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

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! We are in our SECOND week of the spookiest month of the year, so what better topic to cover than the "Monster Mash," the spoooookiest song of all time! We get deep into our childhood joy and trauma surrounding this song, do a classic HSWII Textual Analysis™, and Josiah tests Mike's monster knowledge and fighting acumen in the "Monster Mash" Hack and Slash Bash. You...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a Mask! MUAHAHAHAHA. It's spooky season listenerds, so get ready for a full month of s-s-s-s-scary episodes! We're kicking things off this month with an ACTUAL horror movie, even though historically we are little baby fraidy boys! We actually both really liked this movie, which is once again, not really normal for us! So get ready for a LOT of praise for the movie, a decen...

Black Lives Matter and wear a mask folks!  It's the end of the month, and you know what that means! That's right, it's another installment of our ongoing coverage of the Mission Impossible franchise, this time with past and no doubt future guest of the show, Michael DeLaney! DeLaney clears the air about his Ohio heritage and you know we talk that good/nasty Cincinnati chili. We talk about our...

Black Lives Matter and wear a mask folks! You know the drill! This week, we're talking Pokémon Go and a little bit of physics with our special guest, actual doctor, Dr. Michael Silver! He'll probably think it's silly I put the Dr. there, but I think it's cool! Mike Silver is a long time Pokémon Go player, so get ready to hear about all the changes that have been made in the last few years and his...

As always, Black Lives Matter and wear a mask people!  *Quick disclaimer! The audio quality is a little spotty here and there because we had to use the recorded video call back up for our guest's file, so thanks in advance for sticking with us!* This week we're covering our first restaurant with special guest, multi-hyphenate, and dare I say, friend, Amber Linde! We talk a little bit about Mc...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! We're heading back to more familiar territory this week: the MCU. But not just the MCU, no, this week we're covering the first Marvel movie to go where no Marvel movie dared to go before: the stars. That's right, it's Guardians of the Galaxy this week, a movie that wears its classic sci-fi and 80s influences proudly on its sleeve, so what is there really to discuss...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! It’s the last week of the month and you know what that means! That’s right, it’s the second installment of our ongoing Mission Impossible series coverage. So we’re talking M:i-2 this week, and boy is it a stinker! But we’re not worried about if it’s good or bad, of course, we’re worried about one thing: How Star Wars Is It? So join us as we discuss the John Woo-nes...

As always, Black Lives Matter and wear a mask! We're doing school this week! The concept of school. This episode gets a little heady, so just prepare yourselves, dear Hsweeties. This episode might also win the award for the longest we've ever gone without actually talking about Star Wars! That's right, it's one of those episodes! One of the episodes where it's the second one we've recorded in one...

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! Onto the show notes.  The summer is winding down, and it's time to reflect on all the fun things we got to do over summer break. What's that?? You're an adult and you have to work all the time no matter what and summer break isn't a thing for you anymore?? What's that again?? There's a global pandemic so you wouldn't be able to do the fun things you would norm...

As always, up top we wanna say that Black lives Matter and wear a mask! This week we’re discussing the noble canine! We dig into our personal pet and dog journeys and discuss how dogs is droids as well as taking a few quick tangents about gorilla’s understanding of mortality, dog and horse books, and Halo LAN parties. Josiah also goes to a future episode and steals one of Mike’s future games so he...

*Quick disclaimer before we get into the show notes! For the past two months, we’ve been donating the show’s ad revenue to charities specifically geared towards black trans women (feel free to check out past show notes for the links). Because we don’t make that much off of ads for the show, we were doing some creative rounding up for the donations. For that reason, we are going to continue donatin...

We’re still donating for this month! Links are below. Black lives matter and wear a mask! https://www.paypal.me/theokraproject https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-women-fund We are starting a new series this week on How Star Wars Is It? Because this year has felt so impossible so far, we decided to call in the Impossible Mission Force. For the next however many months, we will be cover...

We’re still donating for this month! Links are below. Black lives matter and wear a mask! https://www.paypal.me/theokraproject https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-women-fund Quick disclaimer, we’ve been having some audio issues when having guests lately, so apologies for the occasional doubling of voices, and thank you for your patience as we figure things out! We’re talking about Amer...

Hey Hsweeties, we're still donating for July, and it's the same places! Black lives matter, black trans lives matter, stay active and be safe and wear a mask! Links below.  https://www.paypal.me/theokraproject https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-women-fund Just like last week, we’re going back to our roots, but this time, it’s our roots of just doing random movies we like, and thi...

Hello again Hsweeties. Junesical Theatre Month is over, there’s still a pandemic, and black lives still matter. We hope you’re all staying safe and being active in your support. We decided to continue our support of black trans lives specifically, so the donation links are still below. https://www.paypal.me/theokraproject https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-women-fund This week we’re g...

Hello again dear Hsweeties, remember two important things before we get on to the show. Black Lives Matter and there is still a pandemic happening! Please keep yourself and others safe by practicing all the social distancing guidelines and wearing a mask. And show your support for the Black Lives Matter by continuing to donate money, time, and whatever resources you can. As we finish out pride mon...

Hi Hsweeties, protests are slowing down a bit, but we hope you’re still out there keeping the momentum going and donating your time, money, and energy to the Black Lives Matter movement. We are still focusing on black transgender related charities and organizations this month, and you can find the details for the Okra Project and the Homeless Black Trans Women Fund with the links below. Now onto t...

Hello Hsweeties, we hope you are all staying safe and healthy and still protesting and donating and being active in support of Black Lives Matter wherever you are in the world. Once again, since we record our episodes in advance, we don’t talk about what’s going on right now in the show. We’ll be focusing on black trans centered organizations for the rest of the month, and here are some links to t...

Hello Hsweeties, we hope you are all staying safe and healthy and contributing however you can to the Black Lives Matter movement all over the country and all over the world. We record our episodes in advance, so once again, we don’t talk about what’s going on right now in the show, because it hadn’t happened yet. But we included a preamble of sorts before the show to encourage you to get involved...

Hello Hsweeties and listenerds! First things first, we wanna say Black Lives Matter, and we hope everyone is staying safe and healthy in these crazy times. As we mentioned in the message at the beginning of the show, we're donating to the Chicago bail fund to help protesters who have been arrested and to the Minnesota group Take Back the Block which focuses on getting city funding away from police...

Hi Hsweeties! We hope you are all staying safe and healthy! A quick disclaimer here in the notes! We mention it at the top, but this episode was recorded a while ago, pre-quarantine and before Covid-19 was spreading widely through the U.S. So don't worry! We're staying safe and following all the social distancing guidelines. Mike had Blaze over many months ago. Okay, now on with the notes!  ...

Hello Hsweeties! As always, we hope you're staying safe and staying home in these crazy times! Now on with the show notes! Oh man, it feels like it's been a while since we've had a real wacky loosey-goosey episode! Well don't worry, dear listenerds, this is definitely one of those episodes! We get into the way different cultures develop language around colors, discuss Chicago's seasons, and talk a...

As always, before we get into the description of the show, we here at HSWII hope all of you dear listeners out there are staying safe and healthy at home! Times are weird, but we’ve got some comfort for you in the form of MORE Star Wars content! That’s right! There’s more Star Wars stuff in the world! You didn’t think Star Wars was just the movies did you?? If you did, you should pay more attentio...

Happy Star Wars day listeners! Somewhat serendipitously for us, a Star Wars podcast, May the Fourth falls on a Monday this year! Last year we released a super special bonus episode on May the Fourth but this year we don’t have to because it’s on our normal release day! But don’t worry, it’s still a super special episode, it’s just not bonus. We take a look back at last year’s May the Fourth episod...

We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during these crazy times! And to brighten your day, we present possibly the most maddening topic we’ve had to cover yet. That’s right, hsweeties, life is nothing but a fat rat race, and your favorite hosts here at HSWII are here to guide you through it. We’re covering the terrible movie Rat Race this week! This movie doesn’t make any sense and we are ob...