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

Start your sublight engines! Join Mel, Klaudia, Ollie, Jess, and Noah as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 9, "Bounty Lost." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Candacenoans, Where is Beta Fett?, frenemy Nala Se, Death Star architect Sabine Wren, girlboss Fennec Shand (Our Beloved), Duros! Snoke, We Have Prepared Some New Segments, and K2SHoe. Support...

Start your sublight engines! Join Mel, Klaudia, Ollie, and Jess as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 8, "Reunion." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Noah's Force ghost,  WLW (Wrecker Loving Wrecker), Home Alone! Omega, an actual Epic Gamer Moment, Kentucky Fried Crosshair, Jeb Bush's Jedi dueling boots, and the Malewives of Mandalore. Suppor...

Start your sublight engines! Join Mel, Klaudia, Ollie, Jess, and Noah as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 7, "Battle Scars." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Poncho discourse, Top Five Clones that Tried to Kill Palpatine, RN Omega, Zoomer Omega v. Millenial Rex, The T in LGBT stands for trash monster, Tech’s male pattern baldness, The RexSawnaissa...

Start your sublight engines! Join Mel, Klaudia, Ollie, Jess, and Noah for our first episode of Pride 2021 as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 6, "Decommissioned." Points of Interest: Noah's formal "apology,"  Dryden Vos’ One Outfit, some theories about who is issuing the Martez sisters' W2s, our beloved Rex, Wrecker is having One of Those Moments, BoloWatch, and Yoda’s...

Start your sublight engines! Join Mel, Klaudia, Ollie, Jess, and Noah as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 5, "Rampage." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Clone Trooper Fartass, Scaley Greef Karga, Miraculous Ladybug spoilers?, Korkie is Krennic, The Bad Batch are Critical Role Antis, Salacious B. Djarin, Mel’s Hannibal moment, Nien Nunb in Motion,...

Start your sublight engines! Join Mel, Klaudia, Ollie, Jess, and Noah as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 4, "Cornered." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Timmy Zahn wrote Rough Day, ACAB Fennec Shand, Echo with a Glock, The Hunter of the Opera,  Ollie's Epic Fanfiction Moment, some more notes about representation, and a new segment: Is it Lege...

Points of Interest: Assigned Tarkin at birth,  war crime corner, notes on "redemption arcs", Tech discourse, Baby Chopper, Mark Hamill can't find Tarkintok, and Commander Fox and the Pre-nup from Hell. Support and learn more about #UnwhitewashTBB , the fan campaign to advocate for better representation for the clones. The origins of Tarkintok . --- Find us elsewhere:  ⁠TikTok⁠ - @rup...

Since we were treated to two episodes of the Bad Batch for the week of May the Fourth, we're back again, this time to discuss episode 2, "Cut and Run." Points of Interest: Mutton Chops Force Triad, Dave Filoni DILF Cinematic Universe, Cody is the new Maul, Obi Wan's Boyfriend Graveyard, Lux Bonteri kins Ollie, Grand Inquiznos, and Omega co-opts bazinga.  This is He, the podcast m...

In our inaugural episode, our Bad Batch (Mel, Klaudia, Ollie, Jess and Noah) talk about the premiere of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, "Aftermath." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up. Points of interest: "Whose white baby is that?," future GLAAD award recipient David Filoni, the monkey's paw of representation (an ode to Wilhuff Tarkin and Tarkintok), Execute Or...