Execute Chapter 66 : a Star Wars fiction podcast

We're back and boy do we have a huge one. First, our Dragon Con 2023 report, then Beth's interview with Star Wars author Delilah S. Dawson, wrapping it up with Dawson's exceptional new novel, Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade. It's a good one, I promise.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

We finally did it. We finally re-read the last important Thrawn novel in the Legends continuity. And boy do we learn a lot about everyone's favorite blue-skinned Grand Admiral. And man, Tim, we owe you an apology. Listen and find out why.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

This week we go back into Legends for our favorite author, Mr. James Luceno, and his prequel-Prequel book, Cloak of Deception. We also talk about the second volume of Star Wars: Visions on Disney+.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

Phase 2 of the High Republic comes a close with Cavan Scott's Path of Vengeance. At the end of the day, what did we think of this trip to the past and what does it mean for the High Republic going forward?The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

It's a High Republic double feature!The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

Bad Batch Season 2! Mandalorian Season 3! Special guest star Noel Wood of the Audible Interlude podcast. This one has it all. Join us, won't you, while we discuss a very sloppy season of streaming television.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

It's an all Qi'ra special! First, we discuss the character and comics in general with Hidden Empire artist Steven Cummings! Then, we discuss Most Wanted, the prequel novel to the prequel movie, Solo: a Star Wars story.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

Our dive into video games continues with the sequel/prequel novel, Battle Scars, the tie-in to the latest Star Wars video game. And the game talks about the idea of the Jedi Survivor. With all these new Jedi we're learning escaped Order 66, does it make Yoda and Obi-wan less... special?The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

Celebration Tokyo has come and gone and... you like news? Like, really like news? 'Cause we got some news for you. We have a sizable amount of news for you. Then, we talk about Alexander Freed's Battlefront: Twilight Company, which is really just a really depressing Vietnam book but with Stormtroopers. We kinda liked it, though.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

Happy Birthday to us! Three years of this nonsense so we're gonna look at the last twelve months of books and pick our favorites. Then, it's back to the Old Republic and another video game tie-in book with Drew Karpyshyn's Annihilation. This book isn't exactly what we expected, but did we like it anyway?The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

40 writers. 40 stories. 40 years of The Empire Strikes Back. We return to the From a Certain Point of View series with our good friend Gary Mitchel.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

Done with the High Republic for the time bring, this episode we take a trip to The Old Republic with the tale of every gamers’ favorite Jedi then Sith then Jedi again, Revan.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

This time we're back with the brand new High Republic audio drama The Battle of Jedha. We have thoughts.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

How is Phase 2 of The High Republic doing? Listen and find out about these two latest entries.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

Did you think we wouldn't cover ANDOR? Ryan's favorite Star Wars thing maybe ever? Yeah, we're covering Andor. And as usual, we have our friends Pete and Keith along to talk about it with us. Did we all love the most acclaimed Disney+ Star Wars show to date? Mostly. Listen and find out.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

This episode we head back to Star Wars Legends with the second book in the X-Wing series, Wedge's Gamble by Michael A. Stackpole.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

As Season 1 of Andor wraps up, we don't want you to forget the other Star Wars show that dropped right in the middle of it. In this episode we once again put down the words and look at some pictures, breaking down the Tales of the Jedi series on Disney+. What didwe think of this Force-fueled microseries? Who would we like to see featured in additional seasons, if they come? Why not give us a listen and find out.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

The High Republic is back! This episode we cover the YA novel Path of Deceit by Justina Ireland and Tessa Gratton. Set 150 before High Republic Phase One, Phase Two yet again gives us a brand new cast of Jedi to fall in love with before they are brutally murdered by this sadistic group of writers. They really do hate us and we love them for it.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

Just in time for Halloween, we talk about one of Star Wars' scariest character, the one, the only, Darth Maul. After a brief discussion about everyone's favorite ex-Sith lord turned crime baron, we dig into Michael Reaves' 'Shadow Hunter', which has recently been re-released with a bitchin' audiobook read by Maul's Clone Wars performer, Mr. Sam Witwer! The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

This week the gang discusses the new Han and Leia romance novel The Princess & The Scoundrel! Is it any good or is it just a 400 page advertisement for a hotel? Listen and find out. Also, we talk about the newest Disney+ LEGO Special, Star Wars Summer Vacation. The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

So you've seen the Obi-Wan show, watched his adventures on the Clone Wars, but what was Obi-Wan's true first adventure? This young adult book follows teenage Kenobi as he defies Qui-Gon Jinn and sets out on his own. Get ready for some youthful angst, a little bit of rebellion, and a group of kids that may or may not be tapped into the Force.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

Dragon Con has come and passed and we were there. We've got an Interview with New Dawn and Kenobi author John Jackson Miller! We've got our very own panel discussing the Star Wars Special Editions! We've got stories! We've got pictures! We've got hangovers! Dragon Con is the best.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

We continue our quest into understanding the Sequel films with Claudia Gray's excellent Bloodline. An excellent appetizer before you watch The Force Awakens again, this novel tells the tale of Leia Organa's final days in the senate and the founding of her Resistance. It'll help the movies make a little more sense, we promise.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

Did The Rise of Skywalker confuse you? That's okay. It confused J.J. Abrams, too. This week, we cover the brand new canon novel Shadow of the Sith by Adam Christopher. Focusing on Luke and Lando in the years before the sequels, this book answers several questions about Rey and her family and things like that, but it also raises some new questions we're not sure it mean to.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

Hey Star Wars fans. Chad here. Turns out, I have another podcast. It's called a Feat of Lunatic Daring and it's about Jim Henson and The Muppets. We are currently watching the fourth season of The Muppet Show and have reached the episode guest-starring The Stars of Star Wars and I thought maybe you'd like to check it out. Our second guest star is the incomparable Christopher Reeve, and, since I'm guessing if you like Star Wars there's a good chance you like Superman, I thought you might enjoy the entire episode and give the show a shot. If you have no interest, skip it and we'll be back in two weeks with another Star Wars novel.Hi-ho and welcome once again to A Feat of Lunatic Daring, the most sensational inspirational celebrational muppetational podcast about Jim Henson and his Muppets!Things are rough right now. Let's talk about something that makes us happy, namely the unmistakable genius of James Maury Henson.Sources PageTwitterInstagramFacebookAlso follow Antithesis Audio on YouTube for future video contentChad Instagram & Twitter: @chadjshonkNick Twitter: @ntjackson17Music by Seth Podowitz @audiobookseth© Antithesis Audio

TIE Fighters are the disease and X-Wings are the cure in Michael A. Stackpole's Legends masterpiece Rogue Sqadron. Hear us drool all over this classic tale of Wedge Antilles and his daring dogfighthers 'cause man can Stackpole write some space combat. Plus, we talk about some of our favorite scenes in all of Star Wars.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

Well, Obi-Wan Kenobi (the show) has come and gone and we sit down with friend of the show Gary Mitchel to look back and discuss what went right, what went wrong, and whether or not this ambitious new chapter in Star Wars jives with what's come before.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

Let's be honest here. Anakin Skywalker? Wizard Podracer. Clone Wars Hero. Secret husband. Jedi not-Master. Betrayer of the Republic. Slayer of younglings. He's never quite worked, has he? Oh, we love him on the Clone Wars, and he's making a little mini-comeback on Disney+, but we have to call a spade a spade: Anakin Skywalker is a little bit of a dud. We gab about that for a few minutes before getting into Mike Chen's new Obi-Wan/Anakin novel, Brotherhood. Will it attempt to solve Star Wars' Anakin problem? Will Chen be able to finally make the Chosen One make sense? We'll find out on the new episode of Execute Chapter 66.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

EXTRA! EXTRA! HEAR ALL ABOUT IT! Star Wars Celebration happened in Anaheim and Ryan helps us break down all the hottest news from the convention. Then, we discuss the Windu-centric legends novel Shatterpoint by Matthew Stover. It's the first of the original Clone Wars books and MAN is it dark. Brutal, depressing, pessimistic. Compelling, but not exactly fun, you know? Now reach in there and grab my lightsaber. It's the one that says "bad motherf@#ker".The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STAR WARS!!! You don't look a day over 40. This time on Execute Chapter 66, Ryan breaks down that Vanity Fair article for us and we finish out the original Thrawn cycle with The Last Command. With rumors of a live-action adaptation swirling around, how does this venerated series hold up today? Listen and find out.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer. Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

So Attack of the Clones wasn't great. And the Anakin/Padme relationship was kind of a dud. Well, along comes EK Johnston to finish off her Amidala trilogy with the novel Queen's Hope (a.k.a. The Handmaidens' Tale), in which we hopefully get a little more insight into the awkward courtship of Jedi and Senator. As the series comes to a close, we talk about the character of Padme and whether or not this trilogy has done a good job fleshing her out as a three-dimensional person and not a just sequence of stiff line readings and wardrobe changes.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer. Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

After re-reading Heir to the Empire, we couldn't keep ourselves from continuing the original Thrawn saga, so this week we're talking Timothy Zahn's Legends classic Dark Force Rising. Plus, a brief discussion about our favorite Star Wars video game characters, including the man himself, Dash Rendar.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer. Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

Oh boy oh boy is this a good one. First, we have a special guest. Don't miss our exclusive interview with Star Wars: Crimson Reign artist Steven Cummings! What's it like to work on a Star Wars comic? Yeah, we wanted to know, too. Then, stay tuned for our discussion of Daniel Jose Older's Midnight Horizon, the final chapter of the High Republic's first phase, and we break down our thoughts on this new era's entire first act.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer. Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

Happy Birthday to us! Can you believe we've been doing this nonsense for a full two years now? We can't. To celebrate our anniversary, we're reading the Big Bang of the Expanded Universe, the ground zero for one of Star Wars' greatest villains, Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn. Yeah, I know we read a lot of Zahn but there's a lot of Zahn to read. Plus, we take a look back and choose our favorite books from our second year.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

On this episode of Execute Chapter 66, we talk about John Jackson Miller's A New Dawn, the prequel novel to Star Wars: Rebels. It tells the meet-cute story of the galaxy's second-best couple, Kanan and Hera. Also, we talk a bit about Rebels, why it was so cool, and relive some of its greatest moments.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer. Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Facebook

This week on Execute Chapter 66, instead of reading (or listening to) a book, we watched one! And brought in some friends to talk about it. Listen to Beth, Ryan, and Chad talk about The Book of Boba Fett with special guest stars Gary, Arian, Pete, and Keith. Yes, that's a lot of people, but what the hell. It was fun. How much does Ryan love Boba Fettt? (not at all) What did Pete think of the scooter gang known as The Mods? (nothing good) And why did the show become something completely different for a few episodes? (we have theories) Come listen to 7 friends talk about the ups and downs of the latest Disney+ show.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.https://www.facebook.com/ExecuteChapter66

Holy kriff it's here! The final wave of the first phase of The High Republic. First, we talk about the middle reader book, Mission to Disaster, which you should totally read BEFORE you get to The Fallen Star by Claudia Gray, which is a book full of death, destruction, and heroism. Did I mention the death? What is the Nihil's plan? Who will make it out alive? Will the Starlight Beacon fall? The answer to the last one is yes. It's in the title and everything. Man, we love the High Republic.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? https://www.facebook.com/ExecuteChapter66

We're back! Did you miss us? Happy New Year and boy is it because we're starting off 2022 with a big one (all 550 pages worth): Timothy Zahn's finale to the Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy: Lesser Evil. Not gonna lie. This is a lot of book. Like, a lot of book. The gang also discuss what they're looking forward to or hope to see from Star Wars in the coming year. We got some cool stuff coming up, so make sure to stay tuned for more Execute Chapter 66.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? https://www.facebook.com/ExecuteChapter66

Well, the holidays are here, and the Execute Chapter 66 crew have the spirit. First, we discuss the Star Wars LEGO Special on Disney+ and then, as our main course, the Star Wars Life Day Treasury. Not gonna lie. Wasn't so sure about doing this book but it turned out to be delightful fun. Anyway. Enjoy! Happy/Merry winter holiday of your choice!The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? https://www.facebook.com/ExecuteChapter66

We got a good one this week. First, we're returning to our favorite author, James Luceno, for his canon novel Tarkin, about... well... Tarkin. We're also joined, yet again, by special guest star Gary Mitchel. And in the wake of the Marvel show, we play a fun game of Star Wars "What If?". Well, it starts off fun. Then Ryan ruins it. This is a good one. Promise.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? https://www.facebook.com/ExecuteChapter66

This week on Execute Chapter 66: Beth, Chad, & Ryan discuss the Disney+ anime anthology Star Wars: Visions, and, to go with it, the Visions novel Ronin. We got space samurai, we got Astro Boy with a lightsaber, we got Sith witches, and we got very little knowledge when it comes to the animes, but we do our best.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? https://www.facebook.com/ExecuteChapter66

This week we wrap up the Darth Bane trilogy with the final volume: Dynasty of Evil. Bane has created and cultivated the legendary Sith Rule of Two. But, when it comes time to pass the baton to the next generation, Bane finds himself less-than willing to give up his power... or his life. Plus, we have a quick discussion about trilogies in genre media, and why Star Wars seems hellbent on fitting everything into tidy groups of threes.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Be sure to join the Needless Things Podcast Facebook Group and get in on the conversation for this week’s episode! Let us know what you think!You can follow Needless Things on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for all the latest on pop culture! Hungry for more movies, music, and pop culture? Visit the Needless Things Archives for a decade of dorkery!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! To celebrate, we discuss the new Disney+ special, Lego Star Wars Terrifying Tales! Then we head back to Drew Karpyshyn's Darth Bane Trilogy, with volume 2, Rule of Two. Now that Bane has eliminated the rest of the Sith, and found himself an eager (and evil) new apprentice, it is time to put the Dark Lord's new philosophy to the test. One to embody the power; one to crave it. We'll see how that works out.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Be sure to join the Needless Things Podcast Facebook Group and get in on the conversation for this week’s episode! Let us know what you think!You can follow Needless Things on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for all the latest on pop culture! Hungry for more movies, music, and pop culture? Visit the Needless Things Archives for a decade of dorkery!

Back to the High Republic with a brand new audio drama: Tempest Runner by Cavan Scott. This twisty tale lays out the life of Nihil all-star, Lourna Dee. It's a little bit Solo, a little bit Orange is the New Black, and at times very, very confusing. Beth, Ryan, and Chad have a few questions about this project, the foremost being: "why?". Also, we break down our favorite (and least favorite) alien species from that wacky faraway galaxy we love so much. The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Be sure to join the Needless Things Podcast Facebook Group and get in on the conversation for this week’s episode! Let us know what you think!You can follow Needless Things on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for all the latest on pop culture! Hungry for more movies, music, and pop culture? Visit the Needless Things Archives for a decade of dorkery!

This week we start a deep deep dive into the Dark Side with the Darth Bane Trilogy. We discuss the first book, Path of Destruction, how awesome it is, whether or not the Rule of Two makes sense, and decide which evil Force users belong carved into Mount Sithmore.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Be sure to join the Needless Things Podcast Facebook Group and get in on the conversation for this week’s episode! Let us know what you think!You can follow Needless Things on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for all the latest on pop culture! Hungry for more movies, music, and pop culture? Visit the Needless Things Archives for a decade of dorkery!

We sally even further forth into The High Republic with Out of the Shadows by Justina Ireland. The book is apparently controversial, but we thought it was pretty great. We also try to get to the bottom of what the hell is going on with hyperspace these days. Not sure we do a very good job. Also, Ryan's report from Dragon Con!Audiobook excerpts read by Keylor Leigh. Used in good faith.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Be sure to join the Needless Things Podcast Facebook Group and get in on the conversation for this week’s episode! Let us know what you think!You can follow Needless Things on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for all the latest on pop culture! Hungry for more movies, music, and pop culture? Visit the Needless Things Archives for a decade of dorkery!

With a title like that you might be expecting some grand story along the lines of Heir to the Empire. Prepare to have your expectations disappointed. This is a fairly unique book that takes place entirely from Luke's point of view, but it isn't grand or epic. While it isn't terrible, it does feel like a series of fetch quests with only occasional (and out of character) glimpses into Luke's feelings. Most of his feelings involve noodles and a "fridged" love interest though, so prepare yourself for that.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Be sure to join the Needless Things Podcast Facebook Group and get in on the conversation for this week’s episode! Let us know what you think!You can follow Needless Things on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for all the latest on pop culture! Hungry for more movies, music, and pop culture? Visit the Needless Things Archives for a decade of dorkery!

This week we go for a little more of the "beyond" in our "canon, legends, and beyond" with a wrap up of Season 1 of The Bad Batch. A special episode requires special guests, and this time we're joined by the very special Arian Gulick and Gary Mitchel. Tune in as we settle a debate for the ages: is it O-MEG-a or O-MEEG-a?Do you wish The Clone Wars could never end? Well lucky for you Disney+ found a way to help. The Bad Batch is in the exact same animation style, and features many of the same characters you grew to love over the last ten or so years. You want some more Rebels characters while we're at it? You get them too! This may not be the best Star Wars we've ever seen, but it's fun and it's Star Wars. At the end of the day all we really want is more fun Star Wars forever.The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Be sure to join the Needless Things Podcast Facebook Group and get in on the conversation for this week’s episode! Let us know what you think!You can follow Needless Things on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for all the latest on pop culture!Hungry for more movies, music, and pop culture? Visit the Needless Things Archives for a decade of dorkery!

Time for another set of High Republic books. First up is The Rising Storm. The Nihil are still rampaging through the galaxy, and the Drengir are destroying all life on any planet they land on. What does the chancellor decide to do? Why throw a huge and expensive galactic fair of course. Because there's no way that could go wrong. Shockingly it goes really wrong, and it's up the Jedi to try and save the day. But not all of them come out unscathed. It's probably time for the Jedi to rethink their relationship with the Republic. The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Social Media for ConGregate for show notes.Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Be sure to join the Needless Things Podcast Facebook Group and get in on the conversation for this week’s episode! Let us know what you think! You can follow Needless Things on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for all the latest on pop culture! Hungry for more movies, music, and pop culture? Visit the Needless Things Archives for a decade of dorkery!

This week we have an EC66 first! Fan and friend of the show Gary Mitchel, fresh from ConGregate 7, brings us an exclusive interview with the founder of the Expanded Universe, New York Times Best-Selling Author and Grand Admiral Thrawn's daddy, Timothy Zahn. Yeah, that's right. An actual interview with an actual Star Wars person. And not just any Star Wars person. Tim. Kriffin'. Zahn. Big time right here, son.You might have noticed that Rogue One leaves us with a pretty big gap in Jyn Erso's life. Are you curious to find out what she was doing from ages 8-21? If you are then Rebel Rising is for you. Some of us (mostly Beth) weren't overly fond of the first impression Jyn made so this is the character development she needed. Learn about Jyn's life with Saw Gerrera, her time as a partisan code forger, and her life as a girl who hangs out on a sleepy planet flirting with a boy. Okay so that last one isn't as exciting, but it does help to lay a better groundwork for how suspicious she is towards the rebels. Her mom dies, her dad leaves, Saw screws her over, she's caught between the Empire and the rebels, the boy she loves is killed, the empire forces her to work for them and they throw her in prison for doing it. Jyn has been through a lot, and lost a lot in a very short time so you can kind of forgive her a little bit of sullenness. The Skywalker saga may be over, but there are enough books to keep Star Wars fans satisfied for years to come. Chad, Ryan, and Beth have started a series to keep you up to date on all the action. Join our book club as we run down the best that canon, legends, and comics have to offer.Social Media for ConGregate for show notes:Special Thanks toe ConGregate for the opportunity. Find them here: Twitter: @ConGregatefans FB: www.facebook.com/fansofcongregate Website: http://www.con-gregate.com/Music by Lester Dragstredt of The Mystery Men? Be sure to join the Needless Things Podcast Facebook Group and get in on the conversation for this week’s episode! Let us know what you think! You can follow Needless Things on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for all the latest on pop culture! Hungry for more movies, music, and pop culture? Visit the Needless Things Archives for a decade of dorkery!