Podcasts about josiah thejosiahman

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 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 in a copycat recipe of skyline chili. 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 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 in American history that both JPC and Josiah saw the show for the first time, and, in the spirit of JPC’s riddling pedigree, Mike debuts a new edition of These Are Riddles entitled Alex-Blank-er Blank-ilton. You can find JPC on Twitter @jpsofly and on Instagram and Twitch @sharkbarkman. Go follow him on all those things and check out his main podcast, Hey Riddle Riddle. He’s also been in a billion other things, so just go check out all the stuff he’s done. He’s great. 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 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 music genre. Also, apologies for the slight audio echo of our voices occasionally, we had some technical difficulties. We tried to clean it up and make it as listenable as possible! Luke’s handle is @LukeNull on all the social media sites, so go follow him! You can also check out his musical stand up album Guitar Comic on all streaming platforms. 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 here and to the Homeless Black Trans Women fund here.  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, this time from Valjean’s perspective. 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 freaking hot Zac Efron is, the strange high school these kids go to, and obsess over Lucas Grabeel and his portrayal of the best character in the franchise, Ryan Evans. Mike also debuts a Ryan specific game all about hats. It’s a good one. You can follow our guest, Charlie Irving, on Instagram and TikTok @charliekirving, and her website is charlieirving.com. Go hire her for things! 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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, but neither of them has a big connection to the show Rent, so we brought in some back-up: Caitlyn Cerza, actor, musical theatre artist, and conveniently, Mike's girlfriend who lives in the same place as him! So no quarantine guidelines were broken! Yay! We were so glad to have Caitlyn back, because she truly does not care about Star Wars, and it helps ground us every time sh's on the show. We dig into our Rent journeys, nerd out about musicals in general, and Josiah debuts a game that Mike and Caitlyn pass with flying colors because they respectively know the songs "We Didn't Start the Fire" and "La Vie Boheme" far too well.  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 our guest Caitlyn on instagram @kiki_cerza. It IS private though, so she WILL have to approve you.  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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 us up on Instagram and Twitter @howstarwarsisit. You can also follow Mike @MikeGospel and Josiah @TheJosiahMan. And you can find Blaze @blazeburke on Instagram. 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 monetary way! We love those dollars and cents baby. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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! We love those dollars and cents baby. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hello again Hsweeties! We here at How Star Wars Is It? hope you are safe, happy, and healthy staying home during this global pandemic, which is a crazy thing I never thought I’d have to type in a podcast episode description. If you’re like us, your routine has probably changed, and you might be doing a little more of this episode’s topic than usual. That’s right, this week we return to the rich vein of huge abstract concepts to determine how Star Wars cooking really is. We get pretty off track at the beginning, so get ready for some RIVETING stories of HILARIOUS high school and college hijinks before we get into the real nitty gritty of what exactly cooking is. Josiah also debuts a new game called Cooking the Books which looks at the top 10 best selling Star Wars books on Amazon, and lemme tell ya, it’s a fun one. 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hello dear hsweeties and listenerds. First things first, we here at How Star Wars Is It? hope you are all doing well, staying home, washing those hands, and just being as safe as you can be! Second things second, we are finally reviewing the last Star Wars movie! Well, the last one that we haven't covered yet. The order in which we covered the Star Wars movies had little rhyme or reason, but suffice it to say, we definitely saved the best for last. We talk a lot about how Episode 6 has all the best and worst qualities that Star Wars has to offer, and Josiah brings a very toyetic game engineered specifically for Mike. We also maybe make the most important discovery that's ever been made on this podcast? Or maybe on any podcast?? Or maybe ever??? 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We had a whole continuing in the spirit of April Fool's day bit we were gonna do by giving you an Austin Powers episode on the week that the new James Bond movie was going to be released, but you know how it is. Shit's crazy out here. Be safe, stay inside, and listen to this episode of HSWII. We're covering Austin Powers this week! Josiah had never seen it before this episode, because he was a good christian boy that wasn't allowed to back in the day. Turns out it's funny! Mike and Josiah try to determine the reason behind the lack of spoofs in Hollywood today, do some EXCELLENT Austin Powers impressions, and Mike debuts his most favorite game he's created up to this point. 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Welcome to the first episode of our new podcast, How Spaceballs Is It? That's right, Mike and Josiah got tired of the old format, and their new mission in life is to determine just how Spaceballs everything in existence is! Now go listen to the first minute or two of the episode and then come back and finish reading this. Did you listen?? Oh man, we got you good huh! You thought we really started a whole new podcast based on a spoof of sci-fi movies! No! We didn't! It was all an April Fool's joke!!! Oh man, you should see the look on your face right now! Wow wow wow. Okay, so, in the spirit of jokes and japes, this episode is about the Mel Brooks flick Spaceballs. Mike and Josiah also take time this episode to deliver on a promise they made during the April Fool's Day episode in holiday month, and they actually sit down and plot out a modern reinvention of the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special. It's good stuff. Our remake, not the holiday special. Well, they're both bad, but ours is bad on purpose, so there! 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This was gonna be a timely episode with Disney's release of the new live-action Mulan, but the good ol' global pandemic has thrown off everybody's plans, giant movie studios and little baby podcasts alike. And yet WE'RE still releasing this episode! Ball's in your court DISNEY. You COWARDS. Anyway, we're talking about the original animated Mulan this week! Your beloved hosts hadn't seen this movie in a grip, and y'all?? Mulan rules! It's a ding dang gosh darn good fucking movie! Mike and Josiah talk a LOT about the amazing songs, the many superficial Star Wars similarities, and get a liiiittle deep talking about Mulan's significance as a feminist film and its significance in the LGBTQ+ community. I know right?? It's like, we actually thought about it and analyzed it and everything! And of course Mike introduces a Who's That Quotemon style game called Mushu Mushu Mushu or Marsha Marsha Marsha. 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We had the distinct honor and privilege of determining How Star Wars C2E2 is live on the floor at C2E2 itself in the Podcast Central booth, run by the very nice fellas at Chuck Loads of Comics and The Chumpcast. We can't thank them enough for helping us bring our brand of Star Wars fandom to the masses. Also big thanks to Reedpop and C2E2 for making it all possible in the first place! This episode was super fun to record as we were basically watching hundreds of people walk past us in amazing cosplay the entire time. If we sound a little scattered during the live portion of the episode, it's because we were! We somehow were able to rate C2E2 on the HSWII scale despite the distractions, and we had a lot of fun doing trivia and giving away prizes with the folks who stayed to listen the whole time, and the people walking by who occasionally would stop to see what weird thing was happening. We also do one of our classic draft games and a surprise guest drops by (no seriously, it was a surprise to us as well, it was a complete and total happy accident). 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hello Hsweeties and listenerds, welcome to season two of the show! Our seasons are one year long, just like every other reputable show. This is what we planned from the beginning and is definitely not an arbitrary distinction that we decided on a whim. We're starting out season two with a bang by finally covering The Last Jedi. We've talked about it at length on other episodes, and we are at last actually sitting down and discussing Episode 8 in its entirety with little to no distractions! We really like this movie, so get ready for some effusive praise and gushing analysis. Gushing analysis was a gross phrase and I promise to never type it again! Mike also brings a new game this week that looks at the audience vs critic score of movies from the biggest franchises in the world. 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Waaaaah! Goo goo gah gah! *Pbbbblt* Those are baby noises! Because How Star Wars Is It? is officially one year old! That’s right, one whole year! That’s young for a human, decently old for a podcast, and like Josiah mentions in this episode, longer than any relationship he’s ever been in! We’re celebrating by taking a look back *wink* at some of our favorite clips of the show from the past year. *wink wink* You may remember some of these classic bits, like *wink* the time Hayden Christensen subbed in for Mike as co-host or the time the boys sang the intro to the episode! (I’m sure you’ve figured this out from listening, but this episode was actually us improvising different scenarios we individually came up with and sprang on each other while recording.) We had a lot of fun recording this celebratory episode, and we hope you had fun listening to it! Thanks for sticking with HSWII for one whole year! We really do love you, and may the fourth truly be with you 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. 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! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Here at How Star Wars Is It?, February is a very special month. Both Mike and Josiah’s respective birthdays are in the month of February, less than a week apart! And our podcast will celebrate its first birthday very soon! So to revel in the celebratory spirit, we thought we’d do an episode on birthdays themselves! That’s right, we’re back with a concept this week at HSWII? Mike and Josiah talk the logistics of a Leap Day birthday, the pros and cons of surprise parties, and Josiah debuts a new somewhat Star Wars related game called BirthYay or BirthNay? 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hello there Hsweeties! Take a trip down memory lane with us, won’t you? Fire up Disney Plus, and remember a simpler time when Disney didn’t have a vice grip on all media yet and made a fun, strangely good movie about a theme park attraction. We’re talking Pirates of the Caribbean today! Specifically, only the first one, The Curse of the Black Pearl, because the rest of them suck increasingly as they go on. Mike and Josiah reminisce about the millions of times their families watched this movie, quote the movie possibly too many times, and Mike debuts another trivia game that made Josiah feel like a real dum dum. (Also, quick disclaimer. We talked about Johnny Depp and the allegations against him ever so briefly, but this was recorded before the more recent evidence against Amber Heard was brought to light. We’re not making any value judgments in the end either way, I just wanted to clarify that. Okay, back to jokes!) 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Recently, we had noted Sonic expert Pete Byrne as a guest on the show. Conveniently, the new formerly-terrifying-now-much-more-palatable CGI Sonic movie is coming out this week! We thought we'd take advantage of the timing and have Pete back on the show to discuss all things Sonic the Hedgehog. The video games that is. We are not cool Hollywood insiders and don't have access to advance screenings. Although that would be cool! So if anyone knows what a podcast has to do to get that privilege, please let us know. This episode has everything for new and old Sonic fans alike! We talk Sonic bedsheets, Sonic animated shows, the weird amount of sexy Sonic fan art on the Internet, the amazing music in Sonic, you name it! Josiah brings in an updated version of an old game, newly dubbed Apples and Oranges, comparing the quality of Star Wars movies with the quality of Sonic games. The boys also discover their Sonicsonas, in a horrifying and intriguing segment that you Hsweeties should definitely play along with at home. Pete's twitter is @mrpetebyrne and his sketch group Two Man Hammer can be found at @twomanhammer on instagram, facebook, and twitter. All their sketches are at youtube.com/twomanhammer. You can also find Pete's other work at petebyrnehere.com. 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Rise and shine you woodchuck chuckers, it's the How Star Wars Is It? Groundhog Day Special! Since we talked about the movie Groundhog Day during holiday month without our resident Groundhog Day expert Michael DeLaney, we figured we'd make it up to him by having him on the show to talk about a different movie entirely! That's right, we're diving into the niche genre of Groundhog Day inspired time loop movies of which there is no better example than the underrated Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt sci-fi outing, Edge of Tomorrow. Or Live Die Repeat. The name of the movie is wildly inconsistent across all viewing platforms, it's very confusing. Mike shares a new game pinpointing scenes from different time loop movies, we end up talking about Rise of Skywalker again of course, and in an unintentional meta turn, Mike and Josiah manage to echo many of the exact thoughts they shared in the Groundhog Day episode, much to DeLaney's chagrin. 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 check out the link below to support us in a monetary way! We love those dollars and cents baby. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Thanks to listener Siobhan for the suggestion for the topic of this week's episode: the Star Wars Expanded Universe! Slash Star Wars Legends! We're talking this week about the weird and wacky world of pre-Disney Star Wars. This episode is a little different, as we are talking a little bit about a lot of different Star Wars content that Mike and Josiah are familiar with. Books! Video games! Comics! You name it! We have a little bit of everything in this episode. We would love to dive down deeper into specific EU/Legends books and games and such in the future, but for now, we thought we'd start out by giving y'all a scattershot of our feelings about the expanded universe as a whole. Past and future guest of the show Michael Delaney also drops by for another game of Real or Fake, where Mike and Josiah have to determine if Delaney's plot summaries of crazy stories from the EU are real...or fake? 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It is time! We've talked about it long enough, so we're finally getting back to the original trilogy with Empire Strikes Back! *Disclaimer* Mike and I recorded this way back in early December, before we saw Rise of Skywalker, and before we recorded most of the more recent episodes. And because we're parodies of ourselves, we actually talk about several things that we talked about in later December and January episode, such as Skyline Chili. So weirdly, we're not repeating ourselves in this episode, we were actually repeating ourselves in the OTHER episodes. Okay, just wanted to let y'all know. Carry on. *End disclaimer* Man, it felt good to talk about a real genuine Star Wars movie again back when we recorded this! Before Rise of Skywalker dashed all our hopes and sent us into a long depression that we still haven't come out of. Enjoy Mike and I talking about how Empire is just a real dang good movie, the chronological first time we talked about Skyline Chili, and the Sequel Showdown, a game where Josiah reveals the best sequels ever made (according to Rotten Tomatoes). 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hey Hsweeties! Our guests this week have a hilarious Star Wars related video out now called "Please (Use CGI To Bring My Dead Dad Back To Life) -- A Star Wars Song" on their youtube channel that everyone should go check out right now! Right now! Before you listen to the episode! We here at How Star Wars Is It? hope that your 2020 is off to a Super start! Let's Smash all the negativity, and come together as Brothers! The previous two sentences contain clues about the subject of this week's episode! Also, the title of the episode contains a clue but the clue is just what the thing is! It's Super Smash Bros! Wow I shouldn't be allowed to write these when I'm tired. But anyway, we're talking Super Smash Bros, and we brought in some super bros of our own to help us determine how Star Wars the Super Smash Bros series of games really is. Jake Bradley and Pete Byrne make up Two Man Hammer, a sketch comedy group out of Chicago that makes some dadgum hilarious videos. Jake and Pete really elevate the discourse on the show and help Mike and Josiah get down to the nitty-gritty important stuff. Like which Nintendo games have pee in them? How many casino planets are there in Star Wars? How much blue milk is too much blue milk? And Pete and Jake, in classic HSWII tradition, bring a Who's that Quotemon game sure to please everyone: who said it, Jar Jar Binks or Donald Trump? Two Man Hammer is @twomanhammer on instagram, facebook, and twitter. All their sketches can be found at youtube.com/twomanhammer. Jake can be found on twitter @jokebadly and Pete's handle is @mrpetebyrne. You can also find Pete's other work at petebyrnehere.com. Check out all their stuff, they are hilarious and we were super happy to have them on the show. 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

SPOILERS There are spoilers in this one gang! Be wary! SPOILERS Okay, now that that's out of the way, hey Hsweeties! Happy New Year! Welcome to 2020! New year, new Star Wars, same podcast. We're covering all of season one of The Mandalorian this week, and you know what, we really liked this show! It wasn't perfect or anything but it was super fun and a nice breath of fresh air for the Star Wars universe. We cover all things Mando, we talk about everyone's favorite little guy Baby Yoda, and we start off the new year strong with a brand spanking new game of These Are Riddles, Baby Yoda edition. 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hello Hsweeties! Welcome back from vacation! Load up those podcasts and get ready for the workweek before New Year’s Eve awkwardly interrupts and gives everyone a big hangover. Speaking of New Year’s Eve, we’re finishing out holiday month and 2019 in classic HSWII fashion: by doing an episode that is based on a joke that Mike and I made in a previous episode that will hopefully still be funny. That’s right, for the spooky-themed month of October, we skipped out on the movie Halloween from 1978 by John Carpenter. But to close our holiday month, we figured we’d bring it full circle and give the people what they’ve been asking for. More John Carpenter, more Mike Myers (both of them), and more of Mike’s killer impressions. We here at HSWII hope everyone had a great holiday season and that the good times continue into the New Year! This episode is a nice joyous break from the depression of last week’s Rise of Skywalker ep, so enjoy! 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! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

*SPOILERS* This episode has spoilers. Obviously. The description might have some light spoilers depending on your definition of the word. *SPOILERS* Happy holidays Hsweeties! To celebrate, we recorded you a big ol’ bonus sized episode of How Star Wars Is It? Wow! It’s exactly what you wanted I bet! Do you know what wasn’t what WE wanted? Basically everything in The Rise of Skywalker! That’s right, we saw Star Wars: Episode 9 The Rise of Skywalker on opening weekend so that we could bring YOU, our dear listenerds, a spoiler-filled episode as quickly as possible so there would be no doubt in anyone’s mind how Star Wars this new Star Wars movie is. Just a heads up! This episode will have spoilers, obviously, but it might also spoil your mood if you really enjoyed this movie! Not to tip our hand too much, but Mike and I didn't like this movie, and it was hard to talk about it in our normal non-negative way. But! We didn't want to be a downer, so Mike and Caitlyn (whom you might remember from the Shark Tank episode) recorded some moments of positivity that are dispersed throughout the episode. And for our game segment, we do our dang best to find the bits and pieces of this movie that we did genuinely like, and it's mostly Babu Frik. That guy rules. If you have any comments or suggestions, or if you actually liked this movie and want to tell us why, 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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, feel free to check out the link below to support us in a monetary way! We love those dollars and cents baby. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 free to check out the link below to support us in a monetary way! We love those dollars and cents baby. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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. 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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, 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 us in a monetary way! We love those dollars and cents baby. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 City. Don't forget to check out his handiwork on the new Jackbox Party Pack 6 as well from Jackbox Games! You can find all these projects and others at his twitter @Cjtuor. If you have any comments or suggestions for the show, 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 those dollars and cents baby. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 the show, feel free to check out the link below to support us in a monetary way! We love those dollars and cents baby. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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! 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 cents baby. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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! We love those dollars and cents baby. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 @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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 support us in a monetary way! We love those dollars and cents baby. Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com and https://freesound.org/. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

(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 Desperate Housewives. 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 our guest Caitlyn @caitlyncerza. 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app