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Fictional Women Around the World: Beru Whitesun Lars · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to Stephan
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  Speaker 1: ever told you protection of I High Radio, And welcome
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  Speaker 1: to another sub sub segments on fictional women around the world.
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  Speaker 1: And actually, I think this is even further sub because
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  Speaker 1: right now we're like full up in Star Wars territories.
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  Speaker 1: Well yeah, I guess so, yes, Well we're approaching and
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get a bunch of stuff in before
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  Speaker 1: the Obi Wan Kenobi show comes out on Disney Plus,
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  Speaker 1: which is not currently a sponsor, by showcasing some of
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  Speaker 1: the badass women of Star Wars. So I apologize, but
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a lot of Star Wars stuff
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  Speaker 1: for a little bit. Yeah, And I did think about
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  Speaker 1: calling this fictional women around the Galaxy, but I guess
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  Speaker 1: I shouldn't miss with the formula too much. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: was thinking about that too. I was like, I guess
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  Speaker 1: it's universe, not the world, because if we're going galactic,
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  Speaker 1: which we are, then we should have we should be
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  Speaker 1: correct in the determinology. Yeah, and where it is, and
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  Speaker 1: it's not just the world, not be Earth. We're going
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  Speaker 1: beyond beyond, a galaxy far far away. And I do
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  Speaker 1: I have to start this with like a correction because
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  Speaker 1: in our recent episode we did on Statene, I said
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  Speaker 1: her name her last name curs, which is how I
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  Speaker 1: always thought it was pronounced. And it's craze according to
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  Speaker 1: something I watched recently. So how dare oh I know? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I let everybody. I mean that's going to outfits.
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  Speaker 1: No never my disco Luke cosplay isn't full like, I
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  Speaker 1: am so excited to share the I love that. Every
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  Speaker 1: time Star Wars has mentioned I have heard about so
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited about seeing those two though. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: look spectacular. I'm excited. Well. In the meantime, we are
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  Speaker 1: focusing today on Baru White Sun Lars. We do have
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  Speaker 1: a long awaited a Soak episode coming out because some
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  Speaker 1: of you have written in about it. It It is coming,
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  Speaker 1: I promise, But today Baru Bye Sun Lars. I have
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  Speaker 1: read so much amazing fan fiction about her. I really
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  Speaker 1: love her. I have a Beru trading card that I
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  Speaker 1: just keep and sometimes I'll look at it like WHOA
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  Speaker 1: would Baru to interesting? Yeah, she has a plus six
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  Speaker 1: It's like a card like kind of like Magic the Gathering,
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  Speaker 1: but for Star Wars. So she has a plus six buffer.
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  Speaker 1: So that's pretty good. Anyone no idea what this means? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't figure you would, which, okay, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of also I, as we did with Satine, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: gonna kind of run through this, Samantha, um and if
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  Speaker 1: you have any questions, I know it's confusing, let me
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  Speaker 1: know this. This one's less confusing than Satin that one.
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  Speaker 1: That one was the whole thing. That the whole thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was quite a bit, all right. So if you're
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  Speaker 1: kind of if you're like Samantha and you're like, I've
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  Speaker 1: got I don't know this this name, it's Aunt Brew.
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  Speaker 1: It's Luke Skywalker's Aunt Brew who dies tragically Hope. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so this character has been present in every draft of
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  Speaker 1: a New Hope ever since the first one. There's been
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  Speaker 1: some version or another of Baru, and she's always been
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  Speaker 1: a defender of Luke Skywalker, whether from Tusken Raiders are
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  Speaker 1: from her husband Owen. She was first portrayed by British
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  Speaker 1: actor Sheila Fraser. In the National Public Radio Star Wars
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  Speaker 1: radio drama, she was portrayed by Anne Gretty. Australian actress
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  Speaker 1: Bonnie Marie Peace was cast as a young Brew for
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  Speaker 1: the prequels and now in the Obi Wan Kenobi show,
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  Speaker 1: I was able to bate that connection. You were and
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was the teen and now is yes,
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  Speaker 1: you were, I lect and I was like, the learner
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  Speaker 1: has become the master. Yes, and I would say that
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  Speaker 1: was one of my one proud moment. That was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, she's right, that is your skill
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  Speaker 1: though you were good at the actors and connection. M
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  Speaker 1: hm you do. Uh. Interestingly, in the original ending of
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  Speaker 1: Revenge of the sith Obi, one hands the baby baby
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  Speaker 1: Luke to Owen, but they reshot it because George Lucas
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  Speaker 1: thought it quote felt it would be better if Luke
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  Speaker 1: were handed over to a woman. Mhm. I mean she
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  Speaker 1: does care for him more anyway, okay. Uh. So Baru
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  Speaker 1: white Son are Burun white Son Lars was the wife
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  Speaker 1: of Owen Lars and guardian to Luke Skywalker. She was
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  Speaker 1: a human woman who was born and later died on Tattooin.
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  Speaker 1: As a child, Baru was shy and had dreams of
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  Speaker 1: opening a restaurant our cafe an anchor head which is
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  Speaker 1: on Tatoine. By the way, if we didn't know this dream,
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  Speaker 1: it took cold after teacher told her that her blue
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  Speaker 1: milk cheese was the best he had ever had, that
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  Speaker 1: it was like she was born to make it, the
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  Speaker 1: milk cheese, the blue milk cheese. When she got older,
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  Speaker 1: she fell in love with Owen Lawars, who was the
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  Speaker 1: son of a moisture farmer named Teg Lars and stepbrother
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  Speaker 1: of jedd A Night Anakin Skywalker. I had such fun
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  Speaker 1: time explaining this to my mom recently because she's like,
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  Speaker 1: are they even related? Not technically, you know. So Clegg
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  Speaker 1: Lars freed Shimmy Skywalker, who's Anakin Skywalker's mother, Luke Skywalker's grandmother,
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  Speaker 1: and married her, So there's that connection. Brew and Owen
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  Speaker 1: started dating in earnest and by the time we see
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  Speaker 1: them and attacked the Clones, they were solidly together. During
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  Speaker 1: the Clone Wars, Shami was abducted by Tuscan raiders, which
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  Speaker 1: drew Anakin to Tattooine in a bid to save her,
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  Speaker 1: but he was too late, and he slaughtered the Tuscan
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  Speaker 1: encampment after his mother died in his arms. At the funeral,
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  Speaker 1: Barrew served blue milk and cheese. Yeah. Within three years
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  Speaker 1: of the event, Brew had married Owen and taken on
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  Speaker 1: his last name Clegg died and the couple, now in
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  Speaker 1: ownership of the Moisture Farm, decided to try for a child,
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  Speaker 1: but were met with infertility issues and they considered going
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  Speaker 1: to a fertility droid for help. When the Republic fell
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  Speaker 1: and the empire rose, Obi would Kenobi showed up and
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  Speaker 1: tasked them with raising Anakin's child and their nephew, Luke Skywalker.
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  Speaker 1: Upon taking him, and Brew told Owen that they were
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  Speaker 1: going to raise him as their own. Though they didn't
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  Speaker 1: have much, she took every chance she could to spoil him.
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  Speaker 1: She loves him. Yeah, it's so sweet. I just remember
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  Speaker 1: the scene where she's defending him trying to leave and
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  Speaker 1: she's like, you can't keep all his life? Mm hmm,
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  Speaker 1: Sorry she was no, No, I love her. So Brew
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  Speaker 1: and Owen raised Luke for the next nineteen years, and
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  Speaker 1: Brew often yeah, he defended Luke in the face of
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  Speaker 1: Owen's over protectiveness and gruffness when it came to Luke's interest.
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  Speaker 1: Owen was afraid that Luke would follow when his followed
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  Speaker 1: footstep and become a Jedi night, something he was desperate
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  Speaker 1: to prevent, Hence part of the reason he basically forbade
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  Speaker 1: Obi one from seeing Luke, which I'm pretty sure we're
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  Speaker 1: going to see play out in the show. Luke's recklessness
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  Speaker 1: didn't help. He wants tried to take on a slaving
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  Speaker 1: gang by himself at the age of eight and almost
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  Speaker 1: got himself kidnapped. At one point, Owen was abducted by
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  Speaker 1: the Wookie bounty hunter Chrysantin, who was just in book
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  Speaker 1: above a fete, and there was a big debate about
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  Speaker 1: how to pronounce his name. So I hope I got
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  Speaker 1: that right. It's just the one that you really dislike. No,
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  Speaker 1: that's cad Bane. I'll go had a nightmare about him
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  Speaker 1: last night. That's true, that's one. But yes, Owen was
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  Speaker 1: subducted at the behest of job at the Hut for
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  Speaker 1: unpaid water taxes. The water taxes and all that whole
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  Speaker 1: situation is the whole thing on tattooing. Um and Brew
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  Speaker 1: went out after him with a rifle, telling Luke to
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  Speaker 1: stay put at the homestead. Owen was determined to keep
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  Speaker 1: Luke on planet Um, constantly delaying his attempts to get
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  Speaker 1: off tattooed. But Buru argued that Luke just wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: farmer and they were going to have to let him go. Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: soon after this conversation, Brew and Owen were killed by
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  Speaker 1: Imperial soldiers looking for the droids they had purchased the
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  Speaker 1: day before, both the plans to the Death Start. Luke
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  Speaker 1: found their burned bodies and home, and it's burned him
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  Speaker 1: to leave tattooing to join with the rebellion. There's a
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  Speaker 1: whole thing where you can. Brew is like reflecting on
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  Speaker 1: her death. It's kind of strange, as a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things are in Star Wars. But she thinks, quote, I
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  Speaker 1: really wish Luke hadn't seen that. Then again, if he hadn't,
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  Speaker 1: he never would have gone off with Old Ben met
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  Speaker 1: the Princess, destroyed the Death Start and saved the galaxy.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess things did turn out all right in
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  Speaker 1: the end, didn't they, Which is wow? What a thing
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  Speaker 1: to think when you've been burned alive. I'm very confused
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  Speaker 1: by that setup. It's very Yeah, it's confusing. I do
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  Speaker 1: not argue with that, so will We don't see it
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  Speaker 1: in the movies. Luke mourned for them after the Battle
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  Speaker 1: of Yavin. That's in the books and comics. Um and
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  Speaker 1: lay to return to Obi One's hut and read stories
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  Speaker 1: about some of their interactions with them, and because you know,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta do it, this is what I'm more familiar with.
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  Speaker 1: Just to confuse everyone, here's a recap of her in Legends,
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  Speaker 1: which again it's no longer Disney Cannon, so it's like
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  Speaker 1: Disney is this Legends? What was what was before Disney? Again,
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  Speaker 1: I think I'll never stop saying I don't understand the
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  Speaker 1: cannon stuff, but keep going a lot of it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't either, and it's annoying me because they keep picking
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  Speaker 1: things from Legends and making a cannon and then I
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  Speaker 1: get all confused. Anyway, this is who was they that?
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  Speaker 1: Who's picking that? Kind of like Disney higher ups? And
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  Speaker 1: I actually there's a position for like continuity. I talked
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  Speaker 1: about it in Setine episode I sounds like a position
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  Speaker 1: you should have, That's what I'm saying. But then we'd
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  Speaker 1: get like much happier ending, surprisingly enough, and anyway, and
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  Speaker 1: they're happily ever after we never have to see him
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  Speaker 1: again and stops he's good, He's good. Stop question exactly exactly? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So it's a similar main story, but in Legends, Buru
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  Speaker 1: came from a family that had been in moisture farming
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  Speaker 1: for three generations, and they had a reputation for toughness
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  Speaker 1: in a particular disposition for moisture farming. She had two siblings,
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  Speaker 1: and right before the onset of the Clone Wars, she
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  Speaker 1: met Owen Lars and started dating him. She grew close
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  Speaker 1: to his family, his father Tig, and stepmother should Be Skywalker,
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  Speaker 1: who was certain the two would get married. Cleig liked
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  Speaker 1: that she could keep up with him in verbal sparring matches,
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  Speaker 1: and Brewer had many friends, many of them or women.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I couldn't find this, so this must
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  Speaker 1: be like something else, which is called fannon. I could
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  Speaker 1: have sworn her family only were what was They're called
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  Speaker 1: like singers. They help people escape tattoin in bad situations
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  Speaker 1: on tattooin. But I didn't find that, even though it's
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  Speaker 1: like firmly lodged in my brain that that's what I remember,
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  Speaker 1: all right. So in this version, a Baru had to
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  Speaker 1: convince Owen to take Luke like he didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: do it. She had to convince him to do it.
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  Speaker 1: They told neighbors they gave Luke the name Skywalker to
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  Speaker 1: honor the memory of Shami Skywalker. Buru loved Luke. She'd
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  Speaker 1: carry him around the farm as a baby nes sling
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  Speaker 1: to collect mushrooms, and she would take him with her
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  Speaker 1: when she went into anchor Head to get supplies. She
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  Speaker 1: played with him and they laughed a lot, and when
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  Speaker 1: he got older, she taught him lessons on compassion and patience.
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  Speaker 1: When he was sick, she would sing in these lulla
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  Speaker 1: byes about the persistence of love. And she did all
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  Speaker 1: of this while working on the moisture farm, of keeping
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  Speaker 1: the hydroponics lab, which I like, and finding ways to
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  Speaker 1: make roots, the roots she could get her hands on
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  Speaker 1: into creative dishes that would stretch, because the roots on
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  Speaker 1: tattoin are like take a machette to them and know nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Very tough, very tough. She had mixed feelings about Kenobi
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  Speaker 1: watching them uh and he often would offer help, but
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  Speaker 1: she didn't know how to feel about that. She didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to be indebted to him. She and Owen eventually
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  Speaker 1: decided to just kind of ignore him. She later changed
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  Speaker 1: her mind, though, deciding Owen was being too hard on
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  Speaker 1: Kenobi after he saved Luke from a crate dragon as
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  Speaker 1: a child, and this led to an argument between her
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  Speaker 1: and Owen. Like a frequent argument about it. She and
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  Speaker 1: Owen also decided to try and keep all stuff Jedi
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  Speaker 1: from Luke, which caused Owen to yell at Luke on
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  Speaker 1: several occasions when he would do this Jedi stuff. Really
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  Speaker 1: he would use the force, even though he didn't know
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  Speaker 1: what that was or what he was doing Um. Owen
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  Speaker 1: grounded Luke for asking questions about his father as well,
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  Speaker 1: and this was a point of tension in brewin Owen's relationship.
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  Speaker 1: He lashed out at her on more than one occasion
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  Speaker 1: for suggesting they should accept Luke was going to leave.
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  Speaker 1: One day, she convinced Owen to allow Luke to throw
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  Speaker 1: a goodbye dinner for his friend Big Stark Lighter, reminding
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  Speaker 1: him he had said goodbye to his stepbrother Anakin before
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  Speaker 1: he left. She admitted that while she believed that they
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  Speaker 1: should let Luke leave, she she wanted him to stay too.
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  Speaker 1: Um And here's here's a divergence. In this version, Luke
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  Speaker 1: begged Owen to invite the Javas so that they could
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  Speaker 1: get more droids, with the goal of getting enough that
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  Speaker 1: he could leave Um. And of course, the droids they
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  Speaker 1: purchased brought the wrath of the Empire on them. While
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  Speaker 1: Luke was gone, stormtroopers arrived and burned the Lars's homestead.
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  Speaker 1: They cooperated with the stormtroopers, but Darth Vader ordered them
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  Speaker 1: killed and watches they died over hollow Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: When Luke found their burnt bodies, he buried them and
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  Speaker 1: left with Obi one. He later returned to La to
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  Speaker 1: give them a proper burial, and he put a pendant
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  Speaker 1: depicting Buru when she was young over her burial site.
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  Speaker 1: So that's darth Vader was messed up. That's that's gruesome
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  Speaker 1: around and about statue. And there were rumors that the
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  Speaker 1: Tuscans killed them and Luke and that also another rumor
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  Speaker 1: was that Luke himself killed them. But later a galactic
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  Speaker 1: historian described her as a woman who quote helped shape
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  Speaker 1: the man that became a galactic hero. And she was
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  Speaker 1: well loved and she was well remembered. Um and I
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  Speaker 1: love her. Um. I know there's some stuff about her
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  Speaker 1: being like too traditionally feminine and quiet, but she has
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  Speaker 1: like this like really steady strength and love and kindness,
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  Speaker 1: and I just I've always loved her. I love that
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  Speaker 1: fan fiction treats her so well too. Yeah, she was
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  Speaker 1: pretty dismissed in the franchise. Uh, Like, it was so
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  Speaker 1: quick that I was like, I think when I first
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  Speaker 1: watched it with you all, I said, wait, they're dead?
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  Speaker 1: Is no one's going to process this? Did he? Did
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  Speaker 1: they kill him? Like? I was so confused, even to
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  Speaker 1: the point that you had to I guess, like, where's there?
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  Speaker 1: I don't get it, what's happening. I don't get it
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  Speaker 1: because it was so quickly passed by that I was
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  Speaker 1: very confused about what just happened. It traumatized me as
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  Speaker 1: a kid. I can't watch that. Yeah, yeah, oh gosh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I just love her so much. I am,
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  Speaker 1: I'm worried. I'm excited and worried about the Canobia show
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  Speaker 1: as much as I'm building. I'm I'm nervous, and I
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  Speaker 1: hope that Yeah. Well, I'm generally pretty low key. It's
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  Speaker 1: not obviously, Yeah, but I love these characters so much,
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  Speaker 1: and I've been kind of burnt before, so I hope
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  Speaker 1: that the characters as awesome as I I feel in
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  Speaker 1: my heart she truly is in the show. Yeah. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: that is what I have to say about Brew for now.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like this is a great like thank you
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  Speaker 1: for letting me know about her, because again, it was
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  Speaker 1: so swept and it was so quick that I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what just happened? So this was a nice looking okay,
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  Speaker 1: but now I can't watch that scene anymore. It's upsetting.
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  Speaker 1: It's still good, yeah, they were. Oh and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even mention like they knew the danger of taking him
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  Speaker 1: in like that. You it was illegal to have a
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  Speaker 1: fourth sensitive child and not turn them in, And I
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  Speaker 1: don't This was never intended, but now they've made so
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  Speaker 1: much material that if Luke had gone and joined the
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  Speaker 1: Imperial Academy, he would have had to take the test
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  Speaker 1: that proves your fourth sensitive and he probably would have
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  Speaker 1: been captured or killed. So I don't know that whole
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  Speaker 1: like delaying him like please don't leave, Please don't leave, jeez,
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing. So many thoughts, so many thoughts like that. Yes, well,
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  Speaker 1: soon I will have the Asoka episode. But in the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed this one as much as I
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