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Star Wars discussion and entertainment. After-shows, guests, interviews, reviews, and exciting star wars headlines await you right here on Star Wars Escape Pod. Weekly episodes coming your way at lightspeed! Ad-free!
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Are you DTF? (Down To Funko)The DTF crew Damien, Fernando, Seth, Christina, and Robby love anything Funko/Pop Culture join us weekly to hear our latest finds, stories, thoughts, and news in the Funko world as well as other collection lines and just pop culture in general! Saty tuned for special guests and giveaways! Email us Questions DownToFunkoPod@gmail.com or Tweet us @DownToFunko Rate, Review us and share with your fiends!
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This week we debate Mace Windu's current status on if he died or survived. Join Josh, Blake, Bryce, Kyle and Francis this week on the Bad Batch aftershow for episode 13 of the final season. Also, no Mandalorian season 4 on the slate, what's going on there? Let's get into it! Don't forget to watch Tales of the Empire on May 4th on Disney plus Let us…
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This week we got another (once again) re-capture of Omega.. sigh. And much more with chat about re-editing Attack of the Clones, deleted scenes which deserve a place in the movie, where are the 3D prequel releases? And The Bad Batch is coming to an end.. Tales of the Empire is coming soon, let's talk again about that show and May 4th, and we go thr…
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This past week saw the announcement of the new animated short series "Tales of the Empire" which sees the return of Morgan Elsebeth as a young nightsister, and Barriss Offee, misunderstood twisted Jedi of the fallen order. Today we break down the trailer with Josh and Kirk, and proceed to dive into The Bad Batch episodes 11 and 12. Let's get into i…
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We got star wars news for you this week! Stay tuned for another Bad Batch aftershow soon!! The Phantom Menace comes back into theaters with a special look at The Acolyte! We got Bryce and Tyler and Blake on for a quick ride, lets dive into some headlines! Vote for Star Wars Webby Awards! https://www.starwars.com/news/webby-awards-vote#:~:text=We're…
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She's back! Ventress has been resurrected somehow, we dive deep into this episode of the bad batch. There's a lot to get into here, debating ressurecting characters, some deserve it and some don't. Those who have completed the Clone Wars journey and read Dark Disciple will know exactly how her fate wound up.. or do we? Asajj Ventress was a whirlwin…
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This week we saw Hunter and Wrecker take on a job with Fennec for information onwhat M-Count is, Crosshair struggles to overcome his issues and we chat long about the ongoing chronological vs release order in a growing environment of star wars movies, shows and more. Oh, the trailer for The Acolyte dropped this past week and Kirk spills his opinon …
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The trailer has finally been released for The Acolyte! Dive deep into the characters, the era and some scenes from the trailer with Josh, Bryce and Blake. You know we always do the best we can so any 5 stars on spotify or apple really does help us out, subscribing on youtube or joining our discord helps as well! Thanks so much for listening and sha…
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RETURN TO TETH! Where it all began in The Clone Wars (2008) droids no longer congregate at the top of the mountain, it's clones. Not just any clones.. Rex and his band of rebel clones fighting to free thier brothers from the Empire's enslavement! Treadstone style operatives are hunting Omega and these episodes certainly had a lot to enjoy. This wee…
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Crosshair has been on quite the journey, this week he returns, not to his "old self" but to something more, a more scarred and redeemed life. This episode was a fast one but it was nice to dive deeper into the headspace of Crosshair and break down this episode of The Bad Batch. Join Josh, Kirk and Darian as we do this together! Let us know your tho…
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Blake went to Galaxies Edge! ALKY and Josh are at ECCC, quick chat about the convention catching up with Kyle. An EA Star Wars game was just cancelled and apprarently it was a Mandalorian FPS? Of course the latest episode of The Bad Batch finishes the story that left us hanging last week with so let's break down what we saw. Let us know your though…
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The Final Season (first three episodes) of The Bad Batch has hit Disney plus! This week is our first after-show of a sub-series of aftershows hitting our podcast for the coming week until the season ends. We encourage all our listeners to watch the episodes on Disney beforehand and then tune into the after-show to hear our connections, breakdowns t…
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Special guest Raph the director of "Star Wars: Brightstar", the star wars fan film, has entered the Escape Pod this week! Raph breaks down the short film for us from conceptual creation phase to the finished product and what it took to bring that dream to the screens. From film festivals to youtube at home and the changes made in between. It was su…
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Happy Star Wars Podcast Day! Feb 7th 2024 celebrates the 25th anniversary of star wars podcasting, beginning with Jedi Talk. About 4 years podcasting and not once have we taken the time to run a chat focused on Star Wars Escape Pod, meta style. This is behind the blast doors, a small look behind the curtain of our very own podcast! Some of the chal…
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Molly Brizzell joins us this week for a chat about her job working aboard the legendary Walt Disney World - Galactic Starcruiser Star Wars experience. This experience was unlike any other, and Molly brings her stories along to share with us about her Star Wars fandom, her time aboard the Halcyon and what it was all like, how it worked, and finally …
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Between The Bad Batch S03 trailer, ventress possibly surviving her death scene, a fourth star wars movie announced, 3 more shows coming this year and Disney's holofloor tech revolutionizing VR, theme parks, and film production altogether this lightspeed is PACKED. Let's get into it! Also stay tuned for 2024 podcast updates towards the end! https://…
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Lego Star Wars has been the most prominent merchandise for the Star Wars trademark in our lives. Today Eli, Shawna join us in the escape pod to reminice over vintage sets, guessing price incline, reviewing the history of Lego Star Wars and it's video games too. If you're a LEGO fan this one is for you! ALKY SOLUTIONS - 40% NEW YEAR Sale Til' Feb! |…
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Star Wars has had many impacts on the world including fan culture. This has led to fan groups, costume goups, mokumentaries, impact on aeronautics, parodies from Robot Chicken, Simpsons, Family Guy and more. Today we're gonna glaze over some of those things with our next special guest, Darian. Thanks again to Darian and be sure to check out the lin…
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There was once a time fans referred to as "the dark times" just as Obi Wan Kenobi did to Luke when he spoke of the Empire. In this case, it was a large space of time where hardly to no Star Wars content was coming out. Long behold our saviour, Dark Horse Comics and Timothy Zahn. Special guest Adam joins us once again from our "Bucketheads" podcast …
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Star Wars Books... Where To Begin?! There's SOO MANY. How does that all work and where are the good ones?! Today we got you covered! Join Josh, Blake, and Francis for a chat about the good, the meh, and the ugly. For those of you who want to skip to the bullet points, here's our summary list. The Good Darth Plagueis (Legends) Dark Disciple Brotherh…
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Merry Christmas ya filthy Nerf herder's! The last time we released a Holiday Special Commentary it was December 29th 2021 - two years ago! It's not that we want to bore you, and this episode of our podcast should be skipped entirely if you don't want to watch along with us. But we realize perhaps some of you want to crack jokes or watch the worst p…
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Joing Josh, Blake and Kirk as we look ahead at what 2024 has in store for Star Wars Fans. SOME Star Wars podcasts, YouTube Channels and more have been circling around statements that "Star Wars Is Dead"... So we're here to set the record straight. Spoiler, you got lots to look forward to. As always we have a good laugh through the show on various s…
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ALKY Solutions Kyle and Alex join Star Wars Escape Pod again for a part 2 of in person lightsaber reviews, the history of the toy lightsaber and 10 years of "This Is Madness revisited"! We had such a fantastic time with Kyle and Alex last time we just had to get them on again for the in person chat. This week we inspect some lightsaber samples up c…
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We played a fun game tonight. Join Josh, Blake, Bryce, Kyle (ALKY Solutions) and Francis today as we breakdown Chat GPT's generated list of 20 Star Wars Gripes. We go one after the other providing examples and deciding weather or no we can move on from these gripes or not? What kind of star wars gripes do YOU still have? Let us know down below! ———…
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Today we join Josh, Blake and Kirk for final segment on what could have been with Episode IX. This week, it's Colin Trevorrow's episode 9 (leaked) script - bullet point style. Now this information is public knowledge at this point, it was also leaked on reddit by someone way back in 2020. But assuming this could have been legit, let's take a look a…
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Celebrating Star Wars Escape Pod for 300 episodes!!! Join Blake, Bryce and Josh as we read through a 10 page "fan fiction outline" by the recognized author of previous Star Wars novels - Alan Dean Foster. Join us as we laugh our way through this hilarious and interesting outline for Episode 9 if Alan had it his way. As we all know, Colin Trevorrow …
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This brand new sub series is a space for us to dive deep into the behind the scenes of Star Wars archives. Paul Duncan's Star Wars Archives (XXL) format books deliver behind the scenes information in the form of excellence. Featuring intimate interviews with George Lucas, Doug Chiang, Rick Mccallum and so many more, these books cover just about eve…
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The BEST Canadian based saber company joins us on Star Wars Escape Pod to talk all about getting into the saber market, selling the highest quality sabers on the third party market to fans. Going from Harley Davidson as a provincial top salesmen to the lightsaber market and bringing all the skills to the buisness has made ALKY the best and fastest …
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The life and transformation of a Jedi into an Inquisitor! Today we spill the secrets on the novel called Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade. Our spoiler free at first, then leading into full spoiler territory. This is an in-depth novel review for those of you who want to read it and also for those who don't and want to hear all about it.. you've com…
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You dont want to miss this podcast episode! There is hardly any fan film which stands out as much as "Bucketheads". A one of a kind fan web series featuring the grundgy battles starting with the battle of Endor and leading into the events which transpire in the galaxy around the "Aftermath" book series, no other fan film series has had the undertak…
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Catch some Star Wars news in under 15 minutes! Our headlines in this episode of lightspeed: KOTOR II Switch Edition Cancelled & KOTOR PS5 Remake Shelved? The Halcyon Legacy sets sail for the last time - Galactic Starcruiser at WDW Florida Tales of Light and Life Ahsoka Aftershows and Rebels Talk! Rise of the Red Blade - READ IT! Novel Review Coming…
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It's been a hot minute since Ahsoka ended, today we kick back in the escape pod with a few brews and look back at season 1 of Ahsoka. Things we liked, didn't like, missed out on - things that should have been done differently. And most importantly, how Baylan should be handled. Is this the best star wars show? Is Sabine becoming a Jedi too much? Jo…
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Thrawn is back. Morgan is NIGHTed - Literally! Join us and dive head first into Part 8 "The Jedi, The Witch, and the Warlord" with Josh, Blake, Dan, Kirk, Nick, Shawna, Francis and Kyle (@ALKY Solutions)! This week on the Ahsoka aftershow we make connections and more, speculate on what is to come, read out our POLL RESULTS, giving our pablo points …
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Ezra Bridger back in action... with no lightsaber - but let's talk about that! Join us and dive head first into Part 7 "Dreams & Madness" with Josh, Blake, Dan, Kirk and Kyle (ALKY Solutions)! This week on the Ahsoka aftershow making connections and more, giving our pablo points / poodo's. Our likes and dislikes. We'd love to hear from you so shoot…
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The Battle of Lothal, Ezra's ultimate sacrafice and Thrawn's dissapearance! This is the finale episodes for Star Wars Rebels! You've made it! Thank you to all our listeners for joining us for the series and all our Rebel Talk episodes, we so appreciate you guys. This story is among the greats in Star Wars animation and the saga in general. So let's…
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This week we saw the return of Ezra Bridger and Grand Admiral Thrawn! Join us and dive head first into Part 6 "Far, Far Away". Join Josh, Blake, Dan, and Kyle (ALKY Solutions)! This week on the Ahsoka aftershow making connections and more, giving our pablo points / poodo's. Our likes and dislikes. We'd love to hear from you so shoot us a message at…
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This week we saw Ahsoka Tano learn one last lesson from her master ANAKIN FRICKEN SKYWALKER!! Join us and dive head first into Part 5 "Shadow Warrior". Join Josh, Blake, AJ, Dan, Nick and Kyle (ALKY Solutions)! This week on the Ahsoka aftershow making connections and more, giving our pablo points / poodo's. Our likes and dislikes. We'd love to hear…
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The battle for Lothal heats up as we see Kanan make the ultimate sacrafice for his friends, mystical wolves lead our hero's through space and time, and revisiting the myteries of Mortis and the Anchorites of the force as a gateway to a 'world between worlds'. This was one hell of a set of episodes to talk about and below, as usual is the list of Re…
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This week we saw Ahsoka Tano return to the world between worlds AND ANAKIN FRICKEN SKYWALKER!! Join us and dive head first into Part 4 "Fallen Jedi". Join Josh, Blake, Dan and our new guest Kyle (ALKY Solutions)! This week on the Ahsoka aftershow making connections to Star Wars Rebels / Resistance and more, giving our pablo points / poodo's. And po…
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Ahsoka Tano training Sabine! Join us and dive head first into Part 3 "Time to Fly". Join Josh, Blake, Dan and Nick! This week on the Ahsoka aftershow making connections to Star Wars Rebels / Resistance and more, giving our pablo points / poodo's. And pointing out the cameo's we picked up on! We'd love to hear from you so shoot us a message at our s…
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Catch some Star Wars news in under 15 minutes! Our headlines in this episode of lightspeed: From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi Orbitkey - Ahsoka, Mandalorian, Grogu | Star Wars Wave 4 Launch!https://www.orbitkey.com/collections/star-wars Kevin Kiner's "Ahsoka" Theme on Spotify 10 Essential Ahsoka Tano "Episodes" Podcast Episode - New …
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We begin our final chapter on Lothal once again, the homeworld of Ezra Bridger now destroyed and taken over by the Empire completely. What use to be crops is now ash and burned fields. Citizens are oppressed, and a new Tie factory has been pumping out Thrawns very own secret weapon - the Tie Defender. We chat about Loth Wolves, the force that binds…
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Ahsoka Tano is back! Join us and dive head first into the premiere episodes of the series, Part 1-2 "Master and Apprentice" and "Toil and Trouble". Join Josh, Blake and Dan this week on the Ahsoka aftershow making connections to Star Wars Rebels and more, giving our pablo points / poodo's. And pointing out the cameo's we picked up on! We'd love to …
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We begin SEASON 4 of Star Wars Rebels in preparation for Ahsoka! Today we covered the civil war on Mandalore, the ties that binds this story to where we pick up in The Mandalorian Season 1-2. The events that transpire between the lines on Mandalore with Moff Gideon in Thrawns absence, and the passing of hands of the Darksaber. Saw Gerrera has hit h…
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The long awaited FINAL moment between Obi Wan and Former Darth Maul ends on the sands of Tatooine where it once all began, a long time ago.. We dive into the Rebels episodes listed below, check out the rebels recons for those and we talk about the Thrawn finale arc to Season 3! Let's start wrapping this up in preparation for Ahsoka! Rebels Talk tak…
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Join us talking about the next set of Rebels episodes with topics like Sabine's lightsaber training and apprenticeship to Ahsoka, the possiblility of Rebels and Andor crossing over with the Mon Mothma story arc, mole hunts in the empire for Kallus and more Mandalorians! Let's go.. Rebels Talk takes you through "Star Wars Rebels" before Ahsoka hits …
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Join us talking about the next set of Rebels episodes along with topics like the Nightsisters returning as spirits on Dathomir, Maul and the Darksaber, the return to Geonosis and the construction of the Death Star - how that fits into surrounding events, and Thrawns "infiltration" droids. Rebels Talk takes you through "Star Wars Rebels" before Ahso…
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Join us talking about the next set of Rebels episodes along with topics like Mandalorian stormtroopers, dark trooper history and lore, and Thrawns involvment with the Tie Defenders. Rebels Talk takes you through "Star Wars Rebels" before Ahsoka hits Disney plus, watch the episodes below on Disney plus and then hit play on the podcast after! Our aft…
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Catch some Star Wars news in under 15 minutes! Our headlines in this episode of lightspeed: Giveaway Winner! https://gleam.io/IwI02/star-wars-escape-pod-orbitkey-giveaway Rebels Talk - Tune in to those episodes and prepare for Ahsoka! Star Wars: Ahsoka, Teaser "Now or Never" https://youtu.be/zP58QizBGgg New Book and Comic releases Disney Gallery: T…
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Maul returns to take knowledge from the holocrons! We discuss prophecies of the chosen one and the destruction of the Sith in a post episode 9 world. And Ezra is going back to his old routines.. Rebels Talk takes you through "Star Wars Rebels" before Ahsoka hits Disney plus, watch the episodes below on Disney plus and then hit play on the podcast a…
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Vader vs Ahsoka!! More Inquisitors and Darth Maul the "Old Master" returns in Twilight of the Apprentice. Twilight of the Apprentice: Part I221Twilight of the Apprentice: Part II222Steps Into Shadow Part 131Steps Into Shadow Part 232 Rebels Recon https://www.starwars.com/rebels-recon ORBITKEY GIVEAWAY ENTER BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE! Our headlines in th…
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