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Fictional Women Around the World: Morgan Elsbeth · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny. I'm welcome to stuff I never
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  Speaker 1: told you production of iHeartRadio, and yes you heard correctly.
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  Speaker 1: Today I am co hostless. Samantha is out of town unexpectedly,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll be back soon. I'm sad she's gonna miss
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  Speaker 1: this one, but alas, that is how the cookie crumbled
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  Speaker 1: in this case. But yes, we are back with another
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  Speaker 1: sub sub sub sub sub segment of fictional women around
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  Speaker 1: the world, and today we are talking about Morgan Elsbeth,
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  Speaker 1: So that means there's gonna be spoilers for the Mandalorian
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  Speaker 1: season two, Ahsoka, the TV series, and Tales of the
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  Speaker 1: Empire because we are still in my Star Wars mon
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  Speaker 1: I know I can make it about Star Wars anytime,
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  Speaker 1: but that is who I chose for this month. Morgan
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  Speaker 1: Elsbeth is a force sensitive woman and a night sister
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  Speaker 1: from the planet Dathamir. In the most basic of terms,
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  Speaker 1: night sisters are like space witches, which I know doesn't
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  Speaker 1: really help because some people call Jedi wizards, and wizard
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  Speaker 1: is also like a term of oh that's cool, that's wizard.
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  Speaker 1: In the Star Wars universe, it can get confusing, so
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  Speaker 1: condensing a lot. She was born on the planet Dathamir
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  Speaker 1: to native witches to that planet, who were later all
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  Speaker 1: but wiped out by the Separatist in the Clone Wars
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  Speaker 1: because of some actions they'd taken against Count Dooku, who
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  Speaker 1: was played by Christopher Lee and was also kind of
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  Speaker 1: a hidden not really a Sith lord. But that's how
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  Speaker 1: we're just going to say it right now, because the
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  Speaker 1: complicated the thing is a lot of force users. We
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  Speaker 1: always say like Jedi or Sith, but there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of in between that. But anyway, he was, he was
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  Speaker 1: working on what we'll call the dark side. Elsbeth survived,
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  Speaker 1: believing herself to be the last of her kind. She
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  Speaker 1: was not, but she did not know that another attack
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  Speaker 1: left many of the clan who had taken her in dead,
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  Speaker 1: and the leader warned of Elsbeth's dark intentions before leaving
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  Speaker 1: Elsbeth alone in the forest. And I guess some of
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  Speaker 1: it was sort of her fault. I don't, I haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen Tales of the Empire yet. I got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of Star Wars media to catch up on, I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you that. But it was implied from what I was
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  Speaker 1: reading that she had sort of paved her own way
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  Speaker 1: to this outcome. She was a major ally of Grand
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  Speaker 1: Amerald Throne, who, if you don't know, emerged after the
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  Speaker 1: death of the Emperor and the original trilogy to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that the Empire continued. He's the blue guy. There's
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  Speaker 1: more than one blue guy, but probably the one you
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  Speaker 1: think of that's Thron. He's been in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the animated shows and was in the live action of
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  Speaker 1: Soca Elsbeth was also involved in the building up of
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  Speaker 1: the Imperial Navy that helped the Empire retain control for
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  Speaker 1: many years. This involved pundering and stealing natural resources of planets.
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  Speaker 1: It's also kind of complicated, but the Clone Wars were
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  Speaker 1: sort of they were orchestraed by the Empire, so both sides.
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  Speaker 1: The Emperor was playing I guess he was manipulating so
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  Speaker 1: the separatists that she's so angry with she ultimately sort
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  Speaker 1: of joined. Do you know how it goes? Once the
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  Speaker 1: Empire fell, she sought out Throng, hoping that he not
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  Speaker 1: only would restore the Empire but her own deathmory culture.
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  Speaker 1: She wanted to restore that. During New Republic times, which
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  Speaker 1: is what rose up after the Empire, the democratic government,
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  Speaker 1: she ruthlessly acted as a magistrate on the planet Corvas.
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  Speaker 1: She designed a new tie Fighter, which is the imperial
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  Speaker 1: type of X Wing. If any of this lingo makes
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  Speaker 1: sense to people who aren't so in depth into the
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  Speaker 1: Star Wars world like me. She designed a new one
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  Speaker 1: based on their resources that they had on Corvis, promising
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  Speaker 1: the people that they would benefit, but her design was
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  Speaker 1: rejected for being too expensive. The people of Corvis revolted
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  Speaker 1: and she deployed her assassin droid to take care of
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing. Tron later showed interest in her design
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  Speaker 1: her tie Fighter when he asked her what it was
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  Speaker 1: that she wanted, she claimed it was the power the
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  Speaker 1: Empire could give her to Ae Dathamir and the Night Sisters.
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  Speaker 1: On top of that, she'd also been getting messages or
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  Speaker 1: visions from the Great Mothers of Dathamir. She lied to
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  Speaker 1: the people of Corvus about the collapse of the Empire
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  Speaker 1: so that they would continue to work. An attempt at
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  Speaker 1: diplomacy resulted in Elsbeth blowing up the diplomat ship and
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  Speaker 1: lighting the nearby forest on fire. She described herself as
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  Speaker 1: a survivor and she was really hell bent on revenge.
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  Speaker 1: This is where the Mandalorian aka Din Djarren came in.
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  Speaker 1: He was looking for a Jedi to return Grogu slash
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  Speaker 1: Baby Yoda to his kind because baby Yoda is for
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  Speaker 1: sensitive and Elsbeth offered him a spear made of pure
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  Speaker 1: bestcar which is a metal of almost religious importance to
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  Speaker 1: Mandalorians that the Empire also stole to him if he
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  Speaker 1: killed Ahsoka Tano, who was a former Jedi who was
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  Speaker 1: on the planet looking for more information about Thron. But Ahsoka,
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  Speaker 1: in her first live action debut that was a very
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  Speaker 1: big one, made a lot of waves on the internet,
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  Speaker 1: offers to join forces with him, and together they defeat
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  Speaker 1: Elsbeth and her forces and then gets the spear. Ahsoka
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  Speaker 1: pushed Elsbeth to reveal Thron's location, but Elsbeth refused and
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  Speaker 1: was arrested for her imperial sympathies. Much later, Ahsoka was
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  Speaker 1: able to get Elsbeth to divulge Thron's location on a
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  Speaker 1: star map. With elsbeth resources, a ring capable of multi
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  Speaker 1: galaxy travel had been constructed, which, by the way, was
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  Speaker 1: a big There wasn't supposed to be another galaxy. That
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  Speaker 1: was one of George Lucas's rules, but they broke it here. However,
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  Speaker 1: Elsbeth was freed a little later and resumed her request
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  Speaker 1: to rejoin Thron. She even was able to make the
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  Speaker 1: journey to the Far Galaxy where Thron was. He had
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  Speaker 1: been kind of banished. There, she reunited with Thron and
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  Speaker 1: put together a plan to kill the Jedi Ezra Bridger,
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  Speaker 1: who was also stuck in this far Galaxy and in
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  Speaker 1: this whole thing. She was granted some powers and a
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  Speaker 1: pretty fancy weapon in order to help Thron escape. She
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  Speaker 1: engaged with Ahsoka, destroying one of Ahsoka's lightsabers, because Ahsoka
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  Speaker 1: famously has two lightsabers. But Ahsoka defeated and killed her,
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  Speaker 1: but her stalling, Elsbeth stalling allowed Thron to escape, which
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  Speaker 1: was what I mean. She didn't mean to die, but
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  Speaker 1: that was what she was trying to do, was give
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  Speaker 1: him time to escape. Thron told the Great Mothers who
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  Speaker 1: escaped with him. Elsbeth quote has done what was required,
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  Speaker 1: and so that's where her story is right now. But
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  Speaker 1: you never know in Star Wars universe. But that brings
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  Speaker 1: us to the actress who plays this character in live action,
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  Speaker 1: Diana Lee in Asanto, whose father was a martial artist
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  Speaker 1: and Bruce Lee was her godfather, so she grew up
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by and learning martial arts. She's been involved in
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of projects, and she's been very open about
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  Speaker 1: her experience of being mixed race and not white enough,
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  Speaker 1: or not Asian enough, or not Spanish enough, all of
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. And she's also been open about agism in Hollywood,
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  Speaker 1: because when she got cast in The Mandalorian, she essentially
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  Speaker 1: thought she was being crank because her time was up.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently about half the stunt team had trained underneath her father,
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  Speaker 1: and the creators of The Mandalorian really wanted her specifically,
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  Speaker 1: like they had her in mind. She does have a
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  Speaker 1: really fun story about seeing a new Hope in theaters
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  Speaker 1: with her father and him being so into the lightsaber
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  Speaker 1: fight that he purchased those plastic extendable lightsabers for them
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  Speaker 1: to practice with, and she ultimately did get to have one.
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  Speaker 1: In a live action Star Wars show, she has a
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  Speaker 1: kind of a lightsaber fight with that's okod It's yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's so cool. I loved that so much. I think
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  Speaker 1: I read somewhere that the name is based on Merlin
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  Speaker 1: and a character from Merlin, but I couldn't. I didn't,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't able to verify, but let me know listeners
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