How Star Wars Is It?

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! Get the vaccine! Welcome, Hsweeties and Listenerds, to the first week of the sure to be fan favorite themed month of…JUNEMANJI. Do we actually care that much about Jumanji? No! Did Mike think of the pun Junemanji and we thought it was funny and thought doing a themed month again would be fun? Yes! Join us as we revisit the 1995 classic Jumanji and discuss what the heck this movie is, why it had such staying power, and if it’s even good or not? Also how Star Wars it is, of course. And Josiah brings a rousing rendition of These Are Riddles, Jumanji style. 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 don't forget to rate and review on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts! And if you REALLY like the show, feel free to check out the link below to support us in a monetary way! We love thos

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! Get the vaccine! It's the end of the month, so it's time to return to our ongoing series of revisiting each Star Wars movie in reverse HSWII rating order. And this week, we're discussing the movie that started it all, both for this podcast and for the Star Wars universe: A New Hope! Do we have anything new to say about this movie? Probably not! But we have a good time, talk about our favorite parts, and play a fun game at the end. You know the show! It's fun! 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 don't forget to rate and review on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts! And if you REALLY like the show, feel free to check out the link below to support us in a monetary way! We love those dollars and cents baby. https://anchor.fm/howstarwarsisit/support

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! Get the vaccine! We're covering Ari Aster's breakout hit Hereditary this week, even though we're scaredy boys. But luckily we had the brave and funny and Hereditary superfan Spencer Henning on the show to help us face our fears! We talk practical effects, Josiah gets on his soapbox, and Mike presents a thoroughly onesided game that will surely have you questioning if we truly have any choice in this life.  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 at josiahrobinson.biz and @JosiahDotBiz on social media. And don't forget to rate and review on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts! And if you REALLY like the show, feel free to check out the link below to support us in a monetary way! We love those dollars and cents baby. https://anchor.fm/howstarwarsisit/support

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! Get the vaccine! *Disclaimer* Josiah here! I lost Mike’s audio track and had to use the zoom as a backup, so forgive any muddy sections when we talked over each other. I did my darnedest to edit around it and make it sound up to our usual standards!* We’re talking hats this week with hat and Star Wars aficionado Pete the Retailer from the Star Wars Minute podcast. We try to figure out if helmets count as hats, and if not, what other hats are there in Star Wars. We also discuss how to become a “hat guy” and hats as metaphor. And Mike tests Pete’s and Josiah’s Star Wars by the minute acumen with a new game that’s sure to make a return, and hopefully next time Josiah won’t be playing against one of the few experts in the subject on the planet so maybe he can win for once. You can find Pete at @petetheretailer on twitter and check out petetheretailer.com Check out Star Wars Minute and ABC:TOS and find Pete’s other projects at petetheretailer.com and give him a follow on twitter @p

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! Get the vaccine! This episode is...well it's for dogs, that much you can tell by the title. This is not your typical HSWII fare, but in a way, it might be the most typical HSWII fare there is. It's an episode for dogs. Like, it's directed to dogs and geared for their enjoyment. And in our usual fashion, we didn't do a great job executing the conceit of our podcast, which is normally How Star Wars stuff is, but in this case was making an episode that dogs would enjoy. But hey, maybe you'll enjoy it! If this is your first episode, no it isn't. Go listen to another, more normal episode, please. Also, Josiah brings a game called Fetch Quest that is semi-Star Wars related, so there's that.  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 at josiahrobinson.biz and @JosiahDotBiz on social media. And don't forget to rate and rev

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! Get the vaccine! *SPOILER WARNING* There will be spoilers for Falcon and the Winter Soldier in this episode! Be warned! *SPOILER WARNING* We’ve got good friend of the show and new member of the exclusive 3 time guest club Ethan Krupp on the show to discuss Disney Plus’s latest Marvel outing. We talk about the overall quality of the show (even though we say we don’t care about it), what the themes and metaphors even are (there’s a lot of them), and about just how darn handsome Sebastian Stan is (VERY). The Tatooine Moons and Mike Robins also have a rematch in the latest installment of the HSWIIEU’s baseball RPG series, run by Josiah. Check out Ethan’s new podcast Top Jewish Moments wherever you get your podcasts! 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 at josiahrobinson.biz and @JosiahDotBiz on social media. And don't

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! Get the vaccine! It's the end of the month, and you know what that means! We're revisiting the next Star Wars movie on our list, The Empire Strikes Back. We actually manage to cover some new ground on this episode and we don't repeat ourselves toooo much, so that's good. Will Empire keep it's score?? Or will it be moved higher up?? Or lower?? Those are the three options. Mike brings a trivia game this week and we talk Empire deleted scenes! 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 at josiahrobinson.biz and @JosiahDotBiz on social media. And don't forget to rate and review on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts! And if you REALLY like the show, feel free to check out the link below to support us in a monetary way! We love those dollars and cents baby. https://anchor.fm/howstarwarsisit/support

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! Get the vaccine! I don’t know Hsweeties, we’re talking about birds this week, what do you want from us?? This is absolutely our most unhinged episode yet with a million tangents and there’s some nasty stuff about cloacas, but what do you expect?? This is a silly show okay?? It’s also a really funny episode okay?? Mike brings the game, it’s called Duck Duck Goose and it’s fantastic and Mike makes up a new term: the HSWIIEU, which is the How Star Wars Is It? Extended universe. It makes more sense when it is said out loud than when it is written. 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 at josiahrobinson.biz and @JosiahDotBiz on social media. And don't forget to rate and review on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts! And if you REALLY like the show, feel free to check out the link below to support us in a monetary w

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! Get the vaccine! This week we’re dipping DEEP into the nostalgia well and covering Homestarrunner.com. If you don’t know what that is, you might not have been a real nerd in middle school! Surprisingly, this episode isn’t ONLY us saying quotes from the various toons, characters, games, downloads, store, and emails, but we do get a bunch of references in, don’t worry. And Josiah sends Mike on his very own Peasant’s Quest against Trogdor the Burninator! 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 at josiahrobinson.biz and @JosiahDotBiz on social media. And don't forget to rate and review on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts! And if you REALLY like the show, feel free to check out the link below to support us in a monetary way! We love those dollars and cents baby. https://anchor.fm/howstarwarsisit/support

You may be thinking to yourself, wait, didn't the HSWII boys just post an episode yesterday? You would be correct. But we couldn't let the historic date of April 6, 2021 go by without recognizing that TODAY is THE day that Plucky predicted he and Hampton and Hampton's family would arrive in Happy World Land. Take some time today and meditate on that. And watch Tiny Toons: How I Spent My Vacation. It's the funniest video ever. 

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! We’re talking the classic playground/camp/outside in general game Capture the Flag this week. Why? Well why do we do any of the topics on this show! For fun! Does everything have to have a purpose these days?? Just enjoy things for once. We get real nostalgic again as is our wont these days, and Mike brings in a classic March bracket for the game. It was…it was March when we recorded this okay. Give us a break. 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 at josiahrobinson.biz and @JosiahDotBiz on social media. And don't forget to rate and review on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts! And if you REALLY like the show, feel free to check out the link below to support us in a monetary way! We love those dollars and cents baby. https://anchor.fm/howstarwarsisit/support

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! This week we are covering The Phantom Menace again, in continuation of our series of revisiting our ratings of each Star Wars movie at the end of every month this year. Our first review of The Phantom Menace was our second ever episode! How have we grown? How have we changed? How have we remained the same? Has this movie grown or changed? You'll find that our opinions of it definitely have, and don't worry, there are some fun diversions along the way as well. And we do another From a Certain Point of View for the game! 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 at josiahrobinson.biz and @JosiahDotBiz on social media. And don't forget to rate and review on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts! And if you REALLY like the show, feel free to check out the link below to support us in a monetary way! We love those dollars

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! We're talking Earth Girls Are Easy this week with special guest Marie Maloney, who amazingly had never watched this movie before but still suggested it. It's a bonkers flick, y'all. HIGHLY recommended. We dig into the movie, the absolute eighties-ness of it all, and how absolutely sexually frustrating it is to have so many beautiful hot people in this INCREDIBLY horny movie. Marie and Mike also learn that Geena Davis is a world-class archer, Josiah goes on an extended rant about how the part in Major Payne where he opens the can with his finger and yells is the funniest thing ever. Mike brings an IMDB challenge game, and we maybe get our first ever HSWII tie?? Tune in to find out.  Listen to Marie's podcast I Love Trash wherever you get your podcasts and follow her on twitter @MarieMaloney and on insta @MarieBaloney. You contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and @HowStarWarsIsIt on all platforms. You can also follow Mike @MikeGospel on Twitter and @WordGosp

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! We're talking about buffalo wings this week folks! Or hot wings, chicken wings, whatever you want to call them! Why?? Because we've been doing a lot of movies and shows lately and we wanted to do something fun and light! Join us as we get into the actual history of wings, talk about the emotional connections we have to them and play a truly nasty game that Mike made about the dumb goofy nasty names that those weird hot sauces have that we've talked about before. If you don't like unnecessary bad words and potty humor, probably skip the game this time, just fyi.  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 at josiahrobinson.biz and @JosiahDotBiz on social media. And don't forget to rate and review on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts! And if you REALLY like the show, feel free to check out the link below to su

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! *SPOILERS* This whole episode is chock full of WandaVision spoilers! Do not listen if you care about spoilers! *SPOILERS* WandaVision just finished and we have special guest Rob Grabowski joining us on the show today to talk everything WandaVision and to figure out how Star Wars it is. We do a pretty good job of talking about WandaVision, a decent job talking about Star Wars, and a great job somehow talking a lot about Golden Girls, Remy the Ratatouille, and what would happen if Batman was a farmer. Mike brings the game this week, and it's a classic matchup of giving trivia questions to Josiah and Rob about things they know very little about, but that the other person knows a lot about. Did that sentence make sense? Who knows! It's a fun game and a fun episode. Quit asking questions, You can find Rob on twitter and instagram @robgarbo and check him out on ComedySportz at twitch.tv/csznchicago. You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and @HowStarWarsIsIt on

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! Welcome back Hsweeties! Can you believe it's already March? We've got horror movie aficionado and media gadfly Stephen Kropa on the podcast this week to talk about one of his favorite recent movies, Midsommar. We know it's not a traditionally scary time of year, but this also isn't your traditional scary movie! Also, Josiah really didn't like this movie, so Stephen gets to defend it the whole time, and hopefully, we didn't tire him out too much. We also get another installment of Josiah's baseball RPG game, this time set in Midsommar. Or whatever the place in Midsommar is called. Sweden. Somewhere in Sweden. You can find our guest Stephen Kropa @KropaCabana on twitter. 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 at josiahrobinson.biz and @JosiahDotBiz on social media. And don't forget to rate and review on iTunes, or wher

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! It’s finally time Hsweeties. We’re starting our series of re-reviewing every Star Wars movie on the last Monday of every month. We’re starting with the highest on the HSWII scale: Return of the Jedi. We actually do a pretty job at not talking about the things we discussed last time! Mike brings some fun Episode 6 trivia, Josiah brings a new read on a pivotal scene (which by the way, went viral on TikTok), and we share our theories on what the stories will be for the future From A Certain Point of View for Return of the Jedi. 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 at josiahrobinson.biz and @JosiahDotBiz on social media. And don't forget to rate and review on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts! And if you REALLY like the show, feel free to check out the link below to support us in a monetary way! We love those d

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! Love is in the air Hsweeties, and this week we're discussing Valentine's Day, because we already did birthdays. And as we all know, Valentine's Day is the second most important time in February, aside from our birthdays. This is honestly a textbook HSWII episode. If you have to recommend one to your friends, this is as good a place to start as any. We talk about elementary school Valentine exchanges, the weirdness around saying "I love you" for the first time, and we do a nice tangent on how words are weird and funny at the end! And Josiah brings a combination Ship It/These Are Riddles involving Star Wars Valentine's cards.  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 at josiahrobinson.biz and @JosiahDotBiz on social media. And don't forget to rate and review on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts! And if you R

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! *SPOILERS* We will be discussing details of In & Of Itself on Hulu. It is a magic show kinda, but more importantly, it’s a very moving theatrical experience that is best viewed without any knowledge of what it is beforehand. You have been warned! *SPOILERS* Welcome back hsweeties! We are discussing Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself, a stage show that was filmed for Hulu. He’s an illusionist, magician, genius, whatever you want to call him, and the show itself is a life chaining piece of theatre. Mike and his sister and past and no doubt future guest of the show Allie Gospel, saw it live! So we got Allie on the show to talk about it with us! It’s beautiful. And Mike brings the classic game show game Chain Reaction into HSWII canon and Josiah gets destroyed like he always does when he goes one on one against our guests. You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and @HowStarWarsIsIt on all platforms. You can also follow Mike @MikeGospel on Twitter and @W

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! We’re covering our SECOND streaming platform here on the show this week because, peek behind the curtain a little bit, we both watch a decent amount of YouTube! And there’s not a lot of holidays or blockbusters or anything coming out so sometimes we just do random stuff ya know? We’re funny and cool and random like that. So anyway, we talk old YouTube, new YouTube, rabbit holes, and Mike brings the game called Recommended Videos/Fans May Also Like. Or something along those lines. 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 at josiahrobinson.biz and @JosiahDotBiz on social media. And don't forget to rate and review on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts! And if you REALLY like the show, feel free to check out the link below to support us in a monetary way! We love those dollars and cents baby. Sponsorships: on f