Expounded Universe
289 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsJef and Jon review Star Wars expanded universe novels. Every week they discuss a few chapters at a time making their way through some of the strangest and most insufferable entries in the Star Wars canon.
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234 - Wennis the Menace
January 13, 2023 16:17 - 56 minutesEveryone's gearing up for the big battle. We've got Ones, Others, Rests, Whetts, and all the rest of our regulars and every one of them is waiting out the calm before the storm. Gepta is doing regular Gepta business, while Lando suggest a plan that might be a bit shit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
233 - Osuna Whett Ass Pussy
January 04, 2023 17:52 - 1 hourSABACC! Lando found a way to play sabacc with the Oswaft, so he's doing that. Meanwhile, Gepta fumes, Shanga stomps around oozing toxic masculinity all over the drapes and furniture, and we get the least dramatic shock reveal ever regarding Ottdefa Osuna Whett. Remember him? From two books ago? Well, good news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
232 - Vuffi Vuffi Raa, Where Are Ya?
December 29, 2022 18:22 - 1 hourNo joke folks, I recorded this episode, headed to Vegas for two days, came back with intent to post, and immediately caught RSV from my daughter (who is fine!). I have no idea what's on it. It's probably about Lando Calrissian, maybe Rokur Gepta. Vuffi is in the title, that's a safe bet he's in here. It's a mystery! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
231 - Ceci N'est Pas Un Poop
December 02, 2022 16:23 - 1 hourLando puts on a big show, Lehesu can turn your... leftovers into diamonds, and Rokur Gepta keeps killing messengers. Meanwhile we meet the One, the Other, and Rest, and their fantastic inventing comedy routine! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 230 - The Starcave of Starcave
November 22, 2022 17:43 - 1 hourWhat a difference continuity brings! We're finishing strong and actually covering the entire Lando Calrissian trilogy. We've got giant Manta Jellyfish space creatures. We've got Rokur Gepta meeting Klyn Shanga! We've got it all and more and we couldn't be more excited.
230 - The Starcave of Starcave
November 22, 2022 17:43 - 1 hourWhat a difference continuity brings! We're finishing strong and actually covering the entire Lando Calrissian trilogy. We've got giant Manta Jellyfish space creatures. We've got Rokur Gepta meeting Klyn Shanga! We've got it all and more and we couldn't be more excited. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
229 - Flamewind Wrapup
November 08, 2022 18:53 - 1 hourHey! Sorry for the delay, but we're back on track with the Flamewind of Oseon wrapup. A little conversation, a little self reflection, and a surprising amount of answered questions await you, dear listener! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 228 – An Embarrassment of Gepta’s
October 26, 2022 02:57 - 42.7 MBBring us your angry apostrophe comments, they’re delicious! Anyway, today’s episode is the crazy finale! Explosions! Torture! Presumably buses full of chafed and weary orgy participants! All that and way […]
228 – An Embarrassment of Gepta’s
October 25, 2022 05:00 - 1 hourOh wow, the shit all hits the fan here! Action! Intrigue! Extended lawn orgy! Thrill as we finally meet the legendary richest man in the galaxy Bohhuah Muttdah and his desperate attempts to enjoy his day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 227 – Hello Muttdah, Hello Fattdah
October 21, 2022 02:04 - 48.3 MBOh wow, the shit all hits the fan here! Action! Intrigue! Extended lawn orgy! Thrill as we finally meet the legendary richest man in the galaxy Bohhuah Muttdah and his […]
227 – Hello Muttdah, Hello Fattdah
October 20, 2022 05:00 - 1 hourOh wow, the shit all hits the fan here! Action! Intrigue! Extended lawn orgy! Thrill as we finally meet the legendary richest man in the galaxy Bohhuah Muttdah and his desperate attempts to enjoy his day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 226 – Flamewind of Whooaaa-seon!
October 11, 2022 01:02 - 38.4 MBCue the Strawberry Alarm Clock, because it’s time for a trippy flight through a rainbow space montage! Also there’s sabotage afoot, and fighters attacking! Exciting times indeed.
226 – Flamewind Of Whooaaa-seon!
October 10, 2022 05:00 - 54 minutesCue the Strawberry Alarm Clock, because it’s time for a trippy flight through a rainbow space montage! Also there’s sabotage afoot, and fighters attacking! Exciting times indeed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 225 – A Waywa With Words
September 26, 2022 16:49 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/expounded-universe-225-a-waywa-with-words.mp3 Well, it may have been a bit, but dang it we aren’t continuing the intriguing tale of Lando in jail, Rokur Gepta in monologue, and Klyn Shanga and his motley fighter squadron in space. Also joining us this week are the worst cop ever, a cop that is Big Bird, and Lob Doluff, recently bereft of his goddamn cool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 224 – Back to Back Sabacc
September 14, 2022 01:45 - 57 minuteshttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/expounded-universe-224-back-to-back-sabacc.mp3 Finally some quality time with Rokur Gepta, who is rapidly shaping up into one of those villains who already knew you were going to do that, which might suck, but let’s face it, his method of torturing his own underlings are funny as hell. Meanwhile you’re never going to guess what Lando’s doing! Oh, no you will. He’s playing cards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 223 – Twisted Steel, Leather Toilet
September 09, 2022 05:05 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/expounded-universe-223-twisted-steel-leather-toilet.mp3 Next book! And whoa, this one starts out with the libertarian coming on strong. Man, how did I not notice this when I read these at 14? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 222 – Mindharp of Sharu Wrapup
August 16, 2022 21:30 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/expounded-universe-222-mindharp-wrap-up.mp3 The poll isn’t over yet, but it’s looking very likely that we’ll just stay right here in the Centrality with young Lando and his cool droid companion for at least one more book, which is just fine by us. Also, we discuss every little detail of our thoughts and then answer a bunch of questions. We’re pros! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 221 – Curse Your Sudden Yet Irrelevant Betrayal
August 12, 2022 02:30 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/expounded-universe-curse-your-sudden-yet-irrelevant-betrayal.mp3 Time to bring it home! We finally discover not only the titular Mindharp of Sharu, but also what it does! And we confront this book’s big villain… well sort of. But revelations abound all the same! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 220 – Vuffi in Wonderlando
August 03, 2022 02:55 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/expounded-universe-220-vuffis-adventures-in-wonderlando.mp3 Is this episode big? Little? Both! We’re not sure exactly who’s doing the size changing around here, but everyone is brand new sizes (except Mohs, who instead has liberate’d tutemi ex inferis, apparently(yes I know what it actually means)). Also we’re inside the pyramids now, so that’s neat! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 219 – The Taking Tree
July 29, 2022 02:01 - 57 minuteshttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/expounded-universe-219-the-taking-tree.mp3 We’re stepping up the pace to three chapters. Today we check in with Lando (tied to a tree, dying) and Vuffi Raa (full of arrows, dying), and then amazingly more stuff happens! What a concept! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 218 – Who Gave That Toka A Crossbow
July 20, 2022 02:58 - 48 minuteshttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/expounded-universe-218-who-gave-that-toka-a-crossbow.mp3 First, a brief discussion that has a surprising lack of detail available without going to a website: Does the Falcon have a bedroom? Feels like it should, right? But here’s Lando sleeping on the floor under the Dejarik table. Then other stuff happens! Mohs breaks bad! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 217 – Mohs’ Tavern
July 15, 2022 00:09 - 51 minuteshttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/expounded-universe-217-mohs-tavern.mp3 A man with a gun bursts through the door! And then things get slapstick, confusing, slapstick again, a little weird, maudlin for a second, really really confusing, and finally Jon and Jef fight for like 10 minutes! What an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 216 – Toka And Fugue
July 06, 2022 02:08 - 58 minuteshttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/expounded-universe-216-toka-and-fugue.mp3 Well heck, the last episode was certainly a bottle episode, never leaving Duttes Mer’s office, but this one is almost a bottle episode too, insofar as it’s set exclusively in a series of bars. Oh wait, that’s a pun too! Hooray! Lando gets started on his surprisingly vague assignment and we learn a little about the locals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 215 – Rokur Gepta? I Hardly Know ‘Er Gepta!
July 01, 2022 00:21 - 52 minuteshttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/expounded-universe-rokur-gepta-i-hardly-know-er-gepta.mp3 Bottle episode time! These two entire chapters never leave the office of one of our two villains. This time around, we’re going to meet Duttes Mer, the regional governer of the Rafa star system, and his boss, A motherfucking lunatic SORCERER. That’s right, it’s time to bring in Rokur Gepta, Sorcerer of Tund, from back in the days when everything didn’t have to be force powers. Lear...
Expounded Universe 214 – This Mynock Empty, Yeek
June 22, 2022 15:43 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/expounded-universe-214-this-mynock-empty-yeek.mp3 Oh my goodness it is a new book, and instead of dealing with Corran Horn for even one more goddamn second, we can finally hang with the cool man with the capes, the Tuxedo Mask of Star Wars, it’s Lando Calrissian! This book series is very old (1983!) so get ready for a world free of the EU baggage, and a Lando free of owning a mining facility! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...
Expounded Universe 213 – I, Jedi Wrapup
June 08, 2022 00:51 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/expounded-universe-213-i-jedi-wrapup.mp3 Time for the moment where we ask ourselves what the hell did we just read? A little bit of final thoughts and a lot of listener questions, plus the big announcement of what we’re gonna do next! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 212 – I, Jensaarai
June 03, 2022 00:58 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/expounded-universe-212-i-jensaari.mp3 And the rocket ride comes to a sudden stop. And was Jef right last week? No! Jef was only about 1/5th right! Oh well, I guess those aren’t just the Yavin students, but what are they then? Surely no one would wait til the last 8 pages of a novel to introduce a HUGE new element of the Star Wars world, would they? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 211 – I Vengeance, I The Night
May 25, 2022 04:42 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/expounded-universe-i-vengeance.-i-the-night..mp3 As the title may suggest, this is a bit of a Batman set of chapters, as our hero sets about scaring all the pirates off the planet they live on. For reasons. I’m sure they make sense. I assume it somehow has to do with rescuing Mirax in the next… four chapters? What!? But for now we’re really focused on using psychic powers to scare pirates. Here we go. Learn more about your ad choices. ...
Expounded Universe 210 – I Don’t Care About Things Anymore
May 20, 2022 00:50 - 1 hour[/audio]https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/expounded-universe-210-i-dont-care-about-things.mp3 Another episode, another few weeks spent in pirate town. We have the big showdown with Remart, a whole chapter in Horn’s head (shudder) and we meet an exciting new coincidenc-I mean character, Elegos the Camaasi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 209 – I, Oceanbound
May 11, 2022 15:41 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/expounded-universe-209-i-oceanbound.mp3 Chapter 36 opens with our new favorite phrase: “Several months later.” The languid pace of this rescue is wild, right? Anyway, all three chapters this week concern Corran’s attempts to impress a bunch of pirates. He hasn’t advanced on the case of his wife yet. The book has about 12 chapters left. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 208 – Aye, Pirate
April 22, 2022 23:40 - 1 hour[/audio]https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/expounded-universe-208-aye-pirate.mp3 Okay, here we go! We’re done with the Jedi temple, we’re done with Grandpa’s house, time to finally rescue Mirax, all we gotta do is… join up with a pirate crew for at least a month WHAT IS THIS HOW DID THIS HAPPEN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 207 – I, Not A Jedi
April 13, 2022 03:57 - 59 minuteshttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/expounded-universe-207-i-not-a-jedi.mp3 Obviously Corran is feeling a little down on himself for spending two and a half months at the Jedi academy instead of just looking for his wife, so the most natural course of action is to go crash at his grandpa’s house for an impromptu family reunion and night on the town! Okay, fine other stuff is happening too, but that is the main thing that’s happening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...
Expounded Universe 206 – I, Died Offscreen
April 09, 2022 03:51 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/expounded-universe-206-i-died-offscreen.mp3 Ooh lots of ground to cover this week, as get this, Corran Horn is leaving Yavin 4! With about half of the book left, will we finally start the book? Also we get to deal with Exar Kun, and meet Booster Terrik! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 205 – I, Gonna Get You Sucka
March 26, 2022 17:07 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/expounded-universe-205-i-gonna-get-you-sucka.mp3 The cavalcade of guest stars visiting Fantasy Planet continues, as we are now getting a chance to meet Han (again, remember!?) and Leia, along with the Solo twins, make brief appearances to deal with the Luke being in a coma situation. Also, we finally meet Exar Kun! Gotta admit, it is sorta funny watching a straightforward evil tempting ghost deal with our pedantic overexplainer lead. But h...
Expounded Universe 204 – I Try to Say Goodbye and I Choke
March 16, 2022 16:54 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/expounded-universe-204-i-try-to-say-goodby-and-i-choke.mp3 I can’t help but wonder just exactly how much of this book is Jedi school. It became increasingly weird to deal with a book about a missing wife, clearly in some form of mortal danger, where the answer was “Take a few college classes and then go look for her.” Anyway here I am, looking at Kyp and Mara Jade stories just being retold from this puffed-up ex-cop’s overly pedantic perspe...
Expounded Universe 203 – I, Blueleaf Myself
March 11, 2022 20:11 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/expounded-universe-203-i-blueleaf-myself.mp3 I looked at how the book was and realized this first person gimmick was going to wear out its welcome sooner rather than later, even if the book makes it work a little. I just don’t have that tendency to self-narrate, and also there aren’t any sexy people in my editing space for me to describe at length every time I see them. For now, we’ll soldier on, as the Exar Kun investigation begins and a r...
Expounded Universe 202 – I, Sometric Exercise
March 02, 2022 04:52 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/expounded-universe-202-i-sometric-exercise.mp3 Over and over I’m exposed to characters I’ve heard of, stories I faintly remember, but at each turn I’m confronted with the nagging fact that someone has been inserted into each scene. It’s Corran Horn, obviously, and as each story from Luke’s temple unfolds, he’s usually nearby, being slightly superior. How do I go on? How long til this book gets to the missing wife stuff? This is a weird pl...
Expounded Universe 201 – I, Camp Counselor
February 27, 2022 01:48 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/expounded-universe-201-i-camp-counselor.mp3 After a little too much time noodling around on Coruscant, I found myself excited to finally get to the Jedi Factory. Am I finally going to get connected to the few new recruits we met all the way back in Jedi Search? Before that, I reminded myself, it’s time to watch Corran Horn just fail again and again to read the room. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 200 – I, Jedi Search
February 15, 2022 20:44 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/expounded-universe-200-i-jedi-search.mp3 Intrigued, I perused further into the book. “Nonsense!” I exclaimed! It’s already chapter 7! How is he still doodling around on Coruscant receiving praise from all his famous friends? Surely he must eventually go do something, I reasoned, pressing ever onward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 199 – I, Wife Guy
February 11, 2022 18:03 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/expounded-universe-199-i-wife-guy.mp3 I looked to the opening lines of the novel and couldn’t believe my eyes. A Star Wars novel written in first person? Reviewing my long years of reading other EU novels, I came to the inevitable conclusion that at least for myself, this was a first. Could I tolerate living directly between the lobes of this Corran Horn in this way? I would have to persevere to find out. Learn more about your ad choices...
Expounded Universe 198 – Strasse der Schatten Wrap Up
January 28, 2022 03:44 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/expounded-universe-198-street-of-shadows-wrap-up.mp3 Time to take the long view of this game, also answer some questions AND announce the next book. And let me tell you right here and now, it’s a doozy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 197 – Aurra Sing’s Final Clowning
January 20, 2022 00:30 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/expounded-universe-197-aurra-sings-final-clowning.mp3 The final four chapters! How does it all end, what with the murder being solved already? Well obviously by wrapping up the loose ends and setting up the next book. Messing with the team makeup, setting minor hints, all that good stuff. Is it good? Well, here’s an hour on that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 196 – The Butler Did It
January 14, 2022 02:14 - 59 minuteshttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/expounded-universe-196-the-butler-did-it.mp3 Well, this generally acceptable (and again, selected entirely off the title) book just succeeded in making us madder than every one of these Star Wars books since The Consent Gun Kidnapping of Princess Leia, and I bet you’re eager to find out why. Oh also we find out who killed Ves Volette. You’ll never guess who. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 195 – A Conspicuously Convenient Cathar
January 05, 2022 17:18 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/expounded-universe-195-a-conspicuously-convenient-cathar.mp3 Laranth vs. Aurra Sing! In hindsight this is sorta depressingly predictable. Anyway they have a noir-grade showdown in the midst of a very weird festival, then Jax heads off to Dejah’s to once again be sexually frustrated by a 2003-era clubwear shimmer dress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 194 – Aw C’Mon, He’s Just a Little Guy
December 08, 2021 02:09 - 57 minuteshttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/expounded-universe-194-aw-come-on-hes-just-a-little-guy.mp3 Whoa, two chapters in a row that are a continuous story? Don’t think we’ve seen that yet! Anyhoo, the gang is still in “sit around bickering” mode, until Den kickstarts things by getting arrested. Then it’s time to visit a bunch of fun aliens and… sorta just pretend to be detectives at them. You’ll see. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 193 – A Cragmoloid Never Forgets
December 03, 2021 15:55 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/expounded-universe-193-a-cragmoloid-never-forgets.mp3 We’re about 2/3rds of the way through the book, and for the first time ever any path that anyone is on seems like it might actually cross one of the other ones at some point (just not in this episode). So what is going on? Well, Jax and gang need a few bucks, and Typho information gathers from some colorful species of the Coruscant underworld. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...
Expounded Universe 192 – A Couple of Side Stories
November 25, 2021 06:29 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/expounded-universe-192-two-side-stories.mp3 Den Dhur spends a little time wandering a big space market full of Wookiee Luau and disreputable merchandise, which he hates (Dhur hates everything), Typho adds bureaucrat to his already impressive roster of things that apparently were included with bodyguard training, and Sing finally racks up a win everyone can enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 191 – The Vindalian Wife Explainer
November 19, 2021 04:36 - 57 minuteshttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/expounded-universe-191-vindalian-wife-explainer.mp3 Doing things in the wrong chapter order? Why not? It’s pandemonium gone wild as Aurra Sing continues to brag and lose, and Jax shows his… questionable side. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 190 – The Typho Sing-Along
November 10, 2021 04:32 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/expounded-universe-190-the-typho-singalong.mp3 Back in action, just in time for the classic noir event of nursing a crappy drink in a low gin joint. Den and Laranth finally meet the Cephalon, and everyone’s around to talk lightsabers. Meanwhile, Typho can’t stop making it weird, Aurra Sing keeps overpromising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Expounded Universe 189 – Volette Are You Okay, Are You Okay Volette?
October 27, 2021 15:07 - 1 hourhttps://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/expounded-universe-189-volette-are-you-okay-are-you-okay-volette.mp3 Oh no, where once there was only intrigue, now there is… MURDER! Who killed Ves Volette? Who else is working an angle? Rhaninn? Laranth? Certainly not our dear and trustworthy Den, who wanders the streets each night muttering about how he hates it! Also Aurra Sing is still hard in monologue mode, we need to get her in front of a protagonist fast before she Xizors out e...