We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar

Sophia Goodnight and Swamp Vendor
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Join two queer 30-somethings every two weeks as they read (and occasionally watch) the Star Wars Legends oeuvre in publication order! They discuss the merits of the old extended universe and enjoy (or don't enjoy!) these pulpy sci-fi novels. And, eventually, they will talk about Dash Rendar. (We Need To Talk About Dash Rendar is our mirror-universe podcast, about a different franchise. We don't know why they picked that name.)

  1. 3d ago

    They Cut Off My Arrrmm! (Tales Of The Jedi - Knights Of The Old Republic)

    Join Fomo and Kyyl Ray'Nore to discuss the delightfully mid Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – Knights of the Old Republic (Formerly titled The Collection), which collects the 1993-1994 5-issue mini-series Tales of the Jedi. These comics are pretty fine! Other than the racism. So. The first chunk is Not that fine. There is, however, a Jedi dragon with a hookah, so who's to say whether it's bad or good! I apologize for not comparing Bogga the Hutt to Baga the Bordok Topics of discussion include: Showgirls, Vertigo, desert planets, compsognathus, phone charms, feat specialization, not being Deadpool, the nature of evil, the marital status of hookah-smoking dragons, Forge (whatever that is), Green Lanterns (except Hal Jordan), the lake that turns your dog evil, straight-out-of-the-tube colors, mandatory Fluttershies, Extreme Justice League, danger room fakeouts, the importance of fictional infrastructional, the size of children, the giant Snorlax, Gundam Wing, Girolamo Savonarola (I think), Jedi Teto, Yoda's Tinder account, The Day The Earth Stood Still, crystals, Rek, Final Fantasy VIII, Space Dandy, The Red Star, Primordals, Poison Elves, Y: The Last Man, the worst Hannigram in history Fomo can be found online at sophia-goodnight-poetry.tumblr.com and her other podcast Swords Against Cerebus can be found on gruppeshrike.net Kyyl Ray'Nore (who also did our cover art) can be found online at chalkpastelmancer.tumblr.com  We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's meager web presence is at talk-about-dash-rendar.tumblr.com  We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's theme music was composed by Avery Crimes

  2. Oct 5

    Two Candy Breaks A Day (The Truce At Bakura)

    Oh! Oh it's good! It's a good book! Dykeriel Hattison and Ovid Woims discuss the wonderful novel The Truce At Bakura by Kathy Tyers. The plot is compelling and there's a lot of feet! Well really just two feet, but a lot of them. There's also a tooth pervert, a sad man, meditations on what the soul is and whether it's stored on a floppy disk – this book really had it all! We just really loved it. Best thing since Daley.  Dykeriel forgot to make a list of topics of discussion while editing again. She'll be a dentist, though. One of these days you'll get a full song out of her, not just snippets. Sound off if you'd like a We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar karaoke special? The first of the three Shriekcast episodes on The Truce At Bakura Ovid Woims (who also did our cover art) can be found online at chalkpastelmancer.tumblr.com  Dykeriel Hattison can be found online at sophia-goodnight-poetry.tumblr.com and her other podcast Swords Against Cerebus can be found on gruppeshrike.net We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's meager web presence is at talk-about-dash-rendar.tumblr.com  We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's theme music was composed by Avery Crimes

  3. Sep 21

    Luke Did Another Backflip (The Last Command)

    Join Wing Commanders Hotlegs and Garth Mater as they finish off the Thrawn Trilogy with The Last Command by Timothy Zahn. you will not be surprised to learn that we hated this one! Has the Star Wars fandom been gaslighting everyone about these books? If only Zahn cared about art at all, maybe Thrawn would work! But alas, it was not done artfully. We had so much to complain about that we had to circle back to finish complaining after our segments. While editing, Wing Commander Hotlegs forgot to make a list of topics of discussion. She made a Hook reference, though. And Wing Commander Garth Mater sang a little bit of a song from Persona. There's also a reference to A Little Night Music. IDK I forgot to do this bit for the first hour of the edit, it'll be back for the next episode, which will be about The Truce At Bakura by Kathy Tyers. Get excited for that! Wing Commander Hotlegs can be found online at sophia-goodnight-poetry.tumblr.com and her other podcast Swords Against Cerebus can be found on gruppeshrike.net Wing Commander Garth Mater (who also did our cover art) can be found online at chalkpastelmancer.tumblr.com  We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's meager web presence is at talk-about-dash-rendar.tumblr.com  We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's theme music was composed by Avery Crimes

  4. Sep 7

    The Fun World Security Squad (Star Wars Book Two)

    Join Fubar and Faendal as they discuss Star Wars: Book Two, which collects Mission From Mount Yoda, Queen of the Empire, and Prophets of the Dark Side, by Paul & Hollace Davids. They're just as bad and not as good as the ones from Star Wars: Book One. The prose is garbage and the absolute bonkers quality has been ratcheted down. This shit is so ass. (Don't worry listeners, Fubar did not have a stroke.) Topics of Discussion include: Everything happening so much; Tokyo Ghoul papercraft; Glenn Fabry; ABS (Always Be Scamming); the pulp mines; disability as punishment; speak friend and enter; A Series Of Unfortunate Events; the Emperor's grandchild; Dagobah Tech; lactils and global warming; the milk pervert; The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai; Paul Blart; quatrains; The Polar Bear King; Hologram Fun World; Girl Comics #3; Cheap Trick's blood Fubar (who also did our cover art) can be found online at chalkpastelmancer.tumblr.com  Faendal can be found online at sophia-goodnight-poetry.tumblr.com and her other podcast Swords Against Cerebus can be found on gruppeshrike.net We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's meager web presence is at talk-about-dash-rendar.tumblr.com  We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's theme music was composed by Avery Crimes

  5. Aug 24

    I've Read His Dark Books (Dark Empire I)

    Oh blessed day, We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar returns with an actually GOOD piece! Zev & Zev read Dark Empire I, a 6 issue mini-series written by Tom Veitch, drawn by Cam Kennedy, and published by Dark Horse Comics. The art is gorgeous and the writing is pretty good, and the vibes, as we say several times in this episode, are immaculate. Please read this comic book! It's top 5 things we've covered! topics of discussion include: Dark Horse Comics, Across The Spider-Verse, digital coloring, starting the book and being the writer, As You Know, The greatest husband and wife gunner team in the galaxy, Dr. Claw, Salla Zend, the baby bench, Terra Kingdom Hearts, screaming cowboy cat, Supernatural power creep, amphibions, Ewoks, Hobie being with his mother, does Star Wars have cravats, El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron, Maric Theirin and cheese, temporary Benedictine monks, the Eisner Hall Of Fame, Timothy Chalomet for some reason? Zev can be found online at sophia-goodnight-poetry.tumblr.com and her other podcast Swords Against Cerebus can be found on gruppeshrike.net Zev (who also did our cover art) can be found online at chalkpastelmancer.tumblr.com  We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's meager web presence is at talk-about-dash-rendar.tumblr.com  We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's theme music was composed by Avery Crimes

  6. Aug 10

    The Regional Manager Of The JDTs (Star Wars Book One)

    Bad morning to you, our evil listeners! In this episode of We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar, hosts Cammy and Baja Blast read Star Wars: Book One, which collects The Glove Of Darth Vader, The Lost City of the Jedi, and Zorba The Hutt's Revenge. They're even dumber than those titles suggest. There's a whale vacuum! We had a lot of fun. These books sucked very bad. A real "sure whatever who gives a shit, let Peggle 2 make calls" of a series. Topics of discussion include: Batman Black, The Social Network, names for babies with three eyes, Tom Bombadil singing Oompa Loompa songs, Archie Goodwin's naming conventions, Corky Baxter, Porgie Tirebiter, laser pistol earrings, Grand Admiral Grunger, Monzaemon, Doonium the baby Phobium, Snoke Loroan, Timothy Leary, A Canticle for Leibowitz Baja Blast (who also did our cover art) can be found online at chalkpastelmancer.tumblr.com  Cammy can be found online at sophia-goodnight-poetry.tumblr.com and her other podcast Swords Against Cerebus can be found on gruppeshrike.net We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's meager web presence is at talk-about-dash-rendar.tumblr.com  We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's theme music was composed by Avery Crimes

  7. Jul 27

    You Were Brief And Rather Incoherent (Dark Force Rising)

    Well gang, this may be the last episode of We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar you ever listen to. Not because we're ending, we're not gonna stop for at least 11 years. No, it's because Vhrischtka and Jakhe Ph’eyke kind of hated Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn. We'll respect you if you don't want to follow us any longer. But the characters are uncompelling and don't believe in anything, the story is grounded in racism and sexism, and Timothy Zahn is no Steven Erikson.  Topics of discussion include WOE.BEGONE, Malazan Book of the Fallen, Radiata Stories, taxation on exotic biomolecules, Joruus Peterson, Kerobos Lord Satan, Skyewalkers: A Clone Wars Story, Dengar (again), hardcore crinbid fanatics, cool birds, novels about the military draft. Editors note in case it's unclear: The reason that the treatment of aliens by a text can be racist is because aliens are a racialized Other and it reflects the author and society's consideration of racialized Others, not because it's specifically racist against, say, the Noghri. Jakhe Ph’eyke (who also did our cover art) can be found online at chalkpastelmancer.tumblr.com  Vhrischtka can be found online at sophia-goodnight-poetry.tumblr.com and her other podcast Swords Against Cerebus can be found on gruppeshrike.net We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's meager web presence is at talk-about-dash-rendar.tumblr.com  We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's theme music was composed by Avery Crimes

  8. Jul 13

    Arcing Like A Gray Rainbow (Heir To The Empire)

    Season Two of We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar is here, as Ecumenical Datte and Liturgical Moruss begin our campaign to make enemies of the entire Star Wars fandom by not liking Heir To The Empire by Timothy Zahn very much! Reading an actual novel was truly a balm after the absolute slog that was the Ewoks, but, well, unfortunately it's racist and the character writing is mostly flat. We do absolutely love Mara Jade though! Where'd this noir femme fatale come from anyway?! Return in two weeks to be even further alienated by our thoughts on the second entry in the trilogy, Dark Force Rising. Liturgical Moruss (who also did our cover art) can be found online at chalkpastelmancer.tumblr.com  Ecumenical Datte can be found online at sophia-goodnight-poetry.tumblr.com and her other podcast Swords Against Cerebus can be found on gruppeshrike.net We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's meager web presence is at talk-about-dash-rendar.tumblr.com  We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's theme music was composed by Avery Crimes

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Join two queer 30-somethings every two weeks as they read (and occasionally watch) the Star Wars Legends oeuvre in publication order! They discuss the merits of the old extended universe and enjoy (or don't enjoy!) these pulpy sci-fi novels. And, eventually, they will talk about Dash Rendar. (We Need To Talk About Dash Rendar is our mirror-universe podcast, about a different franchise. We don't know why they picked that name.)

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  • Creator
    Sophia Goodnight and Swamp Vendor
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    39
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Sophia Goodnight and Swamp Vendor
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    We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar