• It’s Christmas! A very Beasty Christmas to those of you who celebrate!
• Phoenix Register: Visions of Magic is open in Cologne!
• Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Victoria Yeates, Poppy Corby-Tuech, and Oliver Massuci reunited at German Film Comic Con and talked behind the scenes shenanigans, what role they’d like to play in the upcoming Harry Potter TV series, and the surprising location of the green room! Watch the panel on YouTube.
• Cursed Child is kicking off its national tour in Chicago in September! Who’s up for a show?
• Attraction and shop names were revealed for Epic Universe. Check out the article here.
• Owl Post: Jerri writes in about the beasts she thinks would have done well in the movies.
• Main Discussion: The SpeakBeasty Year in Review!
• What friend of the show was in Hogwarts Legacy?
• The Great Wizarding Express is maybe less great than advertised.
• May 2023: In our Mothman era.
• “And my dog was like, why aren’t you letting me sniff things?”
• Warner Brothers should give us a medal.
• Time-Turner: Christmas in America in the 1930s!
• Christmas during the Great Depression was, surprisingly, depressing.
• American Girl update: it was definitely not Samantha.

Podcast Question: What was your favorite Harry Potter or Fantastic Beasts moment or memory of 2023 (and why was it listening to SpeakBeasty)?

• Thanks to this week’s Patreon supporter, Neeharika P.!
• We’re still workshopping the festive version of our name.
• No news this week ☹
• …except that there might be a Supernatural reboot?
• No owl post either ☹ please send us owl post, but not your Destiel fanfics
• Main Discussion: The beasts we didn’t see, part 2
• “Part of my brain is a horsefish?”
• More references: the Hodag statue in Wisconsin, clay Horklumps, …And That’s Why We Drink #173 Mongoose Cam and a New Gemini Icon, The Magnus Archives #103 “Cruelty Free,” nogtail art (1, 2, 3), Grand Pabbie in Frozen: The Broadway Musical
• Newt got expelled because his jarvey is too rude and full of ‘tude
• Liz is a knarl, confirmed
• “A venom SAC, not a venom SNACK.”
• Ann’s theory about the trolls from Frozen is confirmed

Podcast Question: Which beast of the ones we discussed today would you like to see in an upcoming movie?