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May the Fourth in the Hood: My Star Wars Story · D-constructing Topics

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  What's going on, everybody, and what's going on, folks?
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  My name is David, and I'm your host of this legendary podcast,
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  The Deconstructing Topic Podcast.
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  Oh, well, today we got a good one. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun,
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  dun, dun, as I'm recording this.
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  Early in the morning, it is May 4th, and I'm going to hopefully upload this as well in the same day.
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  We're in the same time. Let's go. Anyways, it is May 4th.
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  For those out there, my beloved Star Wars fan,
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  who's out there you already know who you are let's
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  make it happen once again welcome to the deconstruct the
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  topic podcast where we grab a topic and today's topic uh
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  we're doing a little bit of star wars and you know just give you a little bit
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  of story of um into my life and and you know the star wars franchise and what
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  i have meant to me and what i've meant to many other people many people and
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  once again welcome to the legendary podcast here and once again my name is David.
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  So don't mind me. I'm, uh, you know, but I'm recording this podcast.
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  I'm actually, uh, I came from the gym. So I'm a little bit hype and I'm a little
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  bit of fatigue at the same time, but we are here and we are making it happen.
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  Shout out to T-Juice TV. I'm going to put the links in the description.
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  There's many independent artists out there and content.
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  If you got a chance, check out my description, T-O, go and put T-Juice TV all
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  over the place, all over the platforms.
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  So that's why we got to make it happen. Hit that like button and talk to me about the Star Wars.
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  Talk to me. I want to hear from people and what they think about Star Wars.
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  What's your favorite movie?
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  And let's get on with the show. as a Puerto Rican kid, born in Puerto Rico,
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  somewhere in the late 70s.
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  So with that said, that means that I missed the first Star Wars,
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  which is Episode IV, A New Hope.
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  I was not born then, but I was able to kind of remember Star Wars Episode V,
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  even though I was a young kid for some reason.
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  I do remember my mother taking us to the movies and watching The Empire Strikes
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  Back. And obviously, Star Wars Episode VI It was 1983 The Apache Light Bride
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  was 1980 Return of the Jedi.
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  1983, wow Anyways, that's how back we go with the Star Wars franchise And once
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  again, as a Puerto Rican kid,
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  And just to tell you, I'm born in Puerto Rico I just want to emphasize,
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  born over there So that means that I'm in international waters there You know what I'm saying?
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  And just the fact that Star Wars, it's actually a big franchise.
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  For those people out there, Star Wars is a sci-fi movie based on,
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  you know, the stars, the moons, every galaxy known to person.
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  And obviously it's the story of Skywalker.
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  You could say Anakin, which is Darth Vader. No, no spoiler here.
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  I'm sorry if I spoiled it, spoiled it.
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  Spoiled it. Sorry about that. I should've just said some spoilers.
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  But we make it happen. And we got, you know, Luke Skywalker.
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  I mean, Star Wars in itself.
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  You know, my mother taking us to the movies and watching that.
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  Yes, Star Wars was a thing and was a big thing in Puerto Rico.
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  It was a big thing international throughout the world.
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  Created by George Lucas. And being a young kid, just going to Star Wars.
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  I mean, Star Wars is different.
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  And when you went to the movies and you, you know, me as a young kid,
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  as a young baby, as a toddler perhaps. Abs, yes, watching the Empire Strikes
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  Back and Return of the Jedi.
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  It's one of those things to see that story, that Darth Vader,
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  Mr. Chosen One, in a sense.
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  Well, Anakin Skywalker's story in the near future with the Phantom Menace and
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  Attack of the Clones there.
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  And Revenge of the Sith. But the fact that just watching these movies,
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  you know you're watching something different.
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  Especially Darth Vader. That's my dude. I remember years ago,
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  I had a VR thing, I believe it was the Quest, and the fact that I was playing this Star Wars game.
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  I mean, I was playing as, I forgot who the character was, but it was not in
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  the movie, but Darth Vader was there.
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  The fact that James the Earth Jones, who plays Darth Vader, excuse me,
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  not played Darth Vader, but his voice, his menacing voice, Luke.
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  Ooh, let's go, Darth Vader.
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  You already know Star Wars by that sound. But the fact that I'm playing this
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  VR, I see my boy Darth Vader coming down towards the me,
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  asking me if I got some type of crystal, and I'm giggling like a little kid,
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  like, hee, hee, hee, hee.
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  You know, it's like, it's freaking Darth Vader in front of me.
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  For those who never play some virtual reality, I mean, listen, I recommend VRs.
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  You don't need to go crazy. I mean, at that time, I'm thinking that the technology,
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  maybe I'll go back to the VR headsets.
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  It was fun gadgets. I just always felt that the VR just still not there yet.
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  Unless you get some pricey VR and you got a lot of space in your house.
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  Perhaps a different story.
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  But anyways, I go back to this Darth Vader game. I forgot what was the name
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  of the game, and I'm just giggling.
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  But just to tell you how Star Wars had meant to me, it meant to a lot of people.
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  And in my case, you know, my mother bought into the Star Wars hype.
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  And we got a lot of Star Wars toys for those people out there that do remember
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  the Star Wars toy. Boy, the one that I believe that people always talk about
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  is the little R2-D2 that you can put things. And you know R2-D2.
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  You know, for whatever language he speaks.
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  You got my boy, 3CPO, which is the silver.
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  If I'm not mistaken, he had a silver leg. You know, for those people out there,
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  they always thought that he was gold-pited.
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  But he actually has a silver leg. And I kid you not, and that's the Nelson Mandela.
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  But I'm always, I'm like, since when he had a silver leg?
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  But the fact that, yes, yes, that's a kind of interesting thing.
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  You got Princess Leia, you know, the beautiful Princess Leia.
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  You already know with those little buns. That became a style.
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  Han Solo, you know, that rugged dude that a lot of dudes trying to be like. You know what I mean?
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  And you had so many characters in that. you know, Luke Skywalker's in,
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  you know, the, you know, the, the, uh, Papatine, you know, with that voice.
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  I'm just saying that Star Wars, when you in that movies, one,
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  you know, when watching this, you know, you're watching something magical,
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  you know, you're watching something different.
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  And you know, for a lot of people in May 4th, be the thing that May 4th is actually
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  some type of on rain celebration started in the late 70s somewhere,
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  because in the Star Wars may the Force be with you.
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  But I'm more like Sif, I'm in the dark side there.
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  You know, Palpatine, hey, I
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  could be that next Darth Vader, you know what I'm talking about? Darth D.
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  You know what I mean? I got to change my name to Darth Deconstructing.
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  You know, do that magic. But Star Wars meant a lot to me.
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  And I still enjoy the Star Wars show now that it's owned by Disney.
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  You know, a little mixed feeling when it comes to certain shows.
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  You know, there's been some, I mean, I've watched just about every Star Wars
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  show and all the movies there.
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  And I try my best to watch some of the fan film That have been good in the last
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  You know, with the AI technology and all that You know, we get that in the last couple of years.
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  That's the thing People always ask me, and before I forget People ask me,
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  what is your favorite Star Wars movie going back?
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  And is it the ones, you know, The Empire Strikes Back Is one that it's,
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  you know, that movie You know what I mean?
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  That's that movie But, you know, obviously Rogue One to me, a Star Wars story,
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  even though, you know, Rogue One, for some reason, it's not a,
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  for some reason, people always have said it's not a Star Wars movie per se.
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  And what I mean by Star Wars, that's not the Skywalker kind of sense with the
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  Anakin, Darth, you know, Luke kind of a little story there.
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  But Rogue One, it's the prequel to leading to New Hope, which is episode four,
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  which is the first movie.
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  And it's interesting because as a young kid, I never, or even growing up,
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  I never understood why it's episode four.
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  And then you look at interviews, once, you know, you start growing up,
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  you look at interviews that there was always a plan by Lucas,
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  and Lucas films to do six part and do the Darth Vader first,
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  which is one of those movies, one of those things that to see a villain.
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  Be in the beginning. It's unheard of. Even to this day, it's unheard of.
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  And perhaps a lot of people have taken us, like, why not? Why not have the villain
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  and then just let everything just fill in?
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  And then just to have the Star Wars episode one, two, and three,
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  which is the story of Anakin leading to Darth Vader.
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  Now, you know, watching the episode one, two, and three, I want to say that
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  Clone Wars have kind of those episodes. So, you know, it left me,
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  like, wanting to see more.
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  Good thing that Clone Wars, the animated show, was a thing.
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  And it gave you more backstory of Anakin and whatnot.
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  So, you know, shout out to Clone Wars. There's a lot of Star Wars shows,
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  like I said, that I would recommend.
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  You know, we got the new movie coming up, which is the, how can I say,
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  the Mandalorian and Grogu.
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  Big, big fan of Mandalorian, especially season one, season two.
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  You know shout out to bad batch good episode bad
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  batch have to do with order 66 and some
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  of the clones that how can i say were not part of the order 66 thing i mean
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  i don't want to spoil it but it's a excuse me it's a good show but definitely
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  uh bubba fett i've already know you already know obi-wan kenobi what can i forget
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  about you know cannot forget about obi-wan.
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  Ahsoka, I mean, we could go on and on and on, but, you know, Star Wars is that thing.
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  And when I came to the United States, you would think like, okay,
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  maybe just a thing international, I don't know.
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  But the fact that growing up in the ghettos, you know, in the hood,
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  in the Bronx, you know, there was a lot of Star Wars fans.
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  Even the most meanish, all looking crazy, whatever the case might be,
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  drug dealer, whatever the case might be in the hood.
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  When it comes to Star Wars, they all smile. They got that kid in a kid like,
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  you know, yeah, you know, Darth Vader and do the sword thing.
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  And that's what Star Wars meant a lot. This is my first Star Wars podcast and
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  I basically, or my episode actually.
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  And I just wanted to kind of like touch bases on that situation on what Star Wars have meant to me.
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  And, you know, kind of my trajectory of how I got to become a Star Wars fan.
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  And I would love to, and I'm definitely going to do a lot of more episodes on
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  this in regards to Star Wars and the ghetto, you know, in the hood kind of sense.
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  Because, you know, growing up in the hood is a little bit different because
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  for the most part, let's say, if you have parents or a single mother in this
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  case, you know, it was hard.
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  As, you know, coming to the United States and, you know, growing up,
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  it was a little bit hard to make certain ends meet and, you know,
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  to have like toys. like the Star Wars, which is kind of like a privilege in
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  a sense, but we got there, you know, we got there.
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  Back in Puerto Rico, we had it, you know, we had, it was a little bit different,
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  you know, the course of life in Puerto Rico, it's much, much less than New York
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  City, I might add, so that's a point to take there, but hey,
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  listen, Star Wars is doing that thing.
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  I'm hoping that Mandalorian...
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  Groku, again, I love the show, but, you know, they kind of lost me in the last couple of seasons.
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  I'm hoping for a great movie or a send-off or something to that effect.
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  How can I forget about Yoda? Ooh, you must.
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  Oh, man, you got to love Star Wars. So that's what's going on with that situation.
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  Once again, it's a little celebration, a little bit of my point of view when it comes to Star Wars.
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  I'm going to do more episodes On just touch bases Get previews, reviews,
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  whatever it is In regards to the Star Wars Star Wars fandom here Once again,
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  I'm here just like Today's that day, I feel like watching something Star Wars You know what I mean?
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  Rogue One would be that thing My understanding is that Disney Has the,
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  Darth Maul story Which again, that's something I
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  got to catch up and watch But you already know To all my Star Wars fans out
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  there much love and as always hit the like feel free to comment let me know
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  what's your favorite star wars movie or show or if there's a star wars story
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  that you want to share feel free and you already know may the fourth be with you,
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  peace.