This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about wizards.

Topics, roughly:

• Fantasy wizards
• Space wizards
• Beards and wizards and gender
• Vancian spellcasting
• Wizard taxonomy
• The Baal Shem
• Book learnin’
• Towers and Discworld wizards
• Dragonlance wizards
• Tolkien wizards
• Iceman with a wizard beard
• Which animals make the best wizards
• Magic: the Gathering
• Our wizardy D&D characters