RuPalp's Podrace: A Queer Star Wars & Pop Culture Podcast

Start your sublight engines! Join the gang as they discuss S3E34 of The Mandalorian: "The Foundling." May the Force be with you and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Winston Duke in The Mandalorian When, Grogu’s Angel Collar, Klaudia’s Former Dog, Mando Paintball Experience, Paz “Hawkeye' Vizsla, A Zillo Beast Revelation, Din Djarin Kurt Hummel Parallels, Axe Woves’ Room, an...

Start your sublight engines! Join the gang as they discuss S3E3 of The Mandalorian: "The Convert." May the Force be with you and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest : Noah v. Pershing Cagematch, Just another manic Taungsday,  Elia Kane Please Read Stone Butch Blues, and Dr. Pershing on the Raytheon Pride Float. --- If you're curious about why we aren't covering The Bad Batc...

Start your sublight engines! Join Noah, Mel, Klaudia, and Jess as they talk about S3E2 of The Mandalorian : "The Mines of Mandalore." May the Force be with you and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Din Djarin Fail Compilation,  Princess Carolyn! Peli Motto, Are Mikvehs canon?, Star Wars name drop prequel women challenge, This is the Goop, Grogu v. Lyle Lyle Crocodile, Din Djarin...

Start your sublight engines! Join the gang as they talk about the season three premiere of Disney+'s The Mandalorian . May the Force be with you and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest :  Burying the Dead (in a resin pyramid), Dean Djarin, RuPals v. Gators, Hamster Tube: Colored Hamster Tube, Din’s Lucrative New Piss-ness, Greef Karga ASMR, Transfered to a Sector Upstate, Bog Mummy Korki...

Start your sublight engines! Join the gang as they talk about The Mandalorian in preparation for the premiere of season three! May the Force be with you and DON'T kriff it up! --- Points of Interest : RuPalp’s official stance on archaeology, Moff Gideon’s juice cleanse, We Are One Race (or Whatever Grogu Is), RuPalp’s Piss Race, Unbreakable Din Djarin, Pope Yoda, Karen Traviss and her conseque...

Start your sublight engines, it's time for the first-ever RuPalp's Romance Smackdown! Join the gang as they advocate for who is the most compatible with Din Djarin. May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up. Points of Interest: " Like men do", lots of unintentional spaceship innuendo, Dinjamin, The return of Timothy Zahn’s seminal work, The Razr Crest, Groga, Get Trina...

Start your sublight engines! Join Jess, Mel, Klaudia, and Ollie as we discuss all of the High Republic Phase 2 so far! For Light and Life! Points of Interest : Convergence Barbershop AU, Elecia/Jared Leto Parallels, Marda “We Have to Try” Ro, The Mother’s Rizz, Klaudia’s Fartgate, "THANKS, AXEL",  Subliminal BellReath Messaging, Rupalp’s Nick Race, Veelance by Daniel José Older, You’re N...

Hi RuPals! As we mentioned on our social media, we won’t be covering the Bad Batch season 2, so we’ll have an episode every 2 weeks until the Mandalorian season 3 comes out. For more on our reasoning behind that, you can read our statement about the Unwhitewash the Bad Batch movement linked here .  So instead, this week, in honor of the High Republic Phase II being in full swing, we have something...

Start your sublight engines! Join Ollie, Klaudia, Mel, and a very special guest, author Zoraida Córdova, as they discuss " Convergence ," her latest addition to Star Wars: The High Republic! For light and life! Points of interest: An emotional support animal that makes you worse, Convergence .5, Top 3 Down Bad Star Wars Characters, Who is the Zeb of Convergence?,  James Borne, Recovering...

Start your sublight engines! Happy Life Day! No discussion this week, just all your favorite RuPalp's segments! May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up. Points of Interest: Elzar Mann as Portrayed by Jennifer Coolidge, Nancy Pelosi’s Handm3gans, Representation for Thot Daughters with Thigh Tattoos and No Dad, Naur’alor, Agamemnon! George R. Binks, Gag Order on Brahms: The Boy, Tak...

Start your sublight engines! Join the gang as they discuss their overall thoughts on season one of Disney+'s Andor . May the Force be with you and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest : MeRyce!, Sawnic, Ruth Paul,  Socially Contructed Border ( A Planet), Luthen Rael as played by Stellan Gios, Begging for Strap, Hey Mamas Lesbian Vel, Arresticles, George W Bush/Craig Dooku Parallels, and C...

Start your sublight engines! Join Jess, Mel, Ollie, and Klaudia as they discuss the Andor season 1 finale, "Rix Road". May the Force be with you and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest : the Death Star slaybeam, KawaiiDathanYo, South Park Canon, Caass-ian Andor, PraegerU enjoyer Syril Karn, trombone player representation in Star Wars, and the Paul AU nobody saw coming.  --- Find us...

Start your sublight engines! Join the gang as they discuss Andor episode 11, "Daughter of Ferrix". May the Force be with you and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest : Syril Karn’s Roblox Account, "Classically Leida," the L(uthen) Word, the Saw Gerrera Trap, and Ahsoka and Rex’s Trip to Sunsations. --- Find us elsewhere:  ⁠TikTok⁠ - @rupalpspodrace ⁠Bluesky ⁠ - @rupalpspod...

Start your sublight engines! Join the gang as they discuss Andor episode 10, "One Way Out". May the Force be with you and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Leida Mothma "finna be in the pit," Alexsandr Kallus listens to Mitski, Greez Dritus is not beating the racism allegations, Cassian Andor x Ruescott Melshi Brokeback Mountain AU, and is critical race theory canon in...

Start your sublight engines! Join the gang as they discuss Andor episode 9, "Nobody's Listening!". May the Force be with you and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Cassian Andor’s Grindr account, Dedra Meero at the Eras tour, RuPalp’s Foot-race, Jyn Erso as played by Christopher Plummer, Mon Mothma at a Coruscant drag brunch, Zeb’s butter sock, facSHEst Dedra Meero, will ther...

Start your sublight engines! Join the gang for their second SPOOKTACULAR Halloween special: BOOPalp's Podrace, in which they discuss Andor episode 8, "Narkina 5." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: spoilers for Gone Girl , Theranos founder Lux Bonteri, the “N” stands for Nikpmup, Cassian abolishes the FitnessGram pacer test, Syril “White Boba Fe...

Start your sublight engines! Join the gang as they discuss Andor episode 7, "Announcement." May the Force be with you and DON'T kriff it up!  Points of Interest: Weekend at Mas Amedda's, Pitbull’s Andor cameo,  Cassian Andor eats the menu, real women vote for Palps!, the Partisans' GoFundMe, Luthen Rael is Benoit Blanc, Cassian Andor is a mama’s boy, and AKAB (All Karns are B...

Start your sublight engines! Join the gang as they discuss Andor episode 6, "The Eye." May the Force be with you and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Wedge Antilles in the bathroom, oomf is a rebel insurgent, “Vote the Empire out!!!1!”, Chekhov’s fat joke, femcel! Rae Sloane, #SyrilKarnCryWatch, and Klaudia forgets the alphabet.  For more about issues of fatphobia in science fi...

Start your sublight engines! Join the gang as they discuss Andor episode 5, "The Axe Forgets." May the Force be with you and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: the Camilla-ification of Sly Moore, “Lyra we have to cook!”, Lin-Manuel Miranda in Andor (what will he do),  Oh Star Wars My Star Wars, Dedra Meero is taking Beano, ISB janitor Syril Karn, Amanda Waller! Luthen Rael, and a...

Start your sublight engines! Join Jess, Klaudia, Mel, and Noah as they discuss Andor episode 4, "Aldhani." May the Force be with you and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Is Lean canon in Star Wars?, Arihnda Pryce x Dedra Meero, Panmé Momidala, Luthen Rael’s British Museum, Perrin Fertha’s "consensual workplace relationship," ISB Google Headquarters, Perrin Fertha has...

Start your sublight engines! Join the gang as they discuss the 3-episode premiere of Andor , "Kassa," "That Would Be Me," and "The Reckoning." May the Force be with you and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: the Riddler! Syril Karn, Javert-a, Bix Caleen’s alpha female podcast, Cassian Andor reads Fanon, Mel is getting cancelled, Latinophobia, Star Wars: OSHA V...

Welcome to our second Glup Shittisode, a RuPalp’s Podrace bonus series where some of our hosts go in depth about their favorite glup shitto, a Star Wars character most people outside the fandom wouldn’t know. This week Jess and Klaudia brought on some special guests to finally appreciate the one and only Eli Vanto from the Thrawn trilogy! Points of Interest: Ollie, Mel, & Noah are frozen in Be...

Start your sublight engines! Join the gang as they discuss the Lego Star Wars Summer Vacation special! May the Force be with you and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Shoe of Damocles, Somehow Klaudia has Returned, Thrawn is hiding in the Halcyon Toilet, Finn’s "History of the Clone Wars", Jesse Pinkman as played by Rose Tico, Is Kylo Ren Experiencing Penis Envy?, Torban Buck’s...

Start your sublight engines! Join the gang as they discuss some of their favorite canonical queer Star Wars characters. May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Tosche Station is an Applebee’s and a gay club, Torban Buck’s Chromatica Ball outfit, POV: Wedge Antilles gives you top surgery, Stellan Gios’ personal copy of The Care and Keeping of You , “Cohmac Vitus is...

Welcome to our first Glup Shittisode, a RuPalp’s Podrace bonus series where some of our hosts go in depth about their favorite glup shitto, a Star Wars character most people outside the fandom wouldn’t know. For our inaugural episode, Jess and Noah brought on some special guests to discuss Commander Cody! Points of Interest: Swiftie Commander Cody, Portable Sensory Deprivation Chamber Clone Helmet...