Season 5, Ep 90 - Fool (w/ Jonathan Coulton)
Hello From The Magic Tavern
Arnie Niekamp
4.8 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Phineas the Fool, the most famous court jester in Foon, is very serious when he's off the clock.
Credits
Arnie: Arnie Niekamp
Phineas the Fool: Jonathan Coulton
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
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered why we call French fries French fries or why something is the greatest |
| 0:04.8 | thing since sliced bread? There are answers to those questions. Everything Everywhere Daily is a podcast |
| 0:10.3 | for curious people who want to learn more about the world around them. Every day you'll learn |
| 0:14.8 | something new about things you never knew you didn't know. Subjects include history, science, geography, |
| 0:20.5 | mathematics, and culture. If you're a curious person and want to learn more about the world you live in, just subscribe to everything everywhere daily wherever you cast your pod. |
| 0:36.0 | People of Earth, the following podcast is not real. |
| 0:39.3 | Well, I have been encouraged to inform you that there is now a pizza skull shirt available in the Magic Tavern Dashery Store. |
| 0:47.7 | Link to the store in the show notes, which also features the I'm Moving to Foon shirt. |
| 0:53.0 | No, you're not. You have no way of getting there. |
| 0:55.6 | The get-nuts shirt, and lots more. |
| 0:58.6 | Really, all the fashion equipment needed to convince anyone you might encounter that something |
| 1:03.1 | is deeply off. |
| 1:04.7 | So go get a shirt. |
| 1:06.2 | But if you need a moment to think over that decision, only too understandable, then sit back and enjoy |
| 1:12.4 | the show. |
| 1:13.2 | The show. Hello for the Magic Tavern, a weekly podcast from the magical land of foon. |
| 1:39.5 | I'm your host, Arnie Necamp. |
| 1:40.9 | If you've never listened to the podcast before, this is everything you need to know. |
| 1:45.0 | Nearly 11 years ago, I fell through a dimensional portal behind a Burger King in Chicago into the magical, fantastical land of Foon. |
| 1:52.9 | Luckily, I'm still getting a Wi-Fi signal through the dimensional rift, and I use that to upload a podcast recorded here in the Tavern, the Strange Familiar, in of Nibble Bottom at the base of the unnameable mountain in the magical land of foon. And I'm joined, as always, by my co-host, Chunt the Talking Badger. Oh, yeah, baby. How you doing, buddy? Doing pretty good. How you doing, Cus? I'm doing all right, Cuss. That's right. We're cousins. |
| 2:23.3 | That's right. We're cousins. I've been focusing on our friendship and ignoring our cousinship for a little while. |
| 2:31.5 | Yeah. With the best ship for, well, not for sailing. Best ship for something. Hmm. That's a boat ship. |
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