RuPalp's Podrace: A Queer Star Wars & Pop Culture Podcast

Start your sublight engines! Join Jess, Mel, Noah, Klaudia, and Ollie for their Life Day special! May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up. Points of Interest: I saw Santa kissing Elzar Mann, Chewbacca’s fucked up little dog, Kylo Ren’s cousin Lumpy, boyz night out, Weekend at Anakin’s, Kylux canon in the LEGO dub, Rex and the 501st are celebrating Hanukkah, Which Jedi is Martin Luther...

The speeder is at the shop this week, guess we'll have to do all bits! Join the whole crew for a full episode of all your favorite segments. Major High Republic Phase I spoiler - 3:08-9:45 Points of Interest: Jess is committing insurance fraud on Starlight Beacon, Fennec’s two (three?) weed smoking girlfriends, The Trolly Polycule, Y/N (You’re Noah), Is Brierly Ronan submissive and breedable?,...

Start your sublight engines! Join Jess, Mel, Klaudia, and Ollie as we discuss the final canon Thrawn novel (as far as we know), Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil . Spoilers ahead. May warrior's fortune smile on you, and don't kriff it up! Points of Interest: merit adoptive girlboss Samakro, Mitth’Manuel’Miranda, No Chiss Left Behind, Che’ri and the Chocolate Factory, As the World Caves In (Th...

Welcome to Rogue One(s), the RuPalp's Podrace bonus series where some of our hosts go rogue on a specific Star Wars topic. This week, join Klaudia, Jess, and Mel in the Chiss Ascendancy for some Thrawntent in preparation for the end of the canon Thrawn books coming soon (as far as we know), Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil. May warrior's fortune smile on you, and don't kriff it up! Point...

Start your sublight engines! Join Jess, Mel, Noah, and Ollie as we discuss all of the High Republic Phase 1 so far in our first full THR episode. For light and life! Points of Interest: Fett/Shand 4 Tatooine, serial outfit repeater Fennec Shand, “hey twink,” they/them (plural), Lournastasia and her Depop store, Cham Syndulla teeth reveal, Grogu and Plo Koon parallels, Loden Greatstorm’s boob job,...

Join RuPalp's Podrace co-hosts Ollie and Klaudia as we embark on a very non-Star Wars journey: the superhell that is a complete Supernatural rewatch. We'll summarize each episode, talk about fandom and production, and much more! No viewing of or prior knowledge about the cursed monster hunter show required - we're doing it so you don't have to. See you on the Mystery Spotcast for b...

Start your sublight engines! Join Jess, Klaudia, Mel, Noah, and Ollie for their first SPOOKTACULAR Halloween special: BOOPalp's Podrace. May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: We Have Prepared Some Halloween Costumes for You, Is Dean a Supernatural reference?, Rey Skywalker’s Arbor Day Special, Eli Vanto’s fat ass, Lego Tarkrennic Marriage Story, Mel is a Los...

Start your sublight engines! Join Jess, Klaudia, Mel, and Noah as we discuss Ronin, the Star Wars: Visions novel based on the first short, "The Duel," with special guest author Emma Mieko Candon! May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! This episode includes mostly minor spoilers for the novel, but here are timestamps for the major spoilers: 38:51- 40:08 45:57- 46:06 --- Fin...

Start your sublight engines! Join Jess, Klaudia, Mel, Noah, and Ollie for our girlboss episode. What does it mean to be a girlboss? May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Accidental boss binary, Mother Talzin leggings, Jango Foot, Vernestra Rwoh A.N.T Farm AU, Lena Dunham’s Arihnda Pryce, Elizabeth Holmes/Arihnda Pryce Parallels, The Organa Girlboss Dynasty, “Mar...

Welcome to Rogue One(s), the RuPalp's Podrace bonus series where some of our hosts go rogue on a specific Star Wars topic. This week, join Ollie and Mel as they go rogue to talk about the SWPEU: The Star Wars Polycule Extended Universe.  Points of Interest: Pitycule member Garazeb Orrelios, Fenn Rau seems The Type, No one is safe from he/him lesbianism, “Ah that must have been for Samakro,&quo...

Start your sublight engines! Join Jess, Klaudia, Mel, Noah, and Ollie where we talk about our favorite Star Wars ships. May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Kallus gets gay married, we will not shut the fuck up about polycules, Minnesotan! Eli Vanto, shout out to Supernatural, Samakro & Gron parallels, Jedha vaycay, please read the Padmé books, Anakin Get F...

Start your sublight engines! Join Ollie, Jess, Klaudia, Noah, and Mel as we discuss Star Wars: Visions season 1! May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up. Points of Interest: The Elder is gender, Is bread canon?, Duel of the Gays, anime club president Ezra Bridger, POV: Fennec Shand is your DM, Jabba's Big Time Rush era, Karre is Luuke (NOT CLICKBAIT), battle heels, lightsaber mood...

Welcome to Rogue One(s), the RuPalp's Podrace bonus series where some of our hosts go rogue on a specific Star Wars topic. This week, join Ollie, Jess, and Noah as they go rogue to talk about Star Wars video games! We discuss a lot of games in this episode, but we only really get into spoilers for Jedi: Fallen Order, the KOTOR games, Republic Commando and Battlefront II.  Points of Interest: P...

Welcome to Rogue One(s), the RuPalp's Podrace bonus series where some of our hosts go rogue on a specific Star Wars topic. This week, join Ollie, Jess, and Mel as they go rogue to talk about the second wave of the High Republic Phase 1. For light and life! Points of Interest: Yoda is the Down with CIS Bus Driver, xxBr0k3n_D00kuxx, Tarfful and Thrawn Parallels, "Identity Theft is not a Jok...

Start your sublight engines! Join Ollie, Jess, Klaudia, Noah, and Mel as we discuss the relationship between queerness and Star Wars (you know, the whole conceit of the podcast).  Points of Interest: General Hetty, Tatooine’s hottest gay club Tosche Station, What is this podcast but polycules persevering?, George Lucas’ whole pussy, Reath Silas, Sorry I Fucked Your Dad, Accidental Fruit Creator Ti...

Welcome to Rogue One(s), the RuPalp's Podrace bonus series where some of our hosts go rogue on a specific Star Wars topic. This week, Ollie, Jess, and Mel went rogue to talk about the first wave of the High Republic Phase 1. For light and life! Points of Interest: Geode at the strip club - what will he do?, Have a Snickers, Drengir, Marc (Thompson) Ro, Obi-Wan is a gemsona, Vern teaches about...

Start your sublight engines! Join Ollie, Jess, Klaudia, Noah, and Mel for our final thoughts on the Bad Batch season 1. May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Uncle Owen kissed Dev Patel on the mouth, Dave Meloni, Death Star laser color discourse, I Can Has Cheezburger! Crosshair, Duolingo Mando'a, Señor Rau, Is it Legends or Did I Just Make it Up: Clone Edit...

Start your sublight engines! Join Ollie, Jess, Klaudia, Noah, and Mel as we discuss the Bad Batch season 1 finale, "Kamino Lost." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Weekend at Crosshair’s, Maul’s crab empire, a poor little meow meow is paging you, Darth Fergalicious, Kalluzeb Shrek AU, Bo-Katan’s Bella Swan era, Cody’s case of the Mondays, and Judy...

Start your sublight engines! Join Ollie, Jess, Klaudia, Noah, and Mel as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 15, "Return to Kamino." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Echo McEntire, Sifo-Dyas’ DoorDash order, some notes on consuming media critically, Bendu! Hunter, the end of the prequel era, Tarkin Hamilton AU, Klaudia’s Bounty Hunter’s Guild Social...

Start your sublight engines! Join Ollie, Jess, Klaudia, Noah, and Mel as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 14, "War-Mantle." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Alpaca Su, Hunter “Hardbones” BadBatch, Rex’s Gone Girl era, some Crosshair sympathy, a discussion on complacency and fascism, Chekhov’s Chip Removal, Is Crosshair a Quizzy allegory?, Vin Dies...

Welcome to Rogue One(s), the RuPalp's Podrace bonus series where some of our hosts go rogue on a specific Star Wars topic. For our very first one, Mel and Noah went rogue to talk about Light of the Jedi, the first novel of the High Republic era. For light and life! Points of Interest: the Force is an onion, Yarael Poof’s impenetrable plot armor, contacting Jyn Erso via ouija board, Marchion Ro...

Start your sublight engines! Join Ollie, Jess and Klaudia as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 13, "Infested." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Animal Crossing enthusiast Boba Fett, step on the gas, infested? more like INVESTED, Omega’s Crime Syndicate, Echo "Scompy" Badbatch, Ketch and Ruby, Handsome Squidward! Roland, color blind Boba F...

Start your sublight engines! Join Ollie, Jess, Noah, Mel, and Klaudia as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 12, "Rescue on Ryloth." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Calling OSHA on Hunter BadBatch, more thoughts on clone autonomy, Howzer (Our Beloved), a Crosshair socratic seminar, Noah’s favorite indie game: World of Warcraft, Emergency Pryce Bust,...

Start your sublight engines! Join Ollie, Jess, Noah, Mel, and Klaudia (for the first half, RIP to her power while we were recording) as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 11, "Devil's Deal." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Black Series Trapper Wolf, Arihndaaaaah, Hot Chip Summer, our critiques of the Bad Batch, Not Like Other Clones, Catboy! Cr...

Start your sublight engines! Join Klaudia, Ollie, Jess, and Noah as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 10, "Common Ground." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: the Fett family casino, spoilers for...A New Hope?, are numbers canon in Star Wars?,  Xoxo Chewbacca Girl, #NotAllClones, domestic house-husband Cody, Nala Se’s sex appeal, slutty Cad Bane, and...