Hello From The Magic Tavern

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Winter Solstice Bonus 2025 Dec 22, 2025

Show notes

Arnie, Chunt and Usidore exchange gifts and try to find ways to do good this holiday season. Also there's a song from a listener.

Credits

Arnie: Arnie Niekamp

Chunt: Adal Rifai

Usidore: Matt Young

Mysterious Man: Tim Sniffen

Producers: Arnie Niekamp, Matt Young, and Adal Rifai

Associate Producer: Anna Havermann

Post-Production Coordination: Garrett Schultz

Editor: Garrett Schultz

Magic Tavern Logo: Allard Laban

Theme Music: Andy Poland

I’ll Meet You in Foon: Damarin

Listen to Arnie’s Christmas music podcast No Skip Christmas!

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Season 5, Ep 82 - Princess and Witch (w/ Josephine McAdam) Dec 15, 2025

Show notes

Princess Katerina comes looking for help with a horrible curse that turns her into a witch at night. The witch wants help too.

Credits

Arnie: Arnie Niekamp

Chunt: Adal Rifai

Usidore: Matt Young

Princess Katarina: Josephine McAdam

Mysterious Man: Tim Sniffen

Producers: Arnie Niekamp, Matt Young, and Adal Rifai

Associate Producer: Anna Havermann

Post-Production Coordination: Garrett Schultz

Editor: Red Keener

Magic Tavern Logo: Allard Laban

Theme Music: Andy Poland

Listen to Arnie’s Christmas music podcast No Skip Christmas!

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Season 5, Ep 81 - Tiny Lizard (w/ Mayanna Berrin) Dec 08, 2025

Show notes

Scrunch is a tiny lizard that wants to be a dragon. For revenge!

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Credits

Arnie: Arnie Niekamp

Chunt: Adal Rifai

Usidore: Matt Young

Scrunch: Mayanna Berrin

Mysterious Man: Tim Sniffen

Producers: Arnie Niekamp, Matt Young, and Adal Rifai

Associate Producer: Anna Havermann

Post-Production Coordination: Garrett Schultz

Editor: Sage G.C.

Magic Tavern Logo: Allard Laban

Theme Music: Andy Poland

Listen to Arnie’s Christmas music podcast No Skip Christmas!

New T-Shirts in the Merch Store!

You can support the show directly and receive bonus episodes and rewards by joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/magictavern for only $5 per month. Follow us on Bsky, Instagram and YouTube!

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Patreon Unlock: Podpires (I) Dec 01, 2025

Show notes

Enjoy this unlocked bonus episode from our Patreon! The most popular podcast in all of Foon is finally available on this podcast feed.

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Credits

Vlad: Alex Eilhauer

Chad: Steve Waltien

Carnival Wilson: Arnie Niekamp

Frankie the Familiar: Matt Young

Craig: Ryan DiGiorgi

Producer: Matt Young

Associate Producer: Anna Havermann

Post-Production Coordination: Garrett Schultz

Editor: Tim Joyce

Special Assistance: Ryan DiGiorgi

Magic Tavern Logo: Allard Laban

Theme Music: Andy Poland

Podpires Theme Music: Tim Joyce

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BONUS: Introducing No Skip Christmas - Justin McElroy Nov 27, 2025

Show notes

Check out the first episode of Arnie’s new podcast miniseries No Skip Christmas with guest Justin McElroy!

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Show Description: Building the perfect Christmas playlist episode by episode. Musicians, comedians and podcasters recommend songs and Arnie decides if they’re added to his ever-growing Christmas music playlist or not.

Arnie and Justin McElroy (My Brother My Brother & Me, The Adventure Zone) swap Christmas songs to see what does and doesn’t go on their Christmas playlists. Songs from Pearl Baily, Ariana Grande, Bill Murray and more.

Creator and Host: Arnie Niekamp

Follow him on Bluesky or Instagram or send an Email the show at noskipchristmas@gmail.com

Guest: Justin McElroy

Producer and Editor: Garrett Schultz

Artwork: Allard Laban

Opening Theme Music: Andy Poland

Song Playlists:

Playlist of all the songs for this episode here

The growing list of accepted Christmas songs here

Christmas-ellaneous: all the songs lovingly rejected so far here

Additional Materials:

Demi Adejuyigbe’s September videos playlist

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Patreon Unlock: Talkin' Tabs Nov 24, 2025

Show notes

Enjoy this unlocked bonus episode from our Patreon! Matt Young is mad about how many tabs he has open on his computer so we make a whole episode about it.

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Credits

Arnie: Arnie Niekamp

Adal: Adal Rifai

Matt: Matt Young

Craig: Ryan DiGiorgi

Producer: Matt Young

Associate Producer: Anna Havermann

Post-Production Coordination: Garrett Schultz

Editor: Tony Gullick

Special Assistance: Ryan DiGiorgi

Magic Tavern Logo: Allard Laban

Theme Music: Matt Young and Sage G.C.

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Season 5, Ep 80 - Pandenomicon Now (w/ Charlie McCrackin) Nov 17, 2025

Show notes

Usidore finds the Pandenomicon, the magical talking book written by Spintax the Green. Can the book be used to discover Spintax's evil plans?

Credits

Arnie: Arnie Niekamp

Chunt: Adal Rifai

Usidore: Matt Young

Pandenomicon: Charlie McCrackin

Mysterious Man: Tim Sniffen

Producers: Arnie Niekamp, Matt Young, and Adal Rifai

Associate Producer: Anna Havermann

Post-Production Coordination: Garrett Schultz

Editor: Stephen Dranger

Magic Tavern Logo: Allard Laban

Theme Music: Andy Poland

Listen to Arnie’s Christmas music podcast No Skip Christmas!

New T-Shirts in the Merch Store!

You can support the show directly and receive bonus episodes and rewards by joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/magictavern for only $5 per month. Follow us on Bsky, Instagram and YouTube!

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Season 5, Ep 79 - Still Princess Trachea-Aurelia Belaroth (w/ Megan O’Neill live in Charlotte, NC) Nov 10, 2025

Show notes

The mostly evil Princess Trachea-Aurelia Belaroth returns looking for someone’s life force to suck out.

Credits

Arnie: Arnie Niekamp

Chunt: Adal Rifai

Usidore: Matt Young

Princess Trachea-Aurelia Belaroth: Megan O’Neill

Mysterious Man: Tim Sniffen

Producers: Arnie Niekamp, Matt Young, and Adal Rifai

Associate Producer: Anna Havermann

Post-Production Coordination: Garrett Schultz

Editor: Tim Joyce

Magic Tavern Logo: Allard Laban

Theme Music: Andy Poland

Special Thanks to the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center

Listen to Arnie’s Christmas music podcast No Skip Christmas!

New T-Shirts in the Merch Store!

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Season 5, Ep 78 - Lady Dowager (w/ Pratima Mani) Nov 03, 2025

Show notes

Lady Dowager is a four time winner of Foon's Most Eligible Widow and she's angling for a fifth win.

Credits

Arnie: Arnie Niekamp

Chunt: Adal Rifai

Usidore: Matt Young

Lady Dowager: Pratima Mani

Mysterious Man: Tim Sniffen

Producers: Arnie Niekamp, Matt Young, and Adal Rifai

Associate Producer: Anna Havermann

Post-Production Coordination: Garrett Schultz

Editor: Anna Havermann

Magic Tavern Logo: Allard Laban

Theme Music: Andy Poland

New T-Shirts in the Merch Store!

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Season 5, Ep 77 - Chunt for Blue October (w/ John Patrick Coan) Oct 27, 2025

Show notes

A man with a ghoul for a hand crashes Chunt for Red October, the yearly blood drive for vampires.

Credits

Arnie: Arnie Niekamp

Chunt: Adal Rifai

Usidore: Matt Young

Ghoul Hand Luke: John Patrick Coan

Mysterious Man: Tim Sniffen

Producers: Arnie Niekamp, Matt Young, and Adal Rifai

Associate Producer: Anna Havermann

Post-Production Coordination: Garrett Schultz

Editor: Sage G.C.

Magic Tavern Logo: Allard Laban

Theme Music: Andy Poland

New T-Shirts in the Merch Store!

You can support the show directly and receive bonus episodes and rewards by joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/magictavern for only $5 per month. Follow us on Bsky, Instagram and YouTube!

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.