Bear Down - The Magicians S01E02 - The Source of Magic
Release Date: 06/19/2025
The Magicians Season 1 Wrap-Up
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Hello and welcome to season 1 wrap-up for The Magicians! Thank you to everyone to has been listening along with us these last couple of months. We had a great time summarizing our thoughts about the show and answering your questions. See you next week with season 2 episode 1! This podcast also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dnQn2OOy0LQ
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Prediction Princess - The Magicians S01E13 - Have You Brought Me Little Cakes?
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Hello and welcome to the season 1 finale of The Magicians! Remember to get those wrap up questions in. This week, Quentin and Julia make their way through time to meet up with the rest of the group. But they don't leave the past empty handed. They use their timeloop shenanigans to set us all up for Beast fighting success. We have knives, we have knowledge, we have a jar of....milk..ok, it's not milk, but it is necessary. Thanks for listening!
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Adult Child Soldiers - The Magicians S01E12 - Thirty-Nine Graves
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Welcome to The Magicians season 1 episode 12! This week, on the heels of an aggressively awkward morning after. The group decides to bottle their emotions and head into the the Neitherlands. But shortly after emerging from the fountain Quentin is separated from the group and thrust back to campus alone. Can he find his way back to us? Can we find our way to Fillory? Thanks for listening!
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Magical FDA - The Magicians S01E11 - Remedial Battle Magic
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Welcome to The Magician's season 1 episode 11! This week, our magical motley crew dips into some forbidden battle magic for an upcoming spar with The Beast. But battle magic is a dangerous and complicated affair, especially for those of us in a heightened emotional state. So to help compensate, we all drain our heightened emotions into little glass vials and then magic missile the crap out of some unsuspecting bottles. Thanks for listening!
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Leave Room for Zeus - The Magicians S01E10 - Homecoming
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Hello and welcome to season 1 episode 10 of The Magicians! This week we are getting....sexy? Penny is trapped in the Neitherlands, being pursued by a band of disgruntled laborers. The only way to save him is some good old, tried and true sex magic. But can Quentin overcome his lack of lusty experience to save his friend in time? Thanks for listening! Watch a video version of this podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jMZKRA4Q8f8
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That Episode - The Magicians S01E09 - The Writing Room
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Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 1 episode 9! This week, we find out that Christopher Plover, the author of Fillory and Further was a massive piece of shit. But we didn't get this second hand from a screen shot of a social media post, we learned it from some kid-ghosts at his haunted mansion. Can Quentin come to terms with his greatest hero turning out to be the worst kind of monster? Thanks for listening! Watch a video version of this podcast: https://youtu.be/tX_jcJ7atmQ
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Allegedly - The Magicians S01E08 - The Strangled Heart
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Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 1 episode 8! This week, Elliot and his new loverboy Mike are taking their relationship up a notch. Moving on from sultry kisses to flaming cherries, personal revelations, and maybe still a few sultry kisses. Thank goodness everything is exactly as it seems on the surface and nobody is at risk of being stabbed with a cursed knife. Thanks for listening! Watch a video version of this podcast here: https://youtu.be/smlDiZ_4oL0
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Edgy-cators - The Magicians S01E07 - The Mayakovsky Circumstance
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Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 1 episode 7! This week, the hosts are split 50/50. Quintin, Penny and the other 1st years have finished their migration north and found an....interesting "educator" in a remote Alaskan cabin. Meanwhile, Margo & Elliot are struggling to find the coolest gift for their upcoming hedonistic, orgy fueled bacchanal. Maybe just a nice bottle of Gin? (djinn?) Thanks for listening! Watch a video version of this podcast here: https://youtu.be/N5AhtcYFgHI
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We’re Praying!!! - The Magicians S01E06 - Impractical Applications
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Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 1 episode 6! This week, the first year students are subjected to another series of obtuse tests of magical skill. But this time, failure means instant an unceremonious expulsion. Can the main movers and shakers make it through the mass culling? Thanks for listening! Watch a video version of this podcast here: https://youtu.be/SFHNkBQmffQ
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SherpCorp - The Magicians S01E05 - Mendings, Major and Minor
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Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 1 episode 5! This week, the students of Brakebills are all going toe to toe in an attempt to earn the favor of a prime magical mentor. How they earn that favor is a bit all over the place. Maybe it's who you know, or who you are. Maybe it's what you bought. Or, just maybe, it's your ability to tear open the fabric of space in a gymnasium full of your peers. Thanks for listening! Watch the video version of this podcast here:
info_outlineHello and welcome to The Magicians, season 1 episode 2! This week, we deal with the fallout from "the Mothman incident". Is HE a lost brother? Is IT a beast? No clue, but someone at this school knows more than they are letting on. But, just as we begin to uncover the first layers of the mystery, Quintin is threatened with expulsion. What now? Thanks for listening!
Video version also available here: https://youtu.be/JNdGL7osX9k