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

We're finally done with rock operas, and it's on to our next contractually obligated month of programming: Batman movies! We're catching up on the Batmans we missed during Junesical Theatre month and Junesical July, so it's gonna be all Batman all month babyyy. And we're specifically focusing on firsts, so this week, we're looking at the first in the Burton/Schumacher-verse...

We're wrapping up Junesical July with 2004's seminal work by Green Day, American Idiot. It's a great album, and a great episiode. Do we talk about Star Wars at all? Tune in to find out. And of course, we play a good old fashioned game of Smish or Piss. You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and find us @HowStarWarsIsIt on all platforms. You can also follow Mike @MikeGospel...

Junesical July continues. We're covering Tommy. We're stupid. We're tired. Tommy is weird. Rock operas are weird. We'll be back to, well, not normal, but to something different at least in August. Enjoy! You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and find us @HowStarWarsIsIt on all platforms. You can also follow Mike @MikeGospel on Twitter and @WordGospel09 on Youtube and I...

Junesical July continues with more rock opera coverage, and boy are our brains mush now. We're talking the seminal The Who album Quadrophenia this week. It's a great album, and we're tired of rock operas at this point, hahaha. Enjoy! You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and find us @HowStarWarsIsIt on all platforms. You can also follow Mike @MikeGospel on Twitter and @Wor...

We're continuing our coverage of rock operas during Junesical Theatre July this month with Pink Floyd's The Wall, specifically the movie version. And boy oh boy, it sure is interesting. We get a little in the weeds regarding rock operas and play a little game of Chain Reaction. It's a good time. Enjoy! You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and @HowStarWarsIsIt on all platf...

We felt we gave rock operas short shrift during the month of June, so we're extending our coverage of rock operas in a continuation of Junesical Theatre month. Welcome to Junesical Theatre July! We're starting off with a concept album/rock opera, The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance. And y'all, this album rips and slaps and does everything good. We also play a little Smish or Piss,...

What's this?? It's the end of the month and we're not doing a Batman movie?? Well, we felt we didn't give rock operas a fair shake, so we're doing an extra one to close out Junesical theatre month. It's Jesus Christ Superstar! And we play a real or fake Bible game. It's a great time, and a bonus length because we were really having fun. Enjoy! You can contact the show a...

We're continuing this year's rock opera coverage during Junesical Theatre Month, this time by covering the cult classic Repo! The Genetic Opera with special guest and fellow Anarchy cast member Sydney Clinton. We talk about how absolutely bat shit this movie is and try to figure out how it could have been salvaged. We also play a reverse IMDB game! It's a great time. Enjoy! You can con...

We're talking about maybe our most controversial topic yet this week for Junesical Theatre Month, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. And we have special guest and fellow Anarchy the Improvised Rock Opera team member Paul Brandt on the show this week to discuss it! We discuss if this show could be done today, talk about Paul's fondness for the novelizations of the prequels, and play a game about...

We're kicking off another Junesical Theatre Month by covering the concept of rock operas! It's a little teaser for the rest of the month, as we will be covering rock operas and rock musicals each week this month. We dig into rock operas, rock musicals, the differences and similarities, and for some reason we talk a lot about if there are more stars in the universe or sand grains on the ear...

It's the end of the month, so we're talking Batman again! This time, it's the truly insane film, Batman & Robin. We're not going in any order, okay?? We're just reviewing them as the spirit leads us. And we've got TWO special guests this week, returning guest Rob Grabowski and first-timer Josh Segovia, both of the comedic beverage review podcast Poppin' Bottles. Bot...

We're talking about the latest streaming phenomenon, Jury Duty! The show, not the civic duty. We're a couple of weeks behind, as usual, but I promise it was timely when we recorded this. And we play a sampler platter of James Marsden games. It's a great episode. Enjoy! You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and @HowStarWarsIsIt on all platforms. You can also follow Mike @Mi...

The problem with not being able to do this show as our only job is sometimes we record stuff in a timely manner but then release it weeks later just because that's how the release schedule shakes out. So we know this isn't timely anymore, but it was when we recorded it okay?? We're talking about the D&D movie this week! It's a great flick and we have a lot of fun discussing it....

This week we're talking about Alfred Hitchcock's body of work with special guest Peter Corey, member of the incredible Chicago genre improv drinking show, Hitch*Cocktails, who are celebrating their 10th anniversary this May. More details can be heard at the end of the episode. Peter brings the expertise, we bring the questions, and we really dig into Hitchcock's oeuvre. We also say oeu...

Somehow we have been doing this podcast for 4 years and haven't covered Star Trek. This week, we remedy that fact with special guest Jessica Landis of the fantastic Chicago genre improv drinking show, Hitch*Cocktails, who are celebrating their 10th anniversary this May. More details can be heard at the end of the episode. We dig into how Star Trek and Star Wars are like amicable brothers, and...

It's the end of the month, so we're doing another Batman movie! This time it's The Dark Knight Rises with past and no doubt future guest of the show Michael DeLaney joining us, as our resident The Dark Knight Rises expert. It's apparently a fun movie! I gotta rewatch it. Because I didn't for the podcast. Who has the time. Cut me some slack. You can contact the show at agoodpodc...

We're talking about the grocery store this week. You know, the place that has all the food and stuff? You know what a grocery store is. What am I even saying. We also play a grocery store RPG and it's very silly. 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 I...

We're finally getting around to covering the latest entry in one of our favorite franchises, Scream VI. It's an interesting addition to the canon, and it's a great episode! We play six, count 'em SIX games in the second half. Enjoy! You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and @HowStarWarsIsIt on all platforms. You can also follow Mike @MikeGospel on Twitter and @WordGosp...

We're talking about art this week! You know, the concept?? What even is it?? Who knows! We talk about it though! And we play a game called Work of Fart that Josiah stole from the McElroys. It's a good time 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 J...

We thought we'd share this month's bonus episode from Patreon in the main feed, as a little teaser for our loyal listeners. We had a lot of fun with this one, and I think it shows. In this month's bonus episode, we pit a bunch of songs that are marches against each other in a March madness style bracket to find out which is the best march. It's March March Madness! Get it?? You can...

We're starting a thing where we talk about a Batman movie at the end of every month which will take us through the end of the year! And to kick it off we're talking about one of if not the best Batman movies, The Dark Knight, which we somehow haven't already talked about, despite being two 30-year-old white men. We also play a really fun game of guessing different music! It's great. Enjoy!  Y...

In what is somehow our horniest and most chaotic episode yet, we're talking taxes. You know, the boring paperwork thing that is decidedly NOT horny or chaotic. We also play a nice little Taxes RPG of Josaih's design that adds to the chaos. Enjoy! You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and @HowStarWarsIsIt on all platforms. You can also follow Mike @MikeGospel on Twitter and @...

We're continuing our unofficial the Killers series with this week's episode covering their 5th studio album, Wonderful Wonderful. It's a great album and a great episode and we play Smish or Piss. 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...

We're talking about the 2022 Weird Al "biopic" this week. It's a fun ep and Mike plays Finish the Lyric. 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 @JosiahDotBiz on social media and on his website josiahrobinson.biz. And don't forget to rate...

We're doing another prequel episode this week on talking about the movie that started the Knives Out Mystery franchise, Knives Out itself! We actually do a pretty good job at our podcast this week but take plenty of diversions as well, don't you worry. And we play the HSWII IMDB game! It's a good time. Enjoy! You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and @HowStarWarsIsIt on all...