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

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! We’re talking the classic playground/camp/outside in general game Capture the Flag this week. Why? Well why do we do any of the topics on this show! For fun! Does everything have to have a purpose these days?? Just enjoy things for once. We get real nostalgic again as is our wont these days, and Mike brings in a classic March bracket for the game. It was…it was Mar...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! This week we are covering The Phantom Menace again, in continuation of our series of revisiting our ratings of each Star Wars movie at the end of every month this year. Our first review of The Phantom Menace was our second ever episode! How have we grown? How have we changed? How have we remained the same? Has this movie grown or changed? You'll find that our opini...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! We're talking Earth Girls Are Easy this week with special guest Marie Maloney, who amazingly had never watched this movie before but still suggested it. It's a bonkers flick, y'all. HIGHLY recommended. We dig into the movie, the absolute eighties-ness of it all, and how absolutely sexually frustrating it is to have so many beautiful hot people in this INCREDIBLY ho...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! We're talking about buffalo wings this week folks! Or hot wings, chicken wings, whatever you want to call them! Why?? Because we've been doing a lot of movies and shows lately and we wanted to do something fun and light! Join us as we get into the actual history of wings, talk about the emotional connections we have to them and play a truly nasty game that Mike mad...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! *SPOILERS* This whole episode is chock full of WandaVision spoilers! Do not listen if you care about spoilers! *SPOILERS* WandaVision just finished and we have special guest Rob Grabowski joining us on the show today to talk everything WandaVision and to figure out how Star Wars it is. We do a pretty good job of talking about WandaVision, a decent job talking about...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! Welcome back Hsweeties! Can you believe it's already March? We've got horror movie aficionado and media gadfly Stephen Kropa on the podcast this week to talk about one of his favorite recent movies, Midsommar. We know it's not a traditionally scary time of year, but this also isn't your traditional scary movie! Also, Josiah really didn't like this movie, so Stephen...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! It’s finally time Hsweeties. We’re starting our series of re-reviewing every Star Wars movie on the last Monday of every month. We’re starting with the highest on the HSWII scale: Return of the Jedi. We actually do a pretty job at not talking about the things we discussed last time! Mike brings some fun Episode 6 trivia, Josiah brings a new read on a pivotal scene...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! Love is in the air Hsweeties, and this week we're discussing Valentine's Day, because we already did birthdays. And as we all know, Valentine's Day is the second most important time in February, aside from our birthdays. This is honestly a textbook HSWII episode. If you have to recommend one to your friends, this is as good a place to start as any. We talk about el...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! *SPOILERS* We will be discussing details of In & Of Itself on Hulu. It is a magic show kinda, but more importantly, it’s a very moving theatrical experience that is best viewed without any knowledge of what it is beforehand. You have been warned! *SPOILERS* Welcome back hsweeties! We are discussing Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself, a stage show that was fil...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! We’re covering our SECOND streaming platform here on the show this week because, peek behind the curtain a little bit, we both watch a decent amount of YouTube! And there’s not a lot of holidays or blockbusters or anything coming out so sometimes we just do random stuff ya know? We’re funny and cool and random like that. So anyway, we talk old YouTube, new YouTube,...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! Wow wow wow!!! We made it! 100 dang episodes! Can you believe it?? This is a long one folks because to celebrate 100 episodes, we decided to review 100 different topics! Does that sound wild?? Well, it is! We also couldn't have made it this far without all our wonderful friends and guests we've had on the show, so we got them to do mini-reviews of a topic of their...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! Welcome back Hsweeties to the first episode we actually recorded in the new year. It's about Soul, the new joint from Pixar that is decidedly not a movie for kids! We get real deep in this one and Josiah says "quote unquote" too much and it was so annoying that he edited them out of the show! (Hi, it's me, Josiah. I write the notes. So don't worry, it's me being me...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! We hope everyone is staying safe and sane in these truly unprecedented times in the good old U. S. of A. For our non-U.S. listeners, consider yourselves lucky! Anyway, have some good dumb fun to take your mind off things with this week's episode! It's about the movie Josie and the Pussycats. Our special guest and good pal Dave Reddyk recommended we cover this, so M...

Black lives matter! Wear a mask!  Happy New Year everyone! We finally left the real dumpster fire year of 2020 behind and we're in the brand spanking new year of 2021. And this week we're reviewing the not really brand spanking but still new season of The Mabdalorian! We discuss all the Disney Investors Day announcements and dig into the future of Star Wars and all things Mabdalorian. And als...

Black Lives Matter! Where a mask! Happy holidays, hsweeties! We hope you all are enjoying the festivities for whenever, wherever, and whatever you celebrate! It's our last episode of the year, and our last entry in our ongoing coverage of the Mission Impossible franchise. That's right, it's Mission: Impossible-Fallout, and we've got Mission Impossible expert Michael DeLaney back on the show. We ta...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! We've got another holiday-themed episode for you this week, and this one is EXTRA special because in it we review our first poem! We review the classic poem that you probably think is called "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" but is apparently actually called "A Visit from St. Nicholas"! Who knew?? Not us! We spend a LOT of time in the "Monster Mash" voice and some...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! Welcome to our lightly themed holiday content, everyone! Die Hard! Is it a Christmas movie or not?? We don't care! But we do like the movie, and we DO talk about it! Kinda! You know the drill at this point. Also, y'all get to hear Mike sing for real for real in this one thanks to our sure to be hit and sure to be recurring segment, GI Hard, in which we discuss...th...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! We’re talking Avatar: the Last Airbender this week, and we were simply overjoyed to have Angela Rak on to talk about it! Angela is our first listener turned friend turned guest and teaches an actual real class on Avatar: the Last Airbender, so it was a no brainer to bring her on the show to discuss it. And because we discussed all three seasons at once, and because...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! It's the end of the penultimate month of the year and so it's time to review the penultimate (at least currently) Mission Impossible movie! Mission Impossible-Rogue Nation, aka MI5. This episode is full of HSWII classics, Josiah getting on his soapbox and somehow mentioning MK Ultra again, Mike knowing fun Tom Cruise facts, and an unnecessarily complicated MI5/Base...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! First things first, Mike's a little stinker. Let's see if he reads that. On to the episode! This is the last of the episodes we recorded before the dang election, so apologies again if we talk about it as if it hasn't happened yet. We're talking about candy this week! We talk about our candy journeys, libertarians for some reason, and all sortsa fun silly goofy stu...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! *There will be a few more weeks of disclaimers because we once again recorded this episode before the election, but the good news is Trump lost, so our cheerful energy is appropriate.* In continuation of the inoffensive things that pretty much everyone likes category for this month, we're covering Netflix this week! We get into the early days of Netflix when they s...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask!  *Disclaimer! This episode was recorded well in advance of the election and was edited and uploaded during the week of the election. At the time of me typing this, we do not know who won. So if the energy seems at odds with the current climate, that's why!* Welcome back Hsweeties! We're continuing to bring you good energy this November with more episodes about...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! *Disclaimer* This episode was recorded in September! And all the episodes for November were recorded pre-election week, so if the energy is different, that's why! *End disclaimer* Well, we made it through the scariest month of the year, and now it's on to lighter, funner topics to take our mind off the spooky supernatural and the legitimately terrifying actual worl...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! It is sadly the end of the spookiest month of the year. Not to worry though, our dual obligations of covering scary things during October and also Mission: Impossible movies at the end of the month aligned PERFECTLY with this week's episode: the scariest Mission: Impossible movie to date, Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol, aka Mission: Impossible 4. It's scary bec...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! We're halfway through the spookiest month of the year, and we thought we'd lighten things up a little by checking out the sequel to the best movie ever made and the instant HSWII fave, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. So this week, we're discussing the truly bizarre movie, Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island. Why was this movie made! Who can say! It's wild! If you're a...