Patreon Newsletter #41: March 2025

Magic Tavern Updates/News: 

• We won ‘Best Fantasy Podcast’ at the I Heart Podcast Awards! But shhhhhhhh…don’t let anyone know we’re non-fiction!

• We’ve got new ‘10th Anniversary’ merch in our TeePublic store with a sweet new design by Allard Laban

• Also (Adal here) apologies for the delay in sending this out! I was at sea for a week at the top of the month and have been playing catch up since getting back home. 

From Arnie:

Went on a nice little vacation with Emily back to Key Largo to lay by the pool and sip on slightly watered-down drinks. It was perfect timing because while we were gone it was -5 degrees in Chicago.

Hope you’re enjoying March Magic. My only plea is that people please vote for Elisabeth Sparkle! She’s been through so much!

TV – In no particular order. 

• White Lotus

• Survivor

• Columbo

• Parks and Rec

• Severance

• Adventure Time

Movies – Best to less best. 

• Anora

• After Hours

• Mon Oncle 

• Three Kings

• Inherent Vice

• Companion

• The Sting

• Star Trek: Generations

• Riddick

• 1941

• Fast X

• Phantom of the Opera (2004)

Video Games 

Rise of the Golden Idol

Balatro 

Super Mario Party Jamboree

Reading

Words of Radiance

Comedy Book by Jesse David Fox

a bunch of Grant Morrison Batman comics

From Matt: 

February 2025

By the time you see this, we have already shared a video of our most recent episode, Dripfang’s Apprentice. So excited that you all get to watch this episode being recorded in this video. Hoping to spend the remainder of the year working to make things around me better in the ways that I can. 

Games

More Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but I’m already getting a little bored with it. I may move on, but haven’t had time to dive into a new game.

TV/Movies/Web stuff:

We watched The Apothecary Diaries and Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits on Crunchyroll. Plus I’ve got about 6 episodes left of Double Zeta Gundam before I can move on through the Universal Century and watch Char’s Counterattack. Then I go back for the OVAs and maybe Victory Gundam? Or I skip that and watch some other timelines. Also, and always, burning through the entire Food Network catalogue on MAX.

Food:

Not too much to report. Tried out Izakaya Shinya after an Improvised Shakespeare show a couple of weeks ago. It’s a place that does Japanese style street food. It was really good and a lot of fun. Recommend checking it out.

Matt

From Adal:

Here’s what I consumed in February. Let me know if you have any recommendations for me!

TV: 

• Win or Lose - featuring the writing and vocal talents of Erin Keif! She absolutely crushes it, please give it a watch!

• White Lotus season 3

• Cobra Kai season 6 final episodes

• Last Week Tonight season 12

• Reacher season 3 - whoa! What’s going on with that Boston accent?!

• SNL 50th 

• Survivor season 48 

MOVIES:

• The Substance - did not realize how cartoonishly gruesome and bonkers this would be. Loved it. 

Adal