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Podcasts in Review

Here is this week’s Podcasts in Review, starting with the top five and honorable mentions, then moving on to the full reviews.

This Week’s Top Five

1. Lipstick and Lightsabers Episode 1
2. Blast Points Podcast Episode 163
3. ForceCenter Episode 160
4. Radio Free Endor It’s a Wrap
5. The JATcast Episode 21

Honorable Mentions

• Talk Star Wars Episode 160 gets into some good discussions.
• Starships, Sabers, and Scoundrels Episode 76 has a good discussion on The Phantom Menace and some fun comedy bits.
• Brews and Blasters Episode 200 is a fun one and it celebrates their 200th episode.

Now here is this week’s Podcasts in Review…

Blast Points Podcast: Episode 163 goes over Celebration news, the announced Episode IX panel, and new guest. Then it’s all about explosions as they talk about the most memorable explosions throughout the Star Wars saga. From sad ones like the death of Ratts Tyerell, gross ones like the Grievous’ guts blowing up, slow ones like Jedha, and explosion marathons like the security cameras in the Death Star detention area, they cover a wide variety and have fun with it.

Podcast Network: N/A
Runtime: 1 hour 5 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Editing: Excellent
Hosts: Jason, and Gabe
Rating: Explosive Fun

Brews and Blasters: Episode 200 celebrates their 200th episode as they talk 11 cheese mac and cheese, facial hair, Hall and Oates, looking back on the show and how it started. They share a clip from one of the test episodes they did, a clip from their first episode, and they talk about their off the rails element they’ve embraced and the background music of the show. Afterwards they get into some news, the Lord of the Rings Amazon series, they do some need’em got’em, talk about Jabba’s sail barge, and go off on a Watto tangent. Fun episode.

Podcast Network: Retrozap
Runtime: 1 hour 5 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Hosts: Joe, and Chris
Rating: Fun

Coffee With Kenobi: Episode 265 Dan, Cory and Tom begin their road to Celebration episodes as they talk about the panels we know of so far, guests doing autographs, and the podcast meet-up. Then (41 minutes in) Dan talks with Star Wars Celebration artist Jason Christman about his art print. Tom’s audio had some issues, but otherwise good episode.

Podcast Network: Coffee With Kenobi
Runtime: 55 minutes
Audio Quality: Good
Production Quality: Great
Hosts: Dan Zehr
Rating: Good

Faking Star Wars Radio: The Hard Times & Star Wars Gaming Storm Duper talks with Teeb and IG-69, they have a Yoda Pokemon bit, they play the Fake-o-meter leak game, Storm Duper talks with Matt Saincome of the punk satire site The Hard Times, then Mark Roebuck joins them. They talk about the vertical Hard Drive, writing satire, Star Wars, video games, and the most punk Star Wars characters. There’s a porg urinal bit, then they talk EA. Fun episode.

Podcast Network: N/A
Runtime: 1 hour 2 minutes
Audio Quality: Good/Great
Production Quality: Great
Host: Storm Duper
Rating: Fun

ForceCenter: Episode 159 they talk about their planned Celebration special event, Galaxy’s Edge, other stuff, Star Wars Resistance, Disney shareholder’s meeting getting a look at Episode IX footage, Celebration guests, Matt Smith not in Episode IX?, and their main discussion is on what if Qui-Gon lived. His philosophy on living in the moment, being a more flexible teacher than Obi-Wan, preventing Anakin’s fall, whether the Jedi council would have let him train Anakin, the prophecy, finding immortality, would he have freed Shmi, and listener feedback. Good episode.

Podcast Network: ForceCenter
Runtime: 1 hour 27 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Host: Ken, Jennifer, and Joseph
Rating: Good

ForceCenter: Episode 160 they talk about what they’ve been up to, touch base on the finale of Star Wars Resistance (very minor spoilers, nothing to really worry about), then go over the news including Celebration news, the announced Episode IX panel, new guests, and Hasbro’s fan choice winner. For their main discussion, they go over unreliable narrators. They share their thoughts on the use of unreliable narrators in Star Wars, how the crawl is framed as a story, the idea of R2 telling the story to the Whills, Obi-Wan’s unreliability, the use of unreliable narrators in things outside the films like the Phasma novel, and they wrap up with listener questions. Great discussion.

Podcast Network: ForceCenter
Runtime: 1 hour 28 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Host: Ken, Jennifer, and Joseph
Rating: Great

Galactic War Report: Episode 146 they talk about their Celebration plans, Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes mods, Revan news, changes in new update, beating Revan with droids or CLS Rebels team, and who they’re grinding.

Podcast Network: Radio Free Tatooine
Runtime: 1 hour 4 minutes
Audio Quality: Great
Production Quality: Excellent
Host: John, and Sean
Rating: Good

Geeky Bubble: Episode 128 kicks off with their question of the week (favorite books), then they discuss Star Wars Resistance “No Escape, Part 1” as they breakdown the episode, go over their favorite moments, go over listener feedback, and predictions for the finale.

Podcast Network: The Star Wars Escape Pods Network
Runtime: 1 hour 10 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Hosts: Johnamarie, and Maria
Rating: Good

Grand Moff Talkin’: Episode 89 features Riley and Jake as they do a summary of the New Jedi Order book series so far, then dive into Hero’s Trial. They talk about the book’s focus on Han, the author James Luceno, the story, the characters, Vergere, and they do a dramatic reading. Good episode.

Podcast Network: N/A
Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Hosts: Jake, Jazmine, and Riley
Rating: Good

Happy Beeps: Episode 22 discusses masks in Star Wars. From Finn and his bloody helmet, to Vader and his mask, Enfys Nest, Boushh, and Kylo Ren, she talks about the meaning, the necessity and the misdirection they provide. Good episode.

Podcast Network: ForceCenter
Runtime: 25 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Host: Jennifer Landa
Rating: Good

Hearts of Kyber: Episode 3 they discuss masters and padawans, from Obi-Wan Kenobi to Luke Skywalker. They talk about the master and padawan relationship, the growth of the characters from padawan to master, the challenges they encounter like Obi-Wan versus Darth Maul, or Obi-Wan facing Anakin, and their efforts in teaching new Jedi. They wrap up the last 6 minutes of the episode on a different topic, their favorite issues of A Star Wars Comic. Good episode.

Podcast Network: N/A
Runtime: 58 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Hosts: Christy, and Rae
Rating: Good

Lattes With Leia: Episode 37 they talk cats, touch base on self-care episode, what they’re drinking, what they’ve been up to, then they discuss friendships and friendships in Star Wars. They go over Rey and Finn’s friendship, whether people can be friends with droids, Padme’s friendship with her handmaidens, how consistency builds trust, Obi-Wan and Anakin, the death of their friendship, and C-3PO and R2-D2. Good episode.

Podcast Network: Coffee With Kenobi
Runtime: 48 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Hosts: Amy, and Andrea
Rating: Good

Lipstick and Lightsabers: Episode 1 kicks off a new podcast that focuses on the female fans of Star Wars. Each episode features a new fan talks about their fandom and how Star Wars has impacted them. This episode features the host, Shannon McCarter, as she talks about what people think of when they think of Star Wars, Star Wars fandom, the diversity of Star Wars fandom, and the objective of the podcast. Then she shares her Star Wars story, how she got into Star Wars, finding Star Wars podcasts she linked, and how her Star Wars fandom elevated. Great episode. Top notch audio and production quality.

Podcast Network: Network 1901
Runtime: 17 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Host: Shannon McCarter
Rating: Great

Lipstick and Lightsabers: Episode 2 is a bit different as Shannon just does the intro and outro for the show and the rest is the guest. This one features Nedi Perez who is a podcast host for Women of the Whills and The Balance: A Star Wars Podcast. She talks about her Star Wars fandom, fan art, podcasting, how Star Wars has impacted her life, and what she’s looking forward to most.

Podcast Network: Network 1901
Runtime: 6 minutes
Audio Quality: Good
Production Quality: Great
Host: Shannon McCarter
Rating: Good

Lipstick and Lightsabers: Episode 3 features Caitlin Pleasher from the podcast Skytalkers. She talks about how she got into Star Wars, her Star Wars fandom, podcasting, getting to know other people, and more. Getting to listen to a few of these episodes, it’s an interesting format and way to give fellow female fans an outlet to talk about their fandom. Definitely has some potential and is worth subscribing to. The episodes are also short so it’s easy to fit them into your podcast playlists. Audio quality does vary from guest to guest, though.

Podcast Network: Network 1901
Runtime: 5 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Host: Shannon McCarter
Rating: Good

Magic on a Dollar: Episode 40 is the Walt Disney quote of the week on doing what you do well.

Podcast Network: N/A
Runtime: 5 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Host: Dave
Rating: Good

Radio Free Endor: It’s a Wrap has some fun with the Episode IX wrap party, and features guest Jason Christman as they talk about Antarctica, video games, Jason’s Celebration print, the Episode IX wrap photo, Celebration thoughts, getting emotional about Star Wars, Toy Fair news, rumored title for Episode IX, and a parody song for Star Wars/A Star is Born. Great, fun episode.

Podcast Network: N/A
Runtime: 1 hour 2 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Hosts: Jamie
Rating: Great

Rebel Force Radio: Episode 3.16.2019 discusses bagpipes, Irish Star Wars actors, quitting smoking, and Jimmy teases the Jabba sail barge a little. They continue their discussion on the Jedi and overthrowing the chancellor, they play an audio clip of Dave Filoni talking about the senate, and they bring up an excerpt from the Revenge of the Sith novelization. They also talk about bit parts in Star Wars, action figures, listener feedback, Mark Hamill might not be a Celebration, news, the latest Disney shareholder meeting, Episode IX footage, Oscar Isaac comments, some Star Wars Resistance “No Escape, Part 1”, and some audio of Brett Mitchell talking about the music of Star Wars.

Podcast Network: Rebel Force Radio
Runtime: 2 hours 10 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Hosts: Jason, and Jimmy
Rating: Good

Skytalkers: Resistance: No Escape, Part 2 they go over their highs and lows for the episode, they talk about Kaz and Hosnian Prime, the tension with Tam, the Colossus, flushing the stormtroopers, how the finale compares with other Star Wars animated shows, their favorite moments, themes, characters, character moments, and CB-23 love. Good, positive discussion.

Podcast Network: Star Wars Escape Pods Network
Runtime: 1 hour 1 minute
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Hosts: Caitlin, and Charlotte
Rating: Good

Star Wars 7×7: Episode 1715 goes over Star Wars Celebration tickets now being available on Lite, and Mary Franklin leaving ReedPop.

Podcast Network: N/A
Runtime: 8 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Host: Allen Voivod
Rating: Good

Star Wars 7×7: Episode 1718 goes over Star Wars Resistance “No Escape, Part 2” and does go into spoilers.

Podcast Network: N/A
Runtime: 9 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Host: Allen Voivod
Rating: Good

Star Wars 7×7: Episode 1719 looks over season one of Star Wars Resistance, what we’ve learned about the Resistance, the timeline, and touches on C-3PO’s spy network.

Podcast Network: N/A
Runtime: 9 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Host: Allen Voivod
Rating: Good

Star Wars 7×7: Episode 1720 goes over what we learned about the First Order from Star Wars Resistance.

Podcast Network: N/A
Runtime: 11 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Host: Allen Voivod
Rating: Good

Starships, Sabers, and Scoundrels: Episode 75.3 Jay and Dennis talk about Star Wars Resistance “No Escape, Part 1” as they breakdown the episode, and share their highlights and observations about the characters and the story. Good discussion and some good observations.

Podcast Network: Retrozap
Runtime: 45 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Host: Dennis, Jay, and Taxus
Rating: Good

Starships, Sabers, and Scoundrels: Episode 76 they go over what they’ve been up to, Taxus shares a fun Celebration bit, they go over news, Celebration panels that have been announced, the deleted Anakin scene from Revenge of the Sith, Celebration guests and autographs, tickets being available via Lite, and lightsaber dueling being an official sport in France. For their main discussion they focus on The Phantom Menace and share their memories of seeing the movie for the first time and what their thoughts were of the movie. Fun discussion.

Podcast Network: Retrozap
Runtime: 1 hour 21 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Host: Dennis, Jay, and Taxus
Rating: Fun

Talk Star Wars: Episode 160 includes a new Resistance round up from Visuvi, they talk about who Yoda was referring to when he said there was another, thoughts on animation during the Original Trilogy era, the humor in Star Wars and The Last Jedi, my thoughts on The Last Jedi, movie spoofs and longevity, and their picks on recasting the actors in Star Wars. Fun episode. Just Brad and Rob on this one.

Podcast Network: Star Wars Commonwealth
Runtime: 2 hours 4 minutes
Audio Quality: Great
Production Quality: Great
Hosts: Brad, Carlos, and Rob
Rating: Fun

Talking Bay 94: Episode 33 features an interview with Marc Thorpe who talks about his work with ILM as a model maker on The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. He also talks about the other film work he’s done including Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, work in toy design, and more. Good interview.

Podcast Network: N/A
Runtime: 21 minutes
Audio Quality: Good
Production Quality: Great
Host: Brandon Wainerdi
Rating: Good

TechnoRetro Dads: Spring into the Adventures of Baron Munchausen goes over jokes, Dungeons and Dragons cartoon kickstarter, Disney+ news, Time Bandits the series, and then they talk about the movie The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. They wrap up with their Star Wars scrapbook segment going over this week’s Star Wars history. Fun episode.

Podcast Network: Retrozap
Runtime: 1 hour 17 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Host: JediShua, and Shazbazzar
Rating: Fun

The Deucecast Movie Show: Episode 370 is the 6th Annual Deucie Awards as they announced the winners of the Deucie movie categories, and they also run down their top ten movies for 2018. There’s some audio clips for some of the categories which worked out okay but could use some work. Probably a good thing that they didn’t do that for every category. Overall good episode. Just Dave and Mikey hosting this one.

Podcast Network: Retrozap
Runtime: 1 hour 9 minutes
Audio Quality: Great
Production Quality: Good
Hosts: Dave, Mikey, and Dr. Earl
Rating: Good

The Geek Supreme: WHAT IF Frank Oz is Right About Yoda? they talk about the early days of the internet, the new Avengers: Endgame trailer, Marvel what if’s, Frank Oz tweets on Yoda, and they have fun with a fansplaining game. Fun episode.

Podcast Network: N/A
Runtime: 49 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Hosts: Jeff, Regina, Scott, and Taxus
Rating: Fun

The JATcast: Episode 21 has some fun with countdowns, James talks about Johnny Test, then he talks with Johnny Test and Obi-Wan shows up. Afterwards James goes over convention plans, traveling and doing promos, audio tools (great tips for podcasters on improving sound quality), how he met his wife, his dog Elmo, and there’s a Magneto song. Fun episode and an informative one, lots of good stuff.

Podcast Network: N/A
Runtime: 1 hour 23 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Host: James Arnold Taylor
Rating: Fun

The Legion Outriders: Episode 53 is hosted by John, Matt and Josh as they talk about various things, barricada shirts, and the introduction of tauntauns for Fantasy Flight Games. They talk about the sculpt of the tauntauns, their game mechanics, card upgrades, Rebels veteran rules, and the Imperial analog. Afterwards they go over listener questions. Very focused game podcast for Fantasy Flight Games, so if you’re a player, you’ll want to check it out, but if you’re not one, much of the content isn’t going to have a lot of meaning. Excellent audio and production quality and great hosts.

Podcast Network: Radio Free Tatooine
Runtime: 46 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Hosts: John, Josh, and Matt
Rating: Good

The Organa Digest: Episode 23 is hosted by Laura and Susan as they talk about Galaxy’s Edge opening dates, they talk a little Star Wars Resistance, Episode IX reddit hype about scale of the movie, Han and Luke reunion, Rebels remembered day, and 15 minutes in they’re joined by guest Kristina who talks about project Fangirls audio drama. Interesting hosts, interesting guest, and I like the half hour format. Good episode.

Podcast Network: N/A
Runtime: 32 minutes
Audio Quality: Good
Production Quality: Good
Hosts: Laura, and Susan
Rating: Good

The Sandcrawler: Episode 70 had me laughing when they talked about Walt Disney. Dan talks about buying some The Phantom Menace stuff, Marphalump, they go over the Black Series fan vote, action figure pictures, prototypes and the frustration of displaying figures, barge regrets, keeping action figure love alive by changing up displays, Mac talks about his Disney trip, the Jawa sandcrawler, and Disney store merch. Fun episode.

Podcast Network: Star Wars Commonwealth
Runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Host: Dan, and Mac
Rating: Fun

The Skyhoppers Podcast: Episode CXXXVIII they talk about design in Star Wars in regards to costumes, aliens, planets, Jedha, stormtroopers, droids, lightsaber hilts, blasters, Rose’s ring, and props. Good episode.

Podcast Network: N/A
Runtime: 1 hour 6 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Hosts: Ben, and Ash
Rating: Good

What The Force?: Exploring Legends with Jedi Geek Girl they talk about Star Wars Legends, the history of Star Wars books, the Expanded Universe, the value of Legends stories, Heir to the Empire and the Thrawn trilogy, their importance, obtaining the books, Shadows of the Empire, what the stories were about, and what they’re looking forward to. Last ten minutes of the episode plugs an audio drama teaser, and covers Celebration plans. Good episode.

Podcast Network: N/A
Runtime: 55 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Hosts: Marie-Claire Gould
Rating: Good

Who Talks First: Resistance Finale and Episode IX First Footage! they talk about their Celebration game room plan, then discuss the finale for Star Wars Resistance. Afterwards they touch on the shareholder call and the description of the Episode IX footage that was shown, Oscar Isaac’s comments, Episode IX speculation, then they get into some rumors about 6 minutes from the end of the episode which is where I stopped. Good episode.

Podcast Network: N/A
Runtime: 1 hour 2 minutes
Audio Quality: Excellent
Production Quality: Excellent
Hosts: Solo, and CT
Rating: Good

Women of the Whills: Episode 5 Tammy and Nedi talk about the Episode IX reddit leaks on character costumes. Very interesting conversation about Kylo’s mask and the Japanese pottery art form of kintsugi. They also get into a little bit of psychology for Kylo Ren and the symbolism of him returning to the mask. They go on to talk about Rey and her costume, and the possible meaning and symbolism there. Plus they touch on when they think we’ll get the Episode IX trailer and title. Good episode.

Podcast Network: N/A
Runtime: 1 hour 9 minutes
Audio Quality: Good
Production Quality: Good
Hosts: Megan, Nedi, and Tammy
Rating: Good

Reviewed By: Skuldren for Roqoo Depot.