcast at the end of September!

Our live Leaky Mug podcast, recorded at Lumos 2006 on Saturday, July 29th, is now available for download on iTunes! Join the entire cast of co-hosts from MuggleCast and PotterCast in this special discussion to talk about Harry (live or die?), Snape (good or bad?), and more.

Other happenings from Lumos:

The Leaky Mug team (Keeper Eric, Beaters Heather (from TLC) and Andrew, Chasers John Noe (TLC), Ben and Jamie, and Emerson as Seeker) defeated the championship Water Quidditch team the Threshers in a much-publicized game 120-70 in front of a crowd of several hundred people. The game was tied 70-70 with both teams trading goals back and forth until the Snitch (worth 50 points) was captured, giving the Leaky Muggers the thrilling victory.

The last event of the Official Scholastic Podcast Tour was another big success, with over 400 fans coming out to the Barnes & Noble in The Grove in Los Angeles to see Melissa, Cheryl and Emerson. The podcast should be online soon.

The last live Leaky Mug podcast is on for tomorrow, August 2nd at 12:30 PM at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York City. We hope you'll come out and see us if you're in the area!