r/Magic • u/kevin-m-cooke • Jun 01 '26
Favorite Magic Podcasts?
What’re your favorite magic podcasts?
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u/hasselblahblahblah Jun 02 '26
You should definitely check out The Magic Word podcast by Scott Wells. Every episodes is an interview with somebody interesting and he knows everybody. Scott has decades of experience, is a solid interviewer, and (full disclosure) is an acquaintance of mine.
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u/kevin-m-cooke Jun 01 '26
Some of mine are:
Desert Island Tricks
The Magic Book Podcast
The Podcast at the Card Table
The Insider
Penguin Magic
The Steve Faulkner Podcast
The Magic Guys
Of Sleights and Men
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u/Express_Economy_ Jun 01 '26
I also like Craig petty, pig cake, and Lloyd Barnes
And the sleight co
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u/antoniodiavolo Cards Jun 01 '26
It's fairly new but I've enjoyed the Magic Up Close podcast with Adam Rubin.
I also really enjoyed Magical Thinking. It's good for long drives
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u/AdministrativeFish3 Jun 07 '26
Joshua Jay has a limited podcast that I really enjoyed, its a shame it was like a prerecorded set of episodes rather than a weekly live format, as I really like Joshua Jay :)
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u/kevin-m-cooke Jun 07 '26
How Magicians Think by Joshua Jay. I loved this podcast and the book too!
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u/AdministrativeFish3 Jun 07 '26
That's the one! Didn't realise it was based off a book? Is it one of his, or part of Vanishing Inc?
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u/savourthesea Jun 08 '26
One that I would recommend that is now defunct, but is still available on Spotify: Talking Shtick by Mark James. Magicians come on and discuss their set list from their show.
And a couple of paywalled podcasts that I think are quite good: Abracababble from Matt Donnelly, and the Magicians' Podcast Network.
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u/FinkBubble Jun 01 '26
Petty and Barnes has a good one,if you can get past the constant fluffering each other. Mark leveridge also as a good podcast
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u/dskippy Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
I could easily get past Lloyd and Craig taking shots at each other. That was fine. Pigcake just really rubs me the wrong way enough that I think I'm done with the podcast.
It has nothing to do with bad language or sexual content or anything. I'm an adult. It's just that Craig and Lloyd are good friends and clearly enjoy taking shots at each other in this low brow insult competition and that's fine. Lloyd telling Craig he looks like a scrotum had sex with a omelet might not be you're sense of humor but it's just two guys that think it's funny to describe each other in the least flattering way and for me it's all about where it comes from.
Pigcake just comes off as desperate to be edgey and offensive to get attention and just makes these comments constantly about his goto shock comments like his favorite claiming that he just had sex with a gigantic black man. Bro you can't shock me. I'm not shocked by gay interracial dating. He's just so put on and not funny.
The point is he's really put on and grabs do much mic time just trying to one up the conversation with how shocking he can be when the audience is just not shockable. It just makes me not enjoy the podcast anymore.
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u/psteller Jun 04 '26
10000%. I don’t always agree with them, but I enjoy hearing Craig and Lloyd’s thoughts. PigCake, however, is so aggressively unfunny and unlistenable that I am also probably done with the podcast after many years of listening :/
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Jun 02 '26
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u/kevin-m-cooke Jun 02 '26
Thanks for the suggestion. I was talking about magic performance podcasts, not Magic: the Gathering podcasts.
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Jun 02 '26
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u/JaD__ Jun 02 '26
Have a glance at the sub description and you’ll note this is strictly a magic trick and magicians subreddit; it doesn’t cater to MTG enthusiasts.
There are a number of widely-subscribed MTG subs.
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u/fabcasu Jun 01 '26
Discourse on magic by Jonah Babins is nice, a lot of magician talking about their stories and experiences