Coffee With Kenobi

Coffee With Kenobi is a Star Wars–centric podcast hosted by author Dan Zehr that first debuted in 2013. The podcast strives to be a spoiler-free space for community conversation, often discussing the mythology of the franchise and interviewing Star Wars creators. As of 2024, Coffee With Kenobi has released over 800 episodes.
As of 2023's Celebration Europe, Coffee With Kenobi holds the record for the highest number of Star Wars Celebration panel appearances, having also hosted at 2015's Celebration Anaheim, 2017's Celebration Orlando, 2019's Celebration Chicago, and 2022's Celebration Anaheim.
==History==
===Founding, scope, and content===
The podcast Coffee with Kenobi first episode debuted on May 12, 2013. Its original co-founders and hosts were Cory Clubb and Dan Zehr; the latter of whom is the co-author of several Star Wars titles such as The Star Wars Book (2020), Star Wars: Character Encyclopedia, Updated and Expanded Edition (2021), Star Wars: I Am Your Father (2022), and Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy (2024), as well as a frequent contributor to StarWars.com. Other former contributors to the podcast include Tom Gross, Rob Wainfur, and Melinda Wolf. As of 2024, Coffee With Kenobi has released over 800 episodes and has Zehr as its brand manager and sole host.
In the time since its inception, Coffee With Kenobi has strived to be a space fostering discussion about Star Wars in a spoiler-free environment with an intelligent and humorous tone. The podcast primarily focuses on officially released content, with an increased focus on discussion of fan passion for the franchise. Coffee With Kenobi discusses Star Wars mythology while featuring content in a variety of formats—including reviews, event coverage, and interviews. Several notable Star Wars creators interviewed by the podcast include Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Dave Filoni, Jon Favreau, Pedro Pascal, Anthony Daniels, James Arnold Taylor, Ashley Eckstein, Stephen J. Sansweet, John Morton, Jim Cummings, Carl Weathers, Joonas Suotamo, Vanessa Marshall, Taylor Gray, Dan Madsen, Charles Soule, Cavan Scott, Claudia Gray, George Mann, Tricia Barr, Catherine Taber, Adam Christopher, Justin Ridge, and Bobby Moynihan. In these, Zehr felt the podcast sought to tailor the topics of the interviews to match the guests they are interacting with.
Over time, Coffee With Kenobi has been covered by several mainstream news outlets such as HuffPost, The Hollywood Reporter, Chicago Tribune, Journal Star, Good Morning America, Vanity Fair, and Entertainment Weekly, as well as StarWars.com. On the podcast's behalf, Zehr was interviewed for the StarWars.com article "Fully Operational Fandom: Podcasting Across the Galaxy, Part 2," by Amy Ratcliffe, published on June 19, 2014. Within, he discussed why they chose podcasting as their medium of choice, the subjects they cover, and their best fan moments.
===Star Wars Celebration===
Coffee With Kenobi was the first podcast to record a live podcast session on a Star Wars Celebration stage at Celebration Anaheim, held from April 16th to April 19th in 2015. They were joined by John "Dak" Morton for the session. The podcast also participated in the same capacity at Celebration Orlando, held from April 13th to April 16th two years later, marking co-host Cory Clubb's last episode.
Coffee With Kenobi returned for its third time on the Podcast Stage at Celebration Chicago, which ran from April 11th to 15th in 2019, where they were joined by James Arnold Taylor and Catherine Taber. The podcast was also present for Celebration Anaheim—held between May 26th and May 29th, 2022, where they were joined by Dan Madsen. Coffee With Kenobi returned again for Celebration Europe, hosted from April 7th to April 10th, 2023. For the panel, they were joined by Adam Christopher on the HoloNet News Stage. As of 2023's Celebration Europe, Coffee With Kenobi has the most Celebration appearances of any podcast on the Podcast Stage, later renamed the HoloNet News Stage, having only missed 2016's Celebration Europe.
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