Adult Child Soldiers - The Magicians S01E12 - Thirty-Nine Graves
Release Date: 08/28/2025
Cheertocracy - The Magicians S03E02 - Heroes and Morons
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Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 2! This week, we recover the first of the keys we need to complete the vague "great quest" that kicked off this season. Back on Earth, magic doesn't seem gone as much as it seems diminished and sporadic. We just don't have enough information right now, but there are a lot of episodes to go before final credit role. Thanks for listening! Watch a video version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/n4oJ7pcw8uc
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Ear Hole Poll - The Magicians S03E01 - The Tales of the Seven Keys
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Hello and welcome to the first episode of The Magicians season 3! Our Fillory homestead is still blighted by the recent fairy invasion and we just can't shake em. It doesn't help that they can seemingly hear and see everything, everywhere. We would ask for help, but Penny is a bit preoccupied by dying at work and Quentin is doing Jager Bombs with the god of hedonism. Can't pull him away from that kind of party. Thanks for listening! Watch this recording on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rp8e0tsFrWQ
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The Magicians Season 2 Wrap-Up
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Hello and welcome to the season 2 wrap-up for The Magicians! Thank you to all of the lovely listeners who submitted questions. Do we fully understand every plot point and story arc now? HAH...no, not at all. But we had a lot of fun. That's something! We are back next week with season 3! Watch a video version of this podcast here: https://youtu.be/eyoGHx7HPNg
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Niffinication - The Magicians S02E13 - We Have Brought You Little Cakes
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Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 13. It's a season finale week, y'all! We have all of the standard cliffhanger goodies. Dead gods? Check. Rekindled romances weighed down by copious amounts of emotional baggage? Check. An army of fae with a penchant for boddy horror? BIG check. Thanks for listening and remember to send in those wrap up questions! Watch this podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zXm-IEQvGR4
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Russarctica - The Magicians S02E12 - Ramifications
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Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 12! This week, Quentin and Eliot find themselves in Canada talking exposition with the missing Fillory god, Umber. Turns out, he is a much better host than his chaotic foil who relieved himself in the source of all magic. Meanwhile, Penny is executing one of the worst heists since....well the last one we tried to pull off. Third times the charm? Thanks for listening and remember to send us your season wrap-up questions!
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xXx_dante_xXx - The Magicians S02E11 - The Rattening
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Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 11! This week, Fillory's problems keep stacking up as the whole kingdom is being bombarded with an homage to the biblical plagues. Meanwhile, Quentin gets to meet a dragon, which is pretty sick. In the less sick department, Penny is still locked down in a library out of time, planning heist #2 which has to go better than heist #1 did, yeah? Thanks for listening! Watch a video version of this podcast here: https://youtu.be/gs11NEpMrus
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Book 'Em - The Magicians S02E10 - The Girl Who Told Time
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Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 10! This week, Fillory is buzzing at the prospect of another royal wedding. Some good buzzing, some treasonous buzzing. Meanwhile, Penny begins his 1 billion year temp assignment at the library out of time. But if the remaining nine-hundred thousand and some odd years are anything like day 1...he is in for rough go of it. Thanks for listening! You can still donate to Extra Life here: Watch a video of this podcast here:
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Jennifer Like Hewitt - The Magicians S02E09 - Lesser Evils
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Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 9! This week, Eliot decides to try and save his subjects from the pains of war by agreeing a 1v1, king to king! Bonus points for making him look like a bad a** in the process. Maybe get a sick statue in his honor? Meanwhile, Quentin and Penny are back on earth still trying to figure out the next step of the "kill a demigod" plan. Unfortunately, Julia is a figurative bull in a china shop. Maybe Margo's backroom deals with the VERY TRUSTWORTHY fae will save us all in the end? Thanks for listening! Watch a video version of this podcast here:...
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Incel Wolves - The Magicians S02E08 - Word As Bond
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Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 8! This week, Quentin and his niffin sidekick Alice are fighting for a majority stake in controlling Quentin's flesh. Meanwhile, Margo is holding it down the best she can in Fillory and Penny is trying to work out a tenuous new normal with Kady. Thanks for listening!
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Theoretical Bank Heist - The Magicians S02E07 - Plan B
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Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 7! This week, we are all taking a little break from our normal daily drama to do some good old fashioned crimes. What's the point of having a group of powerful magicians if we aren't going to rob a bank or two? The only twist is that banks caught on to the "just use magic" cheat code for bank robbery and they decided to get some security sorcerers on the payroll. Thanks for listening!
info_outlineWelcome 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!