Hello magical friends, and welcome to WZRD’s 4th anniversary bonus episode! I’m your hostwitch Bess, and this interview is really just a taster for the real special. To find it, make your way over to the Why Can’t We Be Wizards feed and listen to our extraordinary journey. I’ll also include a link in the show notes and transcript here. [link]
While you go find that, here’s our first set of songs. First up is “Save Ginny Weasley” by Harry and the Potters.
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That was Harry and the Potters with the iconic “Save Ginny Weasley” [lyrics], “Hogwarts Express” by Draco and the Malfoys, and the Gryffindor Common Room Rejects with “Worst Birthday.”
And here’s my chat with the Fab Four! And also Kevin.
I am here today with a slightly unusual interview, not a wizard rock group yet, but the saviors of the wizard rock world, the Fab Four.
Alie/Freya: Thank you so much for having us.
Mike/Leo: Yeah, this is, this is crazy. This is incredible. I’ve never saved a radio station before.
I am so grateful that you did. For any listeners who might live under a rock and not know about your heroics, could you, uh, introduce yourselves?
Mitchell/Caleb: I’m Caleb Murkwood, and I’m a representative of the werewolf people. Uh, we’re wizards too, just like you. And we can go to Hogwarts and be whatever house we get sorted into, which is, in my case, Ravenclaw. We have the wings.
Charlotte/Skyler: Woo woo. We have the wings!
Alie/Freya: We have the wings.
Charlotte/Skyler: I’m Skyler Ashglen. Hello people on the radioverse.
Alie/Freya: <laugh>. I am Freya Yaxley, uh, also a Ravenclaw.
Mike/Leo: I am Leo Featherwick. I’ve been described as a lovable goof, and I’m currently wearing a Hufflepuff scarf, but I am also a Ravenclaw. Uh, although I’m not really sure. It kind of was 50/50.
Alie/Freya: I was almost Slytherin.
Kevin: And I am Kevin Rizza, and I’m very confused because I have found myself in a room full of fictional characters and that does concern me, but hopefully it’s a dream.
Mitchell/Caleb: Wait A minute. Who’s this guy? How’d he get here?
Mike/Leo: Yeah!
Charlotte/Skyler: Yeah. We don’t know who that guy is.
Mitchell/Caleb: That doesn’t make any sense.
Alie/Freya: I think he’s just that radio host.
Mitchell/Caleb: Are you calling us fictional?
No, no. I’m the radio host.
Alie/Freya: Mm, that’s fair. You’re right.
And I would like to start with how you all met. What began the saving of the world?
Alie/Freya: Well, we actually met when we were like five years old? Uh, all of us were at a daycare together, actually.
Charlotte/Skyler: My mom’s daycare! My mom hosted a daycare, and everyone here except for Kevin, uh, attended.
Alie/Freya: Yeah. We don’t actually know him.
Kevin: And I’m from the real planet called Earth. And these are fictional characters. I don’t know what they’re doing here.
Charlotte/Skyler: We’re also from earth!
Mike/Leo: Why–you keep calling us fictional? I don’t understand. It seems insulting. I’m very real.
Mitchell/Caleb: But there was a–
Mike/Leo: I’m a real wizard!
Mitchell/Caleb: –A very real prophecy about all of us, about how we were going to do something with birds, and then there was like a condor and they wouldn’t do anything or something… Anyhow, there’s a prophecy when we were five years old and that’s how we met.
Mike/Leo: And then we went through a series of events that were very episodic. And you–they might be great to listen to.
Kevin: In about 60 minute chunks.
Mike/Leo: Yeah.
Charlotte/Skyler: Yep. That sounds about right.
Mitchell/Caleb: It pretty much started when we got on the train to Hogwarts.
Charlotte/Skyler: Yeah. That’s when we all met each other a second time. We all went to school together.
Mike/Leo: And a couple years after that, there was this one weird day when we were all singing and we couldn’t figure out why.
Alie/Freya: Hey, we’ll talk about that later.
Mike/Leo: Okay.
Charlotte/Skyler: <laugh>
Mitchell/Caleb: Yeah. Didn’t you read the questions ahead of time, Leo?
Mike/Leo: I definitely didn’t <laugh>
It sounds like y’all have had some wild adventures. Do you have a, a favorite?
Alie/Freya: Hmm.
Mitchell/Caleb: So many spoilers. <laugh>
Alie/Freya: I know. I’m like, shoot, what’s a spoiler? What’s not <laugh>? Um,
Kevin: I, I’ll say one.
Alie/Freya: Okay.
Kevin: I enjoyed the body swap episode.
Mike/Leo: Hmm.
Charlotte/Skyler: What do you mean episode?
Alie/Freya: We did have an episode–
Mike/Leo: Yeah. What do you, what’s an episode? What do you mean?
Mitchell/Caleb: Are you suggesting that you were watching us swapping bodies when we all had to play our friends–
Alie/Freya: and didn’t do anything to help us?
Charlotte/Skyler: Yeah. That’s weird, Kevin.
Kevin: I did make it worse actually.
Mitchell/Caleb: <laugh>, it’s just like a whole meta-level to this happening now that is extremely uncomfortable.
Mike/Leo: <laugh> I do remember having a very hard time keeping track of which body I was in.
Charlotte/Skyler: Um, I really liked dressing up for the Yule Ball actually. It was really fun.
Alie/Freya: That was fun. It would, you know, it would’ve been more fun if we weren’t like forcibly singing for some reason.
Charlotte/Skyler: Yeah. But I had like a really good outfit and my hair looked great and
Mitchell/Caleb: Yeah. But you’re completely bypassing–
Censor Bot: Redacted.
Charlotte/Skyler: Okay.
Kevin: That’s a good point
Mike/Leo: Well that’s a spoiler.
Alie: That’s a big spoiler. <laugh>
Mike/Leo: <laugh>. Not sure why I said that. I don’t…What? Spoiling what?
Charlotte/Skyler: The question was my favorite moment? So that was mine.
Mike/Leo: <laugh>, I really liked when we played a tabletop role playing game in the common room, and then we went inside the game.
Mitchell/Caleb: No one else liked that, Leo.
Mike/Leo: Uh, wait a minute.
Alie/Freya: “No one else liked that, Leo.” <laugh>
Mike/Leo: <laugh>. Oh yeah. No, it was actually pretty traumatic.
Kevin: I believe that when you finished playing it, you all started screaming, is how that episode ended.
Mitchell/Caleb: <laugh>. Okay, wait a minute. What about that time that we all went to gym class and then didn’t do very well and then became friends? That was great.
Mike/Leo: That’s true.
Charlotte/Skyler: I mean, that was great.
Mitchell/Caleb: One of my favorites.
Alie/Freya: And if we’re talking about, you know, times where we became closer as friends. Like, I think me and Caleb really became close that one time where he bit me in my dream and I thought that it was real life.
Mitchell/Caleb: I mean, who hasn’t killed you in a dream? Honestly.
Alie/Freya: That’s fair.
Mitchell/Caleb: I thought we became closer that time that we were brewing all that secret werewolf potion in the Room of Requirement.
Alie/Freya: Oh, yeah. That was fun. I got good at potions that year despite our teacher.
Mike/Leo: I also really liked when we did the Triwizard Tournament, that came back for some reason. And then we had to play paintball. That was fun.
Alie/Freya: <laugh>
Mitchell/Caleb: Oh man.
Kevin: This is a dumb show. <laugh>
So the Room of Requirement for brewing potions, not the traditional girls room?
Alie/Freya: Yeah. Well, we didn’t actually know it was the room of requirement when we found it.
Mitchell/Caleb: No, I just needed a room.
Alie/Freya: We were calling it a secret room for a while.
Kevin: Plus, and this is very important. If I was to play fictional character Moaning Myrtle on the podcast, I think it would be so offensive that I would’ve just given up and stopped playing <laugh>
Charlotte/Skyler: Our bathrooms are also non-gendered.
Kevin: That’s true.
Mitchell/Caleb: Also, who’s this guy and what’s he talking about? <laugh>.
Alie/Freya: Just gonna keep bringing that up.
Don’t worry about it. Now, you all have done a variety of things. (From) mundane school tasks to saving the world four, five times….
Kevin: Almost six.
Charlotte/Skyler: How does he know?
Kevin: <laugh>
Mitchell/Caleb: I don’t know. Maybe he’s like that Mcgurkinstuffin kid always watching us.
You know, that “almost” is incredibly ominous. I don’t like that.
Kevin: <laugh>
Mike/Leo: Well, the season’s not over yet. Wait, why did I say that? I don’t understand <laugh>
And there have been some, uh, fascinating evolutions of magic along the way. Like “enleggen”–
Mike/Leo: <laugh>
–Who of you all, uh, gets into the most mischief using these skills?
Mike/Leo: Hmm. I mean, I, I’m not sure I get into that much of a variety of mischief, but I’ve burned the common room a number of times.
Mitchell/Caleb: Yeah, you set a lot of stuff on fire.
Charlotte/Skyler: Mhm. <affirmative> I’m not–
Kevin: Didn’t you burn down the entire like west wing of the castle once?
Alie/Freya: No <laugh>. That was, that was Allen.
Kevin: Oh, right. <laugh>
Kevin: That’s right. That’s true.
Mike/Leo: That’s right.
Mitchell/Caleb: That’s true! That’s right, that’s right.
Mike/Leo: We fixed it. It’s fine.
Charlotte/Skyler: I mean, I’m gonna go with Batman-Caleb.
Alie/Freya: I was gonna say, I think Caleb gets up to the most mischief.
Mike: Oh, that’s true…
Mitchell/Caleb: Vigilante justice is not trouble. <laugh>
Alie/Freya: Just imagine like a werewolf person in a Batman costume and you, you’ve described Caleb Murkwood,
Mitchell/Caleb: There’s no ears.
Charlotte/Skyler: Yeah. He did that for like, like a whole year.
Charlotte/Skyler: Ears are dumb.
Mike/Leo: I do think I heard him say “I’m Batman” under his breath at least once.
Alie/Freya: Several times.
Charlotte/Skyler: Run around at night stalking the halls.
Mitchell/Caleb: Hey, I have that map, the Marauders’ Map that was given to us by–
Alie/Freya: Oh yeah.
Mitchell/Caleb: The random item table?
Alie/Freya: No, Teddy.
Kevin: No. <Laugh>.
Charlotte/Skyler: Teddy!
Mitchell/Caleb: Oh yeah. Teddy. Who is Lupin’s kid. Yeah. He’s a werewolf too.
I, I can see how that would set you up to be, uh, the most likely to engage in shenanigans… Um, chicanery…
Kevin: Debauchery, even? <Laugh>
Alie/Freya: It’s chaos.
Mitchell/Caleb: I just regret when I missed all those first years going missing, I really should have kept a more detailed list.
Alie/Freya: Our our lives are chaos.
Mike/Leo: Yeah. When you lay it all on the table like that, it’s pretty absurd.
Kevin: <laugh>.
Alie/Freya: Yep. <laugh>
Do you know, I do know the Hogwarts Therapist. I think we can get you some help to process it all.
Charlotte/Skyler: Me too!
Kevin: That was, that was on the show too! <laugh”
Charlotte/Skyler: That, that’s in my real life. I, I go to the therapist and I think Freya, you do too, right?
Charlotte/Skyler: Therapy good.
Alie/Freya: Yeah.
<stage whisper> Hogwarts Therapist is a wizard rock band.
Alie/Freya: Oh!
Mike/Leo: Oh! Oh no.
Mitchell/Caleb: Oh!
Kevin: Oh, really? Oh. They’re probably a much better therapist than the one– No, the fictional therapist I play would seem like a good…
Charlotte/Skyler: Yeah.
Kevin: Much better than Neville was, anyway. <laugh>.
Alie/Freya: Oh yeah. These are all like, way too deep of cuts.
Kevin: Yep!
Mitchell/Caleb: Yeah. No one, not even our fans are gonna recognize half these jokes.
Kevin: This joke is for like me and half of this room. That’s it.
Alie/Freya: Yes.
Well, that’s why we do these things, to entertain ourselves.
Mike/Leo: Mhm. <affirmative>
It’s time for some music! Here’s Striking Down Diggory and “To Use a Love Potion?”
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You just heard “To Use a Love Potion” from Striking Down Diggory’s Valenrhymes Day album [lyrics], “’Til Death” by Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls [lyrics], and “What You Believe” from The Weasel King [lyrics].
Here’s some more of my conversation with Kevin and the Fab Four.
Now I know that, uh, some of you have a variety of musical talents and all of you have forcibly participated in, uh, musical endeavors.
Mike/Leo: <laugh>
Alie: <laugh> Mitchell, just like slowly getting an instrument into frame.
Mike/Leo: Who’s Mitchell? That’s Caleb.
Charlotte/Skyler: Caleb, right.
Mitchell/Caleb: <strums a chime>
If you were to voluntarily form a wizard rock band, uh, what would you call it?
Kevin: Caleb and the Murkwoods.
Alie/Freya: Caleb and the Murkwoods! <laugh>
Mike/Leo: Caleb and the Murkwoods. Okay, yeah, you got it in one.
Mitchell/Caleb: Hey! He’s not even one of our gang.
Mike/Leo: <laugh>
Alie/Freya: But it’s a good name you have to admit.
Mitchell/Caleb: Yeah, it’s a pretty good name.
Charlotte/Skyler: Yeah, Kevin knows this pretty well.
Alie/Freya: Which is strange…
Mike/Leo: Why does he, who is this Kevin?
Mitchell/Caleb: I always thought that we might be named “Why Can’t We Be A Band?”
Meta
Mitchell/Caleb: –Again”
Mike/Leo: Again <laugh>
Alie/Freya: Again. Wait, were you a band before, Caleb?
Kevin: In a previous life, I think. Maybe? Who knows.
Mike/Leo: “Why Can’t You Be A Band Again?” <laugh>. You were a band before and then you were not a band and now you are a band again.
Alie/Freya: Yeah, I think, I think “Why Can’t We Be?” is is a, a cool like, intro to a band’s name. Um, I think like “Fab Four” would also be a cool band name, but that also makes it sound like we are a–
Kevin: You’re the Beatles?
Alie/Freya: –boy band. <laugh>. I was, I was gonna say boy band. It sounds like we’re we’re boy band. If, if we call ourselves the Fab Four.
What would Leo, uh, deep in your heart, what would your band name be?
Alie/Freya: Dr. Professor Wizard.
Mike/Leo: I probably would just call it Incendio. <laugh>.
Kevin: Mm. That’s pretty good.
Alie/Freya: Not Dr. Professor Wizard?
Mike/Leo: No, Dr. Professor Wizard would be a side thing. I’m, I’m working on a, uh–
Kevin: Plus. that’d be copyright infringement.
Mike/Leo: It would be, it’d be copyright infringement. I’m wor–I am working on a, a radio drama of, of that though. It’s unauthorized. And we’ll see how, we’ll see where that goes.
Uh, and Skyler?
Charlotte/Skyler: Hm.
I ask real stumpers on this show. The hard hitting journalism.
Charlotte/Skyler: <laugh>. Rock… Rock Band?
Kevin: Yeah. See, this is exactly what I thought. Because you named your cat “Cat.” You named your whale “Whale.” So you might as well name your band “Band,” right?
Charlotte/Skyler: I, I don’t have a cat. I have a whale. I do have a whale.
Mike/Leo: <laugh>
Charlotte/Skyler: And I have an owl. Yeah. I would call it, um, Rock… Rocky <laugh>. Rocky Rock Rock Band. <laugh>.
Mitchell/Caleb: Yeah!
Mike/Leo: Rocky Rock Rock Band.
Alie/Freya: That’s, That’s great, Skylar. Good job.
Charlotte/Skyler: Hey, are you gonna go watch Rocky Rock Rock? Yeah.
Mitchell/Caleb: Yeah I am.
Charlotte/Skyler: I love Rocky Rock Rock! See, it rolls right off the tongue.
So who would play what? What would your positions be?
Alie/Freya: Hmm.
Who’s lead singer?
Charlotte/Skyler: Um…
Mike/Leo: I feel like it’d be Freya.
Alie/Freya: Yeah, I could see that.
Charlotte/Skyler: Or, um, Caleb. Caleb’s got a great, like, <imitating a graveling voice> “rock music!”
Alie/Freya: Or Caleb, yeah.
Mitchell/Caleb: Yeah. If we were a Screamo Beatles band.
Mike/Leo: That’s true, as screamo.
Charlotte/Skyler: Yeah.
Mike/Leo: <laugh> Screamo Beatles.
Alie/Freya: I I don’t think Freya can play an instrument.
Charlotte/Skyler: Mm.
Every band needs a triangle player.
Mike/Leo: That’s true.
Alie/Freya: Could do that. Could definitely do that.
Mike/Leo: Leo would play the bass. Easy answer.
Charlotte/Skyler: I mean, I’d probably play the trumpet. I mean, no, uh, drums! I’d play the drums! And then I could hold like 10 sticks.
Mike/Leo: Oh, with your magic hands?
Alie/Freya: Oh, with your magic hands.
Mike/Leo: Yes.
Charlotte/Skyler: Whack everything.
Mitchell/Caleb: <laugh>. Yeah. And I’d be on guitar.
You could be a band all by yourself.
Charlotte/Skyler: That’s true.
Alie/Freya: It’s true.
Mike/Leo: That’s a great idea.
Charlotte/Skyler: Maybe I will. Right, Kevin?
Kevin: I don’t know. Do whatever you want. You’re not even real.
Mitchell/Caleb: Yeah. Kevin!
Mike/Leo: Why are you asking him? How do you know him?
Charlotte/Skyler: You’re not real. I don’t know. I, I was just trying to include him to be nice, but he’s just being mean.
Kevin: I, I appreciate that. I’m sorry.
Charlotte/Skyler: <laugh>
Mike/Leo: Well, now I feel bad.
Actually, I was wondering, Kevin, with your overarching mystic view of, uh, these friends, how, how would you, uh, assign them in a lineup?
Kevin: See, I actually think that Skyler would play the drums. That makes sense to me. I think that Freya… I actually see as more of like a keyboard player, you know? Prob– Well, well the thing about Freya is she had really rich parents. So she probably had piano lessons from the time that she was like four years old or something.
Alie/Freya: Actually, I buy that.
Kevin: But I think that makes sense. Leo. I don’t, I don’t think you play the bass. I think that’s way too technical. I think you would play guitar badly.
Mike/Leo: The bass is more technical than guitar?
Kevin: <laugh>. If you wanna sound good? Yes. If you wanna sound like you could play it at all, yes.
Mike/Leo: Mm. That’s fair, I guess.
Kevin: Guitar. You just gotta learn three chords, man. That’s it. And that’s probably all Leo knows.
Mike/Leo: Yeah. Not even four.
Alie/Freya: <laugh> Just three chords.
Mike/Leo: Just three.
Kevin: And then I actually think Caleb is the bass player.
Mike/Leo: Mm.
Alie/Freya: Yeah. ’cause it’s more technical…
Kevin: Right.
Alie/Freya: And if, if we’re going by that logic…
Kevin: He’s a Ravenclaw rebelclaw.
Alie/Freya: He’s a Ravenclaw.
Mitchell/Caleb: Yeah. Caleb. Caleb can play all instruments though. I’m really quite musical.
Alie/Freya: Yeah.
Kevin: That’s true. You’re the one that like, when you actually go to do the recording, you do play all the tracks.
Alie/Freya: <laugh>
We’ve covered a, uh, a wide range of baffling adventures here. I’m sure that you’ve picked up some useful tips.
Alie/Freya: Ooh…
Kevin: Nope.
All: <laugh>
Mitchell/Caleb: Uh, don’t trust adults.
Charlotte/Skyler: Yeah.
Alie/Freya: Yeah, actually, though?
Mitchell/Caleb: Pretty much that.
Alie/Freya: Cuz that’s, that’s a thing. If, if you wanna get something done, you, you can’t trust other people to do it for you.
Kevin: That’s the message?
Charlotte/Skyler: Yeah! You gotta take life into your own hands and be the change that you wanna see in the world.
Alie/Freya: Yes.
Kevin: That’s a better version of that <laugh>.
Alie/Freya: Yeah, Skyler definitely said that better than I did.
Mitchell/Caleb: And don’t go into any haunted houses, particularly haunted houses that might have dementors. That is a bad idea.
Mike/Leo: And if you’re gonna make incendio your signature spell, make sure you also practice aguamenti. It took me a while to learn that one
Aguamenti is, uh, very popular in wizard rock.
Mike/Leo: Nice.
It’s a reminder to stay hydrated during the shows.
Charlotte/Skyler: Not like Rocky Rock Rock, though.
Kevin: No, that’s true. Not like Rocky Rock Rock
Alie/Freya: <laugh>. I mean, what can be Rocky Rock Rock?
Mike/Leo: <laugh>.
Mitchell/Caleb: Papery Papery Paper.
Mike/Leo: Oh god.
Kevin: <laugh>. I…
Charlotte/Skyler: Oh man. We actually did just play rock paper wizards today.
Mitchell/Caleb: Yeah, yeah. That’s true.
Alie/Freya: Oh my gosh, that was really good.
Kevin’s ominous statement aside, what are you all hoping happens next? Where are the Fab Four going?
Alie/Freya: We’re gonna save the world. I mean, I think eventually we’re not gonna be saving the world anymore.
Mitchell/Caleb: Oh, please.
Alie/Freya: <laugh>. We, it can’t always be us.
Charlotte/Skyler: That’s right. We’ll graduate school…
Alie/Freya: I think there’s gonna be another generation of wizards that’s going to have to start taking over and saving the world instead of us.
Mitchell/Caleb: We definitely cannot [something] school anymore.
Charlotte/Skyler: Get wizard jobs, settle down with three hippogriffs…
Mitchell/Caleb: We almost certainly have wizard jobs now.
Kevin: <laugh>. Caleb definitely does.
Mike/Leo: And then we’ll start a band. I’ve, this sounds like a great idea. Now I wanna start a band.
Charlotte/Skyler: Maybe?
Mike/Leo: Maybe I’ll practice and I’ll learn a fourth chord on the guitar.
Mitchell/Caleb: Someday we’ll have enough free time to learn a band <laugh>
Mike/Leo: And, you know, I’d love to have more time to play Xbox.
Kevin: Hang out with the ghoul in Alie’s basement.
Mike/Leo: There is a ghoul that plays Xbox on our stupid show. Okay.
Kevin: <laugh>
Mitchell/Caleb: Hey. But wait a minute. More seriously, I think that our adventure should come to an end after six seasons and maybe a movie.
Alie/Freya: Maybe a movie!
Mike/Leo: Maybe a movie.
Alie/Freya: Oh, is this the movie?
Mitchell/Caleb: Maybe
Kevin: This is not the movie.
Mitchell/Caleb: I don’t think this is the movie.
Kevin: <laugh>
Mitchell/Caleb: But then, you know, we’ll have a satisfying conclusion. We’ll move on to other projects and still be excellent friends forever. Pretty much that, that’s what I want have happen.
<laugh>. That is really intense. I was expecting more like ‘a beach episode’ or, you know, ‘a nice nap’. <laugh>
All: <laugh>.
Charlotte/Skyler: Yeah. I would like a nice nap.
Kevin: And all was well. <Laugh>
Mike/Leo: Those are more sane ideas. That sounds like a good idea.
<laugh> I imagine you are very tired though after saving the world so many times. And also my radio station.
Alie/Freya: Yes, yes.
Mike/Leo: That is true.
Charlotte/Skyler: Worth it. Your station’s awesome. It plays great music.
Mitchell/Caleb: And we’re re-energized by music and all sorts of magics like that.
Our final music break is here, bringing with it Tonks and the Aurors and “McGonagall the Brave.”
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That was “McGonagall the Brave” by Tonks and the Aurors, LiL iFFy and “Sorted Affair,” and Totally Knuts with “You Belong” [lyrics].
It’s time for the last bit of my conversation with the Why Can’t We Be Wizards crew.
Well, for, uh, saving wizard rock, I wanted to present you with the highest honor WZRD has–
Mike/Leo: <gasp>
which is Wizard Rock Superhero.
All: Whoa!
Mike/Leo: Oh my goodness. Do we get those cool pins?
Alie/Freya: That’s so cool.
Mitchell/Caleb: Oh my goodness. Wow.
Alie/Freya: Thank you.
And for anyone who wants to find out why I am thanking you with our highest honor, uh, where can they find you?
Mitchell/Caleb: Well, I mean, we’re kind of like in an invisible building in London where no one can find us without–
Kevin: Oh wait, no, hold on. I can fix this. I take out my wand–I’m explaining it ’cause it’s this audio format–I’m taking out my wand and I swish and I flick and then magically all of my friends transformed back into themselves instead of the dumb fictional characters that they just were.
Mitchell/Caleb: Oh, wow, now we’re not characters…
Alie/Freya: Oh thank god.
Mike/Leo: Oh my God, it was so weird. I’ve been a character for so many years.
Mitchell/Caleb: The only way that this could happen was if Kevin did that.
Mike/Leo: I’ve been trapped! Thank you.
Alie/Freya: So why don’t, why don’t we reintroduce ourselves? <laugh> <laugh>.
Kevin: I’m still Kevin. I was me the whole time. In case it wasn’t clear I was, I was creating a thin veneer between reality and fiction that was basically invisible.
Mike/Leo: And we walked that line absolutely perfectly.
And for longtime listeners, uh, this Kevin is Why Can’t We Be Wizards resident Potter nerd and not Slytherspouse.
Alie/Freya: That’s a good distinction.
Charlotte/Skyler: They’re both Kevins!
Mike/Leo: That is a good distinction.
Charlotte/Skyler: They’re both Kevins.
Mike/Leo: Uh, I guess we should say that we are the hosts of a podcast called Why Can’t We Be Wizards? Where we are playing a tabletop role playing game comedy improv thing, telling our own original story set at Hogwarts with original characters. I am Mike and I play Leo.
Alie/Freya: I am Alie and I play Freya.
Mitchell/Caleb: I am Mitchell Murkwood, and I play Caleb Cassidy. No, wait, that’s not quite right. Nevermind. <laugh>.
Charlotte/Skyler: And I am Charlotte Cassidy playing as Skyler Ashglen. And I wouldn’t call myself a host, more like just a player.
Kevin: Uh, yeah. And like I said, I’m Kevin. I’m the game master of this whole thing. I make them roll dice and do dumb stuff all the time.
Alie/Freya: We do a lot of dumb stuff.
Kevin: <laugh> Almost exclusively.
Mike/Leo: But we edit it so that it’s fun to listen to <laugh>.
Alie/Freya: Yeah.
Mike/Leo: Uh, and you can find all our stuff at WhyCan’tWeBeWizards.com? Or you can search for Why Can’t We Be Wizards in a podcast app and you’ll find us.
Kevin: And then on social media…
Alie/Freya: Uh, we’re WhyNotWizards on Instagram and Twitter.
Mike/Leo: Yes.
Charlotte/Skyler: Yeah. And, but you can also just find everything on our website. Why, WhyCan’tWeBeWizards.com?
Mike/Leo: And also, we did a musical episode at one time, so you can find us on Spotify.
Kevin: That’s true.
Mike/Leo: Also, like, not in the podcast section.
Charlotte/Skyler: Like, as a podcast, but also as an artist.
Mike/Leo: We do have an album on there.
Alie/Freya: Yeah. Thank you so much for having us on here. We did a, a little one-off where we saved WZRD, the radio station. Um, so definitely go check that out.
I was gonna ask, uh, where people should start, but now I’m not sure where that would go.
Alie/Freya: Probably episode one.
Mitchell/Caleb: Yeah.
Alie/Freya: Unfortunately. Even though like the first couple episodes aren’t great.
Mitchell/Caleb: I hear we’re very bingeable though.
Charlotte/Skyler: Oh yeah.
Mitchell/Caleb: Like extremely bingeable.
Alie/Freya: We have gotten that comment before, yes.
Mike/Leo: I do think you could start at the beginning of any of the seasons though. You’d, you’d miss some of the setup, but I think it’s still fun enough.
Mitchell/Caleb: Season One is Caleb’s season though, so you should probably watch that one first.
Kevin: <laugh>, that’s true.
Mike/Leo: Oh yeah, that’s true. You should start in season two.
Alie/Freya: Yeah, once season one pops off, it’s actually really good <laugh>. It just takes a little bit to pop off.
Kevin: I think it was great the whole time. I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Mike/Leo: <laugh>
Charlotte/Skyler: Yeah. Don’t sell ourselve so short. Start out season one, episode one. We’re great.
Alie/Freya: <laugh>, we’re wonderful, obviously.
Kevin: But if you do wanna listen to the one-off episode that is related to the other half of this, it, it’s, it… You can listen to that.
Mitchell/Caleb: Oh yeah.
Kevin: It’ll, it’ll be fine.
Alie/Freya: Yeah!
Mitchell/Caleb: There’s no continuity except Enleggen.
Kevin: Yeah. Let me give you a quick primer. You need to know that these kids made a dumb, spell <laugh> that they can point at food and then the food grows legs and runs around and becomes semi-sentient. That’s about all you need to know.
Mitchell/Caleb: <laugh> Yeah, that’s the best spell. We solve almost every problem.
Mike/Leo: It’s true. <laugh> And that’s about the tone of the show. If you know that, you kind of know the vibe.
I think it is, uh, very fun and very well done. And I’ve listened to my share of, uh, tabletop RPG podcasts.
Mike/Leo:Thank you. That’s very kind of you.
But it is by far the best because they saved WZRD.
Alie/Freya: Yay!
Mike/Leo: Yeah!
Kevin: You heard it here, folks. We’re better than the Adventure Zone. <laugh>
Mike/Leo: Yep. You can print that.
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