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Episode 62: Droids, Droids, Droids! · Most Things Kenobi - A Star Wars Podcast

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  Hello there. It's most things Kenobi.
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  This is the podcast you looking for.
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  Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of most things Kenobi.
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  A podcast about Obi-Wan Kenobi and all things Star Wars.
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  I'm your host Lauren and I'm your host Leanne and this week,
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  we're going to be a little more cheerful than last week the last
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  week. Yeah, that's okay though.
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  Yeah, we off we go down, we go up, we go down, just like life,
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  just like Star Wars this week, we're gonna talk about Droids
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  which you and I both love. Very deeply, very deeply and
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  there are so many we know the main stars, right?
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  We know the main droids we're going to talk about them but I
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  want to hit some of the like the one-timers.
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  We saw them once maybe in one movie The or maybe the
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  underrepresented ones from Comics or TV shows that you
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  know, we saw and then they left. And I just want to talk about
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  all things droids because I honest to God, I wish I had one.
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  You can make them right? Oh yeah.
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  You can make them. Yeah, the Droid Depot, right?
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  Like it. Where's that is?
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  It is it in both, California and Florida?
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  I don't know. One of them assuming I've only
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  been to the Florida one but yeah, it's at its it galaxies
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  Edge. How much is it?
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  Could you do it like, or is hardly an affordable?
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  I don't know. It can't be any worse than
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  making the lightsaber, which was it was enough.
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  So, you know, Plenty, but worth it.
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  Totally worth it. Well, I just want a real Droid
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  like someone who is this faithful and loyal.
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  As most of the ones were about to talk about, you know.
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  Yeah. Does my cat count?
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  Yeah, kind of, would your cat, save your life or would he leave
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  you in a burning building? I think he would save my life.
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  Then I would say he counts because every time when I'm done
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  with my workout and I'm laying on the floor, gasping for life,
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  he comes over to checks on me. So I would like to think that
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  they're cawood. He's cat2 3 God.
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  I love that destroyed name. I don't know.
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  I just came up with that on the spot that's so clever.
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  I love that. It's officially it.
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  Yep. Okay.
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  I can't be the only cat2 three owners out there.
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  So What is the 23 from I just made up?
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  Because it rhymed oh well what's it works.
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  Perfectly holds off the time. It does.
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  I just like I said anyway this week is not so much a list but a
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  collection of Joy. Yes.
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  If you can't tell, we're already in a good mood about it.
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  Yes I would like how often I mean aside from those horrific
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  battle droids and the Tactical drawers that talk.
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  Like this and oh, I forgot about.
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  I love that one though. The Tactical Droid.
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  Well there's so dry like how they laugh hahahahaha?
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  Okay, so I guess we are starting off with what just that just
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  that one. Yeah.
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  And I like I'm stupid, the battle droids.
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  Are they make me laugh? When they're like, I guess I
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  just got promoted. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do know, is
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  that a Jedi? My God?
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  You're so good at that. Oh, it must be the long work
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  day. I just went through.
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  You relate to feel things. Uh yeah.
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  Do you feel like a Droid at your job sometimes sometimes
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  sometimes I feel like threepio when people just want to switch
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  me off and sometimes I feel like Chopper where I'm just waving my
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  arms around going blah blah blah blah, blah blah.
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  Like so it depends on the day. Oh my God.
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  All right, so how do you I was gonna say, how do you want to
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  start this? Do you want to talk about the
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  more famous ones or let's start. Let's start with the the oh
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  jeez. Oh gee, droids R2D2 and C3PO
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  right Classics their Legends. They are absolute Legends.
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  And in fact, I think we mentioned, or it's rumored or
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  it's a headcanon or maybe a blend of all of those that the
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  entire Star Wars saga is told from R2D2's perspective, because
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  he's never had his memory Drive wiped, right?
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  Which is just crazy to me, but awesome.
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  At the same time, he's seen everything, he's been in every
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  Movie, he's been in every TV show in some fashion animated or
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  otherwise glimpses references Etc.
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  And he's the most irritable and loving loyal companion.
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  One could ever want, he put up with the Skywalker's for how
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  fucking long His to Forever Generations.
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  He started with Padme and he's besties with a Sokka.
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  Everybody loves our to yeah. So I guess it's common
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  knowledge, right? That padmé, aren't you as a gift
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  to Anakin from Padme? Right?
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  Correct. Yeah.
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  And that's how he became vested in the Skywalker line.
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  He was gifted and forever. I stood there.
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  No, no Escape. Once he was there, he was there
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  forever. I mean he he was there with
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  Leia's death. Oh that's so sad.
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  I know it that actually made me cry when I realized he was there
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  with her. Like although honestly, I
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  wouldn't have chosen any other joy to be with me.
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  Yeah. It's crazy.
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  So sad, I know, but we love him. I love him.
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  R2 is always going to be my favorite.
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  Like my just my original can do no wrong type of droid.
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  Well, and he was designed that way right to look like a friend,
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  so to speak. Like George Lucas.
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  Wanted him to look like a little friend.
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  Yeah, who it was? It, it Liam Neeson had the story
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  about bringing his son to the set of Phantom Menace and His
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  little son, like went up and just hugged.
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  R2D2. Because he's like a little,
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  it's, it's true that I was in a store and at Disney and they
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  have people kind of in the shadows, directing a real are
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  to, like, a life-sized are two rolling around or what, you
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  know, it does though. Yeah.
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  High-pitched shrill. And he'll bump into you, and no
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  shitty bumped into my calves. And I went, oh, I'm sorry
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  because I thought it was a person and there he was and he
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  shrieked and went leave and he'd like, backed up.
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  That's awesome. Because like, the person Can see
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  the interactions happening, but you don't know where they're at,
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  or what they're doing, or whatever, because they're remote
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  controlling it. And the first thing I did was
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  Pat his Dome. Oh, that's so cute.
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  Like you can't help it, you can't not do that.
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  I know I got a picture with an R2 with my friend, Jenny would
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  wear at Celebration. There's a yeah and they have
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  them at Comic-Con. Two people are driving them
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  around. Yes, there's really amazing.
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  They're like the real thing. And on the flip side C-3PO, you
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  can't have our two without threepio, right?
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  Oh my God. They the original Odd Couple.
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  You original Odd. Couple in it together for Life.
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  Yeah. Hating each other.
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  Some days, loving each other. The other day.
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  Yep. That's saving each other's asses
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  or trying to. Yeah.
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  And it killed me. And I believe it was rise.
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  Of Skywalker, went threepio said R2 was his best friend.
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  The best friend he could ever have.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  That the whole sequence do when they were like making three
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  people translate the Sith. Yeah, they were like threatening
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  to wipe his memory. I was like, I swear to God,
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  you've killed, Luca pain and leave a.
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  Like, if you also kill chewy and the droids, I will freak A.
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  Can we can we just end with the killing of the original?
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  sing like Jesus, but it brings up a question that I want to ask
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  now, but have everyone including ourselves, Think about as we go
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  along. Do droids feel.
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  Hmm. What a question like do they
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  have emotional bonds or attachments?
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  And I think they do they seem to at least some of them seem to?
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  I feel like they were programmed at one time to be just, what is
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  it? Non-sentient.
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  Yeah, and then they somehow evolved as all things kind of do
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  they wake up, you know, and become somewhat.
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  At least conscience of their owner.
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  Yeah, I mean think of tala and knit be oh Ned be yeah, we're
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  going to talk about. Ned be he's on my list of must
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  speak of. Yeah.
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  Like they're they seem to have like a weirdly emotional bond
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  with each other. I mean you can program loyalty
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  right? But you can't program.
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  I don't know, maybe it's a trick of the hand when it comes to
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  filming, you know, to make them I mean, you're asking this
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  question is literally the basis for so many pieces of classic
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  Sci-fi. Yes, and that's why I'm asking
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  it. I'm just going to throw it out
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  there now as we go along and talk about these Droids because
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  a lot of them are Pals or Sidekicks or there with their
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  owners to the very Bitter End. Like you said, Ned be, who's one
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  of the newer drugs that we learned about from the Obi-Wan
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  series, and made me cry? Yeah.
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  Yeah, hmm. So just something to ponder as
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  we go along after the original. The oh geez.
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  Do where do you want to go from here?
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  Well, I mean there's always the mouse droid which is also in The
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  Originals the MSE six, otherwise known as the mouse droid, which
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  my best friend. Eric has one.
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  That's the one that's like a little box, right?
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  Yes, like yeah, the little car that drives around.
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  Yeah. No, you know, Nick Frost and
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  Simon Pegg are no, they're famous comedic Duo.
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  They've done like Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead and oh, the
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  Cornetto Trio, and they became friends because they were
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  sitting at a table like a long, long time ago, and Nick Frost
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  took like a salt shaker and like moves it across the table and
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  just made a mouse droid sound and Simon Pegg.
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  Knew what it was and they've been best friends ever since.
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  Oh my God, that sounds like something we would Oh do I know,
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  right? It's like such as Star Wars.
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  Friends think it's like just that tiny thing is like, no one
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  else at the table, do it was going on in those two were like
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  I know what you're doing. I love it.
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  I never knew that, it's so great.
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  It's sorry to Sidetrack us. But yeah, I just was like Star
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  Wars. Bringing people together is
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  always well, I guess if we're talking mouse droid We gotta
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  talk the gonk. Concord Troy's, it's just great.
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  They see you to do all the odd jobs around the Galaxy, get
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  their power Droid. So if they need a power bank,
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  they were the original cell phone charger me.
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  So, that's why they fuel ships, right?
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  Because it's, they're giving our they recharging power.
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  Is that what they're doing, because I've seen them like
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  reach Charge, or I mean like, fuel up ships?
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  It like a feeling basically? Yeah, that's my understanding.
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  And they just say, if you need energy or fuel, they got it.
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  They can also be turned into weapons.
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  I was going to say yes, to seem to be a time clock in the
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  Obi-Wan Kenobi, serious. I feel so bad for these things,
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  I love them. I mean, clearly, if you look at
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  the earliest Renditions, it's some dude with a trash can and
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  like rubber over his legs. Let's appreciate it for what it
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  is. Okay?
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  But they kept it and they kept this Droid in so many things
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  because of its Ridiculousness, I have to believe well and also
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  the sound gonk gonk from that same era so I'd read that.
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  I've always loved are the 21. Be surgical droids all the
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  surgical droids. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Love the look of them.
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  They have the microphone face. Okay, I was going to ask you or
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  is it the one that works on Luke in Empire Strikes Back?
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  Yes. Okay they are creepy.
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  They look like skulls. I know but I kind of like it.
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  It's like they also have like different attachments on their
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  hands so they can be a claw like a pink opal.
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  Yeah. And then they could be like,
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  needles and share, which is just terrifying.
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  But I kind of love it because they're Like snout for lack of a
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  better term is basically like an old 1940s microphone, which I
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  just love. Like the kind that they hold,
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  and yes, it's like I'm doing the motion but no one can see it.
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  Yeah, those are cool microphones.
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  So, I guess the one that treated Luke was a Defector from the
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  mpo. Well, that would make sense.
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  But we also see them in Clone Wars quite a bit.
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  We do that. I guess that's kind of when they
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  were invented during the Like era and they were carried on
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  forward from there and I guess there was one.
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  Yeah. Palpatine use them to help heal
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  Anakin after Mustafar. Yes.
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  But I also one of the reasons I really like them as their their
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  voices, especially the one in Empire Strikes Back.
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  It's just I love that they talk. I don't know.
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  I just something about them that they're kind of like humanoid
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  there. They're just Unto me.
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  I are like, stale professors but also a little bit compassionate
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  but like you said like a professor very like standoffish
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  keeps you? Yeah.
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  Very professional. But empathetic it was my find
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  them very interesting. They have better bedside manner
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  than a lot of medical professionals that I've
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  encountered shit to some of them about that.
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  Again the question do droids feel do they sense?
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  I'm going to keep bringing this up because this is a much larger
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  conversation. I feel like Yeah, it's an inch
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  like how much of it is programming?
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  Yeah. And even if it's AI, duplicating
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  or replicating behavior that they see and, you know, using an
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  algorithm to then project that outwardly is that really feeling
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  is that just emoting, which is different than feeling.
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  It's an interesting concept, it really is.
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  And you mentioned Defector droids.
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  Let's talk about a few of them. IG 11 from the Mandalorian who
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  was the babysitter Droid, remember him.
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  He was the reprogrammed like assassin Droid Droid.
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  Yeah. Programmed into a babysitter
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  isn't taika. Waititi the voice of that.
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  Yes he is which I think is brilliant.
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  I love that it's random and perfect and everything.
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  I That. Yeah, that was imagine having
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  that thing as your babysitter. Well, it's such an Unbecoming
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  exterior. Yeah, that's like a tin.
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  Can for ahead and weapons everywhere else.
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  I don't know. But he made me cry too because
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  he went down in the melted boat or whatever that was and season
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  one. Yeah, I forgot about that.
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  That was all Duty. He was programmed to do that,
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  and he did it. So the sense of honor is just
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  like, Ned be I don't know, I'm just trying to connect all of
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  these. There's there's something about
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  them, you know, there's something.
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  Well, how sad is it? That Mechanicals have more honor
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  than most humans. It's very sad and I'm not
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  talking about its add the happy episode.
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  Yeah. Okay if we're going to talk
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  about honor, one of my favorite droids ever is k 2.
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  As so another row Sir. Yeah, K2 is.
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  Yeah. Brilliant.
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  Brilliant And played to Perfection by Alan Tudyk.
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  Like yes. Holy crap.
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  It's so funny. It's so beautifully timed.
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  His whole design is so bizarre. That Droid they like are
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  hunched. They're so tall that they are
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  like, no, they have a hunchback almost their arms.
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  Come get like their fingertips, come down to their knees and
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  many backhands Cassian. Like Bitch.
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  And honestly though that like the weird shape lends to a lot
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  of really good physical humor, it does.
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  He's holding jyn erso size bag and he just drops it on the
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  ground. It was like mmmm.
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  And when he looks at her, like with the cock of the head and
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  those two little round eyes, like there's SAS in it, even
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  though it's just, you're exactly right.
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  The physicality of it lends to its humor when he, I think by
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  one of my favorite parts, With him is when he asked Cassie and
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  if he wants to know the probability of gin using the
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  blaster on him and he's like it's high, it's very high.
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  Would you like to know the probability of her using it
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  against you? It's high honestly.
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  He's got so many good lines about how they'll be blasted
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  into outer space and died. He's like, well not me.
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  I'm a Droid. I can see.
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  I can see. He's wonderful.
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  I loved him. I really hope.
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  We're gonna see him meet Cassie. And oh my God.
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  I I would like we need the return of K2.
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  We do. Yes because he again Is honored
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  like holding off the bad guys. Exact pricing himself that was
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  very depressing for me. I'm so sad, sad.
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  Yeah, it's I mean not that the rest of Rogue one was a trip
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  down, you know, yellow brick road.
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  But K2, I would love to see him again.
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  Even if we don't, I feel like he has left his Mark in the Star
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  Wars Star Wars World. He's one of my top, I'm tired.
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  He's top him and Chopper because they're cut up Civil Air and
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  Chopper is so good. He's the best voiced by none
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  other than Dave filoni even though he doesn't really say
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  anything he just grumbles which it's enough.
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  Yeah, it's enough and we love him.
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  Talk about Duty. Their honor loyalty to Hera was
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  there when terrible things happen.
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  I'm trying not to be spoilery. Yeah.
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  Was there from the beginning. There was no job too big that he
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  wouldn't do, he would be pissed and irritable about it but he
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  would still do it. That's what I like about.
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  Like the difference between him and R2.
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  R2 is sassy and obviously would talk a little shit.
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  I'm sure. Well, he's doing his job, but
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  Chopper was very outwardly. Like, this is a terrible idea,
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  you're a fucking moron. I'm gonna plug in and do it
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  anyway. But i'm yeah.
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  That's fucking bitch. That ho, yes.
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  You expect me to do that. You expect me to You that I
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  could hear him say like, I don't know it's just the way he says
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  things and the the way his tone kind of warbles a little bit.
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  Yes. I think it's good shows that
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  he's a little bit. Like what's the term?
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  Not unhinged, but like a little bit off his rocker.
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  You could you could say both of those things, maybe unhinged.
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  Yeah, I mean, he does have those little arms.
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  He's always wave. And around like he's very, very
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  emotional, like he's very he's very, he emotes in the best
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  Halligan. He said, he's as I'm sitting
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  here talking with my hands as a full-blooded Italian, I was
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  gonna say our fellow Italian here.
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  Who grumbles and uses his hands to talk.
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  I feel one with chopper. Our boy Chopper, I love him so
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  much. Well, I have to talk about bb-8
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  because Want to talk about the most anxious of all the Droids
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  that jittery little thing is very anxious, very unsure of
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  himself, especially after Han Solo, just called him ball.
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  I know. I love you.
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  I love you hon. Can you show some respect here?
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  I relate to Han so much. Yeah, yeah, yes.
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  There's a Piece of Han in all of us, right?
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  But I have to admit, I really, really like bb-8.
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  I like them because he's like a pet You know the way po treats
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  him hugs him rubs his head, you know him rub his belly, even rub
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  his belly like, that's so cute. Yeah, but you together he stays
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  by raised side this they all the droids tend their independent
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  thinkers but then if they are given a direct command, they
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  seem to always follow through with that which reminds me very
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  much of like a loyal dog. Hmm, you know.
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  Yeah. It's Free thinking sentient
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  beings to call them talk about dogs and yeah, yeah, right there
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  aren't necessarily sentient but we don't know that yet.
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  I'm still asking that they might be, I guess we'll find out soon
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  According to some scandal in the Google world right now.
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  But yeah, there's I don't know. There's something special about
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  droids your cheer kind of light up.
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  You get cheerful whenever you see them.
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  Like like what we were talking about, in real life, take
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  pictures with them, they're like, fixtures in Star Wars.
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  I, you can't think of Star Wars without droids, right?
• 23:51
  And I know we talked about, yeah.
• 23:53
  Probably skimmed over threepio and our to a little too much,
• 23:56
  but everybody knows about them. We're trying to give love to
• 23:59
  every single Droid that we love. That may not get there.
• 24:04
  Their day in the sun. Do you have any, like, much
• 24:09
  lesser known Droids that you love?
• 24:11
  Well, I Fell in love with one of the Droids on the freaking star,
• 24:16
  Cruiser, the Halcyon, the galactic star Cruiser hotel.
• 24:21
  And oh yeah she was an artificial intelligence female
• 24:25
  programmed, Droid called D30 9 and she was on our screen in the
• 24:31
  bedrooms and you could turn your screen on and talk to her and
• 24:35
  the more you talk to her, the more she got to know you and the
• 24:38
  more she would open up and she would give you clues about You
• 24:42
  know, your missions and stuff and she would ask you.
• 24:44
  So how was your day? You know, and she had this very
• 24:47
  oh, hello there. How are you?
• 24:51
  Hello and welcome aboard. You know, it was very fluid and
• 24:56
  like not computerized at all. She read us a bedtime story told
• 25:00
  us a bedtime story at night. That's adorable.
• 25:04
  It was and she made this big intro like she was going to talk
• 25:07
  about the savior of the Galaxy, the bravest hero.
• 25:11
  She's Ever known who led the Galaxy to success and and
• 25:15
  championed through the tyranny of the Empire, we were like, oh,
• 25:20
  she's going to talk about Luke and she said, R2D2 the most
• 25:25
  handsome, all droids and she like, went on to talk about the
• 25:29
  original trilogy, in the perspective of R2D2's, like
• 25:34
  point of view and it was, that's so clever.
• 25:36
  It was really clever and really cute.
• 25:38
  And I really, really loved her, I really did and so like I don't
• 25:42
  know that a lot of people know her but those who have stayed
• 25:44
  there and of course, my friends listening to this, who stayed
• 25:47
  there with us know, all about her D3.
• 25:50
  So, unless there's anything else, I'll let you get started.
• 25:53
  Exploring the ship Fest Journey. How about you?
• 25:57
  Is there any really lesser-known joy that you love?
• 26:01
  Yes, there's two. Okay.
• 26:03
  There's one because they're funny and one just because
• 26:06
  they're goofy. Okay, I love the techno-service
• 26:10
  Droid. Which is the Droid that CAD Bane
• 26:14
  has and he's voiced by Seth Green, where is he?
• 26:19
  This is square one, the square-headed one.
• 26:22
  Yes, he's got a square delicate, shoebox forehead.
• 26:25
  Yeah. Yes.
• 26:26
  Yes, Seth Green. Uh-huh!
• 26:32
  No. Your voice that had been really
• 26:35
  isn't very nice to that one. He's not but it was wonderful
• 26:40
  because it He calls them, he keeps calling him a butler.
• 26:43
  Droid oh he keeps service Droid Keepsake.
• 26:47
  I am a techno-service. Yeah, that was pretty good.
• 26:52
  I am a techno-service Droid not a butler.
• 26:55
  Joy, dammit total you are what I say.
• 26:58
  You get so offended but I also like the LEP service Droid,
• 27:05
  which all the bunnies. Demonic bunny rabbit, they do
• 27:09
  and they kind of like they are, they?
• 27:11
  Like waddle. Yes and if they talk they have
• 27:16
  that funny kind of robotic voice.
• 27:19
  Yeah I just they really entertain me.
• 27:22
  Yeah, they're cute and oddly shaped.
• 27:25
  I'm a little bit afraid of them. I'd like be afraid to have one
• 27:29
  because I'd be afraid it would turn on me.
• 27:31
  Oh, that's some point. Absolutely.
• 27:34
  But yeah, I think they're very cute and spooky.
• 27:37
  At the same time I have to talk about our girl.
• 27:41
  Earl L 337 from the Solo movie. Oh yeah.
• 27:47
  Because she's also the Millennium Falcon.
• 27:50
  She is mad at which is amazing to think about.
• 27:55
  Think about this for a second, her Essence lives in that ship,
• 28:00
  the ship that everyone hates. And yeah, we all adore it.
• 28:08
  She was Fiercely independent and and a kind of badass like how
• 28:14
  many droids go in? Like waving their fists, like,
• 28:17
  let's go, let's get him. Like she was the feminist of her
• 28:21
  time. Like, you know, the suffragette
• 28:25
  of her time in the Droid world, I loved her, I'd suffragette.
• 28:31
  So you she was she she made enhancements to herself all the
• 28:34
  time, right? So she was constantly I want to
• 28:37
  talk. I want to personify her first.
• 28:39
  I can because I think she's a great role model because yeah,
• 28:43
  you can make constant upgrades to yourself and better yourself
• 28:46
  at any time at any stage your life.
• 28:48
  Even if you're a mechanical Droid.
• 28:51
  Yes. And we don't mean that in like a
• 28:54
  physical sense. - it's, no, no. I mean, like better than
• 28:57
  yourself to be a better. Yeah, version of yourself.
• 29:01
  Yes. Yeah.
• 29:02
  It's never too late to, to work on your own well-being.
• 29:07
  Yeah, yeah. She was cool for that.
• 29:09
  And See her. And Lando think about it.
• 29:13
  How cool would it be to be a duo with Lando or my guess it's,
• 29:17
  yeah, Lando, be a duo with her L-3.
• 29:21
  I mean, they were, they seemed a little bit in love with each
• 29:24
  other differently. There was a fondness there, I
• 29:28
  don't know if it was reciprocated on both sides.
• 29:30
  Or I think there was just a fondness, he seemed pretty
• 29:34
  heartbroken. What?
• 29:35
  He thought she was destroyed. Well, I would The poll was about
• 29:40
  to lose his mind because re-injured bb-8 by the tree
• 29:43
  falling on him. Remember when the tree fell on
• 29:46
  him in rise to Skywalker who she's like?
• 29:49
  What happened to the ship? And he said, what happened to
• 29:51
  the Droid? And there are both arguing over
• 29:53
  what happened to their beloved mechanical things.
• 29:56
  You know. Like just just a parents.
• 29:58
  Overbearing parents, yes, helicopter parent.
• 30:01
  Yes. But like I think there was a
• 30:04
  true partnership camaraderie. Trust level of trust similar to
• 30:10
  Han and Chewie. Lando and L3, you know.
• 30:14
  Yeah, if we're going the symbolic route, but there's
• 30:17
  triple zero. Did you ever see Triple zero is
• 30:20
  from the comic book? That's dr.
• 30:22
  Aphra correct. Yes, but I don't remember she
• 30:26
  had a couple droids, right? Yeah.
• 30:28
  She hit Triple zero and what was the other one bt100 that's
• 30:33
  right. Yes, yes, yes.
• 30:35
  Yeah. They're basically like the evil
• 30:37
  version of R2D2 C-3PO depending on the day, you could say,
• 30:43
  threepio is the evil version of threepio like depending what is
• 30:49
  this? Droids are always talking about
• 30:50
  like torturing people and draining everyone's blood good
• 30:54
  lord. They're really like Lord dark.
• 30:57
  Yeah. They're very dark.
• 30:59
  There's the very special Droid right from Jedi Fallen order.
• 31:03
  Yes, BD 1, BD. And I haven't played the game
• 31:11
  yet because I was so afraid that something was going to happen to
• 31:15
  be. Because you're so damn, cute of
• 31:18
  the things I knew about them, so cute.
• 31:21
  But then I was reassured by our Patron and dear friend, Adam
• 31:24
  that nothing happens to him. So I can, I'm free to play the
• 31:27
  game now. So, He reminds me not that I
• 31:32
  played the game, but from what I understand, because he kind of
• 31:34
  can, like, float along with Cal, right?
• 31:36
  Yeah. Like Calcutta, he punches into
• 31:39
  himself and attaches to him and then his feet come out and they
• 31:42
  can along attached to his back. Yeah.
• 31:45
  Yeah. He kind of reminds me of the
• 31:49
  little fairy that takes care of link and the Legends of Zelda,
• 31:56
  the little fairy Yeah. It's called Navi.
• 32:01
  It's a little fairy. That pop some goes.
• 32:04
  Hey oh whenever then like a little message will come out on
• 32:09
  the screen at the bottom. It's kind of like Navi helps
• 32:12
  link whenever he comes up to something Navi will pop out and
• 32:17
  be like, hey don't you want to try this or that or you can I
• 32:20
  just ask a question? I see.
• 32:22
  Well like I said I haven't played the game yet but he is BD
• 32:26
  as an exploration. Droid It's so cute.
• 32:30
  Oh my God! And a very emotionally
• 32:34
  expressive Droid. From what I dunno and a very
• 32:38
  best bud, a very best bud, again.
• 32:42
  Again the sentient thing that I'm trying to figure out, is it
• 32:47
  programming, or is it just called love?
• 32:52
  You know, because BD kind of helps castus from what I
• 32:56
  understand. He scan things.
• 32:59
  Research is things. He does all the like background
• 33:02
  work to help. Catch this out.
• 33:03
  Of course, this isn't a game so that would make sense to me.
• 33:05
  My gamer brain is thinking, okay, that would, that would
• 33:07
  help if you have a Droid that helps ya help you on your
• 33:10
  journey in the game, but it's no different than if Anakin was on
• 33:15
  a mission and our to came along and did the exact same thing.
• 33:20
  So droids are are immeasurably helpful.
• 33:24
  To everyone who has them and BDC just seems like the cutest
• 33:27
  version of that and what their Beady wasn't there.
• 33:32
  A b d model in the Mandalorian or a Boba Fett at the mechanics.
• 33:37
  You know, what's her name Strangers, With Candy?
• 33:39
  What's the actress's name? Who plays the mechanic, who
• 33:43
  slept with a one of the jaw with a Jawa didn't was there?
• 33:49
  Not a bdd version Droid in her? Mechanics office or whatever.
• 33:55
  I could swear. It was cute and it tapped its
• 33:57
  feet when it got excited I feel like you're right but I'm not
• 34:02
  100% sure how the actress is Amy Sedaris Sedaris.
• 34:05
  That's correct. Yeah, I was going to say a me
• 34:07
  something. But I didn't.
• 34:08
  I couldn't remember her last name.
• 34:10
  Shame on me. I know.
• 34:12
  Well, I couldn't remember. He's a damn ledge.
• 34:14
  It's okay. She's fantastic.
• 34:16
  Yeah. Pelle motto, Pelle, Pelle.
• 34:20
  I don't know how to say? Yeah.
• 34:20
  I don't know how to say this. Why didn't say?
• 34:23
  Yeah, I'm not sure. Do she has the Droids that?
• 34:27
  Are God. I'll never remember what they're
• 34:30
  called. They're the kind that are in the
• 34:32
  Clone Wars. Yes, actually.
• 34:34
  It's the kind from Phantom Menace, where, Anakin tells Jar
• 34:40
  jar, you bought them in the nose and that's when they close.
• 34:44
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 34:45
  And they they kind of Rome dare, I say in packs and then they
• 34:49
  help fix things. I can't remember what that Droid
• 34:52
  is called. It looks like it's wearing a
• 34:54
  little Sun Bonnet, and has the big Iris in the front.
• 34:59
  Gosh, I'll never remember it. Now, if someone can remember it,
• 35:01
  let me know because it's going to drive me.
• 35:04
  Insane. Oh look right now the right
• 35:06
  here. Addie, um, series a dumb series
• 35:12
  is it literally called a dumb. So they're literally a pit Droid
• 35:17
  a dumb series pit. Droid D.
• 35:22
  Um, for ND, that's so sad. They're not dumb.
• 35:29
  We'll just say pitch, right? That makes sense because they're
• 35:32
  in like a pig as they work on ships.
• 35:34
  Yeah, they're mechanics. Kind of interesting.
• 35:37
  Well, one more small Droid if I may that I feel doesn't get
• 35:41
  enough love but should is little Deo.
• 35:45
  From the rise of Skywalker, the little green and white one who
• 35:49
  told rate. No, thank you.
• 35:50
  No. Thank you.
• 35:51
  Hello. He's like abused or something.
• 35:58
  Gasps. There's was afraid terribly.
• 36:01
  Sad. Yeah.
• 36:02
  And Ray of course with her Everlasting kindness, took him
• 36:07
  along and Dio befriended bb-8, and they're like the new Duo and
• 36:16
  it had Cannon. They're the new Duo going
• 36:18
  forward with Ray. Yeah, you know.
• 36:21
  Are you a super helpful and small and can fit in places and
• 36:24
  he's just polite? No, thank you.
• 36:26
  The good manners was adorable but also kind of sad very
• 36:30
  heartbreaking. So yeah, it was a polite way to
• 36:33
  protect itself. Yeah.
• 36:36
  So again, as we approach the end of this episode, have you all
• 36:42
  been thinking about my question because I have I think droids
• 36:47
  can feel. I think they can sense, not
• 36:50
  just, you know, from their programming.
• 36:53
  But I think when they find a good companion or master or
• 36:58
  whatever the term is that they will form a bond that goes
• 37:02
  beyond programming. Yeah, that's sweet.
• 37:07
  And that's why I love droids. Okay, turning it over to you
• 37:23
  this week. The question is pretty obvious.
• 37:25
  Who is your favorite Droid? We just got to know, and why do
• 37:31
  you think they have feelings? Do they feel?
• 37:33
  I gotta know that question, but just keep it simple.
• 37:37
  Who's your favorite Droid and why?
• 37:40
  All right. Next week, we are going to dive
• 37:43
  into some more Obi-Wan stuff. We're gonna discuss.
• 37:46
  OB teen aubergine the ship between 0 B1 and stettin Kris.
• 37:52
  We're going to just kind of dive into it, talk about it, and I
• 37:55
  get into some more of the details.
• 37:57
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• 38:00
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• 38:02
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