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The Book Pile

A SECOND LOOK AT: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8598 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

SUMMARY: This episode has everything you could hope for. Conspiracy theories. Hermione exoneration. And a rat who turns out to be a murderer. (Who knew Harry Potter was a sequel to 1300s Europe?) (It’s funny because the most devastating event imaginable happened many years ago.) (Your subconscious sense of humor deems the past to be intrinsically less worthy of empathy.) We hope you enjoy! WATCH KELLEN'S NEW COMEDY SPECIAL ON YOUTUBE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpBt0W1zrDU&t=1237s KE...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, I name a Harry Potter character.

0:02.0

You tell me the most annoying thing they would do in the muggle world.

0:05.4

Okay.

0:06.1

Hagrid.

0:08.1

When he only buys one seat on a flight.

0:16.5

Dumbledore.

0:18.6

I imagine that he's probably unintentionally pretty rough on whoever has to clean his shower

0:24.7

drain.

0:25.5

Wait, why?

0:26.2

You know, all those long beard hairs?

0:30.0

Yeah, he probably has a hair catcher and he picks up the beard hairs and like puts them on the shower

0:35.8

wall.

0:36.3

I just imagine like. up the beard hairs and like puts them on the shower wall.

0:45.4

I just imagine like flitwick sitting next to him at the teacher's table, making eye contact with him as he just pulls a never-ending hair out of his minestroni.

0:52.2

Oh, yeah, Professor Sprout's asking if he can wear a beard cap.

1:06.1

Hey, everyone.

1:07.1

So when I was a kid, I read the back of Harry Potter 3 and I saw the bad guy was

1:11.7

Voldemore's henchman. And I said, uh, this series is going downhill. Today's book is Harry Potter

1:17.7

and the Prisoner of Asgaband by Rudyard Kipling. And this is the book pile. A podcast about

1:24.8

the best of books and the worst of books. If this is your first time to the podcast, we're happy you're here.

1:30.6

At this point, we've got over 200 episodes.

1:33.4

So if you're curious after listening to this one, we've also covered a lot of the classics, some deep cuts, and we've roasted a lot of Dan Brown and Stephanie Meyer.

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