{"podcast":{"title":"Across the Movie Aisle","slug":"across-the-movie-aisle-734475","podcast_index_feed_id":734475,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5009972.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5009972","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/37260285.jpg","author":"Across the Movie Aisle","episode_count":332,"summary":"Here’s the elevator pitch: It’s “Left, Right, and Center” meets “Siskel and Ebert.” Three friends from different ideological perspectives discuss the movies and controversies (or nontroversies!) swirling around them. You'll have to sign up for the Substack to get bonus episodes and you can do that at movieaisle.substack.com .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T04:21:09.700000+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/across-the-movie-aisle-734475"},"episode":{"title":"'The Mandalorian and Grogu': A Star Wars Misadventure?","slug":"the-mandalorian-and-grogu-a-star-wars-misadventure","published_at":"2026-05-27T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/across-the-movie-aisle-734475/the-mandalorian-and-grogu-a-star-wars-misadventure","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/across-the-movie-aisle-734475","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8907758","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8907758.mp3?modified=1779751048&sid=5009972&source=rss","summary":"On this week’s episode, we asked what on Earth Paul Schrader is doing getting dumped by an AI girlfriend . Then they reviewed The Mandalorian and Grogu , a movie that is nominally set in the Star Wars universe and has Star Wars-like elements but feels somewhat … lacking … for those of us with a long-term relationship to the series. But did Sonny’s kids love it? And is that all that really matters? You’ll want to listen to this week’s episode ahead of our bonus episode, which contains the definitive ranking of all Star Wars live-action theatrical movies. That episode is roughly as long as a normal episode. I’m just telling you now: You’re going to want to hear the whole thing. Sign up now if you haven’t already!","meta_description":"On this week’s episode, we asked what on Earth Paul Schrader is doing getting dumped by an AI girlfriend . Then they reviewed The Mandalorian and Grogu ,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2741,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/across-the-movie-aisle-734475/episodes/the-mandalorian-and-grogu-a-star-wars-misadventure/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/across-the-movie-aisle-734475/the-mandalorian-and-grogu-a-star-wars-misadventure.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}