Hello from the Magic Tavern (season 5)
| Hello from the Magic Tavern (season 5) | |
| Logo Art by Allard Laban | |
| Hosts | Arnie, Chunt, Usidore the Blue |
| Release | |
| First episode | March 17, 2024 |
| Network | -none- |
| Production | |
| Producers | Arnie Niekamp, Adal Rifai, Matt Young |
| Theme music | Andy Poland |
| Logo | Allard Laban |
The fifth season of Hello from the Magic Tavern premiered on March 17, 2024. Fooniverse and other Patreon-exclusive episodes also aired in tandem with season 5.
Cast
Main
- Arnie Niekamp as Arnie, a human podcaster who fell through a dimensional portal to Foon
- Adal Rifai as Chunt, a shapeshifter usually in the form of a badger
- Matt Young as Usidore the Blue, a wizard and sworn enemy of the Dark Lord
Recurring
See also: List of "Hello From the Magic Tavern" guests
- Tim Sniffen as Mysterious Man, an enigmatic announcer who insists the podcast is not real
Episodes
See also: List of "Hello From the Magic Tavern" episodes Seasons 1-3
See also: List of "Hello From the Magic Tavern" episodes Seasons 4 and up
| No. in season | Title | Original air date |
| 1 | "Wanderlost (w/ Sam Reich)" | March 17, 2024 |
| The new season begins in a new tavern interviewing a king who can't decide who to leave his kingdom to. | ||
| 2 | "Wizardsbane (w/ Kate Welch)" | March 24, 2024 |
| A woman staying at the tavern is secretly sometimes a wizard killer. | ||
| 3 | "Dwarf Bard (w/ Taran Killam)" | March 31, 2024 |
| MC G.P. is a boisterous dwarf making rhythmic beats. Make some noise! | ||
| 4 | "King Ron (w/ Ron Funches & Erin Keif live from San Francisco Sketchfest)" | April 7, 2024 |
| Our live show from San Francisco Sketchfest with Ron Funches as a worried King and Erin Keif as Momo the Mouse with Human Strength. | ||
| 5 | "Rhiannon Now (w/ Kate James)" | April 14, 2024 |
| Catching up with the new Queen of the Northeast, Rhiannon (former milkmaid and former talking nut). | ||
| 6 | "Tom the War King (w/ Steve Waltien)" | April 21, 2024 |
| Can a visit with King Tomblain Belaroth help in the War on Wizards? | ||
| 6a | "Book Club Announcement!" | April 25, 2024 |
| Arnie, Chunt, and Usidore have heard the feedback from March Magic and it’s time to read the children’s book, Pippi Longstocking! This new Book Club episode will be available to supporters on Patreon starting on May 23rd. You have about a month to read the book yourself, and then listen to the gang share their thoughts! | ||
| 7 | "Inventory Imp (w/ Oscar Montoya)" | April 28, 2024 |
| Ivan the Inventory Imp is eager to clear out the clutter and eat some garbage. | ||
| 8 | "Singing Sword Now (w/ Erica Elam)" | May 5, 2024 |
| The Singing Sword returns along with her assorted stabby children. | ||
| 9 | "Germ Crust Now (w/ Mary Tilden)" | May 12, 2024 |
| Germ Crust visits to introduce Usidore to her new love. | ||
| 10 | "Finder of Lost Things (w/ Carisa Barreca)" | May 19, 2024 |
| Valencia Montagoo comes from a long line of finders and is going to help find the missing tavern. | ||
| 11 | "Reba McEntiger (w/ Stevie Shale)" | May 26, 2024 |
| A giant tiger with a country music singing career stops by. | ||
| 12 | "Paladin (w/ Xu Mason)" | June 2, 2024 |
| Dagobert the Paladin used to be a princess but now she fights for her goddess. | ||
| 13 | "Forest Fairy (w/ Kate Lambert)" | June 9, 2024 |
| A tiny forest fairy is tired of being so magical. | ||
| 14 | "Mole Warriors Now (w/ Sean Clements and Hayes Davenport of Hollywood Handbook)" | June 16, 2024 |
| Mel Mole and Mort Sauce, the Mole Warriors, are ready to fight in the Animal War. | ||
| 15 | "Giant (w/ Vic Michaelis)" | June 23, 2024 |
| Garli, a young giant woman, is waiting in the tavern for a date that may or may not show up. | ||
| 16 | "Bone Mage (w/ Jacob Wysocki)" | July 7, 2024 |
| Got some bones you don’t need? Well, the Bone Mage has an offer for you. | ||
| 17 | "Boy King Now (w/ Jordan Morris)" | July 14, 2024 |
| Dartholomew the Boy King is back and he’s training to be a boy wizard…king. | ||
| 18 | "Ancient War Turtle (w/ Olivia Nielsen)" | July 21, 2024 |
| Hildy the ancient turtle is a secret spy in the Animal War! | ||
| 19 | "Fluff the Squirrel Now (w/ Josh Gondelman)" | July 28, 2024 |
| Things have been rough for Fluff the Squirrel who claims to be very cool and popular. | ||
| 20 | "Centaur House (w/ Rob Cesternino & Brooke Breit)" | August 4, 2024 |
| Rob Centaurnino and Flower update us on Foon's hottest reality competition: Centaur House. | ||
| 21 | "Lady of the Garden (w/ Caitlin Barlow)" | August 11, 2024 |
| Tabitha Parsley is on the run for trying to help women with vegetables. | ||
| 22 | "Porvis & Dump (w/ Jon Mackey & David Brown)" | August 18, 2024 |
| Porvis and Dump are carriage drivers who stumbled upon the largest pile of magic items anyone has ever seen. | ||
| 23 | "Working Princess (w/ Emily Fleming)" | August 25, 2024 |
| A princess has been ordered to work at the tavern, but she doesn't like it. And she has strong feelings about Usidore. | ||
| 24 | "Knight & Sword (w/ Brendan Jennings & Mark Raterman)" | September 1, 2024 |
| Popular influencer knight Sir Diggity visits with his mystical talking sword. | ||
| 25 | "Guy Who Knows Some Magic (w/ Zac Oyama)" | September 8, 2024 |
| Duncan Potatogrease wants to play a tavern game to see who's better at being absolutely rocked in the face by magic. | ||
| 26 | "Corpse Collector (w/ Anna Garcia)" | September 15, 2024 |
| Winthrop McRottibotti is here to collect any dead bodies and see what they have in their pockets. | ||
| 27 | "Borghilde Now (w/ Rebecca Hanson)" | September 22, 2024 |
| Borghilde the Fortune Teller returns and she's really into grilled cheese now. | ||
| 28 | "The Scholar Now (w/ Craig Cackowski)" | September 29, 2024 |
| A visit to the Great Halls of Terr'akkas leads to a reunion with the mysterious (and mysteriously changed) Scholar. | ||
| 29 | "Rescue Team (w/ Jon Gabrus)" | October 6, 2024 |
| Someone has finally come to save Arnie. A Delta Force soldier named Clint. | ||
| 30 | "Jackalope (w/ Whitney Chitwood)" | October 13, 2024 |
| The guys meet Ricky Springfoot, a jackelope who "disappears" folks on the eve of her wedding. | ||
| 31 | "Sorcererer (w/ Brad Sherwood)" | October 20, 2024 |
| This sorcererer (not sorcerer) can fly and has a wide array of unimpressive magic. | ||
| 32 | "Micronomo (w/ Eric Muller)" | October 27, 2024 |
| Micronomo is a strange wooden man with a small secret inside him. | ||
| 33 | "Three Hovering Rods (w/ John Moe)" | November 3, 2024 |
| Thr is three hovering metal rods, wearing some hats and interested in the human experience. | ||
| 34 | "Spintax the Warlord (w/ Charlie McCrackin, Colleen Doyle & Dana Quercioli)" | November 10, 2024 |
| Spintax the Green has started broadcasting his own podcast from his wizard towers in Foon and he's abducted Ahag and Giannessa as his guests. Oh, Carnival Wilson is there too. | ||
| 34a | "Patreon Unlock: Book Club: Pippi Longstocking" | November 17, 2024 |
| Enjoy this unlocked bonus episode from our Patreon! Usidore, Chunt, Arnie, and Flower share their thoughts about the book, Pippi Longstocking. Who is the real Pippi? | ||
| 34b | "Patreon Unlock: Conversational Improv" | November 24, 2024 |
| Enjoy this unlocked bonus episode from our Patreon! Arnie, Matt, and Adal chat and do some improv scenes inspired by their conversation. | ||
| 35 | "Magic Bean (w/ Lisa Gilroy)" | December 1, 2024 |
| Meet Beanla the adorable talking bean with one day left to live. | ||
| 36 | "Cyclops (w/ Charles "Chuck" Bryant from Stuff You Should Know)" | December 8, 2024 |
| Brock the Cyclops is cursed to wander Foon sharing his stolen knowledge of useless things. | ||
| 37 | "Bag of Holding (w/ Justin Michael)" | December 15, 2024 |
| Gobblin' the Swallower is a talking bag of holding that really wants to gobble up our magical loot. | ||
| 37a | "Winter Solstice Bonus 2024" | December 22, 2024 |
| Arnie. Chunt and Usidore enjoy some winter solstice snowfall and learn more about Glassy the Kill Man. For the holidays! | ||
| 37b | "Patreon Unlock: AMMA: Ask Mysterious Man Anything" | December 29, 2024 |
| Enjoy this unlocked bonus episode from our Patreon! The Mysterious Man answers your questions from Patreon! | ||
| 38 | "Merzia Now (w/ Janet Varney)" | January 5, 2025 |
| The Red Queen Merzia returns to separate Arnie from his friends. Also, it’s Arnie’s birthday! | ||
| 39 | "Master of Rules (w/ Peter Gwinn)" | January 12, 2025 |
| All of the rules of Foon are being updated and the Master of Rules is here to reveal the new rule manuals. | ||
| 40 | "Momo the Pest (w/ Erin Keif)" | January 19, 2025 |
| Momo the Mouse with Human Strength is back and she's horrified to discover how many mouse traps there are in the tavern. | ||
| 41 | "Metamore Now (w/ Bill Arnett)" | January 26, 2025 |
| Metamore is back but this time instead of playing a game, he's hiding out from dwarves that want to kill him. | ||
| 42 | "Duck (w/ Christy Bonstell)" | February 2, 2025 |
| Frankie the Duck is stressed out about the Animal War because ducks sort of live in the water, land and sky. | ||
| 43 | "Business Night" | February 9, 2025 |
| Arnie calls the first business meeting to order to answer emails, figure out the animal war and decide if they should get tattoos. | ||
| 44 | "Coach (w/ Rekha Shankar)" | February 16, 2025 |
| Coach Broth talks about the joys and challenges of coaching centaur basketball. | ||
| 45 | "Mothman Now (w/ Hank Green)" | February 23, 2025 |
| Hans Hoffman Science Mothman is back and he's desperate to learn about what science is on Earth from Arnie. | ||
| 46 | "Dripfang's Apprentice (w/ Kevin Sciretta & Carisa Barreca)" | March 2, 2025 |
| The dastardly necromancer Dripfang is back and he's brought along a powerful young villain in training. | ||
| 47 | "Ten Years (w/ Paul F. Tompkins, Matt Gourley & Mark McConville)" | March 9, 2025 |
| It's the ten year anniversary episode and our huge guests are three kings who may join our fight against the wizards. Maybe. | ||
| 48 | "Chronicler (w/ Richard Kind & Erin Keif Live from SF Sketchfest)" | March 16, 2025 |
| Recorded live at Club Fugazi as part of San Francisco Sketchfest. The King's Chronicler visits to discuss his chronicling process and he brings along a small familiar guest. Okay, it's Momo. | ||
| 49 | "Warlock Now (w/ Tyler Davis)" | March 23, 2025 |
| Nicholas Fump returns for a second attempt at exacting his revenge on Usidore. | ||
| 50 | "Claudia Now (w/ Beth Melewski)" | March 30, 2025 |
| The boys search for answers about the missing villains by visiting Claudia the Witch! | ||
| 50a | "Patreon Unlock: Girls Night: Cruisin' I" | April 6, 2025 |
| Enjoy this unlocked bonus episode from our Patreon! Flower, Momo, and Gianessa head out on a vacation cruise. | ||
| 51 | "Prison Prince Vantis (w/ Jason Mantzoukas)" | April 13, 2025 |
| As Arnie, Chunt, and Usidore adjust to life as prisoners in the Topless Tower, Sweet Prince Vantis arrives to show them the ropes. | ||
| 52 | "Prison Kalhaxorous (w/ Brennan Lee Mulligan)" | April 20, 2025 |
| The Death Knight teaches Arnie, Usidore, and Chunt how to work in the cafeteria. | ||
| 53 | "Prison Freshgrave Twins (w/ Jessica McKenna & Zach Reino)" | April 27, 2025 |
| The Freshgrave Twins are in prison awaiting trial and they're eager to share some shady business opportunities. | ||
| 54 | "Prison Snake Princess (w/ Sayjal Joshi)" | May 4, 2025 |
| Foofina the Snake Princess wants to help Arnie, Usidore and Chunt survive prison by making them her minions. | ||
| 55 | "Prison Whisperbrew (w/ Brendan Dowling)" | May 11, 2025 |
| Benedict Whisperbrew, the former Court Eunuch for the Belaroths, has been imprisoned for crimes against the arts. | ||
| 56 | "Prison Soulwalker (w/ Ross Bryant)" | May 18, 2025 |
| There's more than one Soulwalker trapped in this prison and they all want to kill Arnie. | ||
| 57 | "Poultice Maker (w/ Chris Grace)" | May 25, 2025 |
| Prentice Medway, the Poultice Maker, is missing some important ingredients for his magical salves. | ||
| 58 | "Magic Crow (w/ Aimee Mann)" | June 2, 2025 |
| We climb to the top of a mountain to ask Radisson Cawthorn, the magical crow, life's most important questions. | ||
| 59 | "Extraordinary Boris (w/ Kyle Bethea)" | June 9, 2025 |
| Extraordinary Boris, the ruler of the land animals, has summoned Chunt and demands he give up his shapeshifting abilities. Will he? | ||
| 60 | "Abomination (w/ Sandeep Parikh)" | June 16, 2025 |
| Salkataur the Abomination was created to destroy a demon king. But what does he do now? | ||
| 61 | "Mailmanmen (w/ John Hartman)" | June 22, 2025 |
| Sendor Mailmanmen is a mailman with no magical powers but a troubling curse. | ||
| 61a | "Patreon Unlock: Shadow City: Season 3, Ep 1: Trouble in Tinseltown (w/ Anthony Burch)" | June 29, 2025 |
| Enjoy this unlocked bonus episode from our Patreon! Crusher, Punches, and Ma are on prisoners on a chain gang and the only way out? Time travel! | ||
| 61b | "Patreon Unlock: Boys Night: Camping" | July 6, 2025 |
| Enjoy this unlocked bonus episode from our Patreon! Usidore, Chunt, and Arnie head to the woods for some rest and relaxation. | ||
| 62 | "Familiar Rescuer (w/ Holly Conrad)" | July 13, 2025 |
| Aggie Thistlefield runs a rescue shelter for difficult to handle animal familiars. | ||
| 63 | "Bridge Troll Now (w/ Padraic Connelly)" | July 20, 2025 |
| Returning to Hogsface means crossing the Ashit Bridge and dealing with Clovis the bridge troll. | ||
| 64 | "Flower's Bar (w/ Brooke Breit)" | July 27, 2025 |
| We return to the tavern the Ruffled Feather, on the outskirts of Hogsface, and its new owner is Flower the talking flower. | ||
| 65 | "Tom the Memory (w/Steve Waltien live from NYC)" | August 3, 2025 |
| Usidore summons a version of Tomblain Belaroth from before he was a king and before he wanted to kill Arnie. Recorded live in New York City at the City Winery. | ||
| 66 | "Windsprinkle Now (w/ Peter Sagal)" | August 10, 2025 |
| Windsprinkle the Unicorn is back to apologize for his terrible behavior in the past and share some new bad ideas for the future. | ||
| 67 | "Five Finger Wolf Man (w/ Ify Nwadiwe)" | August 17, 2025 |
| Five Finger Wolfman, the gambler-turned-werewolf, has a new plan to eat a grandma. | ||
| 68 | "Honk if You're Hungry (w/ Ross Kimball)" | August 24, 2025 |
| Honk the Assassin is back and you won't believe what he's… okay, fine, he's trying to kill Arnie. | ||
| 69 | "Automa-Tawny the Automaton Townie (w/ Tawny Newsome)" | August 31, 2025 |
| Automa-Tawny the Automaton Townie is a clockwork robot that's a local in every town. She was also the winner of this year's March Magic bracket of powerful magic user despite little to no evidence of magical abilities. | ||
| 70 | "Shopping" | September 7, 2025 |
| A shopping trip in Hogsface leads to a shocking run-in with someone we won't reveal in the episode description. | ||
| 71 | "Super Studs (live from Somerville, MA)" | September 14, 2025 |
| Usidore uses magic to summon items from Earth that are both wondrous and annoying. Recorded live at Arts at the Armory in Somerville, MA on July 18 2025. | ||
| 72 | "Fluff Bloodpants (w/ Josh Gondelman)" | September 21, 2025 |
| Fluff the Squirrel is back and he has an insatiable thirst for blood. | ||
| 73 | "Aaaaaangus the Artful (w/ Rhett Miller)" | September 28, 2025 |
| We pay a visit to Grossland, the rundown mansion of Aaaangus the Bard. | ||
| 74 | "Monster Under the Bed (w/ Lauren Lapkus)" | October 5, 2025 |
| Arnie has a monster living under his bed named Grumby that wants to crawl into his mouth. | ||
| 75 | "Planning Meeting" | October 12, 2025 |
| Arnie, Chunt and Usidore catch up on the progress of all their schemes. Arnie has a big plan that could maybe change everything. | ||
| 76 | "Night Ticklers (w/ Ross Bryant and Joey Bland)" | October 19, 2025 |
| The acting troupe the Cockticklers are back but tough times in Foon have reduced them to doing… sponsored content! | ||
| 77 | "Chunt for Blue October (w/ John Patrick Coan)" | October 26, 2025 |
| A man with a ghoul for a hand crashes Chunt for Red October, the yearly blood drive for vampires. | ||
| 78 | "Lady Dowager (w/ Pratima Mani)" | November 2, 2025 |
| Lady Dowager is a four time winner of Foon's Most Eligible Widow and she's angling for a fifth win. | ||
| 79 | "Still Princess Trachea-Aurelia Belaroth (w/ Megan O’Neill live in Charlotte, NC)" | November 9, 2025 |
| The mostly evil Princess Trachea-Aurelia Belaroth returns looking for someone’s life force to suck out. | ||
| 80 | "Pandenomicon Now (w/ Charlie McCrackin)" | November 16, 2025 |
| Usidore finds the Pandenomicon, the magical talking book written by Spintax the Green. Can the book be used to discover Spintax's evil plans? | ||
| 80a | "Patreon Unlock: Talkin' Tabs" | November 23, 2025 |
| 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. | ||
| 80b | "BONUS: Introducing No Skip Christmas - Justin McElroy" | November 26, 2025 |
| Check out the first episode of Arnie’s new podcast miniseries No Skip Christmas with guest Justin McElroy! | ||
| 80c | "Patreon Unlock: Podpires (I)" | November 30, 2025 |
| Enjoy this unlocked bonus episode from our Patreon! The most popular podcast in all of Foon is finally available on this podcast feed. | ||
| 81 | "Tiny Lizard (w/ Mayanna Berrin)" | December 7, 2025 |
| Scrunch is a tiny lizard that wants to be a dragon. For revenge! | ||
| 82 | "Princess and Witch (w/ Josephine McAdam)" | December 14, 2025 |
| Princess Katerina comes looking for help with a horrible curse that turns her into a witch at night. The witch wants help too. | ||
| 82a | "Winter Solstice Bonus 2025" | December 21, 2025 |
| 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. | ||
| 82b | "Patreon Unlock: Hello from the Teeny Tavern (I)" | December 28, 2025 |
| Enjoy this unlocked bonus episode from our Patreon! Momo hosts a tiny version of Hello from the Magic Tavern from a hole near the table. | ||
| 82c | "Patreon Unlock: Stargazing" | January 4, 2026 |
| Enjoy this unlocked bonus episode from our Patreon! Imagine…looking at the stars with Arnie, Chunt, and Usidore…as they let their minds…free. | ||
| 83 | "DQ in Pizza Hell (w/ Tim Ryder)" | January 11, 2026 |
| A quest to Pizza Hell to save Arnor the Warrior… leads to a reunion with the elf D’athaniel Quen’yarvin. What's he been kicking in Pizza Hell? | ||
| 84 | "Sword Bro in Pizza Hell (w/ Erika Ishii)" | January 18, 2026 |
| A trip through Pizza Hell leads to a reunion with dragon "enthusiast" Kelvaxostrastymor Ebonwing aka the Sword Bro. | ||
| 85 | "Arnor in Pizza Hell (w/ Blaine Swen)" | January 25, 2026 |
| A journey through Pizza Hell finally leads to one last chance to save Arnor the Warrior from a pasta afterlife. | ||
| 86 | "Gianessa Now (w/ Dana Quercioli)" | February 1, 2026 |
| Gianessa, the overworked mayor, considers future plans for Hogsface. | ||
| 87 | "Talking Crossbow Now (w/ Colton Dunn)" | February 8, 2026 |
| DeMonte the talking crossbow is back and starting a juice business. Also, Usidore is acting strange. | ||
| 88 | "Ancient Thriving Turtle (w/ Olivia Nielsen)" | February 15, 2026 |
| Hildy the ancient turtle is back and she's mad at her children for putting her in an Assisted Thriving Community. | ||
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