Great Disturbances

After two years, we are ending the Great Disturbances experiment.  In this episode, Paul and Rich sum up their journey, and what they got out of it.     Paul and Rich will return with an all-new podcast soon.  Stay tuned to this feed for more information!

This is it.  The penultimate episode of Great Disturbances.  Paul and Rich tackle "THE" Star War: Empire Strikes Back.  How does it hold up?  Is it still #1?  Let's find out.  Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich wind down GD with the last two movies they haven't yet talked about, starting with The Phantom Menace.  Prepare yourselves for our audio invasion, preceded by our audio blockade (strictly legal, of course). Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Well, not the WHOLE series.  Paul and Rich tackle the end of season 1 of The Bad Batch, which covers topics like "what happened to the cloning facility on Kamino?"  And "what's the opposite of inclement?"  Also in this episode: one BIG friggin' announcement! Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich explore the morality of cloning in the Star Wars universe.  While they navel gaze, they naturally find themselves diverting from course...straight into Dog the Bounty Hunter. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich read and discuss the final arc of the first High Republic comic series from Marvel.  Also Rich learns about the Trolley Problem and Batman and the Punisher make an appearance. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich, having not been able to find a decent stash of Yoda-centric comics, decided to do a Yoda-defining arc of Clone Wars episodes.  In this three episode arc, Yoda searches for answers to the question "is there individuality within the Force," but he also fights a Yoda Gollem or some shit. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich head back to the (very full) well of short story collection "From a Certain Point of View" and find a pair of stories that are like poetry.  They rhyme.  The First Lesson by Jim Zub and Disturbance by Mike Chen.  Along the way they explore Vader's downtime and spend more time than they should on Obi Wan's prank calling prowess. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich crack the Space Scientology and Space Qec-Anon conspiracies wide open on this episode.  Oh, and they also talk about some Star Wars movie or something. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich dive back into the fertile waters of the Clone Wars animated series and discover Wookiee bathroom rituals, Jedi citizen's arrests and space Hanukkah.   Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich have an intervention in light of the Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon comics they read last week.  So, naturally, that intervention has to happen on a cruise on the Titanic. Yes, that Titanic.  Hijinks ensue, but ultimately the guys come to a realization about their subject matter. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich make the near-fatal mistake of diving into the prequel-era legends comics Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan: The Aurorient Express and Last Stand on Ord Mantell.  They barely escape with their lives, let alone their sanity.  All hyperbole, but also no hyperbole, intended. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich continue to explore Obi-Wan's presence in Star Wars lore as they ramp up for the premiere episode of the Disney+ mini-series.  In this episode, the guys ponder the question "what if the Rebels had managed to get Obi-Wan back to base, and he hadn't died on the Death Star?"  With special guest appearances by Tony Robbins and Joel Osteen. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich explore Jason Aaron's take on what Obi-Wan was up to on Tattooine between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.  There they find Jedi Pension plans, Space Fleshlights and just random bureaucracy. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich take a look at another pair of Star Wars fan films.  This time, it's Kenobi, and the seminal Troops from 1997.  Within the frames of these lovingly made tributes to a Galaxy far far away, the guys find perversion and rebellion, though the two are not intertwined... Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Back a week after a brief tussle with the Separatist army blockading their homes, Paul and Rich dive into the fertile waters of Star Wars fan films with TK-436: A Stormtrooper Story and Darth Maul: Apprentice.  There, they find more than they bargained for. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Digging back into the Tales of the Bounty Hunters anthology, Paul and Rich come across the Tale of 4-LOM and Zuckuss, which scratches a couple of itches for their ongoing search for answers to questions like "what's the Emperor's motivation," and "are droids sentient."  Somehow they end up with Space Mitch McConnell and Space Steve Austin.   Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich climb out of their own buttholes yet again to discuss some Star Wars DNA.  This time, Trek imitates Wars, and we see the building blocks of what would eventually become the Sequel Trilogy. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich gaze deeply into V-Ger's B-hole B-roll and divine the connective tissue that binds these two galaxies together.  Star Trek the Motion Picture owes a debt to Star Wars (1977), but Star Wars also owes a massive debt to Star Trek.  These two franchises, as disparate as they are, are inexorably connected. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich wrap up their reviews of Brian Daley's Han Solo Adventures novels from the late 1970's/early 1980's.  But before they do, they touch on Silent Night, Deadly Night, Twilight, and Ender's Game.  How does that all fit in?  Gotta listen to find out. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich start down the path of things that have Star Wars DNA in them, whether they be films or novels or TV that inspired Lucas to make the original, or stuff that came out post Star Wars and was inspired BY it.  This week we start with Denis Villanueve's Dune Part I adaptation. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Please note that there are no mentions of Christmas in this episode.  Not that there's anything wrong with Christmas.  Or if there were, we wouldn't be discussing it, is more to the point.  Regardless.  No Christmas stuff, but there is, however, more discussion of the possibilities laid before us by the advent of the first ever Jedi droid.  Paul and Rich dream up what could have been in an alternate universe where Skippy didn't self destruct. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice!   

Paul and Rich roll out their newest episode subtitle.  You have the "Saga" episodes.  You've got "Cantina Chats" now witness the full power of this fully armed...Mini Infinities episode! We've riffed on this a few times, but now it's got it's own sub-title, and in the first official Mini Infinity, we take a look at what could have been if Luke hasn't met Obi-Wan on Tattooine all those years ago... Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich head back to the Cantina and ponder a Star Wars rarity: a short story about the TRUTH behind R5-D4.  What REALLY happened to that little droid?  Was he assassinated by higher powers who had designs on Luke and his destiny?  Was R5-D4 an unwitting aide-de-camp to some dark power?  OR...was he a Jedi? Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich dig in to the Legends short story collection Tales of the Bounty Hunters, and find a rather unique story starring everyone's favorite assassin droid, IG-88!   Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich take a look at the Darth Vader comic's War of the Bounty Hunters crossover issues, and the guys have an epiphany of sorts. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich take a trip to the cantina to have a few space beers and ponder the question "who are the real terrorists in Star Wars?"   Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich round out the first season of Star Wars Visions with epic anime action, introspection, and analysis. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Rich and Paul once again dive into the realms of possibility for a second helping of the vastly interesting Star Wars Visions anime show from Disney+.  This set definitely hits some of their wheelhouse, and sparks some interesting navel-gazing. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich brave the Outer Rim and take a look at the ultimate Star Wars What If:  Star Wars Visions, a series of short Anime films on Disney plus.  This episode, they look at the first three films. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich do another "what if...?" Star Wars style!  In this episode...what would have happened if the Empire had never found Echo Base on Hoth?  Would Luke's path have been the same if the probe droid had never crashed near him?  Would Vader's?  The guys put their imaginations to the test and come up with some compelling ideas. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich picked another couple of stories from the anniversary tome "From A Certain Point of View: Empire Strikes Back.  The first is Eyes of the Empire, by Kiersten White, followed by "This Is No Cave" by Catherynne M. Valente.  Check out their thoughts in this week's episode! Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich talk about drowning Storm Trooper and verbally assault Darth Vader as they discuss Darko Macan and Dave Gibbons' 1999 comic mini-series Vader's Quest.  What horrors lie within?  Well, it is spooky season, so give it a listen, and see for yourself. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich chat about the 2003-2005 Clone Wars animated series by Genndy Tartakovsky.  How does it hold up compared to other animated Star Wars stuff?  And who's in Space Night Court? Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich ponder a question they discovered on Reddit:  Would Anakin have been better off in the era of the High Republic Jedi?  The answers they come up with might surprise you.  But then again, maybe not. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich dive back into the High Republic comics and discuss issues 6-8 of the fledgling series.  There's talk about Jedi sects and Jedi sex.  It's the whole gamut!  Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

The guys visit with Space Bea Arthur for more Space Beer and some discussion of what makes for a good SW comic in their opinion.  Naturally, the flip is also discussed--what makes a Star Wars comic bad? Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Rich and Paul take a look at the two most recent issues of Marvel Comics' War of the Bounty Hunters limited series, and come up with a few ways to use well known characters in prequel situations.  Also, Paul fanboys and the guys go off the rails, naturally. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Two shows in one!  Paul and Rich are joined by Erin Davies of Code 47 fame as they discuss the critically maligned yet commercially adored Rise of Skywalker, and then the three find the best ways to FIX the final installment of the Skywalker Saga! Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich head back to the Cantina in hopes of improving one of their most favorite Star Wars flicks.  It's a bit like pulling teeth.  Sometimes necessary, but kinda painful, but in the end...probably worth it. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

No funny titles.  No games.  Paul and Rich tackle one of the most divisive Star Wars things to ever Star War.  This is our The Last Jedi review. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich hit the cantina again.  After getting their Space Beers from Space Be a Arthur, the guys set out to make The Force Awakens BETTER.  And there's no better way to fix problems than with Space Beer! Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich take a deep dive into the Sequel Trilogy with it's first installment:  The Force Awakens.  Also, Paul drinks the Haterade, and the guys have a plan. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich jump into the Clone Wars animated series for a three episode arc dealing with living embodiments of the Force!  It's a weird as it sounds. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich discuss time loops, alternate realities, and human taxidermy.  Oh, and also they catch up on the High Republic comic series through issue #5! Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich discuss crossovers at length, and then dive into the first issue of Marvel's Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters! Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich start with a question.  The answer snowballs them into musical theatre, Marvel Comics (not the Star Wars kind), fever dreams, St. Elsewhere, and the Tommy Westphal multiverse.  Come along for a journey that has to be heard to be believed.   Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich check out Charles Soule's FIRST Marvel Star War:  the mini-series Obi-Wan and Anakin.  Along the way, they review Wonder Woman 1984, and talk about Vader's place in the whole story. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich jump back into the phenomenal collection of short stories From a Certain Point of View: Empire Strikes Back for a couple of tales about a defecting Stormtrooper (no, not Finn!) and Obi-Wan Kenobi visiting Luke and Yoda on Dagobah.  Naturally, there are side quests. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Paul and Rich check out the fresh off the presses prelude to the upcoming War of the Bounty Hunters comic book crossover.  Do bounty hunters not get paid much?  Do they sell Amway in their spare time?  And did Boba keep the head?  All questions to be answered in this newest Kessel Run episode of Great Disturbances! Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice! 

Back from a short hiatus, Paul and Rich discuss the initial offering in the new High Republic multimedia venture from Lucasfilm.  The guys give their thoughts on Charles Soule's Light of the Jedi.  Oh, and Paul totally proposes to Rich.  YOU ALL HEARD IT. Find GREAT DISTURBANCES on Facebook, Twitter, or email us at greatdisturbances@gmail.com  We'd love a review, too!  Tell us what you think by leaving a few words on the podcast app of your choice!