Welcome to Universal Joint podcast. I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill and my co-host Dustin Fuse and I are recording this podcast on Sunday, May 30th, 2021.

It's in the middle of a long, soggy Memorial Day weekend down here in the States dust.

And it's, so I understand that Canada takes a somewhat different approach to ordering those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service of their country.

You guys have Canada days? Right? July 1st?

Yeah, and then we've also got Remembrance Day in November.

And yeah, we have some different holidays. We actually just had Victoria Day last weekend. So it's great.

I feel so bad that you're having to deal with some horrible weather down there because up here it's gorgeous.

Everyone's getting out and enjoying the sun, although we can't go into stores or anything like that, but we're still having great weather.

Well, that's nice day to hear. But in, well, we have weather like this and it's, you know, it's historic cold down here for this time of year.

We've been hitting the 30s and 40s at night. So again, it's a time when one might want a warm beverage and you have news about warm beverages coming out of Universal Orlando?

Yeah, breaking news as folks like to say, Harry Potter, all the, the, the amazingness that comes from the food and beverage at the Wizarding World.

They've now put out that butter beer is going to be available in its hot version year round.

Yeah, talk about breaking news, right?

Well, again, it's the speaking of beverage related stuff. I don't know if you've heard about the Harry Potter flagship store that's going to be opening in New York City.

I want to say, first week, they're so in July.

Yeah, I've seen videos going through it already. It's such a cool store.

Well, what's kind of intriguing at least to me is they're going to sell butterbeard there. But I, you know, again, it just, it kind of gives you a sad look into, you know, what excites me and get it just.

And the notion was they actually showed that's, you know, the souvenir mug that they're going to sell at the store for butter beer.

They actually have a station set up within the store where you can go and wash your souvenir mug before you head on out to the streets of New York.

And what was so funny that, you know, when this image showed up on Twitter, immediately fans of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at the Universal Parks were like, we need this at, you know, at the, at the Universal Parks, you know, I, I don't want to take my sticky mug back, you know, to the hotel.

And it's like, okay, well, I did the same thing with my flaming mo or flaming Homer as we all understand it.

You get the souvenir glass and do you really want to carry around that sticky, used thing? But at the end of the day, you go, you find a nice little water fountain, get some napkins, and then you throw it in the suitcase and it's right actually in front of me right next to my ET stuffed animal right here at the studio.

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