How Star Wars Is It?

Holiday month continues, and we're pulling a fast one on you Hsweeties with yet another out of season holiday episode. Do you get the bit yet?? We're doing all the holidays that don't actually happen this time of year! Honestly, this whole month could have been called our April Fool's month with how much we've been swerving on y'all, but as you will find out in this episode, Josiah and Mike hate pranks and by extension have a sizeable disdain for April Fool's Day! There is a lot of important business to cover at the top, including our new position on how we feel about Wendy's, and a lot of discussion about the differences between pranks and just lying and what even makes a good prank anyway. Mike also debuts a new game with the intention of destroying all pranks called Prank, Prank Prank, or Prank Prank Prank? It's very good. 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

This week on HSWII, we are bringing our rodent-centric holiday episode streak up to 2! What other podcasts can say that?? Probably none of them! Mostly because we're the only podcast so it would be hard for something that doesn't exist to say anything at all! But yes, we are continuing our holiday-themed month, and we discuss everyone's favorite confusing rabbit, the Easter Bunny, as well as a couple of other holiday mascots. Mike and Josiah get very into the ethics and efficacy of Elf on the Shelf, Mike shows Josiah possibly the cutest and saddest picture he's ever seen, and Josiah actually gets to tell Mike some stuff he DIDN'T know about Star Wars in this week's Star Wars Easter Eggs game. 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

Well Hsweeties, the holiday season is truly upon us! The turkeys have all been ritually sacrificed, and the man with the bag is on his way in less than a month! Also something about all the other holidays that happen in this strange two-month time frame where we as humans apparently decided to put all the holidays. And to get us in the holiday spirit, we're kicking off Holiday Month here at HSWII! And what better way to get us started than the movie about the first and most important holiday of the year: Groundhog Day. Join us as we barely talk about one of the best movies ever made because we apparently have the attention span and memory retention of a goldfish, and as Mike debuts a new game that causes Josiah to question his entire reality! 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

The holiday season is upon us Hsweeties! It's a straight sprint from Thanksgiving all the way to I don't know, Arbor Day or something. So to give us a little break from recording and to give you a little treat for the start of the holiday season, we decided to release the audio of our live show at Podslam 2019 that we recorded back in September at the iO Theatre in Chicago. Because it was a podcast festival the topic that we rated and reviewed was, what else, podcasts! The audio quality for the live show isn't up to our usual level of quality, but it gets better as it goes on, and it's definitely listenable, but just a heads up!  The live show was also just a half-hour slot, so we recorded some extra segments covering Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving-related things. Enjoy the episode, travel safely, and have a great American Thanksgiving or other miscellaneous fall festival wherever you are! If you have any comments or suggestions, you can email us at agoodpodcast@gmail.com. Or hit us up on Instagram and Tw

Mike and Josiah continue to follow the strange rabbit trail of doing whatever topics they got excited about a few episodes ago, and hey, this time it's National Treasure! Remember National Treasure?? The pretty fun family-friendly flicks starring the strangely dialed down Nicolas Cage? And Andy Samberg did a funny spoof of him on SNL? Oh man, simpler times, am I right? Anyway, there's no Wendy's news this time, it's all National Treasure all the time. Of course that's not true. You know this. You're a Hsweetie. You know we can't stay on topic even when we try. Josiah does debut a new choose your own adventure game for Mike though, and it's...well it's also not really on topic.  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 fre

Quick! It's 11/11! Make a wish!  Yes, that's right, it's one of the twelve days of the year that the way Americans write the date and the way the rest of the world writes the date match up! And this day is extra special for some reason because 11:11 is the time you make a wish! (Which I'm realizing now I don't know the origin of. I've never thought to look it up. Is it just a cute middle school thing? Who knows. Okay back to third person.) Anyway, this episode is about Ocean's 11 and NOT wishing. Ocean's 11 is a good movie and we actually talk about it in relation to Star Wars which is wild?? Mike debuts a fantastic new game called Eleven Degrees of SepEleven and Josiah finds his true calling in life. Its really quite something, you just have to listen to it to experience the full grandeur of the game. 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. A

Roll back those clocks Hsweeties! Fall back Listenerds! It's only one year 'til we can make the election joke about setting the clock back one hour and not a bunch of decades or whatever! And actually, hopefully you've already done all of those things because daylight saving (or savings) time was a couple of days ago ya goons! Get on it! Don't be like Mike and leave your car clock on the same time year-round and have to do the mental math every time you look at it! You'll learn this and other fun personal and daylight saving(s) related facts on today's episode. We've got wedding stories, time zone stories, we talk about National Treasure! And Mike ruins the game because he read the same Wikipedia article Josiah did. Oh well! It was bound to happen eventually. 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

It’s finally time for our Halloween episode! And before you get too excited, NO, not the movie Halloween! We’ve made it very clear that we are scaredy cats and weenies! Just the holiday Halloween! Just tricks and treats, nothing actually terrifying here! We get into Mike and Josiah’s experiences with Halloween (long story short, Mike has a lot and Josiah has none), talk a little bit about Star Wars, and Mike debuts another These Are Riddles inspired game which is, you guessed it, based on guessing the pun he’s thinking of! Have you come to expect anything less/more from us?  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! We love those dollars and cents baby

Well Hsweeties and listenerds, we got too scared and we decided to kick it old school with some Scooby Doo! But we picked the wrong movie, because this one has actual monsters in it! Zoinks! But we also picked the RIGHT movie because it's the best movie we've rated so far. Scooby Doo on Zombie Island is the best movie ever made and no movie should be longer than its run time. And don't worry, we WILL review the sequel Scooby Doo! Return to Zombie Island next year on the same week. Josiah also debuts a new game called Six Degrees of Scooby Doo that is essentially a dressed-up version of These Are Riddles. So y'all have that to look forward to. 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

We hope all you Hsweeties weren't scared away by last week's first horror-themed episode, because this week we're talking about a REAL horror movie: the 1982 seminal classic John Carpenter's The Thing. And since your hosts are such weenies, we decided to bring in a scary movie pinch hitter for this week's episode! Chicago's own multi-hyphenate comedy man and Jackbox Games's own writer, C.J. Tuor! We discuss all things The Thing on this episode. Well, some things The Thing. But more importantly, in the spirit of The Thing and of the new Jackbox Party Pack 6, C.J. introduces a hidden identity hidden game that is sure to keep you listenerds on the edge of your seats. That is assuming you listen to your podcasts sitting down all the time. Along the way, Mike does his best to NOT use Star Wars terms and Josiah discovers he's maybe not as afraid of scary movies as he thought he was.  You can catch our pal C.J. performing in a bunch of different places in Chicago including the Annoyance Theatre and at Second Ci

Well Hsweeties and listenerds, fall is in the air. Feel that crisp chill in the air, get rid of those summer candles, and bust out your medium jacket. But wait...what's that?? Our idyllic fall day is being interrupted by...s-s-s-s-SCARY STUFF. That's right folks, get comfortable, because we're doing another theme month. But don't get TOO comfortable, because the theme this month is all spooky subjects, all the time. We're kicking this month off with the only scary movie that Mike and Josiah had both seen. Of course it had to be Cabin in the Woods. In what may be our most cohesive episode with the least tangents yet, we talk about everything from Wendy's to tripophobia to the Monster Mash to another sure to be classic installment of These Are Riddles, this time written by Mike himself. 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

Mike and Josiah came up with a very funny joke about the Green Day song Wake Me Up When September Ends and they decided to do a whole episode based on it. It's very cool and great and original and no one else has ever made the joke. Don't look it up. Anyway, September is ending, and we're here to wake up Billie Joe Armstrong by figuring out how Star Wars his dang upstart punk band is. We somehow talk more about the song Ocean Avenue by Yellowcard than any actual Green Day song in this episode, but hey, that's HSWII for you. Josiah also debuts a new game called These Are Riddles and it might be his worst yet.  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! We love

Today is the autumnal equinox, and to celebrate the change of seasons, this week we're reviewing everyone's favorite seasonal beverage, pumpkin spice lattes! Part pumpkin, part spice, ALL latte, the PSL is a mainstay of fall all over the world. Well, maybe not the world, but definitely the U.S. Do they have PSLs in other countries? Do other countries like pumpkin flavored things as much as Americans do? These are the questions I am asking right now and that we do not cover on the podcast. But we do get into our coffee journeys, weird parts of the X-Men universe, and of course, Mike debuts a new trivia game that will surely have you listenerds yelling at your iPods and Zunes while you play along.  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

Well Hsweeties, Josiah is finally a real Star Wars fan now. He finally saw Solo: A Star Wars Story. And it was fine. That’s right, we’re back to Star Wars on today’s episode and it is CHOCK full of HSWII goodness. Join us for Mike’s first official on air apology and Josiah’s game So Low which was really just an excuse to talk about Warwick Davis for like 15 minutes. 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! We love those dollars and cents baby.

Programming note! This episode was originally intended to come out the first week of September, but Josiah goofed it up and posted them out of order. Oh well! Welcome back Listenerds! We are finally making good on our promise, nay, our mission, nay OUR PURPOSE to review anything and everything, so we're taking a step away from traditional media and a step towards concepts. This week, we're determining how Star Wars is moving? Like, the idea of moving apartments or houses, etc. We also take a trip to the Wendy's corner and talk about all the new Star Wars news we got at that Disney expo thing, whatever it's called. I refuse to look it up. And we go through our top 3 most moving episodes from Star Wars. Get it? Moving??  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!

Well, Shark Month is officially over and we're back to your regularly scheduled HSWII programming. Or at least, as regular as this show gets. We're looking at yet another Spielberg movie that pioneered new visual effects and launched a blockbuster franchise, Jurassic Park! This episode gets a little scattershot, which just means we cover a lot of ground! Mike debuts a new game, Dern, and we discover a new segment of the podcast called The Taylor Swift Pinecone sponsored by Rhymezone.com. And we will be reaching out to Rhymezone.com to see if we can actually get that sponsorship, don't worry. 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! We love those dollars and

Well Hsweeties and Listenerds, we've come to the end of Shark Month, or Mark, as it were. We know, we know. We're as sad as you are. Which is to say, probably not that sad. But we had some fun along the way! We had some laughs! And there's more laughs and fun to be had!  We couldn't fit all the shark-related things in one month, so for this finale episode, we're doing some IISW (is it Star Wars?) assessments on 8 more shark things.  Stay tuned to the very end for a sure to be hit game, Marry Shark Marry, and enjoy Josiah getting progressively more upset at Mike for all the dumb shark movies he's now going to have to watch.   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

Welcome back Hsweeties and Listenerds! We are knee-deep in Shark Month, or Mark, as it were! (Apologies to all actual people named Mark.) We're reviewing the OG shark movie this week! Jaws! Which neither Mike nor Josiah had seen before they watched it for this episode. You might be asking yourself, did these boys live under a rock their whole lives? How have they not seen so many very important and good movies? And you'd be right in asking those questions! But maybe turn those questions back onto yourself for once. An unexamined life is not worth living, after all. We talk a lot about how good and weird a movie Jaws is in this episode, do a fan cast of a modern remake of Jaws, and Mike brings back an old game, Stranger Things, but in this case, it's called Stranger Things or Jaws, but don't worry, it's still a Star Wars trivia game. 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 @MikeGos

Welcome to week two of Shark Month listenerds! Or as we call it here in the industry, Mark! We can't get enough sharks over here at A Good Podcast Studios. So of course we HAD to do the most important shark movie, arguably and regrettably, of the last decade: Sharknado! Mike and Josiah dig deep into the weird world of The Asylum film studio and emerge stinky and dirty from the filth of the masses. This episode is a little shorter than usual because we lost a bit of audio during recording, but don't worry, you just missed out on a typical blistering hot HSWII take and Josiah complaining about people on the Internet. So pretty par for the course. 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 suppor

(Just a quick heads up, Josiah's audio sounds a little rough for the first 20 minutes of the episode because his computer was being a punk, so we had to use the backup Skype recording. Everything after that is the usual quality though!) Uh-oh, Hsweeties! The summer is coming to a close, and you know what that means! That's right, it's Shark Week! Or rather, it WAS Shark Week. Now it's Shark MONTH. We're kicking off a whole month of shark-themed episodes because it's our podcast, and we do whatever makes us laugh.  And speaking of stuff that makes us laugh, we have the amazing and hilarious Chicago actor, artist, and all-around awesome gal Caitlyn Cerza on the podcast today! Mike is also her boyfriend! Nice! Mike and Caitlyn are experts on the tv show that is the most quintessential of all shark media, Shark Tank. We also take a trip to the Wendy's Corner, the Alaska Corner, and even discover a new corner, the Musical Corner! Mike, of course, debuts a new game, and we talk a lot about the Backstreet Boys and D