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Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club

Read through the pre-Disney Star Wars universe along with the Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club, and trace the history of Star Wars as a world, a brand, and a part of our cultural fabric.

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61:30

36: Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2025/11/20

Yub-NUB, you feeching beechas, it's time for the gauntlet of cuteness, a crucible of cartoonishness and camp built of bears, bots, and babies! Will Alex, Davis, and Jesse survive Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure? Will Heir to the Empire ever come? What's Joe Johnston doing in the credits? Listen and find out! (And pardon our Ewokese...)

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180:47

35: #RESTORETHEPUPPET

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2025/11/06

Change is the path to the dark side. Changing the puppet leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering. Therefore, we must #RESTORETHEPUPPET...just kidding. That's very dumb. It's time for another GIANT SIZE SWOCBC Q&A, with questions and answers from viewers like YOU at Patreon.com/SWOCBC!

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136:25

34: SWOCBC: Inside the Insider - Collection 3

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2025/10/16

Adventure has a name...and it's name is Inside the Insider! Join Alex, Davis, and Jesse for more Last Crusade, including interviews with Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, and Steven Spielberg...from 1989! It's Inside the Insider Collection #3!To catch up to Inside the Insider, sign up on Patreon! A new bonus episode comes out every time we put out a main series episode! Or go check out SWNCBC Legends Collection 1 for free right now! www.patreon.com/SWOCBC

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158:51

33: The Original Marvel Years, Vol. 5, Part 2

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2025/10/02

The Original Marvel Years Vol. 5 comes to a close on today's SWOCBC with a CHUNKY BOY EPISODE! Join Alex, Davis, and Jesse and get your Star Wars goggles set, there's Ewoks on the horizon!I swear you'll never have to read Return of the Jedi ever again, just come support us at Patreon.com/SWOCBC!

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130:06

32: The Original Marvel Years, Vol. 5, Part 1

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2025/09/25

After a busy summer, the SWOCBC is BACK with the PENULTIMATE MARVEL SAGA, including the comic book version of Return of the Jedi! Join your star bois, Alex, Davis, and Jesse for The Original Marvel Years Vol. 5 Part 1!To further our research into the pre-Disney Star Warsian fictional tulpaverse, head over to Patreon.com/SWOCBC!

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145:47

31: The Newspaper Strips, Vol. 2 Part 2

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2025/07/31

Twice the Stars! Twice the Wars! Twice the Newspaper Strips! Alex, Davis, and Jesse are back with the second half of Star Wars: The Newspaper Strips Vol. 2! Come see off this wonderful and largely forgotten sequential narrative art form!For access to episode extensions for every single upload, "Inside the Insider", where the boys tackle the Star Wars Insider issue by issue, check out www.patreon.com/SWOCBC

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153:54

30: The Newspaper Strips, Vol. 2 Part 1

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2025/07/10

Once again the SWOC-boys tackle the seemingly endless gap between Star Wars and Return of the Jedi, as they wade into the world of daily newspaper comics for a second time. Come see how Alex, Davis, and Jesse fare against this lost medium, and spare a thought for all the dead aliens!To support our fine show like the InterGalactic Banking Clan, and get hours of exclusive content in return, head on over to Patreon.com/SWOCBC!

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118:32

29: SWOCBC: Inside the Insider - Collection 2

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2025/06/19

If you thought there was no way there could be more than one issue centered mainly around Willow and Tucker...you're wrong, baby! Come talk Star Wars, Willow, Tucker, and even some Last Crusade with Alex, Davis, and Jesse on our early-access Patreon bonus show, Inside the Insider Collection 2!Includes SWOCBC: Inside the Insider, Issues #4-6 Catch up on all the ITI episodes you're missing by supporting us at www.patreon.com/SWOCBC!

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86:09

28: Video Games 1982-1985

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2025/05/29

Video games are here! Alex, Davis, and Jesse take SWOCBC to a whole new dimension of sight sound and mind with their first foray into the early Star Wars home console and arcade games from Atari and Parker Brothers! Come find out where Star Wars fits in the tapestry of video game history, and how close video games have been to the Star Wars media empire from almost the very beginning!To watch us play the games, check out our official YouTube channel

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107:14

27: Captain Tarpals' 2006 Sirius XM Show

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2025/05/08

Hey, you-sa! Stop-pa dere! You-sa goin' to da Bosses! Alex, Davis, and Jesse go BIIIIIIIIG doo-doo dis time as they answer questions from listeners and weigh in on Patreon discussions you submitted at Patreon.com/SWOCBC!Get ad-free episodes, reading guides, and access to our bonus series about the Star Wars fan magazine, Inside the Insider at Patreon.com/SWOCBC

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115:45

26: Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2025/04/17

All's well that ends well as Alex, Davis, and Jesse, the SWOCBC gang, find out whether the Lando trilogy is an actual trilogy or not, and whether your opinion of something can change when the context does. Like, for example, did you know ThonBoka MEANS Starcave? More like this inside.Get ad-free episodes, reading guides, and access to our bonus series about the Star Wars fan magazine, Inside the Insider at Patreon.com/SWOCBC

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161:23

26: Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2025/04/03

The Flamewind burns brightly through the Oseon as your SWOCBC boys, Alex, Davis, and Jesse return to that old free spirit, just 27 years young, Lando Calrissian and his enlightened droid Vuffi Raa, back for another fantastic, unlikely, and hilariously unwhelming 1980's L Neil Smith space lounge hang sesh.Get ad-free episodes, reading guides, and access to our bonus series about the Star Wars fan magazine, Inside the Insider at Patreon.com/SWOCBC

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140:18

24: Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2025/03/20

Life, love, and a bizarrely specific adherence to 1980's libertarian idealism converge in a trilogy of episodes over the next five weeks, as Alex, Davis, and Jesse tackle the grooviest Star Wars ever written in L Neil Smith's Lando trilogy, and in the case of the Mindharp of Sharu, it is literally all about the vibes.Get ad-free episodes, reading guides, and access to our bonus series about the Star Wars fan magazine the Star Wars Insider at Patreon.com/SWOCBC

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140:27

23: Return of Return of the Jedi

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2024/12/25

You've read the book and now it's time for the movie! Return of the Jedi! What's a holiday without a tentpole? Alex, Davis, and Jesse, aka a time lapse of Scott Calving turning into Santa, are here to discuss the big trilogy ender and to look forward to the future! Happy Holidays!Want more boys? Love rappin' about the 'Wars? Get our entire Inside the Insider archive now! Issue 9 is live! Patreon.com/SWOCBC!

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157:21

22: Return of the Jedi

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2024/11/28

Have...we already hit peak Star Wars? James Kahn's novelization of Return of the Jedi was so good, Davis and Alex started yelling at each other because of how different they loved it! It's just like Thanksgiving Dinner! Will Jesse save the Macy's Day Parade? Come listen and find out!Support the show, get this week's episode of Inside the Insider, and OTHER GREAT EXCLUSIVE EXTRAS at Patreon.com/SWOCBC

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106:14

21: SWOCBC: Inside the Insider - Collection 1

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2024/11/01

You heard us tackle the in-universe world of the Old Canon, but what about the fandom? Join Alex, Davis, and Jesse in this first public collection of Patreon bonus episodes of Inside the Insider, which releases an episode every time the main show does, and covers the official Star Wars fan magazine, the Star Wars Insider, one issue at a time!Catch up on all the Inside the Insider we've recorded by supporting us at www.patreon.com/SWOCBC!

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189:08

20: Nute Gunraydio

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2024/10/17

This is getting out of hand! There are three of them? Why, YES, Nute! Alex, Davis, and Jesse are here to answer and respond to all your deepest musings, which you sent to us so perfectly legally at Patreon.com/SWOCBC!

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84:51

19: The Original Marvel Years, Vol. 4 Part 2

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2024/09/22

Star Wars for slightly more mature readers continues this week as we finish off a big chunk of comics, and we start to meet some expanded universe characters who might stick around a little longer than Alex, Davis, and Jesse expect on the second part of this week's SWOCBC!To support the show and get all KINDS of extra content, including our bonus series, Inside the Insider, check out Patreon.com/SWOCBC

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112:04

18: The Original Marvel Years, Vol. 4 Part 1

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2024/09/12

The boys are back with a new installment of the SWOCBC where maybe Star Wars has finally started growing up with its audience? And maybe this new creative team means a fresh new vibe? Maybe? Join Alex, Davis, and Jesse as they find out!Sign up for our Patreon at Patreon.com/SWOCBC to get access to our bonus series, Inside the Insider today!

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100:53

17: The Original Marvel Years Vol. 3 Part 2

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club ·

2024/08/15

How far away is too far away for it to cease being part of the galaxy far far away? Join Alex, Davis, and Jesse as they find the answer from an unexpected source: comic book legend ALAN MOORE himself, who apparently had a grand old time adding an extremely creepy metaphysical texture to the proto-legends metacanon! (official term pending) Yay! SWOCBC!

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