This new podcast premiering Monday sets out to explore the wet and wild world of the now-defunct Star Wars Expanded Universe. Join our hosts Victor Espeland and Cole Mariottini as they find answers to questions you never thought you'd ask, like:

Why is Luke Skywalker so horny for space? 

How do you bake low-budget production design into a novel, just in case it needs to get made into a movie on the cheap? 

Is gambling the closest thing Han Solo has to a religion? 

Why does Chewbacca look like the wolf man? 

Can you sneak into a maximum security prison using tactics borrowed from the Pixar film A Bug’s Life? 

Why is Wilford Brimley in an Ewoks movie? 

What’s going on with this green Bugs Bunny alien? 

Did Chewbacca really die by getting crushed by a planet?

Why did they think it would be cool to have Boba Fett escape from the Sarlacc Pit? 

Does George Lucas have a hard-on for furry aliens?

Just how horny is Alan Dean Foster??

And much much more. New episodes start this Monday, on your favorite podcast app, except apple podcasts. Just kidding it’s on there too. OK bye!

Expanding Universes  - New Podcast Premieres Monday

As Cole and Victor dive right into the very first book from the Star Wars Expanded Universe, they discover a world of the mind constrained by the possibilities of low-budget film adaptation, a lack of a sequel deal with Harrison Ford, and the jumbled stew of tropes brewing in George Lucas' mind.

Episode I - Splinter of the Mind's Budget

UNLOCKED FROM OUR PATREON! Cole, Victor & Shaun fork over 12 bucks to Regal in exchange for a viewing of the new Star Wars picture, but what they come away with could change everything. Do Disney Star Wars characters talk too much like Marvel superheroes? Who would win in a fight, JJ Abrams or Rian Johnson? Was this movie even good? We struggle to answer these questions.

UNLOCKED: Rise of Skywalker Review ft. Shaun Miller

When Victor & Cole join Shaun to read Brian Daley's 1979 novel Han Solo at Star's End, it becomes fast apparent that Daley wants Star Wars to be hard sci-fi. On top of that, our heroes learn Han Solo has a gambling addiction and a predisposition for Pixar-inspired shenanigans! Plus, we get our first mentions of dumb Star Wars stuff that exists to this day!

Episode II - Han Solo and the Bug's Life Conspiracy ft. Shaun Miller

When Cole & Victor welcome Zach Kocanda to the studio, a deluge of poorly drawn Han and Chewies assault our hosts' eyes. But just when all is lost, a wrestling porcupine, a woman in a bikini, a knock-off Luke Skywalker, a Cervantian Jedi and Space Jam minus the Jam Bugs Bunny guide our heroes to safety against the evil man with the disappearing scar.

Episode III - The Jaxxon Eight

This Star Wars Expanded Universe podcast is a poorly researched, barely comprehensible, fully chronological trek through the arcane, now-defunct EU lore.

Expanding Universes: An Expanded Universe Podcast