A podcast two best friends share their love of Leigh Barudgo’s Grishaverse chapter by chapter! Geoff (the expert) and Julianna (the newbie) are here serve you fun conversations, chapter rereads and hot takes about the fantastical world of the Grishaverse (the books and beyond) created by the lovely Leigh Bardugo.
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GrishaCast is a weekly journey into the Grishaverse created by Leigh Bardugo. Join your hosts Eric & Terry as they discuss the novels and Netflix series, starting from the very beginning. The GrishaCast embraces diversity and inclusion and recognizes our responsibility to foster an open, welcoming environment where every person, regardless of background, identity, sexual orientation, religion, or nationality can be their authentic selves. We value the benefits that arise from diverse experie ...
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Three friends dive into the world of Shadow and Bone and the Grishaverse, discussing everything from our favorite characters to implications of the worldbuilding, and back. Discussions will include spoilers for all of the Grishaverse! Cover art photo by Kevin Mueller on Unsplash
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In part 2 of Crooked Kingdom, we start with a visit from Jesper’s father and end with chaos in costumes while rescuing a beloved member of the team! Geoff has a crush on Colm Fahey, and we don’t blame them Matthias is a surprisingly good L&D nurse Did Inej go just a little too far this time? Nina’s road to recovery and reconnection with her communi…
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It’s time for us to get cracking on Crooked Kingdom! Retvenko Rewind: it’s okay, we forgot about him too Kaz wouldn’t really do THAT, would he? Nina’s secret plan to get Matthias to adopt Kuwei Inej’s escape plan is more horrifying than we realized Fun Segment: a double dose of Mad Lib! Question of the week: Would Kaz have traded for Inej if she ha…
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Six of Crows Trivia Smackdown with Sombra y Cuervos
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In this highly anticipated episode, Geoff and Julianna face off against Lucero and Dani from the "Sombra y Cuervos" podcast in an epic Six of Crows trivia smackdown! After some unavoidable delays (sorry about that, folks!), we are back with a jam-packed episode full of Kaz Brekker-level trickery, wild guesses, and plenty of laughs. We dive deep int…
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The listeners have spoken, and the final two villains in our bracket are the Darkling and Kaz Brekker! Eric and Terry present Ted Talks to defend each villain and fight for why they are the best. Also listen as our hosts try to justify drinking from a hose and hacking your hair off. Remember to vote for the final showdown on grishacast.com! For the…
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Here it is! The episode that should have been at Literary Ink but we now bring to you not live! Geoff is back and feeling better! This episode highlights what we love about this book, including: Strong women who don’t need a man Differently-abled representation Multiple perspectives Characters working through their traumas A crap ton of quotable li…
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Live from the Literary Ink tattoo convention in Chattanooga, Tennessee we have the one and only Julianna! Unfortunately Geoff got covid as was not able to make the convention and we were all SO SAD! But alas we make due! Please enjoy this live mini episode of just Julianna at Literary Ink chatting with friends and con goeres as to who the Grishaver…
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Eric and Terry talk for quite a while about baby kitten fosters, body acne, and the fact that no one really cares about what you’re doing. They share the results of the Villain bracket and use 10 words to describe each character. Make sure to vote on the Final Four! Who will move on to the Final Two? Go to GrishaCast.com to vote. Then listen to the…
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Six of Crows Chapters 39 Through the End
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Let the record show that we kept our promise! We have reached the end of Six of Crows before we got to LIterary Ink this summer, and also in this glorious month of Pride! Inej and Nina are DEFINITELY worse off by the end of the book Kaz has been playing Jenga this entire time Matthias and Wylan are transformed in SO many ways Can we REALLY blame Je…
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Terry & Eric are back after 2 whole months. The hosts jump back into the Villain Bracket with Acrostic fun! Listen as we make up words, giggle at nonsense, and really just be ridiculous. Before all that, listen to us gush over Nicholas Galitzine, talk way too long about what books we’re reading, and the shows we’re watching. But back to the bracket…
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We are BACK and super psyched to get into the thick of the action with chapters 32-38 of Six of Crows! We DID read The Familiar, but our full reviews will have to wait Cheers from new friends across the globe! How to flirt while danger is imminent Should it matter that the target of their mission has changed? The satisfaction of two lovers FINALLY …
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Geoff and Julianna's Friendship Corner!!! (Life Updates!)
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Hello Friends! It's been a while and we have missed you so! We just wanted to drop a quick episode to say HIIIIIIIIII! We love you! We are still here! And we will have more full episodes out soon! So please enjoy some life updates from us (Geoff and Julianna) and know that we appreciate you SOOOOOOOOO much!!!n HUGS!!!! xoxo Not Gossip Girl (unless …
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The Ice Court Job is in FULL EFFECT in this week’s episode, as we get into chapters 27-31 of Six of Crows! LB is going on tour (let us know if you plan to go)! Did Jesper kill a guy, or just knock him out? Matthias doesn’t pair well with anyone… or does he? Kaz might have more privilege than he realizes Nina and Inej should really just have their o…
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Terry & Eric catch us up on their Purim festivities. Chris reveals who won the most powerful Grisha - was it who you voted for? That bracket was fun, don’t ya think? So much fun that we’re doing it again, but this time for Best Villain. The hosts pair up the first round of our bracket and await your vote at grishacast.com. Go! For the best experien…
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Six of Crows: Chapters 22 through 26 (aka Backstory 101)
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Before Geoff and Julianna head off on their world travels, we have to talk about this prison break. So, this week, we are getting into chapters 22-26 of SoC! Some of the characters are just… there. The things Jesper has to do for love (and to break out of prison). There’s a reason Inej is holding onto hope better than Kaz The end of the Kaz Brekker…
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We have our final two in our Most Powerful Grisha bracket. Eric and Terry deliver TED Talks to best inform your vote at grishacast.com. Who’s going to win? Find out next time! For the best experience, you can watch our podcast video on YouTube! Search for GrishaCast. Please like, share and follow us on our social media channels and visit our websit…
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Season Two Grab Bag(hra*) and Listener Questions
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We are back! With more thoughts on season two and some great listener theories and prompts. We answer such questions as: How do we feel about the show being cancelled, and what do we hope to see next for the Grishaverse? What is up with the tether in season two? And, of course: how much rampant speculation about Grisha powers can possibly fit in on…
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In this long overdue episode, your hosts Eric and Terry fill you in on the last few weeks, play ‘10 words to defend’, and have a generally fun-filled time discussing the Grishaverse while Eric might have been experiencing his first stroke and if in a paddle boat would have paddled all the way to Wisconsin. For the best experience, you can watch our…
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Everyone has been asking "where did the Grishacast go?". We're right here, plagued with sub-zero freezing, COVID, and a full mixed bag of various and sundry show-stopping action. In this episode Eric and Terry reveal the results of the bracket voting that you, our wonderful listeners, voted on. Make sure to vote in the next round on our website. Ho…
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Six of Crows Book Club: Chapters 20 and 21
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This week, we’re stopping off at a coffee shop (they have those) to discuss chapters 20 and 21 of Six of Crows! New goal: finished SoC by the time we present at Literary Ink in July! LB is serving some serious press realness for her new book: The Familiar “It” may be hard to talk about, but we have to acknowledge it The moment we realized there IS …
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Episode 59: Six of Crows Chapters 18 & 19
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We’re back on our chapter discussions (and our usual shenanigans)! Our podcast has a new executive producer ;-) Check out Geoff on TV and Movie Trivia Podcast w/ Brian Sheehan Kaz and Matthias are more similar than they think Flashbacks with seamless transitions Geoff is NOT defending Pekka Rollins… However… All the best lines are said BY Kaz or AB…
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Winter Fete 2023 Featuring Not So Young Adults Pod
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Happy Holidays to you and yours! Wherever, whatever, and however you celebrate, we are so happy to have another year with you on the books. Once again, we come together to celebrate our Winter Fete! This time, we are joined by our dear friends and podcasting pals Spencer and Jess from Not So Young Adults/Twi-Lit Podcast! Set the Scene: “Vicar of Di…
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In this fourth installment of Grishaversary, Eric and Terry continue to celebrate with cosplay. Eric and Terry present a bracket pitting your favorite Grisha names against each other. Who will be the winner? Our listeners will choose! Go to our website and take the poll to select the winners. We deeply appreciate our listeners that have supported u…
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With so much going on around the holidays, we had a lot of energy going into this week’s new episode! Bridges can be hills? Netflix canceled Shadow & Bone (spoiler alert: Geoff is not taking it well) It’s time for some GIRL TALK! The Ice Court Mission: the worst group date ever We need to talk about Jesper Fun Segment: Who’s Coming to Dinner: Six o…
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Time to round off part 2 of SoC this week with chapters 14 and 15! Nina and Matthias are so intertwined, they even take turns telling the same backstory Nina must have been a protege Matthias gets to represent his people because he’s *not* the worst There’s a lot more Hadestown in this episode than you might be expecting Does it count if a Grisha g…
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In this third installment of Grishaversary, Eric and Terry continue to celebrate with cosplay. Chris joins in and your hosts ask some fun Halloween questions. We deeply appreciate our listeners that have supported us for the last four years and we can't wait to show you what's next! Make sure to check out this episode on YouTube to see what you're …
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In this second installment of Grishaversary, Eric and Terry continue to celebrate with cosplay. We deeply appreciate our listeners that have supported us for the last four years and we can't wait to show you what's next! Make sure to check out this episode on YouTube to see what you're missing! For the best experience, you can watch our podcast vid…
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We’re back-back-back-back-BACK again! This week, we are finally getting back into our chapter discussions with chapters 12 and 13 of Six of Crows! Sorry we’re late! Life… uh… get in the way. Leigh knows we exist! HOORAY! Back stories are more delicious when you get them in pieces There’s always time for Kaz sass. If Kaz is a demon, Pekka must be th…
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In this episode, Eric and Terry are celebrating Grishaversary 2023, the fourth-year anniversary of the Grishacast podcast. We deeply appreciate our listeners that have supported us for the last four years and we can't wait to show you what's next! For the best experience, you can watch our podcast video on YouTube! Search for GrishaCast. Please lik…
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LIVE at LeakyCon 2023: Grishaverse 101
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Thanks to all who came to see us live at LeakyCon this year! We got to do a panel all about the Grishaverse for beginners! We had a blast and know you are going to love this recording! On this live panel we broke down the Grishaverse map, chatted about favorite characters, took questions from the audience, and shoutout some of our fandom friends al…
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Hell Bent Ch 45-End: It All Fell Apart At The End
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In this episode, Eric and Terry are discussing Hell Bent chapters 45 through the end of the book. This episode has a special easter egg at the end. Because it all fell apart. For the best experience, you can watch our podcast video on YouTube! Search for GrishaCast. Please like, share and follow us on our social media channels and visit our website…
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Ante Dekovic: Emmy Nominated VFX Supervisor for Shadow and Bone
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This week we are excited to have out first guest and very COOOOOOOOL guest on the pod, Ante Dekovic! Ante Dekovic was born in Croatia and grew up in Germany, before he moved to Los Angeles. . He is a Emmy award winning and 4 time nominated VFX Supervisor known for his VFX work on Shadow and Bone (2023), The Hunger Games (2012), 2012, Fast 5 to name…
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Hell Bent Ch 42-44: Is Hell Kosher?
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In this episode, Eric and Terry are discussing Hell Bent chapters 42-44. For the best experience, you can watch our podcast video on YouTube! Search for GrishaCast. Please like, share and follow us on our social media channels and visit our website at grishacast.com. Our fans can support our podcast several ways. Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.co…
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We discuss amplifiers in Season Two of the Netflix Shadow and Bone show, and come up with theories that we found surprisingly satisfying! We answer such questions as: How did that whole thing with Mal work, and do we even know if it stuck? What are some creative ways we can dispose of the Apparat? And of course: How clever was Baghra, really? (And,…
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In this episode, Eric and Terry are discussing Hell Bent chapters 39-41. For the best experience, you can watch our podcast video on YouTube! Search for GrishaCast. Please like, share and follow us on our social media channels and visit our website at grishacast.com. Our fans can support our podcast several ways. Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.co…
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In this episode, Eric and Terry are discussing Hell Bent chapters 36-38. For the best experience, you can watch our podcast video on YouTube! Search for GrishaCast. Please like, share and follow us on our social media channels and visit our website at grishacast.com. Our fans can support our podcast several ways. Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.co…
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Wylan and Jesper, Or: Wesper, Or: the Chillest Couple in Season Two
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We discuss Wesper, the relationship between Wylan and Jesper. We answer such questions as: How does their pre-season two history change the dynamic of the relationship between them? Was the Six of Crows duology actually meant to be read ship by ship? And of course: Who would be the best third corner of a Wesper love triangle – Kuwei, Tolya, or JJ? …
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Enjoy our discussion of this week’s chapters, because the next episode we have coming out will be recorded LIVE AT LEAKYCON! Congrats to the S&B Special Effects team on their Emmy nomination! Tante Heleen is the WORST (it’s a fact) You can end a chapter on a twist, but not on a cliffhanger Knives are better than guns Fun Segment: Sell it to Me! Que…
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In this episode, Eric and Terry are discussing Hell Bent chapters 33-35. For the best experience, you can watch our podcast video on YouTube! Search for GrishaCast. Please like, share and follow us on our social media channels and visit our website at grishacast.com. Our fans can support our podcast several ways. Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.co…
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In this episode, Eric and Terry are discussing Hell Bent chapters 30-32. For the best experience, you can watch our podcast video on YouTube! Search for GrishaCast. Please like, share and follow us on our social media channels and visit our website at grishacast.com. Our fans can support our podcast several ways. Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.co…
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Apologies for the delay (and the audio feedback in our fun segment), but we are REALLY getting into some juicy moments from Six of Crows as we discuss chapters 7-9. Look forward to our first LIVE EPISODE recording at LeakyCon Chicago later this summer! Matthias is fueled by revenge, a misplaced sense of justice, and repression What’s so hard to und…
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In this episode, Eric and Terry are discussing Hell Bent chapters 27-29. For the best experience, you can watch our podcast video on YouTube! Search for GrishaCast. Please like, share and follow us on our social media channels and visit our website at grishacast.com. Our fans can support our podcast several ways. Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.co…
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Shadow and Bone Season Two, Part Two: THAT ENDING
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We discuss that ending of Season Two of the Netflix Shadow and Bone show! We answer such questions as: What does Alina keeping her powers mean? Does the ending of this season break even the notoriously ambiguous rules governing merzost? What is the correct murder weapon to bring down an overpowered villain? And, of course: Did we actually just hear…
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In this episode, Eric and Terry are discussing Hell Bent chapter 26. For the best experience, you can watch our podcast video on YouTube! Search for GrishaCast. Please like, share and follow us on our social media channels and visit our website at grishacast.com. Our fans can support our podcast several ways. Visit our Patreon at www.patreon.com/gr…
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SIx of Crows Chapters 5 and 6 - HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!
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Happy Pride Month! This week, we are discussing chapters 5 and 6 of Six of Crows. We’re breaking into prison, so that we can break into prison later, so we can break into even more prison even later. Hope you like fan claps, because there’s a lot of them. Kaz and Nina: the light side and the dark side of determination. Is the Barrel SUPPOSED to be …
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In this episode, Eric and Terry are discussing Hell Bent chapters 22 through 25. For the best experience, you can watch our podcast video on YouTube! Search for GrishaCast. Please like, share and follow us on our social media channels and visit our website at grishacast.com. Our fans can support our podcast several ways. Visit our Patreon at www.pa…
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Hell Bent Recap Ch 1-21 Recap: Oh yea... Hell Bent.
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In this episode, Eric and Terry get back to Hell Bent and review chapters 1 through 21. For the best experience, you can watch our podcast video on YouTube! Search for GrishaCast. Please like, share and follow us on our social media channels and visit our website at grishacast.com. Our fans can support our podcast several ways. Visit our Patreon at…
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We are Hell Bent for Dark Academia: A Dive into Nineth House and Hell Bent with the Book and Bottle Podcast
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This week we have a guest spot we did with the amazing Book and Bottle Podcast: Callisa and Holly are joined by Julianna and Geoff in this review episode of Ninth House and Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo. They discuss the heavy triggers within the book, the descent into Hell, and of course glowstick dick energy. Ninth House and Hell Bent follow the mai…
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Your hosts Eric & Terry are very excited to recap Season 2 of Shadow and Bone on Netflix! Our next episode will return to Hell Bent. For the best experience, you can watch our podcast video on YouTube! Search for GrishaCast. Please like, share, and follow us on our social media channels and visit our website at grishacast.com. Our fans can support …
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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to listen to this episode where Kaz gets a mission! Geoff has a BIG surprise for Julianna Kaz vs. Jan Van Eck: who’s the real bad guy? Jurda parem was never a good idea Kaz is super hardcore, but there’s a little gooey marshmallow center in there somewhere Anticipation can be oh so satisfying Fun seg…
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Shadow & Bone Netflix Season 2 Episode 8: No Funerals
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Your hosts Eric & Terry are very excited to watch and discuss with you the season finale Episode 8 of Shadow and Bone Season 2 on Netflix! For the best experience, you can watch our podcast video on YouTube! Search for GrishaCast. Please like, share, and follow us on our social media channels and visit our website at grishacast.com. Our fans can su…
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