Star Wars news with fan-memory depth.
The Star Wars Report Podcast is a fan-centered Star Wars conversation show led by Riley Blanton. Recent episodes move between Star Wars Eclipse, Galactic Starcruiser, The High Republic, Galaxy’s Edge, a Star Wars book, and memories from Star Wars podcasting.
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The Star Wars Report Podcast is a long-running Star Wars fan conversation built around news, reactions, books, parks, and the habits of fandom itself. Riley Blanton is the clearest recurring voice in the excerpts, steering episodes with a casual, self-aware style that leaves room for jokes, tangents, and production mishaps. The show’s Star Wars vocabulary is dense. Recent conversations touch Star Wars Eclipse, The High Republic, Boba Fett, Galactic Starcruiser, Ahsoka, Sabine Wren, Galaxy’s Edge, Rise of the Resistance, Clone Wars, and Star Wars holiday material. It assumes the listener is comfortable with that world. At the same time, the excerpts show a willingness to explain why a new trailer might pull someone toward the High Republic books and comics. That mix gives the show its shape: insider talk, but not sealed off from curiosity. The Galactic Starcruiser material shows the program at its most practical, weighing price, meals, lightsaber training, bridge training, access journalism, and the limits of early previews. The Stephen Kent episodes move differently. They connect Star Wars stories of redemption, Ben Solo, Darth Vader, and cultural division to How the Force Can Fix the World. Other entries are more personal and nostalgic. Jimmy Mack appears in a meta conversation about Star Wars podcasting, Rebel Force Radio, the Force cast, and changing fandom. Bruce Gibson, Scott Riefen, William Devereaux, Savannah, and Matt Rushing appear across the sampled episodes as conversational voices. The show can be loose. It lets holiday songs, wedding music, Disney trips, social media, and old podcast references sit beside franchise news. That looseness is not incidental; it makes the show feel like a record of fandom as lived experience, not just a feed of announcements. The best fit is a listener who wants Star Wars coverage with personal continuity and fan-memory texture. It is especially suited to someone who enjoys the space between official news, theme-park speculation, book commentary, and the long-running in-jokes of podcast culture.
Made for: Suits a listener who already enjoys Star Wars lore, announcements, parks, books, and podcasting culture. It also fits someone who wants casual fan context rather than polished studio brevity.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by treating Star Wars as both current news and accumulated fandom history. New trailers, Disney experiences, books, and old podcast memories share the same conversational space.
The flagship show of starwarsreport.com, hosts Riley Blanton and Mark Hurliman talk about all the latest Star Wars news. From Star Wars Rebels to the upcoming theatrical films, and all other new Star Wars projects, they cover it all. The show also features conversation and coverage of Star Wars Celebrations, Dragon Con, and other fan gatherings. Packed with in-depth interviews, reviews, and can’t-miss coverage and commentary, the Star Wars Report is YOUR Star Wars podcast home.
Huttese 'Jingle Bells' comes up, in case your Star Wars curiosity was getting too manageable.
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A relaxed Star Wars roundtable finds its focus in a new doorway into the High Republic.
The Star Wars Report Podcast frames a High Republic trailer discussion around a useful question: how much freedom a new Star Wars story can find inside a broad era.
A clear-eyed review of what Galactic Starcruiser promised, showed, and still left unsettled.
The Galactic Starcruiser is framed as a promise still waiting on enough detail to justify its price of admission. Riley Blanton, with Scott Riefen and Bruce Gibson, tracks the rollout at the point where bookings are open, a pay-or-cancel deadline is nearing, and would-be guests…
A warm Star Wars year-in-review where theme parks, holiday chatter, and wedding music all sit comfortably together.
The Star Wars Report Podcast turns a year of fandom into a warm sequence of everyday memories: holiday-special chatter, park trips, food-festival stops, and a standout ride on Rise of Resistance.
A relaxed holiday-week Star Wars episode mixes Stephen Kent's book, pricey experience details, meal talk, and a Sabine Wren casting report.
The Star Wars Report Podcast starts its Thanksgiving-week outing with Christmas music and a returning Stephen Kent, whose How the Force Can Fix the World is framed as doing well and drawing media attention.
Ghostbusters fandom with strange weather moving in.
Retro fandom, table-talk energy.
Star Trek news with fan memory attached.
Creator culture without the platform gloss.
Rangers, Trek, comics, cons, and fan memory.
Family Star Wars talk with real history.
Star Wars Report Podcast #485 opens with a Boba Fett cold open and then spends most of the episode on Star Wars Eclipse, which Riley Blanton calls the week's main news story.
The episode centers on backlash to Disney's Galactic Star Cruiser marketing, with Riley Blanton arguing that a $5,000, 48-hour resort needs more than recycled concept art and a meme-worthy promo video.
["Riley Blandon and Bruce Gibson open The Star Wars Report Podcast with a Holiday Special detour, including a 2:17 Huttese \"Jingle Bells\" song, Kelly Marie Tran, and Billy Dee Williams.", "They then move into The Book of Boba Fett's December 29 Disney+ marketing push, focusing on Boba's black jumpsuit, Fennec Shand, and the repeated \"I am Boba Fett\" line.", "A long debate follows over whether Boba Fett's Sarlacc escape should be shown or left partly mysterious, with Dengar and Tales of the Bounty Hunters used as reference points.", "The rest of the year-in-review covers John Williams at the Hollywood Bowl, Disney Parks visits, Star Wars shirts in public, High Republic reading, Vader comics, and a Millennium Falcon UCS build."]
Riley Blanton opens The Star Wars Report Podcast on Thanksgiving week with Stephen Kent, then folds the conversation around Kent's book How the Force can Fix the World.
Stephen Kent argues that redemption is essential to repairing relationships and a divided culture.
Host Riley Blanton interviews Jimmy Mack from Rebel Force Radio about his experience in Star Wars podcasting and how fandom has evolved.
Hosts Riley Blanton and Bruce Gibson discuss Star Wars news, upcoming projects, and fan events, with a lighthearted tone and personal anecdotes.
Hosts Riley and Mark discuss the latest Star Wars news, including holiday-themed banter and a guest appearance.
Hosts discuss Star Wars news, share a remix of the Return of the Jedi theme, and introduce the episode with a hopeful tone.
Host Riley interviews author Michael Kaminsky about his book 'Secret History of Star Wars', exploring the making of the original trilogy and prequels.
Host Riley Blanton interviews Dan Madsen about his role in the 1990s Star Wars fan club and magazine.
Host Riley Blanton interviews Dr.