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Expounded Universe
Jef and Jon review Star Wars expanded universe novels. Every week they discuss a few chapters at a time making their way through some of the strangest and most insufferable entries in the Star Wars canon.
Episodes
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336 - The Kaird Package
Bleyd sticks around, while Phow Ji decides to pick a little fight with Barris Offee, which I cannot recommend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
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335 - Danka McNuggs
God, Bleyd is such a tool. Everyone else in this is basically fine but every time Bleyd is the main character everyone else should be saying "Why is Bleyd the…
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334 - Murder Most Phow Ji
Yeah we're really hung up on this one weird moral call this book is also seemingly very hung up on, but hey let's talk about it. Learn more about your ad…
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333 - The Sisters of Perpetual Convenience
Look I'm sure there's a perfectly good explanation for these highly convenient space nuns, but you see for yourself if it doesn't feel silly to you. Also a lot…
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332 - Bleyd and the Vampires
Who woulda guessed these two guys who wrote all the horniest Star Wars stuff we've dealt with, working together, would produce something quite this sweaty? Oh…
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331 - Set Us Up The Bahm Gilyad
It took until chapter 4 of the book to do a "This dude is horny for this lady for way too long" inner monologue sequence, but it happened so at we're now sure…
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330 - Extraneous Ass
New book time! Time to get into some clone wars era stuff as we visit the planet Drongar (uh oh that oughta raise some hackles) to meet Den Dhur (uh oh again)…
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329 - X-Files Ruins Wrap Up
Okay yeah here we go, all done. Questions answered, new book announced! Gonna be taking the next week off. Oh, by the way, this episode doesn't feature the…
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328 - Podcasts are Weakness Leaving the Body
The grand finale and ... it all goes exactly how we've been saying it would. Painfully so. I guess that's the curse of licensed genre fiction, eh? Learn more…
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327 - Sacrificial Sacrifice
Finally some goddamn aliens. Also, a discourse on the nature of X-files episode endings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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326 - Raisin' the Jakes
Shit seems to have begun to pop off in a big way. There's bodies and soldiers and earthquakes and all kinds of shit! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
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325 - Mulder Most Foul
Oh no! An important character has come to an unfortunate end! Also military men are willing to shoot cats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
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324 - Jakes Meridian
God we're getting sloppy, this episode doesn't even have Jakes in it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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323 - Aliens in America
Our heroes (and a hidden villain perhaps?) begin their trek into the mysterious jungle, meanwhile a new super soldier enters the fray, and he might be the best…
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322 - Spring Break Scully
Our heroes hit Cancun as we start killing off side characters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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321 - Dinosaur Teeth
Background extras abound as our heroes mostly just faff around checking in with the lone gunmen and collect NPCs they'll need for later. Learn more about your…
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320 - Funky Yellow Patina
Well, if you let Jon off the leash, you get X thing that isn't Star Wars, so I guess we shouldn't be surprised we're reading about Mulder and Scully now. And…
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319 - Splinter of the Mind's Eye Wrap Up
Okay, we rerecorded this one, something went all screwy with the original recording. Don't worry, the only thing Jef never forgets is jokes. Learn more about…
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318 - Vader's Big White Balls
We arrive once more upon the closing of a narrative, as our heroes do basically everything this book was supposed to be about, in about seven pages of it…
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317 - Luke Just Blue Himself
The penultimate chapter? Really? Okay I guess. Anyway Vader turns up but honestly doesn't really do much of anything. There's a war though! Learn more about…
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316 - Coway or the Highway
Hey, Halla's back! But I already used that name joke. Damn it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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315 - A Pleasant Dong
Let's not sugarcoat it, this whole chapter is Luke and Leia walking through a cave tunnel. Yes they get in a shocking fight at the end, but at what cost. Learn…
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314 - Now I Know Leenix's Voice
Jon's on vacation, and Claire wants to make Jef listen to AP, so here we go, two episodes of the podcast classic Campaign Star Wars. What will Jef do when…
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313 - Matriculated at Chode
Everyone runs from a pre-exogorth exogorth. It's sorta neat how often big white snakes turn up in Star Wars. Someone should do something with that. Learn more…
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312 - Halla Back Girl
The escape is great! Our heroes carve an unusually gory trail to freedom and a great big truck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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311 - Yuzzem? I Hardly Know 'Em!
Whoa, stuff happens! This book hasn't been bad but it certainly has felt like it needs to get on with things, and here we go! Learn more about your ad choices…
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310 - It's Funnier If He's Southern
Well boy, ah say boy, we done found the voice for one of our particular villains in this here page-turner and it dominates the episode. Learn more about your…
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309 - Galaxy Class Ass
One of the perils of recording early is I'm guaranteed to forget what the episode was. But good news, I think they met one of this book's big bad guys, a…
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308 - Don't Neglect the Dualities
Hey hey, it's time to meet Halla! She's a fun archetype that was made common in West End Games Star Wars RPGs, the burnout force user. We're also gonna find…
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307 - Kissing A Miner
In this episode our heroes discover a hidden city on their homeworld, and if you thought going back to 1978 would fix the Leia characterizations, you've got…
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306 - Mimban Number Five
You can't get earlier Star Wars EU novels than this right here. Welcome to the "sequel in case the sequels didn't happen" of Star Wars, where the force was…
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305 - Jedi Twilight Wrap Up
Why, it's the twilight of Jedi Twilight! And frankly? Good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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304 - Don't Call it a Comeback
That ended abruptly! Sure enough we get a chapter containing both Vader and Xizor, but... eh you'll see. Also there's some robots and some big-ish reveals, I…
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303 - All I Need Is A Miracle
Vader packs up and rides to join the party, Jax and company fight some crazy robots, and Xizor meets Nick Rostu, surely that's fantasic, right? Learn more…
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302 - Here Comes a Special Droid
Honestly, I-5 isn't even super important here, we just think it's so funny how he keeps having a module for exactly what the group needs every time. Really…
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301 - A Special Pinch
Man is I-5 ever useful. But who's also a protocol droid with a weird gun hand that everyone wants to know about? I bet you all forgot about Bug Eyes, who is…
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300 - Slut Plate Summer
Well dang, this was episode 300? Then I guess we shall podcast in the shade. In today's episode Jax and the gang escape some droid police (DROID POLICE, BEEP…
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299 - Pardon My French, But Jax Pavan is an Asshole
Oh hey, this book has act breaks! And we just found what might be the only one! You can tell because I-5 finally finds Jax Pavan. Who is an asshole about it…
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298 - Rostu on the Smuggle Bus
This episode is a Jax-free space. We focus on Den, we check in with Nick Rostu, and somehow Kaird is still kicking around, but we aren't seeing what's up with…
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297 - Rokko's Modern Light
Finally Laranth turns up, and she brings with her something we were missing last time we did this series, an explanation of what a Gray Paladin is exactly…
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296 - Rostu to the Rescue
No one new, and we'll still moving pieces into place, but hey Nick and Jax have met and headed off for a just-dudes sushi brunch, which if you think about it…
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295 - The Den Dhur Bender
We've met almost everyone we know we need to now! Just Laranth to go! But hark, we're meeting a subvillain for the book this time, and he hates Xizor, and now…
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294 - Smoggy Bottom Boys
Oh right, I just remembered that as much fun as Den and I-5 and laughing at Aurra Sing were, Jax Pavan is a dude what sucks. It's all coming back. Yes, that's…
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293 - Fatal Alliance Wrapup
Your burning questions! Answered! Our final thoughts on this book! Given! And the next book? Announced, baby! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
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292 - Avoid the Amnioid
The Amnioid is Lema Xandret. Forget to say that in the episode, so it needed explanation here. Okay, we're wrapping it up! Another story in the can. Learn more…
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291 - It's a Sebbadonomenon
Definitely on the homestretch here, as some secrets are revealed and we start to see our Padawan/Sith Apprentice consider the merits of their respective other…
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290 - Sith Lightning Crashes
Oh ho, so we've swapped masters and apprentices for a couple of little Jedi field trips, and the action is literally heating up with literal actual lava…
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289 - Ula Vii en Rose
Look, I thought of that title like two months ago and I don't think we're ever gonna get it to line up perfectly, but I'll be damned if we don't use it! So in…
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288 - Dao and the Art of Shuttlecraft Maintenance
This book is starting to seem like a big sifter designed to force our main characters slowly but inexorably into one party, and this is continuing here as…
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286 - What's The Buzz Satele Me What's A Happenin'
(Oh no, this one has sat a minute, my bad) Everyone must find their own way to figure out where the trail leads, and this episode is all about how they're…
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287 - Hex Based Space Combat
And the action fires right back up! Is there something special in the space past where the books get better, because this is starting to remind us of Red…
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285 - The Mojo Dojo Encaasa Bareesh
Finally, a bunch of heroes get sent on a quest. Honestly this book is actually shaping up to match that Lucas quote about Star Wars rhyming like poetry, which…
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284 - Shigar, We're Going Down Swinging
The grand battle plays on, though I think we're both getting fairly sick of Dao Stryver just being immune to absolutely everything. Meanwhile a few things are…
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283 - Hex on the Breach
Well well, we're already at a lightsaber fight. And get this, it's like three chapters of action sequence in a row! In a Star Wars novel this is considered…
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282 - Holy Stryver
The streams have begun to cross, but gently at first, as Ula Vii the reluctant spy has met everyone's instant favorite, JET NEBULA. Meanwhile, Ax does sith…
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281 - Rancor Ridin' Dirty
Okay, this one I remember. Our characters one by one begin to converge on Nal Hutta, the current homeworld of everyone's favorite big slug gansgters. No one…
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280 = The Toxic Moxla Avenger
Okay, apparently I forgot to post this very important episode for a while and a half, between work trips and some ongoing medical drama, it just slipped my…
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279 - Cinzia Been Gone!
Welcome back to Star Wars! Specifically that special brand of Bioware-era Star Wars (like, they got their own era) set 4000 years before New Hope! Meet a bunch…
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278 - Shadows Rising Wrapup
What did we think? What did you want to know? What are we doing next? The elements? We answer all the questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
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277 - Bwon with the Wind
The climax is reached, can this book actually change anything or move any of the in-game story along? Will Bwonsamdi survive? Who rides what mounts? The…