Welcome to Rogue One(s), the RuPalp's Podrace bonus series where some of our hosts go rogue on a specific Star Wars topic. This week, Ollie, Jess, and Mel went rogue to talk about the first wave of the High Republic Phase 1. For light and life! Points of Interest: Geode at the strip club - what will he do?, Have a Snickers, Drengir, Marc (Thompson) Ro, Obi-Wan is a gemsona, Vern teaches about stranger danger and decanonizes all of Star Wars, Jeff the Killer(s) and Nonbinary Representation, the M...
Aug 29, 2021•1 hr 37 min
Start your sublight engines! Join Ollie, Jess, Klaudia, Noah, and Mel for our final thoughts on the Bad Batch season 1. May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Uncle Owen kissed Dev Patel on the mouth, Dave Meloni, Death Star laser color discourse, I Can Has Cheezburger!Crosshair, Duolingo Mando'a, Señor Rau, Is it Legends or Did I Just Make it Up: Clone Edition, Ollie’s two terrible kins, Solar Power AU, and the Phantom Meownace. Support and learn more about #Unwhi...
Aug 22, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Start your sublight engines! Join Ollie, Jess, Klaudia, Noah, and Mel as we discuss the Bad Batch season 1 finale, "Kamino Lost." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Weekend at Crosshair’s, Maul’s crab empire, a poor little meow meow is paging you, Darth Fergalicious, Kalluzeb Shrek AU, Bo-Katan’s Bella Swan era, Cody’s case of the Mondays, and Judy GARland 2224. Support and learn more about #UnwhitewashTBB , the fan campaign to advocate for better representatio...
Aug 15, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Start your sublight engines! Join Ollie, Jess, Klaudia, Noah, and Mel as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 15, "Return to Kamino." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Echo McEntire, Sifo-Dyas’ DoorDash order, some notes on consuming media critically, Bendu!Hunter, the end of the prequel era, Tarkin Hamilton AU, Klaudia’s Bounty Hunter’s Guild Social Media Manager OC, POV: Kix gives you top surgery, and vaping at Reath Silas. Support and learn more about #Unwhitew...
Aug 08, 2021•1 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Start your sublight engines! Join Ollie, Jess, Klaudia, Noah, and Mel as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 14, "War-Mantle." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Alpaca Su, Hunter “Hardbones” BadBatch, Rex’s Gone Girl era, some Crosshair sympathy, a discussion on complacency and fascism, Chekhov’s Chip Removal, Is Crosshair a Quizzy allegory?, Vin Diesel as Alexsandr Kallus, assigned nicknames by Cid, Noah Fett, and the Chiss Ascendy. Support and learn more about ...
Aug 04, 2021•1 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Welcome to Rogue One(s), the RuPalp's Podrace bonus series where some of our hosts go rogue on a specific Star Wars topic. For our very first one, Mel and Noah went rogue to talk about Light of the Jedi, the first novel of the High Republic era. For light and life! Points of Interest: the Force is an onion, Yarael Poof’s impenetrable plot armor, contacting Jyn Erso via ouija board, Marchion Ro’s Tiktok lights, our girlboss bias, Nihil Level Marketing Scheme, Mari San Tekka: Trapped in the Galaxy...
Aug 01, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Start your sublight engines! Join Ollie, Jess and Klaudia as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 13, "Infested." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Animal Crossing enthusiast Boba Fett, step on the gas, infested? more like INVESTED, Omega’s Crime Syndicate, Echo "Scompy" Badbatch, Ketch and Ruby, Handsome Squidward!Roland, color blind Boba Fett, the Maulycule, an indirect kiss with Kyle Ron, Admiral Ar’alani’s trophy spouse, girlboss Dogma, Noah and Mel’s Force gh...
Jul 25, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Start your sublight engines! Join Ollie, Jess, Noah, Mel, and Klaudia as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 12, "Rescue on Ryloth." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Calling OSHA on Hunter BadBatch, more thoughts on clone autonomy, Howzer (Our Beloved), a Crosshair socratic seminar, Noah’s favorite indie game: World of Warcraft, Emergency Pryce Bust, and Pong Krell's Force ghost. Support and learn more about #UnwhitewashTBB , the fan campaign to advocate for bet...
Jul 18, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Start your sublight engines! Join Ollie, Jess, Noah, Mel, and Klaudia (for the first half, RIP to her power while we were recording) as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 11, "Devil's Deal." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Black Series Trapper Wolf, Arihndaaaaah, Hot Chip Summer, our critiques of the Bad Batch, Not Like Other Clones, Catboy!Crosshair, Aurriana Grande, Hashtag Mel is Over Party, and Peg Krell. Support and learn more about #UnwhitewashTBB , the ...
Jul 11, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Start your sublight engines! Join Klaudia, Ollie, Jess, and Noah as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 10, "Common Ground." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: the Fett family casino, spoilers for...A New Hope?, are numbers canon in Star Wars?, Xoxo Chewbacca Girl, #NotAllClones, domestic house-husband Cody, Nala Se’s sex appeal, slutty Cad Bane, and Darth Tiddious. Support and learn more about #UnwhitewashTBB , the fan campaign to advocate for better representati...
Jul 04, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Start your sublight engines! Join Mel, Klaudia, Ollie, Jess, and Noah as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 9, "Bounty Lost." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Candacenoans, Where is Beta Fett?, frenemy Nala Se, Death Star architect Sabine Wren, girlboss Fennec Shand (Our Beloved), Duros!Snoke, We Have Prepared Some New Segments, and K2SHoe. Support and learn more about #UnwhitewashTBB , the fan campaign to advocate for better representation for the clones. --- ...
Jun 27, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Start your sublight engines! Join Mel, Klaudia, Ollie, and Jess as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 8, "Reunion." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Noah's Force ghost, WLW (Wrecker Loving Wrecker), Home Alone!Omega, an actual Epic Gamer Moment, Kentucky Fried Crosshair, Jeb Bush's Jedi dueling boots, and the Malewives of Mandalore. Support and learn more about #UnwhitewashTBB , the fan campaign to advocate for better representation for the clones. --- Support ...
Jun 21, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Start your sublight engines! Join Mel, Klaudia, Ollie, Jess, and Noah as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 7, "Battle Scars." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Poncho discourse, Top Five Clones that Tried to Kill Palpatine, RN Omega, Zoomer Omega v. Millenial Rex, The T in LGBT stands for trash monster, Tech’s male pattern baldness, The RexSawnaissance, All Crosshairs are Bastards, Death by Gacklebat, and “Don’t fucking Thrawn me, Mel." This is the lovely RexSa...
Jun 13, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Start your sublight engines! Join Mel, Klaudia, Ollie, Jess, and Noah for our first episode of Pride 2021 as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 6, "Decommissioned." Points of Interest: Noah's formal "apology," Dryden Vos’ One Outfit, some theories about who is issuing the Martez sisters' W2s, our beloved Rex, Wrecker is having One of Those Moments, BoloWatch, and Yoda’s nasty little toes. Support and learn more about #UnwhitewashTBB , the fan campaign to advocate for better representation for the ...
Jun 06, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Start your sublight engines! Join Mel, Klaudia, Ollie, Jess, and Noah as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 5, "Rampage." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Clone Trooper Fartass, Scaley Greef Karga, Miraculous Ladybug spoilers?, Korkie is Krennic, The Bad Batch are Critical Role Antis, Salacious B. Djarin, Mel’s Hannibal moment, Nien Nunb in Motion, "Sold You to 1D, I have," and Gamer Chair Gar Saxon. The origins of the "Zendaya is Meechee" meme. Support and lea...
May 30, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Start your sublight engines! Join Mel, Klaudia, Ollie, Jess, and Noah as we discuss the Bad Batch episode 4, "Cornered." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up! Points of Interest: Timmy Zahn wrote Rough Day, ACAB Fennec Shand, Echo with a Glock, The Hunter of the Opera, Ollie's Epic Fanfiction Moment, some more notes about representation, and a new segment: Is it Legends or Did I Just Make It Up? Klaudia's explainer of the infamous Mandalorian fanfic, Rough Day, for the Rec Center , a...
May 23, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Points of Interest: Assigned Tarkin at birth, war crime corner, notes on "redemption arcs", Tech discourse, Baby Chopper, Mark Hamill can't find Tarkintok, and Commander Fox and the Pre-nup from Hell. Support and learn more about #UnwhitewashTBB , the fan campaign to advocate for better representation for the clones. The origins of Tarkintok . --- Find us elsewhere: TikTok - @rupalpspodrace Bluesky - @rupalpspodrace Instagram - @rupalpspodrace Tumblr - @rupalpspodrace Subscribe to Ollie...
May 15, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Since we were treated to two episodes of the Bad Batch for the week of May the Fourth, we're back again, this time to discuss episode 2, "Cut and Run." Points of Interest: Mutton Chops Force Triad, Dave Filoni DILF Cinematic Universe, Cody is the new Maul, Obi Wan's Boyfriend Graveyard, Lux Bonteri kins Ollie, Grand Inquiznos, and Omega co-opts bazinga. This is He, the podcast mascot . Support and learn more about #UnwhitewashTBB , the fan campaign to advocate for better representation for the c...
May 09, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 2
In our inaugural episode, our Bad Batch (Mel, Klaudia, Ollie, Jess and Noah) talk about the premiere of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, "Aftermath." May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up. Points of interest: "Whose white baby is that?," future GLAAD award recipient David Filoni, the monkey's paw of representation (an ode to Wilhuff Tarkin and Tarkintok), Execute Order Girlboss, Thrawn is essential reading, and Kallus mpreg. Support and learn more about #UnwhitewashTBB , the fan campaign to ...
May 06, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 1
