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World Champion Geeks · Movie Meltdown

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  Speaker 1: Hey everybody, Jimmy Pardo from the award-winning podcast Never Not Funny.
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  Speaker 2: You are listening to the soon-to-be award-winning movie Meltdown.
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  Speaker 3: And I can't.
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  Speaker 1: Deny the fact that you like me right now. You
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: like me.
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  Speaker 4: It's showtime.
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  Speaker 2: The following feature has been rated R by the Motion
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  Speaker 2: Picture Association of America. It is intended for mature audiences
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  Speaker 2: and parental discretion is advised. Powered nuclear reactor.
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  Speaker 5: Pumping out one million kilowatts of power.
• 1:05
  Speaker 6: You gotta win to get love. Everyone knows that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's just life.
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  Speaker 6: Look at Don Shula.
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  Speaker 4: Legendary coach.
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  Speaker 2: Look at that Asian guy who holds the world record
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  Speaker 2: for eating all those hot dogs in a row.
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  Speaker 4: Look at Rue McClanahan.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: From the Golden Girls?
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  Speaker 4: All three people.
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  Speaker 6: All great champions, all loved.
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  Speaker 1: What's up and welcome to Movie Meltdown. I'm Brian.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Ben.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Dave.
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  Speaker 1: And we're coming to you live via digital recording from Wonderfest.
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  Speaker 1: Would you like to introduce yourselves?
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  Speaker 4: I'm Dave.
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  Speaker 1: In previous episodes, you needed some sort of special introduction.
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  Speaker 4: All I know is I'm in the 20 Timers Club.
• 1:57
  Speaker 4: I'm wearing my bathrobe. I've got my slippers on.
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: Put your shoes on, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: We should make a point, though. Two years ago.
• 2:06
  Speaker 4: Cue the harp music. Oh, it's the anniversary.
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  Speaker 3: It is the anniversary of the time we broke our podcast.
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  Speaker 4: Can you play some harp music?
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  Speaker 1: I would if you were currently holding any sort of record, but... Oh, pretty.
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  Speaker 1: Low blow. Go ahead and tell the story. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I can play the harp music without an
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  Speaker 1: actual official. Bam.
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  Speaker 4: It's an anniversary of sorts.
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  Speaker 3: Use a toy piano or something. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
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  Speaker 4: It's an anniversary of sorts for David and I. We were...
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  Speaker 4: We were part of a trio that was in this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Paul is dead.
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  Speaker 4: We were in this podcasting game.
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't handle the stress.
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  Speaker 4: And we couldn't handle the stress, so we tried for gimmick.
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  Speaker 4: We did.
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  Speaker 3: We went for the shiny brass ring.
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  Speaker 1: And you made it there.
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  Speaker 4: Brian Redfro, who does, I don't know if you know this,
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  Speaker 4: he's the guy behind movie Meltdown.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God somebody's running this.
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  Speaker 4: He's like a workhorse. He's got... He's got quantity. He's
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  Speaker 4: got a backlog.
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  Speaker 3: He's got staying power.
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  Speaker 4: He's met Marianne from that Gilligan's Island.
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  Speaker 1: That was pretty impressive. I trained my entire life for
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  Speaker 1: that episode.
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  Speaker 4: We were basically aimless.
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  Speaker 3: We were the drifters of the podcast.
• 3:19
  Speaker 4: We needed a hook. We needed something that would get
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  Speaker 4: people's attention and actually listen to us.
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  Speaker 1: And possibly break the show.
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  Speaker 4: Not possibly.
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  Speaker 1: I think it killed you all. A little inside.
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  Speaker 3: It broke something in us.
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  Speaker 4: About five years in, we had the brilliant idea, let's
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  Speaker 4: I wonder if there's a world record you can break
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  Speaker 4: for podcasting.
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  Speaker 3: Type, type, type, type, type. Yes, there is.
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  Speaker 1: Well, not really, but kind of a loophole.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a webcast is what it was, a
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  Speaker 3: live webcast.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and our podcast was called, it never really ended
• 3:51
  Speaker 4: because we kind of brought it back, but then we
• 3:53
  Speaker 4: haven't done any because I bought a house and I've
• 3:55
  Speaker 4: been painting.
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  Speaker 1: It's on hiatus.
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  Speaker 3: It's on hiatus. Wait until you get an internet signal
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  Speaker 3: that we can.
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  Speaker 4: Well, okay, the podcast is called Tower of Technobabble. And
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  Speaker 4: there's three of us. Paul is the third. We're kind
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  Speaker 4: of on a weird little hiatus. Because, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: bought a house and I'm in the middle of caulking.
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  Speaker 4: Dave is writing a book.
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  Speaker 1: He said caulk.
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  Speaker 4: Dave is in the middle of writing a novel. And
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  Speaker 4: Paul actually just released a solo album of music.
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  Speaker 3: Which is really good.
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  Speaker 4: So it's like we've all been kind of busy.
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  Speaker 1: Productive people and or house buyers, whichever.
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  Speaker 4: And so the little podcast has gone by the wayside.
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  Speaker 4: But two years ago, we were at the Wonderfest convention,
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  Speaker 4: just like we are now. And we thought, there's no
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  Speaker 4: world record for podcasting, but the webcast.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a webcast, a live webcast. And it was
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  Speaker 3: 36 hours and some odd minutes. I was like, 36 hours?
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  Speaker 3: We can do that standing on our head.
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  Speaker 1: So you're boasting?
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  Speaker 4: Why don't we make it an even 40? Why don't
• 4:51
  Speaker 4: we just make it an even 40? Come on.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, let's move that rock a little farther than
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  Speaker 3: we found it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's whip it across the room.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, let's put it out of the realm of
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  Speaker 3: the 39.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I believe at that point you contacted me and
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  Speaker 1: were like, hey, we're doing this thing. Does this seem
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  Speaker 1: like a good idea? And I was like, oh, no. No,
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  Speaker 1: that's not a good idea. You guys, I will support
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  Speaker 1: you in any way that I can except sit there
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  Speaker 1: for 40 hours. Have fun with that.
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  Speaker 3: But the siren song of fame sung to us.
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  Speaker 2: It did.
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  Speaker 4: And, you know, we had visions of the Guinness people
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  Speaker 4: flying in on hour 40, being there to drop balloons
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  Speaker 4: and confetti and shake our hands.
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  Speaker 1: There was a banner that popped up behind you. Laurel
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  Speaker 1: leaves on our head. Look at that banner. Congratulations. It
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  Speaker 1: turns out.
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  Speaker 4: You know, getting a world record, and we did get
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  Speaker 4: the world record. We got it for about a month
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  Speaker 4: and a half. We had the world record.
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  Speaker 3: I've got proof.
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  Speaker 4: We realized that actually getting the world record was the
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  Speaker 4: easy part. It's all the bureaucracy, all the minutia, all
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  Speaker 4: the forms you got to do. We had to have.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see here. He's brought up a photo to prove
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  Speaker 1: said certification.
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  Speaker 4: Not photoshopped whatsoever. Guinness required that we had two witnesses...
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  Speaker 4: Every two hours who were not related to each other
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  Speaker 4: or to us.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was ridiculous when it was just 40
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  Speaker 1: hours of sitting there talking. But when they brought in
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  Speaker 1: all of that witness bullshit, I was like.
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  Speaker 4: This is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: But we were in too far at that point. The
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  Speaker 3: only way out was through.
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  Speaker 4: And Guinness is run by interns. Anytime Paul would try
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  Speaker 4: to contact them. They would never give him a straight
• 6:36
  Speaker 4: answer or tell him exactly what to do. A couple
• 6:40
  Speaker 4: days before, we still hadn't gotten the official okay from
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  Speaker 4: Guinness that we could actually try it. But by that point,
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  Speaker 4: we had all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You had to have everybody already signed on to witness it.
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  Speaker 4: And it's funny. We had to call on people. that
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  Speaker 4: we hadn't talked to in forever and begged them to
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  Speaker 4: come out.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, who's not related to us.
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  Speaker 1: And I couldn't do it because I'm your mother.
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  Speaker 4: So, but, but we actually did it. It about killed us,
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  Speaker 4: but we actually did it. Um, Paul hasn't been right since.
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  Speaker 4: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: It broke something in Paul.
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  Speaker 1: If you go back to our crossover episode, the photo
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  Speaker 1: that accompanies it is Paul laying on the floor, rolling
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  Speaker 1: around in a stupor of insanity. And yeah, at that point,
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  Speaker 1: I was just... Yeah, I was just trying to document
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  Speaker 1: the evidence at that point so that later we could
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  Speaker 1: show it to the psychiatrists and be like, this is
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: where it all stopped. This is the last time. He
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  Speaker 1: almost made sense a few minutes before this when we
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  Speaker 1: talked about Star Wars.
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  Speaker 4: I learned that the internet is full of very crappy people. Yeah, duh. Because,
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  Speaker 4: you know. We have proof.
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  Speaker 3: That is the internet.
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  Speaker 4: We basically, like, we actually got the world record and
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  Speaker 4: Guinness believed us.
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  Speaker 1: While I'm holding here, he's showing me the photo. There's
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  Speaker 1: a certificate right here. Yeah. The longest uninterrupted live webcast
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  Speaker 1: is 41 hours and was achieved by that dead Paul guy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This Dave person over here and this Ben person over here.
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  Speaker 1: All USA.
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  Speaker 6: America.
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  Speaker 4: America.
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  Speaker 1: At Wonderfest convention in Louisville. And some dates when it happens.
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  Speaker 1: So according to this photo I've been shown, enter that
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  Speaker 1: into the evidence. Exhibit C. This is official.
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  Speaker 4: We were officially amazing. And we were on the Guinness website.
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  Speaker 4: We actually had our own page. It had us. It
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  Speaker 4: said what the certificate said. Down in the comments, nothing
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  Speaker 4: but hate. From guys.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry about that, guys.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you.
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  Speaker 1: Guys are stupid heads.
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  Speaker 4: There were all these guys who had basically been doing online. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: I found it.
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  Speaker 1: I had to Google it.
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  Speaker 4: It was mainly from guys who were doing online gaming
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  Speaker 4: and had webcams set up.
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  Speaker 1: That is not the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: And they were like, I've been on this for like
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  Speaker 4: 100 hours, you know?
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of your problem. Get a life, dude.
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  Speaker 1: I was already making fun of these three guys, but
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  Speaker 1: you guys are lame.
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  Speaker 4: And if those guys had actually contacted us directly and
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  Speaker 4: challenged us on that, we'd say, that's great, but you
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  Speaker 4: didn't have the witnesses. You didn't have all the bureaucracy.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't have all the paperwork. All that crap. They
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  Speaker 4: don't care that you've been on. You have to jump
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  Speaker 4: through Guinness' hoops.
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  Speaker 1: And you weren't entertaining like you guys.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We're reading plays and acting out characters. You're playing with
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  Speaker 1: toys and all kinds of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: You're playing Grand Theft Auto 5.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that doesn't count.
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  Speaker 4: If anyone's interested in listening to any of this, all
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  Speaker 4: 40 hours currently reside on our website, toweroftechnobabble.com. Where you
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  Speaker 4: can go through, and for 40 hours, you can hear
• 9:44
  Speaker 4: the breakdown of our personalities. You can hear us deteriorate.
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: You can go through and skip those other 39 hours.
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: Which hour are you on, Brian? There's one hour that
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: I'm on, and it's pretty fun. That was good.
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: Hour 39. We did play with a lot of toys.
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: That was a great hour.
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: I loved that hour.
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: We talked about Star Wars, which is unusual for us,
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: and we probably aren't going to get to it later.
• 10:02
  Speaker 4: Maybe we should talk about Star Wars during this episode.
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  Speaker 4: We're prone to do. You know what? Okay. This is
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  Speaker 4: the anniversary of our world record winning attempt, and during
• 10:16
  Speaker 4: the hour that we were talking to you, it Broke
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  Speaker 4: down into Star Wars. I think that in honor, in
• 10:21
  Speaker 4: memory of our achievement, we should talk about Star Wars
• 10:24
  Speaker 4: on tonight's show.
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: Let me get my sack of action figures out for you.
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  Speaker 4: Hold on. Yes. Yeah, yeah, because we did all these gimmicks.
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  Speaker 4: Because basically the only thing I know about are Star
• 10:32
  Speaker 4: Wars and Doctor Who. And I brought in 40 action
• 10:36
  Speaker 4: figures in a pillowcase every hour. we would pull out
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  Speaker 4: an action figure and give our memories of that.
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  Speaker 3: I think my favorite part was every time you pulled
• 10:45
  Speaker 3: one out, you were surprised.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Every time.
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: They were his action figures.
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  Speaker 4: The more tired I got, I couldn't remember who I
• 10:54
  Speaker 4: was going to get, and it was great.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't that you were so happily surprised.
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: Like, hey, it's a Jawa.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, well, that's true.
• 11:00
  Speaker 4: A lot of it is me trying to keep myself awake.
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  Speaker 4: That's true. That's true.
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  Speaker 3: You have to dig deep, and then you break something inside.
• 11:07
  Speaker 4: Oh, we should finish the.
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, let's get to the grim
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: part of the story.
• 11:12
  Speaker 4: Guinness did not come down, drop confetti, drop balloons. We
• 11:16
  Speaker 4: basically had to then prove to Guinness that we actually
• 11:19
  Speaker 4: did this. We had to send them the videotape of
• 11:23
  Speaker 4: the 40 hours or the MP4 file.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: Poor bastard had to watch all that?
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: What intern got stuck with that?
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: Well, actually, part of the deal was we had to
• 11:33
  Speaker 4: be broadcasting live. And we didn't know if there was
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: someone at Guinness actually tuned into the website listening.
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: There they are.
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: And then there's this weird little fine print at the
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: bottom that says, no member can be rolling down on
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: the floor in a stupor. This disqualifies the entire event.
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  Speaker 4: For whatever reason, we sent in all of our evidence,
• 11:52
  Speaker 4: and by that point, we didn't even care anymore.
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  Speaker 3: We had the moral victory.
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  Speaker 1: I was there at the end of it. It was
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: not really ceremonious at all. It was like, oh, shit,
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: now we've got to pack all this up.
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  Speaker 4: There was no balloon drop, no one in a car.
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  Speaker 4: No one shook our hands.
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  Speaker 3: It was three zombies going, yay.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think you dinged a bell. It wasn't like, ding,
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: all right, here we go.
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  Speaker 4: I think we were like, because we had to send
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  Speaker 4: all this evidence, and we were like, I kind of
• 12:19
  Speaker 4: wanted to do it because all these witnesses who came
• 12:23
  Speaker 4: out to actually help us do it. I felt like
• 12:26
  Speaker 4: we owed them something because they were telling their friends, oh,
• 12:29
  Speaker 4: I'm helping them do this world record attempt. It's going
• 12:31
  Speaker 4: to be great.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm impressed that you actually found that many
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: people because I know about six people in my life.
• 12:36
  Speaker 4: Oh, it was hard.
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: So the fact that, yeah, you came up with that
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  Speaker 1: many is impressive.
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: And we had a couple people, you know, they came
• 12:40
  Speaker 3: in to the 2 to the 4. It was like
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: 2-4 in the morning. It's like, wow, I wouldn't do that.
• 12:45
  Speaker 4: Nobody was late.
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  Speaker 1: I went home at that point.
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: Nobody was late.
• 12:47
  Speaker 4: Everyone got there on time. It was amazing. It was–
• 12:50
  Speaker 4: and our wives were kind of like running and coordinating
• 12:54
  Speaker 4: all these people.
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: They're our pit crew.
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  Speaker 4: We do not give them enough loving.
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  Speaker 3: They did not leave us.
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  Speaker 4: So anyway, after... A month. Guinness finally gets back to
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  Speaker 4: us and says, yes, you got the record. Here's your certificate.
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: Here's your fancy certificate.
• 13:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So then it was, what, another month later?
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  Speaker 3: If that, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: We suddenly, we weren't on the website anymore.
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  Speaker 3: They had a debate on what was a webcast. Was
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: it video?
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: Was it audio?
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: It's like, it's your rules. I don't know.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: You had both of them going, so you should have
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: had it covered either way.
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  Speaker 4: They basically took it away from us because too many
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: of those internet trolls had been debating the legitimacy of
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: our record.
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  Speaker 1: Again, sorry about that. This guy's totally cheating. I watched
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: him eat a burrito and they were not in front
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  Speaker 1: of the microphone.
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: So they took us off of the website because they
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: were having a discussion in the upper echelon offices of Guinness.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: Which probably don't exist. It's somebody's garage.
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: And then I guess they decided, yeah, whatever, it can
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: be what it is. Because then about another month later,
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: That page was back up, but we weren't on it.
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: Some guys in Russia now got.
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  Speaker 3: Damn commies.
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: They were what, 48 hours?
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, something like that.
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But the point is.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: They threw that rock a little farther is what they did.
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  Speaker 4: The point is, it's fine. They can have it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: We still have the actual certificate from this.
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  Speaker 1: It's right here. He's holding it up again.
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  Speaker 4: That says, that proves for... A short window.
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  Speaker 1: For a moment in time. We actually had.
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: A Guinness World Record for one brief shining moment, and
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: that is the anniversary we're celebrating tonight.
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  Speaker 3: And those Russian guys can suck it.
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: And to celebrate that anniversary, we're going to revisit a
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: topic that we talked about for pretty much 40 hours straight.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: We beat it to death.
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: Star Wars. The Star Wars. How's that for preamble?
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: There was some rambling. Does that count?
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: Tanto luchar para vencer Aunque las fuerzas nos fallarán tal
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: vez Tanto sufrir para ganar.
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: Y ahora por.
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: Fin con nuestro Madrid podemos cantar.
• 15:23
  Speaker 7: Es día de gloria, gloria, gloria.
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: We are the champions, my friends.
• 15:37
  Speaker 7: Al fin campeones otra vez.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: We are the champions.
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: We are the champions. Franca Victoria. Expand the glory of Madrid.
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  Speaker 7: With mustard and relish, you'll guarantee mouth-watering satisfaction.
• 16:11
  Speaker 6: Mmm!
• 16:13
  Speaker 7: And now he sips his costume on a beautiful golden bun.
• 16:18
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  Speaker 4: I thought those were really great commercials you just played.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: The earbud thing. Love it. Love it, man.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't work with them anymore. Oh, sorry. Earbuds.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: They have pissed me off for the last time.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: Ear enemies, I think you mean.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Well, that's what I meant to say. It was like,
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: you know, the earbuds, that's so 20-oh-oh.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody uses that stuff anymore. Now it's all about
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: leather crafting.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Yes, exactly. Big cans.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: You yourself would be jealous if you had this Admiral
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Ackbar wallet.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: For people listening at home, he is holding up a wallet,
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: but embossed on it is one Admiral J. Ackbar.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: It's a tree.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: It's a trap. No, it's a tree, by the way.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: It's right on there.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: It's a trap. Are we recording?
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, yes.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Okay, I have... Admiral Ackbar stole that catchphrase, okay? He says,
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: it's a trap in Return of the Jedi. The first
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: person that ever says, it's a trap, is Princess Leia
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: in Empire Strikes Back when she's trying to warn Luke
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: that he's going into the carbon sheets. She says it twice,
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: it's a trap, it's a trap. So why does Admiral
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Ackbar get the credit for the... It's a trap line
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: when it obviously belongs to Princess Leia. Once again, the
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: female cannot get ahead in this male-dominated society.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: It's all delivery.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: It's delivery.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: It's a trap. Yeah, I don't know that it's so much...
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Not that there's not much sexism going on in the
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Star Wars universe. I think it's more the delivery, as
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: you say. I think it's also the fact that it
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: comes out of a giant puppet head that's some sort
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: of fish. If he looks like a fish... It's going
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: to be funny and terrible. But Carrie Fisher was like.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Hanging onto the wall and climbing back in. But she's cute.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: And you just sit there the whole time going, oh,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: look at Princess Leia. She's so damn cute.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Egmore has a quiet calmness to him.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: It is a trap.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Even when he's in a trap.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Well, he's used to it because as a boy, he
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: lived in fear of the lobster boats floating over his
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: head on.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: A daily basis.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Those are his words.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I'm stuck in a net.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I still feel like he stole it.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Akbar watched Empire, and he's like, hey, that was a
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: good line. I'll bet I could improve it.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Next time I'm in a trap, I know what I'm saying.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he totally stole it. It's like whenever Chappelle's show
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: was really huge, and everyone was saying the N-word, because
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: it's just.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know that that made it okay. No, just
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: if you're Chappelle.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Remember that year nobody would talk to you, Ben?
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I think we pinned it down.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Might have a reason for that.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: I'm a slave to catchphrases, and that was the show.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, you know what it is? It's a drop.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: What you talking about, Ben? All right, so what we've
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: realized is you don't understand the.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Difference between That show introduced me to Ebonics because of
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: the title. whenever the title of different strokes would come up,
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: there wouldn't be an E. There would be a little apostrophe. Like, 1982,
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: whenever this show came out, Ebonics. They were pushing the
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: Ebonic agenda onto apostrophe America. And I don't know why
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: apostrophes didn't make it.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: That third rail is right there, man.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: And it's bad enough you and your friends ripped off
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: different strokes anyway. I mean, you've seen where the... the
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: two boys are trying to get into the fancy prep school.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: I don't follow you.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Well, the name of the prep school is Digby. So,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you guys ripped off different strokes. Lawsuit pending.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: They sing a song about the school, so music was
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: already involved in this. This makes no sense to the
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: rest of the world.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: I have no idea what you're talking about.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I'll just, for years, have been wanting to call you
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: out for stealing.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: I don't even know what you're talking about.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Have you heard of a show called Difference Journey?
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Yes, I have.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Arnold and Willis are trying to get into this fancy
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: prep school. And the name of the fancy prep school
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: is Digby Academy. No kidding, really?
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: Really?
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: So you guys, it's probably Paul's fault.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: People living at home listening to this on a webcast
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: about Digby Academy.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: 400 years ago.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: 20 years ago when the world was young and life
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: was new. I went muddy waters and then electricity. I
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: was in a promising local rock band called Digby. And
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: I had no idea that.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: It was inspired.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: From the TV show Diff Ernt Strokes. That's amazing to me. Okay.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: I'm mind blown. I'd like to enroll you with my
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: old alma mater. Digby Preparatory School for Boys.
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: Sounds like a prison. Maybe I make good tolerance strikes.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Digby has turned out some of the great leaders in
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: the American industry.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: You boys would just love it.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: You just thought of it this morning, huh, Mr. D?
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: So you're trying to force us to.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Go to Digby.
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: It only looks that way, Willis.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: This podcast is over.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Because they're taking you away for all that money you
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: owe the NBC network for stealing their ideas. Intellectual property.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Hey, we were talking about sci-fi worlds and all that.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: So what we've learned is Ben doesn't know the difference
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: between fake sci-fi world and real world activities because he
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: thinks Admiral Ackbar's a real guy. So that aside.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I didn't see any strings working him, man.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Well, he's a really good marionette. So, he's one of
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the new fancy ones.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Was Warwick Davis inside of his head making the mouth move?
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Hey, everything has Warwick Davis inside of it.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: I do, too.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Have you seen me lately?
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Leprechaun or whatever, you know, whatever wickets you got going on,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: there's some sort of Warwick inside it.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Got a little wicket in me.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Just like Elvis.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Do we.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Do we just want to launch into our ranting about
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: the Star Wars universe like we normally do? Or do
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: we want to branch out and hit some other franchise?
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Well, just to stay on Star Wars a minute. One
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: of the biggest complaints people have about the franchise when
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: they think about it for too long is that each
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: planet has one environment. And they always, for some reason,
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: think that's a bad thing. Like Endor is just redwood forest.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Tatooine is just Tunisian desert. Hoth is just ice ball.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: And why is that such a bad thing? Because I
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: was thinking, in a weird way, it's like apostrophe America.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: It's like the 50 states. We have our frozen state, Alaska.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: We have our swamp state, Florida. We have our corn state. Nebraska.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: I'm sure that in Episode 8, they are going to
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: go to the corn planet, where it's going to be
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: nothing but corn fields surrounding this entire planet, man. Why
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: is that such a bad thing? I think it helps
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: you organize your universe, and it helps you keep track.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: You know how whenever you visit a different state, you
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: get the little state magnet? I'm sure on the side
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: of Luke's X-Wing fighter, there's little magnets for each state
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: that he's been to, or planet that he's been to.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: And at the end, it's got a planet New Zealand
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: on the side.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: On the corn planet, the Empire could just come along
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: and have a big magnifying glass and just popcorn the
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: whole time.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that'll be the third gether star.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: That's just the end of real genius.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Hold on a minute.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Planet Redenbacher, no!
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Planet real genius.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Hold on a minute. You've got the movie butter zone.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: You've got the kettle corn zone.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: They break the day up into Orvilles.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Ah, third Orville. Time to go.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I feel like that's possibly more due to the fact
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: that the Star Wars universe is not real imaginative.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: But it was a long, long, long time ago. Maybe
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: these planets didn't have time to develop extra environments. They
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: only had time to develop one environment per... And, you know.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about in the real world, not the universe
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: of Star Wars.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: You just told me I couldn't tell the difference between
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: the real world.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: And fantasy world.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: That's true. That's what I'm talking about.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the people creating it. I may pin
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: a good portion of it on George, because this started
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: in the old world. But even as they expanded into
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: the now Legends expanded universe, it was always like, this is.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: I miss Mera.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Take your random Greedo-like form that looks like Greedo. They
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: all look like Greedo. They all kind of dress the same.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: That's racist.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. They don't ever branch out. There's
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: never anybody that's their own individual person. The race is
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: that thing. Just like the planet is that thing. And
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the race is, by the way, they're all bounty hunters.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: There's like four jobs in the Star Wars universe. You
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: can be a moisture evaporator. You can be a bounty hunter,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: you can fight for the rebellion, or you're a guy
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: that works the bar on the Tatooine.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: I think you're missing victim.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a life choice, is it?
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: You just are that.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: I had never heard in my life, granted I was
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: only seven, the term bounty hunter. And then Star Wars
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: comes along, and it's like every other person is a
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: bounty hunter.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: It's like.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: it's like whenever you're in space high school and you
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: go to the guidance counselor, he has a brochure on
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: the wall with all of the different space occupations that
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: you can take. Like there's space plumber, space smuggler, there's
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: space bounty hunter on there. And, The freaking slot with
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: all of the Bounty Hunter brochures is always empty. Because
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: that's what everyone always goes to, you know?
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Again, they're not... And it goes to the, like, backstory.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Like, they.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: If you go to Wikipedia, they put all this time
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: into writing this backstory, but again, they're not real savvy
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: about it. They're always like.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Dengar was a real person with real feelings.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: No, it's not that. It's always like the most cliche
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: thing becomes not only the trait of this person, but
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: their entire race. It's like the Mon Calamari are always
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: getting caught in traps. It's a thing that they're known
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: for as a race, but... They're always tripping over the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: ottoman as they go through the living room.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Their motto?
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: It's a trap. Every one of them is like, all
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: of the walrus man people, they're always known for losing
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: their arms. It's a crazy thing that happens.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: At some point in my life, I had heard that
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Boba Fett was wearing the armor of a past police force.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: It was like, you know, he was just a bounty hunter,
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: and he needed some gear, and he went to the
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Space Army and Navy store, and he got that. Do
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: you have any surplus? But then it evolved into where
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: he's wearing the sacred armor of the Mandalorians on a
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: planet where they're all bounty hunters, and they're all flying around,
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: and they're all wearing these suits.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Because that's Star Wars. They only have five ideas, and
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: they keep fusing them. How about we have a giant
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: planet-type thing that's going to blow up other planets?
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: How about we destroy it at the end of that story?
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: But that's consistent. That's three out of seven.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: That's consistent.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: You have the redwood planet. You have the corn planet.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: You have the snow planet. You have the city planet.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: And you have the Death Star planet.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: It's all.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Which Death Star planet? We've had three now. They're not
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: real imaginative. I love the universe, but they're not real imaginative.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: I had the opportunity to ride on an elevator. the
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: other day. Congratulations. Is it the Death Star elevator? Well,
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: like I always do sometimes when I get onto the elevator,
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: I always think of that charming scene where Han is
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: in the Stormtrooper outfit, and he gestures to some Imperial
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: walking by. Do you need to get in the elevator? No?
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Okay, fine.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: And I began to think, you know, the Death Star
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: was the size of a planet, you know? Because it
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: was no moon, it was a planet.
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: There was no Pluto question here. It was the size
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: of a planet.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Pluto's a planet, shut up.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: So, it's like, I like... on a planet. And if
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: I need to get to, say, Australia, I've got a
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: book of flight. It's going to take me nine days
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: to get there. Everything that happened on the Death Star
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: just happened to take place within one city block. That
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: was very, very fortunate. Convenient, if you will.
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: The princess where the Falcon landed, where Obi-Wan Kenobi had
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: to turn off the hose attachment. It was all in
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: the same building on this giant planet.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Again, universe is very convenient. Luke goes looking for Yoda
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: on Dagobah, a planet. There's one smart life form on
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the entire planet. He happens to crash right where he's at.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Well, Yoda reaches giant little... See, now that's one of the.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Again, if you're a super geek, you have the theory
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: of like, well, Yoda really guided him in.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: I didn't know that. Yeah, he didn't crash the second time.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: Because Yoda wasn't screwing up Luke's pilot missiles?
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Exactly. Luke was on a run, though. That day, he
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: crashed two ships.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: I never thought about that.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. Actually, we have no idea what the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: time frame is in the Star Wars universe.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: Suddenly, Mr. Fancy Pants, who can blow up a Death
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Star all by himself, can't land his ship two times
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: in the same show.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: He should have got out and been like, damn, two
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: times today.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: My insurance rates are going to go through the roof.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: And then kicked it.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: R2, make it look like an accident.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: Space Geico is going to be pissed.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: That's what that lizard was. It ran across the tree.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: It was his insurance agent showing up. Be like, oh, man,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I can call this an accident,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: in quotes.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: You got some water damage in this one, man. It's total.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: I don't want to see you selling this X-Wing.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Car Fox is going to hear about this.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: Space Fox, that's right.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Star Fox.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Shoot. Let's get this straight. Star Fox.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: That's his real job. It's not flying that plane.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: So basically, I've come to... I don't criticize the fact
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: that each planet has one environment. I've come to... Count
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: on that. It's like a comfort thing for me. I
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: know I'm in the Star Wars universe when I see that.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: I like it. Don't ever change it.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: What happens if they mess with your universes?
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: I can retcon it. I'm a Doctor Who fan. I
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: can retcon like nobody's been this.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a plus or a minus.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: It's a life skill that... Has never brought me gainful employment,
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: but it's a skill nonetheless. When you think about it, though,
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: most sci-fi shows don't really... Because it's such a novelty
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: to go from one planet to another on most sci-fi
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: shows that do that kind of thing, They don't ever
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: show diversity on a planet. It's always just one thing
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: on the planet. I mean Star Trek used to do
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: that back in the Captain Kirk days. They would go
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: to the planet where people are half black and white.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: No, because some of the people are half white and black.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: But you didn't get into the people that were transitioning
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: from white to black and black to white. And they
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: were all gray. They didn't get into that minutia. It
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: was all very black and white.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Like on the table.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: Real clever. I think this argument happened in the 90s.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: when there was no more Star Wars movies that were
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: ever going to be made ever.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, you remember.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Those days.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: You and I used to work at Suncoast. We would
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: watch Star Wars every Sunday. And you've seen it so
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: many times that you begin just to nitpick every little
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: thing about it. We're geeks. That's what we do.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: That's why it's close to my heart. That's why I
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: can make fun of it now is because I love
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: it so much.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: Do you think we'll ever get that way with Force Awakens?
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Will we have seen it as much as we've seen
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: the original to the point.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Where we can?
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: No, because we're closer to death.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: And you're like a grown-up. You have like a kid
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: to deal with. I probably will because I have no life.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: But for you grown-up peoples, your child might have a
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: chance to watch it.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: Have you found anything in it lately?
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Did you listen to our episode? Yeah, but that was
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: just– We spent hours nitpicking it.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: That was your first viewing of it. Have you crammed
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: in 20 years' worth of viewing to kind of catch
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: up with the original?
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I watched it again since then.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Okay. Okay.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: A few weeks ago when it came out on fancy
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: blu-ray and I was like oh I need that and
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: then I watched it again.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: Did you notice anything Dave did you notice anything else.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: In it I can't say I really came to any.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: Remarkable conclusion no no stormtroopers they're much better at that
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: now better visibility in those new maps they're out of.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: The clones now they've moved into just recruiting those faulty
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: clones and once again stealing children to make them.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: Stormtroopers play God intended Stealing children. Stealing children.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: Children are our greatest resource. The emperor must have been
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: really confident in his position to, like, these are our
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: new army forces. We're calling them stormtroopers. You know, instead
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: of calling them freedom fighters, he calls them stormtroopers, you know,
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: and you're going to like it.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: Everyone's with him.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: At that point, he did kind of rule the galaxy, right?
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Screw all y'all.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: You know, it's funny, too, like, I was talking about
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: how the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, it's so familiar to me
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: because I'm essentially living in the world of Battlestar Galactica.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: You ain't got no Viper.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: I've seen Star Wars so much, it's familiar to me.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: Whenever I watch the Harry Potter movies, it still feels...
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: That universe... feels extremely foreign to me, not because it's magic,
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: but because it's British and like the British school system.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: I have a feeling every British kid who watches Harry
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: Potter or reads it, they can identify with it because
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: it's like their high school, their grade school. But I
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: have no idea what the house system and why you
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: got to wear robes and why you have to have
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: separate houses.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: There's always a ghost talking to me in the bathroom.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Those crazy British people.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: It's like there's this whole other level of aspect to
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: that world I don't understand, which is the reality of that.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm talking about. Words are hard.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: A little bit. I still feel like it's its own
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: little world.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to make your topic work here.
• 36:06
  Speaker 8: I don't know about that.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: The missing ingredient is charm.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: Charm. It's charming.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: It is for weird Americans who are awkward and clunky
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: like we are. So again, do you feel like that?
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: We've strayed totally out of sci-fi and into fantasy, but
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: do you feel like in Britain it's missing a level
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: of charm? That we automatically like grant anything British as
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: an extra level of charming in this dumb American world.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: They hear no British accents.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: Dave has been to Britain.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: On purpose?
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: Were there people bad-mouthing Harry Potter when you were with her?
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: No.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Actually, we went to Edinburgh, and J.K. Rowling still lives there,
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: and apparently she still goes to the grocery store.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: As a writer, you can kind of sneak in a
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: little bit.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: And she doesn't get to, like.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: No, people are nice to her, but she goes about
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: her business. Let's just get into England.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: Scotland.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, wait.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: The United Kingdom.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Scotland treats their national treasures so much better than here.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, like, here, if, like, Scott Bale was to
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: go to the subway, there'd be a mob! Wait, what
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: year is it?
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: 1976?
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Did they even have subways in 1976?
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: Charles is still in charge. That's all I'm saying.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Thank God it's not Willie Ames.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: You know, Dave went to Scotland right when they were
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: doing the vote on, yes, we're going to stay, no,
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: we're going to leave. And did I get it backwards? Yes,
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: we're leaving, no, we're going to stay. I don't know.
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: They were voting on whether they were going to leave
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: or not.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: We're leaving or staying, yeah.
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: I was hoping it was going to turn into a
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: post-apocalyptic world that he was going to have to live
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: through and then tell us about. I was hoping it
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: was going to be like after any average college basketball
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: game here, where there would be people in the streets rioting,
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: turning over cars, setting fires.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Burning couches.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Lighting couches. That's what they do.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Dave said nothing happened like that. They're all very polite.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: That's true.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: He did.
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: Which is probably why J.K. Rowling can feel safe enough
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: to go down to the Piggly Wiggly in Edinburgh and
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: not get hurt.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: I don't know. You had a chance, David, to live
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: through a sci-fi apocalypse, and you missed it.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: It was a very polite apocalypse. The day of the vote,
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: I was kind of wondering, because everybody was nice. I mean,
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: there was a lot of discussion on the streets. And
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: I use that word, discussion. They were discussing things. They
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: weren't shouting at each other or spitting on each other.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: How un-American.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: This is not America at all.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: So the day of the vote, it's like, The polls
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: were open from 6 or 8 to 8 or whatever.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: It was a 12-hour opening.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Wait, and people went?
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: It's not America at all.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: It was 12 Orville's later. No, we were kind of
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: walking around. It's like, and people were voting. There were
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: polling places everywhere. And no riots, no pushing, no shoving.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: And their TV does not have exit polling. So when
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: the polls close, that's when they start to count the votes.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: There are no... People are staying up until 3, 4,
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: 5 o'clock in the morning to see what the results were.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: Lack of sleep. There'd be good right potential here, I
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: would think.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: The next day, the vote was on Thursday, I think,
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: and the next day we went out on a Friday.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: The only thing you could see was people were a
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: little bit sleepy.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, God, it's the end of the world.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Everybody was a little bit fatigued, a little bag under
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: their eyes.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: This is the nation that gave us Braveheart. No one
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: was out. tipping over cars or anything?
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: No.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: No cars, no cows, no nothing.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Well, then we're going to take away their freedom. I
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: heard the speech. You've got to turn over cars if
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: you want us to not take away your freedom.
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: Is this why people embrace sci-fi so much? Because when
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: you get down to it, reality just lets them down?
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong. I'm glad that you made it
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: back safely, Dave.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: He would have told your tale had you been taken out.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: You would have had a chance to live through a
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: sci-fi-esque apocalypto. I just pictured you and your good lady
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: wife running in terror to the airport, holding up your passport.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: We gotta get on that plane!
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Just like Argo. We gotta get on that plane, quick!
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: Forget your suitcase.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: Quit.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: Run. That's a trap. Save that baby. You know, that
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: kind of thing.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Leave that baby.
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: I do a terrible impersonation of your wife. I don't know.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: That was pretty good. I mean, you brought up a
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: world that I had already. I was listing off some
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: of the ones we needed to hit post-apocalyptic. So do
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: we think a decent representation of the future world that
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: may or may not come after the fall of Scotland
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: is the Mad Max, which is really more of Australia,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: but still are we, you know, where Scotland sent all
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: their crazy people to.
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: Man, can't we just get beyond Thunderdome? I'm sick of
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: talking about this. Hey, did you hear that?
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: I did.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Master Blaster needs to take you out.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: Okay, you know what? I actually need to sit this
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: one out. I've not seen any of the Mad Max movies.
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: You are out of the loop. I know all the cliches.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: And you've seen the Mad Max movies.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: But, okay, yeah, I know all the cliches.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Well, and they, I mean, they differ greatly drastically in
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: their own series. Mostly one to two. One is an
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: entirely different universe that it exists in.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: One you never see. Didn't they dub Mel Gibson?
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: I think everybody was dubbed. Everything is very.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: Wouldn't it be funny if the guy who did his
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: voice was Jewish? A Jewish woman. I thought we had
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: a relationship.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: Thundercats.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, Lord.
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: You know, that might be why I've never gone back
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: to watch those, because Mel Gibson has such a stink
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: about them. I just don't want to see them anymore.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: It's definitely true now. You can watch the fourth one,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: then you don't have to.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: Worry about that.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: It's true. Mel Gibson's career went through an apocalypse.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it did.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: Well, okay, so do you get tired of post-apocalyptic movies?
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Not if they're cool.
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: Well, is it cool? They have to be good. What
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: makes a post-apocalyptic movie cool?
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Cool and are there cars that have giant things mounted
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: on them that probably shouldn't be mounted on an automobile
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: unless you're at a fancy car show or have a
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: guitarist uh dangling from the fire shooting out of the
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: side and may or may not come.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: With its own guitarist that last mad max movie that's
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: it's a weird apocalypse movie because it's one big car
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: chase and it's just where do.
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: They get the gas That's what they're fighting over. But
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: they're wasting gas trying to get gas, right?
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: That's why it's an apocalypse.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: They're not the smartest people in the future.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: Apocalypse does not make sense.
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: If it's a post-apocalyptic world, why are there still body
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: shops that can make these cars with big teeth and spikes?
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: They're just real crafty. They ain't got nothing else to do. Like,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: they busted up their TV set.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: It's the car shop planet.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: They're not putting.
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: It's the aftermarket planet.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: I think that's it.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: Episode 9.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: They ruined the network. They can't watch Wheel of Fortune
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: every night, so now they're just out in the garage
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: welding away.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: Give me some nitro.
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: I would think after the Emperor fell in Return of
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: the Jedi, and his sithy force thing that was holding
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: the Empire together is no longer there. He literally fell,
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: by the way. Why did that world suddenly embrace the
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: New Republic? Why didn't that go into a post-apocalyptic scenario?
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: that universe, you know?
• 43:15
  Speaker 7: See....
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: Is it because George wanted a happy ending?
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: The more I get into, and again, this will take
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: us into a rant that we've probably had before. I
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: don't know if it was fully on the show. Certainly
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: many times it was just loitering around. But no, just
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: in general. I think we've had many a discussion about
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Star Wars in our times. But as we go back
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: and look, again, as the geeks that we are, and
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: we go back and re-watch these especially as you get
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: into the more we learn about the universe. When George
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: actually sat down and went, I want to tell him
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: a whole lot of other stuff about Star Wars universe,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: and he wrote these one, two, three movies. I'm like.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: We didn't want to know, George.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: We didn't want to know. And it's true. I think
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: I did bring this up on the other one, but
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: I was like, I don't like a lot of the
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: stuff that I liked in 456. I thought the Jedis
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: were awesome. I felt like the Empire, bad. But the
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: more you get into it, I'm like... other than killing
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: random people and planets and whatnot, I'm like, as you,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: I'm like, the emperor's just trying to run the galaxy.
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: He's gotta break a couple eggs.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you gotta put the smack down on people to
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: keep them in line. But as you go on, like
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: you're watching it, I'm like.
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: You're voting for Trump, right?
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: He doesn't have the charm of the emperor is the
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: sad thing, but no, it's a lightning.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: That might be true.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: And it's the most glorious, luxurious, classiest lightning coming out
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: of my fingers.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: You'd be lucky to be shocked by this kind of lightning.
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: People pay for this kind of lightning.
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: Sorry, I interrupted your rant.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: It's huge. It is one of those, the more you
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: get into, like, they're bad because we're told that they're bad.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: And then you watch as it falls. I'm like, do
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: you rebels come around to do anything any different? No,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: because it falls apart again within a 30-year span. Everything
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: falls apart again. You're right back where you came from.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: So you guys didn't know how to run a galaxy
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: any better than the Emperor, obviously.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: Ben and I have had this discussion. All right. You know,
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: Anakin's going through all this stuff. And, you know, Yoda's like,
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: don't get attached to anybody because they're going to die.
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: The only person who ever talks to him is the Emperor.
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: He sits down with a man.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: A pretty decent role model for him.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: It's like they're in their space opera. They're in their
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: box seats. It's like, what's up, Anakin?
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: I mean, let's talk about it. I feel pretty bad.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: You shouldn't feel bad.
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: Palpatine is not only running the Republic, he's secretly running the...
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: Trade Federation, he's sickly running both sides of this galactic,
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: galactic civil war.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: That is a lot of plate spinning.
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: Yes, he has so many balls in the freaking air,
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: and yet he still can take five minutes to sit
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: down and talk with Anakin, tell him a little story,
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: but then you go to Yoda, and he's like, just
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: bury your feelings and don't think about it.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: Push it down to a small point in your chest.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: And then swallow it.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: That's the thing. I've gone back and rewatched those first three.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: And like, as much as I still have a whole
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: lot of problems with them, what I've come to is like,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: kind of respect that emperor. I'm like, he's a man
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: who knows what he wants. He goes to great lengths
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: to get, like, if you go back and watch Phantom Menace,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: it is ridiculous how well orchestrated this bullshit battle is
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: that's going on, and every end of it is covered
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: by that same guy. He has to win, because he's
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: been so smart about it, he's covered every angle.
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: And he's patient. Yes!
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, we look at Anakin. Okay, here's an eight-year-old
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: kid who's been a slave.
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: A slave.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: They never really go into that, but he's a freaking slave.
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: Him and his mom. That cute little buzz thing that
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: owns him. Owns him. Okay, so the Jedi win him.
• 46:57
  Speaker 6: Okay?
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: They gamble, and he is won.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: Bought and sold.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: That's right. His title goes over to the Jedi.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Okay. You have to go take it down to the SMV.
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: Get a little Kente here. So they get it.
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: It's like, okay, this kid may be like crap ton powerful, right?
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: Did they ever.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: Think about buying his mom? No, we'll just leave his
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: mom in slavery.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: Well, no, that's even like the lesser of the evils.
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: To me, it's... Oh, slavery is the lesser of the.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: No, the mom, the one person. The fact that you
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: hear our hero, Qui-Gon Jinn, say, I'm not here to
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: free slaves. Are you not a Jedi?
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: I'm a morally superior Jedi. Does the Jedi.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Stand for anything? You're okay with slavery?
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: I get that they're in a bad spot. I don't
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: have an extra $ 10, 000 on me. But, you know, they
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: go back to their temple. Their temple.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Okay, now we're just making fun of the Vatican, right?
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's lots of problems.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: They don't even have to go back to Tatooine. They
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: can just wire the guy some money, get the guy,
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: set her up in a nice apartment somewhere. I mean,
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: she doesn't have to be in the temple.
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: But You've got to get rid of all your attachments, man.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Or if you like, okay, once you get your, at
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: this point you're trying to protect the queen. Okay, get
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: her out of there. Go back. Now come back with
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: a battalion of Jedi. Sure. And kick everybody's ass and
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: free the slaves and then take them across the desert
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: or whatever you do after you free your slaves. But
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: I'm like, there's so many other ways that that could
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: have been handled.
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: Padme Amalama Ding Dong, she even made the point when
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: they're sitting in the hut having dinner, talking to Shmi,
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: you know, that she's like, I can't believe that slavery
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: is so allowed to exist in the galaxy.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: It's so horrible.
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: And she's a freaking senator.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: No, she's a queen at that point.
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: She's a queen, but she becomes a senator. So you
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: would think when she gets into public office in the Senate,
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: she's like, hey. A couple years ago, I heard there
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: was slavery on this planet. Can we maybe pass a
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: motion to, you know, free the slaves?
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: Space Senate, may I bring up a motion to not
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: do horrible things? Just a funny idea I was having.
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: Slavery bad.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: Okay, can we all agree that slavery is bad except
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: for the slavery planets?
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, not so much in the Waddle world.
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: But they were letting the Hutts rule Tatooine the way
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: people say we should have let Saddam Hussein keep running Iraq. Sure,
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: he was a vile gangster, but he kept it under control.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: At least he was the one main vile gangster.
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: You knew what you were dealing with when you dealt
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: with it. But okay, when Anakin's having all the fever
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: dreams about his mom dying, it's like, did he call her?
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: Did he just take a Jedi ship? It's like, you
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: know what? I'm going to take a couple weeks off.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: See, again, that's the Jedi downfall.
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: It was a long, long time ago. They didn't have
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: long distance or Wi-Fi or cell phones or anything, man.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: In general, it's like, as far as we can tell,
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: between one and two, he never sees her again. Like,
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: there's no, hey, go back. I got a weekend to
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: go visit my mom. That's what I'm saying. That's the
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: evils and the downfall of the Jedi is that they're
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: just like, nah, you don't need any attachments. I'm like, well, hey,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: guess what he kind of does? Because that would have
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: been the one thing that tethered him to reality and
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: didn't make him go off the deep end and destroy
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: the universe.
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: The one thing about the prequels that George Lucas did
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: to me is he completely ruined my attitude about Yoda.
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: I mean, I used to think Yoda, oh, he's so
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: wise and cool. Now I think he was an idiot.
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: Yoda was full of crap. I was a selfish idiot.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: I put him in two different categories. This is my rationalizing.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: This is how geeks deal with things. I'm like, Empire
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: Yoda is still cool because he exists in that box
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: where all I knew was Empire, and Empire was awesome,
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: and it still is. So for me, that's its own thing.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: It exists in that time where I hadn't seen anything
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: but four and five. So I'm like, from that aspect,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: and because he doesn't match within the continuity, like that
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: weird little game he plays at the beginning makes no sense,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: by the way. And if you watch them in numerical order,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: makes no sense, by the way. No, we don't understand
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: who this is. We've watched all these movies with Yoda
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: in it, but somehow he's going to trick us as
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: the audience that that might not be Yoda. Again, it's
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: like loopholes in the logic when he's piecing together this
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: watching them in numerical order nonsense. So that aside, I'm
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: like that. He's pretty awesome as this like us just
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: sort of expanding what Jedis are and learning more about
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: the force and blah, blah, whatever. You go back to
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: the one through three, and he's horrible, and not just
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: the CG and the puppet, if you go back far enough.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: They were all really bad looking, but on top of that,
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: everything he represents is wrong and kind of stupid. So
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: it's like, I really don't like the Jedi in general,
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: once we go back. When we didn't know what they were,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: they sounded mysterious and cool and badass. And then we
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: get back and we're like, well, they're badass, but... Powerful-wise,
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: but they have no sense. They don't know how to
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: run anything. They've been running this for eons, more or less,
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: and yet along the way, they've neglected to figure out
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: a good way to not, I don't know, steal people's
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: children and keep them away from them.
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: Can I add a footnote to that? The prequels, though,
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: kind of.
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: I can't separate Empire Yoda from the prequels because in Empire,
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: he basically gives Luke the same advice that he gives Anakin.
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: He's like, you know, Luke has this vision. My friends
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: are going to die. I have to go save them.
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: And Yoda's like, no, you can't. You have to stay here. And,
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: you know, he should know how good his advice worked
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: out the last time he gave that to someone named Skywalker.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: There's the reason I have to go back. It's because
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: you messed this up, jackass.
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like maybe Yoda would have evolved and was like,
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: you know what? Maybe attachments aren't so bad. Maybe you
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: should go and try to help him.
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: That didn't work.
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: Let's try the other thing.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Again, at that point, it's more of like him trying to, like,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Make that, again, maybe it is just him trying to
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: cover his own ass. He's like, what I need to
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: do is get rid of this Vader guy because I
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: screw things up. And if I let you go now,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: he's probably going to chop your arm off. He might
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: kill you. He might blackmail you. He might trick you
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: into taking over the whole universe with him. But if
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: I finish your training, I completely brainwash you so that
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: you know that you have to do what I tell you.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: Then you'll be trained enough that you can kill Vader
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: and you can cover up my last little screw up.
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: Can I talk in defense of the emperor one more time?
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, please do.
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: So he's basically got two warring factions on a galactic
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: scale going at each other. And his office is basically
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: 10 feet down the hall from the Jedi, the all-powerful
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: Jedi who can sense the blah, blah, blah. He's hiding
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: his own massively evil aura.
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: Thoughts and everything.
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's like, he's doing all this. He's getting
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: under the skin of, like, their golden boy. And he's
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: literally five feet away. He's in the same meeting. And
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: I was like, you know what?
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: If I'm that powerful.
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: Landlined office. Yeah. You gotta admire the guy.
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: That guy had a work ethic.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: I tell you, one of my favorite.
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: Things about Revenge of the Sith is when he's having
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: the lightsaber battle with Yoda. And he's laughing. He's enjoying himself.
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: He's like, this is the best day I've ever had.
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: These 50 years of planning and scheming, it's all come together.
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: And it worked. And I'm winning. He was like, who
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: was the guy who had the tiger blood? Charlie Sheen? Yeah,
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: he was winning. He was like, look at me, Yoda.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: I'm winning.
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: Oh, no more hiding. This is my day. I am
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: having a great day.
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: You had said something earlier. In the original Star Wars,
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: we're told the Empire is evil and we just accept it.
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: But you really don't see them do too many evil things.
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: I think I've talked about this before, so cut this out.
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: It's like when you think about it, Obi-Wan Kenobi is
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: sort of the He's like the crazy guy in Montana
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: living in a shack writing these manifestos. And, you know,
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: he's there and he's kind of got like this secret
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: weapon in training. He's got Luke Skywater. He's kind of
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: like watching over, you know, he's secretly prodding him and
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: getting powerful and all that. And, you know, because his
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: big plan is to take down the government. Just like
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: a guy living in a hut in Montana. He wants
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: to take down the government. So he's telling Luke, oh,
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: the government is evil. Here, watch this Fox News report. Oh,
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: my gosh. The Empire is so evil. But then he
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: realizes that Luke needs a 9-11 moment to really motivate him.
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: So whenever the accident happens, it was a grease fire
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: that killed Luke. Uncle Owen and Amber Rue, that's what
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: burned them down. Sure it was. But, you know, Obi-Wan
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: tells Luke, ah, it was the Empire who killed them.
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: You want to get even with them, don't you? Right?
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, again, many other geek out there, which I
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: may have listened to on another show, have an entire
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: theory that that was all Ben Kenobi. Ben went in
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: and offed everyone. Like, Ben killed the Jawas to start
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: the whole thing. Ben went over there, killed... Uncle Owen
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: and Aunt Beru to give an inciting, some sort of
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: reason for Luke to follow him on.
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: His crazy full journey. It was the Battleship Maine.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: All over again. It's so, I mean, that theory is
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: definitely out there.
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: The Gulf of Tonkin all over again, man. I'm telling you.
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: Alderaan was a grease fire.
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: There was no Alderaan. I mean, have you seen the footage?
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: There should be wreckage, and there's no wreckage. Alderaan was
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: not blown up. It didn't go into the Pentagon. There
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: would be body parts floating around. You don't see any
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: body parts. Alderaan, that was totally a fake.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, it was an inside job is
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: what it was.
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: Alderaan destroyed itself.
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: Space Alex Jones puts a very compelling argument if you
• 57:10
  Speaker 4: just buy his video. I'm telling you, man.
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: Alderaan, whoops.
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: Why would they be going on a diplomatic mission to
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: Alderaan if Alderaan is in the Republic?
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: And isn't that her home?
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: Why is she going on a diplomatic mission to her
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: dad's house?
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: It's like we're going on a diplomatic mission to Idaho.
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: Send the ambassador to Idaho.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: Again, there's great leaps of logic in the Star Wars universe. Like, okay....
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: Is anybody listening? We talk about Star Wars way too much.
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: Do you think anyone's still listening? Probably not.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: We can change gears in a minute. But this was
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: one that for years, growing up as a kid, you
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: just watched this and everything was like, that's the way
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: it is. You didn't think about it. But later you
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: hit a point where you're like, okay, wait. You've got
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: the most evil dude in the universe. He has this
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: kid or kids. That he doesn't even know about. And
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: the only hope for the future is to keep them
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: away from him. Let's hide him. Let's hide him. And, oh, wait,
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: we're not going to change his last name, though.
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: Nah.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: It's Skywalker. Now, where can we put him? Oh, how
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: about the planet he was on and his mother lived
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: and died on?
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: Just give it to the uncle and aunt. I mean,
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: come on. Also named Skywalker.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Family that he actually met and hung out with. or
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: may not have left a robot with along the way.
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: But no, no. That totally makes sense.
• 58:37
  Speaker 4: But they had an ace in the hole. They had
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: Princess Leia Skywalker, who they changed the last name just
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: in case.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: Just because they gave him the space Jimmy Smith.
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: And also, let's make sure. Hiding in plain sight.
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: That's all we're saying. Also, R2 knows the entire story.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: R2.
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: That we've, yeah, I've ran over that lately, too. I'm like,
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: there's a, especially if you watch one through three, it's like.
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: Who knows the entire story?
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: That explains why R2 is not functioning good in Force Awakens.
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: He can't even.
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: No, it's because they have.
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: Left R2-D2 on, turned on since the Phantom Menace.
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: He's like a Mac. You've got to turn him off
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: and turn him on again every now and then.
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: You've got to reboot.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: That's what he did. He rebooted.
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: His memory is full, man. He's got so many programs
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: that have been running for over 80 years. Like, C-3PO
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: gets turned off every hour or so.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: Every hour he doesn't shut up.
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: They, like, wipe his memory every three movies. He gets
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: a whole new operating system. R2 is still running Windows 95, basically.
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: That's why he broke down in Force Awakens.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: Well, that's what, I mean, again, when you go back,
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: if you're watching these, as the geeks that we are,
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: I'm just like, okay.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: R2 is hanging out with Darth Vader. Like, they fly
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: a ship together and destroy the army. Like, they save
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: the whole battle, the whole Phantom Manus nonsense. Then later,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: he's flying around with him. Like, he's his companion the
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: whole series of movies. And then at the end, they
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: conveniently wipe out 3PO' s memory, but they never mention R2.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: So he goes into all this going, so I think
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: that's it. By the time we get to episode seven,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: he's just like, Oh, for God's sakes, another Skywalker messing
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: stuff up.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: Like, no.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: Just go away.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: Does R2 ever meet Darth Vader? I don't think he does.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: As Darth? I mean, they're in Empire. They're all in
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: the same space.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: They're not, like, hanging out chatting or anything.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: But he's never in, like, the same room where... Darth
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: Vader would look at him and go ahead.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: No, because when they had dinner, because he did have
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: dinner with half of our.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: Crew, but he was on Dagobah. Yeah, he was on Dagobah.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: 3PO got to hang out with him. They should have
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: had some nice talking.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: And the door shut before they.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: Vader shot R2, but it was from a distance.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: Damn it.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: He blew up his own friend. Aw. That's not cool.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: That's not cool at all, man.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: You don't have to kill so many children.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: Those kids were asking for it.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: They were better off.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: They never would have gotten to see their parents.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 4: It's like a UFO cult. Put on your Nikes and die.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: Join the Jedi.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: Here, kids, you're going to see your parents.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: This is the only way you're going to see your parents.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: We took them out about three hours ago. That's good.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: That's good stuff. Have you read any of the.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: New stuff that's.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 4: Supposed to explain the political politics.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: Of it all?
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: I don't want homework when I watch a movie. Just
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: cut right to the point.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: Apparently that Bloodline book explains a lot.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: I've not.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 4: Because you really invested into the original novels. I did
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 4: for a while. Have you given up on it?
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: They still exist. They're just in a side, separate little
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: universe over here.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: Whatever.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: They didn't take them out of existence.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: They came in, they took all my books.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: They lit them on fire and they laughed at you.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: Space Nazi.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: They gave me a voucher.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: He went, ha ha, legends.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: Luke Skywalker's never married. Never.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: Can't prove a thing. There was nobody else on that
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: island planet.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: It's the island planet.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: It was an ocean planet with like one island.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: And how did he get there? He didn't have R2
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: flying with him. He can't pilot a ship by himself.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: We all know R2 does all the work.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: No, we.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 4: We've seen Luke crashes his X-Wing.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: No.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: Well, I didn't say that's why. I didn't say why
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: didn't he come back. His X-Wing is there.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: We know why he didn't come back.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: He crashed it.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: There are pieces of it all over the aisle.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: It's not like he was hiding. He was just like,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: I don't have a ship, man.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: He was standing on that cliff because he was like.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: He was waiting to flag people down.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: Oh, I can kind of see the wing today. The
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 4: tide has come out a little bit.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: No, he's just standing up there with torches, waving them
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: back and forth. I've been waiting. He's got help spelled
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: out logs behind him. For the love of God, somebody
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: fly over.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 4: He's on the Gilligan's Island planet.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: My hand stopped working like three years ago.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. Is this because he's by himself on
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: a planet? Because that is crossing a line.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's like the stranger, only taken to the extreme.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: Well, I guess you could switch off your sensation that.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 4: Leads to that.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: You lost all the skin. It'd be like an erector set.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's what happened.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: I said erector set.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: So have we thoroughly covered this topic of sci-fi universes
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 4: and whatnot?
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: Not even scratched the surface.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: Lowly is the undisputed master of martial arts. A savage.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 4: A saint. A stranger.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: Lee Van Cleef is the legendary man of iron. A gambler.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: A gentleman.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 8: Don't get offended.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: But he just wants to see.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 7: Your, uh....
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: A gunfighter.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: Now, from Columbia Pictures.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: Welcome to Monterey.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: The Stranger and the Gunfighter.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 6: The hangin' town.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: The most brutal hands in the East join with the
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: fastest gun of the West in an unusual search for
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: a fortune in gold. The Stranger, the Gunfighter, and the Gold.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 7: Am I on the right road?
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 4: Not only are you on the right road, but you
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 4: arrive at your destination.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: Lee Van Cleef, the meanest man in the West. He
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: wants the gold, and he means to get it. Lo Lee,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: the kung fu fighting star of the Five Fingers of Death.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: His fists are lethal weapons, and his body, an arsenal
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: of destruction. Two fantastic fighting machines. Lowly Van Cleef. The
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: Stranger and the Gunfighter. Together, they can do anything.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: Hey, I'm Greg Sestero and you're listening to Movie Meltdown.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: Leave your stupid comments in your pocket.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 7: Okay, okay, like.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 4: One of the things we did with the war record
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 4: was our action figure stuff. What was your favorite Star
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: Wars toy growing up, Brian?
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, are we talking overall? Initial run? Like, that's the thing.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: As we get, like, my... When you were a kid.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: When you were at that sweet, sweet age. The first
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: thing that popped into my head is Slave 1. I
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: still have that Slave 1. I think Slave 1's freaking awesome.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: I didn't even have a ton of the... boxed bigger
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: stuff as it went on i started with one really
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: cool thing at the beginning and then after that i
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: got less and less of the like sets and i
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: don't half of the bigger ships and stuff i never
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: had but i got slave one and that was kind
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: of like the coolest thing ever because again boba fett
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: was the coolest dude in the universe i never had
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: it it still never went away like now they've you
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: know they kill him off in the dumbest way possible
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: they make him like have a dumb backstory and appearance
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: as a child and all this other crap I could
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: care less about.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 4: He's from a planet of bounty hunters.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he is. And now there's four million people with
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: his armor because clones, who knows, whatever. I don't know.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: They do a lot of weird retconning of crap that
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: I do not care about. He's still badass.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 4: I never had the slave one. I don't remember. It
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 4: was never an option for me to have, apparently. But
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 4: was it?
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: I flew it wrong.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 4: It seemed like there was a lot of wasted space
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 4: in it. Well, no. Because he just sat in the cockpit, right?
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: The rest is storage.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 4: It's cargo. You're hunting bounties. You've got to put them somewhere.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: Much like the Falcon. You've got to store a lot
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: of crap.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 4: That was my complaint about the Millennium Falcon, which was
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 4: my favorite toy, was the Millennium Falcon ship.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: See, I didn't have that.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 4: But it's like there was that cardboard insert that kind
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 4: of divided the ship into half. And I always would think,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 4: There's all this unused space beyond the cardboard insert. Well,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 4: that's where the rec room was.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: You know, you had like a Han and Chu foosball table.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 4: Cool stuff.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: Bump beds. Hell yeah, he did.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: That place was cool.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 4: As a kid, I would sit and stare at that
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 4: little cardboard wall and wonder, dare I cut a hole
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 4: in it? Dare I make a door? To go explore
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 4: the rest of the Falcons.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: What's wrong with you?
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 4: I never did, but I really thought about it. I
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: really wanted to make a door, tear down that wall,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 4: reunite East and West Falcon, and.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: It was a load-bearing wall.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: Just see what was in there, man. The whole Falcon collapses.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 4: Ah, what have I done?
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 3: I know, load-bearing cardboard.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: Or worse, what if it really is like that's the
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: alternate universe? And on the other side, there's like a
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: Han Solo with a goatee. And there's like a naked Wookiee.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: And they're just like, what the hell is this going
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: on over here? Like, you don't need to know what's
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: going on in the mirror universe.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: That's where the sexy party is.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 4: But, you know, I wonder what's going on in the
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 4: other half of the Falcon. I've still got that Falcon.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 4: I could go home tonight and cut a door in it, man.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: Where's my X-Acto?
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 4: See what's going on. Maybe I should just drill a
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 4: little hole. Put like a little pinhole put like a
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 4: little camera in you know just like see what's going.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: On send in the uh plug it plug it plug it.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 4: Plug it when i would see slave one the the
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 4: toy the the photos it didn't look like there was
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 4: there wasn't like it was just the pilot seat right
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 4: there wasn't anything else too.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: Again i And I don't know how much of this
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: was just what I wanted to do or how much
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: I didn't watch the movie over and over and over
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: again because I didn't have it on Blu-ray back in
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: the 1900s. So, again, you saw it like that once
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: or twice in the theater. And after that, you get
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: a little fuzzy. So I don't remember it flying wrong. So, like,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: as a kid, I still flew it. The way that
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: aerodynamically makes sense, like, it sits. Like, the guns are
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: up front if you don't twist them. So it's like
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: he sits, you know. And, again, I didn't, like, it
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: still seems like you would just sit normal in it,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: not lay down and shift your way up.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: When the elephant heads.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: And it would still, yeah. And then I remember going
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: back after, I guess, they started playing it on cable
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: or I got it on some format. And I'm just like, wait, what?
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: It's flying all sideways. Like, what the hell is that?
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 4: It looked wrong to you, right?
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: It does. It's still to this day, I'm like, that's
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: not how you fly a ship. It's wrong. Because it's
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: still a cool ship, but in my mind, I know
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: it's space. It doesn't need to be aerodynamic. But it
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: still seems to make sense. Granted, the thrusters are on
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: the bottom.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 4: But it's weird. Were the thrusters there?
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're where the handle is. Now, I don't know
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: if there's a handle in the one he's actually flying
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: around on, but it seems like that would be a
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: little weird. It's like, What's this giant handle doing under here?
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: That's God's handle.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 4: Isn't it strange to think that Kenner was located in Cincinnati,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 4: just right up the road from us?
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: He could have gone there and seen a building full
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: of slave ones.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 4: When I was a kid, I thought it came from
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 4: like California or something. Can you imagine that if I
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 4: had a cool dad, I could have asked him, can
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 4: we go to the factory and just look in the
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 4: dumpster or something? That would have been great.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: Are you saying your dad's not cool?
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: I bet I could have found the Boba Fett with
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 4: the rocket firing backpack because they toss it out in
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 4: the dumpster.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: And within two minutes, you would have been missing an eye.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 4: No, he would have been choked.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: This is great.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 3: No, no, it was a choking hazard.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: He would have shot his eye out.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 3: And then choked on it.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, he very well would have then pulled it
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: out to show him.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: It went through the eye, into the mouth.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 4: So you still have slave one, right?
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: Yes, I do.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 4: How has it held up over the years?
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 3: It's a battle damage.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, I played with all my toys. I wasn't
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: a total freak then. I didn't, like, leave shit in
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: the packages. But, like, I was pretty respectful of mine,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: I think, because I knew I wasn't going to keep
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: getting them. You didn't go and buy six of the
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: same thing.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 4: It's your one and only chance.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: Don't be breaking your stuff. So, yeah, I took pretty
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: good care of my toys.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 4: Has it gotten yellow? Are the stickers falling off?
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: Stickers are doing okay, I think. Again, I think there's
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: a little wear and tear on the stickers. Where is
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: it now? The rest of it's holding up. God only knows.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: I've moved 16 times since then.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 4: Is it safely in a box?
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: It's in a box somewhere.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 4: Is it well padded?
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: Probably if I know me. I don't pack up my
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: plates properly, but my toys are wrapped individually.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 4: Or little tires off on little cinder blocks. They didn't
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 4: make a slave, too. Come on, man. Gotta take care
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 4: of it.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: Do you know they didn't?
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 4: Did they? I don't know.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 3: I like that question.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 4: What was your favorite Star Wars toy, Dave?
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 3: I liked the X-Wing. The X-Wing was just so aerodynamic.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: It cut through the air, and then the cannons would
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 3: fall off if you did.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 4: It just right.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: So, you know, battle damage.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: I like toys that break.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 4: Did you have the original X-Wing or the Empire Strikes
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 4: Back X-Wing?
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 3: No, no, the original.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 4: Because the Empire Strikes Back X-Wing had the battle damage stickers.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 4: And if you put the battle damage stickers on, they
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 4: weren't coming off. You had a permanently battle damaged X-Wing,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 4: which I thought was short-sighted.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: And it made you go and park it sideways in
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: your sandbox and then dump a lot of water on it.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: It forced you to do that. It's the Empire X-Wing.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: You can't have it any other way.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 4: Way to go, Luke. It does not land. It has
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 4: no landing gear. I remember when I was a kid,
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 4: being angry. That it wasn't an actual R2-D2. It was
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 4: just a button.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a button.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 4: Because in my little kid brain, I was like, well,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 4: the Luke figure can get in. Why can't the R2
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 4: figure get in?
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: But it's functional.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 4: But it was just like.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: You had to use the magic of your mind to go.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 4: It did give me the option of letting me take
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 4: my little toy, R2-D2, activating his leg thrusters and flying
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 4: it to the X-Wing. Oh, that's right.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: He didn't have leg thrusters. See, that's something that annoys
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: me is that they didn't explain it. Like, if you
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: want to retcon that in, that's one thing, but then
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: show them getting damaged at the end of Attack of
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: the Clones or when they're like, wipe that 3PO' s memory
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: and take those damn boosters out of that R2 unit.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 4: That's a fire hazard.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: Something that makes sense. Yeah.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 4: There are kids on this ship. If they would have
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 4: just wiped R2' s memory, he could have forgotten that he
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 4: had leg thrusters.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 3: And one day just.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. This works, though.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 4: The hell?
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: But see, that's the other. Like, spatially, he at least
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: fit into that X-Wing fighter. Now, it's been brought to
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: my attention by other geeks in the world now.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: That within, if you go, if you acknowledge those, you know,
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: one through threes. If you watch the first one, that
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: weird yellow ship that they, like, fly up there in,
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: he really doesn't even fit in. Like, the dome pops out,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: but the body doesn't really fit where it should be.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: So maybe it's also just a button.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 4: In the real world. Well, maybe, like, so at one,
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 4: he's reclining and just sticking his head in.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: He just leans his way sideways-like. That could be. That
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: could be. At R2, he knows how to kick back.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: He's a good droid. Might have been.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 4: Did you have a TIE fighter, Dave?
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 8: Oh, yes.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 4: Oh, so.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: The battle damage wings that go pew!
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. And never quite go back after a while.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 4: Did you ever take one of your Luke Skywalker's or
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 4: Han Solo's and make them fly the TIE fighter? It
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 4: always felt wrong to me. No, it always felt wrong
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 4: to me.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: I did it, and I liked it. It was awesome.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 4: What if they were in an elaborate backstory of why
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 4: they were in it?
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: What if they were in the Stormtrooper gear? Would that
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: be close enough? You'd be like, well, they're almost Stormtroopers. Now,
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: they're not TIE Fighters.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 4: In 1979, 1980, when I had this, there was no fair.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: At the very end of the run, they did those.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: I never had those.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 4: I wasn't really.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. I think I didn't know they had
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: them until years later when I saw them in a magazine. Wait,
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: they did those then? Because I remember that Power of
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: the Force run when you could mail in and get
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: those with the helmets that came off.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 4: I was kind of out of it by then.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: But supposedly, yeah, in that very end of the Jedi run,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: I think they started doing some older Star Wars redo.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 4: I remember the last toy I got was the speeder
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 4: bike because I thought it was neat. But I didn't
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 4: get any of the big ships or anything.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I bought them.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 6: I'm trying to think.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 4: It was like Empire and the original Star Wars. That
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 4: was my golden period.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Empire. I got a ton of Empire stuff.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I stocked up. I stocked up by Jedi.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: Jedi, I remember, and I had some of the stuff.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: I got, again, I think the figures. I just didn't
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: get a lot of big stuff. Yeah, I got figures.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: Because I've got a low gray somewhere.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 4: I've got one.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think what else.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: Do you have Ugnaughts?
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: No. I think I've gotten one since because I found
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: it for cheap because I don't think I did at
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: the time. But I found an original one that was
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: like a couple of bucks. I was like, oh, I
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: never had this one.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 4: I never had a Dengar. I got a Dengar.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: See, I had a Dengar.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 4: Because I found it for like a dollar. And I
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 4: was like, what the hell? I'm getting me a Dengar.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 3: He's a bounty hunter.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 4: He's the sad, sad, broken old man. I really relate
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 4: to him. That's why I figured I wanted to get him.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 3: Valley hunting's hard, man.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: He had a horrible accident just days before Empire was shot.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 3: It's like, oh, finally, I get to lay my bet.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 3: Who called? Oh, crap. All right. Wrap me up.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: He was flipping a hamburger, and the grease got out
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: of control, and the next thing I know.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: He blew up.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 4: Wrap me up.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: Change my bandages. I got a job.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 4: It was kind of interesting because it was a figure
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 4: I had never played with when I was a kid.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 4: But it was from that time. So it was like
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 4: seeing some sort of weird alternate reality. It's something I
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 4: should be really... I should know every button on this
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 4: guy's backpack, but I don't because I didn't have him.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 4: But he's from that same time.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: You were slacking as a child. You were not fulfilling
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: your childhood duties.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: It was a road not taken.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 4: Did it ever make you guys angry? Your little children
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 4: nerd rage that Luke always had a yellow lightsaber?
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: Only in that first run. I don't think that one
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: they changed. It's weird that they kept changing those.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 4: In Empire he had a yellow lightsaber too.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: In the toy?
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 4: I don't like how they call them, Bespin Han and
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 4: Bespin Luke, because they were wearing that crap before they
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 4: got to Bespin Luke.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: See, again, I don't think... No, I had the Dagobah Luke,
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: which he came with blue. No. Because that's the thing.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: I didn't get a ton of.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 4: You're thinking of 1995 stuff.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: I never had a yellow in anything except in the
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: original one. Consult the book of knowledge. But they kept
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: changing those. That's the thing. Even in Jedi, that first
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: run that came out, he had blue.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: And then the second wave, that did happen.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 4: But the empire luke was always uh yellow.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: I'm not buying that kenner does what they want and
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: they change shit all the time that's why some yodas
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: had an orange snake some had a brown snake just
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: to mess with you because you got the first one
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: going look i finally got yoda nobody else has yoda
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: two weeks later your friend down the street has a
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: brown snake and your orange snake looks stupid Snakes aren't orange.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 4: Well, all I'm saying is, like, I just remember. Space snakes.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 4: Space snakes. Because I actually had it, and it's just, yeah, like,
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 4: that Luke always had a yellow lightsaber.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: That is not the one I had.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 4: Okay. I am looking at a Bespin Luke.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: I had a Freeform, because that was the only. Yeah.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 4: With a yellow hair and a yellow lightsaber.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 3: Zoom in.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, sure. Zoom in, eh?
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 3: Is that the head from the original Star Wars?
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: It kind of looks like it.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 4: It's the same mold as the original karate shirt Luke.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 4: And that guy had yellow hair too. But he's holding
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 4: a yellow lightsaber.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: That is not the one I had. So obviously I
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: got the second wave.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 4: You might have done what I did. Once I got
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 4: a Return of the Jedi Luke that first came with
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 4: a blue lightsaber. I gave it to my best friend, Luke.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: Well, that's just cheating.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 3: With a removable hand slash shocking hazard.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 4: The reason the Return of the Jedi, Luke, originally came
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 4: with a blue.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: They didn't want to spoil it.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 4: The reason it originally came with a blue lightsaber is
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 4: because originally it was going to be blue in the movie.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 4: But then Lucas changed it to green because it showed
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 4: up better on the blue Dagobah sky.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: That and then I think.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 4: Tatooine sky.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: I think I also heard that they... were afraid people
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: were going to be confused, that they didn't understand he
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: built a new lightsaber, especially when they cut that scene
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: out of him building a new lightsaber. So then if
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: it would have just popped out of R2, they're like,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: how did he get that back when it fell down
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: that thing? I had heard that that was a plot
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: point in the original screenplay.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 3: R2 always had an extra lightsaber.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like, crowds are dumb. You've got to
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: change this so they understand it's a whole new thing.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 4: I just don't understand why the original Luke had a
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 4: yellow light. Why was it yellow?
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: They got a deal on yellow plastic? Because I wondered
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: that forever.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 4: Were they trying to really make it specific that Luke
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 4: is always yellow, Ben's always blue, Darth's always red?
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: Well, there was also like, it was almost to the
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: end of the run that the lightsabers were not different colors.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: They were like a white-ish and they were the same color.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: Almost all the way up until the end of them
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: releasing the movie. And then at some point, somebody, probably
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: not George, went like, you know, this would work better
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: if you could tell who was who and if they
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: were like different colors or something. And they added the
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: color in the last couple of months or so. Because
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: I always.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 4: Thought it was weird on the Millennium Falcon when Luke's
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 4: playing with the space ball. The lightsaber looks... It's pretty
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 4: damn white. Yeah, it looks white.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 4: And I always wondered if the Kenner guys saw that
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 4: and thought, oh, that was probably yellow.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: That's yellow. And we got a lot of this yellow
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: plastic laying around.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 4: Take that, Strawberry Shortcake. Now, this is weird, too. This
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 4: is how stupid I am. I didn't keep my toys
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 4: in the packages, but I kept the action figure cards
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 4: because it had a picture from the movie on the card.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: I kind of did that. I don't know where some
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: of those went over the years.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 4: And in this time before VCR and being able to
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 4: watch the movie over again, those were, to me, they
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 4: were like pictures from the movie, and I wanted to
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 4: hang on to it. The picture of the Obi-Wan Kenobi
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 4: figure has... It was colored yellow. His lightsaber was colored
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 4: yellow on the card. But the lightsaber was blue. And
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 4: I always wondered if maybe the original idea was to
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 4: give the Ben figure a yellow lightsaber, and I got
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 4: switched somehow. I don't know. This is the crap I
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 4: think about when I should have been studying to be
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 4: an engineer, like Isaac.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: That explains it. well what always bothered me about that
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: whole first run is the fact that they like had
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: that weird downsized tapered off thing i'm like why wouldn't
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: it just be ones like they weren't like that in
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: the movie it made it like easier to poke your
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: eye out or something i don't know i was like
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: it seems even more dangerous to make it more pointy
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: at the end there's a shaft and then there's a
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: little there's a little.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 4: Shaft you seriously don't don't don't know why oh my
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 4: god i'm gonna drop some Total geek town knowledge.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: This sounds made up.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 4: When Kenner first made the original figures, the lightsabers were
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 4: supposed to actually fit completely into the arm. And it
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 4: was going to telescope out in two separate pieces. And
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 4: it was... That's a lot of engineering. It was a
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 4: little engineering marvel.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: A little engineering that could.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 4: And the thing is, when they got down to it,
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 4: and they actually made a bunch, and they... sent them out,
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 4: especially that early bird pack.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: Got them.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 4: But they ended up being just too damn expensive. So
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 4: they were like, you know what?
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: It does seem like it would break really.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: Easy, too.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 4: So then they were like, you know what? Let's just
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 4: make it one piece, but we'll keep that look and
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 4: so they made the little they kept.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: It still seems like it would be easier to just
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: mold one big long piece like the ones later but
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: it fit in their arm because it is kind of
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: cool that it popped out of their arm it's kind
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: of inconvenient for the rest of their life that they
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: have this big thing sticking out of.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 4: Their arm I'm typing into google original.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: Some sort of Jedi cyborg action going on but it
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: was still pretty cool that.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 3: It was foreshadowing is what it was sooner or later
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 3: you're going to lose that arm and probably a bunch
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 3: of other stuff all you guys are going to lose
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 3: some limbs.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 4: But I think a lot of my kind of minutiae,
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 4: like I would know so much about the figures and
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 4: how they looked and how the cards looked, is because
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 4: I was so in love with Star Wars, but I
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 4: had no way to watch Star Wars.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 3: This was before we got a DVD three months later.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 10: Yeah, all I had was the figures and the big
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 10: Star Wars storybook with the pictures in it, which had
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 10: the big scene in it on Tatooine.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: So did the novel. so written by george lucas see
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: back in the day he did a lot of stuff
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: he wrote the actual book like later he ended it
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: off to all these other but then those early days
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: obviously he just didn't turn anything over to anybody because
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: he wrote the damn novel like nobody does that.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 3: See for me the star wars comic was the lifeline
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 3: oh the series i didn't have that.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: Like the marvel series that continued because i had i
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: had a good amount of those i remember and i
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: I remember picking up the early ones because I liked
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: how weird and different they were. Giant green bunny rabbit
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: is exactly what I was looking for in my.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 3: Comic books as a kid. Who was a bounty hunter.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: Because they have how many jobs? None.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 3: His name was Jax.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: And see, that's when I started thinking that Jedi Knights
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: were cool was because they were crazy. The only other
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: one we ever saw other than Ben Kenobi was that
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: other guy in the Marvel comic that was like Kind
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: of like Don Quixote. Like, he was old and crazy and, like,
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: the last surviving Jedi in this part of the galaxy. And, like,
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: he really was just, like, a nutcase. But, like, he
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: was the only guy that still had a lightsaber and
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: knew how to sort of use some Jedi powers. And, like,
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: that's when I was like, that old dude's pretty crazy. Like,
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: I like him.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 3: Didn't he go into a lava pit? I think he
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 3: went into a lava pit.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: They were, again, foreshadowing some future movies.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 3: Foreshadowing 35 years later.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 4: Hey, that's a good idea.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: We should do something about that. Yeah, lava. Let's not
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: explain it very much, though. Oh, wait, let's make a
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: whole movie.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 3: Ben is Googling.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 4: Sorry, I'm wanting to find a diagram that explains to
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 4: you guys how this is working.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: Life.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: The diagram for life.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 4: Put the phone right up to the mic. All right.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 4: As you can tell, Internet, from what I'm trying to
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 4: find here, yeah, kids have it damn easy. They just
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 4: put in the damn Blu-ray. I had to keep all
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 4: my action figure cards and hope to God that I
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 4: can put them in the right order to make sense
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 4: of how the movie went and all that.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: That's what you had the trading cards for.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, the trading cards.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 3: I had a bunch of those. I had all five series.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: I had the blue ones, and the red ones, and
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: the yellow ones.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 3: And the green ones.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: I had a few of the green ones. Yeah, it
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: started to taper off. Like, I had pretty much all
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: of the blue ones.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 4: Like.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: My dad was helping keep track of them. We were
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: writing stuff down. We were missing. Did he really?
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 4: Did he do that with you?
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: At the time, yeah. I think back. Like, now, I
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: don't think he wants anything to do with my geekery. Like, now,
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: if he could totally disown me, probably would. But, like,
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: at the time, it was one of the few things
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: we kind of bonded over. Like, we saw Star Wars together.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: And we were like, you can't recreate that now. Because
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: I have the blue. He didn't even go see the
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: new one. I had the Blu-ray. And I was like,
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: we could. I was like, no, this is not going
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: to go well, is it? And we didn't. I'm like,
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: you just can't go home again. You can't recreate that
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: little special moment. It's done now.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 3: Like tears in the rain.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: They didn't have... Wrong movie. They didn't have... Or maybe
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: they did at some baseball card shop that I didn't
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: go to. But now and years later, I would be
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: a geek and get the pages with nine slots and
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: I would put all the cards in them and binder
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: them up like a true geek. But yeah, then they
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: were just rubber banded in a shoe box. And like
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: I had the Star Wars stickers on the box that
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: it went in. And I'm like, that's how I knew
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: it was the box that it goes in. I put
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: them on my trapper keeper. I think I had, well, no,
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: I had an entire, and this was the geek move
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: back in the day. The closet door became the like,
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: shrine of all your cool stickers which later will backfire
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: because you won't live there or you'll paint over it
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: or some somebody will mess up your whole thing but
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: i did it and i may have i can't remember
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: i did it first or i stole the idea from
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: my cousin because she also had a door that had
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: tons of star wars stickers I think she worked in
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: some Wonder Woman stickers too, but you can't go wrong
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: with Linda Carter.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: Impure.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 4: You know, you know. That's true.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: Well, it was a little bit of everything because I
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: may have worked in some other offshoot stickers from some packs.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: I don't remember much.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 3: There's a Battlestar Galactica.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: I don't think I, again, I had, I will look
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: back because I still have that shoebox full of cards,
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: by the way.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 4: $ 6 million, man.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I'll pull them out and I'll be like,
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: I had like a couple of, they were all separated
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: like a geek would do. And rubber banded together. And
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'll pull out my, like, yeah, this is
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: about three packs of Dark Crystal cards. And then here's my....
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, I've got them.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 4: They're still at home. What else did I have?
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: There was just that run of stuff that, like, at
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: the time, I was like, yeah, this is awesome. And
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: I'd get a couple of packs. And then, like, again,
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: you didn't go back to that store that often. You
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: weren't driving yourself around. You didn't have tons of money.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: So you were just like, these are the packs I got.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: I guess these are the cards I have.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 8: So.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: I'll look at these Superman 2 cards all day long
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: because this is all I have.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 3: And there's a sticker of Marlon Brando.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: I had Margot Kidder up on the door long before
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: I knew she was a crazy person.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 4: All right, this is the closest to a diagram I
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 4: can find, but the whole lightsaber would collapse into the arm,
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 4: and you pull out the skinny bit and the whole thing.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 4: And it broke immediately. And then when you did the
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 4: tab underneath the arm and you push it back in,
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 4: It collapses both pieces into the arm. And you make
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 4: the noise, you know, the.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 4: But it was too expensive to keep going. And, like,
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 4: in the original, it was, like, actually really, really longer.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 4: And that's what she said. Like, there's the Darth one. Like,
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 4: you see how... Yeah. Because it would be the same
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 4: length as the bigger piece.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, they were a little stubbier than in the movie.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: I'll give you that.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 4: But... So they go for a lot on the eBay.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 4: That's all I'm saying. I'll be okay with that one. Yeah.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: I'm a geek, but I've tried to wean myself off
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: it a little bit these days.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh. Well, are you buying toys from the
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 4: new movie, from the Episode 7? Have you got the
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 4: Rey figure? Have you joined the Where's Rey movement?
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: You can't find the Rey figure. Now, granted, I will
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: give them their initial reason for it, almost acceptable story
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: from a business standpoint. I think it's a bullshit move
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: for girls or hopefully even boys that wanted a cool
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: Rey figure in that first wave. But all right, they're
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: trying to contain the spoiler. She can't come with a
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: lightsaber because we don't know. She's not the Jedi girl.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 3: She could have come with a stick.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: She could have come with her stick. That's her weapon
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: of choice anyway through the whole movie. So like, yeah,
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: just put out that first wave with her. Then you
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: could have an alternate version and charge them again. Don't
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: you know how this works? Didn't Kenner teach you anything?
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: Come around, go again.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: Really? So yeah, I think that's kind of uncool. I
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: still haven't seen any. I saw one of the super
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: like limited edition movies The Disney store put out that
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: is entirely metal.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 6: What?
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: It's the only thing... And it looked... It's one of
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: the bigger figures. It's the not... I don't even know what.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: Like 10 inch or something? Like it's the middle size.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: It's not the giant figures. It's not the normal size.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: Is it the Black Series type? I think it's the...
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: But it's like a super deluxe Black Series that only
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: the Disney store carries. And that's the only Rey action
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: figure of any sort I've even come across. So they're
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: still not real readily available out there.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 4: I will never... Fall for the exclusive scam ever again.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 4: Not since the 1995 fiasco, which I'm still trying to
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 4: sell off. We got a new house. I'm trying to move.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 4: I had all this stuff from the mid-90s of Star Wars.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 4: Because like everyone else in the freaking nerd world thought,
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 4: I'm going to buy two of everything and save it,
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 4: and I'm going to make a fortune.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: I would make fun of you if I didn't have
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: a box. And by a box, I mean about ten boxes.
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: Of Star Wars Power of the Force figures still in
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: their packaging that I have no idea what to do
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: with because they're worth about $ 1. 50 now.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 4: Everyone likes Luke with He-Man muscles. Yeah.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: Of course I have that one.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 3: And Leia with He-Man muscles.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 4: So I've been thinking, like, I'm going to put them
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 4: on eBay. I'm going to put them on eBay.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't go for it. It's just too much
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: damn work. That's the problem.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 4: They're $ 1. 50 now.
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: But I paid $ 2.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 2: 99 for it. Yeah.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: This is not going up in value at all. I
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: was lied to.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 4: Children's Palace, let us go. About a month ago, before
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 4: our house was closed and all that, and I'm like,
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 4: I don't want to move all this crap because I'm
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 4: actually going to have less storage space where I'm going.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: That sucks for you.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 4: I saw online that there was something called the Kentucky
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 4: Star Wars Collectors Club or something, and they were having
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 4: a swap meet.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 4: What was it?
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 3: Something like that.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like the Kentucky Action Figure Collectors, Star Wars Collectors.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 4: Something about Star Wars.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw Star Wars.
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 3: I went there.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 4: So I talked Dave into going down to Frankfurt. You
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 4: got scammed into this.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: That was game.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 4: I rented a table, and I just brought box after
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 4: box of all this stuff.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: If I would have known, I would have brought my crap.
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 4: I set up a display, and I sold it for
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 4: way less than it was worth.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 3: It's worth what people will pay.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 4: It's about four huge crates less of stuff I have
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 4: to move to this new house now. It's just funny
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 4: how I don't have the same emotional attachment to it.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 4: But I wanted that damn Dengar from 1980.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: See, there are specific ones that I don't want to
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: get rid of. And probably the ones that I bothered
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: to buy an extra one so I could have them
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: out there. Because I do have that entire... That run
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: of when they redid all of the bounty hunters in
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: that scene. So I have all of them and a
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: Darth Vader to recreate that scene on the ship.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 4: No disintegrations.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: And that's all I want. But if I needed the...
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: R5-D4 with attack power missile in the middle of it.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: You know what? I can live without one of those.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: Whether it's packaged up or not, I think I'll be
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: okay without that.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 3: It's a choking hazard. You're better off.
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 4: It comes with a bad motor. Come on, R5. Get
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 4: out there.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 3: I don't want to. I'm just going to sit around
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 3: the house here. R2-D2 kind of killed another droid, if
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 3: you really think about it.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: I've also heard the theory that R5-D4 was part of
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: the Rebel Alliance and he short-circuited himself out because he
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: knew R2 needed to go with Luke to put this
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: whole thing into motion. He's part of the team.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 3: I don't think R2 killed him.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 4: I think Obi-Wan did it.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: Or it's Obi-Wan because he's behind everything.
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 4: One more death on his tally. You know, that just
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 4: tells you how good an actor Alec Guinness really was because,
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 4: you know... after you watch the prequels and then you
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 4: watch that scene in a new hope where he, where
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 4: Obi-Wan Kenobi looks at R2 and he's like, I don't
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 4: recall ever owning a droid. And he, and he looks
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 4: at him the way he looks at him. You can
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 4: almost believe that he recognizes R2 and he's just playing
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 4: his part because, you know, he's trying to talk Luke
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 4: into bringing down the government.
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: He lies about a whole lot of stuff.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 4: But like you can almost read into the expression that
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 4: he has that, Hey, It's R2-D2, Anakin's old droid. I'm
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 4: just going to pretend.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: I'm such a good actor. I'm looking ahead into the future,
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: about 30 years or so.
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but there will be prequels.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: And I'm that good an actor.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 3: Did he have his memory wiped? I wonder.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: And scene.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 3: I've cut my hair since the last time I've seen him.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: For the love of God, don't write me in that
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: next one. Kill me off, George. Whatever you do, kill
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: me off.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, you're giving me more points? All right, I'll come back.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: Fine. All right, so to bring this all back around
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: to you getting rid of your toys.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 3: Can we do this in an Obi-Wan Kenobi for the
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 3: rest of the.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 4: I wasn't really doing an Obi-Wan. I was doing an
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 4: imitation of the guy on Clone Wars who does an
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 4: imitation of Ewan McGregor who's doing an imitation of Alec Guinness. Oh,
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 4: very good. I'm like six people away from....
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 3: But are you, my friend?
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: But to tie it all together... It was two years
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: ago at this time. That some person was trying to
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: unload their Star Wars crap and brought me two fighting
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: Luke and Darth Vader swively action figures.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 3: Special swively action.
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: I have them to this day, and I just moved
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: all my crap, and they had to get moved with me.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 4: They were tokens of affection.
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: You transferred them over to me, who is now hauling
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: them from one place to the next.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 3: It's like herpes.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 4: Tokens of affection, man.
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: But at least they are out of the package, so
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: I do occasionally make them smack lightsabers into each other.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: Do whatever you want with that image.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 4: That doesn't sound gay at all, does it?
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: Hey, whatever they're into.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 3: It's the Force.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: Much like herpes. That's how you get space herpes.
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 3: Smacking your junk into other junk.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: Wrong movie.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 4: You know there's a desert planet, a snow planet. Is
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 4: there a herpes planet in Star Wars?
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 3: There must be.
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 3: We don't talk about it.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 4: We don't talk about it.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: Space herpes. We need to spend an hour or two
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: rambling on about ice pirates. That's what we need to do.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 4: I've never seen that. Yeah, I haven't either.
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 3: It's just going to be a long hour.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: Well, then we're going to.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 4: This is why we're not on the show more often, Dave, We're.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: Going to have.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 4: Because we don't really like movies when you get down
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 4: to it. Just Star Wars.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: But I'm going to assign you specific movies, and then
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: you're going to have to come back. Oh, work. Oh, work.
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 4: And summer vacation.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: We'll have a lengthy discussion about a movie you don't want.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 4: Didn't you hate when your teacher gave you a book
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 4: to read over the summer? Come on. And her rationale
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 4: was always DVDs and VCRs don't exist yet, so read
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 4: this book over the summer.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: I think you're having weird old man flashbacks.
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 3: He's retconning his own childhood.
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 4: Just like Obi-Wan Kenobi.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: He's good at that.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 3: I don't think I have to read this book.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: I read the book from a certain point of view.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 4: I actually have retconned my childhood in several areas.
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 3: I remember when your father killed a bunch of kids.
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 3: He was my friend.
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: He was a great pilot when I met him. Oh wait, no,
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: he was sick.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 3: I cut his arms and legs off.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 4: He was a great pilot for a six-year-old.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: Weird, old, haircutted eight-year-old boy. He was great at flying
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: ships and going, oops.
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 3: I really should have killed him when I cut off
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 3: his arms and legs.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: I remember this time when I cut off all of
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: his appendages and threw him in a lava pit.
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 3: Luke never cut corners.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: Did I tell you about that, Luke?
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 3: He was on fire. I thought that would do it.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he really should have finished the job.
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 3: That bastard was really strong.
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: Didn't see him coming back from that one, but I'll
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: be damned if there's not more movies now.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 3: I won't make the mistake of leaving your aunt alive
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 3: and in slavery. I'm going to go ahead.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 4: And turn her. Like I did your father. In this
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 4: new episode 7... I don't like the way the lightsabers
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 4: become like a Harry Potter wand where it chooses its
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 4: owner and all that kind of crap. It's magical. I
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 4: don't like that. I don't like the whole... Because you
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 4: would think it would be tainted from all those kids
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 4: that it killed and all that.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go with the Force being kind of
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: magic because otherwise you fall on the science side and
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: you're one of those weird metachloric believers.
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 3: You don't want to tug on that sweater. That bit
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 3: of the sweater.
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 4: That's another reason the You know, in that sweet time
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 4: before the prequels came out, I used to think that
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 4: when they said, may the force be with you, it
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 4: was a really encouraging thing. Because for all we knew,
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 4: anyone could use the force. You just had to believe
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 4: in it enough. It's like you had to have faith.
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 4: So anyone can aspire to be a Jedi. You just
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 4: really got to have the heart. and the dedication and
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 4: the willpower.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 8: Nope.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 4: Blood parasite. May the force be with you. It was
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 4: an encouraging thing because all you had to do was
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 4: believe in yourself, believe in your friends, and you can
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 4: do anything because you have the force. Then the prequels
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 4: come along. And no, it's like you said, it's like
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 4: a blood parasite. So why bother saying, may the force
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 4: be with you? It almost becomes a taunting thing. Hey,
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 4: you little nobody who doesn't have any midichlorians, may the
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 4: force be with you.
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 3: You failed your broadcast.
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: More like, too bad the force isn't with you.
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 3: God, it's nice to have the force.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: But that's assuming you believe that story. Or if you
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: go back and watch those prequels, and by that I
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: mean episode one... because they never mention it again after that,
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: and really, even in episode one, the only person who
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: mentions it is Qui-Gon, who, Let's just assume it's a
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: wingnut who came up with this crazy theory all on
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: his own. No, he says it to Obi-Wan.
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 3: He says it?
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 4: He's got more Metachlorians than Master Yoda.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can just imagine Obi-Wan just sitting on, just
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 3: making the jack-off symbol.
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, checking it on the computer.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 3: Ooh, that's a bunch of Metachlorians. He's looking through a magazine.
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's off the charts.
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 4: More than Yoda.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: More than Yoda. He's probably the chosen one or something.
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 3: He's got more imaginary crap than Yoda. He's got four Orgles.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: He's like, oh, as I'm talking into my lady chick,
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: I better go over and see if I can get
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: this kid to come with us.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, whatever.
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: So, yeah. If you had just assumed the fact that...
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to retcon it. No, they tell him
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: through the whole movie, your reckless ways. They're always like,
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: damn it, Qui-Gon. Why can't you get with the program
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: like the rest of us? You and your nonsense that
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: you're always ranting on about, about Metachlorians and the Chosen One.
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: Nobody else ever talks about any of that nonsense.
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 4: It's all Qui-Gon. Maybe if Metachlorians didn't exist, it was
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 4: a way that Jedis would... Because we pretty much established
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 4: that the upper echelons of the Jedi were douches.
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 4: Maybe it's some... rule they made up because if someone
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 4: wanted to be a Jedi and they really didn't want
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 4: them to join their secret club. Oh, well, see, we
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 4: all have this thing called metachlorians and we're just going
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 4: to scan you. Oh, you don't have any, Clyde.
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  Speaker 7: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I'm scanning you with my lady chick. It totally
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  Speaker 1: says you don't have any metachlorians.
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  Speaker 4: Why don't you go to the bounty hunter college? You
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 4: could probably do really well there.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: Well, it's that or a moisture farmer. All right, bounty
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: hunter it is. I guess I could... Oh, no, wait,
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  Speaker 1: I forgot. Smuggler. You can be a smuggler, a bounty hunter.
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  Speaker 3: Or a farmer.
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  Speaker 1: This is your universe.
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  Speaker 4: When you're re-editing this, I hope the part that we
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 4: said that actually happens before we are talking right now.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, but didn't it really? From a certain point of view?
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 4: You wiped my memory, and I can't remember.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: Thank God I'm a genius editor.
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 4: Ha ha ha!
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: I have to be to make this show make sense.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 4: We give Brian homework.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 3: Stop publishing.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 4: Always have homework. Can I tell you something? Even before
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 4: all the shenanigans in the internet. Okay, the internet burnt
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 4: down because they said that Rogue One had to go
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 4: back for reshoots and all that. We're in the trust
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 4: tree here. When the whole Rogue One thing first came out,
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 4: I wasn't that excited about it.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: Well, it's because you're dead inside.
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 4: I kind of like.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 3: It's a hollowed out core.
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 4: It really is. Like that first trailer, everyone was excited.
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  Speaker 1: You were excited, Dave.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 4: Still am.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of.
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 4: I'm not that excited about it.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 4: Maybe it's because I didn't read the expanded universe novels.
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 4: I kind of. I like my.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: Own Star Wars.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: Please turn in your geek card.
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. You've got to get the hell out. That's fine.
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: You only like your story centered around the Skywalker family.
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 3: If it didn't happen there, it doesn't happen.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: Outsiders getting involved in.
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 4: My Star Wars.
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 3: You know, if the Skywalker family hadn't existed, this whole
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 3: galaxy would have been a much nicer place to live.
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Skywalker family kind of screws up everything, by
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: the way.
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 4: I think what bothered me about that trailer was when
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 4: you see the guy holding the big stick And he's
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 4: about to do kung fu shit on the Stormtroopers, a
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 4: la Game of Thrones. And it was like, oh, they're like.
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: Now you're hating on another franchise.
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 4: They're basically pulling in every cool thing from every other franchise.
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 4: And they're sticking it into this one to try.
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 3: To make it.
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: Maybe they're just expanding this universe.
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 4: But it's such a cliche to have. One guy who's
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 4: so great at martial arts that he can just use
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 4: a stick and defeat guys with freaking lasers.
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's because he's the chosen one. Haven't you seen
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: any movie? No, he's not a chosen one. He's always
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: the chosen one.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 4: He's some martial arts guy from the martial arts planet.
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: He's from the Matrix, and he's the chosen one. It's
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: in every movie. All right, now that we've broke Ben,
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: I think we've talked about Star Wars enough.
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 4: It's the anniversary of our 40-hour... Star Wars Fest.
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 3: It was like this only 38 more hours.
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so consider yourself blessed. We are ending it now.
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 4: And we didn't even do an encore of our cowboy
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 4: version of Empire Strikes Back.
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: Just go Google that, people, and then don't listen.
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 3: People stopped us from finishing that.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: I heard it. I was across the room trying to record,
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: and some jerks were making noise over there. Oh, wait,
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: it was those Star Wars Western guys.
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 4: Whatever Gina thinks you're being too nerdy, that really hurt.
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 3: Well, Luke, you should try, or you don't try. There
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 3: is no try.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 4: People were wondering, I was convinced that you could do
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 4: Empire Strikes Back as a Western.
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 3: Oh, you're totes good.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 4: And so Dave printed out the script, and we were
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 4: performing Empire Strikes Back as a Western, and.
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 3: It I love you, you galoot.
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 3: I know. Oh, God.
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'd watch it if they made one.
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 4: Paul was Darth Vader and his name was Dark Bart.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 4: And it was like, I am Dark Bart's going to
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 4: come and get us.
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 2: It was great.
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 4: It worked great. That means Coyote's coming this way.
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: So thank you once again to Wonderfest for letting this
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: craziness go on. They should have kicked us out hours ago.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 4: By the way, you keep saying we're at Wonderfest. We're
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 4: in an empty room. Last time we did this, we
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 4: were down in the room with all the big models
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 4: and the costumes.
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: Which was still an empty room, you realize.
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 4: But it was full of costumes and mannequins wearing.
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: Well, they heard you were coming and they were like,
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: we don't want him down there with our stuff. They
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: were like, for the love of God, maybe I'll let
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: you use an empty room.
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 4: We're in a big empty room with our chairs stacked
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 4: up behind us.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: Why must you ruin the illusion for these people? They're
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: enjoying the wonder that is us immersed in.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 4: I'm wondering why I'm in this room, man.
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: I wonder why you're on this episode.
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 4: What's this now, 28, 29? What is this?
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: Feels like 50 or 60.
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 4: Whenever I hit 30, he gives me a gold jacket.
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: Smack upside the head and send you on your way.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 3: He punches your car.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 4: I get a whole podcast free.
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: Wait, isn't that how the internet works? These are all free,
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: and that's my problem. We're changing that soon. You people
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: have got to pay for this bullshit. So, thank you
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: for not kicking us out, Wonderfest. You should go to wonderfest.com
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: and find out how you can be part of this. Well,
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: maybe if you're lucky, not this craziness, but there's other
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: awesome things going on here, so go find out more
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: about it and come here next year.
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, podcasting has come back a year from now. To Louisville, Kentucky,
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 4: to the Wonderfest, and look for the Trimble Room. We're
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 4: all going to be here talking, and there's an empty
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 4: seat because Eric got up. You could come and sit
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 4: at this seat and talk to us. We'll still be
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 4: talking about Star Wars, probably.
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 3: Probably.
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 4: I might have seen Rogue One by this point, and
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 4: I can tell you if I like the martial arts
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 4: sticky guy or not. I don't know.
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 3: What kind of stick was it, really? Was it Space Elm.
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 4: Space Oak?
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: Hey, Ray has a space dick, and she's a badass,
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: so don't be talking bad about space dicks.
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 2: Space dicks.
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: On that note, otherwise that about does it. We will
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: return next time, same geek feed. Thanks for listening.
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  Speaker 7: And that mistake, I've made a few. I've had my
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 7: share of sand kicking my face, but I've come through.
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: We are the champions, my friends.
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 7: We'll keep on fighting to the end. We are the champions.
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 7: We are the champions. No time for losers, cause we
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 7: are the champions.
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 5: I'm taking my bow and my curtain calls.
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: You brought me fame and fortune, everything that goes with it.
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: I thank you all. But it's been a bed of roses,
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: no pleasure cruise.
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 7: I'm considering a challenge before the whole.
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 6: Human race, and.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 4: I ain't gonna lose.
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 7: We are the champions, my friend. We'll keep on fighting
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 7: till the end. We are the champions. We are the champions.
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 7: No time for losers, guys.
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: We are the champions of the world.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 7: We are champions, my friends.
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 6: We can fight it to the end.
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 7: We are the champions. We are the champions. No time
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 7: for losers. Because we are the champions.
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 4: Champions of the world.
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 3: You knew it was going this way when we started.
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, three men of a certain age, it's going
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 3: to turn this way.
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 8: Star Wars-y. That's what we do. This episode is a
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 8: production of Movie Meltdown. Produced and edited by The Oddity Studios.
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 8: With opening music performed by The Empires. For more on
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 8: how to sponsor or support the show, email producer at moviemeltdown.com.
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 3: Talk hard!