What Does Star Wars Mean To You?

We're off to Tosche Station to pick up a couple of power converters so no new episodes until July 14th! Have a wonderful & safe holiday! May the Force be with you! https://www.teepublic.com/user/what-does-star-wars-mean-to-you?utm_source=designer&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=S-U65Jr9ZKo Twitter and Instagram @StarWarsMean2U Star Wars may have the largest and most diverse fanbase in all the g...

The_Occasional_Cosplayer Instagram Kessel Rum Runners on Instagram Washington Summer Con Website This week was a good week to Star Wars! First we look back at our conversation with Bryan Barry and chat about what we learned about Star Wars from Bryan! Then Dave goes to Washington Summer Con! Not only does he get some interviews with cosplayers, droid builders & vendors, he also gets 5 minutes...

Bryan Barry (Host, Pink Milk: Serving Star Wars Queerly) joins us to share what does Star Wars mean to him! From growing up with the original trilogy to falling in love with The Mandalorian when it premiered on Disney+, Star Wars acted as a lens through which Bryan understood the world. Whether it was a difficult childhood where he wanted to escape the Tatooine-like South West or finding concrete,...

https://www.teepublic.com/user/what-does-star-wars-mean-to-you?utm_source=designer&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=S-U65Jr9ZKo Inspired by last week's guest P.A. Cornell (Author, Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl) we dive into the "can't miss" moments from the Star Wars movies! These are the moments that if you had to use the bathroom and missed a key scene, it could drastically change your unders...

P.A.'s Website @cornellwriter on Instagram P.A. Cornell on Threads P.A. Corenell on BlueSky P.A.'s Facebook group https://www.teepublic.com/user/what-does-star-wars-mean-to-you?utm_source=designer&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=S-U65Jr9ZKo This week, P.A. Cornell (Speculative Fiction Author, Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl) joins us to share what does Star Wars mean to her! She share with us ho...

https://www.teepublic.com/user/what-does-star-wars-mean-to-you?utm_source=designer&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=S-U65Jr9ZKo This week in our Cantina Chatter we chat about if Star Wars has transcended its creator, George Lucas, to folklore status or, as we discussed as inspired by Taylor Swift, does it now belong to everybody? It all started when Dave “clutched his pearls” at the Mandalorian and...

https://www.teepublic.com/user/what-does-star-wars-mean-to-you?utm_source=designer&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=S-U65Jr9ZKo This week the Mandalorian Momma AKA Denise joins us to share what does Star Wars mean to her! Her father first introduced the franchise of the galaxy far, far away! As she grew, games like Star Wars Galaxies deepened her love for all things Star Wars and we discuss it all!...

The Force isn't in the show ANDOR explicitly, but is it implicitly? Does the Force have a hand in shaping not just Force-users, but non-Force Users as well? After our conversation with DB from Hyperspace Heroes, one of the things we came away with was his comment that ANDOR still felt very Star Wars, even though it didn't have the Force in it barely at all! Plus today is Revenge of the Fifth! How...

DB from Hyperspace Heroes shares what Star Wars means to him! He first saw Star Wars in a small-town theater as a kid which led to his love of the galaxy far, far away. We chat growing up with and collecting Kenner toys, connecting with R2-D2, how his fandom went into hibernation during “the dark times”, waiting in line to see The Phantom Menace, the Imperial Commissary Collectors Convention (The...

https://www.teepublic.com/user/what-does-star-wars-mean-to-you?utm_source=designer&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=S-U65Jr9ZKo Twitter and Instagram @StarWarsMean2U It's The Cantina Chatter where Elora and Dave reflect on their conversation with Star Wars uber collector, Steve Sansweet! Inspired by their chat with the Rancho Obi-Wan creator, we dive into what the world was like in 1977 when the fra...

https://www.teepublic.com/user/what-does-star-wars-mean-to-you?utm_source=designer&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=S-U65Jr9ZKo Steve Sansweet has one of the biggest Star Wars collections in the world and now he’s sharing what does Star Wars mean to him! In 1977, Steve was working as a journalist for the Wall Street Journal when a night at a preview screening of a movie simply called Star Wars chang...

https://www.teepublic.com/user/what-does-star-wars-mean-to-you?utm_source=designer&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=S-U65Jr9ZKo @roromuffins on Instagram Rose on YouTube Rose's Website Rose on TikTok One year ago today, Rose Hawk (AKA @RoRoMuffins) joined us to share her entrance into the Star Wars fandom when she, two months earlier, watched (& reacted to) the franchise for the first time. Sinc...

https://www.teepublic.com/user/what-does-star-wars-mean-to-you?utm_source=designer&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=S-U65Jr9ZKo Brown on YouTube   @brown_squadron on Instagram   Brown's Website   Brown's Facebook group   From the first time experience of that far, far away galaxy in a drive-in to taking&nb...

https://www.teepublic.com/user/what-does-star-wars-mean-to-you?utm_source=designer&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=S-U65Jr9ZKo Twitter and Instagram @StarWarsMean2U This week we chat what Mitch & Bailey meant to us, our adventures at Emerald City Comic Con and our Star Wars fan on the Street interviews with attendees! First we react to our Mitch & Bailey chat, sharing what we took away and...

https://www.teepublic.com/user/what-does-star-wars-mean-to-you?utm_source=designer&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=S-U65Jr9ZKo Twitter and Instagram @StarWarsMean2U Mitch & Bailey, a Father/Daughter Star Wars Influencer team rapidly gained followers on TikTok, now they join us to share what does Star Wars mean to them! We chat how they're journey together started with The Clone Wars & exper...

https://www.teepublic.com/user/what-does-star-wars-mean-to-you?utm_source=designer&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=S-U65Jr9ZKo This week we Cantina Chat with Brown Leader one of the hosts of the nerd-centric pod Hypserspace Heroes! First we chat our take aways from what Star Wars means to author Jendia Gammon (Vale of the Seven Dragons, Choose Your Own Adventure: Dungeon Crawl at the Haunted Mall)....

https://www.teepublic.com/user/what-does-star-wars-mean-to-you?utm_source=designer&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=S-U65Jr9ZKo Author Jendia Gammon (The Vale of Seven Dragons, Choose Your Own Adventure: Dungeon Crawl at the Haunted Mall) joins us to share what Star Wars means to her! We chat her Star Wars origin9 story & seeing the original in theaters at 3, growing up in a family really into s...

We're back for Season 4! This week opens with a chat about how we Star Wars'd over the break! Also, the start of our Cantina Chatter, where we'll bring back friends of the show to do deep dives to new depths! You know, stuff you'd just chat about in a Cantina! Our inaugural Cantina Chat is a SPOILER FILLED chat with author Mike Chen about his new book STAR WARS OUTLAWS: LOW RED MOON. We dive into...

It’s the Season 3 finale of What Does Star Wars Mean To You ! Elora and Dave look back on 2025 for a hyper-drive tour through our favorite interview moments, funniest bloopers and behind-the-scenes chaos from across the season. Chatting Star Wars, Elora and Dave reveal how conversations with guests like Claudia Gray, Chris Kempsahll and more hit us. Featuring rare, deleted conversations with guest...

It’s the Episode between Episodes! Elora & Dave revisit their Harvey Hamer interview (author, Diamond Dimensions Universe, Star Wars Insider) diving into how his love of historical monoliths resonates with his love of Star Wars through his lens as a “Sequel Trilogy Kid!” Inspired by Harry’s love of historical locations, Dave and Elora discuss their three top Star Wars locations. From Dagobah t...

Harvey Hamer (author, The Diamond Dimensions Universe series) joins us to share what does Star Wars mean to him? His childhood love of LEGO Star Wars evolved into a professional writing career, contributing to such periodicals as Star Wars Insider. We chat about the mythology of Star Wars, the power of the Hero’s Journey and how Clone Wars inspired him to be a fan. @hhamer5 on Instagram Harve...

First we chat The Hunt for Ben Solo script and Disney’s rejection of it! What is the creative risk-taking at Lucasfilm and are they letting the Sequel Kids down by ignoring Adam Driver, the Force Dyad and the next generation of fandom? Then we look back on our conversation with Cris Macht (Documentarian, Podcast Host) and how Star Wars offer a reflection of our own personal lives. But one movie th...

This week, Chris Macht (filmmaker) joins us to share what Star Wars means to him! We his acclaimed documentaries The Force Among Us and The Force Within Us and explore the deep, personal connections that bind generations of Star Wars fans. We also chat collecting Vintage Star Wars toys, the best 9 Star Wars characters to field a baseball team, the community of Star Wars, the evolution of conventio...

  This week, Elora & Dave have a full dose of Palpatine dark side energy! It’s our episode between episodes! We reflect on our interview with John Mark Tolly, co-host of War of the Stars talking about fandom identity and why inclusivity and individuality are the twin suns of Star Wars! We also take on Star Wars controversies including The Last Jedi, Kathleen Kennedy, Revenge of the Sith,...

This week we chat Star Wars with War of the Stars podcast host John Mark Tolly! From seeing Return of the Jedi in theaters to building a community-driven, long-running podcast, John shares his Star Wars Journey! John reveals why Clone Wars is his guilty pleasure Star Wars, how Luke Skywalker resonates with him today and how Legends novels like Heir to the Empire and games like X-Wing shaped his fa...