2025.02.26: Dumb & Dumbledore

Burnie and Ashley talk about Harry Potter casting, Burnie’s Potter ignorance, Ashley’s dream casting, Dungeon Crawler Carl’s casting challenge, the sudden egg economy, cocaine toupees, the silent cost of being American, golden toilets, gold’s big boom, TPing & egging, carats from carobs, carob bunnies, and loner Batman.
  
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Harry Potter

• John Lithgow Confirms Casting As Dumbledore In HBO’s Harry Potter: “This Is Going To Define The Last Chapter Of My Life” [Exclusive]
• RT Shorts – Burnie vs. Harry Potter
• Harry Potter | Open casting call for Harry, Ron and Hermione actors in UK and Ireland | Wizarding World
• Olivier Richters – Wikipedia
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Dungeon Crawler Carl Series

• “Dungeon Crawler Carl” Adaptation Is In Development At Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Bear & Universal International Studios, With Chris Yost Heading The Project – mxdwn Television

Egg Smuggling

• Border Patrol sees uptick in attempted egg smuggling | Fox Business
• Denny’s slaps surcharge on eggs as bird flu drives up prices
• Waffle House is placing a surcharge on every egg it sells | CNN Business
• Meth haul disguised as watermelons fails to fool US border agents – BBC News
• Colombian police catch a man smuggling packets of cocaine under toupee | AP News
• Started Pullets For Sale – Heritage Pullets

Golden Toilet Heist

• Blenheim Palace £4.8m gold toilet stolen in minutes, court hears – BBC News
• What is Carat? Understanding Carat Measurement for Precious Metals
• What is Carob?
• History & Explanation of Carat Weight
• How Carob Traumatized a Generation | The New Yorker

Batman

• Confirmed: Robert Pattinson Will Not Be the DCU Batman – IGN
• Matt Reeves – IMDb