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

Hello again Hsweeties! We here at How Star Wars Is It? hope you are safe, happy, and healthy staying home during this global pandemic, which is a crazy thing I never thought I’d have to type in a podcast episode description. If you’re like us, your routine has probably changed, and you might be doing a little more of this episode’s topic than usual. That’s right, this week we return to the rich ve...

Hello dear hsweeties and listenerds. First things first, we here at How Star Wars Is It? hope you are all doing well, staying home, washing those hands, and just being as safe as you can be! Second things second, we are finally reviewing the last Star Wars movie! Well, the last one that we haven't covered yet. The order in which we covered the Star Wars movies had little rhyme or reason, but suffi...

We had a whole continuing in the spirit of April Fool's day bit we were gonna do by giving you an Austin Powers episode on the week that the new James Bond movie was going to be released, but you know how it is. Shit's crazy out here. Be safe, stay inside, and listen to this episode of HSWII. We're covering Austin Powers this week! Josiah had never seen it before this episode, because he was a goo...

Welcome to the first episode of our new podcast, How Spaceballs Is It? That's right, Mike and Josiah got tired of the old format, and their new mission in life is to determine just how Spaceballs everything in existence is! Now go listen to the first minute or two of the episode and then come back and finish reading this. Did you listen?? Oh man, we got you good huh! You thought we really started...

This was gonna be a timely episode with Disney's release of the new live-action Mulan, but the good ol' global pandemic has thrown off everybody's plans, giant movie studios and little baby podcasts alike. And yet WE'RE still releasing this episode! Ball's in your court DISNEY. You COWARDS. Anyway, we're talking about the original animated Mulan this week! Your beloved hosts hadn't seen this movie...

We had the distinct honor and privilege of determining How Star Wars C2E2 is live on the floor at C2E2 itself in the Podcast Central booth, run by the very nice fellas at Chuck Loads of Comics and The Chumpcast. We can't thank them enough for helping us bring our brand of Star Wars fandom to the masses. Also big thanks to Reedpop and C2E2 for making it all possible in the first place! This episode...

Hello Hsweeties and listenerds, welcome to season two of the show! Our seasons are one year long, just like every other reputable show. This is what we planned from the beginning and is definitely not an arbitrary distinction that we decided on a whim.  We're starting out season two with a bang by finally covering The Last Jedi. We've talked about it at length on other episodes, and we are at...

Waaaaah! Goo goo gah gah! *Pbbbblt* Those are baby noises! Because How Star Wars Is It? is officially one year old! That’s right, one whole year! That’s young for a human, decently old for a podcast, and like Josiah mentions in this episode, longer than any relationship he’s ever been in! We’re celebrating by taking a look back *wink* at some of our favorite clips of the show from the past year. *...

Here at How Star Wars Is It?, February is a very special month. Both Mike and Josiah’s respective birthdays are in the month of February, less than a week apart! And our podcast will celebrate its first birthday very soon! So to revel in the celebratory spirit, we thought we’d do an episode on birthdays themselves! That’s right, we’re back with a concept this week at HSWII? Mike and Josiah talk th...

Hello there Hsweeties! Take a trip down memory lane with us, won’t you? Fire up Disney Plus, and remember a simpler time when Disney didn’t have a vice grip on all media yet and made a fun, strangely good movie about a theme park attraction. We’re talking Pirates of the Caribbean today! Specifically, only the first one, The Curse of the Black Pearl, because the rest of them suck increasingly as th...

Recently, we had noted Sonic expert Pete Byrne as a guest on the show. Conveniently, the new formerly-terrifying-now-much-more-palatable CGI Sonic movie is coming out this week! We thought we'd take advantage of the timing and have Pete back on the show to discuss all things Sonic the Hedgehog. The video games that is. We are not cool Hollywood insiders and don't have access to advance screenings....

Rise and shine you woodchuck chuckers, it's the How Star Wars Is It? Groundhog Day Special! Since we talked about the movie Groundhog Day during holiday month without our resident Groundhog Day expert Michael DeLaney, we figured we'd make it up to him by having him on the show to talk about a different movie entirely!  That's right, we're diving into the niche genre of Groundhog Day inspired...

Thanks to listener Siobhan for the suggestion for the topic of this week's episode: the Star Wars Expanded Universe! Slash Star Wars Legends!  We're talking this week about the weird and wacky world of pre-Disney Star Wars. This episode is a little different, as we are talking a little bit about a lot of different Star Wars content that Mike and Josiah are familiar with. Books! Video games! C...

It is time! We've talked about it long enough, so we're finally getting back to the original trilogy with Empire Strikes Back!  *Disclaimer* Mike and I recorded this way back in early December, before we saw Rise of Skywalker, and before we recorded most of the more recent episodes. And because we're parodies of ourselves, we actually talk about several things that we talked about in later De...

Hey Hsweeties! Our guests this week have a hilarious Star Wars related video out now called "Please (Use CGI To Bring My Dead Dad Back To Life) -- A Star Wars Song" on their youtube channel that everyone should go check out right now! Right now! Before you listen to the episode! We here at How Star Wars Is It? hope that your 2020 is off to a Super start! Let's Smash all the negativity, and come to...

SPOILERS There are spoilers in this one gang! Be wary! SPOILERS Okay, now that that's out of the way, hey Hsweeties! Happy New Year! Welcome to 2020! New year, new Star Wars, same podcast.  We're covering all of season one of The Mandalorian this week, and you know what, we really liked this show! It wasn't perfect or anything but it was super fun and a nice breath of fresh air for the Star W...

Hello Hsweeties! Welcome back from vacation! Load up those podcasts and get ready for the workweek before New Year’s Eve awkwardly interrupts and gives everyone a big hangover. Speaking of New Year’s Eve, we’re finishing out holiday month and 2019 in classic HSWII fashion: by doing an episode that is based on a joke that Mike and I made in a previous episode that will hopefully still be funny. Tha...

*SPOILERS* This episode has spoilers. Obviously. The description might have some light spoilers depending on your definition of the word. *SPOILERS* Happy holidays Hsweeties! To celebrate, we recorded you a big ol’ bonus sized episode of How Star Wars Is It? Wow! It’s exactly what you wanted I bet! Do you know what wasn’t what WE wanted? Basically everything in The Rise of Skywalker! That’s right,...

Holiday month continues, and we're pulling a fast one on you Hsweeties with yet another out of season holiday episode. Do you get the bit yet?? We're doing all the holidays that don't actually happen this time of year! Honestly, this whole month could have been called our April Fool's month with how much we've been swerving on y'all, but as you will find out in this episode, Josiah and Mike hate p...

This week on HSWII, we are bringing our rodent-centric holiday episode streak up to 2! What other podcasts can say that?? Probably none of them! Mostly because we're the only podcast so it would be hard for something that doesn't exist to say anything at all! But yes, we are continuing our holiday-themed month, and we discuss everyone's favorite confusing rabbit, the Easter Bunny, as well as a cou...

Well Hsweeties, the holiday season is truly upon us! The turkeys have all been ritually sacrificed, and the man with the bag is on his way in less than a month! Also something about all the other holidays that happen in this strange two-month time frame where we as humans apparently decided to put all the holidays. And to get us in the holiday spirit, we're kicking off Holiday Month here at HSWII!...

The holiday season is upon us Hsweeties! It's a straight sprint from Thanksgiving all the way to I don't know, Arbor Day or something. So to give us a little break from recording and to give you a little treat for the start of the holiday season, we decided to release the audio of our live show at Podslam 2019 that we recorded back in September at the iO Theatre in Chicago. Because it was a podcas...

Mike and Josiah continue to follow the strange rabbit trail of doing whatever topics they got excited about a few episodes ago, and hey, this time it's National Treasure! Remember National Treasure?? The pretty fun family-friendly flicks starring the strangely dialed down Nicolas Cage? And Andy Samberg did a funny spoof of him on SNL? Oh man, simpler times, am I right? Anyway, there's no Wendy's n...

Quick! It's 11/11! Make a wish!  Yes, that's right, it's one of the twelve days of the year that the way Americans write the date and the way the rest of the world writes the date match up! And this day is extra special for some reason because 11:11 is the time you make a wish! (Which I'm realizing now I don't know the origin of. I've never thought to look it up. Is it just a cute middle scho...

Roll back those clocks Hsweeties! Fall back Listenerds! It's only one year 'til we can make the election joke about setting the clock back one hour and not a bunch of decades or whatever! And actually, hopefully you've already done all of those things because daylight saving (or savings) time was a couple of days ago ya goons! Get on it! Don't be like Mike and leave your car clock on the same time...