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Star Wars The High Republic Beware The Nameless Book Review Episode CCIV · Star Wars Alliance

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Speaker 1: The Force will be with you always.
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Speaker 2: Hello and welcome back to another episode of Star Wars Alliance.
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Speaker 2: Of course, I'm your host, Clay and with me for
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Speaker 2: another great book interview interview. I'm still tired right now.
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Speaker 2: It's Sunday, guys. We are recording this separate lead than
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Speaker 2: our usual show for our book review is Katie, Katie,
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Speaker 2: how is your Sunday going? From the sound of it yesterday,
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Speaker 2: your weekend is not going completely great. But how's your Sunday?
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Speaker 3: I think we've confirmed that she's teaving Matt let me
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Speaker 3: sleep in, so I feel pretty good right now. I
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Speaker 3: do feel bad for Matt because he didn't came back
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Speaker 3: last night until like midnight, but he let me sleep so.
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Speaker 2: And let's see here, she is four months and so
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember when Amberlin started teething. So September,
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Speaker 2: so October, November, December, yeah, January New Year's was when
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Speaker 2: she started teething. Four months.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, my nephew did not start teething until he
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Speaker 3: was six months.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, oh yeah, fun stuff. I do apologize
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Speaker 2: and we, like Abby said yesterday when we were texting,
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Speaker 2: Amberlin is definitely one going on thirty right now. She
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Speaker 2: wants to do everything herself. She already thinks she knows
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Speaker 2: more than us. Like she she's cute as can be. Guys,
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Speaker 2: I love my daughter so much, but don't let any
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Speaker 2: parent trick your child can be a little shit. That's
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Speaker 2: just the way it is. Because like even yesterday, we
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Speaker 2: had a very fun, adorable family time at the grocery store.
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Speaker 2: And I almost forgot that stores do this from time
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Speaker 2: to time, but uh, and it was like maybe our
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Speaker 2: second time into the store. It's a local grocery store
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Speaker 2: or whatever, and there was fish in the very back
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Speaker 2: where like the pet like food stuff is, well, there
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Speaker 2: was actual fish and like their little aquariums and stuff.
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Speaker 2: And Amberlyn had never seen fish in person, like she's
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Speaker 2: always seen them her very like her her favorite thing
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Speaker 2: on TV right now is Baby Shark, so she sees
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Speaker 2: fish all the time on that. She the new Little
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Speaker 2: Mermaid show on Disney Plus, so she knows about fish,
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Speaker 2: but she had never seen them in person. So when
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Speaker 2: I showed her like it opened like a whole new
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Speaker 2: experience into like her, her whole life. And I immediately
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Speaker 2: regretted it because I was like, Okay, it's time to
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Speaker 2: go and she immediately started to like do that, like eh,
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Speaker 2: and like started to like start a fit, and then
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Speaker 2: Abby quickly grabbed like a dog, squeaky toy. It was like,
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Speaker 2: look what I have. It's really sad that we can
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Speaker 2: basically treat our child like a dog, but it's hilarious also.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, like I said before, this is a book review,
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Speaker 2: and of course you clicked on this due to the title.
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Speaker 2: This is our Beware the Nameless book review. Of course,
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Speaker 2: this is written by zorryda Cordova. This is one of
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Speaker 2: the younger readers or specifically titled middle grade. I like
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Speaker 2: this one. I think I always like these in every
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Speaker 2: phase and wave that we get. One thing that has
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Speaker 2: started to be a very big trope of these series
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Speaker 2: of books is the fact that there are new Star
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Speaker 2: Wars creatures introduced in these books. And funny enough, just
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Speaker 2: like my daughter, you know, I think that kids gravitate
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Speaker 2: towards animals, and so I think it's a very smart
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Speaker 2: thing to do. I think it's really really fun. But
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Speaker 2: we have new characters in here related to old characters,
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Speaker 2: and I will say this, Zorida did everything possible to
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Speaker 2: reference and not reference the one character that this character
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Speaker 2: is related to like it was right on the customet
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Speaker 2: like the very in like it's basically right there. I'm like,
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Speaker 2: all you have to do is say the name. You
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Speaker 2: just have to say the name. And they didn't say
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Speaker 2: the name, and I'm like why. But yeah, I really
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Speaker 2: like this book. I think it's very fun. It gets
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Speaker 2: very scary at some points, And I do think that
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Speaker 2: is also a really weird trope of these books, is
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Speaker 2: that you.
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Speaker 3: Would think that they would that with it being a
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Speaker 3: younger Pater's book, a middle grade book, you'd be like, Okay,
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Speaker 3: let's stick away from the scary, but like, there's some
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Speaker 3: intense scenes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, some very intense scenes. And I think it also
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Speaker 2: has to do with the fact that the the phase
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Speaker 2: three of this High Republic era is supposed to be
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Speaker 2: kind of dark and gloomy and scary, and we hope
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Speaker 2: that there is a happy ending to this whole thing,
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Speaker 2: but we know that this is just a part of
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Speaker 2: the story that's supposed to go into what some could
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Speaker 2: say is some of the darkest stories in film history
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Speaker 2: of Star Wars and stuff. So I don't know if
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Speaker 2: you can in this in a happy, go lucky, happy ending,
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Speaker 2: you know, there was a little bit of a tear
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Speaker 2: jerker here at the very end of this book that
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Speaker 2: I was very happy to see. But yeah, Katie, we
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Speaker 2: know that we recently discussed outside of the podcast that
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Speaker 2: we're going to be keeping these reviews somewhat spoiler free
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Speaker 2: due to the fact, of course that we get these
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Speaker 2: books a little bit early. Sometimes we want to be
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Speaker 2: able to push these book reviews out when everybody else
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Speaker 2: who gets these early do and so usually we do
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Speaker 2: like a like somewhat heavy spoiler stuff when it comes
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Speaker 2: to our favorite parts and stuff. But we're gonna try
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Speaker 2: to veer away from that and kind of talk around
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Speaker 2: it so that way you guys can go and grab
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Speaker 2: this book and experience it yourself, because we will always
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Speaker 2: say that reading it yourself is always better. And we
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Speaker 2: love these books and we want you guys to enjoy
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Speaker 2: them as well. So, Katie, where do you want to
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Speaker 2: start with? Beware the Nameless?
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Speaker 3: So I do want to mention this first, because we
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Speaker 3: always fail to talk about this, and I keep going
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Speaker 3: we need to talk about this, and I fail to remember.
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Speaker 3: But this book does have LGBTQ representation and its transgender.
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Speaker 3: She's a trans female, So there's representation there, and then
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Speaker 3: Kildo obviously in Escape from Valo he kind of built
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Speaker 3: the relationship with I can't remember that Gab Gabby, so
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Speaker 3: there's representation there. But I loved Tipped Up is just
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Speaker 3: my favorite. I love her so much.
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Speaker 2: I got really worried.
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Speaker 3: I did too.
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Speaker 2: I get really worried, and I was like, Zorida, don't
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Speaker 2: you dare? Don't I know you dare? But it makes
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Speaker 2: things interesting for the future of this phase because of
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Speaker 2: some things that we saw in Temptation of the Force
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Speaker 2: in regards to Bury and how Burry and a var
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Speaker 2: and and and all of that happened near the of
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Speaker 2: course climax of that book. I want to get into
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Speaker 2: that subject when we finally start talking about it again.
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Speaker 2: We'll have to veer away from some stuff, but I
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Speaker 2: do want to talk talk about that specifically. And just
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Speaker 2: wondering it made me think, like, you know, we we
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Speaker 2: we are so ingrained with these formulaic movies like the MCU,
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Speaker 2: and we're like, oh, you introduce these characters so that
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Speaker 2: way they can, you know, interact with each other in
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Speaker 2: future movies and stuff. For the MCU, I think it
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Speaker 2: only makes sense that with these little things happening in
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Speaker 2: these books. The connection that I'm trying to make with
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Speaker 2: Burry and Tip Tip, Like, I think you almost have
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Speaker 2: to have an interaction in a future book with them.
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Speaker 3: You have to, especially with that with that scene on
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Speaker 3: the Innovator. Yeah, at the end, like where should where
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Speaker 3: she connects? I'm just trying to say where she connects
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Speaker 3: with the Nameless?
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Speaker 2: Like, but does she? Like it's it's it's so very vague,
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Speaker 2: you know, And because the Egg for.
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Speaker 3: A reason, because it's all going to be built.
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Speaker 2: Up exactly, and it's a book that's already come out,
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Speaker 2: so we'll go ahead and talk about it. Also with
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Speaker 2: Bury and their interaction with the Nameless, and we know
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Speaker 2: that they like cause the Jedi to be consumed by
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Speaker 2: fear and all of these different things. And because of
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Speaker 2: Bury's special connection to the force, he is an EmPATH
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Speaker 2: that can not necessarily control emotions, but he can.
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Speaker 3: He feels them deeply and he can help temper them exactly.
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Speaker 2: So with his connection to the force with empathy and
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Speaker 2: tep Tep's connection to the Force with creatures, and of
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Speaker 2: course their number one enemy being the Nihill and specifically
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Speaker 2: the Nameless, I think that's going to be a very
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Speaker 2: interesting connection, and I really hope that there is something
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Speaker 2: in the future because if there's not, that is a
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Speaker 2: huge missed opportunity for broader storytelling. And I think one
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Speaker 2: of the best things when it comes to stories like
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Speaker 2: this is these little heroes in our young wings, like
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Speaker 2: they of course, everybody is the hero of their own story, right,
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Speaker 2: but when it comes to the broader scale of the Jedi,
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Speaker 2: the Jedi Masters, Jedi Knights and all of this, Like,
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Speaker 2: I think it would be one of those MCU in
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Speaker 2: game moments that you're like, oh yeah, like the freaking
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Speaker 2: kill though in Tep Tep or fighting alongside Bury and
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Speaker 2: Bell and all these other things like that would be
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Speaker 2: so cool. And you know, uh, there's somewhat of a
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Speaker 2: precedent for it to happen because of the Guardian protocols,
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Speaker 2: but we technically still don't have masters for a Tip
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Speaker 2: Tip and Gildo and all of that. They're kind of
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Speaker 2: under Ram's care, but he's still technically a Padawan, So
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Speaker 2: maybe in the future we'll see something happen there. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's it's really thought.
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Speaker 3: I really thought Ram was going to get knighted at
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Speaker 3: the end of this.
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Speaker 2: It kind of sounded like that's what was happening, because
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Speaker 2: at the very end, there's like a little bit of
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Speaker 2: a council meeting and debriefing of the entire adventure that happened.
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Speaker 2: And I can't remember which council member said it, but
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Speaker 2: at the very end, they're like, oh, but Ram, you'll
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Speaker 2: have to stay here and and do this. And I
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Speaker 2: was like, Oh, he's getting knighted, Like that's crazy, that's
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Speaker 2: gonna be awesome, and it never happened. So I was like, yeah, oh, please.
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Speaker 3: Don't knight him off screen, y'all, please don't knight him
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Speaker 3: off screen. I want to see it. I need the emotion.
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Speaker 2: I think that there should be a book. Now. I'm
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Speaker 2: not saying that there should be a book where they
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Speaker 2: all get knighted all at once, but I think some
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Speaker 2: of these characters that we have been following, as far
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Speaker 2: as the padawan's, like, we saw Vernestra knights her padawan Emory, Yeah, Emory,
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Speaker 2: and it kind of meant nothing because he also was
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Speaker 2: just like, yeah, I'm not gonna be a Jedi anymore
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Speaker 2: type of thing. But you know, it was still very
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Speaker 2: emotional as raw. It was very fun, and it showed
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Speaker 2: character growth.
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Speaker 3: All right, y'all, we are going to hit our first
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Speaker 3: ad break and we will be right back in three
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Speaker 3: two one.
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Speaker 2: And I think moments like that we need that shown now.
13:53
Speaker 2: The only one that we didn't technically get. I'm pretty
13:56
Speaker 2: sure we technically did not get Bells.
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Speaker 3: Uh, Shadows of Starlight.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that was it was it was. It was inn
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Speaker 2: a comic. It wasn't a it wasn't in an actual novel. Uh.
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Speaker 2: But I hope that we get to see Ram because
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Speaker 2: I think he's kind of, well, he's not kind of
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Speaker 2: He's definitely earned it. He's gone through a lot. They've
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Speaker 2: put a lot of responsibility on somebody who is just
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Speaker 2: a padawan, you know, So I think it would be
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Speaker 2: very fun for them to do that.
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Speaker 3: Uh, the Guardian protocols and what he's experienced, especially in
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Speaker 3: Mission to Disaster that when Reef gets nighted, you would
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Speaker 3: have thought, hey, let's night Ram at the same time.
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Speaker 2: Mm hmm yep.
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Speaker 3: But no, Yeah, and Ram is not a huge factor
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Speaker 3: in this book. He plays more of a side character.
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Speaker 2: He does play more of a side character. He is
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Speaker 2: in involved. In the beginning of the book. He has
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Speaker 2: as literally like maybe an eight page chapter in the
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Speaker 2: middle of the book, and then he's at the end.
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Speaker 2: That's basically his side of the story. It is mainly
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Speaker 2: surrounding our characters of the Padawans. We have a new
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Speaker 2: or a young We do have a new young one
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Speaker 2: that joins our team, Jamil. Jamil is a young individual
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Speaker 2: that has some insecurity and possible jealousy issues. In the
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Speaker 2: very beginning of this book, you know, he's he's this
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Speaker 2: very impatient youngling that's like, why am I not a
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Speaker 2: Padawan yet? Like all of this crap is happening around
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Speaker 2: the galaxy and I'm not a Padawan? What is going on?
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Speaker 2: Kind of idea And he's not very vocal about it.
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Speaker 2: He's very internal about it, but those are his thought
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Speaker 2: But it's very interesting the decision he makes at the
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Speaker 2: very end because of his character growth, you know. But
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Speaker 2: he is a character that is introduced here. We are
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Speaker 2: also introduced to two new characters, one being the great
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Speaker 2: great great granddaughter of actual gray Lark.
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Speaker 3: Yes, because she talks about her grandma, but she references
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Speaker 3: the grandma as a gray Lark. So with it being
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Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty.
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Speaker 4: Years I think, actually, yeah, but that's that's the one
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Speaker 4: that I was saying that they didn't reference Axel.
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Speaker 2: At all, like at all, And you know, I would
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Speaker 2: hope that through everything that happened in phase two, we
17:06
Speaker 2: kind of get at the very end of face to
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Speaker 2: this tease of like, hey, he's learned his ways. Yes,
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Speaker 2: he has to go through some things, and there's got
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Speaker 2: to be a lot of character growth there, but we
17:18
Speaker 2: as readers hope that that character growth happened, right, And
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Speaker 2: so with them being prominent in Coruscants still, you're like,
17:29
Speaker 2: come on, like we have to like, is there no
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Speaker 2: update here? Is this really just a name drop and
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Speaker 2: that's it? Like come on, But we get her Zenny,
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Speaker 2: right is her name?
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Speaker 3: And she gets to wheel the lightsaber just like her
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Speaker 3: great Greek grandfather does.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and she is has a little bit of the
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Speaker 2: attitude in the very beginning of this as Axel very
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Speaker 2: much in this, like hey, I'm gonna do what I
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Speaker 2: want because nobody wants to do what I want, and
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Speaker 2: I think what I want is best for the people
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Speaker 2: that I care about, and that's what gets us in
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Speaker 2: this mess to begin with. She stows away on the
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Speaker 2: innovator and without them knowing, the innovator shoots off into
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Speaker 2: their mission and the younglings and Zinni are stuck on
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Speaker 2: the innovator and they're like, oh crap. Oops, is basically
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Speaker 2: their explanation for everything. But she isn't the only new character.
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Speaker 2: We get a new character in Truro Truro the Hut,
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Speaker 2: which I think personally and I do think Zorida probably
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Speaker 2: knew this as well and is probably why his frame
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Speaker 2: of reference is probably it is probably the reason why
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Speaker 2: his frame of reference is the last of this book.
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Speaker 2: Truro stole the story from me, and I think it's
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Speaker 2: more so because a lot of these books in the
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Speaker 2: High Republic do have a little bit of this sense
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Speaker 2: of a coming of age story, and I think it's
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Speaker 2: a very big stereotype and trope with these types of novels.
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Speaker 2: But it's a good thing, you know, Hey, It encourages
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Speaker 2: your younger readers to read these books, to find themselves
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Speaker 2: in these characters and then move forward. And with Truro, Yes,
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Speaker 2: Truro the Hut.
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Speaker 3: He loves it, just he has a little.
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Speaker 5: Bit of a history with his family in the sense
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Speaker 5: of like, hey, people see me as this type of
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Speaker 5: individual because of my namesake, right, because of who I am.
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Speaker 2: And we immediately realize almost immediately, hey, this dude is
19:56
Speaker 2: not the same kind of hut. You know.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got a greenhouse, he loves looking at animals,
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Speaker 3: he's got an it farm.
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Speaker 2: And it fart like, I love this kid. He is
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Speaker 2: amazing to a point where he like is trying to
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Speaker 2: help his sister or his you know, in retrospect his
20:19
Speaker 2: family with what we find out is, hey, you're going
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Speaker 2: to steal a huge weapon from the Night Hill, and
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Speaker 2: we're gonna use it because we heard this weapon is
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Speaker 2: like the one thing that the Jedi fear, and if
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Speaker 2: the Jedi fear them, we need to have them so
20:38
Speaker 2: that way the Jedi can stay off of our backs
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Speaker 2: and we can run the cartels that we run, and
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Speaker 2: we could run the galaxy and all those different things.
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Speaker 2: Of course, that being the nameless and of course he
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Speaker 2: feels obligated to do so because of course he is
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Speaker 2: a hut. And things go awry, he is blasted into
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Speaker 2: you know, this planet. He now has a bounty on
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Speaker 2: his head. He runs into our heroes and they become friends.
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Speaker 2: It's very you know, classic kind of trophy tropiness of
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Speaker 2: this younger readers, but it's very fun. It's very fun.
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Speaker 2: We get to see the evolution of Truro and him
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Speaker 2: battling his inner self with like, Okay, I really want
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Speaker 2: to help my family, But do I really want to
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Speaker 2: help my family? And not because I don't want to
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Speaker 2: help my family, but more so because is this really
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Speaker 2: who I am? And like what they do is that
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Speaker 2: what I want to do? Because I love my greenhouse,
21:48
Speaker 2: I love my animals, I love all these different things
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Speaker 2: and they want nothing to do with that. And I
21:54
Speaker 2: think one of my favorite lines of this entire book
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Speaker 2: is when Tep Tep says, well, you're you like and
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Speaker 2: that's all that needs, That's all that matters. And I
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Speaker 2: think the best part of that is because she is
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Speaker 2: trans like she understands that more than anybody, like, hey,
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Speaker 2: the most important part is you. And he even says
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Speaker 2: that he's never heard that before. He's always heard, oh,
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Speaker 2: the most important part of me is that I'm a hut.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's a really.
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Speaker 3: Beautiful point out. That's a good moment.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I loved Chruro. I thought he was so cute to
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Speaker 3: like hit that younger demographic, but then also like giving
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Speaker 3: that those moments where it's like, what, like you said,
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Speaker 3: were tepe aps, like the most important thing for you
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Speaker 3: to be use you, and like that's important for young
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Speaker 3: kids to know, especially so I think Truro is like
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Speaker 3: the audience character in this Zenny. I can't get over
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Speaker 3: how much Zenny makes me feel like Axel in a sense,
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Speaker 3: like oh yeah, it's it's so funny. But also getting
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Speaker 3: that art waight work with her in the middle where
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Speaker 3: she's just holding the lightsaber. It's so good. The art
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Speaker 3: in this book. Who's the r by.
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Speaker 2: Did they even have the artist?
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Speaker 3: Yes, the illustrator is Peter and Thomson. He's in the back.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, the artwork in this one is really good,
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Speaker 3: especially because it pulls out those purple tones, which I
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Speaker 3: I love the purple tones. And I do think Zinny
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Speaker 3: Zinny was a good character Foil to have in here
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Speaker 3: for the Jedi, especially because she's specifically looking for her sister,
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Speaker 3: who was out on a mission in the same region
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Speaker 3: that they're going to, and it's hoping that they can
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Speaker 3: find her. And I believe her father as well. Yes,
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Speaker 3: but I loved her. I loved her little hairstyle with
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Speaker 3: the buns. I am wondering if Axel or if there's
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Speaker 3: like some ironm and aerno in like that. That yeah,
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Speaker 3: in the DNA now because of the hair colors.
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Speaker 2: And well because the hair colors, but also I believe, uh,
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Speaker 2: was it was it her sister or was it the
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Speaker 2: Jedi that was hanging out with her? Sister had like
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Speaker 2: the green freckles, which is something that.
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Speaker 3: Is Yeah, the Jedi had those, and they were comparing
24:58
Speaker 3: because the Jedi had green hair too, but the sister
25:02
Speaker 3: also had green hair.
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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:05
Speaker 3: And I mean, obviously you can dye your hair and stuff.
25:08
Speaker 3: But it's just interesting to me that one sister has blue,
25:10
Speaker 3: one sister has greened like that seems not intentional. We're
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Speaker 3: to go into our second ad break and we'll be
25:19
Speaker 3: right back. Kildo was good in the book. He played
25:23
Speaker 3: I feel like he still played a lesser role. Tep.
25:26
Speaker 3: Tep is probably the most primary Jedi along with jim Ill.
25:31
Speaker 2: I think I think Jamil was probably our primary one here.
25:36
Speaker 2: Kildo was surprisingly enough as the jokester in Mission to
25:42
Speaker 2: Disaster or no, no, which one was they were they
25:47
Speaker 2: escape from Escape from Ballo, Sorry, he was the jokester
25:51
Speaker 2: in Escape from Bellow. Here he was the one that
25:55
Speaker 2: had like the knowledge drops. He was the very wise Jedi.
26:00
Speaker 2: But it's so funny because they're all young wings, so
26:03
Speaker 2: it kind of again, it shows their character growth, it
26:05
Speaker 2: shows their experience, and Kilda was in the very beginning
26:09
Speaker 2: of the book like, oh, well, you know, we fought
26:13
Speaker 2: the nameless and we've done this, and we have gone
26:16
Speaker 2: on adventures and we have a lot more experience than
26:19
Speaker 2: all you guys, you know, and Valid we did this,
26:22
Speaker 2: and Valid we did that. Da da dah. But he
26:26
Speaker 2: he was the the person throughout this book that was
26:32
Speaker 2: kind of pushing them forward, was the word of the
26:35
Speaker 2: ones that had the words of encouragement.
26:39
Speaker 5: Zenny.
26:41
Speaker 2: I really love her intuition. She and it plays a
26:47
Speaker 2: really big part near the end of the book. But
26:50
Speaker 2: you know, because of who she is, how she grew
26:54
Speaker 2: up and everything else she and again, this this whole
27:00
Speaker 2: universe of Star Wars. We've talked about this before that
27:05
Speaker 2: on Ironically, racism is a very big thing in Star Wars.
27:11
Speaker 2: It just is, and you get a bit of it
27:15
Speaker 2: with Zenny from the very start when meeting True. Oh
27:20
Speaker 2: you're a hut oh yeah, you know, all of these
27:23
Speaker 2: different things being rude and nasty towards him. Oh, you know,
27:27
Speaker 2: why did you do this? And dah da dah. And
27:31
Speaker 2: you see her character growth through the book because she
27:36
Speaker 2: meets another individual and internally you're reading her internal thoughts
27:42
Speaker 2: and she's questioning like, oh, that's I shouldn't think that way,
27:45
Speaker 2: like because I did it with Truro and look how
27:48
Speaker 2: great he is and all of this stuff, But it
27:50
Speaker 2: was still her intuition. I was like, something feels off
27:52
Speaker 2: about this, Like I can't quite get it, but something
27:56
Speaker 2: feels off, and ultimately helped out because that said character
28:02
Speaker 2: was a nigh hill in quote unquote disguise. So I
28:06
Speaker 2: think that was very, very fun to see it. And
28:10
Speaker 2: I think that's the best thing about these books is
28:12
Speaker 2: that you can see a character grow so much through
28:18
Speaker 2: This book is only twenty four chapters, you know, a
28:22
Speaker 2: total of I think from from chapter one to chapter
28:25
Speaker 2: two is like three hundred and twenty something pages.
28:28
Speaker 3: But it's also a short it's a small book because
28:32
Speaker 3: it's not like regular size, so you hud your twenty
28:34
Speaker 3: three pages. Yeah, so, and yeah, you even see Zenny's
28:41
Speaker 3: growth because at the end, she and her mom are
28:44
Speaker 3: taking in Turo and like trying to help him like
28:48
Speaker 3: find his path because his sisters, like, no, you betrayed
28:51
Speaker 3: the family. You're dead.
28:54
Speaker 2: But at the same time, even Zenny says, like your
28:58
Speaker 2: sister just saved you, Like she does probably think like, oh,
29:04
Speaker 2: you're weak and all of this stuff, but she recognized that,
29:08
Speaker 2: like you're not one of us, Like you're not this
29:11
Speaker 2: like angry pirate, you know, drug lord type of individual.
29:18
Speaker 2: You just want to play with your animals, you want
29:20
Speaker 2: to play with your plants, and all of these other
29:21
Speaker 2: things like go to school. Here's a whole bunch of credits,
29:25
Speaker 2: go do whatever you want. And it's so funny because
29:31
Speaker 2: true is like I can't believe you, and it's not
29:37
Speaker 2: like I can't believe you. Like he's mad, but he
29:39
Speaker 2: doesn't know what to feel. He's like he's being disowned,
29:43
Speaker 2: but he's being let free. He has this like there's
29:47
Speaker 2: so many emotions going on. But you're near the end
29:50
Speaker 2: of his book. But I love the way Zorita ended
29:54
Speaker 2: it because it leaves you on such an open path
29:59
Speaker 2: of like like the last words legitimately let me read these,
30:06
Speaker 2: because I think this was just a great way to
30:08
Speaker 2: end the book. Was he Zoraida put it down as
30:18
Speaker 2: he needed to be himself. The galaxy was his and
30:22
Speaker 2: it was waiting. Possibilities are endless now for him.
30:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, and like.
30:30
Speaker 2: I know that because of the way Star Wars was created,
30:36
Speaker 2: we are so many years into the future when it
30:39
Speaker 2: comes to the original trilogy. We jumped even further into
30:42
Speaker 2: the future with a sequel trilogy. We jumped back with
30:46
Speaker 2: a prequel trilogy, and there's just like so much good
30:51
Speaker 2: stuff happening. Now, that's like what happened to True? Where's true?
30:56
Speaker 2: Where's his legacy? Like what happened to him? And it
31:01
Speaker 2: made me think because of how intellectual he is, he
31:09
Speaker 2: would be a great partner for Oh shoot, uh remember
31:22
Speaker 2: her name? Uh the scientists? No, the scientists uh uh Oh,
31:31
Speaker 2: Temptation of the Force was Nils. Yes, yeah, I think
31:38
Speaker 2: that they would have so much in common, like, hey,
31:45
Speaker 2: our families. Our families are not the greatest people, but
31:49
Speaker 2: we have decided to, you know, walk away and do
31:52
Speaker 2: these great things for the greater good of the galaxy.
31:55
Speaker 2: Like I need them to meet, Like I think that
31:58
Speaker 2: would be fun as well. So that would be.
32:00
Speaker 3: Cool because I'm betting there's like some sort of like
32:03
Speaker 3: biological component too, in like the nigh hills, like past
32:08
Speaker 3: phrase especially now that marci On has altered like the
32:12
Speaker 3: key to get past the storm wall, and Troe could
32:17
Speaker 3: be a great asset there. Yeah, because stars and I
32:21
Speaker 3: can't remember her name. I know it starts with an A, but.
32:29
Speaker 2: I think, hold on, I'm gonna look it up right now.
32:33
Speaker 3: But she's she's not going to consider like the emotional
32:39
Speaker 3: or like biological component because she's like sticking towards like
32:45
Speaker 3: the crystals, like the computer programming side of things.
32:49
Speaker 2: So true could really help Avon Star Wars.
32:52
Speaker 3: I almost said.
32:53
Speaker 2: Avon sun Veil because she changed her name. Remember, yes, yes.
33:00
Speaker 3: But I just love these books. They always make you
33:03
Speaker 3: feel so good at the end of them, Like they're
33:06
Speaker 3: perfect for kids if you want to like start your
33:10
Speaker 3: kid into reading Star Wars. I read like a third
33:14
Speaker 3: of this book tomorrow just because she like appreciates when
33:18
Speaker 3: she could hear my voice kind of thing. Like it
33:21
Speaker 3: was like a couple chapters here and there, so she
33:25
Speaker 3: didn't get the full story, but like I still felt
33:27
Speaker 3: comfortable reading it to her out loud and stuff. I mean, granted,
33:30
Speaker 3: she listened to one of my romance books out loud
33:35
Speaker 3: on an audiobook, so I guess I shouldn't say I
33:38
Speaker 3: felt appropriate when she listened to that book.
33:42
Speaker 2: We have, of course, we have your ABC book that
33:46
Speaker 2: you bought amber Ln that she very much appreciates. But
33:52
Speaker 2: she has these two. I think they're like the classic
33:56
Speaker 2: Golden spine of the Golden books. It's Star Wars. We
34:02
Speaker 2: are the Resistance, and there's also like Star Wars like
34:09
Speaker 2: you can be a Hero or something like that. I
34:11
Speaker 2: can't remember what the title is, but she has us
34:14
Speaker 2: read those stories almost every single day. I think Star
34:19
Speaker 2: Wars is such a great starter for kids when it
34:24
Speaker 2: comes to the not only sci fi drama genre, but
34:31
Speaker 2: hero genre as well, because you know, you look at
34:35
Speaker 2: even something like what we reviewed the other day being
34:37
Speaker 2: Young Jedi Adventures like me and Amberlain watched that all
34:43
Speaker 2: the time. It's it's it's vibrant, it's colorful. They have
34:47
Speaker 2: great stories to tell for kids. So if you guys
34:50
Speaker 2: are interested in introducing your kids to Star Wars, we
34:55
Speaker 2: highly recommend these be the avenue to do so. They
35:01
Speaker 2: really are great and we have, like like I said,
35:04
Speaker 2: these books, uh do have small illustrations as well. Again
35:10
Speaker 2: it's not a giant picture book, but being able to
35:13
Speaker 2: read the story and then have some sort of visual
35:16
Speaker 2: for your child. I think it's very fun as well.
35:20
Speaker 3: And we're about to jump into our third ad.
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Speaker 2: Y'all.
35:24
Speaker 3: We promise we'll be right back, we promise. Star Wars
35:27
Speaker 3: is a great avenue towards building that imagination, I feel like,
35:32
Speaker 3: because there's just so much potential where you could go
35:34
Speaker 3: in any direction, like even I mean, that's how I
35:37
Speaker 3: got involved with Star Wars was I saw episode four,
35:41
Speaker 3: episode five, and then I saw episode two, so like,
35:44
Speaker 3: and then I put together a trail in my head
35:46
Speaker 3: because I thought Padme and Anakin were Luke and Lea, so.
35:52
Speaker 1: Like.
35:53
Speaker 3: It's just there's all sorts of possibilities involved. So I
35:57
Speaker 3: just like we have have episodes like we did last
36:01
Speaker 3: week where we're like, come on, guys, really like us
36:05
Speaker 3: canceled Act lately, come on, But like the books are
36:08
Speaker 3: where it's at.
36:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that, you know, when it comes to
36:13
Speaker 2: the importance of entertainment, but also just like creativity, you
36:24
Speaker 2: have so much more that you can expand on with
36:27
Speaker 2: with books, and I think that's it's super fun and
36:31
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's people have like this weird notion
36:38
Speaker 2: when it comes to like bookworms and like stereotypes and
36:41
Speaker 2: all of that, but like, hey, there's nothing wrong with
36:46
Speaker 2: escaping with a really good story. So yeah, I think
36:49
Speaker 2: it's it's very fun. I think that's basically everything that
36:56
Speaker 2: we can touch up on without getting into heavy, heavy spoilers.
37:01
Speaker 2: Like we said, there are new creatures introduced into these books.
37:07
Speaker 2: The turtles was a really fun part of the story
37:12
Speaker 2: as well. Yeah, and again there there are some things
37:17
Speaker 2: that feel like are lingering and might be connected to
37:19
Speaker 2: other hopefully future stories of this Phase three. If you
37:25
Speaker 2: guys haven't already, this I'm sure is dropping on the
37:32
Speaker 2: same day as our normal episode if we don't drop
37:37
Speaker 2: it sooner, So go check out our episode where we
37:42
Speaker 2: will also be reviewing The Adventures Star Wars Adventures Volume.
37:48
Speaker 3: One, High Republic Adventures.
37:51
Speaker 2: High Republic Adventures Starry Volume one on our main show.
37:58
Speaker 2: And I believe that is all because again we're reviewing
38:04
Speaker 2: this in the future, so if there's any heavy news
38:08
Speaker 2: stuff that comes out, of course you'll hear it there
38:11
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38:21
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