To celebrate a new Spielberg movie, we just had to read one of his books (???). This week, we are joined once again by the She Nerds Out Podcast to discuss the novelization of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, credited to the man himself.

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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a motley crew of Republic representatives are sent to the massive power center The Gravity Hammer to defend it against a mobster-like Sith that wants its main power source: the Time Crystal.

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This week on Authorized, Matt Fisher returns to heed the wheel…again! Hannah talks her adoration of the movie Tombstone as well as her abhorrence of the novelization Tombstone. Can’t win ‘em all!

FIRST AIRED 7/31/2022

Stale takes incoming! There's nothing people are clamoring for more than an Obi Wan Kenobi podcast in August 2022. We were supposed to release one on time, but Overbye's sprawling and personally fulfilling hiking trip derailed it. Anyway, here it is! I think there's a few new disses of this property mixed in with the ones the rest of the internet has already covered. 

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You know, Burke and Wills. The famous Australian explorers.

Those Baldur’s Gate novelizations got John Goodman thinking about D&D, and he made us a D&D One Shot! Join us on an epic, self-contained adventure of terror and whimsy.

This week on Authorized, we recognize the release of The Mandalorian and Grogu by reading a completely unrelated Star Wars book that we just felt like reading. Mark Stay returns to discuss Lando Calrissian, Star Wars Legends, and the clear influence of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on this author. There is no way George Lucas even skimmed this book.

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ORIGINALLY AIRED 7/6/2022

Holy Second Novelization, Batman! Today on Authorized, we cover another, yes ANOTHER!, of the 1997 classic, Batman & Robin. Paxton Holley is back to discuss both the novelization and also whether the Authorized crew will ever allow him to cover a novelization of a different movie. Will Paxton escape the endless loop of Schumacher?! Only time will tell.

In which the wheel is kind. Quentin Tarantino's favorite book?

You were always in the Death Race