How Star Wars Is It?

Well. We finally did it. We finally did the dang thing. We've been talking smack about the new "live action" Lion King for TOO long. It was finally time to put up or shut up. And when have you known us to ever shut up?? In this episode, Josiah debuts a sure to be fan favorite new game, Truth or Lion, and there are also some EXTREMELY hot takes in this episode, especially if you're a fan of the new Lion King, Beyonce, or Wolf Creek Lodge, so buyer beware. Also we recorded this before the new Lion King was released in theaters, and early reviews are proving our suspicions that the movie is bad to be correct. So take that all of our HATERS. 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 mo

Just now when I was typing this I was like, wait, is Stranger Things a Shakespeare reference from Hamlet?? Turns out no, the quote is "There are more things in heaven and earth..." not stranger things, so we are good folks, we are good. I would have been very ashamed if I didn't realize the title of this show was a Shakespeare reference until JUST now. Anyway, this episode is about Stranger Things! What a fun show. We don't remember why we like it, but that seems to be a recurring theme with us. About half of this ep is the fun new game that Josiah invented, creatively titled Stranger Things. But it's a fun one, I promise! And don't worry folks, there's no spoilers in this episode. We recorded it before season 3 of Stranger Things dropped. So you are free to listen, unafraid of being spoiled! 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

Gosh, this episode gets real cute Hsweeties. It just gets real cute. Apparently one of Mike's favorite movies is Toy Story! Isn't that cute?? He can like, quote the whole thing. And he pretty much does. There's a new Toy Story movie coming out, and we get pretty nostalgic about the original Toy Story this episode, and nostalgic about other things, including our childhood toys and using our imaginations! Mike also introduces a new game, but I don't remember if it had a name. I don't think it did. Let's name it right here. We can say something dumb and pretend Mike come up with it and make him look like a real ding dong. How about...No Doy, What's This Toy? Yeah, that's pretty dumb. Wow Mike, come up with better names for things, geez. 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 podc

We are continuing to ride the sweet wave of summer blockbuster releases as inspiration for episode topics! There's a new Men in Black movie! It looks fun and cool. So we decided to revisit the original Men in Black (which Mike watched for the first time for this episode!) to determine once and for all how Star Wars it is. This episode has everything!  A list of all the Will Smith movies! A list of all the Jedi Masters and their Padawans! Of course a new game, called Will Will Smith...? A great pitch for a new Star Wars animated series starring Sith lords as high schoolers! A way to make the periodic table of the elements fun and memorable! I would say it's ground breaking, but I won't, and you'll understand why after you listen to the episode. 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 yo

Hey there Hsweeties! Another X-Men movie came out this last weekend, and boy howdy, sure sounds like it was a real clunker, huh? A real stinker, wasn't it? A big ol' box office bomb. Well don't worry! We're not talking about that one. We're talking about the ORIGINAL X-Men cinematic stinker! X-Men: The Last Stand, aka X3 gets an official HSWII scale rating this week, but not before we get another Alaska update from Josiah to learn some important moose facts and get a new game from Mike where he shares some of the strangest X-Men storylines to date. All this and more on this week's HSWII! 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.

Don't worry baby kids, no spoilers this week! And since we talked about the sex and violence filled Game of Thrones last week, we thought we'd get a bit more wholesome this week with the educational Christian children's cartoon, Veggie Tales. And we have our second guest! Chicago performer and improviser and all around funny and great gal, Allie Gospel! Also yes, she and Mike are siblings.  So how Star Wars is Veggie Tales? We take a meandering route to the answer, including stops along the way to discuss the comedic genius that is Silly Songs with Larry, to play Mike's sure to be classic game "Poe, Poe, or Po?", and we get a little hung up discussing the female Veggie Tales characters, in particular Esther and her overtly feminine proportions. It's just...it's a lot. 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

*SPOILERS* HARK AND HEAR, YE PODCAST LISTENERS, FOR THIS BE SPOILER TERRITORY. TURN BACK, GO NO FURTHER, LEST YE BE SPOILED FOR ETERNITY! *SPOILERS* Hey Hsweeties, we've got spoilers in this episode for Game of Thrones, specifically the finale from last week! So tread carefully! Welcome to our most requested episode topic! Game of Thrones! Mike has watched every episode. Josiah has watched one episode, more specifically, the finale. So that's probably enough to rate it on the HSWII Scale, right?? We discuss the show as a whole, the finale in particular, and play a fun new game IIGOT (Is It Game of Thrones) where Josiah makes blanket statement assumptions about the show (having only seen the finale) and Mike tells him if he's correct or not. It's a fun time! Also, just a peek behind the curtain, I, Josiah, write these episode descriptions, and I don't remember enough about Game of Thrones to put any more specifics here. So...sorry about that. If you have any comments or suggestions, you can email us at agoodpo

Quick heads up, the audio quality on Mike's end is a little funky and not up to our normal standards, however we decided to release it anyway .We think we know why it messed up, so it'll hopefully be fixed in the future. Sorry all! It was our first time recording remotely. Because- Josiah is in Alaska! What! That's wild. We drop some Alaska facts on you this episode, and dip into some nostalgia with the 1992 animated classic Aladdin. The new live action adaptation is coming out this week, so we figured we'd determine once and for all how Star Wars the original is. We also finally gave a name to our hot takes about CGI, so enjoy a rousing segment of CGWhy? where we discuss the disturbing blue CGI characters that have been on everyone's minds recently: Genie, Sonic, and Watto. 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 revie

Oh man, oh man. Aprilvengers month is over, we got the SEO for Detective Pikachu. It's time to return to our core competency. Star Wars. And also we have a guest for the first time! What! Cool! We're probably the first podcast to have the idea to have a guest!  We're rating Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith this week. Our guest and prequel expert Michael DeLaney joins us to discuss the incredibly weird logic of the prequels, to give us a fan and friend perspective on our own podcast, and to bring us a new game that we didn't name because naming things is sometimes hard! But it's a good one, trust 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. You can also follow our guest Michael DeLaney on Twitter @CormacMichael! 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

You know the marketing team here at HSWII is always pushing SEO. So you know we had to do a Pokémon episode to to get that sweet SEO on the new Detective Pikachu movie! Mike and Josiah take a deep dive into their history with Pokémon, uncover some delightful and yet disturbing theories about the Pokémon universe, play a new game called Who's That Quotémon, and finally determine the age old question: How Star Wars Is It? 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.

What?? HSWII dropping in your feed on a Saturday?? That's right Hsweeties, it is May the Fourth! Star Wars Day! So we thought we'd give you a little more of that HSWII flavor you know and love to celebrate the only holiday that is based on a pun from a movie franchise and is also not a real holiday.  Mike and Josiah have this episode stuffed to the gills with games, segments, and even some fun characters?? What?? This is unprecedented! Enjoy this diversion from our usual formula, and May the Fourth be with you! 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.

*SPOILERS* HERE THERE BE SPOILERS!  THERE'S SPOILERS IN THESE HERE HILLS! THESE BE SPOILER INFESTED WATERS!  TURN YE BACK, LEST YE FOREVER BE SPOILED! *SPOILERS* Okay, so there's spoilers for Endgame in this episode Hsweeties! We're finishing off Aprilvengers month with a bang! We saw Avengers: Endgame on opening night and made sure to get a hot and fresh episode out to discuss the REAL question on everyone's mind after seeing the beautiful conclusion to the MCU. How Star Wars Is It? Mike and Josiah talk a lot about specifics of the movie, especially in the half of the episode after the ad break, so do not listen until you have seen the movie, if you don't want it to be spoiled! You have been warned! 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 Josiah and Mike on Twitter as well. Their handles are @TheJosiahMan and @MikeGospel, respectively. And don't forget to rate and review on iTune

We are, somewhat mercifully for our sanity, coming to the end of Aprilvengers month! In this episode, we ostensibly talk about Infinity War, but really analyze how Star Wars the Marvel Cinematic Universe is as a whole. We also talk about the movie Clue a bunch! And we pull a Nick Fury and draft Star Wars characters into our ideal Avengers team. It's a wild ride y'all. Just a heads up, we can't stress this enough, next week's episode will be covering Avengers: Endgame. There will be spoilers! Don't listen to that episode until you've seen the movie! If you have any comments or suggestions, you can email us at agoodpodcast@gmail.com. Or hit us up on Instagram and Twitter @howstarwarsisit. 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.

Happy Celebration True Hiswiities! I don't remember how I spelled that last time, so I'm just going to roll with it.  We're coming to you LIVE from Chicago during Star Wars Celebration! To clarify, we were not recording live AT Celebration but we WERE recording live in Chicago. And Mike got to go to Celebration for a few hours and to some cool meet ups! So. Still pretty cool.  We're rounding the corner of Aprilvengers month and discussing Civil War this week. Join us as we gaze into the ouroboros that is Marvel copying Star Wars and then Disney buying everything only for Star Wars to then start copying Marvel. It's maddening. We barely make it through this episode. However, we take some time and lighten the mood with a new sure to be fan favorite game, Civil War or Civil War? and also we recorded a bonus segment about Celebration and our reactions to the Episode IX trailer that dropped! The audio is not great, because it was recorded last minute on our phones, so apologies in advance for that. If yo

*That one Jimmy Fallon SNL character voice that Mike does* And we're baaack! Aprilvengers month is going STRONG. We are covering our collective least favorite movie in the Avengers franchise, Age of Ultron. But just because we don't like it, doesn't mean it ain't Star Wars! Please join us as we talk a liiiiittle bit about Age of Ultron and a lot of bit about how tired Age of Ultron makes us. Also stay tuned until the end for our new sexy hit game, Ship It! aka Millennium Falcon Pennywise! If you have any comments or suggestions, you can email us at agoodpodcast@gmail.com. Or hit us up on Instagram and Twitter @howstarwarsisit. 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.

We're finally dipping our toe outside the incredibly comfortable pool of Star Wars movies! But fear not, True Hswiities, we're not going too far! We're staying in the house of mouse and doing a big ol' cannonball into the Marvel cinematic universe! In celebration of Avengers: Endgame coming out at the end of April, we are dubbing this month Aprilvengers Month here at HSWII! We're kicking off week one by examining the 2012 flick The Avengers, the culmination of years and years of teases and crossovers by Marvel Studios, and finally putting to rest the age old question: How Star Wars Is It? But don't worry, we still manage to discuss how much we love parents, Mike's brush with viral Youtube fame, and somewhat inexplicably, Wendy's again. We just love Wendy's I guess.  If you have any comments or suggestions, you can email us at agoodpodcast@gmail.com. Or hit us up on Instagram and Twitter @howstarwarsisit. And don't forget to rate and review on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts! And if you REALLY l

Yeah, you know what time it is. It's time to talk about how Star Wars Rogue One is and to somehow get lost along the way talking about Adam Sandler's friendships and Christian rock music. What else have you come to expect from How Star Wars Is It?, the ONLY podcast brave enough to examine all of pop culture and evaluate it on the one scale that truly matters. Also shout out to the cool folks we met at C2E2 this past weekend! Especially to those of you who took a card and followed us on social media! Y'all are the MOST Star Wars of them all. If you have any comments or suggestions, you can email us at agoodpodcast@gmail.com. Or hit us up on Instagram and Twitter @howstarwarsisit. 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.

Against all odds, it's time for another episode of How Star Wars Is It? We bring things into the modern era this week and talk about Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens! We actually like the movie, unlike some killjoys. But that's not important. What's important is how STAR WARS it is. What's also important is apparently how movies have too high frame rates these days, how Charmander has to wait FOREVER to learn a good fire move, and how big Chewbacca's penis might be. You know! A classic HSWII episode. If you have any comments or suggestions, you can email us at agoodpodcast@gmail.com. Or hit us up on Instagram and Twitter @howstarwarsisit. 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.

Welcome back to How Star Wars Is It! Why did you come back?? Why did WE come back?? What are any of us doing here really. Anyway, we're talking Phantom Menace this week! Remember that one? It wasn't very good! But how Star Wars it is might surprise you... If you have any comments or suggestions, you can email us at agoodpodcast@gmail.com. Or hit us up on Instagram and Twitter @howstarwarsisit. 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.