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The Bad Motivators: A Malfunctioning Star Wars Podcast

Hosted by Luke Cruser, Eric Strothers and Dallas Wood. Three guys, each raising kids to love Star Wars, discuss all aspects of the franchise as it relates to their particular perspectives. The movies, animated shows, books, comics, toys, you name it. Frequently random and always fun!

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The Bad Motivators #207: Living That Astronaut Life

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The Bad Motivators discuss crazy rumors from the internet, upcoming books, and more!
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The Bad Motivators #206: We Ruin the Novel “Light of the Jedi”

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The Bad Motivators finally discuss Light of the Jedi
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The Bad Motivators #205: I Will Punch You All

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The Bad Motivators are reading Light of the Jedi
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The Bad Motivators #204: Lions Don’t Like Water

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The Bad Motivators started reading Light of the Jedi
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The Bad Motivators #203: Shake and Bake

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The Bad Motivators are back with their new show looking at all of the Star Wars news
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The Bad Motivators #202: Gorilla Tactics

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The Bad Motivators look back on the year in Star Wars and look ahead to the future
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The Bad Motivators #199: The Foundling Fathers

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The Bad Motivators discuss an amazing new episode of The Mandalorian, other stuff that wasn't that, and more!
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The Bad Motivators #198: Ahsoka and Grogu

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The Bad Motivators discuss the name for Baby Yoda, Ahsoka Tano was in The Mandalorian Thanksgiving was awesome, and more!
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The Bad Motivators #196: Woah-Katan

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #195: These Are Trying Times

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #194: It’s Not to Scale

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #193: A Nun with a Cute Face (with Jessica Schroeder)

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #192: Your Central Processing Unit Is Damaged

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #191: We Would Like to See The Baby

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The Bad Motivators #190: Whisky in the Djarin

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The Bad Motivators #188: Sex on the Shrimp

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #187: This Is the Way (It Always Goes)

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #186: Mr Blue Sky(walker)

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #185: Teenage Mutant Mandalorian

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #184: Nothing Left to Fear

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #183: Forgot About Rey

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #182: Twilight of the Apprentice Is Going in the Time Capsule

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #181: Ellen Kerryman and Dorothy Everytime Smurf

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #180: It’s Your Face’s Fault

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #179: Good Luck Getting a Permit for That

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #178: Bad Harvest

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #177: When Your A Plus Is More Like a D Minus

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #176: Toys Don’t Have Feelings

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #175: Janet Snakehole and the Worst Logo Ever

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #174: Score!

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #173: 10101101

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #172: Impractical Effects

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news including John Boyega's video
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The Bad Motivators #171: Turn Up the Volume

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #170: One Senator Does the Work of Two Motivators

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The Bad Motivators #169: Bad Chapmavation

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #168: Victory and Death (But Mostly Death)

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news on Star Wars day
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The Bad Motivators #167: Die Well, Mandalorian

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #166: We’re Not Trying to Be Fair

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #165: The Dad Motivator Originators

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The Bad Motivators catch us up with the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #164: Bad Motivation 101

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The Bad Motivators chat to Steph and Andy from the Star Wars 101 podcast
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The Bad Motivators #163: El Camtono: A Breaking Bad Parody

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The Bad Motivators discuss casting news and more
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The Bad Motivators #162: The Iraj-enous Zone

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The Bad Motivators discuss The Clone Wars and more
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The Bad Motivators #161: Orkin Skywalker

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The Bad Motivators discuss The Clone Wars and more
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The Bad Motivators #159: All Those Midichlorians and You Still Can’t Tell She’s Pregnant?

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The Bad Motivators discuss The Clone Wars and more
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The Bad Motivators #156: Jedi One-Percenters

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The Bad Motivators discuss the leaked scripts
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The Bad Motivators #155: 10011011

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The Bad Motivators discuss all the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #154: Just Donald Duck-in’ It

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The Bad Motivators discuss all the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #153: Get Out of My Yard, You Will

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The Bad Motivators discuss all the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #152: Still Snoke-in’

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The Bad Motivators discuss Star Wars comics and more
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The Bad Motivators #151: Up in Snoke

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The Bad Motivators discuss Star Wars in general and what is to come
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The Bad Motivators PATREON PREVIEW That’s Metal – Ep. 7: Eric’s TSO Tribute – Part 1

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The Bad Motivators release a patreon preview show
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The Bad Motivators #150: Kuilling Me Softly (with Beskar Saunders)

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The Bad Motivators review the finale of The Mandalorian
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The Bad Motivators #149: All We’ve Done, All This Time

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The Bad Motivators review The Rise of Skywalker
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The Bad Motivators #148: This Is the Title, Wiseass!

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The Bad Motivators discuss the sixth episode of The Mandalorian
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The Bad Motivators #147: That’s My Line

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The Bad Motivators discuss The Rise of Skywalker hype
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The Bad Motivators #146: You Want Some Soup?

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The Bad Motivators discuss TV spots, spoilers and more
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The Bad Motivators #144: The Mandalorian: Adventures in Babysitting

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The Bad Motivators discuss two episodes of The Mandalorian, and a new episode of Star Wars Resistance
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The Bad Motivators #143: Bob Iger: Born a Gamblin’ Man

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The Bad Motivators get ready for The Mandalorian
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The Bad Motivators PATREON PREVIEW Ep:17: Age of Resistance: General Hux

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The Bad Motivators release a patreon preview show
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The Bad Motivators Patreon Preview That’s Metal – Ep. 5: The Virtuosity Curiosity

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Eric discusses the technical prowess of the musicians in the hard rock and metal genres
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The Bad Motivators #142: This Was All for (ug)Naught

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The Bad Motivators discuss a new clip for The Mandalorian
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The Bad Motivators #141: Movie Making Is a Complicated Profession, Don’t You Agree?

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The Bad Motivators discuss the new trailer for The Mandalorian
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The Bad Motivators #140: Taking One Last Look – The Final Trailer

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The Bad Motivators discuss the new trailer
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The Bad Motivators #139: Pulling the Plug

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The Bad Motivators discuss Freddie Prince Jr's comments and more
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The Bad Motivators Patreon Preview That’s Metal – Ep. 4: Oh, That’s Classic(al)

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Eric takes a look at classical music's influence on metal music. Has classical music shaped the metal music of today?
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The Bad Motivators #138: Triple Fresh Friday

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The Bad Motivators discuss Triple Force Friday and Resistance
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The Bad Motivators #137: B-b-b-b-bad Motivators

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The Bad Motivators discuss Triple Force Friday and more
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The Bad Motivators #136: Learning to Let Go

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The Bad Motivators discuss Triple Force Friday
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The Bad Motivators Patreon Freebie: It Chapter 1 and 2

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Bad Motivators present a patreon freebie looking at It Chapters 1 and 2 including spoilers
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The Bad Motivators #135: You Need to Calm Down

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The Bad Motivators discuss Disney+ and more
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The Bad Motivators Patreon Preview That’s Metal – Ep. 3: John Williams, the Metal Maestro

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Eric analyzes some of favorite Star Wars film score moments for metal content
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The Bad Motivators #134: Sheev It Up with Robbo

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The Bad Motivators discuss Triple Force Friday and more
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The Bad Motivators #133: (Ph)asma and H(ux)

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The Bad Motivators read Age of Resistance and more
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The Bad Motivators #132: Don’t You Wish Your Girlfriend Was Dark Like Rey

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The Bad Motivators chat about the D23 news
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The Bad Motivators PATREON PREVIEW – Seismic Charges – Ep.9: Darth Maul #4 (2017)

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The Bad Motivators release a patreon preview show
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The Bad Motivators #131: Just Like Us, Except Minus the Plus

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The Bad Motivators chat about Barbie loves Star Wars, 501st logo controversies, and some big Disney+ news!
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The Bad Motivators Patreon Preview #2: Ride the Lightning (with Hawes Burkhardt)

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Eric is joined by Hawes Burkhardt of the Blue Harvest and Rogue Won podcasts to talk about Metallica's second album
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The Bad Motivators #130: Why Is Everyone Calling Me Robby?

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The Bad Motivators chat about the latest Star Wars news
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The Bad Motivators #129: Cat’s in the Cradle and Batting Cleanup

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The Bad Motivators chat about Triple Force Friday plans
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The Bad Motivators #128: You Down with 480p? Uh Yeah, Not Me

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The Bad Motivators chat about The Resistance DVD release and more
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The Bad Motivators #127: We Finally Got Wood

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The Bad Motivators chat about news from SDCC, toys, comics, Marvel and more
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The Bad Motivators #126: Groundskeeper Snoke and the Happy Crappy Kid

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The Bad Motivators chat about the new Sith Troopers and more
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The Bad Motivators #125: Where It’s At – We Got Two Australians and Some Microphones

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The Bad Motivators chat Star Wars with the Aussies
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The Bad Motivators #124: Clickbait Cantina

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The Bad Motivators discuss Galaxy of Adventures and more
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The Bad Motivators #123: Some Fresh Motivation

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The Bad Motivators chat to Criss Fresh from The Geek Dudes podcast as he drops in to talk Celebration, collecting, and more
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The Bad Motivators #122: We Are What They Grow Beyond

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The Bad Motivators discuss Celebration and gaming news
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The Bad Motivators #121: Jedi: Fallen Hoarder

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The Bad Motivators discuss game news from the E3 expo, including LEGO Star Wars and Jedi: Fallen Order, prepping for Alphabet Squadron, and Daisy Ridley news!
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The Bad Motivators #120: Qui-Gons, Bygones and Morons

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The Bad Motivators discuss a lot of the latest Star Wars news
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The Bad Motivators #119: What’s the Deal with Your Face?

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The Bad Motivators discuss the vanity fair photo shoot
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The Bad Motivators #118: Dooku: You Jedi Lost Me

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The Bad Motivators discuss the audio drama Dooku: Jedi Lost
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The Bad Motivators #117: The Robbo Rapport

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The Bad Motivators discuss Disney+, movie schedules and more
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The Bad Motivators #116: Late Night Bowcasting

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The Bad Motivators pay their respects to Peter Mayhew
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The Bad Motivators #115: Shut Thy Hole

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The Bad Motivators talk The Mandalorian panel and more
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The Bad Motivators Live Call-In Show Ep. 6: Still Celebrating

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The Bad Motivators release another live show discussing Celebration
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The Bad Motivators #114: Literally No One’s Ever Really Gone

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The Bad Motivators talk toys, trailers and spoilers from Celebration Chicago
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The Bad Motivators #113: SWCC 2019 – The Good, the Better and the Best

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The Bad Motivators review their experiences from Celebration Chicago
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The Bad Motivators #112.3: SWCC 2019 – Episode IX Day

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The Bad Motivators bring us news about episode ix
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The Bad Motivators #112.2: SWCC 2019 – Preview Day

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The Bad Motivators bring us Celebration Day One news
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The Bad Motivators #112.1: The Day Before It Starts

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The Bad Motivators bring us Celebration preview show
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The Bad Motivators Live Call-In Show Ep. 5: And Now We Plan?

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The Bad Motivators discuss the Celebration lottery system and more
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The Bad Motivators #111: Are You Ready for It?

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The Bad Motivators bring us Celebration news and talk The Phantom Menace
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The Bad Motivators #110: We Are Never Ever Ever Getting in Line Together

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The Bad Motivators bring us Celebration news
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The Bad Motivators #109: Kaz and Effect

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The Bad Motivators bring us the latest Star Wars news
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The Bad Motivators #108: Down with the Sickness

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The Bad Motivators bring us the latest Star Wars news
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The Bad Motivators #107: It’s a Niima Outpost Nightmare

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The Bad Motivators discuss Galaxy's Edge news and more
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The Bad Motivators #106: Never Tell Me the Odds

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The Bad Motivators discuss Celebration, TV news and more
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The Bad Motivators #105: My Mother Was a Probe Droid

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The Bad Motivators discuss Resistance's timeline and toys
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The Bad Motivators #104: Brain Drain and a Space Cane

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The Bad Motivators discuss Celebration
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The Bad Motivators #103: We Didn’t Even Get a Title for This Episode

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The Bad Motivators discuss the lack of Episode IX title
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The Bad Motivators #102: R5 Is Alive!

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The Bad Motivators discuss R5 (the true hero of Star Wars) in The Mandalorian
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The Bad Motivators #101: You Got WHAT?!?

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The Bad Motivators announce a huge Celebration giveaway and more
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The Bad Motivators #100: The Steele of the Century

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The Bad Motivators celebrate their 100th episode
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The Bad Motivators #99: I Got 99 Episodes and This Is One

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The Bad Motivators talk Episode IX, Galaxy's Edge and more
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The Bad Motivators #98: Vos Talks Vader (with Sal Perales)

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The Bad Motivators talk the Vader comics
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The Bad Motivators #97: It Really Is About Family, Vol. 2

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The Bad Motivators review 2018
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The Bad Motivators #96: Three Motivators, Two Rockin’ Concerts and a Falcon Under the Tree

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The Bad Motivators are back with the latest news.
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The Bad Motivators #95: While Dad Is Away, The Kids Will Play

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The Bad Motivators are back wirth the latest news.
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The Bad Motivators #94: Never Go Full Busey

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The Bad Motivators discuss the latest Resistance and Mandalorian news
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The Bad Motivators #93: How Did We Get Here?

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The Bad Motivators discuss the latest Resistance and Mandalorian news
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The Bad Motivators #92: Sweating Bullets

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The Bad Motivators catch up with the latest Star Wars news
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The Bad Motivators #91: Feelin’ Like a Criminal

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The Bad Motivators catch up with the latest Star Wars news
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The Bad Motivators #90: Live and Let Jedi

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The Bad Motivators catch up with the latest Star Wars news
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The Bad Motivators #89: Apocalypse Then

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The Bad Motivators catch up with the latest Star Wars news
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The Bad Motivators #88: The Book of Momin

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The Bad Motivators talk George's visit to the set of The Mandalorian and more
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The Bad Motivators #87: We Dig Wendig

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The Bad Motivators talk Resistance, Wendig's axing and more
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The Bad Motivators #86: Favreau Goes Co-Mando

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The Bad Motivators talk Resistance, The Mandalorian and more
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The Bad Motivators #85: One Flew Over the Enfys Nest

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The Bad Motivators talk Resistance, Solo home release, long lost documentaries and much more
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The Bad Motivators #84: Tears, Fears and Lincoln Beards

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The Bad Motivators talk about Gary Kurtz, the Solo home release and more
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The Bad Motivators #83: The Secret of NIMH and Other Star Wars Things

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The Bad Motivators talk about the Solo streaming and extras
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The Bad Motivators #82: It Turns Out That Luke Has Two Daughters

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The Bad Motivators talk about the Solo home release
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The Bad Motivators #81: We Ruin the Novel “Thrawn: Alliances” with Robbo

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The Bad Motivators dissect Thrawn Alliances and more
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The Bad Motivators #80: Droid of Destiny

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The Bad Motivators talk about Episode IX casting announcements and more
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The Bad Motivators #79: The McDonald’s of Podcasting

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The Bad Motivators talk Resistance trailer and more
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The Bad Motivators #78: Never Hire a Sith To Babysit

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The Bad Motivators talk about Jeremy Bulloch's recent announcement and more
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The Bad Motivators #77: Everything’s Coming up Mando

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The Bad Motivators talk about Episode IX filming and Live Action series rumours
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The Bad Motivators #76: The All-Valley Jedi Tournament

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The Bad Motivators talk about Episode IX casting announcements and more
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The Bad Motivators #75: Steele at the Bowser

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The Bad Motivators talk with Steele about SDCC2018
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The Bad Motivators #74: That’s Metal

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The Bad Motivators talk all of the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #73: Lando and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Cape

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The Bad Motivators talk all of the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #72: Placing Bets Like Boba Fett

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The Bad Motivators talk rumours
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The Bad Motivators #71: Jason Ward: A Making Star Wars Story

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The Bad Motivators talk standalone movies with Jason Ward
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The Bad Motivators Live Call-In Show Ep. 4: You Win Some, You Lose Some.

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The Bad Motivators discuss the recent cancellation rumours
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The Bad Motivators #70: This Deal Is Getting Better All the Time

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The Bad Motivators discuss the latest news
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The Bad Motivators #69: The Lucas Paradigm

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The Bad Motivators discuss the latest news
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The Bad Motivators Live Call-In Show Ep. 3: Powerful Light, Powerful Darkness

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The Bad Motivators discuss the state of fandom
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The Bad Motivators #68: A Wretched Hive of Butthole-ery

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The Bad Motivators discuss the state of fandom
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The Bad Motivators Solo: Live Call-in Show Fandom

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The Bad Motivators discuss the state of the fandom
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The Bad Motivators #67: Four Thumbs Up for Solo

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The Bad Motivators praise Solo
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The Bad Motivators Solo: Live Call-in Show

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The Bad Motivators hear your reviews of Solo
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The Bad Motivators #66: Celebration in the Solo Homestretch

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The Bad Motivators discuss all the latest Star Wars news
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