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If you haven’t already heard, the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has now called for a full boycott of Disney+. In the spirit of Star Wars at its most anti-imperialist, we will be continuing to follow BDS’ guidance. This means our planned Acolyte season 1 wrap-up episode is canceled, and any plans for covering other Disney+ shows like Andor season 2 or Skeleton Crew are suspended until BDS ends the boycott.

If you’d like to know BDS’ reasoning for escalating to this boycott, you can read about it here. While it is focused on the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Captain America 4, the specific Disney+ boycott does affect Star Wars. 

In addition, we’d like to direct you to donate or boost the fundraiser for Mohammad Matar’s family to escape Gaza.

Even after the Acolyte, we were already going to announce our move to cover more non-Star Wars media. Our plan moving forward is to have a series of stand alone episodes that center different types of media that we’ve been wanting to talk about, plus the classic RuPalp’s games and bits you know and love. Keep an eye on our social media for announcements on our direction and opportunities (like polls) to tell us what you want to hear!

Thank you all so much for your continued support, we appreciate everyone who has stuck with us for the last three years. We can’t wait to make more new stuff for you to listen to! 

🚨 Ep. 92, Diet Challengers, is here! 🚨

Welcome to the first annual Gaylympics, where each host brings a character they think deserves to be canonically gay and argues their case.

Points of Interest: Noah has failed the audio drama community, Rupalps Charles Race, ACAB (which is fair), somebody should have brought Bill Cipher, Chloe Beale read the lesbian masterdoc, Belvin, Dean Winchester’s Secret Duolingo, Moved by the Victorious Alternate Ending, the Supernatural Fan at Jan 6th, kink discourse at the Magnus Institute, and Javert! Goro Akechi.

🚨 Ep. 84, Gooner the Hutt, is here! 🚨

We have RETURNED to Star Wars just before The Acolyte for our (slightly delayed!) May the Fourth, third anniversary, and PRIDE MONTH special!

Join us for all your favorite RuPalp's bits on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you get your podcasts!

Points of Interest: Chappell Rebo, “It’s never too early to talk about hole”, Max Rebo’s Bastard Child, Is Klaudia Discriminating Agaist Pau’ans?, a frankly wild amount of uses of the bleep sound effect, Fixing Marchion Ro with the power of topping, Mel’s Napoleon Complex, Whitey the Clone, Don’t Worry Obi-Wan, and Dear Ben Solo.

🚨 Ep. 91, ChatGPT Isn't Making Any Relics, is here! 🚨

Welcome @emcandon, author of Star Wars Visions: Ronin, back to the podcast to discuss their original debut novel The Archive Undying! Spoilers ahead, so make sure you've read it before listening, and thanks for joining us on our journey outside Star Wars.

Points of Interest: The perfect manhwa title length, OUR little horrible boat, “Trigun, amirite?”, the Pacific Rim of it all, big accountant energy, RIP Buddy, Iterate Fractal: Notorious Pervert, intimacy is terror, the literary value of gay sex, The Third Scrap is the Ship of Theseus, and there will be toxic yuri in the sequel!

🚨 Ep. 88, Qimir's Shein Helmet, is here! 🚨

Join the gang as we discuss The Acolyte episode 5, "Night." (Noah is stuck behind the Stormwall but will return next week!)

Points of Interest: Osha and Mae will work it out on the remix, Charli XCX stan Axel Greylark, Master Sol has become Catholic, Is Qimir a member of ARMY?, Charter School Dropout Osha Aniseya, Darth William, Is Taylor Swift a Sith lord?,  HE is The Acolyte, Vernestra Rwoh has taken off her plot armor, The Margarita on Dagobah, The Cohmac Vitus/Master Sol parallels continue, and Ki-Adi Mundi’s birthday is on Leap Day.

🚨 Ep. 89, The Coconut Tree of the Jedi, is here! 🚨

After a slight delay, we've returned to cover The Acolyte ep. 6, "Teach / Corrupt." (Noah AND Jess are stuck behind the Stormwall this week, but will return next week!)

Points of Interest: TAFKAQ (The Artist Formerly Known As Qimir), The Torrid-ification of Star Wars women’s wardrobes, representation for Instagram Reels content creators, using the Force to live longer and become Filipino, popping big bottles for Oshamir, the dykeside of the Force, Sol and Mae’s YouTube channel, the Sith are "Pick Me"s, and where are the wookiees with boobs?