• Welcome back to our graphic designer, Carolyn!
• Happy birthday to Ann's dad, Ray!
• Thanks to this week's Patreon supporter, Lauren S.!
• Phoenix Register: we were on the BBC! Check it out here at the 34 minute mark.
• Amy and Lizzie went to the Forbidden Forest Experience! Check out Amy's video of it here.
• The giant wands are officially landing at the WB Studio Tour in Leavesden. 
• What are lumens??
• The second Wizarding World attraction at Epic Universe has been canceled.
• Theme park chat from 13:00 - 20:45 if you want to go into Epic Universe completely unspoiled.
• (Despite our best efforts, it DOES get too inside baseball.)
• Raise a wand for Robbie Coltrane.
• Owl Post: Jack writes in about … TRAINS! 
• Main Discussion: Scenes 33-36 in the screenplay 
• Aberforth needs to share his cleaning recommended with us, stat. 
• As promised, "Do You Know What It's Like," from Zanna, Don't!
• McGonagall can teach ANYTHING. 
• Aberforth: YIKES.
• Special Segment: Amy and Lizzie interview Heather McGill, producer and creative director of Unify, one of the companies behind the Forbidden Forest Experience.
• Heather talks Easter eggs, exclusive merch, and Hogwarts treats!

Podcast Question: How do you think magical texting works?

• It's SPOOKBEASTY season again!
• Phoenix Register: new merch! Secrets of Dumbledore Loungefly collection. 
• The Royal Ontario Museum is hosting a SPOOKTACULAR Fantastic Beasts-themed event on 10/28. Canadian listeners, go and report back!
• Owl Post: Jeri writes in about Vogel's possible involvement in Grindelwald’s escape.
• Main Discussion: Scenes 25-29 of the screenplay
• Berlin = cold..
• "I just … I just wanna go to the station where my friends Newt and Theseus were" 🥺
• We discuss new ship names for Newt/Bunty. Maybe "Booooooo-t?" 
• Vogel does not get to be benign in THAT coat.
• Geoff breaches the Multiverse of Magic.
• We need German Ministry of Magic merch, please!!
• There's a brief discussion of vexillology.
• Peaceful as in non-violent, not peaceful as in sleepy.
• Theseus is notorious (and cute)
• Time-Turner: the history of trick-or-treating! 
• Children used to carry burning effigies. Trick-or-treating used to be so cool.
• If you're gonna give out historically accurate treats, you're gonna get egged.

Podcast Question: What are your headcanons about the Wizarding World in Germany, or your hometown?

This time on SpeakBeasty...

• Congratulations on surviving 2020! 
• The Phoenix Register: Aleksandr Kuznetsov
• Owl Post: Happy Holiday wishes and positive reviews from kite3598!
• We dive into the Fantastic Beasts textbook- the Hogwarts Library edition.
• Do kids still write notes? Or do they all text now?
• Time Turner: Presidential Inauguration- 1929, President Herbert Hoover
• Rex and Herbert Hoover both went to the same McDonalds. Well, they would have if McDonalds was around during Herbert Hoover’s time...but basically.

Podcast Question: Do you think Aragog should be given a 4 or 5 X classification?

This time on SpeakBeasty:

→ We're LIVE at MISTI-Con!
→ What would Newt's boggart be?
→ Everything is Graves...
→ Uncle Newt?!
→ Obama DEFINITELY knew about wizards.
→ We want more wizard schools!
→ Hogwarts study abroad?
→ What was Grindelwald's motivation.
→ Credence is an atomic bomb.
→ The manipulation of Credence is the saddest.
→ Horcruxes vs obscurials.
→ We've traded in Hamilton for Moana.
→ Jo's great at her psychological metaphors.
→ The movies should end with the Billywig.

This time on SpeakBeasty:

→ We saw “Fantastic Beasts” and...
→ WE LOVE IT!! Kat and Amy join us for a SPOILER FREE review!
→ “Jo’s fingerprints are all over it.”
→ Better than the Harry Potter films?
→ Will this be the film to win Jo an Oscar?
→ Screenplay a MUST READ, says Eddie Redmayne.
→ MUCH darker than “Potter”.
→ The niffler is a “crap ton of fun”.
→ David Heyman is our fave.
→ We tried on the “Fantastic Beasts” Hot Topic gear!
→ The black carpet was magical…
→ Warwick Davis is making a fandom documentary!
→ “If you thought it was over, it’s only just starting again…”