Leia Is Hope, a Star Wars Podcast

Jedi Master Kit Fisto tracks the beacon from the stolen Republic ship to the Vassek system. There he meets his old padawan, Nadhar. The pair and the clones enter the building with the beacon. Too late they realize it's a trap. Count Dooku speaks with them via holo. They get a different prize. Upon closer inspection of the building they learn that this is actually General Grievous's home, his lair. It's full of statues of him when he was a human warrior, it also contains trophies from all his Jedi kills. He arrives and they battle several times and also play cat and mouse. Do the Jedi and their accompanying clones arrest Grievous or fall at his droid feet? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

In depth summaries of Star Wars original Marvel comic books from 1978, issues 11 and 12. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

Captured Viceroy Gunray is being transported to Coruscant to be charged and tried for war crimes. Jedi Master Luminara Unduli and padawan Ashoka Tano are the Jedi in charge of protecting him on this journey. Their ship is attacked by super battle droids. Ventress is assigned to either rescue or silence the Viceroy. It's an edgy Ventress vs Unduli and Tano battle. But the linchpin is that Dooku turned one of the Senate Guards. Is the Viceroy rescued or killed? Does Ventress finally succeed in completing a mission? Do Unduli and Tano work together to defeat their mutual enemy? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

Padme goes to Rodia with Jar Jar Bins and C3PO to keep them in the Republic. However, she arrives too late. She's taken prisoner. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

Star Wars marvel comic books issue 9 and 10. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

Anakin is still searching for R2 when they learn of a listening station. R2 manages to reach Anakin and this also gives them the location of the listening station. Ashoka bravely takes on Grievous herself. R3, Goldie, Stubby is outed as a spy for Grievous. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

Anakin has a plan to catch Grevious. It almost works. He does take out the entire fleet with him, but the General escapes in an escape pod. Anakin wakes up in a med bay and asks about R2. He is informed that R2 is gone. This upsets him. When he asks Obi-Wan to go find him Obi-Wan gets cranky and tells him Jedi are not allowed to form attachments. When he tells Obi-Wan that R2's memory was not erased he is finally allowed to go look for him. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

Summaries of the Star Wars original Marvel comic book issues 7 and 8. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

A station is protecting Kamino, but it's staffed with newbies or shinies who had to leave training early due to the needs of the war. General Grevious is planning to destroy the clone home planet of Kamino. These newbies are the only defense. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

Obi-Wan and his fleet continue to fire on the retreating ship. However, Padme arrives on scene and winds up getting pulled into it via tractor beam. Anakin immediately heads off to save her with Obi-Wan. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

Anakin has had enough of General Grievous. He gets a team and they go after him. Grievous plans to destroy the medical station. Anakin gets their first. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

Master Plo Koon is sent to find out what the Separatist's new weapon his. He does but his fleet is destroyed in the process. Anakin and Ahsoka save him. The new weapon in an ion cannon. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

Recap of the original Star Wars comic books by Marvel. This is issue 5 and 6 from 1977. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

Yoda goes to a neutral planet to meet with the King of Toydaria to negotiate a Republic base in their system. Ventress, however, beats him to the meeting. He still manages to land on the planet. He is challenged to beat her best droids. But this is Yoda. He's a Jedi Master. Watching him is a work of art in motion. He turns the tables on Ventress with ease and earns the respect of the King in the process. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

Ryloth is under siege. The whole planet has become a battleground. Jedi Master and General Ima-Gun Di is there with a group of clone troops to deal with the Separatist Army. They are on the losing end for the time being as the troops and supplies are running short. Senator Bail Organa is asked to go to Toydaria and work out a treaty with the King to resupply Ryloth from there planet. The King is willing to help until Senator Dod arrives and levies a threat. In the end, the King helps. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

The Domino Squad is failing miserably at working together to pass the Citadel challenge. Shak Ti isn't sure how she wants to proceed with them and both El-Les and Bric (bounty hunters also hired to train the clone army) can't see eye to eye either. Both take very different approaches. It's the maintenance clone 99 who gets through to one of the clones though. Thanks to his advise they ultimately learn to work together. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

The battle continues on Christophosis. Anakin and Obi-Wan are out gunned. One ship arrives to help them but it carries a surprise. It's Ashoka Tano, a new padawan learner assigned to Anakin Skywalker. She is also reckless like Anakin and wanting to prove herself. The two head off to sneak across enemy lines where she saves him not one but twice. After they exit that planet they have to save Jabba the Hutt's baby. That adventure leads us to Padme helping with her senatorial skills. We also meet Ziro the Hutt who had a secret alliance with Dooku. Does Anakin and Ashoka save the baby? Is a treaty with Jabba procured? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

Original comic books from 1977 done by marvel. Issue 3 & 4 which cover the middle section of A New Hope. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

The battle on Christophsis continues. Rex and Cody learn that there is a spy in their group after they are ambushed on the planet. They root out the spy before the Jedi return from their mission. However, Slick manages to blow up most of the ammunitions depot before they catch him. Obi-Wan and Anakin meet Ventress at the Separatist Headquarters. She turns out to be a distraction so their base can be heavily damaged. Character bios for Ventress, Rex and Cody are also included. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

General Skywalker and General Kenobi are dispatched to help Senator Bail Organa on Christophsis. They are being blockaded so no aide can get down to the planet. However, they have to get through Admiral Trench ( who they thought had been vaporized in another battle) first. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

Attack of the Clones is covered in detail. There is a summary of the movie, many aspects are discussed, new planets and species as well as new characters that we were introduced too. Who's you're favorite in this movie? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

We take a deep dive into the 50 characters we met in this movie. Everyone from Anakin Skywalker and his mother to Sith Lords and Yoda and Yaddle. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

Comic Books: Star Wars 1977 #1 Star Wars 1977 #2 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

The first episode is Episode One: The Phantom Menace. This is where Star Wars begins. What happens and how does it all start? It's a lot, take a listen to find out. Other aspects of the Star Wars Universe that we meet in this movie are also discussed. The characters, and there's a lot, will be in their own separate part two episode. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support

This is the introductory episode of this podcast. It includes an overview of what this podcast will be about. It will cover Star Wars movies and tv shows from episode 1 through episode 9. Comic books, books and other things Star Wars will also be discussed from time to time. I look forward to taking this journey with you. Podcast officially begins airing on June 11, 2020. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leiaishope/support