Expounded Universe

By Jef Aldrich and Jon TaylorArts Books Leisure Hobbies

Expounded Universe episodes

December 04, 2025 316 - Coway or the Highway
Hey, Halla's back! But I already used that name joke. Damn it.

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50 min
November 19, 2025 315 - A Pleasant Dong
Let's not sugarcoat it, this whole chapter is Luke and Leia walking through a cave tunnel. Yes they get in a shocking fight at the end, but at what cost.

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59 min
November 06, 2025 314 - Now I Know Leenix's Voice
Jon's on vacation, and Claire wants to make Jef listen to AP, so here we go, two episodes of the podcast classic Campaign Star Wars. What will Jef do when forced to confront Actual Play? Who knows!? Actually it was fine.

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1 hr 16 min
October 24, 2025 313 - Matriculated at Chode
Everyone runs from a pre-exogorth exogorth. It's sorta neat how often big white snakes turn up in Star Wars. Someone should do something with that.

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56 min
October 09, 2025 312 - Halla Back Girl
The escape is great! Our heroes carve an unusually gory trail to freedom and a great big truck.

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58 min
September 24, 2025 311 - Yuzzem? I Hardly Know 'Em!
Whoa, stuff happens! This book hasn't been bad but it certainly has felt like it needs to get on with things, and here we go!

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57 min
September 11, 2025 310 - It's Funnier If He's Southern
Well boy, ah say boy, we done found the voice for one of our particular villains in this here page-turner and it dominates the episode.

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59 min
August 26, 2025 309 - Galaxy Class Ass
One of the perils of recording early is I'm guaranteed to forget what the episode was. But good news, I think they met one of this book's big bad guys, a pugnacious and dangerous Imperial officers hanging around in a ziggurat.

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56 min
August 14, 2025 308 - Don't Neglect the Dualities
Hey hey, it's time to meet Halla! She's a fun archetype that was made common in West End Games Star Wars RPGs, the burnout force user. We're also gonna find out about the big MacGuffin of the book this chapter, the Kaiburr Crystal.

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57 min
July 31, 2025 307 - Kissing A Miner
In this episode our heroes discover a hidden city on their homeworld, and if you thought going back to 1978 would fix the Leia characterizations, you've got ... another think coming, I guess.

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59 min

About Expounded Universe

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Jef 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…