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The High Republic Adventures 2023 Vol 1 Review Episode CCV · Star Wars Alliance

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  Speaker 1: The Force will be with you always.
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  Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome back to another episode of Star Wars
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  Speaker 2: Lance your home on Geegle Lance Podcast Network for any
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  Speaker 2: and all. Thanks Star Wars. I'm your host like always.
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  Speaker 2: And actually, now that I think about it, I think
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  Speaker 2: Clay you had the intro. So I'm sorry. Do you apologize?
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  Speaker 3: No, I think you had the opener. That's what we
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  Speaker 3: literally just discussed.
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  Speaker 2: No, I know now that I say, I'm very sorry,
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  Speaker 2: and I said it last week.
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  Speaker 3: No, because one thing that if you are listening to
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  Speaker 3: this when this actually drops, you should also know that
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  Speaker 3: our review for If You Were the Nameless has already
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  Speaker 3: been least alongside this episode, and I did the opener
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  Speaker 3: on that one, so it's technically your turn. So you're good,
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  Speaker 3: you're sir.
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  Speaker 2: Anyways, how are you doing today?
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  Speaker 3: I am doing surprisingly well. It is getting pretty close
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  Speaker 3: to like, uh So, if anybody doesn't know that I
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  Speaker 3: got a new job, I got a new job in
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  Speaker 3: the comic book industry. I am a part of the
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  Speaker 3: basically distribution side of the comic book industry now, and
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  Speaker 3: it is my job to make sure that the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the world knows what comics are coming out and
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  Speaker 3: all of this stuff, and so it's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: data entry and in order to go live like we
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  Speaker 3: do here technically, but for our catalogs and things like
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  Speaker 3: that to go live, every piece of that data needs
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  Speaker 3: to be perfect to a t when uploading it to
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  Speaker 3: our system. Otherwise the smallest space or abbreviation or comma
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  Speaker 3: or period, like the smallest thing will cause that catalog
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  Speaker 3: to just not go live. So for the last three weeks,
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  Speaker 3: I have been combing over this massive spreadsheet and looking
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  Speaker 3: over every single thing. I finally got the spreadsheet back
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  Speaker 3: to me today and I was like, this is the
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  Speaker 3: first time I'm doing this. I'm gonna feel so good.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be basically perfect, because I know I did
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  Speaker 3: a good job, and there was red highlights everywhere, and
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  Speaker 3: I was like, crap, but I uh, I think I
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  Speaker 3: did pretty well. And it's so weird. So I am
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  Speaker 3: thirty two years old. I have never been in uh
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  Speaker 3: I guess Corporate America office space, if you will. So
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  Speaker 3: like the lingo, the jargon, the email etiquette is all
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  Speaker 3: new to me, and so it's just like, oh, I
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  Speaker 3: can't just talk to you like this. I have to
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  Speaker 3: think about how I'm going to talk to you because
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  Speaker 3: I've never met you in person before. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: you like that, and I have to act like I am,
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  Speaker 3: you know, somewhat professional. And I've been doing this for
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  Speaker 3: however long, even though it's only been literally three weeks.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand why high schools don't teach how to
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  Speaker 2: write a professional email like anything. Like I don't work
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  Speaker 2: with customers thankfully, Well, okay, I do, but like it's
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  Speaker 2: on calls ninety percent of the time, so I don't
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  Speaker 2: really ever have to write like a email. Like Matt
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  Speaker 2: gets like two hundred emails a day and has to
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  Speaker 2: respond to like twenty five percent of them, and that's
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  Speaker 2: just the like the non junk ones by the way, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he has a program to filter everything else out. But
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  Speaker 2: like I went on maternity leave, I had six emails
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  Speaker 2: that actually required my attention. When I got back, I
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  Speaker 2: was gone.
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  Speaker 3: You went. I was gonna say you were gone for
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  Speaker 3: four months and all you had was six emails.
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  Speaker 2: I don't get emails like ninety communications on teams. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but y'all don't come to hear us talk about business.
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  Speaker 2: But we like starting out talking about each other like
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  Speaker 2: day and stuff, So we do have some news. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to start off with the not so good news.
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  Speaker 2: The fact of the matter is is that we life
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  Speaker 2: comes to an end, and unfortunately, James Earl Jones passed
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  Speaker 2: away this week, and it's sad.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know what's crazy about this passing of James
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  Speaker 3: Earl Jones? He was ninety three years old. I had
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  Speaker 3: no idea how old. I didn't know he was that old,
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  Speaker 3: for one, But I think I didn't know he was
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  Speaker 3: that old to begin with, because James Earl Jones was
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  Speaker 3: one of those individuals that, for some reason, you were
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  Speaker 3: just like that, dude's never dying, right, like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because of how much of an icon he is and was.
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  Speaker 3: It's just like, oh, you know, you hear about this passing,
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  Speaker 3: and you hear about this passing, it never dawns on
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  Speaker 3: you that Darth freakin Vader could die. Darth Vader was
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  Speaker 3: played by technically two people. The bodysuit actor, I believe
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  Speaker 3: has already passed. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 2: The face has also passed for Return.
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  Speaker 3: Of the Jedi, Yes as that as well. So when
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  Speaker 3: hearing this, and I do want to apologize for anyone
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  Speaker 3: who does not understand my dark humor. My dark humor
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  Speaker 3: is the one thing that helps me cope with my
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  Speaker 3: biggest fear in the entire world, which is death. And
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  Speaker 3: so when I heard that James Earl Jones died, I
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  Speaker 3: did the giant gift of Darth Vader saying no. And
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  Speaker 3: it's but it's also the same reaction, you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: like wow, like why does that have to happen to
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  Speaker 3: such an icon? And he was great. Of course, he
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  Speaker 3: isn't just famous for Star Wars. He did amazing movies
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  Speaker 3: like The Sandlot. He was the voice of Mufasa in
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  Speaker 3: both the quote unquote live action and in the animated
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  Speaker 3: series or show as well or the movie Sorry he
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  Speaker 3: did Coming to America. He did so much in his career,
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  Speaker 3: and I hope that his decision, although something that I
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  Speaker 3: don't agree with, but I hope that his decision to
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  Speaker 3: give Disney his voice for AI in future projects does
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  Speaker 3: get to benefit his family and help them in this
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  Speaker 3: time that he is no longer with them. And that sucks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really sad. I haven't seen stuff like Coming
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  Speaker 2: to America. But his voice is just legendary, like Lion
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  Speaker 2: King Darth Vader, like I mean, he's portrayed Darth Vader
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  Speaker 2: in so many different projects, Rebels, Roague War and obviously
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  Speaker 2: the original trilogy. Like he he was incredibly stunning and
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  Speaker 2: an incredible voice actor. So uh yeah, we will we
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  Speaker 2: will miss you, good sir. But obviously, like Clay said,
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  Speaker 2: your voice will live on and I hope it truly
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  Speaker 2: does benefit a lot of people.
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  Speaker 3: So so with that, let's try to not talk about
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  Speaker 3: such depressing news. And I don't know, I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to get too into it because again I don't know
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  Speaker 3: all of the information. I know that there has been
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  Speaker 3: a lot again when there when is there not a
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  Speaker 3: lot of Star Wars drama on Twitter unfortunately or the
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  Speaker 3: Internet in general. But guys, if you are seeing there
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  Speaker 3: is a big like email blast slash like I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what you would call it, going around and making
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  Speaker 3: its way around. I've did a very quick glance at
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  Speaker 3: it and I felt, hey, this is part of the
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  Speaker 3: Star Wars fandom that I am particularly not really knowledgeable of.
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  Speaker 3: As far as like the nitty gritty stuff, I do
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  Speaker 3: know there has to do a lot with like YouTube
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  Speaker 3: channels demonetization because of the harassment and everything else that's
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  Speaker 3: been going on. In the community, and I was like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I'm probably gonna stay as far away as I can
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  Speaker 3: with this, but I don't know if you have anything
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  Speaker 3: else to say about that at all.
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  Speaker 2: So basically a podcast I did find out it was
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  Speaker 2: not star Wars news Net okay, but a podcast. Star
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  Speaker 2: Wars Explained had no idea who started it, but they
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  Speaker 2: agreed with it and were like, hey, I'll read tweet
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  Speaker 2: this and star Wars Explained is probably one of the
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  Speaker 2: most followed positive star Wars on YouTube. Yeah, and basically
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  Speaker 2: it said, Hey, these three accounts and I think it
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  Speaker 2: was geeks and gamers and two other people are constantly
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  Speaker 2: harassing people. They're using bullying language, they're using the R word,
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  Speaker 2: they're using I think they use the N word, and
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  Speaker 2: then making like transgender jokes, like basically just insulting a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of people, and we'd like to see them demonetize.
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  Speaker 2: They can still keep publishing, but YouTube please stop allowing
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  Speaker 2: them to collect money for this. And YouTube responded back
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  Speaker 2: and was like, please report the videos in question, and
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  Speaker 2: so people started reporting it. There was not a mass
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  Speaker 2: campaign to do it until YouTube said hey, go report
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  Speaker 2: the video, like we'll pay attention. YouTube did come back
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  Speaker 2: and say, yeah, we don't find this against the rules,
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  Speaker 2: which these channels make YouTube a bunch of money. So
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  Speaker 2: it is what it is. I didn't think YouTube was
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  Speaker 2: going to take him down at all, but SWT picked
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  Speaker 2: it up and was like, Oh, you want to play
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  Speaker 2: this game, I'll play this game, and then basically released
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  Speaker 2: a video with almost ten year old emails from Star
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  Speaker 2: Wars explained because again biggest account for Star Wars positive
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  Speaker 2: people retweeted this and said and then so he released
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  Speaker 2: all these receipts and was like, yeah, like your mental
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  Speaker 2: health sucks. Like you're using your wife, your wife is
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  Speaker 2: using you, and that's accurate nowadays.
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  Speaker 3: Well not only that, but like for one, like you said,
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  Speaker 3: it's ten year old emails and a lot can change
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  Speaker 3: in ten years, for one, but like, these are things
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  Speaker 3: that were probably shared in confidence, and for somebody to
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  Speaker 3: just put that out there in the public, it's disgusting.
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  Speaker 3: This is an individual that we've had time and time
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  Speaker 3: again the comments of hey, this persus is not even
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  Speaker 3: a Star Wars fan. They are a fan.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, they are a grifter.
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  Speaker 3: A grifter. For me, I think that it is just
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  Speaker 3: people like that because there's other people in other communities
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  Speaker 3: that are somewhat like this. They like one tiny minuscule
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  Speaker 3: thing about one piece of fandom because they thought it
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  Speaker 3: was cool once and they think they can call themselves
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  Speaker 3: the biggest fan of said community. And it's disgusting and
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  Speaker 3: I don't appreciate it whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: And but yeah, we like and you can say all
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  Speaker 2: day long like, oh, we're not doing this, But when
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  Speaker 2: we can literally pull up videos where you're using transgender
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  Speaker 2: jokes and you're using the R word, and you're literally like,
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  Speaker 2: poor Molly, Molly has been so sexually harassed, and like
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  Speaker 2: people will super chat these guys and go, yeah, like
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  Speaker 2: I would do this to her, and then that super
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  Speaker 2: chat is published on your video, like you agree with that,
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  Speaker 2: Like you're literally agreeing with that because you're publishing it
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  Speaker 2: on your video. It's not cool at all.
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  Speaker 3: And it's like you said, Unfortunately, when it comes to
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  Speaker 3: the revenue that is just pushed through these very large
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  Speaker 3: accounts on just anywhere, not just YouTube, but on TikTok,
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  Speaker 3: on Instagram, anywhere that has that ad revenue building up
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  Speaker 3: for not only the account that gets for but of
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  Speaker 3: course the actual company that being YouTube, They're not going
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  Speaker 3: to do anything about it. This benefits them in some capacity,
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  Speaker 3: and we see this all the time, unfortunately, specifically now
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  Speaker 3: on Twitter, with all the stuff that's been happening there,
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  Speaker 3: and it's very unfortunate. And I wish that we did
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  Speaker 3: not live in a society that says, hey, hate is
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  Speaker 3: what gets you paid and benefits you the most, and
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  Speaker 3: all of these disgusting things. I wish our life did
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  Speaker 3: not revolve around it, because we have seen some great,
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  Speaker 3: beautiful things come out of the Star Wars community, and
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  Speaker 3: it just gets a small little inkling of like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: this is what happened in the week, but like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: let's hate this person and laugh about it and all
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  Speaker 3: of this other stuff and like it's disgusting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and like I'm not saying like I just wish
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  Speaker 2: we could ignore them. But unfortunately, to me of the
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  Speaker 2: general audience, pick it up and go, hey, like this
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  Speaker 2: person said this, Like is this accurate? Like if you
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  Speaker 2: just gave stuff a chance, But like, also just ignore
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  Speaker 2: the haters. Again, we talked about it all the time,
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  Speaker 2: but don't watch stuff you hate, like it's not worth it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it really really isn't. But I just wanted to
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  Speaker 3: bring that up because I know that although I am
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  Speaker 3: in a very small part of Star Wars Twitter, for
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  Speaker 3: that big of drama to finally hit my side of Twitter,
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  Speaker 3: I know it'll most likely hit some very general audience
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  Speaker 3: members that may appreciate something of Star Wars. So if
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  Speaker 3: people are like, hey, what is this, there's some information
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  Speaker 3: about it?
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  Speaker 2: All right, y'all, we're going to hit our first ad
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  Speaker 2: break and we will be right back in three two one.
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  Speaker 3: Looking back at some more news that we have to
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  Speaker 3: talk about. Did we want to talk about this cover?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we do want to book cover.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the book cover. It is the final art for
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  Speaker 3: the Way Seeker, of course. This is the book that
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  Speaker 3: takes uh in the past uh ten years before that,
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  Speaker 3: ten years before the act Light. This is written by
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  Speaker 3: Justina Ireland. And you had said in our Star Wars chat,
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  Speaker 3: where was it you said that the Mando book that
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  Speaker 3: got canceled never made it this far. And remind me again,
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  Speaker 3: because I know we spoke about it very briefly. The
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  Speaker 3: Mando book that was announced. It was after of course
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  Speaker 3: season one of Bandali. Incorrect, Yes, run that by me again.
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  Speaker 3: How did that process go? When was it announced? And
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  Speaker 3: who was even supposed to be writing it? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: My gosh, I literally just lost his name. It's Shadow
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  Speaker 2: the Sith guy.
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  Speaker 3: Oh uh uh Christopher, Adam Christopher.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Adam Christopher was supposed to write it, and
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  Speaker 2: that's how he then picked up Shadow of the Sith.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was announced at New York CABA Con
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  Speaker 2: and then got canceled like three months later. So, and
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  Speaker 2: it had like The Mandalorian, and it was supposed to
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  Speaker 2: it was supposed to be like a gap year story
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  Speaker 2: basically between season one season two, and they never really
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  Speaker 2: got a title and it just had the Mandalorian logo
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  Speaker 2: on it, and like The Mandalorian, a story by Adam
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  Speaker 2: Christopher I think on it. So in the even got
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  Speaker 2: to like temporary art phase.
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  Speaker 3: I would really love to talk to I think both
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  Speaker 3: or either Michael and Tom about the days prior and
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  Speaker 3: after the announcement of The Acolyte show when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to this book in particular. Now there is technically still
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  Speaker 3: another book that's supposed to be releasing in the era
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  Speaker 3: of the Acolyte.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the Jackie and Your.
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  Speaker 3: Novel exactly, but that it had final artwork, Well, no,
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  Speaker 3: I don't even think it technically did, because if I
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  Speaker 3: remember correct, if I remember correctly though on the actual.
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  Speaker 2: The only one that had not the final cover was
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  Speaker 2: the way Seeker one.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's true because I'm looking at the photo now
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  Speaker 3: and it says it just says untitled why a novel? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and it is written by Tessa Gratten. Okay, So my
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  Speaker 3: question to you now is that still being me? Do
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  Speaker 3: you think that I would think so.
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  Speaker 2: I would think so because Disney has not been publishing
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  Speaker 2: a ton outside of the Higher Republic era. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't publish anything outside the Higher Republic era this
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  Speaker 2: year like at all. So I would think that they're
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  Speaker 2: still going to make that novel because they need to
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  Speaker 2: start branching out somehow, because High Republic ends. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's the Disney books for the High Republic Phase three,
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  Speaker 2: Wave three come out like March and April next year,
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  Speaker 2: and that's currently it, and this book is set for
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  Speaker 2: the summer. So you've got to start branching out and
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  Speaker 2: like developing other areas.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know, I hope it still does. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: this gives us a little bit more of just that
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  Speaker 3: like small inkling of hope that like, hey, maybe there's
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  Speaker 3: still a possibility maybe something happens, Yeah, which By the way,
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  Speaker 3: I want to say bravo to a lot of these people.
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  Speaker 3: I know that I have said that I am not
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: going to do it, but looking back at some of
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: these posts, actually, let me see if I can find one.
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  Speaker 3: I saw an update on the position on the petitions,
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  Speaker 3: and there are some pretty large numbers. The last one
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  Speaker 3: I saw it was on the seventh. It says, uh,
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  Speaker 3: they've made it past seven seventy thousand signatures on the
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  Speaker 3: renew of the accolade. I think that's very impressive, very
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  Speaker 3: very awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it has seventy five thousand signatures today, seventy five
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  Speaker 4: sixteen awesome.
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  Speaker 2: So because Star Wars Books and Comics. Uh, when they
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  Speaker 2: published the cover yesterday they said it was nearing seventy
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  Speaker 2: three thousand.
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  Speaker 3: Nice so.
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  Speaker 2: And I love what they said. It seems on top
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  Speaker 2: of some actual fans, we've triggered the petulant online cryberry
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  Speaker 2: crybaby portion of this fan. If a cover upsets you
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  Speaker 2: this much, sincerely, get fucked. I strive to live like that.
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  Speaker 2: But we've been talking about the cover. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and share the cover.
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  Speaker 3: So, oh, yeah, you got it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So it's basically the original art that we saw
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  Speaker 2: a little bit cleaned up, and it's not the best
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  Speaker 2: looking cover, like it really isn't. But Vernestra looks great,
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  Speaker 2: and I have to wonder. I have to wonder if
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  Speaker 2: mass said no to being on the cover, so they
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  Speaker 2: manipulated her face a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I am kind of thinking the same thing, uh, because
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  Speaker 3: it looks like her but not really. And what I
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  Speaker 3: genuinely think is when they made the announcement, it was
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  Speaker 3: basically just a photoshop mock up of both characters on
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  Speaker 3: the cover and then it said not final cover, right.
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  Speaker 3: And also I do not like the blur effect that
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: is like distortings. No master Indira's lightsaber. Look at the
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  Speaker 3: very tip of her lightsaber, like the hilt, Yeah, looks
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  Speaker 3: like it's melting onto her hand.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Okay, I.
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  Speaker 3: Just wish that it was a little bit cleaner. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited to read this nonetheless, because with it being
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  Speaker 3: ten years prior to the act, like, of course this
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: is all speculation tinfoil hat time, we have to assume
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  Speaker 3: that this was more so hey, because we can say
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: it here because we talked about it with Adrian being
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: on the show. We know that Justina has not watched
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: the show, but I'm hoping they gave her notes and
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: said hey, likes to hit exactly exactly and saying like, hey,
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: by the way, Massy Anddira has this like long lost
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: padawan that left the academy that is going to be
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: revealed in the show, and like.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: That I said something like that, Dara, you meant right.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Yes, sorry sorry, Vernestra, yes, uh, And so like I'm
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: hoping that they gave her some sort of notes like that,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: so that way there can be at least something that
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: builds off of the masterpiece that we just got finished watching,
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: rather than just being hey, this is fifty plus one
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: hundred years whatever from when the last time you saw
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Vernestro when she was a kid. Like, I don't want that.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: I want hey, this is where we most recently saw her.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: I need to know how she gets to that point,
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: not hey, this is where she is now and this
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: is who she was back then.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: You know, yeah, no, definitely, but that's just me. The
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: other bit of news that we have is Ahsoka one
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: an Emmy for Best Fantasy and Sci Fi or Fantasy
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: slash sci Fi Costumes. So that is a posthumous Emmy
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: to the costume designer because she passed away last fall.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: So oh, that's so sad. That's but she.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Did an incredible job. I mean, the really great costumes.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: I and I love Ohsoka's final costume in the finale
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: of the show. I think that whole freaking studio did
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: amazing with the makeup, with sound effects, with everything in
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: that show. But I do love the costumes. I think
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: that they got Ezra's like costume, I feel like was
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: really really great. It looked raggedy, so it showed age
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: with him, like being out in the middle of nowhere
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: and stuff like that. So I loved all of that.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: I think that they very well earned and deserved that.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think that's very very awesome.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Yep, for sure, we're gonna go into our second ad
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: break and we'll be right back. The only other thing
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: is that Jon Favreau when talking about the Mandalorian Grogo movie,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: and this is from the dc L blog, so Scott
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Sanders and John Faber said on rewarding the viewers of
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: The Mandalorian and the Mandalorian Grogo Movie, part of what
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: we're setting out to do is to have something that
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: rewards people who have been with the show since the beginning,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: been with Star Wars since the beginning. I don't know
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: how I feel about that, especially that last part.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Luke Skywalker is going to show up. Wait, that's what
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: that means? It was, Hey, do you remember when everybody
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: was talking about the Mandalorian at the very end of
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: season two? Can we do that again? And that's what
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: they're gonna do.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: What if it's the trio? What if it's not just Luke?
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Uh, I'm probably gonna be really pissed. And it's more
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: so like we know, we all know, because he doesn't
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: hide it whatsoever. He literally said it in his interviews
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: for his next movie. In the MCU, Harrison Ford was like,
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: I like money, If you pay me, you can do
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: whatever the hell you want. Like is essentially where he's
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: at now.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: In life.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, the dude's eighty one or eighty one plus, like.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Exactly, so, so if they want to ai the crap
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: out of his body and face and doing all that,
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: He's like, if you pay me, go right ahead. Carries
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: a different monster altogether, because we know that her daughter
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: has been through a lot of online stuff as well,
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: mm hmm, and we know that she's kind of voiced
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: her not disdain but like, yeah, I understand that my
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: mom was a part of this thing, but I also
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: know what my mom's opinion about this whole thing was.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: So you know, there's that. And so for Disney, like,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: I get it, I one hundred percent get it. There's
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: gonna be all these people that are like, this is
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: what I always wanted, and I'm so happy. But all
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: I could think of in my head will be none
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: of these people are in that room. Yea. They these
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: actors are literally looking at a blue wall right now,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: talking to random stand ins like it's it's not gonna
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: feel real to me. Yeah, and I know people are
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: feel real, Clay, this is Star Wars. How is that
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: even possible to feel real? It's very simple, you recast,
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: that's how.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Is right there the body double that they use for
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Luke in the Mandalorian right there.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: He looked fairly similar, Like it's it's not that hard
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: to just make a little bit more makeup and boom,
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: It's not even hard.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: He's right there, But they won't do it. Yeah. Anyways,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: let's move on to our main topic, The High Republic Adventures,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Volume one of the two three run.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna be completely honest with you. I read this
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: during my lunch break. I ordered it the day we
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: talked about it about like, hey, this is when we're
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: gonna record, and I ordered it that night. It got
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: to my Amazon box, the little like key the code
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: and open the box thing. The next day, I forgot
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: to go that day, so that's already one day past
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: and is sitting there. I go the next day, I
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: grab it, and then it sits inside of the Amazon
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: package on my kitchen table for like four days. And
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: then yesterday I put in my backpack and I said,
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: I need to read this today. Got really caught up
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: at work and wasn't able to read it. Wasn't even
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: I'm able to crack it open. Last night, so I'm
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: driving to work. My backpack is just sitting in my
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: passenger seat, and I think, oh shit, I have to
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: read this book board tonight. And I will say this,
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: the most beautiful thing about The High Republic Adventures is
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: that it reads as an all ages book, so there's
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: nothing super heavy. It's not a lot of dialogue. I
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: think one of the best things about this volume in
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: particular is their use of non verbal spread pages splash
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: pages to tell the story. And I was like this
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: is great. Now again I will say this, there is five.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Like we were all worried about Bury, there was somebody
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: else that everybody seems to forget when coming when talking
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: about like who survives Starlight Bacon, there's one person in
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: particular Lulah. No, not for me. There is one Jedi
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: master that I said blood buckets a blood. I can
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: go ahead and spoil that because the moment I saw
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: buckets of blood, I was like, he lived. Now do
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: they explain how he lived? No, they don't explain anything
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: about how the like I want to start there because
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: that's my one pet peeve about this story. I have
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: been off and on with the High Republican adventures, but
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: because of us being so plugged into the High Republic,
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: I get to see a lot of it passing through
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: Twitter and Instagram and all these different things. So it's
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: almost like I don't necessarily need to read the story sometimes.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: But Buggets of Blood was one of those that I
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: was like, oh no, he sacrificed himself. I hate this, Like,
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: why is like all the characters that I love and
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: care about dying in this very like of course, it's
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: a big event that a lot of Jedi died, and
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: so I can't like completely like selfish and being like
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: I want my characters to live. But buckets Blood was
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: one that I was just like, guys, just give me
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: one character, give me one character.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: We were all sad it exactly.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Because it was because it was a very it was
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: a very odd way that he went out too, because
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: of like the chaos that was happening in Starlate Beacon.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: All I remember is some for some reason he had
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: to strip to his.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Understory nameless blood on his cloak.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so he hands it.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: To somebody and is like, here, take this, and he
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: was like.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Peace Yeah, he was like peace out. I'm gonna go,
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: you know, take care of the nameless and save as
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: much people as I can. And that was literally the
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: last thing we heard about him. And then the next thing,
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: you know, you're flipping through this book and you see
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: him just talking and I'm like, you're just gonna drop
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: this here, no context, no explanation.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: And I think I think that's an issue number six.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, so I need to continue with this. So
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: they are essentially in a prison and it looks like some.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Warden give Drindau, who we got an escape from Valo. Yes,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: basically has a giant prison where they have been keeping
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: like people from ships that they have like captured and
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: the people from Starlight Beacon, and they are trying to
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: find Jedi to experiment on or to use with the
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: nameless to feed them and stuff. Yeah, so that's the
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: prison that they're in. And Okay, what's his name? It's
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: not Court, it's oh my gosh, I can't think of
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: his name. Farzala? Is it Farsala? I think it's Farsala.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: It's this guy, this guy.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Yes, I get him and the other Jedi master confused,
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Uh oh shoot, because he because what's his name? Rescues
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: him at the very end, the one that I always
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: get confused with.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: He is.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: Uh Jedi Knight.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Forsala thea Yeah, okay, so I got his name right. Yes, yeah,
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Barsala and Buckets of Blood were the two Jedi who
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: stayed behind, yeah, from the comic to try and help
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: the people in Starly Beacon. Yes, everybody else got to
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: safety and took the young Wings from Starly Beacon off
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: along with Lulu. Lulu Lula because she was protecting the
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: entire crew. So yeah, so I think what happened to
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: them is talked about an issue number six based on
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: what I've seen on Twitter.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: Who good to know?
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Just a shameless plug for Ryan. You can also read
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: his comic reviews, which have a great summary of what
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: happens in each issue on them, so I always like
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: checking out his reviews once I have read the comic
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: or book. I loved this volume, just kind of going
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: overall and everything. I love the story that it tells.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: I think how they've figured out a way to get
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: Lula like to like not withdrawal from her Jedi parts,
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: but like the amnesia that she has.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: I kind of dig it while I was reading it.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, so she's gonna be able to
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: have her cake and eat it too. But it's not
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: really that at all because she has lost the part
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: of herself. Now again this I say, lost a part
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: of herself, but I think now she is more hole
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: than ever. It's very contradicting in the thought process because
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: she I love how they I love the reveal by
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: the way, how Zene is like about to take this
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: person's head off and then she's like, oh hold up,
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: wait a minute, and then it's Lula. That was great.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: I love that and then you're like what.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: And this is why I'm glad that we review the
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: volumes and not the individual issues, because I did get
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: the initial first issue when this came out, and I
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: was like, what the heck, man, I'm sorry. If you
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: can hear my baby.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: In the background very vaguely, I think it'll be.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: I think Matt's trying to put her to sleep at
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: this point. So I read the first issue and I
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: was like, what the heck? This is too quick, Like, yay,
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: I'm happy Lula's alive, but like, I don't like that
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: she's back this quick, Like I wanted like some more
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: build up to it, I guess. But then the second
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: issue really builds that up in like showcases what happened?
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it The second issue was all about well what happened?
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: And I do like the biggest thing about The Higher
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Republic as a whole is making it relatable as fuck
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: when it comes to trauma, when it comes to emotions,
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: when it comes to identity and things like that. When
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: you're thinking, how could a bunch of aliens have anything
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: to be like me? And then you read stuff like
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: this and you're like, holy crap. And it's the reason
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: why the High Republic has gotten the praise that it has,
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: and here Zene is very what's the word I'm looking for,
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: She's very cautious with having like being able to bring
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: this up. She's like, hey, if you're not ready, that's
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: totally fine. Like cause again Lula barely quote unquote barely
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: knows Zine anymore because of this amnesia, and she's like, no,
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: I think it's time I can finally tell you. And
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: it goes through. Like I had said before this, there
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: is a lot of dialogue here because there is a
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: little bit of talking, but then it gets to these
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: moments of like nonverbal splash pages and it shows the
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: sequence of events of her literally just surviving. That's all
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: it is. She's in fight or flight mode this entire time.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: And at a point she does say like, I had
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: no idea what a Nighill or a Jedi was at
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: one point. And this is somebody who lived her entire
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: life knowing nothing but being a Padawan or a young
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: Wing and a Jedi and all about the Jedi. So
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: it's a very interesting dynamic with what's gonna come of
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: the future now we know because we talked about it
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: in our last episode about the Wedding Bells issue that
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: is coming out next month. But sorry, not next month
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: in November. Is it December? I fancy sper Okay, yeah, yeah,
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: so solicitations are for December. It's October four, December.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: So so seeing all of this now, I really do
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: enjoy it. Now we got a little bit from what
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: I can remember about what she's so traumatized over with
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: the events of happening on Starlight, but we don't know
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: the whole story. Yeah, And I think that's what this
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: whole thing will Annevily be about, because there's these moments
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: where Lula like is having a panic attack. You can
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: see it in her face. She's remembering things. And at
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: this point when she's remembering, you know that at the
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: moment of her memory, she was a Jedi. She is
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: somebody who is living that lifestyle. But you see her
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: force choking somebody and you're like, oh, what is this? Yes,
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: correct me if I'm wrong, though, the person that she
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: remembers force choking, isn't that not the individual that she
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: sees on the beach in the very beginning of this volume?
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Yes, I think so.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: They look very similar. So I don't know.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: I think it's I.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: Think it's Cricks, this guy or this person.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think that was in the first wave.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: It was in phase one, yes, yes.
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: Yes, And that was how we got introduced to Zine
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: in the first place.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: And we're about to jump into our third ad, y'all.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: We promise we'll be right back, we promise.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: So, and we know that him and Zine.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Where part of the like one hundred and fifty years
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: later Path of the Open Hand.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: Yes, and but they had history. So again, is Lula
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: ever gonna tell Zine what happened?
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: I think so, based on like the wedding bows issue
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: that's to come, I think ultimately like Lula needs to
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: like face that down and kind of just see what
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: happens because her whole thing was started Beacon. Now that
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: I remember the end of Wave one is she's trying
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: to get Cricks and take him out like and basically
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: get him back under control. So I think she will
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: have to come to terms with that because I think
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: Cricks makes an appearance later on too.
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: So now surprisingly because another face shows up that I
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: didn't think we were ever going to see, an actual
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: visual for which I actually greatly appreciate. We have a
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: character from Escape from Bellow Show up.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Uh dig it, yes it excuse me.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: She is Gavy's quote unquote sister.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: Yep and and basically nibbed Rindo's assistant.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: Right hand or whatever. Right, Yeah, so how do you
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: feel about her? Just like up and leaving NIP.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: I found that super interesting. I'm interested to see if
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: we'll get to continue to get panels with her because
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: she doesn't get a lot of panel time for what
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: I thought was going to happen because we knew coming
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: into it, we knew that Drindo was kind of going
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: to be the main bad for the higher public adventures mhm.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: So for what we get in this volume with them,
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: I don't feel like we get enough. So I want
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: to see that continue, and I want to see Gabby
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: get the chance to reunite with Driggett.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: I think we're gonna get Gavvy. And because this is
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: still going right or has it ended, it is.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: Still going not taking a break either, so it's going
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: to keep going.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: I think we see Gabby in the story with her
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: being involved. I think you have to because because of
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: the chemistry there. So I am going to be greatly
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: appreciative of that. But I think it's more so interesting
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: because this warden dude and from this prison, from my knowledge,
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: has no actual real ties to the Night Hill. His
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: only tie to the Night Hill was nip and so,
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: and he quickly turns on that near the end of
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: this book and he talks to drink it. He goes, hey,
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: little lady, like, you either stay here and die or
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: you can come with me, and you know, we'll do whatever.
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: So the really interesting thing about that is the only
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: reason why she was a part of the Night Hill
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: was to keep her family safe. Yeah, because of the
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: situation on Valow. Well, now that she's walked away from
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: the Nihill, is she going to be more willing to
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: help out Gabby in the Jedi or does she now
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: feel stuck with this random warden war criminal I'm assuming
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: of some kind and it's still going to go down
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: that dark path.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I think she's she's a wild card.
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: That's literally I was gonna say she is a wild card.
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: It's so weird because you have this very emotional story
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: of like, oh, you know, I chose to be a
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: bad guy in order to save my family, but you
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: literally just walked away from that just now what's holding
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: you back from being good anymore, like, from from going
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: back to be a good person. Like that's such an
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: interesting like concept that they created for this for this
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: wave three.
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do have to wonder because Justina has the
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: next middle grade book. Oh, are we going to see
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: Gavy ever again? Or is he or like you said,
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: are they going to show up in this comic.
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: I think it's might be easier. Well, I don't know.
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's it's all up in the air
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: and it's really up to them. But we know that
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: Gavy had a hard stance on staying at Valo to
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: be like the last line of defense, right, Yeah, So
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: in my mind, if we see Gavy, it's because whichever
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: hero we're following, whether it be in the novel or
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: in this comic, we go to Valo. We don't see
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: Gabby anywhere else. We go to Valo.
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm kind of thinking too. We're not
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: gonna see them jump off and the great Beyond and
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: like come help. No, until the night Hills cleared off
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: a ballot and the night Hills no longer a threat,
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: He's gonna stay on ballot.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: So yeah, like I said at the beginning, I love
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: this comic. It was, like you said, it was super
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: easy read. The art is gorgeous.
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: I want to say. I want to say, and I
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: do apologize for the person who was drawing the first
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: wave of adventures they start this book. It's the same
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: art at the very beginning of this book, but by
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: the end of the book that art style changes. Yeah,
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: and I am a bigger fan of the ending art
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: than I am of the beginning art. And if you
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: are looking to tell me that it's the same person,
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: then I am shocked because it looks like completely different art.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: So I'm looking at it and I think Totallyboo does
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: the first three issues and the last two issues are
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: done by Elisa Rumbully.
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: She is amazing. Yeah, this design, like, for one, the
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: way she draws Zine in the last few issues. I
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: love the way zine is drawn. Zine also under her
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: artistic style ages like ten years, which I also kind
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: of appreciate because they've been through a lot, Like I
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: feel like there needs to be something that shows them that, like, hey,
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: like yeah, there is there is some sort of change
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: in me. But also Lula's design and costume in the
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: very last pages. I love it her like little ear piece,
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: headband thing, like all of it. I love it. I
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: love her art. The colors really pop in this book.
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: I think they've always popped in the High Republic Adventures.
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: So if you're a really big fan of colors, this
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: is definitely the book for you to read. And they
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: also have the I believe it's alternative cover art illustrations
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: in the back of the book. The cover gallery Joe
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: Magung and Schari Sherry Eli and she.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: Was doing fan art for the series.
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: That I need that on my wall, that is.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: I need to see if she has a web page.
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: If she has a web page and this print is
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: on there, I'm buying it. And then after I buy it,
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: I'm going to feel a lot better when I ask
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: Taylor from geek Verse to buy me or print me
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: off a giant freaking poster of this thing. This looks beautiful.
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: It is gorgeous. I love just the color combination, the
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: slickness of it. I love it. It's absolutely amazing.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, somebody took her. I think she got off Twitter.
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: But I will definitely look to see if she has
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: a online store.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: Okay, here's her Instagram Yeah, this is her Instagram. She
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: has an Etsy and she also did she did a
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: cover for the eighth issue of the Higher Republic Adventures,
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: and I think she has a wedding bells one as well.
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna share my screen so if you're on YouTube,
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: you can see.
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: I start typing it in on Google and then immediately
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: shows her Etsy page.
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's her issue number eight cover.
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: She has enamel pins. Oh, it's of Ahsoka, obi Wan
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: and Anakin. That is these all look great.
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: I can't spend money, stop in Clay, hurry, Ribby's gonna
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: kill me. Okay, we do not have the money to
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: do that right now. But yeah, all that to say,
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: absolutely amazing work on this graphic novel or this volume one. Guys,
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: you can pick it up today digitally, physically wherever your
• 57:48
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• 57:52
  Speaker 3: I highly recommend it because, like I said, it is
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: an all ages book. I think anybody can read it.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: It's really really fun, and I love books in the
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: comic genre that lean heavy into the art, and this
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: is that book because, like I said, there's a lot
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: of pages that have very minimal dialogue that uses the
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: art to share the story and it's absolutely beautiful. But
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: with that being everything that we have to say about
• 58:26
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• 58:28
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• 58:35
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• 58:39
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• 58:47
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• 58:50
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• 59:00
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• 59:04
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• 59:09
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• 59:27
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• 1:00:01
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• 1:00:03
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• 1:00:07
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• 1:00:32
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• 1:00:34
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• 1:00:36
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