RuPalp's Podrace
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Start your sublight engines, it's time to lightsaber duel for your life! Join Mel, Jess, Ollie, Noah, and Klaudia every episode for some critical analysis of Star Wars, pop culture, and other pieces of media we love through a queer lens, followed by increasingly cursed games. May the Force be with you, and DON'T kriff it up.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Queer readings, institutional critique, and spirited group chemistry turn franchise discussion into an argument about power, identity, and fandom.
RuPalp's Podrace turns Star Wars discussion into a lively argument about power, identity, and the stories fandom tells about itself. Mel, Jess, Ollie, Noah, and Klaudia combine close attention to franchise lore with queer readings that are willing to question the Jedi as both a…
A Jedi ethics debate becomes a mandated-reporter joke before you've found your counterargument.
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A delayed detour into Pride and Prejudice that settles into lively adaptation talk.
The episode moves from a delayed Boulter's Gate plan into a Pride and Prejudice discussion, and that turn gives the chat its shape. It stays on adaptations, family dynamics, and the way Lizzie's ties to her sisters and parents change how the story lands.
A discussion of episode four that weighs prequel limits against character conflict.
RuPaul's Podrace spends episode four of The Acolyte on Darth Teeth, Khmer, and the widening split between Mae and Osha. Jess and Noah keep circling the sisters' relationship, and the discussion has the most lift when it treats the show as a balance of atmosphere and restraint.
A lively queer Star Wars hangout that stays locked on the story's mechanics.
RuPaul's Padres turns the fifth Acolyte installment into an easy, lively queer Star Wars conversation, moving from Brat jokes to Mae and Osha and then into the recurring question of whether a Jedi can be beaten without a weapon.
A messy, funny queer Star Wars panel that turns horny jokes into camera-aware analysis.
RuPaul's Podrace turns The Acolyte's sixth episode, Teach/Corrupt, into a loose, sharp riff on queer Star Wars and the way the camera handles desire.
A messy Acolyte chat that keeps coming back to a sharp, suspicious read.
RuPaul's Podrace treats its Acolyte coverage like a real conversation, where jokes, theories, and criticism all get room to breathe. It spends time on the show's twin and sibling material, then settles into a colder view of the Jedi that makes them feel less like guides than a…
A loose, funny rewatch that keeps coming back to the pilot's opening family-horror scene.
This episode starts with a Ryan Murphy reboot joke, then settles into a loose but steady rewatch of Supernatural. Ollie and Claudia keep the pace relaxed, but they do not drift far from the work at hand.
Queer Star Wars chaos with a sharp moral edge.
RuPaul's Podrace treats episode seven of The Acolyte as a brisk argument about Jedi responsibility, and it works best when the hosts let the jokes, queer humor, and moral sorting push against each other instead of forcing a neat verdict.
Queer Star Wars banter that is messy, sharp, and smarter than it first looks.
Rupel's Padres comes back for a slightly delayed third anniversary May the 4th special, and it settles quickly into the same group chat rhythm it has earned over time. Jeremy Renner jokes, beatboxing Grogu, and the easy, internet fluent back and forth all fit that loose opener.
Loose, lore-heavy Star Wars conversation.
RuPaul's Podrace opens with a filthy Star Wars joke and rolls straight into a discussion of The Acolyte's sixth episode, Teach/Corrupt.
Jess swerves from Star Wars.
Two recovering Supernatural fans launch Superhell, also known as The Mystery Spotcast, with a joke about a hypothetical Ryan Murphy reboot.
RuPaul’s Podrace stages its own Gaylympics, where the hosts drag characters from non-explicitly queer stories into round-by-round arguments for why they should have been queer.
Melvin and Oli open with the kind of messy, affectionate banter that makes their queer Star Wars coverage feel like a shared hangout.
RuPaul's Podrace talks through episode seven of *The Acolyte* and keeps landing on Master Soul's failure to show even basic cultural competence.
Author Emma Mieko Candon joins the podcast to discuss her debut novel The Archive Undying, exploring its origins as a Pacific Rim AU, themes of body horror, disability, and immortality, and influences from Star Wars, Clamp, and real-life surgery.
Darth Teeth grabs the jump scare.
RuPalp's Podrace: A Queer Star Wars & Pop Culture Podcast marks a delayed third-anniversary and May the 4th special with an 'oops all bits' format.
The show opens in chaos.
The hosts analyze episode 3 of The Acolyte, 'Destiny,' focusing on twin dynamics, Jedi-coven tensions, and queer themes.
The hosts of RuPalp's Podrace introduce their new bi-weekly rewatch podcast dedicated to Pretty Little Liars.