Call: Andrew Should Go To Michigan

Andrew: Yeah. Well, it's the accent. It was just the accent. Sierra, what is up?

Caller: Hi. Not much.

Andrew: [singing] "My name is Sierra." Is that how that song goes or is it...?

Caller: It goes: "Sierra, this beat is..." It's - I get teased for it a lot at school and with my friends.

Andrew: Oh, okay. [laughs]

Laura: Aww!

Eric: So, you didn't really make her day any better, Andrew.

Andrew: Sorry.

Caller: No, you made my day better just by accepting my call, I'll tell you that.

Andrew: Okay. Good. So, what's going on?

Caller: Not much. I've just been calling and trying to get on, that's cool.

Andrew: Oh, okay.

Caller: I want to ask you guys, especially you, Andrew. I saw your little road trip thing with your friends.

Andrew: Uh-huh.

Caller: And how come you're not coming to Michigan?

Andrew: Sims and Friends is planning a tour that is going across the southern United States. Because Sims and Friends feel that the southern route to New Jersey would be a much better tour.

Caller: See, because I have friends on there who are like, "We'll drive to go and then we'll call you." But I don't live anywhere near there! I was really sad.

Andrew: Oh, sorry. Maybe Sims and Friends 2 next year.

Caller: Really, you should come to Michigan.

Andrew: Okay. [laughs]

Laura: I don't [unintelligible]. What is...?

Andrew: Sims and Friends is something Mason, Matt and I are doing. We're planning a little road trip after Vegas.

Laura: Oh, very nice.

Andrew: Yeah. So, yeah. MySpace.com/SimsandFriends. [laughs] That's interesting. That's Mason's brainchild. All right, thank you.

Caller: Can I give a shout out really quick?

Andrew: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Caller: To Gack, to all of the vultures...

Andrew: Gack.

Caller: ...I'm talking to them in our Meebo chat right now, and you're all like "Sierra, you're on!"

Andrew: [in girly voice] Yay! Wake up!

Caller: Especially to my friends Lindsay and Skye and Vivian. And to my friend Minnie. That's about it.

Andrew: Awesome. All right, well, thank you for calling.

Caller: Thanks. Love you guys.

Andrew: Thanks, bye.

Caller: Especially you, Andrew!

Andrew: [in girly voice] Oh my god! Thank you!

Caller: Bye.

[Eric laughs]

Andrew: By the way, before we get to the next caller, I'm looking for an Emily Sweeney. If there's an Emily Sweeney in the audience, could you please private message me on UStream? I need to have a word with you. Let's take another caller now.

Eric: Oh, no.

Laura: That sounds serious.

Call: The Map of Hogwarts

Andrew: Yeah. Elizabeth. No, that didn't work. [singing] Let's get another caller!

Eric: Well, if we're doing shout outs...

Andrew: There we go.

Eric: Oh, there we go.

Caller: Hello.

Andrew: Hi.

Caller: Hi.

Andrew: How are you doing?

Caller: I'm good. I'm from Sydney, by the way.

Andrew: Ooh, man!

Eric: [laughs] How's it going, Elizabeth?

Caller: I'm really good. Hi, I met you at the live show in Sydney, actually.

Eric: Yeah, I know.

Caller: Yeah, okay. [laughs]

[Andrew laughs]

Eric: Did you - did you like the show?

Caller: Yeah, it was pretty good. I had a lot of fun. I met some really cool people.

Eric: Yeah, that's what it's all about, meeting people.

Andrew: Exactly, yeah. What's going on today? What's on your mind?

Caller: Not much. I just got to do some work today. It's 7AM the morning.

Andrew: Ooh.

Caller: I just had a question. Do people not realize that we actually have an official, sort of map of Hogwarts? It's pretty much complete and official by J.K. Rowling.

Andrew: Where...

Laura: Oh...

Andrew: Where can you get this?

Caller: Order of the Phoenix video game map, because apparently Jo pretty much gave them a map and then...

Eric: Oh, you...

Caller: In my game I actually got a copy of the map.

Eric: But I wouldn't subscribe too much to that because all the space of Hogwarts in the game is used. All of it is - the only reason the Hall exists is because you've got to go through it. I would not consider that at all to be the official Hogwarts map. At least the one on PS2. I don't know if it's different in any of the other versions. But I would hardly consider that because - and you can tell when you're doing it, when you're playing the game, that it's not - it's stripped down to the bare essentials of what they needed for the game. It's - that's why I didn't like it as a free-roaming game. It doesn't really have any extra places you can go, such as Hogwarts wood.

Caller: I don't know, I have the PS2 version and it seems pretty much complete. They seem to have everything like Stone Circle and Hagrid's Hut and pretty much everything seems to be there.

Eric: Well, they've got everything, but is that enough, do you think?

Andrew: Yeah. Well...

Eric: Like they've simply taken everything ever mentioned in the books, placed it sort of in a strict, straight line, and - do you know what I mean?

Caller: I heard that J.K. Rowling actually gave them blueprint maps and stuff.

Andrew: Yeah.

Caller: And she added in random rooms and stuff.

Andrew: Yeah, EA did put a lot of work - EA London. It was their London, England - what do you call it? Chapter?

Eric: You guys went there, didn't you?

Andrew: Yeah, Jamie and I went there.

Eric: Yeah.

Andrew: They did put a lot, lot, lot, lot, lot of work into the detail and accuracy of the show. Or, sorry, this video game. And I think, while it's accurate, I think what they may have done was first send J.K. Rowling their idea and then J.K. Rowling sent it back with any problems. Because that's what Warner Bros. does with the movies and I think it works the same way with EA.

Caller: No, that makes sense.

Andrew: Now, with your video game, did you say it came with an actual, physical map?

Caller: Yeah, in the sleeve part. It's pretty big, as well.

Andrew: Really?

Caller: And it's got all the diagrams, and it's got all the floors...

Andrew: Oh, wow, that's...

Caller: ...and stuff.

Andrew: Maybe - maybe you could scan that or take a picture of it and show it to us? Because I don't know if anyone's ever seen that before.

Laura: Yeah...

Andrew: Maybe that's only in the Australian copies of the game. Because I have...

Eric: You...

Andrew: ...Order of the Phoenix and mine didn't come with a map. I don't think. I'm going to check.

Eric: Well, if you've - it's - yeah, it'll probably be - well, it's not DVD, but I was going to say, if it's a region thing I could probably get a copy or two of the Australian PC edition.

Andrew: Yeah. Yeah, just buy it. At your local Wal-Mart. Okay, well, cool, thank you for calling in with that information.

Caller: Yeah, that's cool. I'll scan the stuff in to you.

Andrew: Okay, yeah. Cool, great. Thank you so much.

Eric: Yeah, it was great to see you in Sydney. Thanks for coming out, by the way.

Caller: Oh, no problem.

Andrew: All right, bye.

Caller: Bye!

Andrew: Let's see here. Still looking for an Emily Sweeney.

[Eric laughs]

Andrew: I really need to talk to her.

Eric: So she's not at your beckoned call? We've established that?

Call: Terminus

Andrew: Yeah. Debbie Kim?

Caller: Hello?

Andrew: Hello!

Caller: Hello!

Andrew: How're you doing?

Caller: Hi. Good, but I feel like I have to say this because I'm in the UStream chat right now, and they're all complaining because it's skipping a lot.

Andrew: I don't know what to do about that because I've already turned that quality down as much as I can.

Caller: It's like long gaps, kind of.

Andrew: Okay, I'm turning the - well, that says volume.

Laura: The only thing I can think of is that people won't stop typing. Like, they just keep going...

Caller: Yeah.

Laura: ...and going, and going.

Caller: They keep saying pointless things. [laughs]

Andrew: Yeah, stop typing for no reason if it's...

Caller: Sorry.

Andrew: ...bothering you.

Eric: Typing...

Caller: It's like you guys say something funny, they're like "LOL" a million times.

Laura: Yeah, stop - I'm looking at it right now and they're all arguing about whether or not Emma Watson's pretty, so it's like - let's just stop.

Eric: Is that argument still going on?

Laura: Do you really want to hear it?

[Caller laughs]

Laura: Apparently.

Eric: Didn't Ben settle that in Episode 13? "Yes." [laughs] When Billy Joe called in and asked if Emma Watson was pretty and Ben settled it; he said definitively, "Yes."

Andrew: Billy Joe! All right, I just - woops, woops, woops, woops - I just disabled the chat, but I don't know if people are still going to be able to...

Caller: People are still - they're still kind of all spamming and stuff.

Eric: Well, they can do that in AIM, you know what I'm saying? Go to another - like, don't...

Laura: Yeah.

Eric: ...use UStream for its live capabilities. Don't overrun the chat.

Andrew: Yeah, I don't see the chat now, so any new people who come in won't see the chat, so...

Caller: Oh, okay.

Andrew: Maybe that'll help a little bit.

Caller: And I was wondering, I know PotterCast is going to be at Terminus. Is there any chance any of you are going?

Eric: Do we have to clear this up, guys?

Micah: Oh, Andrew.

Andrew: [laughs] What?

Micah: We talked about that, didn't we?

Andrew: Yeah, we have talked about this on the show. I think we have a couple - I know at least once we did. But I've been talking to - not really. I sent a few e-mails back and forth between me - well, us and Terminus. They don't want us to do a live show there, because apparently we don't fit their demographic and they're looking for a variety of podcasts. And apparently the first podcast and also the most popular podcast isn't in their general - what they want, which makes perfect sense. So... [laughs]

[Eric laughs]

Andrew: ...one idea is to - I almost called it Celda - Collasma told me that there is a Borders literally a couple blocks away. So... [laughs] ...what we're thinking is to do - now, of course, easier said than done. We've got to fly everyone out there - would be to do a live podcast at that Borders...

Caller: Yeah.

Andrew: ...during the conference. And essentially, what we would hope to do, was move everyone from Terminus [laughs] over to this bookstore.

[Caller laughs]

Andrew: But maybe give Terminus the idea of, you know, hey, you know...

Caller: Well, there was a Facebook group for a MuggleCast fans meet-up and...

Andrew: Yeah, I saw that.

Caller: ...they were e-mailing Terminus like crazy. And they were like, yeah, I'm a fan of MuggleCast too but we're all planned up and...

Andrew: Yeah.

Caller: It's just...

Eric: Yeah.

Caller: ...not...

Andrew: To be completely honest with you, I am not very - I don't believe all the stuff that they've been telling us. I think there's more to it than just, oh, you know...

Eric: What it is, guys - no, it's true. When they say we don't fit their demographic, it means they don't care about, sort of, what we bring to the table. That's actually the bottom line, in my opinion. They don't care about who we bring to the con. Their focus is sort of an older audience than what they perceive ours to be - is, I think, the - in between the lines, they really don't care about all of our listeners who are putting our money or their money into going to Terminus and having a great time. Everybody seems to be going to Terminus as opposed to Portus. I think we should do an event at Portus.

Andrew: [laughs] Well...

Caller: Well, I'm not going to Portus, so... [laughs]

Andrew: And...

Eric: Oh, nobody is! Nobody is! But Terminus, apparently - I don't want to say they don't care about our fans because that's probably illegal. But I'm just going to say, I don't - I've gotten the impression that they care a lot more about an audience that isn't ours.

Laura: Well, here's the question.

Andrew: I think - I think that's accurate, yeah.

Caller: Well, on the site, it's like - it says it's really serious and they won't - they have an age limit and...

Andrew: Yeah, well, there's that. But, okay, I'm just going to go out there and say that right now. The stuff they've been telling - like, the age thing. It's kind of annoying. [sighs] The same people, the same demographic of people listen to every Harry Potter podcast. I don't care what you say. If you compare demographics to every...

Micah: Yeah.

Andrew: ...against every Harry Potter podcast, they are all the same. They're the same percentage-wise. Not number-wise, percentage-wise. I can guarantee this. I know this for a fact, okay? Terminus is...

Eric: Andrew is on fire.

Andrew: ...P.O.-ing me off, and it's really bothering me. And we need to stop talking.

Eric: Well, and fair enough, Andrew. And I mean...

Laura: Was...

Eric: ...the thing is the fandom. I mean, the fandom as a whole. Kids and kids and kids and kids are getting into the books. And this is also the adult, Harry-Draco shippers. You know? [laughs] I mean...

Andrew: Yeah. That's...

Eric: ...you're only going to let a...

Andrew: Yeah.

Eric: ...little percentage in, don't expect it to be the coolest thing since last [unintelligible] but they are. Every kid wants to go to Terminus. And it's just a little bit contradictory.

Andrew: Umm...

Micah: It is because Terminus is discriminating and the books teach us we shouldn't discriminate. [laughs]

Andrew: Yes.

Eric: Exactly.

Andrew: Exactly.

Eric: They don't like you.

Andrew: I'm writing in a letter...

Laura: E-mail Terminus.

Andrew: ...to Jo.

Caller: Yeah, I'll e-mail them that and - well, I think some of you should, at least, still go. Just...

Andrew: Well, see, here's the thing. If we go, then we're promoting them. And we don't want to promote them if we don't want them there - if they don't...

Eric: Exactly.

Andrew: ...want us there. And I'm not trying to come off arrogant by saying we're promoting them, but if we say on the show we're going to Terminus, that's going to send some of our listeners to Terminus.

Laura: Well...

Caller: Yeah.

Laura: Yeah.

[Andrew laughs]

Laura: Do you remember whenever we even suggested going to Lumos and within a few days, Lumos' registration had shot up...

Andrew: Yeah.

Eric: Yes.

Laura: ...exceedingly high? So, I just - I feel like it's kind of insulting and at one point, didn't you - didn't one of the e-mails suggest that we could do interviews with attendees if we wanted to?

Andrew: Well...

Laura: I was, like - they said something along the lines of, oh, well, if you want to come, and stand around and interview attendees, that's fine.

Andrew: Yeah.

Laura: And I was, like, okay.

Andrew: What particularly bugged me - and I didn't really plan on going out there with this - but in one of the e-mails from Terminus, they said that they weren't sure if their college-level programming would interest our listeners. I'm like, what? Are you calling them stupid? College-level...

Eric: No.

Andrew: ...Harry Potter programming?

Eric: They're calling them booze towns and followers, Andrew. Not...

Andrew: I guess so.

Eric: ...like, you know...

Andrew: So...

Eric: That's the whole deal.

Andrew: ...apparently, none of you guys would be interested in their college-level program, despite the fact that our second highest demographic range is the college - the 18 to 24 year olds, which is...

Eric: Hell, yeah. The...

Andrew: ...college students.

Eric: ...people who are broadcasting the shows, yeah.

Andrew: Now I'm worked up. Now I'm worked up.

Caller: Sorry.

Andrew: No, it's okay.

Caller: Sorry for bringing it up. I'm sorry.

Andrew: No, no, no, don't be sorry.

Eric: But, guys, I would - I do want to say here on this live show still, check out - I mean, I know that there's a few MuggleCasters who might be in talks to possibly do something at Portus, and I know that there were some issues with doing a thing at Prophecy, but I think a majority of those were working to get them reconciled. And anybody who hasn't already put hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars into Terminus, try and look at possibly going to Portus. I'm just saying that now. There's nothing definitive, I can't say we're doing it, but I'd like to work with people and reconcile what happened at Prophecy.

Andrew: But they don't want to work with us so that's the thing. So...

Laura: Well...

Eric: Well, and that's not the current status, Andrew.

Andrew: Yes, it is.

Laura: That's only because our moves are too awesome for the dance floor. Especially Jamie's.

[Everyone laughs]

Eric: Especially Jamie's.

Andrew: Oh right, yeah.

Caller: Well, if - if you guys really wanted to, you guys could start something at Boston. Because I used to spam - well, not really - I used to do on the Pickle Pack comments, "come to Boston" every single...

Andrew: Well, yeah, Boston would be a fun place to go because we get a lot of requests for up there, but how about this plan? How about we find out when PotterCast is doing their live show, we start ours fifteen minutes before theirs starts, then we'll see who wins, who gets more people attending their live show.

Caller: What? That'd be so - how could I like run to both?

[Andrew laughs]

Caller: Do a LeakyMug.

Eric: You're going to make her brain explode, Andrew.

Andrew: I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

Eric: Unfortunately, I think it's a little bit flawed, because to pay cab fare to get to Borders or not to pay cab fare to get to Borders...

Andrew: Well it's literally - people can walk there in like five minutes, I think.

Eric: Oh.

Andrew: It's really close. But no, we're not going to do that, I was completely kidding. [laughs]

Caller: I'd be like running back and forth in the middle of it.

Andrew: Are you kidding? Do you know what would happen to us if we did that? [laughs]

Laura: Uhh...

Andrew: We'd be destroyed by listeners of PotterCast and PotterCast.

Caller: And, Laura?

Laura: Mhm?

Caller: Fall Out Boy doesn't all sound the same. Sorry. [laughs]

Laura: Yes, they do! Oh my gosh.

Caller: No they don't!

Laura: Every single one of their songs sound exactly the same.

Caller: Yeah, but their singles - on their album tracks, there's like different ones.

Laura: No, they all sound the same.

Caller: No they don't.

Andrew: All right, well, let's move along now, because...

Caller: Oh, wait, and can I...

Andrew: Yeah.

Caller: ...do a shout out to Spot? There's only about three people in there though.

Andrew: Hi, Spot. Okay.

Caller: Thank you...

Andrew: Bye!

Caller: ...for taking my call.

Laura: All right, bye!

Andrew: No problem. Thanks for - in all seriousness, thanks for bringing that up, because I was looking for an excuse to do that. Maybe Portus will hear this. I imagine some people will be listening over at Portus.

Caller: I didn't really want to bring up Dumbledore is gay, or anything else, so...

Andrew: Oh okay. Yeah, good, good.

Eric: Well, you just did, too late.

Caller: We're not talking about that, so...

Eric: Wait, Dumbledore is what?

Andrew: All right, thank you for calling, Debbie.

Caller: Okay, thank you.

Andrew: Bye.

Eric: Dumbledore...

Caller: Bye.

Call: More on Terminus

Andrew: Hi, Rachel.

Caller: Hey.

Andrew: How're you doing?

Caller: Let me mute my stream.

Andrew: Okay, thank you.

Caller: Oh, well, I actually - on the note of Terminus, I couldn't hear everything you were saying because it was skipping, but I e-mailed them a couple of weeks ago when I heard that you guys weren't being invited because I was really upset, because I live in Chicago and I haven't been able to go to any of these big conferences, and I talked to them, and she told me she was very happy that I was so supportive but, no, they didn't want you guys. And...

Andrew: Oh, wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. They said they didn't want us? Or did they say something else?

Caller: No, no, they said they had a very limited number of spaces available and that you were unfortunately not chosen.

Andrew: Yeah, I'm still not convinced. I mean, I don't want to say I'm arrogant, but listen. We do every other thing - what - I just...

Eric: Our reputation precedes us, Andrew. Our popularity...

Andrew: Why should it even be a problem? I mean, it's Harry Potter. Come on, it's a Harry Potter fandom. Why should there be this negativity towards podcasts and people. Like I just don't get it, it's so stupid. [sighs]

Eric: Maybe because we're expensive to clean up after.

Andrew: [laughs] What!?

[Everyone laughs]

Andrew: Okay, wait a second, wait a second.

Eric: Just throwing it out there. Just throwing it out there.

Andrew: Nobody made a mess. What are you talking about?

[Eric laughs]

Andrew: Seriously, what are you...

Eric: It's a joke. I'm not defending Terminus.

Andrew: Don't go spreading rumors. People are going to think that, like...

Eric: No, no, I'm not defending Terminus, Andrew. I'm not, by any means. I say we shouldn't go to Terminus, and I say anybody who does is clearly letting them just discriminate against you.

Caller: Well...

Andrew: Go ahead.

Caller: ...I would very much appreciate if you guys still did something in Chicago, maybe the week of or something? Because I know there are so many people coming to Terminus. Even if you're not at the actual event, if you're in like in a Borders in Chicago...

Andrew: Sorry, say that again? You cut out. If you were in a Borders in Chicago...

Caller: It would completely fill that week. Even if you weren't at the actual event. If you were there in that week, you would get a crazy event.

Andrew: Yeah.

Eric: Yeah, I think you're right.

Andrew: Yeah, definitely.

Eric: I think you're definitely right that the fans who've already put their money into it and registered can't back out and that might be a lot of our listeners who didn't realize they were being slapped in the face until we said it here.

Andrew: Yeah. Well - yeah. All right, well, thank you for - thank you for that, Rachel. Thank you for letting us know about that.

Caller: Sure, thanks for taking my call.

Andrew: No problem, see you.

Eric: Cheers.

Laura: Bye bye.

Andrew: You know, it's something we really shouldn't be talking about on the show, but it's gotten to the point now where it's just like... [sighs and laughs]

Micah: We talked about it earlier in the week, I know, because I had asked you what plans were in the summer. "Hey, are we going to be doing any events?" And you said, "Oh, well, we have this whole situation with Terminus."

Call: Craziest MuggleCast Fan Moment

Andrew: Yeah, yeah. Hi, Rebecca.

Caller: Hi.

Andrew: How you doing?

Caller: Pretty good. Let me mute my stream.

Andrew: Okay. All these smart callers...

[Laura laughs]

Andrew: They know what to do.

Caller: Just - okay, there we go. [pauses] Are you there?

Andrew: Yep, we're here. How's it going?

Caller: Okay.

Andrew: What's on your mind?

Caller: Well, I had a question, but now I forgot, because I didn't think I was going to get through.

[Andrew and Rebecca laugh]

Caller: Well, let's see. Oh yeah. What is the craziest thing that you've ever had a MuggleCast fan do to you?

Andrew: Do to...

Caller: Like...

[Andrew laughs]

Caller: Yeah.

[Andrew laughs]

Eric: I've signed some pretty odd body parts. What about you guys?

[Andrew and Laura laugh]

Andrew: Well, yeah, besides that, I think the weirdest request was to sign a girl's chest.

[Laura laughs]

Andrew: Especially since that was right in front of my mom, so I felt kind of awkward.

Caller: That is pretty hilarious, I have to admit.

Andrew: [laughs] Any other weird things, guys?

Laura: I can't say - well, seeing as something like 70% of our base is female, I've never been asked to sign chests.

[Micah laughs]

Laura: Thank God. But no, I've never really had anything sort of out of the ordinary.

Andrew: Laura, will you sign my chest?

Laura: Sure, Andrew. Sure.

Andrew: Yes!

Laura: I'll do that.

Andrew: Yes!

[Andrew and Laura laugh]

Laura: What about you, Micah?

Micah: I don't - I don't know, now that I think about it. Maybe doing the chipmunk voice in...

Andrew: Oh yeah.

Micah: ...where were we? Enlightening?

Andrew: Yeah, yeah. I think it was there.

Micah: I mean, it was a little weird. I mean...

Andrew: [laughs] It's a funny voice. I guess chipmunk voice is very funny.

Laura: He quacks, too.

Andrew: Yeah.

Eric: Craziest thing a fan has done. Hmm. I don't know.

Caller: Come on. You have to have crazy things done to you all the time, Eric.

[Eric laughs]

Laura: He does do crazy things all the time. He doesn't...

Eric: Yeah, I do crazy things. It kind of balances it out.

Andrew: Yeah.

Eric: It's an equilibrium, really.

Caller: Right. Just say it. Say it. Brian, shut up.

Andrew: Ooh. Hey!

Laura: Wow. I don't think that's...

Eric: Actually, no. Maybe this live show is the time to sort of - okay, okay, just a quick anecdote thing. I think it was the first New York podcast - the first one we did - and there was a girl that was really excited and really wanted me to sign above her collarbone, or actually just below the collarbone. Anyway, and I was like - I was really nervous and stuff, and I was like, "Okay, you know, I really don't want to do this," and she's like, "Oh, come on!" And she had a friend there, a male friend with a camera. And I said, "Well, okay. But just because it's sort of the cliche of signing fan girls." You know, bums and other body parts. I said, "Okay, I'll do it. But you..." and I pointed to guy and said, "You're going to have to take a picture, right? And we'll make it like a..." - you know how I do those photos where it's just, "Oh my God, look at me doing this!" Well, I wanted one of those photos, and I said, "So I'll do it, but you got to take it and make sure you send it to me." And he's like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool. cool, cool." So I did it, and I signed the soft part right below her collarbone. And then the guy took the picture and I never saw them again. So that picture is probably worth a lot of money, floating around the Internet, and I'd really like to see it. So, guy, if you're out there who took that picture of your friend and me signing the soft part right below her collarbone...

[Laura laughs]

Eric: ...just please send that to ericlmugglenet - well, anyway, our feedback form. That - thanks.

Andrew: [laughs] Okay. All right.

Eric: Yeah, that was pretty crazy.

Caller: Oh, and I have a shout out.

Andrew: All right.

Caller: Sorry.

Andrew: Go ahead.

Caller: I just wanted to say hi to Megan, a.k.a. Boris, because she's really cool and she's the one who told me about MuggleCast.

Andrew: Oh, awesome.

Caller: So yeah.

Andrew: We love referrals.

Micah: Did you say Megan a.k.a. Boris?

Caller: Well, I call her Boris. I don't know, I just do. But yeah.

Andrew: Oh okay. All right, well, thank you for calling today.

Caller: Yep, thanks for taking me.

Call: Juggling MuggleCast and College

Andrew: No problem. Bye. Hello?!

Caller: Hi!

Andrew: Hi! You're on MuggleCast!

Caller: Hold on. Let me mute this. Okay.

Andrew: Okay. How you doing?

Caller: I'm actually a little sick, but I'm...

Andrew: Aww.

Caller: ...doing okay.

Andrew: Laura was sick this morning.

Laura: Yeah.

Andrew: She almost couldn't do the show.

Laura: Yeah.

Caller: Yeah. It's really cold.

Laura: It is cold.

Caller: It's really cold here. Yeah. Well, my name's Elizabeth and I'm 18 in Orlando, Florida.

Andrew: Awesome.

Caller: And I just have to say that I absolutely love your show. I love all of you and I just - I'm - I'm sorry.

[Andrew and Elizabeth laugh]

Andrew: That's okay.

Caller: I'm just - I've been trying to call for like a whole hour. I just want to say that, since I'm home sick, I got really excited when I noticed that you guys did a live show, because I wasn't able to listen to all your other live shows.

Andrew: Oh, okay.

Caller: And I really, really - I like your show, and when I'm at work and stuff like that, I always listen in, and it's always a good source of information.

Andrew: Awesome. Thank you so much.

Caller: Yeah, and I just wanted to say one more thing. I wanted to say that I understand where you guys are coming from about being in college and stuff like that, and trying work around the whole Harry Potter thing, because I just started my freshman year of college too, so I know exactly what you mean when it's hard to get together. So I'm just glad that you guys take the time to still do the show, even if you can't do it all the time and people get upset, I understand.

Andrew: Well, thank you.

Caller: So I'm just really glad that you're able to do it, and thanks for answering my call.

Andrew: No problem. Yeah, I mean, college has been not - honestly, I thought it would be more difficult than it is, in terms of planning the show, with all of us in college now, except for Micah. It hasn't been too bad...

Eric: And Eric.

Andrew: And Eric. Why? No, you've still been on.

Eric: No, I've been on.

Andrew: Yeah.

Eric: Yeah. Is what I meant.

Andrew: Yeah. So thank you for all that. We're doing pretty well. The only thing we lose when we get back to school season is Jamie. [laughs] That's not a big deal.

Caller: Which really sucks, because Jamie's really cool too. [laughs]

Andrew: Yeah, yeah.

Eric: We think so too.

Andrew: All right.

[Elizabeth laughs]

Andrew: Thank you for very much for calling.

Laura: Have fun in Orlando.

Andrew: Bye. Yeah, have fun in Orlando.

Caller: Bye.

Call: Choosing Your Own House

Andrew: Let's see here. By the way, if anyone's wondering why we don't answer your call, we get bombarded with calls. Here's another one now. Caller, you there? Hello, caller, are you there?

Caller: Hello.

Andrew: Hey, what's up?

Caller: Thanks for picking up.

Andrew: Yeah, no problem. Yeah, it's hard, as I was just saying. We get bombarded by calls so it's hard to get to everyone. What's going on?

Caller: Not much. I was just wanting to tell you you're doing a good job.

Andrew: Thank you.

Laura: Thank you.

Andrew: Where are you calling from? England?

Caller: England, yeah. In Liverpool.

Andrew: Oh, awesome.

Caller: I don't know of anyone else in Liverpool who listens to MuggleCast.

Andrew: Oh. [laughs] I'm sure there are a few people. I think we've seen a couple e-mails from people in Liverpool.

Caller: Yeah.

Eric: Aren't the Blacks from Liverpool? Where are they from?

Caller: I'm not sure.

Eric: Nevermind, okay. [laughs]

Caller: I actually have a question. What I was going to ask is, do you think that you could actually tell the Sorting Hat which House you wanted to be in? It [unintelligible] Harry, but I was wondering if that is what most people could do.

Eric: If you can choose your own House?

Caller: Yeah, because it seems [unintelligible].

Laura: I think - I mean, I think you definitely can, but I think the difference between what Harry did and what happened with everyone else is that maybe most people don't realize that you can ask.

Caller: Right.

Laura: Because it seems like I remember Hermione saying the Hat almost considered putting her in Ravenclaw, so I don't know if she asked to get put in Gryffindor or if it just decided that her bravery kind of overrode her intelligence maybe? But I think I would just attribute it to not everybody knowing that they can ask.

Caller: Oh yeah. Also, I just wanted to finally say that when you released the twelve-hour episode, which I thought was great by the way, it took me a month to listen to. It was crazy.

Andrew: Wow. [laughs]

Caller: I didn't have that much stuff to do, but it basically took me a month.

Andrew: [laughs] We've gotten a couple of e-mails from that - from people saying it took them a really long time to listen. It was quite a feat; it was quite a feat.

Caller: Yeah, it was great though.

Andrew: Cool. Well, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Caller: Okay, well...

Andrew: Thanks for calling.

Caller: Yeah, thanks for taking me.

Andrew: No problem. See you later.

Caller: Bye.

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