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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!

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

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

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: https://youtu.be/Vow_wJbOSqU

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 1 episode 4! This week, the world ain't exactly what it seems. While Quentine spirals in a sort of mind prison in a sort of desert, his new Breakbills compatriots do their best to feed him scorpions and save his life. Trust us, it makes sense in context (mostly). Thanks for listening! Watch a video version of this podcast over on YouTube here

Hello and welcome The Magicians season 1 episode 3! This week, Quentin and Eliot go on a side mission to reclaim a stolen book. The book was stolen from the cottage by a group of unaffiliated, magically inclined "Hedge Witches". As it turns out, the group has a familiar face. Julia, having been rejected by the school, is here to continue her education and to give Quentin a piece of her mind. Thanks for listening! A video version of this podcast is available here: https://youtu.be/nyDKpDzGeis

Hello 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

Hello lovely listeners new and old! This week we are jumping feet first into season 1 episode 1 of The Magicians! Margo, Penny, Eliot, and Quentin it was so nice to make your acquaintances. Also, nice to meet YOU scary butterfly face man. Thank you all for listening! (and watching???) If you would rather see our faces, the video version is live on YouTube! https://youtu.be/DmdZdyebNUY

Hello and welcome to the Kevin Can F*** Himself series wrap-up! Another great show in the bag. We answer audience questions, talk Sienfeld dynasties, and reflect on nearly a decade of podcasting. Thank you so much for listening. See you next week for Season 1 Episode 1 of The Magicians!

Hello and welcome to the final episode of Kevin Can F*** Himself! Allison is back after a 6 month stint masquerading as "Gertrude", and she has some choice words for her asshole husband. But these last few months haven't been kind to Kevin. He has finally managed to drive everyone away and is left with only his hideously dumb thoughts and easy access to fire. Let's see how this all shakes out! Thanks for listening.

Hello and welcome to Kevin Can F*** Himself season 2 episode 7! This week, Allison has decided that faking her own death might not be what she really wants after all. But, has she already come too far? Neil surely isn't looking to make that decision any easier. He is currently wandering around town drunk and telling "interesting stories" to anyone who will lend him an ear. Thanks for listening!

Welcome to Kevin Can F*** Himself season 2 episode 6! This week Allison begins planning the intricacies of faking her own death. The current best plan involves ripping out teeth and burning a car...maybe let's keep thinking? Meanwhile, Patti is sloooowly packing to move in with Tammy. One box of a few books at a time. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to Kevin Can F*** Himself season 2 episode 5! The whole town is impacted by a massive blackout after an errant firework hits a transformer. Sure, Kevin was out working on a firework display around that time, but that's just a coincidence. Meanwhile, Allison and Patti take this opportunity to do some crimes and get Allison her ticket to freedom...a death certificate! Thanks for listening.

Welcome to season 2 episode 4 of Kevin Can F*** Himself! It's Patti's birthday but for some reason she REALLY doesn't feel like celebrating right now. A little too much going on. What, with Allison putting the final touches of her death and Neil getting slapped with a "drunk and disorderly" at the family ice rink. Thanks for listening!

Welcome to Kevin Can F*** Himself season 2 episode 3! This week, Allison and Patty are out searching for an unclaimed corpse with a good name and no Facebook page. But stealing an identity and running off into the sunset isn't a decision to make lightly. Maybe a few flashbacks to the worst day of her life will help add some perspective? Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to Kevin Can F*** Himself season 2 episode 1! Neil wakes up in the hospital to a bit of blackmail, and wakes up again and again to his own living nightmare...? Meanwhile Allison has a couple chats with a private eye. Kevin isn't in danger of losing everyone close to him, right? Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to Kevin Can F*** Himself season 2 episode 1! In this season premiere Allison and Patty have a falling out over how to best handle the "We knocked out Neil and tied him up in the basement" situation. Meanwhile, Kevin's political future is looking brighter by the hour. Maybe Allison can get in there and gum up the works and bit. No way she makes the situation worse, right? Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to the Kevin can F*** Himself season 1 wrap-up. Thank you to everyone who sent in questions! We hope you enjoy listening to the tangents and reflections as much as we enjoyed recording them. See you next week for season 2!

Hello and welcome to the Kevin Can F*** Himself season 1 finale! So, get those questions in for the wrap-up! Last episode Kevin shot Allison's would be hitman during a botched B&E. But after a day or two of big sad feelings, Kevin's Kevin-ism is redoubled by a free round of 10am beer. Now, he knows what he has to do...he has to run for political office! Will Allison call it quits now that murder has been upgraded to assassination? Not a chance. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to Kevin Can F*** Himself season 1 episode 7! Allison, after last week's boost in confidence, is starting to spiral the opposite direction. Murdering your husband is an emotional affair. And an affair is also an emotional affair. Can she cope with the stress until the deed is done? Will she even want to finish the deed once Kevin and Neil's rock group goes triple platinum? Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to Kevin Can F*** Himself season 1 episode 6! This week is Kevin's 36th birthday and the whole gang is going out to celebrate. Well...Kevin is technically celebrating with two groups at once with a classic "Ms. Doubtfire" double dinner. Meanwhile, Patty is kissing her assigned detecrive and trying to figure it all out after the fact. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to Kevin Can F*** Himself season 1 episode 5! This week, Patty is EXILED for her heinous and unforgivable act of...not bringing Kevin a burger. Meanwhile, the guys find a replacement Patty who is actually a dude with a knife. Maybe Allison can lend a sympathetic ear in-between reckless acts of petty theft and adultery? Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to Kevin Can F*** Himself season 1 episode 4! This week we split the party. Kevin and Neil are at home trying to get rich quick in the escape room business. But maybe puzzels and problem solving aren't exactly at their fortes. Meanwhile, Patty and Allison are hitting the open road in search of enough oxy to kill a husband. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to Kevin Can F*** Himself season 1 episode 3! This week, Patty gets a bit of the spotlight as we explore her motivations for starting her pill selling side hustle. Meanwhile, Kevin and Neil have a falling out over their yearly "bribe chili" and Allison pays the price for fanning the flames. Thanks for listening!

Welcome to Kevin Can F*** Himself season 1 episode 2! This week, Allison puts on her favorite new hoodie and hits the town to try and gather some much needed husband murdering supplies. Meanwhile, back in the sitcom reality, Kevin has declared REVOLUTIONARY WAR on his neighbors. The slight that led to the dramatic declaration? They stole his favorite new hoodie...probably an unrelated hoodie? Thanks for listening! 

Why hello there and welcome to season 1 episode 1 of our new show, Kevin Can F*** Himself! While we don't know too much yet, we do know that this show is playing with the time honored format of the "sitcom". We have our zingers, our laugh tracks, and our motley crew of bumbling neighbors. But, impossibly, we also seem to slip out of that sterilized world into the messy, complicated, and exhausting reality we all know and....love? Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to the Gravity Falls wrap-up! It's been a wonderful, heartwarming romp but we eventually had to say goodbye to the Pines family. Thank you to everyone who sent in questions. We hope you join us next week with episode 1 of a brand new show!

Hello and welcome to the Gravity Falls finale! This week, the confrontation with Bill finally comes to a head...literally speaking. Turns out, even after a fued lasting multiple decades and a potential global apocalypse, Ford and Stan can still learn a thing or two from their niblings. But, can we reconcile in time to defeat the big bad and get Mabel and Dipper home to California? Thanks for listening and and remember to send in your wrap up questions!

Hello and welcome back to the end of the world! It's season 2 episode 20 of Gravity Falls and with Mabel and Dipper back on great terms, it's time to start working on the other set of twins. Unfortunately, the Ford+Stan fued has been stewing for decades, not days. Can we all come together in the darkest hour and finally stop Bill? Thanks for listening.

Hello and welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 19! This week, Dipper finally finds Mabel, ruling in a utopia of her own design. Candy, color, and boys as far as the eye can see! But under the sugar dusted surface of smiles and stickers there is something dark lurking just out of sight. Can the siblings rebuild their bridges before it all comes tumbling down? Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 18! Welp, it's finally here. Weirdmageddon is dumping all of the chaos of Bill's universe into ours and reality is start to bend and shift in some weird and horrifying ways. Can Dipper rise to the occasion and save his sister from the sinister clutches of a chaos god? Content warnings if you hate anthropomorphic teeth, bat violence, orbs, or BIG goats. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 17! It's the last episode of 2024 and I wish I could say this was one of those fun, low stakes holiday episodes that family cartoons are known for. But after Ford makes Dipper an offer that's seemingly too good to be true, Mabel comes to the stark realization that her perfect world is about to change in some dramatic and abrupt ways. Stability has been replaced with chaos and you know who thrives on chaos? Yeah...Bill is back. Thanks for listening!

Welcome to season 2 episode 15 of Gravity Falls! This week, forget saving the world from Bill, Dipper has got to meet some ladies! Perhaps slightly too many ladies?? Maybe Grunkle Stan isn't the best source of romantic advice. Also, join us this Saturday to Sunday from 9am to 9am for Extra Life! Watch us stream games for 24 hours and raise money for children's hospitals. Win-Win! https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=68935 Thanks for listening!

Welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 15! This week, Mabel "Pure of Heart" Pines is off on a magical unicorn quest and she couldn't be more prepared. Her whole life has been building to this moment. Time to shine! But something isn't sitting quite right with these mono-horned cryptids. Maybe being beautiful and majestic doesn't necessarily make you good and decent? Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome (back?) to season 2 episode 14 of Gravity Falls! This week Stan Pines both literally and metaphorically throws his hat into the ring to be the new mayor of Gravity Falls. But is he moved by a deep sense of civic duty, or is it something more akin to spite? Who knows. But our ponderings won't really matter if the nibbling can't help polish some of the MANY rough edges on their grumpy old uncle. Thanks for listening!

Hello adventurers and welcome to Gravity Falls campaign 2 session 13! This week, family drama takes a back seat to make room for high fantasy and some really crunchy math. OH BOY! That's right, grab a bag of salty snacks and dust off your cloaks because we are "playing" DD&MD. Thanks for listening!

Welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 12! Now that the big secret is out we can finally have that juicy flashback episode we have all been waiting for! This week, Ford and Stan take a trip down memory lane. But while the trip starts off heartwarming and full of love, the murky realities of life start to set in pretty quickly. Is it true that time heals all wounds? Thanks for listening?

Hello and welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 11. The time is finally here...Stan has been working tirelessly for years to get to this exact moment. But what is it he has been working towards? He claims it has all been for the good of the family. The federal agents claim it has been a plot to destroy the world. Is he a villain or a hero? Or, perhaps, something in-between? Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 10! This week, Dipper and Mabel are invited to the luxurious and fabulous Northwest family soiree. But they are not invited because of their charm, their money, or their political influence. They are invited to help dispel a pesky lumberjack curse...the spookiest kind of curse! Thanks for listening.

Hello and welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 9! This week, Mabel decides to take her matchmaking skills to another level. She had a magic touch before, but now she has THE magic touch, courtesy of The Love God's secret concoctions. But is mixing magic and love really a consequence free combination? Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 8! This week, Dipper and Mabel are trying their darndest to help Soos have an incredible birthday. Which he deserves. Unfortunately for them, Soos has a....complicated relationship with his birthday. But you know what he has a pretty incredible relationship with? (Other than the Pines family) LAZER TAG! Thanks for listening.

Welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 7! Everyone get your chanting voices ready and steam your matching robes, this week we are meeting a secret cult! In an attempt to finally unravel the mystery of the journal's true author, Mabel and Dipper enlist the help of town eccentric Old Man McGucket. His memory might be fragmented but that might not actually be his fault....thanks for listening!

Welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 6! This week is the show's second take on a classic anthology episode! We have 3 unrelated spooky stories to frighten and delight all who dare enter here. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 5! It's Soos's time to shine bright and find love in this small town. It's not going to be an easy task, but we all know he deserves it. Thankfully, we have a old friend of the podcast here to give a voice to everyone's favorite big dood. Big shout out to Nick from Alley Cat Comics! Thanks for listening.

Hello and welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 4! This week, Mabel's heart writes a check that might just be too big for her to cash. Turns out, putting on a fully produced, full length puppet rock opera (sock opera if you will) takes a LOT of work. But with a little luck and with Dipper pulling a sleepless night or two, maybe there is a chance. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 3! This week, Mabel and Pacifica Northwest find themselves at the center of a turf war between multiple factions of mystical putt-putt creatures. If only Grunkle Stan wasn't so eager to help his nibblings break and enter we probably could have just played a quick round and called it there. But, now we are here and Mabel has to decide if beating Pacifica at her own game is worth playing Pacifica's game in the first place. Thanks for listening!

Welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 2! This week, Wendy finally joins the nibblings on a spooky adventure into the deep dark woods. Can Dipper find the right words to tell her how he really feels before any monster shenanigans ruin the titular moment? Maybe with the "help" of his VERY "helpful" sister? Thanks for listening!