Episodes

Sunday Feb 18, 2024
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
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 such a pleasure to speak to Raph about his creation and we encourage all our listeners to go watch and share the film with other fans! You can find it right here!
WATCH - "STAR WARS: BRIGHTSTAR"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqZgw4IG3GUwww.youtube.com/@ArchangelEpicshttps://archangelepics.com/archangelepics.com
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Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
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 challenges starting a podcast, subject matter, starting out and obtaining wonderful guests. We've had a wild ride hosting a Star Wars podcast these last few years, shout out to those of your who've been listening since the start - we're so lucky to have you continue tuning in! As many of you know, we've be podcasting either way, but it's having an audience that gives us more reason and more drive to keep doing it because we're doing it for you too. Thank you again to our volunteer staff at Star Wars Escape Pod and those who were able to join tonight, Blake and Kirk.
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Monday Feb 05, 2024
INSIDE Disney's Galactic Starcruiser | (Special Guest) Molly Brizzell
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
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 the terrible sudden news on it's closure. We want to thank Molly sincerly for joining us on the podcast and her time serving guests aboard the Halcyon while it was operational. Until you hear Molly again, be sure to follow her using the links below!
Twitter / X - @mollybrizzellInstagram @mollybrizzell Threads @mollybrizzellhttps://screenrant.com/author/molly-brizzell/
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Monday Jan 29, 2024
Monday Jan 29, 2024
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://www.starwars.com/news/the-bad-batch-season-3-trailer
https://www.starwars.com/news/the-mandalorian-and-grogu
DISNEY HOLO-FLOOR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68YMEmaF0rsLAUNCHING OUR PATREON
EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! Star Wars headlines coming to you at lightspeed in under 15 minutes!Covering all the latest headlines, comics and novel releases, toy / product reveals and podcast related announcements.
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Monday Jan 22, 2024
Monday Jan 22, 2024
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!
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Monday Jan 15, 2024
The Star Wars Effect On Culture | (Special Guest) Darian
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Monday Jan 15, 2024
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 links below!Article ReadThrought - https://www.501st.com/origin.phpDarian Mitchellhttps://youtube.com/@TheManDarianhttps://www.instagram.com/the_mandarian?igsh=ZThsdjk0MmR0ZXl6
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Monday Jan 08, 2024
Monday Jan 08, 2024
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 episode to chat all about the 90's Star Wars content and what it meant for the IP. The title was essentially "saved" by these stories which forged the EU, stories that still drive narrative today...
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Monday Jan 01, 2024
Star Wars Reads | The Good, The Meh, and the Ugly
Monday Jan 01, 2024
Monday Jan 01, 2024
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
Brotherhood
Darth Bane (Trilogy) (Legends)
The Thrawn Trilogy (Legends)
Lost Stars
Master & Apprentice
Republic Commando (#1): Hard Contact (Legends)
Death Troopers (Legends)
Scoundrels (Legends)
The Meh / Bad
Republic Commando (#2): Triple Zero (Legends)
Jedi: Battle Scars
Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade
Ahsoka
The Old Republic: Revan (Legends)
The High Republic: Light of the Jedi
The High Republic: The Fallen Star
Red Harvest (Legends)
Shadow of the Sith
The Ugly
Battlefront: Twilight Company
Aftermath (Trilogy)
The High Republic: Tempest Runner (Audio Drama)
Legacy of the Force (Series) (Legends)
Jedi Academy Trilogy (Legends)
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About
In 2015 we had an idea to create a Star Wars podcast that felt both fun, informative and different than the existing podcasts available to audiences in the Star Wars fandom. In 2019 that idea was made a reality with the launch of our first Intro (since updated) and the debut of the logo.
What's our Escape Pod theme about?
Our logo and podcast title is based on the first shot ILM ever completed in 1976 on "Star Wars". The escape pod launching from the Tantive IV. It remains an iconic shot to this day. In late 2022 we vectorized and modernized our logo that was once essentially a screenshot (with some photoshop applied) and turned it into a recognizable essence of the original but something we can call our own.