Ahsoka learns lessons in leadership and following orders when commanding Republic and Clone forces in a mission to save the Twi’leks in “Storm Over Ryloth.”
We are on the road to the debut of Ahsoka, and we start by looking at her first appearance in The Clone Wars as she Anakin attempt to rescue Jedi Master Plo Koon.
We revisit our 100th episode which featured Hera herself,Vanessa Marshall. We discuss season seven of The Clone Wars.
The voice of Padmé Amidala, Catherine Taber, joins us to discuss voicing the queen turned senator, Amidala moments, and recording Star Wars audio books.
In this episode, we collect our top ten Star Wars characters that had their origins in a canon Star Wars animated series.
In this Beltway Banthas, check out what’s going on with the making of How The Force Can Fix The World for Audible + Bad Batch review
This show is about empathy, and what Star Wars helps to teach us about this valuable principle and how it can be part of our lives
This week on Beltway Banthas, some thoughts on why the struggle for hope is hopeless times is the good fight. Logan Albright joins the show to talk about his recent op-ed on the problem of hopelessness & rising deaths of despair, and what it means for our politics and relationships
Banthas! We’re back and up and running after a brief disturbance in the Force. On this episode, Stephen Kent breaks down the latest in the journey toward publishing a book based on this very podcast and the life lessons embedded in Star Wars. Here you can listen to Stephen read the draft Introduction to the book: How The Force Can Fix The World: Lessons on Life, Liberty, and Happiness From a Galaxy Far, Far Away.
Stephen Kent speaks with writer Brittany Hunter about Star Wars’ complicated narrative on redemption in conversation meant to work through one of the most sticky issues in American life…our nation’s own redemption story.
Star Wars is chock full of great scenes that have hidden lessons on economic theory. Guided by Stephen Kent, Prof. Matthew Rousu, and Bailey Hackenberry, the curators of www.economicsofstarwars.com
Gina Carano has been sacked by Disney Lucasfilm and will not be involved in The Mandalorian going forward. Today on Beltway Banthas, Stephen Kent speaks with Robby Soave of Reason Magazine and author of Panic Attack
Beltway Banthas is a Star Wars and politics podcast, but sometimes Star Wars is hard to find in the moments when history is being written on TV