Pop Culture Role Call

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 4 wrap-up! Thank you everyone for listening along and a special thank you to everyone who submitted questions. We talk favorite episodes, what to do with Brian now that Quentin is (supposedly) very dead, and of course, we speculate wildly about season 5.

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 4 episode 13! This week, we say goodbye to season 4, but more importantly, we say goodbye to a dear friend. The plus side? Elliot is back, the brother+sister monster demon things are handled and magic appears to be back on the menu. We were one bad break away from a perfectly executed plan. Welp, onward and upward. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 4 episode 12. This week, Quentin and Alice finally have "that talk"...you know the one. Meanwhile, Margo's definitely NOT boyfriend Josh is turned into a Werefish after touching some magic nonsense and Monster Elliot finally gets his Monster Sister back! Not cute. Very dangerous. Thanks for listening. 

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 4 epiosde 11! This week, Quentin hops back in time to visit Brakebills South from season 1 in hopes of unlocking the secrets behind a particularly important spell. Meanwhile, Penny, Margo and friends free a librarian trapped in an ancient text, only to be hit with a generational lore dump. But can any of this actually stop the monster? Or, maybe, help it? Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 4 episode 10! This week, Margot goes on her own little drug induced musical side-quest out in the desert. Turns out, licking random reptiles can really cause things to spiral quite quickly. Meanwhile, Penny and Quentin and crew finally track down the monster's final target in hopes of getting ahead of a potential world ending afair. Unfortunately, he is a bit of an un-serious idiot...so maybe we have a plan B? Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome the The Magicians season 4 episode 9! This week, Margo is deposed with a teargul hug rather than a dagger in the back. Count your blessings. Meanwhile, Penny helps Monster Elliot explore repressed memories of his violent past and we all just kind of hope that won't blow up in our faces. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 4 episode 8. This week, we really dig into the magical world of dragonic mating practices. Lots of...interesting lore implications and maybe even a salacious illustration or two. Meanwhile, Margo is out with Fen on her quest to save Fillory, but Fen might need some advice regarding (metaphorical) snak eoil salesmen. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 4 episode 7! This week...uhh. Fen probably goes on a quest. It's probably a really fun quest and Josh maybe even goes with her. Who knows. Not us! Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 4 episode 6! This week, Penny goes on a whirlwind adventure through time and space after his park bench abduction at the end of last episode. For the eagel-eyed viewer, you might even catch sight of an old (very) familiar face. Meanwhile, Margo is playing at politics in Fillory while trying her best not to let grief get the better of her, which doesn't seem to be super successful on either front. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 4 episode 5! This week, Elliot (not dead) takes a trip down memory lane while locked in his own mind. As expected, the trip is mostly just trauma. Meanwhile, out in the real world, Alice is back and awkwardly helping the group to firm up a new plan to kill demon Elliot. It...doesn't go well. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 4 episode 4! This week, some of us are getting sexy and some of us are dealing with severe trauma. So, a pretty standard episode all things considered. Margo puts her personal health and safety on the line to save a close friend. "New Penny" gets looped into an erotic ritual by a pinecone licking cultist. Meanwhile, Quentin breaks some toys...sadly. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome the The Magicians season 4 episode 3! This week, the posessed Elliot monster person finally kills his first god when he snuffs out the literal life of the party. Meanwhile, the crew goes on their 3rd heist mission (4th? eh, who's counting). But we aren't after money, we are after some new super-magical spell currency nonsense cooked up by the librarians. Just monsters all around. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 4 episode 2! This week, we lift the glamor (somehow or another) and say goodbye to our alternate personas. But not after meeting a debonair frog King, poisoning our ex-Dean, and flaying a godly messenger in Greece. Lots of puzzle pieces, but who the heck knows what the picture is supposed to depict. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 4 episode 1! This week it's all new names, new faces, and new places. Can we get our ducks in a row before the big bad thing eventually happens? What is the big bad thing? Who knows. Thanks for listening! Watch a video version of this pod here: https://youtu.be/KwVefSy8Pk8

Hello! It's time to wrap-up The Magicians season 3! A huge thank you to all of the lovely listeners who sent in questions/topics. We talk favorite episodes, character coverage, and try to get a lay of the land for season 4. Is it the last season? Who knows. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 13! It's the season finale this week, y'all. That's right, the quest for the keys has come to a close. The gang is all back together and we are trotting off to a spooky old castle full of godly magic and unspeakable evil. But would you believe me if I told you that the gods and monsters weren't our biggest roadblocks to completing our quest? Nah, that comes to us via backstab after backstab after double cross after betrayal. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 12! This week, we get a bit of a lore dump that helps clarify why Julia still seems to be minorly magically inclined. Our shiney new alt-Penny is trying his best to integrate into our timeline, and it's not going great. Meanwhile, Eliot and Margo decide that one episode as deposed rulers of Fillory is long enough, so we head out onto the campaign trail! Thanks for listening.

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 11! This week, timelines are getting twisted, yet again. Penny is here, but...wait, why do his hands look normal? Why isn't he at his purgatory book club building an eternal community of peers? Why are all of these main characters dying?! Oh, these are the same faces but different souls (shades?). Got it! Kind of. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 10! This week, we are continuing our quest for a handful of magical keys. But we just can't seem to keep the party together. Eliot and Margo are back in Fillory playing diplomat for a Kingdom that tried to have them killed. Quentin is at Brakebills with Alice, working on next steps while trying to keep the vibes manageable. Meanwhile, Penny joins a book club in purgatory at the behest of Hades himself...Just now struck me how silly this all got. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 9! This week it's time to save Josh from party purgatory. But this isn't your standard exfiltratation operation. We have to dance, sing, and party our boy to safety. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 8! This week, Penny finds himself in the underworld along with his BEST friend and a prophetic Alice lookalike. He came for a few answers and he he left with an exposition dump the size of a small moon. Pour one out for Mike as he puts this episode on his back and carries us all to credits. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 7! This week, it's another heist attempt for everyone's favorite criminal masterminds (plus Felicia Day). Maybe Quentin and Penny will have more luck extricating a willing hospital patient. Meanwhile, Elliot and Margo finally play their trump card and force the fairy queen to come the the bargaining table. But if making a deal with the fae is dangerous, what's blackmail going to get us into? Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 6! This week, Elliot agrees to chaperone Margo and her pubescent groom on a little romantic getaway. However, this is all a ploy to go do some reconnaissance in the far north, where the invasive fairy horde has set up some kind of mushroom breeding ground. Meanwhile, Quentin is back on the sentient boat with a familiar face hunting for the next key. Finding the key is surprisingly easy. Dealing with subsequent magically induced depression is unsurprisingly hard. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 5! Margo, Eliot, and Quentin get to dive into our favorite television trope, alternate timelines! Penny on the other hand, is not having fun on the surviving timeline. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 4! After Penny's untimely demise at the end of last weeks episode leaves his spirit detached from his corpse, he find himself in a race against the clock. Can his incorporeal form manage to communicate his new situation to his grieving friends before they mistakenly burn his body and leave him in limbo for all eternity? Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 3! This week, Elliot needs an assist after a band of pirates takes his sentient ship and crew hostage. Luckily, Margo is able to smooth talk the fairy queen into lending her a hand. Meanwhile, Penny is undergoing supernatural surgery from a poison munching demon doctor and Quentin is with Alice and her family, covered in plastic wrap and cattle prodding eachother...I wish that was innuendo and not fact. But you play the hand you are delt. Thanks for listening!

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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: https://www.extra-life.org/teams/popculturerolecall Watch a video of this podcast here: https://youtu.be/578uB85F4A4

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: https://youtu.be/bnKoJghrEX8  Join us this weekend from 9am Saturday November 15th till 9pm Sunday November 16th for Extra Life! We're raising money for Children's Miracle Network hospitals by streaming video games all weekend! Join or donate here: https://www.extra-life.org/teams/popculturerolecall

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!

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!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 6! This week Eliot and Margo, along with the entire castle, are kidnapped by the Price(S.) of Loria after Margo rebukes his marriage proposal. Meanwhile, Quentin is back with Alice's family helping them process her passing and maybe, casually asking for their help de-niffining her if that's in the cards. Thanks for listening! Watch this podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ch7WgpW9WgQ

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 5! This week, the party is officially split. Eliot and Margo are in Fillory wondering what to do with their jailed revolutionary/assassin. Penny is back in the snowy, isolated Brakebills south trying to sort out his buggy new hands with a pervy ex-professor. Meanwhile, Quentin is developing a morally ambiguous friendship with another magician turned middle manager. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 4! This week, on the heels of our tragic (albeit successful) shot at The Beast, everyone is still healing from wounds and reeling from loss. Quentin has a brand new wooden arm and Penny is feeling like his hands might be due for an upgrade as well. Meanwhile, Elliot finds a way to leave Fillory...at least his mind can leave. His body? Well, that's a bit of a complicated situation. Thanks for listening! Watch a video version of this podcast here: https://youtu.be/oz7j_3HsJfI

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 3! This week, we get our second real shot at The Beast thanks to some clever "demonic tattoos". But, unfortunately, Julia has her own villain that needs to die and she needs The Beast's help to do it. When dangerous plans with opposite goals collide sometimes....people die. Thanks for listening! Watch a video version here: https://youtu.be/WmoClINwuNg

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 2! This week, most of the group makes it back to earth and begins trying to find out more about this Beast killing battle magic. But unfortunately that knowledge was hidden in plain sight by a tricky pixie who loves a good riddle. Meanwhile, King Elliot is trying his best to be the "cool orgy and champagne guy", but being a good ruler means sometimes you have to sprinkle a little shit before you can rest on your laurels. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 1! We pick up in the aftermath of our first real encounter with The Beast. Penny and Margo head off to a healing river for appendage reattachment therapy, while the rest of the group goes looking for crowns. At least 4 of us are coming out of this as royalty. Thanks for listening!

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

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!

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!

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!

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

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

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

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