Harry Potter Casting News! And Plastic Turned into Gasoline?! | HWP 804

This week on Hardly Working, we recap the wild ride that was last week:
✈️ NTI in New Orleans – Kellie and SP went all in on local eats: po’boys, muffalettas, beignets, bananas foster, and donuts.
🎂 SP’s birthday! 🎉
🎤 A big San Diego gig with Randy
💍 Their anniversary
📸 And—biggest of all—a brand new studio with all-new video content coming to their YouTube channel this summer!

🎮 Game Time
We dive into four juicy Reddit questions this week:

1. What’s your favorite insult without using curse words?
2. What’s your “I’m calling it now” prediction?
3. What’s a “silent red flag” in relationships?

🗓 That Happened Today?! – May 28 Highlights

• 🥩 National Brisket Day – The perfect excuse to fire up the smoker.
• 🚗 2000: 420 Rolls-Royces parade in North Wales for a record-breaking luxury convoy
• 🍪 2023: Longest cookie line ever made — 4,084 cookies in Canada.
• 🎬 Movie Releases:
  • Rocky III (1982) – Clubber Lang enters the ring
  • Cliffhanger (1993) – Stallone vs. the mountains
  • Edge of Tomorrow (2014) – Tom Cruise dies over and over
• 📺 2019: Songland debuts, bringing hit songwriting into the spotlight
• 🕯️ Notable Deaths:
  • Maya Angelou (2014) – Poet, author, and civil rights legend
  • Gary Coleman (2010) – Star of Diff’rent Strokes
  • Phil Hartman (1998) – Comedy icon from SNL and The Simpsons
• 🎂 Celebrity Birthdays:
  • Gladys Knight, John Fogerty, Carey Mulligan, Kylie Minogue

⚡️ Other News You Missed:

• 🎬 HBO announced the new cast for its Harry Potter TV reboot—we’ve officially got our new Harry, Ron, and Hermione!
• 🐯 Tiger King drama continues: Joe Exotic’s newest prison husband Jorge Flores was deported to Mexico—and he’s terrified of being kidnapped. Joe told him, “It’s not the cartels you have to worry about—it’s Carole Baskin…”
• 🧪 A TikToker named Julian Brown (@NatureJab) has developed a plastic-to-gasoline reactor. We love a low-budget Tony Stark.

💥 Unpopular Opinions This Week:

• People who close airplane window blinds have forgotten how to feel joy.
• Tabasco is the worst hot sauce in the game.
• Encore culture is manipulative and tired.
• Sporks should have replaced spoons AND forks by now.

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