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

It’s finally time for our Halloween episode! And before you get too excited, NO, not the movie Halloween! We’ve made it very clear that we are scaredy cats and weenies! Just the holiday Halloween! Just tricks and treats, nothing actually terrifying here! We get into Mike and Josiah’s experiences with Halloween (long story short, Mike has a lot and Josiah has none), talk a little bit about Star War...

Well Hsweeties and listenerds, we got too scared and we decided to kick it old school with some Scooby Doo! But we picked the wrong movie, because this one has actual monsters in it! Zoinks! But we also picked the RIGHT movie because it's the best movie we've rated so far. Scooby Doo on Zombie Island is the best movie ever made and no movie should be longer than its run time. And don't worry, we W...

We hope all you Hsweeties weren't scared away by last week's first horror-themed episode, because this week we're talking about a REAL horror movie: the 1982 seminal classic John Carpenter's The Thing. And since your hosts are such weenies, we decided to bring in a scary movie pinch hitter for this week's episode! Chicago's own multi-hyphenate comedy man and Jackbox Games's own writer, C.J. Tuor!...

Well Hsweeties and listenerds, fall is in the air. Feel that crisp chill in the air, get rid of those summer candles, and bust out your medium jacket. But wait...what's that?? Our idyllic fall day is being interrupted by...s-s-s-s-SCARY STUFF. That's right folks, get comfortable, because we're doing another theme month. But don't get TOO comfortable, because the theme this month is all spooky subj...

Mike and Josiah came up with a very funny joke about the Green Day song Wake Me Up When September Ends and they decided to do a whole episode based on it. It's very cool and great and original and no one else has ever made the joke. Don't look it up. Anyway, September is ending, and we're here to wake up Billie Joe Armstrong by figuring out how Star Wars his dang upstart punk band is. We somehow t...

Today is the autumnal equinox, and to celebrate the change of seasons, this week we're reviewing everyone's favorite seasonal beverage, pumpkin spice lattes! Part pumpkin, part spice, ALL latte, the PSL is a mainstay of fall all over the world. Well, maybe not the world, but definitely the U.S. Do they have PSLs in other countries? Do other countries like pumpkin flavored things as much as America...

Well Hsweeties, Josiah is finally a real Star Wars fan now. He finally saw Solo: A Star Wars Story. And it was fine. That’s right, we’re back to Star Wars on today’s episode and it is CHOCK full of HSWII goodness. Join us for Mike’s first official on air apology and Josiah’s game So Low which was really just an excuse to talk about Warwick Davis for like 15 minutes. If you have any comments or sug...

Programming note! This episode was originally intended to come out the first week of September, but Josiah goofed it up and posted them out of order. Oh well! Welcome back Listenerds! We are finally making good on our promise, nay, our mission, nay OUR PURPOSE to review anything and everything, so we're taking a step away from traditional media and a step towards concepts. This week, we're determi...

Well, Shark Month is officially over and we're back to your regularly scheduled HSWII programming. Or at least, as regular as this show gets. We're looking at yet another Spielberg movie that pioneered new visual effects and launched a blockbuster franchise, Jurassic Park! This episode gets a little scattershot, which just means we cover a lot of ground! Mike debuts a new game, Dern, and we discov...

Well Hsweeties and Listenerds, we've come to the end of Shark Month, or Mark, as it were. We know, we know. We're as sad as you are. Which is to say, probably not that sad. But we had some fun along the way! We had some laughs! And there's more laughs and fun to be had!  We couldn't fit all the shark-related things in one month, so for this finale episode, we're doing some IISW (is it Star Wars?)...

Welcome back Hsweeties and Listenerds! We are knee-deep in Shark Month, or Mark, as it were! (Apologies to all actual people named Mark.) We're reviewing the OG shark movie this week! Jaws! Which neither Mike nor Josiah had seen before they watched it for this episode. You might be asking yourself, did these boys live under a rock their whole lives? How have they not seen so many very important an...

Welcome to week two of Shark Month listenerds! Or as we call it here in the industry, Mark! We can't get enough sharks over here at A Good Podcast Studios. So of course we HAD to do the most important shark movie, arguably and regrettably, of the last decade: Sharknado! Mike and Josiah dig deep into the weird world of The Asylum film studio and emerge stinky and dirty from the filth of the masses....

(Just a quick heads up, Josiah's audio sounds a little rough for the first 20 minutes of the episode because his computer was being a punk, so we had to use the backup Skype recording. Everything after that is the usual quality though!) Uh-oh, Hsweeties! The summer is coming to a close, and you know what that means! That's right, it's Shark Week! Or rather, it WAS Shark Week. Now it's Shark MONTH....

(Hey Hsweeties?? It's me, Josiah. The Matrix is a good movie! It's a good dang movie! Dang! If only it wasn't illegal for me to have seen this movie when it came out! If only I wouldn't have gone to jail for seeing it before I was 17! I missed out on liking this movie for so many years! Ugh! Dang!) Mike is in The One: A Matrix Parody Musical in Chicago at The Den Theatre, and we've been hyping it...

After an exhausting summer of blockbusters, we are finally returning to our core competency. That's right Hsweeties. We're back with a real, genuine Star War! This episode is a little longer than usual just because we had WAY too much fun talking about the wild and wacky weirdness that is Attack of the Clones. Mike hits us with some fun Star Wars facts and trivia, as always, (my personal favorite...

Well. We finally did it. We finally did the dang thing. We've been talking smack about the new "live action" Lion King for TOO long. It was finally time to put up or shut up. And when have you known us to ever shut up?? In this episode, Josiah debuts a sure to be fan favorite new game, Truth or Lion, and there are also some EXTREMELY hot takes in this episode, especially if you're a fan of the new...

Just now when I was typing this I was like, wait, is Stranger Things a Shakespeare reference from Hamlet?? Turns out no, the quote is "There are more things in heaven and earth..." not stranger things, so we are good folks, we are good. I would have been very ashamed if I didn't realize the title of this show was a Shakespeare reference until JUST now. Anyway, this episode is about Stranger Things...

🎵Josiah and Mike, Josiah and Mike Do whatever podcasters like Make a show, any size Actually it's an hour, sorry about the lies Look out! Here come Josiah and Mike🎵 Yes, thank you, I think this podcasting parody of the Spider-Man theme song is my best work as well. We're talking about Spider-Man 2 this week in conjunction with the newest second Spider-Man film. Man. It's pretty wild that there a...

Gosh, this episode gets real cute Hsweeties. It just gets real cute. Apparently one of Mike's favorite movies is Toy Story! Isn't that cute?? He can like, quote the whole thing. And he pretty much does. There's a new Toy Story movie coming out, and we get pretty nostalgic about the original Toy Story this episode, and nostalgic about other things, including our childhood toys and using our imagina...

We are continuing to ride the sweet wave of summer blockbuster releases as inspiration for episode topics! There's a new Men in Black movie! It looks fun and cool. So we decided to revisit the original Men in Black (which Mike watched for the first time for this episode!) to determine once and for all how Star Wars it is. This episode has everything!  A list of all the Will Smith movies! A li...

Hey there Hsweeties! Another X-Men movie came out this last weekend, and boy howdy, sure sounds like it was a real clunker, huh? A real stinker, wasn't it? A big ol' box office bomb. Well don't worry! We're not talking about that one. We're talking about the ORIGINAL X-Men cinematic stinker! X-Men: The Last Stand, aka X3 gets an official HSWII scale rating this week, but not before we get another...

Don't worry baby kids, no spoilers this week! And since we talked about the sex and violence filled Game of Thrones last week, we thought we'd get a bit more wholesome this week with the educational Christian children's cartoon, Veggie Tales. And we have our second guest! Chicago performer and improviser and all around funny and great gal, Allie Gospel! Also yes, she and Mike are siblings.  S...

*SPOILERS* HARK AND HEAR, YE PODCAST LISTENERS, FOR THIS BE SPOILER TERRITORY. TURN BACK, GO NO FURTHER, LEST YE BE SPOILED FOR ETERNITY! *SPOILERS* Hey Hsweeties, we've got spoilers in this episode for Game of Thrones, specifically the finale from last week! So tread carefully! Welcome to our most requested episode topic! Game of Thrones! Mike has watched every episode. Josiah has watched one epi...

Quick heads up, the audio quality on Mike's end is a little funky and not up to our normal standards, however we decided to release it anyway .We think we know why it messed up, so it'll hopefully be fixed in the future. Sorry all! It was our first time recording remotely. Because- Josiah is in Alaska! What! That's wild. We drop some Alaska facts on you this episode, and dip into some nostalgia wi...

Oh man, oh man. Aprilvengers month is over, we got the SEO for Detective Pikachu. It's time to return to our core competency. Star Wars. And also we have a guest for the first time! What! Cool! We're probably the first podcast to have the idea to have a guest!  We're rating Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith this week. Our guest and prequel expert Michael DeLaney joins us to discuss the...