How Star Wars Is It? - Not Really a Star Wars Podcast

We've been doing the show for THREE FREAKING YEARS! Can you believe that?? In this episode we do a little retrospective and look back at the history of the show, past games, present topics, and the sure to be often referred to Lost Episodes. Thanks for sticking with us for 3 years! Hopefully, we get to do the show for 3 more, and 3 more, and 3 more after that! And then after that, no more.  Y...

We're finishing up the month of FebruSCARY with the latest installment in the Scream franchise, Scream aka Scream 5. How does the newest legasequel fare in the contest of HSWII? How does it fare in How Scream It Is? And how much do we like it just in general? All these questions and more are answered in this week's episode. Enjoy. You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and @H...

We're knee-deep in FebruSCARY as we continue our coverage of all the Scream movies! This week we're covering Scream 4, the oddly prescient and ahead of its time first "Legasequel" of the franchise. We dig into how we like all these movies and also we do talk a little bit about Star Wars too! Never let it be said that we don't sometimes do our job. Mike also brings a Scream-inspired round of Only C...

In this glorious month of FebruSCARY, we're continuing our coverage of the Scream movies with Scream 3, without a doubt the most camp entry in the franchise. Is it a good movie? Do we like it? Is it Star Wars? Is Josiah Neve Campbell's mom yet? We answer all these questions and more in this episode. And for the game, enjoy a classic installment of "Josiah makes Mike guess numbers about movies." Yo...

Welcome to FebruSCARY, where all month long we will be going through and rating and reviewing all the movies in the Scream franchise. We covered the first Scream movie way back early on in the show, so go back into the feed and check that out if you wanna catch up, although we do not stand by whatever rating we gave it then, okay? This week we're covering Scream 2! It's a great flick and a great e...

It's a throwback to Junesical theatre month this week as we cover the most interesting remount of a classic show that's currently touring the nation, Oklahoma! Josiah brings a state-based musicals game and we talk a lot about musicals! Hope that's fun for you cuz it was for us! You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and @HowStarWarsIsIt on all platforms. You can also follow M...

We're going back to the food well this week and talking about sandwiches. We do not answer the great debate of what actually constitutes a sandwich, but we do talk about reading for 10 minutes before we actually discuss the topic. It's classic HSWII stuff folks. Plus, Mike brings another round of Only Connect with a bonus sandwich mini-game inside of it.  You can contact the show at agoo...

It's our sesquicentennial episode! They all said we'd never make it to episode 150 and we proved them wrong! To celebrate, we recorded a big blowout episode about one of our favorite topics, improv, with the boys from Talking Shop, James Dugan and Rob Grabowski, bona fide experts on the subject. As always happens when we have guests, we somehow stay on topic more than usual. Mike also brings the g...

It's a spoiler-filled cast this week as we finally discuss the greatly anticipated sequel/sort of remake, The Matrix Resurrections. Join us as we try to describe this wild and wacky film and maybe make some Matrix Resolutions with us as well, as we ring in the new year with some podcasting intentions. You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and @HowStarWarsIsIt on all platform...

This episode is about New Year's! The Day, the Eve the whole kit and kaboodle. We also tell jokes in this one. REAL jokes. And there's another Only Connect game! It's great. Happy New Year everyone, and I hope you beat Mike to the punch and yelled churro before he did. You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and @HowStarWarsIsIt on all platforms. You can also follow Mike @Mike...

We're finishing out our year long quest to re-review every Star Wars movie with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Previously rated the lowest of all Star Wars movies on the HSWII scale, will it stay in that low range or will it climb up into the upper echelon of HSWII ratings? Find out by listening to this episode! We also take some diversions of course and play the Star Wars Minute game! It's fun. Yo...

We're covering the 2003 compilation of animated shorts released in conjunction with a major sci-fi franchise, and we make this same point multiple times in the episode, but it's wild how similar to Star Wars that is, isn't it?? We're talking The Animatrix this week, and it rules. Mike brings a game of Fiction, Fan Fiction, or Fiction Fiction and it also rules.  You can contact the show at&nbs...

We're ankle-deep in Matrix month now baby! Join us as we cover the final installment in the original Matrix trilogy. There are some classic HSWII diversions on the way, worry not. And much like last week, we discover that the Matrix is VERY prequelsy. Mike also introduces a new game based on his new favorite "quiz show", Only Connect. You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com an...

We're kicking off Matrix month with the sequel to our Matrix episode (which was over two years ago, wow we've been doing this podcast a long time) which is not coincidentally about the sequel to the Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded! I don't know if you've noticed this listeners, but sometimes I aim for confusing verbiage instead of economy of words with these descriptions. It's why I'm not a copywriter...

It's the end of the month and we're back to revisit and possibly rerate our penultimate Star Wars film which we have been coming back to in reverse HSWII order. That sentence meant nothing! It barely meant something to me! We've got the world's foremost Solo expert Michael DeLaney on the show this week, and we get INTO it. DeLaney also brings back the classic game Are You For Lando CalREALssian? I...

This is sure to be a new HSWII classic because we somehow talk about the topic for about 10 minutes, don't talk about it at all but DO talk about Star wars for 30, and then at the hour mark start talking about the topic and REALLY getting into the weeds trying to define it. This is a good show. And we play Chain Reaction! And it's fun! Seriously, maybe share this one with your friends who you've b...

We recorded this a while ago, and somehow we talked about Wicked on here AND the Patreon weeks before the casting news dropped last week. We talk about pie, Sweeney Todd, Wicked, "and a double boiler" and the game is Family Food and Josiah is bad at it.  You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and @HowStarWarsIsIt on all platforms. You can also follow Mike @MikeGospel on...

Spoilers for Dune I guess? It's a really old book so like, y'all can deal with it. Enjoy this episode to hear me, Josiah, talk WAY too much about Dune and to hear Mike go "Yeah" and "hmm" and "uh-huh" a bunch. We're doing the Matrix movies soon, so don't worry, he'll get his turn. You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and @HowStarWarsIsIt on all platforms. You can also follo...

Welcome back to the show Charlie Irving, my much-talked-about girlfriend, as we discuss Squid Game about a month after it's relevant! It's fun. The game is a Squid Game Game, and it's also fun! Enjoy. You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and @HowStarWarsIsIt on all platforms. You can also follow Mike @MikeGospel on Twitter and @WordGospel09 on Youtube and Instagram and Josi...

End of the month! Revisiting Star Wars movies! Rise of Skywalker! It's bad! Star Wars Minute game! Don't listen to this episode if you like this movie because we don't and we talk about it!  You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and @HowStarWarsIsIt on all platforms. You can also follow Mike @MikeGospel on Twitter and @WordGospel09 on Youtube and Instagram and Josiah @J...

Why do I even put thought and energy into these episode notes? Aside from the copy-pasted stuff below, do y'all really need any more info? We don't have any new listeners, so you all already know all our stuff. Who cares! Who even cares! This episode is about Jackbox Games and honestly, it's a pretty good episode. The game is funny. You should share this one with your friends maybe. Whatever! I'm...

There is not a good way to type out jack-o'-lantern where it looks like a real and normal word.  Jack-o'-lanterns! Spooky season. Pumpkins. It's seasonal and it's topical. And there's a fun game too! The return of the Halloween costumes pun game! You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and @HowStarWarsIsIt on all platforms. You can also follow Mike @MikeGospel on Twitter...

Sorry for the late posting this week listenerds! I, Josiah, your loyal episode notes writer, had a very busy weekend! And also, apologies for the sound quality! I, Josiah, your loyal podcast editor, somehow messed up my side of the recording, so we had to use the zoom back up! So sorry for the inconsistencies, and thank you for your patience! We're talking about jackets this week 'cause it's fall!...

It's the end of the month! You know the drill. We're revisiting Force Awakens this week and it's fine! It's weird watching these movies again years later ya know? 2015 was a much simpler time. Okay, I'm typing this late on a Sunday night again, so here's the rest of the show notes and it's copied and pasted from every other episode's show notes. Bye! You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@g...

*DISCLAIMER* There are spoilers in this episode for the entire season of The White Lotus, so if you haven't watched it yet and you care about being spoiled, don't listen to this episode!!! *END DISCLAIMER* Hey guys, it's me, Josiah. Send me a message if you actually read the show notes, or a letter like I said at the end of this episode for some reason. We're covering The White Lotus, the recent p...