Detention Block AA-23: A Star Wars Podcast

Send us Fan Mail After a few weeks of being MIA, partially due to attending Star Wars Celebration 2022 Anaheim, the DetBlock Crew are finally back to talking Star Wars.  Granted, only Greg and Mike were available this week.  However, the two of them are back to cover so many different topics after being out so long.  With Mike attending Star Wars Celebration, he brings up many of the reveals that...

Send us Fan Mail For this week's episode, Dustin, Greg and Mike look to dive in a lot of talk that is circulating for the different Star Wars Disney+ shows coming up.  With the Kenobi series about a week away, the news is buzzing around the show along with Disney+'s Ahsoka and Andor series.  On top of that, they dive into some comments made from some of the higher ups, creators and actor...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Star Wars Day!  What a way for the DetBlock team to celebrate May the 4th with the opportunity to have a Star Wars podcast episode recording!  Not to mention, with the release of the official trailer for the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, the team get to do their next trailer reaction video!  Thus, they dive right into that. After watching and discussing the trailer, the Crew then t...

Send us Fan Mail The DetBlock Crew start out with a little bit of an accidental news release within the panel scheduling of Star Wars Celebration.  It was unintentionally revealed that there is a new animated project being worked on for Star Wars, people are speculating by Filoni, that will be a series of anthology shorts centered around the Jedi and called "Tales of the Jedi".  This spa...

Send us Fan Mail Hayden Christensen binge watches Star Wars movies and shows and Liam Neeson voices interest in Star Wars return on the big screen... Some hot topics around prequel trilogy actors!  Of course, our DetBlock Crew dives into what these announcements could potentially mean.  On top of that, they crew talk some more Star Wars Celebration 2022 as more reveals have been made for who might...

Send us Fan Mail For this week's episode, the DetBlock Crew quickly discuss some updates announced for the release date of the upcoming Kenobi series on Disney+.  The series might be delayed a bit, but what fans are getting in return make it worth it! The guys then look to talk more about Star Wars in video games, including Dustin's recent dive into the mmo-rpg Star Wars: The Old Republi...

Send us Fan Mail A lot of news circling around Disney+ Star Wars shows has the DetBlock crew talking things like the potential Lando series, when future SW shows will be launching, some awesome casting calls, and more! Being that Oscars recently took place, and yes the Crew couldn't not bring up the incident heard around the world, Mike, Greg and Dustin also talk Star Wars in the Oscars and h...

Send us Fan Mail A few weeks ago, the DetBlock crew were asked a thought provoking question from Prisoner 001 (Jordan).  He asked, "Does Star Wars live in books?".  For this week's episode, Dustin and Mike dive into this question to not just provide their insight on what great content the books contain, but to also promote the different works they've read!  Furthermore, being t...

Send us Fan Mail After Mike and Dustin tried their hand at a Star Wars trivia night at 9milebrewing in Bloomington, Minnesota, the DetBlock crew look to talk about it.  How did they matchup against a packed brewery of die hard Star Wars fans?  Come find out. Afterwards, the Crew talk about a recent interview Samuel L. Jackson had with  Happy Sad Confused  host Josh Horowitz.  Samuel L. reveals to...

Send us Fan Mail With the long awaited release of the Kenobi series trailer, the DetBlock Crew dive right into getting their trailer reaction.  Three of the 4 guys had already seen it, but Mudge wanted to wait for this weeks episode recording to watch it for the first time.  After watching it through completely, they go back and break down the episode a bit, ask questions, and ponder theories. Fol...

Send us Fan Mail The Crew starts the episode a little off topic as they talk a bit about current events with the MLB holdout and the War on Ukraine [jump to about the 6.5 minute mark if you want to get to the Star Wars stuff].  They then dive into some Star Wars news and rumors dealing with the Bad Batch Season 2, Qui Gon Jinn, Disney+ series rankings, and more information about the Galactic Starc...

Send us Fan Mail The DetBlock crew officially dub Zach as a co-host of the show and welcome him as part of the team.  He'll continue to join along with the conversations when he is able to attend.  Awesome new addition to the crew! Coincidentally, Zach had some awesome news and a wonderful opportunity to share with everyone.  They discuss that along with the most current Star Wars news and ru...

Send us Fan Mail With Dustin out of town, Greg and Mike talk about the season finale of the Book of Boba Fett after Group Watching it together on Disney+.  The two of them look to discuss how they felt the chapter did in terms of closing out the first, and possibly only, season of Book of Boba Fett.  Did the episode bring closure to the questions raised in earlier chapters?  Did it open itself up...

Send us Fan Mail After the DetBlock crew watched Chapter 6 of the Book of Boba Fett, they sat down to discuss their thoughts on what they just got to witness.  Unfortunately, Dustin experienced some technical issues with his internet; thus, Greg and Mike looked to review the episode. They start out with some recent news in the Star Wars world, including an update on the LEGO Star Wars: Skywalker S...

Send us Fan Mail To continue the trend of bringing back prisoners, the DetBlock crew decided to bring back Prisoner 003: Zach to discuss some more Star Wars and Book of Boba Fett stuff!  It was great catching back up with him and exploring more over-arching theories and ideas he has about Star Wars.  Not to mention, we HAD to learn about this so called "drinking game" he has for the Atta...

Send us Fan Mail Prisoner 001 (Jordan) comes out of detainment to join Michael and Dustin to discuss the most recent chapter of Book of Boba Fett [Chapter 4: The Gathering Storm].  The 3 of them reconnect and catch up with what has passed since their first discussion together back in August.  Awesome and wonderful news coming from Jordan's side [CONGRATS!] and he reveals some pretty amazing S...

Send us Fan Mail Dustin, Mike and Greg are continuing to enjoy the content being received out of the newest Star Wars show, Book of Boba Fett.  With their 2nd episode of season 2, the team looks to continue to discuss the new chapters as they are released.  Did they feel the newest episode met their expectations or did they feel that the episode didn't rise to the level of the first two chapt...

Send us Fan Mail The New Year has arrived and the DetBlock crew looks to start the new year with the start of their 2nd Season of podcasting.  With their 1st episode of 2022, Mike, Greg & Dustin first discuss some news and rumors that have circled around, ever since their previous recording.  However, the biggest thing and, in their opinion, the most important thing to discuss, the release of...

Send us Fan Mail As the holidays approach, Dustin, Mike and Greg find it appropriate to take this episode to talk about everyone's favorite, the Star Wars Holiday Special! Before they dive into the holiday special, the first jump into some news revolving around the trailer release for the upcoming game Star Wars: Eclipse, the induction of the film Return of the Jedi into National Film Registr...

Send us Fan Mail For this week's episode, Greg and Mike talk Star Wars as the trio miss Dustin while he is out in Denver doing some training for his job.   Some news items spur a majority of the discussion as some awesome new merch is announced, including a very special item commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Skywalker ranch.  More details are revealed about the upcoming The Acolyte sh...

Send us Fan Mail Birthday shout out to Dustin as he turned 34 on 11/30! With this week's episode, Dustin, Greg and Mike make up on some lost time as the crew went on a 3 week hiatus with all the crazy things going on in their lives.  Very excited to be back and podcasting!  Our DetBlock crew discuss some of the more recent news circling the Star Wars franchise such as Films/Series being poten...

Send us Fan Mail This is our first trailer reaction podcast. We watch the Book of Boba trailer together and react to what we see. Very exciting to have this come in December. Let us know what your reactions were on our socials below. Greg also discusses some news in the Star Wars universe.  We have one 2nd second round battle. Darth Vader Vs Dooku. Where have we seen that before?? Let us know what...

Send us Fan Mail We had the pleasure of speaking to David Valdez, who does some amazing toy photography in the Twin Cities.  We asked him about his love for Star Wars, and what got him into his passion of photography. David spoke about his Hasbro Toy campaign that he was apart of and what about the Star Wars universe inspires him. David tells us about his Star Wars celebration experiences and we d...

Send us Fan Mail We put on our Sherlock Holmes monocles and tin foil hats and discuss some of the weird and quirky Star Wars questions that need to be asked. We also talk about some new books coming out in the universe, and some exciting video game teases, with a rumored reveal in the coming months.  Follow us on our social medias to keep up to date with our podcast and download our episodes to yo...

Send us Fan Mail We have a special Episode today... Join us for a behind the scenes look at our interview with Zach Alt who writes for Twin Cities Geek. We look at the meat and potatoes of making a podcast and why we chose Star Wars. Zach takes the lead with asking us questions and we get into the individual love for the franchise for each DetBlock host.  The article will be releasing on Twin Citi...