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Episode 78: Get to Know Your Hosts! LeeAnn interviews Lauren with a variety of (hilarious & insightful) questions · Most Things Kenobi - A Star Wars Podcast

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  Hello there, it's time for most things Kenobi.
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  I prefer all things Kenobi, but I suppose that's not the Jedi,
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  way long as it's not all things Anakin.
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  Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of most things Kenobi.
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  A podcast about Obi-Wan Kenobi and all things Star Wars.
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  I'm your host Leanne and I'm your host law red, and this week
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  is a two parts. The first part of a two part
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  Series where we kind of loosely call, it get to know your host
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  and this week you're going to get to know Lauren because I'm
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  interviewing Lauren for all of you.
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  Now I have created a list of questions that she has not seen.
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  Scene. She doesn't know anything about
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  she has no prep time. No idea.
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  So it's going to be fun. I don't know what to expect.
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  Yeah. And she's gonna do that for me
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  and then it'll be my turn to not know what to expect and answer
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  all the questions so It's kind of funny because it could
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  literally be anything a day like we didn't put any parameters on
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  this. You could ask me about celery
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  for all I care because, you know, I have feelings about yes,
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  we already know your your sordid past with celery, so we'll keep
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  it out of this one. I was gonna text you.
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  Right? Before we started recording that
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  I was eating a really delicious cheese that I Thought you might
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  like you don't want any various. Yeah I do have a food.
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  It could be a food related question.
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  Oh we'll see it's not it could be though.
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  Okay I'm gonna give you I'm gonna I'm gonna lay it out for
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  you but oh I love me some cheese.
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  It's a delicious cheese. That's been soaked in a Syrah.
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  Whoa Trader. Joe's.
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  Shut up. Oh they have the best hmm
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  they're green guy. This cheese is really good.
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  Oh, I've never had that. See, we could just talk about
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  only cheese whole thing about cheese.
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  Oh god. Well that's all you really need
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  to know about us. We both love cheese and we'll
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  talk about it, Ad nauseam. Thanks for stopping by everyone
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  have a great week. Thank you, take care.
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  No, I'm gonna start pretty tame. Okay?
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  Because I mean, we're both Star Wars Fans and I'm sure everyone
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  out there. Has heard our, how did we meet?
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  How did we get into Star Wars? But my first question is, and
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  I'm not sure you've answered this or at least not in a
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  condensed form. Is we know how you Got Started
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  Loving Star Wars and in getting into the fandom, you know the
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  whole realm of you of Star Wars. Yeah.
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  But tell us how you got started writing and then eventually
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  writing fanfics because you write some of the best out there
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  and I think I'm not the only one that would say that.
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  Oh well, that's nice. Thanks.
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  You mean to some just writing in general how I, well, I know you
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  write in general maybe even working on stuff in the
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  background for years. But when did you get started
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  writing at all? And then when what started, what
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  spawned you into writing fanfic? So I don't know.
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  I was just like born writing. There you go.
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  She came out with a pen. I did a little notepad and
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  started a story. The minute I stepped on the
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  planet. Honestly, I've been writing
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  stories as far back as I can remember, like, some of my
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  earliest memories were coming up with stories.
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  Like this is a tell you the kind of child I am in our elementary
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  school. We had Had.
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  I can't remember what it was called.
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  Oh, young authors. It was like a writing
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  competition every year and I fucking hated it was awful
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  because you'd have to write the story and draw the pictures to
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  go with it and then they would get and what one year mine did
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  place and I ended up going to like the regional because I
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  wrote I wrote it at not a documentary.
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  I wrote an autobiography but Martin Luther King jr.
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  Nice piece which I was like, six, what could I possibly have
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  said? But like what the first, I'm not
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  sure. Kindergarten my story was about
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  the Gulf War. Holy shit.
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  Lord. See, I didn't know any of this.
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  Yeah, I know, it's ridiculous. But yes, I, I started writing
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  seriously, though. I had a dream in college and
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  wait, wait, wait. Isn't that a Martin Luther King
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  quote? Yes, I had a dream but not in
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  college, right? But that went so perfectly
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  together. Anyway, I am not channeling.
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  Martin Luther King jr. I love him, but he stands on his
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  own. Does I just had a dream in
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  college. It was super real.
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  Like, it felt real, actually. All of my novels that I'm
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  working on started as dreams weirdly enough like, almost all
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  of them which is really strange. It was just, it was like a
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  Transmission from the universe and I just had to start writing
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  it. And I've been working at it ever
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  since and it has evolved and college was 2007?
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  Oh, yeah. Mine was oh, when you graduated.
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  Yeah. Okay.
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  I was 2006. I was going to say, you didn't
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  start in 2007. No way.
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  Okay, yeah, no, I graduated in 2007.
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  So it was a long time ago and I've been writing it ever since,
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  but I will finish it someday. I have a bunch of other novels
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  that I'm working on two, but so fanfiction was though, I
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  actually started writing a Luke FanFiction right after college
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  will never be shared with anyone ever.
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  We all have those. Yeah, I mean, it's it's
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  gruesome, but it was. I still read it, sometimes it's
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  in a notebook, like, it's handwritten than it was.
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  Yeah, it's all about post Return of the Jedi and I just there was
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  no Star Wars content. So I created my own.
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  Yep, that time there was nothing else coming out in 2008, make
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  sense, maybe Revenge of the Sith.
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  I don't remember. I think that came out before
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  that though, like way before that.
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  So, yeah, and now just Obi-Wan stuff because Clone Wars blame
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  it all on Clone Wars, blame it on the Clone Wars.
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  I hear you there though. Yeah there's a lot of unresolved
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  tension but not in the fanfic know.
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  We've resolved all tensions. Yeah.
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  That's the point of fanfic, right?
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  Right. Yes.
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  All right. So this was kind of the food.
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  It could be food related but it does not need to be.
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  How is it? It's like are you pregnant or
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  not? You either.
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  Are you are honest. If voters that not Hear me out.
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  Okay? What is one of your guilty
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  pleasures that you're willing to admit?
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  Now, that could be a music like a band, or a mmm, an artist that
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  you're just as guilty, pleasure or it's, or is a cheat meal or a
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  food or, you know, just a guilty pleasure really bad movie.
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  You like, you know, something like that.
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  That's what I wanted to ask. I actually wrote the same
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  question for you, really? Oh, I have my answer.
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  I already know my answer because I'm like, yeah.
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  Um, oh my God, I have too many. I do night in myself, nothing,
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  whatever you're willing to admit here today, please share well,
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  one guilty, pleasure is that I actually really like Dirty
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  Dancing event at night. Well, I mean it's right on par
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  with our shirtless Cassie and that we've gotten so Diego.
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  Luna, we it can't get enough. It's terrible.
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  But he is adorable and it's Like one of those movies where, you
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  know, exactly what you're going to get, and it doesn't doesn't
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  rip your heart out completely and it came out when I was
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  young. And yeah, that's definitely one.
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  Like food-wise though, I have an anything that's like a British
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  scone. I can't say no to it.
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  So there you go. I shouldn't eat them because
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  they kind of make me sick, but I love them too much pleasure.
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  Yeah, exactly. And I pay for it.
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  Hey, good, it's good. Good right Havana Nights and a
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  scone. That's a nice night in makes no
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  sense together, unless you're no.
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  If you could go anywhere in the world tomorrow, no price, no
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  qualms, nothing, nothing's holding you back, there's no
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  work. Nothing where would you go?
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  Tomorrow? This is the this is hard
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  Iceland. I can't believe you'd go back to
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  Iceland. Yeah, there are things.
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  I want to see that are the UK because I kind of like really
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  have always wanted to do like a Like a super nerd tour of the UK
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  where I go and see, like, like Robin Hood and King Arthur
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  locations. I could see you doing that.
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  You'd be so into it. I want to go to tintagel and I
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  yeah my and Scotland like so I'm torn between the two islands.
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  You know? Yes the UK are Iceland.
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  Yeah definitely I love the light there.
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  Yeah it's it's more North so it looks like Like Autumn all the
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  time when you're taking. I know what you mean by.
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  Yeah. When I lived in Alaska, that was
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  that was something. Yeah, was very noticeable and I
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  loved it. You don't think it will be but
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  it is just a little bit more latitude North and it's quite
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  different. It's pretty If you and Obi-Wan
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  went on a date, where would you want to go and what would you
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  do? Not first date, just any date.
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  Any date. Like if you only had one chance,
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  this was your chance. Can I pick your fanfic as my
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  date? Oh, which one?
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  You know, which oh, the resort one?
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  Yeah, the trash pile. I love it though.
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  It's not odd location. Know, I'm all about the snow.
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  My first thought was like a museum, but I think he'd be too
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  pedantic and like explaining everything the whole time.
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  Well, you could start at the Museum.
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  Yeah. Let him be Obi-Wan there and
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  then take him somewhere where he opens up a little more.
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  Honestly I think it like a walk in a garden or like nature to
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  get him away from. Like Place him back in a natural
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  environment so that would be nice somewhere where like no
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  one's watching. So you can just like let your
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  guard down and have fun and laugh and relax.
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  Yes. Yeah instead of animes IAM
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  nature like a walk in a park or what do you hold your hand.
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  Oh, I want to do the thing with. My hand is under his arm.
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  Oh well that's very nice. Yes it's very gentlemanly.
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  Yes. Let me find a lovely tree sit
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  under that sounds nice. And then when the Sun goes down,
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  you sneak into like a speakeasy and have cocktails in the back.
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  Oh, that sounds great. He would be yes, he would go for
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  a speakeasy like a true one. Yeah.
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  An imposter Speakeasy. But like, a real legit where you
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  can kind of go disappear and nobody looks at you, too
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  closely, you can just be a Jedi of the background.
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  No notice it. And it is not Like 2000 levels
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  down and Coruscant. You're just going to a nice
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  speakeasies. You're not going to the CD
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  bottom of some no City. Planet of the, a dive bar is fun
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  sometimes but you can't go dressed in there like a Jedi.
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  No. No, he shouldn't be dressed at
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  all. Wait, is this?
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  My date are yours? Sorry, I was just gonna say as
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  long as we don't go to that bar where a snake as the bartender.
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  You said, I ya know, there's fuck I'm not interested in that.
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  So I would I would walk in. See it turn right around and
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  leave just know it's not happening.
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  Yeah, yeah. Either that or just like yeah, I
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  don't know. Yeah, that sounds good.
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  Sounds real good. That's yeah, that's a good one.
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  I'm gonna be bouncing around, if so that's great, Little Star
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  Wars here, little normal stuff. Little more Star Wars.
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  Keep me on my toes. Well, but then, we have the
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  rapid-fire guest questions. We ask when we interview guests.
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  Yeah. And we're going to answer each
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  other at the end. I love that.
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  I think that's gonna be fun. If you could go back and do it
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  all again, what career would you choose and why?
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  Oh my Lord. Well look Heinz.
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  No. Yeah seriously.
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  I was this is embarrassing. I was going to be an actor.
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  Why is that embarrassing? Because everybody says that
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  nobody makes it, you know, like it's that's what I wanted to do.
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  That was like all I cared about in high school.
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  I was even our president of art this being Society, like I only
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  lived for acting. Ting Mi knew you were a thespian
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  but I didn't know that that was like something you really wanted
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  to do? Yeah, I like studied it in high
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  school, which is stupid because you're a child and What Child is
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  serious in high school, but I was like, super serious.
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  I even tried to start my own Theater Company.
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  Wow, which makes sense knowing me.
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  I'm such an idea person, but definitely didn't do anything.
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  It was shitty. I even directed.
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  I didn't direct some plays in high school to which was fun.
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  But yeah, I didn't have my teacher who was going to help me
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  with auditions got pregnant and she left and the other acting
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  teacher was an alcoholic. God, this is wow.
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  Yeah, she didn't give any fucks at all and I did go on an
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  audition but I didn't do the right kind of thing.
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  Like I think I've picked like a monologue from a Neil Simon
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  play. Which I love Neil Simon.
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  It's great. But like now as an adult, I
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  would pick a man's man. Dialogue that's always done by a
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  guy and I would do it but yes that would be so good.
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  Oh my God. You should just do that sometime
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  for me anyway because I want to see it.
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  You'd be--you'd nail it. Oh my God, like I have the to be
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  or not to be speech memorized at all times because I had to do it
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  for something in high school. But what's funny is that we had
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  to memorize like a soliloquy or some kind of you know, brief
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  speech in high school in my Advanced literature class and I
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  chose one from Omelette. Oh, did you?
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  Yes. That's awesome.
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  What did you pick? I can't remember.
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  I used to remember it and I can't remember now, but I love
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  Hamlet. So it's not surprising that you
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  and I have that. Yeah, right.
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  I'm not surprised at all, right. It is, it's so good.
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  It's my favorite play. That's especially Shakespeare.
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  I have other plays that. I love that aren't
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  Shakespearean. Bit like Hamlet is so difficult
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  to perform well, because no one's quite sure how to
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  interpret it. Right?
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  It's you love really mad or is he acting mad or, you know?
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  Yeah, right it's good. Yeah though.
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  Go back and be an actress. Yes.
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  Yeah, I would love to do that. What kind of had this is?
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  I didn't have this written down, but what kind of films would you
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  gravitate towards God? I don't know.
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  I always always got cast as the mom, which I fucking hated,
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  because I'm a mom. Yeah, because I was so mature
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  for my age. I was always cast as the mother.
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  I would love to play villains who I think they're.
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  That was a great evil laugh there.
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  Yeah. I would love to see this.
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  I actually would love to see this.
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  My sister got to play Madame thénardier and Les Miz and she
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  was just such a bitch and I loved it.
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  I'm so jealous saying, you know my friend Derek has always said
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  he loves the villains because the more interesting the more
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  fun they have better costumes they they have better theme
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  music like honestly like sometimes there are more
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  captivating than The hero like is it Greater terrible movie,
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  great example in the Patriot, I don't know if you've ever seen
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  that with Mel Gibson movie makes me that movie makes me laugh out
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  loud and it shouldn't like, it's not funny but I laugh out loud,
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  but Jason Isaacs plays, the bad guy and he is brilliant.
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  And I love him in it and then he played Lucius, Malfoy, and
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  Captain Hook and it just all makes sense because he had none
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  of that. Yeah, yeah.
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  I think it'd be more. More fun to play the villain.
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  I do not disagree. Maybe someday, so complete
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  opposite of villain. Mmm, let's talk about a hero,
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  our hero. Our favorite hero.
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  My question is with regards to Luke Skywalker.
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  Would you be a member of Luke's Jedi school?
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  If you could? Yes, but I would be very
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  distracted student. I get it.
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  Oh my God. That would be so like madly in
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  love with him, that I wouldn't pay attention.
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  I get killed right away, she's looking at the way.
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  His hair is falling. Whisper whisper, whisper piece
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  of hair and she's looking at the mirror nailed by some other
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  students Blaster. Like exactly.
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  Just stabbed through the heart, looking at Luke's Chanel boots.
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  Yeah, you know, you could also work at the school and suggest
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  other clothes for him. And you could be like an
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  advisor. That would be fun.
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  You don't necessarily have to be a student.
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  I didn't say student, would you be a member of the school?
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  Meaning, you could add money to not wear Chanel base or nothing
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  at all or and I think. Wow.
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  That's a you suggested that already.
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  Why did? But I didn't damn it.
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  My camel was fit as fuck. In those movies, really wasn't
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  though. He really can't tell because he
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  never shows it up. Well, yes, he does.
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  And Strikes back. But yeah, he was super fit.
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  He was doing like they had him doing.
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  He was doing like all different kinds of sword, fighting weight,
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  lifting, and karate or something for those movies.
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  But will you and I talked about starting our own Jedi training,
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  man. It's like facility.
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  Like it just kind of like a mix of fencing and swordplay but
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  like, you know, not gonna kill each other with it.
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  But with lightsabers are like fake lightsabers.
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  Yes, because it a nerd Dojo it's so yes, that was the idea dojo.
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  And if I have this dream, that there'd be a corner at the
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  front, like that's full of comic books.
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  Yes. Like a little reading spot to
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  prepare or kill time before it's your session or exactly, you
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  could just hang out there. I kind of love that maybe
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  someday we had ever something, I'm not losing, I'm not losing
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  hope to that. I've you know, I'm more just a
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  more concerned about like getting sued by Lucas.
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  Well sure. But nerd Dojo doesn't
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  necessarily exactly pull the attention of anyone at Disney.
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  So I think we're fine. Yes.
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  So favorite fandom other than Star Wars.
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  If you had to pick one. Hmm.
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  Well probably Batman. Yeah, I knew that.
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  Yeah. And like the timing is so sad
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  because Kevin Conroy doing died, literally brought me to tears
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  because he's so ingrained you know?
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  Like he's yes, he's the Batman. I grew up with.
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  So even though Tim Burton stuff came out, first like my parents
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  didn't let us watch that. And I did see the Saturday
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  morning. Humans, when my mom wasn't home,
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  we're not supposed to watch. Cartoons is kids.
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  It's a, she would have she would like, pick me up from school
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  first. And while she was going to get
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  my other sister at a different school, I would watch Batman for
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  like 5 minutes while she was out of the house and it was the
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  greatest thing ever. Yeah, I still love Batman.
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  The Animated Series and I particularly love like Dick,
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  Grayson and Nightwing because oh yeah, when I, I know you do.
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  Yeah, I know you, you know, well, like Robin always seemed
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  like such a doofus. It looks like the old 60s gee
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  willikers Batman, but they've really redone his character.
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  He's way more interesting. He's a much darker past now and
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  he has the same. Judy is Batman, but he turns out
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  Not so destroyed by it in some versions, some version he is but
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  yeah, I like that stuff a lot. It's it and I like it because
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  they're not superheroes their people.
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  With Nate Twisted backstories. Yeah.
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  Yes, yes. Yeah.
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  My favorite superheroes have Twisted backstories.
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  Yeah, we were drawn to that for some reason, I guess for some
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  reason. If you could live in any past
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  time period or era, what one would it be my favorite?
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  The same question for really good because I love this
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  question. That's so great.
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  Um, could I get to answer it to live in the time period?
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  Like I actually lived during this time period you have to
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  live through it safely but after bad.
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  Yes no I mean you can just focus on now I like running water.
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  Oh okay. Stakeout.
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  Okay, let's take out the bad and take me to a glitzy.
• 23:18
  Part of the past that has nothing.
• 23:20
  Nothing wrong with it. There's no such thing.
• 23:23
  But this is a fantasy question and answer.
• 23:26
  So yeah. Like Narnia, but it does, it's
• 23:30
  not real I guess. But I'm soon.
• 23:33
  This is so fucked up. No one wants to live during this
• 23:37
  time but I'm super fascinated by the Dark Ages, that's fine.
• 23:41
  That's what I'm talking about. If you could go back, Like
• 23:44
  investigative or to put on a costume or whatever like their
• 23:48
  daily wear, which would be a costume for us because we're not
• 23:51
  we're not actually living in it. You were safely.
• 23:54
  Revisiting a piece of the past will label it as this like very
• 23:59
  specifically. I really like British history, a
• 24:03
  lot. So the time period from when
• 24:05
  Rome left Britain before the Normans invaded, I find that's
• 24:10
  the Dark Ages. Pretty much in the UK.
• 24:12
  I love that time period. Because it was just crazy.
• 24:16
  Like, all these different, like, Vikings invaded and the angles,
• 24:19
  invaded. Yes, there's still indigenous
• 24:23
  British Heritage to this day even though they've been invaded
• 24:27
  over and over and over, it's a really fascinating thing and
• 24:30
  like that time period was like a mixture of pagan and Christian
• 24:35
  and like women had power and were losing power.
• 24:38
  So it's just a really fascinating Dynamic time period
• 24:41
  that For a while, as like a writer, you have some latitude
• 24:46
  there to kind of like baked things that seem a little bit
• 24:49
  more fantasy. But I'm also really really
• 24:53
  fascinated in late 18 early 1900's Chicago.
• 24:58
  Yeah, I would like to go there for a day and like wear the
• 25:01
  clothes I didn't but I will. Ya.
• 25:03
  That's very helpful typhus or dysentery now we're not talking
• 25:10
  about like that was my great-grandmother move.
• 25:13
  To Chicago from Rantoul Illinois which is like out in the farm
• 25:18
  country and there's we have all these pictures of her wearing
• 25:21
  like the big hats, like the Gibson Girl clothes, and she was
• 25:26
  a daughter of the Revolution and like wrote her, congresswoman
• 25:29
  has that would just like to go and see what her life was like.
• 25:33
  They had amazing clothes really did at there's this the hair
• 25:37
  that hair is my hair like it's my hair, when it's long has to
• 25:41
  be piled, on the top of my head just like Like a Gibson girl.
• 25:44
  But there's this great photo of her sitting on her front porch.
• 25:48
  My great-grandfather. It's so hot out that they have
• 25:51
  their shoes and socks off and my great-great-grandfather's to
• 25:54
  hold up a cloth to cover their ankles because it wasn't
• 25:58
  appropriate to have a photograph of their ankle showing.
• 26:01
  Oh God. Yeah.
• 26:02
  I forgot those things. Yes, those real elbows.
• 26:05
  No ankle sprain. Just sexy.
• 26:09
  How strange, and how far we've come?
• 26:12
  Now, I basically see girls. A-holes, literally on the train
• 26:17
  stopped. Yeah.
• 26:19
  It's like if those people could see Tick-Tock right now, like
• 26:22
  what they think, my God, they basically assume we're all going
• 26:26
  to hell. We're all terrible Stevens.
• 26:31
  Yeah, like I wouldn't want to, maybe we are.
• 26:33
  I guess we're. Yeah, I wouldn't want to live
• 26:36
  during that time period because the constrictions would drive me
• 26:38
  insane. But I yeah, I do find it.
• 26:41
  The lack of Rights would be as strong a struggles.
• 26:44
  This is fun and I don't know if I know the answer to this.
• 26:48
  What is your favorite book or not or novel?
• 26:51
  Oh I have. I have to I've read Of Mice and
• 26:57
  Men in eighth grade and it changed me forever.
• 27:02
  Really see I didn't know that it was the first book we ever read.
• 27:06
  The didn't have a happy ending right and ahead swears he's had
• 27:11
  sweetheart did and I was in 8th grade.
• 27:13
  I was like I can't believe a reading this book full of the
• 27:15
  word bastard and son of a bitch. Yeah yeah yeah.
• 27:20
  It was a big time. It was the big tank graduated
• 27:23
  into adult literature but I didn't think I liked reading
• 27:27
  until I read that and I was like, oh, books could be really
• 27:29
  good. Nice.
• 27:32
  And then the movie that went with it, the Gary Sinise made is
• 27:35
  perfection, highly recommend. It is one of the most true and
• 27:38
  up tations. I've seen about book to a film
• 27:41
  and then my other one is the handmaid's tale.
• 27:45
  Is that right? Really?
• 27:48
  My brain is like is that the title even though I've read it
• 27:52
  at the time? Now, I'm second-guessing myself.
• 27:55
  Yeah, the Margaret Atwood basically, almost anything
• 27:58
  Margaret, Atwood rights. I can't put down, it's so good.
• 28:02
  Good. But that book is is fucking
• 28:05
  brilliant. It's so good.
• 28:06
  And honorable mention delicate. Edible Birds is a collection of
• 28:10
  short stories by Lauren Groff. She is also a brilliant writer.
• 28:13
  She's a contemporary writer and the way she writes about women,
• 28:18
  internal struggle, women's rage, things like that.
• 28:21
  It's subtle and sometimes not so subtle.
• 28:24
  It is brilliant. I love her writing her and
• 28:26
  Margaret. Atwood are my Queens.
• 28:30
  Why? I don't know anything about
• 28:31
  those stories. So I need to that series.
• 28:34
  What was it called? Delicate edible Birds.
• 28:38
  Okay, I need to research that sounds up.
• 28:40
  My alley. One of them is based off a
• 28:43
  longer novel, which I didn't actually like, but I was just
• 28:47
  talking to somebody about this. Maybe it was you even with tales
• 28:49
  of the Jedi, how people who write long form, sometimes
• 28:53
  aren't good at short form. Lauren graph is one of those
• 28:56
  writers who is fucking excellent either as a Super long novel or
• 29:01
  a tiny short story. She is just like a cold blade
• 29:05
  cut and write to it like it's amazing.
• 29:07
  Wow, yeah. I need to look this up.
• 29:10
  I'm going to read, I mean, yeah, the short stories is worth it.
• 29:13
  It's a little bit. Some of it's a little upsetting,
• 29:15
  but being a woman is upsetting sometimes.
• 29:17
  So guess it is. It is actually so okay, one more
• 29:24
  easy, one. And then we'll get to the rapid
• 29:26
  fire because we have approached the 30-minute mark.
• 29:30
  This is pretty easy. Favorite season and why know you
• 29:35
  probably know this I do but maybe some others don't.
• 29:40
  I am an Autumn girl and winter. I do like winter to but when the
• 29:45
  fall rolls around and the weather gets cold, I come alive,
• 29:49
  like I feel like a different human being same, it's the
• 29:54
  colors but it's also the temperature.
• 29:56
  I thrive in colder temperatures, I do not do well in Heat and the
• 30:00
  lack of humidity. Even if it rains, it's still not
• 30:04
  that humid, because it's so black of bugs.
• 30:07
  Yes, I don't like bugs and snakes.
• 30:11
  Yes, I saw a video Once of a white python.
• 30:16
  It's someone kept us this, as a pet and it like learned how to
• 30:20
  open somebody's front door. And the caption was, this is why
• 30:22
  I live in places where the weather gets cold enough that it
• 30:25
  hurts my face. Yes, yes.
• 30:29
  No. Offense to the snakes I am here,
• 30:32
  too. Honor and respect their place on
• 30:35
  this planet. They do a lot of good.
• 30:36
  But I don't like look, they serve a purpose but I do, I
• 30:40
  actually think I have a phobia because I almost faint and vomit
• 30:44
  when I see them especially in person.
• 30:46
  Yeah, I can't even honestly, I can't even watch a video of
• 30:49
  them. They actually make me ill was
• 30:51
  interesting how like the movement of some creatures.
• 30:55
  Like to me spiders, sends me over the edge.
• 30:58
  I can't look at it's like some ingrained caveman.
• 31:00
  Yes, it's like the way it like stay.
• 31:03
  Way. Yes.
• 31:04
  So in the Autumn, I feel safe to go outside and like same in the
• 31:10
  winter. I'll, I'll walk through like a
• 31:12
  dense Grove of trees in the winter where I will not even get
• 31:15
  close to it in the summer because we also have really bad
• 31:19
  ticks here. So I yeah, yeah.
• 31:22
  I grew up in an area with bad. Yeah, they've gotten their bad
• 31:25
  really bad here in the last couple of years.
• 31:26
  You cannot even go on your yard without getting them on your
• 31:29
  pant leg. So yep, that's that's the
• 31:32
  colors. Sounds familiar.
• 31:34
  I don't trees look like, I don't know, it's just amazing out
• 31:39
  here. We have a lot of deciduous
• 31:41
  trees. So we're lucky that turn colors.
• 31:45
  Yes, beautiful. Beautiful shades.
• 31:47
  I can't, I can't agree more. I'm a winter, girl, but fall is
• 31:51
  second, very, very close. I mean, like, winter is you?
• 31:53
  And I are the same. Yeah, winter is Michael.
• 31:55
  I love walking in the snow. I have like a big Park.
• 31:58
  I love this. No, and yeah, if it's wetter
• 32:01
  weather, were there. Yes.
• 32:03
  Yeah, if I can have a sweater tee and a fire in the fireplace,
• 32:06
  that's my heaven on Earth. God that sounds so good right
• 32:10
  now. Okay.
• 32:12
  Are you ready for the next section?
• 32:13
  Because we're going to go quick. This is rapid fire.
• 32:15
  I can't wait. Yep, I'm so excited.
• 32:19
  All right, number one. What character would you marry
• 32:23
  or what? Who do, you have a crush on Star
• 32:26
  Wars? And marry Luke Skywalker.
• 32:29
  He is marrying material. Yes.
• 32:31
  And I have a crush on Obi, Wan hee.
• 32:32
  Is not marry material. I love him.
• 32:39
  Well, and I have to say, I would marry.
• 32:41
  Well, I wouldn't marry kissing and or but I would definitely
• 32:44
  have a crush on him. He's also damaged goods.
• 32:49
  They're all damaged and Star Wars just to varying degrees in
• 32:53
  the most like optimistic of the destroyed.
• 32:58
  He would be a good. He would be a good partner, a
• 33:01
  life partner. Yes.
• 33:03
  All right. Are you a Jedi or a Sith it
• 33:05
  Jedi. Which version of Obi-Wan do you
• 33:09
  like best prequels Clone Wars original trilogy?
• 33:11
  Or now we can add the Kenobi series to this always Clone
• 33:15
  Wars. I love just James Arnold Taylor,
• 33:18
  just fucking brilliant and that hair.
• 33:23
  Yes, he's those eyes. I'll never forget what a my
• 33:27
  sisters being like, why am I more attracted to the cartoon
• 33:29
  that I am to you and McGregor and I was like accurate, very
• 33:35
  accurate. Okay.
• 33:38
  All right. What's your fit?
• 33:39
  Next question is what's your favorite Obi Wan hair?
• 33:42
  Padawan BG mullet Clone Wars. Kenobi series.
• 33:47
  It's got to be the Clone Wars with the look little piece of
• 33:51
  hair. That moves the little piece of
• 33:53
  dangly hair. Exactly.
• 33:54
  What was that season 3 or something that that started up
• 33:57
  on? Yeah, well, any any time he gets
• 34:00
  punched in the face so that could be any season.
• 34:04
  It's all the time. All right, if you could wear one
• 34:09
  costume from all of Star Wars, all of Star Wars which would it
• 34:13
  be. Yeah, I know I wrote this
• 34:16
  questions but that's a hard one. I don't know how I'm going to
• 34:19
  answer any of these. I don't know, I don't know.
• 34:26
  Like, I have different kinds of answers.
• 34:28
  Like, I definitely love to be in a thai-style, a fighter outfit
• 34:32
  someday, like, put the big black helmet and everything.
• 34:35
  Yeah, but I also like, I love Jin's costume, she's a fucking
• 34:41
  better, I totally get that. But then I have another girly
• 34:44
  side. I'd love to fucking where want
• 34:45
  to sit teen has a specific down where she has like a headdress
• 34:49
  off to the side that she reminds me of David Bowie.
• 34:53
  She Where's it at? I will.
• 34:56
  I like that. It's not her usual outfit.
• 35:00
  It's like something she wears. When Padme comes to visit.
• 35:02
  So like I have a couple different ways I would go or
• 35:05
  Hoff Leia off. Leia is above and beyond
• 35:09
  anything, honestly, and even Cloud City, Leia fucking, oh
• 35:14
  God, Rob nose looks. I love how Carrie Fisher looks
• 35:17
  in those movies. Sorry.
• 35:20
  I know that's not rapid-fire. This is this is our show.
• 35:25
  We can do it as rapidly or as slowly as we want.
• 35:30
  All right? Original trilogy.
• 35:31
  Prequel trilogy sequel. Trilogy or animated show?
• 35:38
  I mean I grew up with the original trilogy.
• 35:40
  That's what made me. Love Star Wars with a passion,
• 35:45
  but Clone Wars is also like a huge deal for me.
• 35:48
  So it's kind of like a tie depends on what mood I'm in.
• 35:51
  If you could be any character in all of Star Wars, Who would it
• 35:57
  be? I don't even know how to answer
• 35:59
  this one. I think I do but it's really
• 36:01
  it's a lot harder it's harder than you think.
• 36:03
  If because you have to accept your fate.
• 36:06
  Yes. Like I really felt like Luke
• 36:11
  when I was a kid. I feel like it.
• 36:14
  Like if we take out the sequel Trilogy, Luke, Definitely Luke.
• 36:20
  But I also am very quiet god. Well, if you could be any
• 36:24
  character, not, if you were, yeah, you could be then Luke.
• 36:28
  Yeah. He's just got a great art could
• 36:31
  be. That's a good answer.
• 36:32
  Yeah. It's not C-3PO, so you're good.
• 36:38
  I would have to punch myself in the face.
• 36:40
  If I was actually it's the have to tell myself to shut up all
• 36:45
  the time. And finally what special powers
• 36:53
  would you want to have? Oh, I'd like to Jedi mind trick
• 36:56
  people. Yeah, just stop talking to me
• 37:01
  like, you know, doing the hand motion.
• 37:04
  Yeah. Do you kids like you like it?
• 37:05
  Not yulian. Stop talking me.
• 37:07
  Just like I know you like trick people to stop bothering me and
• 37:10
  send them away. That's it.
• 37:13
  There's a fair use of that, super power honest to God, I
• 37:16
  wouldn't hurt anybody with it. I just want my peace and quiet,
• 37:21
  like people always come up and talk to me in public, like they,
• 37:24
  I like, I was standing in line to pay.
• 37:27
  My water bill. Once in Flagstaff Arizona and
• 37:30
  the woman in front of me turned around and literally just
• 37:33
  started launching into her life story.
• 37:36
  And I would have loved to Jedi mind trick my way out.
• 37:42
  I feel you and that is it. That is fun, get to know, Lauren
• 37:51
  40 minutes of getting to know Lauren your host of most things
• 37:55
  Kenobi. Did I pick some good question?
• 37:57
  You did. I love I knew we were going to
• 37:59
  have some overlap. How funny is that?
• 38:01
  That we have? I know, right ones.
• 38:08
  Alright, our question for you, is what is your question for
• 38:12
  Lauren? If you could ask her one thing
• 38:14
  to get to know her, you know, within reason here, what would
• 38:18
  you ask her? She has agreed to pick one,
• 38:21
  possibly two questions of yours and answer on social media in
• 38:24
  some format and some media format.
• 38:26
  Yeah. But answer, you know, chime in
• 38:28
  on our Twitter and Instagram for sure, and let us know what your
• 38:32
  question is. For Lauren, and she will choose
• 38:34
  at least one to two respond. To preserve the right to refuse
• 38:39
  to answer anything. I don't want to now, I'm
• 38:45
  excited. It's gonna be fun.
• 38:46
  Are our listeners, always come up.
• 38:48
  With the greatest questions are always.
• 38:50
  Either Lee do they're either brilliant or fucking hilarious.
• 38:53
  So, exactly. So bring it.
• 38:56
  Yeah, bring it listeners. So come back next week where I
• 39:02
  interviewed Lee and I'm really excited.
• 39:04
  We did have some overlapping questions.
• 39:06
  So should I still ask you those or do you want me to come up
• 39:08
  with show a okay I will definitely Forget by the time
• 39:11
  you asked me look. So you know, problem will do the
• 39:15
  same format where I interview her and I'm really excited.
• 39:19
  It's been fun coming up with the questions for this so I think it
• 39:21
  should be a good time. Yeah I'm ready.
• 39:24
  Well I'm not ready but I'm ready to be not ready.
• 39:27
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• 39:34
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• 39:36
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• 40:10
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