How Star Wars Is It?

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! We're heading back to more familiar territory this week: the MCU. But not just the MCU, no, this week we're covering the first Marvel movie to go where no Marvel movie dared to go before: the stars. That's right, it's Guardians of the Galaxy this week, a movie that wears its classic sci-fi and 80s influences proudly on its sleeve, so what is there really to discuss? Well apparently a lot, because Josiah talks too much about the comic books and then Mike AND Josiah start calling back every joke from the last 2 months of episodes before unfortunately fixating on the upsetting Pee Cup one from the Baseball episode. Josiah also brings the game this week called Is It Star Wars? Literally? It's different from the normal IISW, you'll see. 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 everywhere. And don't forget to r

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! It’s the last week of the month and you know what that means! That’s right, it’s the second installment of our ongoing Mission Impossible series coverage. So we’re talking M:i-2 this week, and boy is it a stinker! But we’re not worried about if it’s good or bad, of course, we’re worried about one thing: How Star Wars Is It? So join us as we discuss the John Woo-ness of this movie, get into some really extended metaphors, and for Mike’s instant classic game M:i-2/Am I 2? 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 everywhere. 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.

As always, Black Lives Matter and wear a mask! We're doing school this week! The concept of school. This episode gets a little heady, so just prepare yourselves, dear Hsweeties. This episode might also win the award for the longest we've ever gone without actually talking about Star Wars! That's right, it's one of those episodes! One of the episodes where it's the second one we've recorded in one night and we're real chatty and a little loopy. So if you like your HSWII light on Star Wars and heavy on childhood stories from Mike and Josiah, then you're in luck! We also talk about Flat Earthers, how school sux, and Mike quizzes Josiah with the game School or Fool, which unfortunately was not Heads-Up 7-Up. 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 everywhere. And don't forget to rate and review on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts!&

Black Lives Matter! Wear a mask! Onto the show notes.  The summer is winding down, and it's time to reflect on all the fun things we got to do over summer break. What's that?? You're an adult and you have to work all the time no matter what and summer break isn't a thing for you anymore?? What's that again?? There's a global pandemic so you wouldn't be able to do the fun things you would normally do during summer break even if you could?? Well not to worry, because you can live vicariously through this episode as we figure out how Star Wars the best movie of all time is: Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation which apparently isn't named Tiny Toons: How I Spent My Summer Vacation as we discuss very early on in the show.  Since Mike and Josiah both watched this movie with their respective sisters, we brought back audience favorite and aforementioned sister, Allie Gospel! We discuss all the weird references, the strange occasional horniness, and just how gosh darn funny this movie is (seriously

As always, up top we wanna say that Black lives Matter and wear a mask! This week we’re discussing the noble canine! We dig into our personal pet and dog journeys and discuss how dogs is droids as well as taking a few quick tangents about gorilla’s understanding of mortality, dog and horse books, and Halo LAN parties. Josiah also goes to a future episode and steals one of Mike’s future games so he didn’t have to come up with his own. It’s…an involved bit. It’s just what happens when you have to record a bunch of episodes in advance out of order, okay?? 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 everywhere. 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.

*Quick disclaimer before we get into the show notes! For the past two months, we’ve been donating the show’s ad revenue to charities specifically geared towards black trans women (feel free to check out past show notes for the links). Because we don’t make that much off of ads for the show, we were doing some creative rounding up for the donations. For that reason, we are going to continue donating our time and money individually and not as the show from now on, just because the pennies on the dollar we make from the show didn’t actually contribute that much to the donations. We encourage everyone to continue donating and being active for the black lives in your community and in the country however you can! Black lives STILL matter. And also. Wear a goddamn mask.* Okay, show notes time! How Star Wars is It? is goin’ swimmin’ this week! Come on in, the water’s just fine, especially if you want to hear Mike and Josiah tell childhood stories about swimming, camp, and then somehow get kinda about religion, ya kno

We’re still donating for this month! Links are below. Black lives matter and wear a mask! https://www.paypal.me/theokraproject https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-women-fund We are starting a new series this week on How Star Wars Is It? Because this year has felt so impossible so far, we decided to call in the Impossible Mission Force. For the next however many months, we will be covering a Mission Impossible movie on the last week of the month, until we run out of Mission Impossible movies. So to start us off, Mission: Impossible! We get into the beginnings of the franchise, discuss how wild it is that it’s still going, and Josiah debuts another round of These Are Riddles: Jeopardy Style, this time with action stars who have verbs for last names. 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 everywhere. And don't forget to rate a

We’re still donating for this month! Links are below. Black lives matter and wear a mask! https://www.paypal.me/theokraproject https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-women-fund Quick disclaimer, we’ve been having some audio issues when having guests lately, so apologies for the occasional doubling of voices, and thank you for your patience as we figure things out! We’re talking about America’s past time this week, aka baseball! And since we don’t know shit about baseball, we brought in a pinch hitter, as it were, to help us out. Composer, lyricist, musical theatre writer, and all around cool dude Ethan Krupp joins the show to discuss all things baseball. That is, all things baseball that pertain to Star Wars. The boys discuss their personal baseball journeys, the barriers to entry for baseball and Star Wars fandoms, and also how exactly cups work. The baseball cups, not regular ones. They know how those work. Josiah also creates a Baseball RPG that pits Ethan and Mike against one another in a match u

Hey Hsweeties, we're still donating for July, and it's the same places! Black lives matter, black trans lives matter, stay active and be safe and wear a mask! Links below.  https://www.paypal.me/theokraproject https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-women-fund Just like last week, we’re going back to our roots, but this time, it’s our roots of just doing random movies we like, and this week it’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse! This movie is so good y’all. We talk a LOT about how good this movie is and Josiah talks WAY too much about Spider-Man, because it’s his favorite. Josiah also gives Mike a new round of Real or Fake about which alternate universe Spider-People are real…or fake? Stick around for the end for Josiah’s review of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark. You can contact the show at agoodpodcast@gmail.com and @HowSTarWarsIsIt on all platforms. You can also follow Mike @MikeGospel and Josiah @TheJosiahMan. And don't forget to rate and review on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts! And

Hello again Hsweeties. Junesical Theatre Month is over, there’s still a pandemic, and black lives still matter. We hope you’re all staying safe and being active in your support. We decided to continue our support of black trans lives specifically, so the donation links are still below. https://www.paypal.me/theokraproject https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-women-fund This week we’re going back to our roots of just rating weird shit that we think is funny. No themes, no gimmicks, just back to basics. And this episode’s topic is near and dear to our hearts, as we’re sure it is to all Hsweeties’ hearts: CHILI. Special thanks to listener Colleen who inspired us to review chili with her excellent breakdown of How Star Wars Skyline Chili is, which we read on the show. We also talk chili cook-offs, the international phonetic alphabet, and Mike introduces Family Food (which may be a Doughboys rip off, and if it is, then get off our dick, doughboys, #goodDB) where Josiah has to guess all the ingredients i

Hello again dear Hsweeties, remember two important things before we get on to the show. Black Lives Matter and there is still a pandemic happening! Please keep yourself and others safe by practicing all the social distancing guidelines and wearing a mask. And show your support for the Black Lives Matter by continuing to donate money, time, and whatever resources you can. As we finish out pride month, we are focusing still on black transgender related organizations, so check out the donation links below for the Okra Project and the Black Homeless Transgender Fund here. Now onto the show notes. https://www.paypal.me/theokraproject https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-women-fund It’s time for the finale of June-sical theatre month! The topic we’ve been building towards all month! Hamilton! And we’ve got another guest to help us out! John Patrick Coan of Hey Riddle Riddle, a billion other podcasts, and many improv stages in Chicago. We discuss all things Hamilton, including the wildly important nights

Hi Hsweeties, protests are slowing down a bit, but we hope you’re still out there keeping the momentum going and donating your time, money, and energy to the Black Lives Matter movement. We are still focusing on black transgender related charities and organizations this month, and you can find the details for the Okra Project and the Homeless Black Trans Women Fund with the links below. Now onto the show notes. https://www.paypal.me/theokraproject https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-women-fund In this week’s episode, we continue our streak of having guests and welcome our collective best friend, SNL alum, and guitar comic Luke Null! We discuss Luke’s past as a community theatre performer in Ohio, his love for Skyline Chili, and how much The Music Man kinda sucks. And Josiah brings the game Real or Fake (which is a new blanket term for this kind of game that I just invented) but this time it’s about musical instruments! And unfortunately, there’s a lot of Jizz talk. You know. Jizz. The Star Wars mu

Hello Hsweeties, we hope you are all staying safe and healthy and still protesting and donating and being active in support of Black Lives Matter wherever you are in the world. Once again, since we record our episodes in advance, we don’t talk about what’s going on right now in the show. We’ll be focusing on black trans centered organizations for the rest of the month, and here are some links to the resources mentioned in the preamble to the show. You can donate to the Okra Project and to the Homeless Black Trans Women fund at the links below. https://www.paypal.me/theokraproject https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-women-fund Now for the show notes. We are sadly without a guest for the first time in Junesical theatre month, but we have some more fun guests coming up later this month, so get excited about that! We’re covering one of the biggest musicals of all time, Les Mis. We dig into our Les Mis journeys, surprisingly don’t sing THAT much, and Josiah debuts another Choose Your Own Adventure game

Hello Hsweeties, we hope you are all staying safe and healthy and contributing however you can to the Black Lives Matter movement all over the country and all over the world. We record our episodes in advance, so once again, we don’t talk about what’s going on right now in the show, because it hadn’t happened yet. But we included a preamble of sorts before the show to encourage you to get involved! Here is a comprehensive link to resources and ways to get involved. And here are two black trans women specific organizations that you should consider donating to as well: The Marsha P Johnson Institute and the TGI Justice Project. On to the show notes! This is our longest episode yet because we just could not stop talking about High School Musical. We covered the whole series, which is strangely so much and so little all at the same time. We have another special guest this week, Josiah’s partner Charlie Irving! She is a Chicago actor and writer and is an expert in all things High School Musical. We discuss how fre

Hello Hsweeties and listenerds! First things first, we wanna say Black Lives Matter, and we hope everyone is staying safe and healthy in these crazy times. As we mentioned in the message at the beginning of the show, we're donating to the Chicago bail fund to help protesters who have been arrested and to the Minnesota group Take Back the Block which focuses on getting city funding away from police and towards actual community resources. Click those links to donate. Or click here to find the bail fund for your city and here for other groups across the country working to build up black communities and stop police violence. We've never been super shy about our politics on the show, so if this bothers you, send us an email, and maybe we can talk about how this isn't a political issue, this is life and death for black people. Now for the show notes!  It's the first week of June-sical theatre month and we're talking about Rent! The musical, not the concept. Mike and Josiah are musical theatre nerds anyway

Hi Hsweeties! We hope you are all staying safe and healthy! A quick disclaimer here in the notes! We mention it at the top, but this episode was recorded a while ago, pre-quarantine and before Covid-19 was spreading widely through the U.S. So don't worry! We're staying safe and following all the social distancing guidelines. Mike had Blaze over many months ago. Okay, now on with the notes!   Alright! We're covering one of the all-time great trilogies and all-time great hero's journeys! The Lord of the Rings! Mike's good friend and old pal Blaze Burke joins us as a more expert voice on LOTR than ours, but mostly as a big fan! Since this was recorded a while ago, we do end up talking about Rise of Skywalker a lot, haha, but we do dig a little into the LOTR movies and lore! Josiah also gives Mike and Blaze a difficult game with no real lame about made-up languages in the Star Wars and LOTR universes. It's fun!   If you have any comments or suggestions, you can email us at agoodpodcast@gmail.com. Or hit

Hello Hsweeties! As always, we hope you're staying safe and staying home in these crazy times! Now on with the show notes! Oh man, it feels like it's been a while since we've had a real wacky loosey-goosey episode! Well don't worry, dear listenerds, this is definitely one of those episodes! We get into the way different cultures develop language around colors, discuss Chicago's seasons, and talk at length about Tigger. Well, not so much talk about Tigger as sing the Tigger song. You know the one. And if you don't, you will after this episode. Mike also brings back the classic rhyming game Dern but this time it's about spring!  If you have any comments or suggestions, you can email us at agoodpodcast@gmail.com. Or hit us up on Instagram and Twitter @howstarwarsisit. You can also follow Mike @MikeGospel and Josiah @TheJosiahMan. 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 mon

As always, before we get into the description of the show, we here at HSWII hope all of you dear listeners out there are staying safe and healthy at home! Times are weird, but we’ve got some comfort for you in the form of MORE Star Wars content! That’s right! There’s more Star Wars stuff in the world! You didn’t think Star Wars was just the movies did you?? If you did, you should pay more attention to our show! In light of latest and possibly last season of The Clone Wars, out now on Disney+, we’re covering the whole show! Josiah hasn’t seen all of it, so he watched the last arc leading up to the finale. This is one of those episodes where we actually get down into the nitty gritty of talking about Star Wars, but don’t worry, we’ll be back next week with some silly bullshit. Oh, and we also play a game where we break the existing ties on the HSWII scale of the 11 official Star Wars films. It might be controversial! If you have any comments or suggestions, you can email us at agoodpodcast@gmail.com. Or hit us

Happy Star Wars day listeners! Somewhat serendipitously for us, a Star Wars podcast, May the Fourth falls on a Monday this year! Last year we released a super special bonus episode on May the Fourth but this year we don’t have to because it’s on our normal release day! But don’t worry, it’s still a super special episode, it’s just not bonus. We take a look back at last year’s May the Fourth episode and take stock of the year that has transpired. Did we keep the promises we made then? Did we get better as a podcast? Did we somewhere along the way lose our lust for life, our joie de vivre that makes life worth living? Ronnie the Hutt also makes an appearance, and Mike tests Josiah to see if he can remember what we actually rated all the Star Wars movies. If you have any comments or suggestions, you can email us at agoodpodcast@gmail.com. Or hit us up on Instagram and Twitter @howstarwarsisit. You can also follow Mike @MikeGospel and Josiah @TheJosiahMan. And don't forget to rate and review on iTunes, or wh

We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during these crazy times! And to brighten your day, we present possibly the most maddening topic we’ve had to cover yet. That’s right, hsweeties, life is nothing but a fat rat race, and your favorite hosts here at HSWII are here to guide you through it. We’re covering the terrible movie Rat Race this week! This movie doesn’t make any sense and we are obsessed with it but in sort of a bad way. Like when you can’t stop looking at a car wreck. It’s just wild. We talk a lot about Mr. Bean though, so that’s fun. And Mike takes Josiah on his very own rat race and it’s very intense. If you have any comments or suggestions, you can email us at agoodpodcast@gmail.com. Or hit us up on Instagram and Twitter @howstarwarsisit. You can also follow Mike @MikeGospel and Josiah @TheJosiahMan. 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! W