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How Star Wars Is It? - Not Really a Star Wars Podcast
This is not really a Star Wars podcast. On each episode of this important and definitive review podcast, Josiah and Mike examine a movie, a book, or literally anything else, and give it a rating--not of how good it is...but of how STAR WARS it is. Tune in every Wednesday and May the Fourth be with you.
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- How Star Wars Is It? - Not Really a Star Wars Podcast
Ep 281: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Almost 10 years too late, we're finally covering Mad Max: Fury Road. Why?? Because Furiosa came out recently. Well, it was kinda recently when we recorded…
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Ep 280: Baby Reindeer and Outdoor Dining and First Dates and Picnics with Bethany Remely
Sorry for the late upload on this one, it's been a busy week! We've got special guest and resident toxic men expert Bethany Remely on the show today to…
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Ep 279: Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
It's the end of the month, so you know what time it is! FF time! And WOW, we're halfway through the year and (mercifully) halfway through these movies. If you…
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Ep 278: Yes (the band) with Steven Shinder
This week, we've got special guest and friend of the show Steven Shinder on the podcast to discuss his favorite band and incredibly influential music group…
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*SPOILERS* Ep 277: The Fall Guy *SPOILERS*
This movie came out like a month ago, we covered it 2 weeks after it came out, and now the ep is finally out 2 weeks after THAT. So there's spoilers for it…
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Ep 276: The Lake
This week, we're talking about the lake. You know, the lake! No, not any specific lake, although those all do count in the overall lakeyness of the lake. But…
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Ep 275: Fast Five (2011)
It's the end of the month, so it's time for the next Fast and Furious movie. And we've got some HOT takes, maybe? Please let us know if this take is hot. This…
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Ep 274: Live TV/HSWII on the News/Hello Sharks
This episode gets a little silly. We go off the rails PRETTY hard, hence the multiple titles. Technically this ep is about live television, but really it's…
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Ep 273: Chicken Tenders
That's right! It's time for another FOOD. We're filling out the HSWII menu by talking about chicken tenders this week. We even play a BRAND new game inspired…
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Ep 272: The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess by Chappell Roan
Listen! We're obsessed!!! We don't care who knows! We can't stop listening to Chappell Roan, just like everyone else. So we decided to cover her latest album!…
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Ep 271: Fast and Furious (2009)
It's the end of the month, so it's time for another Fast and Furious movie! This time, we're dropping the "the's" for the fourth installment in the franchise…
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Ep 270: Space with Alex Robinson
We've completed our collection of Star Wars Minute hosts this week by having Alex Robinson on to discuss outer space! Our discussion is wide-ranging but…
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Ep 269: Fries (Juggling a Million Pickles)
Technically this episode is about french fries. Technically. In reality, it's mostly about juggling a million pickles and Homestar Runner fan fiction. Which…
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Ep 267: Dune: Part Two with Eric Parmer
We're just a month behind in covering Dune: Part Two, but cut us some slack! We don't do this professionally so everything is a little delayed. We had to see…
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Ep 266: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
It's the end of the month, and you know what that means! Time to jump back into the Fast and Furious franchise! We're covering the third entry in the…
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Ep 265: Holes (2003)
We for once are following up on a topic we said we should do in a recent episode! The 2003 family classic Holes came up in the "Nothing" episode, and here we…
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Ep 264: Nothing
Hahahahahah we did an episode on nothing. That's FUNNY. It's a great episode. It doesn't get AS contentious as "Circles" got, but we do get into it. We also…
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Ep 263: Vacation
Sorry for the bunch of random noises in Josiah's track! He's been having some recording issues lately. ANYWAY. We're talking vacation this week! Why?? Why…
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Ep 262: 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
It's the end of the month, and that can only mean one thing. Back to the Fast and Furious well! We're covering 2 Fast 2 Furious this week, and it's a fun one!…
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Ep 261: Chicago by Chicago
Wow, we talk about this in the episode, but somehow it's a Chicago episode again? Weird. We don't know how this happened! But hey, we're covering Chicago by…
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Ep 260: Chicago (2002)
We're discussing the movie musical Chicago this week! It's a GREAT flick and we really get into the nitty-gritty of whatever happened to movie musicals. We…
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Ep 259: Chicago with Shannon Campe
We have a special guest on the show today covering our favorite city and the place of origin for this podcast, Chicago! Podcaster and critic Shannon Campe…
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Ep 258: The Fast and the Furious (2001)
It's time to reveal that we are covering the Fast and the Furious franchise, one movie at a time for the last week of the month, each month this year! We're…
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Ep 257: Wild Wild West (1999) with Andi Sharavsky
We made it back to the Willennium to discuss the 2nd worst movie of all time, according to some people, Wild Wild West! And we have a special returning guest!…
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Ep 256: Winter
It feels like -30 degrees in Chicago as I write this! So what an appropriate episode topic! We talk about winter, of course, get into Star Wars a liiittle bit…
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Ep 255: "Lunch" or Inflation or What You Will
What is this episode really about? Lunch? Inflation? Maybe it's about whatever you want it to be about. Who knows. Whatever it's about, it's a damn good…
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Ep 254: Circles
It's been a long time coming, but we finally did it. Long-time listeners will know that we've only ever lost two episodes of the show due to technical…
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Ep 253: Batman Returns with Rob Grabowski and Josh Segovia from Poppin' Bottles
It's the holiday seeeeason, doot, doot, DOOT. It's our holiday episode, and we're covering the DECIDEDLY Christmas movie, Batman Returns, with our returning…
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Ep 252: Holiday Cheer
On the surface, this might look like an episode about holiday cheer, which is a funny idea, right? But really, this is an episode where two bros just list…
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Ep 251: Solo: A Star Wars Story Revisited Again with Michael DeLaney
Well, it was bound to happen eventually. Well, two things were bound to happen eventually. One, we were bound to talk about a topic for a third time…
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Ep 250: How Star Wars Is It? with Lior Shragg
Welp. We did it. We finally did it. For our 250th episode, we reviewed...ourselves. The ouroboros is complete. We can finally stop. Thanks to the suggestion of…
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Ep 249: Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice ugh
Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. We had to do it. We had one more live action Batman that we could think of and we had to do it. So here it is. Batman V Superman: Dawn of…
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Ep 248: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) with Cody Lindley
We promised we would, and we're finally delivering on that promise! We're FINALLY covering 2003's The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, with special guest and…
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Ep 247: GUTS by Olivia Rodrigo
We're heading back to album territory this week and discussing Olivia Rodrigo's latest release, GUTS. It's a great album and a fun episode as two…
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Ep 246: "Leaves (Autumn)"
Oh boy. This one goes off the rails and STAYS off the rails. We definitely talk about leaves and we definitely talk about Star Wars, you can't say we didn't!…
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Ep 245: The Lego Batman Movie with Roommate Lovers (Kyle Mantegna and Maggie Smith)
It's the end of the month, so we're doing another Batman movie! This week we've got new friends of the pod, Kyle Mantegna and Maggie Smith, the titular…
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Ep 244: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
We're keeping it spooky this week by talking about The Silence of the Lambs. It's a classic that raises a lot of interesting questions. And we discuss them…
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Ep 243: Barbarian (2022)
We're keeping things spooky this month by covering a recent favorite scary movie, 2022's Barbarian! It's a great flick, and it's a great episode, and we rank…
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Ep 242: Monsters
It's spooky season, and this week we're talking MONSTERS. Josiah quibbles a lot, and Mike brings the game. It's one of my new favorite eps. Enjoy! You can…
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Ep 241: Tin Cup with Sports Kid / Drama Kid (Jim O'Connell and Andi Sharavsky)
Yes, yes, we know spooky season has started, but you have to wait til next week for a themed show because we have a truly fun and special episode to share with…
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Ep 240: Batman Forever
It's the end of the month, so it's time for another Batman movie! We're covering Batman Forever this week, and boy oh boy, does it not hold up. We also play…
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Ep 239: Challah with Lior Shragg
Your two decidedly not Jewish hosts are covering challah this week! But don't worry, we've got a decidedly Jewish guest this week! Friend, and I'll go out on a…
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Ep 238: Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon
We were inspired by our recent rock opera coverage to dip our toes back into The Floyd well, to cover their arguably better album, The Dark Side of the Moon…
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Ep 237: "Exercise"
Yup, it's another episode title in quotes, because DO we really talk about exercise at all in this episode?? Yes, we actually do. But it's funny to put it in…
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Ep 236: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm with Michael DeLaney
Our resident Bat-expert is back to discuss the final film of Bat-month, and the final in our series of firsts that we've been discussing. Batman: Mask of the…
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Ep 235: Batman Begins
It's the 3rd week of Batmonth, and we're continuing our coverage of "firsts", this time with the first of the Nolan trilogy, Batman Begins. We break down the…
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Ep 234: Batman (1966)
Batmonth continues, and we're covering firsts all month long. This time, it's the first Batman movie EVER?? 1966's Batman. This madcap and zany comedic take on…
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Ep 233: Batman (1989)
We're finally done with rock operas, and it's on to our next contractually obligated month of programming: Batman movies! We're catching up on the Batmans we…
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Ep 232: Green Day's American Idiot
We're wrapping up Junesical July with 2004's seminal work by Green Day, American Idiot. It's a great album, and a great episiode. Do we talk about Star Wars at…
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Ep 231: The Who's Tommy
Junesical July continues. We're covering Tommy. We're stupid. We're tired. Tommy is weird. Rock operas are weird. We'll be back to, well, not normal, but to…
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Ep 230: The Who's Quadrophenia
Junesical July continues with more rock opera coverage, and boy are our brains mush now. We're talking the seminal The Who album Quadrophenia this week. It's a…
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Ep 229: Pink Floyd's The Wall (the movie)
We're continuing our coverage of rock operas during Junesical Theatre July this month with Pink Floyd's The Wall, specifically the movie version. And boy oh…
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Ep 228: My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade
We felt we gave rock operas short shrift during the month of June, so we're extending our coverage of rock operas in a continuation of Junesical Theatre month…
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Ep 227: Jesus Christ Superstar
What's this?? It's the end of the month and we're not doing a Batman movie?? Well, we felt we didn't give rock operas a fair shake, so we're doing an extra one…
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Ep 226: Repo! The Genetic Opera with Sydney Clinton
We're continuing this year's rock opera coverage during Junesical Theatre Month, this time by covering the cult classic Repo! The Genetic Opera with special…
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Ep 225: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson with Paul Brandt
We're talking about maybe our most controversial topic yet this week for Junesical Theatre Month, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. And we have special guest and…
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Ep 224: Rock Operas
We're kicking off another Junesical Theatre Month by covering the concept of rock operas! It's a little teaser for the rest of the month, as we will be…
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Ep 223: Batman & Robin with Rob Grabowski and Josh Segovia of Poppin' Bottles
It's the end of the month, so we're talking Batman again! This time, it's the truly insane film, Batman & Robin. We're not going in any order, okay?? We're…
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Ep 221: Jury Duty, the show
We're talking about the latest streaming phenomenon, Jury Duty! The show, not the civic duty. We're a couple of weeks behind, as usual, but I promise it was…
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Ep 220: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
The problem with not being able to do this show as our only job is sometimes we record stuff in a timely manner but then release it weeks later just because…