Star Wars 7x7: A Daily Bite-Sized Dose of Star Wars Joy

The penultimate episode in our series of looks back at interviews from Star Wars Celebration Anaheim in 2015 features the inimitable and endlessly energetic Chris Pirillo. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

We're in the home stretch of a series of looks back at conversations from Star Wars Celebration Anaheim, and today we're featuring prolific podcaster Meg Humphrey. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

Not only does Jordan White share his "Why Star Wars?" answer here from Celebration Anaheim in 2015, he also shares the moment he found out that Star Wars was coming back to Marvel - and that he'd be the editor. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

Sarah Woloski of Skywalking Through Neverland and Fangirls Going Rogue is the latest interviewee in our series of recollections about Star Wars from Celebration Anaheim in 2015. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

We're at the halfway point in our series of blasts from the past! Here's the first of multiple conversations with Star Wars sound and music master David W. Collins. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

Welcome back for another flashback from the interviews at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim in 2015! Today, I'm sharing the first of what would become many conversations on the show, with Star Wars author and Nerdist managing editor Amy Ratcliffe. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

What a ride it's been! Matt Martin has gone from social media maven for Star Wars to a key member of the Lucasfilm Story Group since this interview from Celebration Anaheim in 2015. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

Today, day 2 of a fun look back at interviews from Star Wars Celebration Anaheim in 2015, this time featuring Fangirls Going Rogue's Tricia Barr, who's also a Star Wars author and much more. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

Once upon a time - in 2015 at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim, to be specific - I interviewed Justin Bolger, who's had an amazing journey since then. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

In our latest "What to Watch Now" segment, we check out some memorable moments from the first half of season 3 of the Clone Wars "2D" cartoon from back in the day. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

On a new "potpourri" episode, we're following up on a couple of new news items, including a long-awaited VR announcement and a Hollywood trades rumor about a Kenobi cast addition. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

Did you know? The Greater Good audiobook is as long as Victory's Price, even though the hardcover book is fifty pages shorter! There's a good reason why, and we'll discuss that and more today... Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

There's a line from the Batman movie The Dark Knight where Harvey Dent talks about the heroes and villains of stories. And what he says is the exact opposite of what's happened with Thrawn in the new novels. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

Thrawn fans will have more to love from Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good, and may find the expansion of the novel's focus beyond the titular Chiss to be, in its way, even more compelling. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

In our latest Mando Memo, we talk about the levels of characters (main, recurring, featured, guest) as a way in to talk about some characters we haven't yet discussed... Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

In today's Spinner Sunday installment, we take a look at the conclusion of the High Republic short story "First Duty" and use it as a jumping-off point for a brief meditation on the types of stories you can tell within Star Wars. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

Last week on our "What to Watch Now" segment, we talked about the first season of the "vintage" Clone Wars. Now, let's talk about season 2. Punch it! (Here's the mantra from Luminara Unduli I thought was noteworthy, which she recites as Barriss Offee assembles her lightsaber on Ilum:) The crystal is the heart of the blade The heart is the crystal of the Jedi The Jedi are the crystal of the Force T...

There's a rumor that the long-lost Star Wars Detours series is not only coming to Disney+, but with extra episodes. Today, some background and what else I'm hearing about this... Punch it! Here's where the current story originated from... https://www.thevulcanreporter.com/exclusives/star-wars-detours-disney-plus-release/ ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to...

About 900 episodes ago, I made some predictions about Clone Wars season 7. (Logic? Sound. Results? Mixed.) But the actual results of season 7, and what's happened since, may indicate how Lucasfilm is approaching new stories to come. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

NFTs - "non-fungible tokens" - are becoming quite the rage. They basically take a digital item and make it "the" one official version of the item. The NBA is making a mint with it - will it happen with Star Wars? Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

Wave I of Phase I of The High Republic mega-story epic is almost complete! Today, we recap what's included in Wave I; preview the first titles in Wave II; and note two new authors as well as two missing ones. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

What we learn about Ahsoka Tano from season 2 of The Mandalorian comes more by inference than direct knowledge. And that may tell us a bit about Bo-Katan and Grogu, too. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

On another Spinner Sunday installment, we look at a story about Darth Maul trying to keep his rage in check prior to the events of The Phantom Menace - and doing very poorly at it. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to get access to bonus episodes and other insider rewards.*** 

In our latest "What to Watch Now" segment, we start to look at the "Star Wars Vintage" additions to Disney+, starting with season 1 of Star Wars: Clone Wars. Punch it! We'll be talking about the genesis of that series, the chief story and side stories of season 1, how a certain side story is now canon again, and more... ***I'm listener supported! Join the community at http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to g...

A fully non-spoiler update, which includes talk about the unauthorized aerial on-location set photos; plus a look at the previous work of the show's writers and directors, and what that suggests for the kind of show Andor will be. Punch it! And if you want to see them, here's the link to those aerial photos: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9401607/Star-Wars-Andor-filming-takes-place-...