Patreon Newsletter #42: April 2025

Magic Tavern Updates/News: 

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

From Arnie:

A packed month, mostly with work stuff. Went into the office more than usual this month for a lot of playtests of future games. They’re looking good!

Also a lot of busy behind the scenes stuff for Magic Tavern. We celebrated ten years but were really too busy with future stuff to pull out the stops as much as a ten year anniversary maybe deserves. So, as I said in the episode, we reserve the right to keep celebrating for months and months and months. We also recorded a bunch of future episodes for Evil April (and beyond) and let me say we have some great eps with incredible guests coming soon.

TV – In no particular order. 

• White Lotus

• Righteous Gemstones

• Survivor

• Parks and Rec

• Severance

• The Studio

Movies – Best to less best. The majority of these were rewatching old movies.

• Sing Sing

• Before Sunrise

• To Live and Die in LA

• Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

• Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

• Crimson Tide

• Star Trek: First Contact

• Heretic

• Den of Thieves

• Star Trek: Insurrection

Video Games 

Split Fiction

Escape Academy

Balatro 

Board Games

Blood on the Clocktower - Continues to be a blast to play this at Rush’s house. I still think we should consider doing some Patreon bonus content where we play the game together… but it might be too complicated for some. That said, I’VE been enjoying watching some games on YouTube, especially the Rob Has a Podcast games with former Survivor players.

From Adal:

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

TV: 

• Common Side Effects (highly highly recommended if you’re in the mood for a funny, funky, conspiracy laden animated show!)

• Top Chef season 22

• Daredevil: Born Again

• Everybody Live w/ John Mulaney

• Love on the Spectrum season 3

• Righteous Gemstones season 4

• Rhys Darby In Japan

• Mo season 2

• Court of Gold

MOVIES:

• Anora

• Saturday Night

OTHER: 

• Jemma and I had a blast on JoCo Cruise and hope we’re back next year or sometime soon with Hey Riddle and/or Magic Tavern

• We also had a splendid time in Hong Kong, Okinawa and Tokyo for Jemma’s birthday. This time to Japan we played 50x’s more claw machine. 

• Enjoyed listening to the new Beirut album, ‘Tuanaki Atoll’

• Seemingly I’m headed to Scotland in late May/early June for my birthday and I’d love any recs if ya’ll have any. I don’t want to upset anyone but this is a hunting trip and I’m hunting Shrek. It’s him or me….

Adal


UDPATE from MATT March 2025

We had a great March! Happy 10th Anniversary!

I’m switching up the format here, because I’ve been busy and don’t have much to report. Sorry to be posting this late! Adal sent us a reminder and I just lost track of time.

Gundam Report: I finished Double Zeta Gundam and Char’s Counterattack. I’m trying to get some of the other Gundam shows on blu-ray (I was all in on streaming and now I’ve done a 180), but they can be crazy expensive. And annoyingly, I’ve been able to find deals on many season sets where I only got Volume 1, but not Volume 2 or (even worse) vice versa. But it’s a start.

Jessye and I watched all three of the Anne of Green Gables movies (starring Megan Follows). Great stuff!

I attended the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards in Austin, TX (happening during SXSW). We won the Best Fiction award! Jessye went with me and we walked our first red carpet and saw some friends and some celebrities (from far away). They sat us down in front, and I thought maybe I was going to have to go up and give a speech, but (fortunately?) it was just announced in the montage.

Still slowly wedding planning but going to kick that into high gear!

Matt