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Happy Hour #114: May the Fourth Be With You · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome's Deffe Never
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  Speaker 1: told you production of iHeart Idea, and welcome to another
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  Speaker 1: edition of Half Hour. As always, if you choose to drink,
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  Speaker 1: please do so responsibly. We're not currently sponsored by anything
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  Speaker 1: we mentioned. I don't think we're gonna imagine anything of note.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, because I, as Samantha knows, as some
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  Speaker 1: of you probably know, I'm having a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: week refrigerator drama.
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  Speaker 2: I do have a light beer.
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  Speaker 1: That shall remain nameless, but I love Yes, I do
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  Speaker 1: love it, and I even have a good Star Wars
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  Speaker 1: saying with it. But then you'll yes and no, we
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  Speaker 1: can have that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Today is May the four. It is Star Wars Day
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  Speaker 1: of a the fourth be with you. I'm already feeling it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling it because I have been up for several
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  Speaker 1: hours taking pictures in various loop Skywalker cosplay, which was fun,
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  Speaker 1: and that TikTok should be available somewhere, might be on
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  Speaker 1: Instagram too, who knows, who knows? But yeah, I saw
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  Speaker 1: a return of the Jedi in theaters. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: see imprestikes back in theaters today, which means I need
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  Speaker 1: to find somewhere playing a new hope or I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what will happened, won't be good point, it will happen,
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  Speaker 1: but this one's going to be a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: shorter one, but just kind of a like celebratory high
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  Speaker 1: happy Star Wars Day. There have been some Star Wars
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  Speaker 1: news lately, actually because Celebration just happened, which is when
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  Speaker 1: they make a bunch of big announcements. That's when they
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  Speaker 1: announced that Return of the Jedi would be playing in theaters.
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  Speaker 1: I really want the poster, but I shouldn't get it
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  Speaker 1: because I've already said I have too much Star Wars
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  Speaker 1: stuff and my walls are covered in But the post
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  Speaker 1: is really good.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to have a house soon, so go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get a base. Make sure you have a basement.
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  Speaker 3: We need you to have a basement.
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  Speaker 1: My Star Wars basement doesn't sound creepy at all. Come
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  Speaker 1: to Myso Wars.
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  Speaker 3: Don't have real people down there, like as as a prop. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: that would be the scary part.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I guess so, I guess so.
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  Speaker 1: But they also recently announced that Carrie Fisher, who played
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  Speaker 1: Princess Leah Organa who we are gonna rerun the two
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  Speaker 1: parter we did on her soup, so little help for
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  Speaker 1: that is getting a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk
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  Speaker 1: of Fame.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, in honor of Star Wars date. So that's happening.
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  Speaker 1: By the time you've listened to this, its probably already happened,
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  Speaker 1: but it's happening May fourth, at eleven thirty am. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: And Billy Lord is accepting the star on her mom's palf.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so that's I mean, very late, but it's
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  Speaker 1: much need about time, is what I say. Yes, And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's there has been so much news that and as
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  Speaker 1: we said in our last episode that we did when
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  Speaker 1: we were reading the mail Dina Santas, and Dina asked like,
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  Speaker 1: how are you feeling. I'm feeling a little overwhelmed, to
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  Speaker 1: be honest, it's not bad, like, okay, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's still in the scheme of things. Oh wow, you're
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  Speaker 1: getting so much Do Wars content. It is not a
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  Speaker 1: big problem. I think it's just like it is so
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  Speaker 1: much and how I'm going to keep up with all
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  Speaker 1: of it. And also a lot of the quotes I've
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  Speaker 1: heard about stuff that's coming out have made me really nervous.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes those kind of quotes work out, Like they said
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  Speaker 1: a similar thing about Andor, and I ended up really
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  Speaker 1: loving and Or. But one of the things they said
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  Speaker 1: was it's going to take Cannon and turn it on
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  Speaker 1: its head. And I was like, okay, but do we
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  Speaker 1: need to do this because people are confused about it,
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  Speaker 1: kind of really fine about it. If you haven't noticed,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you have. So I've heard a couple of
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  Speaker 1: quotes about that, especially around the act Lite, that make
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  Speaker 1: me nervous. I don't know that show is going to
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  Speaker 1: be for me, but I think I'll be really good.
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  Speaker 2: And that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we don't have to like every piece of
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  Speaker 1: Star Wars that comes out, and to be clear, I
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  Speaker 1: actually don't, and I'll be talking about that in an
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  Speaker 1: upcoming fictional Women Around the World. But it does feel
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  Speaker 1: strange to me because I am such a completionist and
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  Speaker 1: it's strange for me to think, like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: If I'll watch that, I'll see what people say. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I think it is going to be good. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: little nervous about Ahsoka. I was so excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: I am excited about it still, but I am nervous
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  Speaker 1: because and again This is a really silly problem to have.
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  Speaker 1: But when you love something so much, it's not that
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  Speaker 1: I'm protective of it. I've just been kind of let
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  Speaker 1: down several times lately.
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  Speaker 2: Because I I.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly feel like I'm one of the most And you
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  Speaker 1: can if you disagree, Samantha, you can say I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I'm one of the most forgiving Star Wars fans.
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  Speaker 2: Like I don't know, just on a spectrum.
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  Speaker 1: I won't say like I'm the most forgiving or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that, but on the spectrum of like I hate
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  Speaker 1: literally everything too. You know, maybe that's not what I wanted,
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  Speaker 1: but I like this part in this part and this
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  Speaker 1: part like I'm much more on debt.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, I feel like you hold your opinions in really
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  Speaker 3: well and you're not gonna yuck someone's yum.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, unless they're terrible people. Yeah, yes, yeah, we other then.
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  Speaker 3: You wouldn't do it at them unless they were like
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  Speaker 3: mean to you, specifically to your faith.
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  Speaker 1: Right, because I'm just not about that, Like if somebody
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  Speaker 1: likes something, then I write, what harm does that do me?
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  Speaker 1: I think that it can feel sometimes it's like I
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  Speaker 1: was saying in the last one, like oh no, everybody
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  Speaker 1: likes this thing and I don't like it, then they're
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  Speaker 1: going to make more of this thing, and that can
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  Speaker 1: feel kind of like, oh, oh God, They're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna keep making this thing I don't like and
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  Speaker 1: not the thing I actually like. But that's still no
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  Speaker 1: reason to really come at somebody and also probably not true.
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  Speaker 1: But I can get why it feels that way, But.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's just so interesting with characters like Ahsoka, because I
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  Speaker 1: feel like she's gone through such an arc. If everybody
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  Speaker 1: hated her and then everybody loved her, and now people
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  Speaker 1: are tired of her because everybody loves her and they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to like get you really pumped about the show,
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  Speaker 1: and that's like all the merchandise that people are like
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  Speaker 1: really going back and forth about how they feel about her,
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  Speaker 1: and then I don't really I feel like how she
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  Speaker 1: was portrayed in a book of Boba Fette didn't really
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  Speaker 1: fit with her character. But you know, that's an interpretation,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm nervous about it, That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: But cautiously excited. Cautiously excited.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I did get Jedi Survivor, which is the video
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  Speaker 1: game that just came out. I haven't played it yet.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very very excited to play it. I've heard really
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  Speaker 1: good things, but I am, of course still in my
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  Speaker 1: never ending Last of Us to play through, and I.
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  Speaker 2: Feel like I can't stop until I'm done with the
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  Speaker 2: Last of Us too, and then I will play. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to mess up the control smith that don't
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  Speaker 2: laugh at I know, I know, I know.
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  Speaker 1: It's very very important. But yes, if anyone's played, please
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  Speaker 1: let me know. I am excited to do it. And
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  Speaker 1: my friend Marissa was staying with me this past weekend
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  Speaker 1: because we trying to get Taylor Swift tickets and it
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  Speaker 1: was a fun fiasco, but she tried to convince me
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  Speaker 1: to play it and I was like, I'm playing the
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  Speaker 1: Last of Us two odd nothing else until it's done.
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  Speaker 1: And then she was like, okay, yes, I'm such a completionist.
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  Speaker 1: And that's one of them. The lessons I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: learn here is that there is so much Star Wars
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  Speaker 1: stuff is that I think I am going to have
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  Speaker 1: to start picking and choosing in some ways I know,
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  Speaker 1: or at least prioritizing things and not beating myself up
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  Speaker 1: over you haven't watched every episode of this what kind
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  Speaker 1: of fan are? Which I know is silly, but I
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  Speaker 1: do feel that way sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: Do you also feel that way because you know people
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  Speaker 3: are going to ask you your opinion since you are
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  Speaker 3: such a diehard fan, so you feel like you need
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  Speaker 3: to be prepared.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of.
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  Speaker 1: And something like that happens when I was on a
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  Speaker 1: Holly show when I'm so nervous. Like she's a good
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  Speaker 1: friend of ours, she's a kind interviewer. She's also I mean,
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  Speaker 1: she has very strong opinions and I we disagree in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them, but she's also very good about like,
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  Speaker 1: if that's your thing, right, Like I'm not going to right.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like I had no reason to be as
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  Speaker 1: nervous as I was going on her show. But I literally,
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  Speaker 1: I know we've talked about this before. I can't remember
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  Speaker 1: parts of it because I was so nervous. And the
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  Speaker 1: reason for it is is that that kind of gatekeeping
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  Speaker 1: aspect we've talked before about, especially when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: women of Oh, you don't know every single fact, you
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  Speaker 1: haven't read every book, every comic, you haven't played every game,
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  Speaker 1: your opinion is not valid anymore. And I know that's
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  Speaker 1: not true, but I get so nervous about it. And
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  Speaker 1: at the end she asked to me, like, what are
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  Speaker 1: you excited about? And I remember flubbing so hard of
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  Speaker 1: like I said it character's name incorrectly, I set a
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  Speaker 1: show's name incorrectly, Like I know those things. But I
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  Speaker 1: felt like I had to have an opinion where the
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  Speaker 1: honest truth was. I really wasn't. I was like generally excited.
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  Speaker 1: If there was like one project I was super excited about,
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  Speaker 1: and then I felt ashamed afterwards. I was like I
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  Speaker 1: should have said this, this, this is the cool one.
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  Speaker 1: I could have said yeah, but yeah, just the And
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of that Star Wars fandom notoriously
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  Speaker 1: can be very toxic. There are very toxic aspects of it.
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  Speaker 1: There are very gatekeepy aspects of it. But I know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that is in my own head, like
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  Speaker 1: it's it exists. But also Holly is very kind and like,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 3: Like, yeah, you couldn't have said anything wrong elseide of
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  Speaker 3: like attacking.
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  Speaker 1: Her likes yeah, right right, So it is part of that.
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  Speaker 1: And I do feel like I have to have an
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  Speaker 1: answer ready whenever anybody asks, and if you're listening and
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  Speaker 1: you're like, oh no, I shouldn't ask the stress is right, No,
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  Speaker 1: that's not it at all.
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  Speaker 2: This again, this is more me thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have a whole performance anxiety. I think we
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  Speaker 3: talked about this with my whole like being on other podcasts,
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  Speaker 3: I had several where I go into a spiral, literally
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  Speaker 3: into an emotional anxiety spiral where I have to like
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  Speaker 3: time out from reality. But I do that too, but
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  Speaker 3: on a different thing in general, when I just feel
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  Speaker 3: like I'm making myself look really silly and it's not true.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I get that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's I want to come back and talk
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  Speaker 1: about this because I had a whole thing planned that
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  Speaker 1: we did discuss when Joey came on. We talked about
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  Speaker 1: Harry Potter and JK Rowling. I had a thing planned
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  Speaker 1: about it before, and I want to come back and
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  Speaker 1: discuss it because we didn't really get into it too much.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the reasons Star Wars became such a
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  Speaker 1: big part of my life because believe it or not,
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  Speaker 1: it's like gone through ups and downs. But this is
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  Speaker 1: pretty new. This level for me is because I lost
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  Speaker 1: There was a vacuum from losing Harry Potter, right, and
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  Speaker 1: then the pandemic happened, and I really needed some kind
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  Speaker 1: of comfort thing, and so it became Star Wars. But
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  Speaker 1: the danger of doing that is that you know what
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  Speaker 1: happens if I lose Star Wars, right, And I know
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  Speaker 1: we kind of talked about that too. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: Star Wars is different and then that there are a
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  Speaker 1: million different curators over like a long time, but still
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  Speaker 1: it would really not be good. And one of the
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  Speaker 1: reasons I feel so I think that I get so nervous,
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  Speaker 1: like even when I did movie Crush with Chuck about
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  Speaker 1: Empire Strikes Back, like that should have just been a
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  Speaker 1: fun thing that I got to talk about something I
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  Speaker 1: love instead of so stressed about it.
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  Speaker 2: Is because it's.
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  Speaker 1: A double edged sort of loving something so much that
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  Speaker 1: it could hurt you. And I think that's why I
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  Speaker 1: get so protective and sometimes defensive. I can admit it
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  Speaker 1: of like, well, I love these characters, and here's why
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  Speaker 1: I'm please don't attack these characters because they're me right right. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's one of the reasons I get so
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  Speaker 1: anxious about it, like it should it should be a
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  Speaker 1: fun thing. Yeah, But that's I do want to come
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  Speaker 1: back and talk about that. And I find so much
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  Speaker 1: joy in this. I know I'm making it sound like
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  Speaker 1: it's such a stressor for me. There are stressful aspects
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  Speaker 1: of being a big fan, but there's so much joy
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  Speaker 1: in it. There's so much joy and sharing that with
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  Speaker 1: other people and getting so excited and going through the
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  Speaker 1: movie theaters and their theme drinks that have puns and
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  Speaker 1: all those things.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't want to downplay that at all, like
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 1: I literally when we were me and Marissa were watching
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  Speaker 1: Return of the Jedi, look barely refrained from squealing, like
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 2: I like, it's barely refrained.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm excited to see this one with you this tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: You know it will be May fourth when you listen
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  Speaker 3: to this so tonight for those of you who are
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  Speaker 3: listening in real time release times. So I'm excited because
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  Speaker 3: I will not squill, but I will watch you squill
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  Speaker 3: and smile.
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  Speaker 2: I will try not to. But we are going.
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  Speaker 1: It's a sold out theater, so there's gonna be some
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna get there early.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, yeah, so we just have to get that early, right.
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  Speaker 3: We have to get there so many planning. So if
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  Speaker 3: we see, if you see us, listeners, come say hi.
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  Speaker 3: If coming through the event with.
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  Speaker 2: Us, Yes, yes, share with us.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's one of my favorite things, is that
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  Speaker 1: forty years later, here we are sharing this experience in
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  Speaker 1: a movie theater.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'm very excited. Have you made the fourth?
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you do or don't do to celebrates, are not celebrate.
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  Speaker 2: May the Fourth be with you. May that fourth be
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  Speaker 2: with you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Cheers And
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