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Issue 379: Galactic Reviews · Aggressive Negotiations: A Star Wars Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Note Palty.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, this is Nick and astas you story editor on
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  Speaker 2: Star Wars, The Clone Wars and Star Wars bad Batch,
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  Speaker 2: and you are listening to Aggressive Negotiations.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Aggressive Negotiations, a special quick hit episode that
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  Speaker 1: we are going to bring to you as we start
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  Speaker 1: cooking all of the food for Thanksgungan, which is going
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  Speaker 1: to be coming to you next week. We can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to get that episode to you. But there was just
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  Speaker 1: one question I wanted to ask Matt here on Aggressive Negotiations.
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  Speaker 1: I'm of course John Mills. Please that you're here with us.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to our home, our virtual home here in the
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  Speaker 1: Star Wars Galaxy, where we explore everything from life day
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  Speaker 1: to whatever they celebrate on Correllia and Jedi Master Matthew Rushing,
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  Speaker 1: It's a joy to have you here the week before
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Gungan. How are you doing tonight?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great, man, And I'm kind of excited because
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  Speaker 3: I always love those episodes where you're like, hey, I
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  Speaker 3: got a question for you, and I'm like, uh, okay, sure,
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  Speaker 3: And so I don't know what we're going to be
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  Speaker 3: talking about tonight, but I bet it's going to be awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I hope so. But I can also tell you
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  Speaker 1: that my question is, why aren't people going out there
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  Speaker 1: and giving us a rating and review over on Apple Podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: Please go ahead and do that.
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  Speaker 3: That's an excellent question.
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  Speaker 1: Interact with the show at the Jedi Masters on x
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  Speaker 1: and go on over and find the nerd party on
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  Speaker 1: Instagram and Facebook. And so here's the question for tonight,
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  Speaker 1: because I was thinking about this every place I'm going nowadays.
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  Speaker 1: Hands me a card, scan this QR code, give us
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  Speaker 1: a rating, scan this QR code, give us a rating.
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  Speaker 1: We ask for ratings and all of those sorts of
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  Speaker 1: things in the Star Wars Galaxy? How impossible would it
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  Speaker 1: be to get reliable online ratings for establishments given the
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  Speaker 1: wide ranging nature of the galaxy. Is it possible that
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  Speaker 1: the Star Wars Galaxy is proof that, no matter what,
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  Speaker 1: eventually you get back to the point where you can
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  Speaker 1: only rely on word of mouth from people you know personally.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is a great question, and I like it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad you brought it up, because you know, I
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  Speaker 3: was thinking about just as a thought process right as
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  Speaker 3: you asked this, Dex Diner, what do the reviews look
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  Speaker 3: like for Dex's diner five stars, and yeah, and how
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  Speaker 3: do people know how to go there? Right? And in
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  Speaker 3: a place? And I think this is the kind of
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  Speaker 3: the question that you're getting it in some ways.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: It's like in a place as large as Corriscant, like
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  Speaker 3: how does a place like that exist and stay in business? Right?
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  Speaker 3: And so is there you know coroscont yelp uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: is there is there something like that that that that
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  Speaker 3: gets people interested in places? Is there like a Google reviews?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. But so I want to postulate that
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  Speaker 3: every planet, you know, you have the hollow net. So
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  Speaker 3: I postulate that every planet has its own section of
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  Speaker 3: the hollownt that's devoted specifically to that place where these
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  Speaker 3: type of things can happen. Right, And so.
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  Speaker 1: You know you have.
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  Speaker 3: Corossont, right, And for Coursont, maybe there's even sectors of
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  Speaker 3: Coroissant because it's so big, Right, So when you visit
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  Speaker 3: that section of Corossont, you go to that specific section
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  Speaker 3: of the hollow net that's devoted specifically to that, and
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  Speaker 3: you could they look up restaurants and if you're like
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  Speaker 3: looking for a restaurant, it would let you know what
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  Speaker 3: restaurants were in that area, what type of food that
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  Speaker 3: they served, would they serve your type of species that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, because not every species could eat everywhere, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think. And then people can also, just like they
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  Speaker 3: do now, they leave writings, and you know, that can
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  Speaker 3: be a good thing or it could be a really
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  Speaker 3: bad thing.
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  Speaker 1: So what you're saying to me is that you envision
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  Speaker 1: a holownet. You know, we're using that in place of
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  Speaker 1: Internet at this point wherein the geo targeting, the geolocation
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  Speaker 1: is such that you don't access reviews for Aldron while
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  Speaker 1: you're on coorussant. You go to Aldron, you hook up
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  Speaker 1: to that subnet, and then there's basically truly proving that
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  Speaker 1: it's a horrific galaxy, like a reddit for each planet
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  Speaker 1: where people give personal recommendations and ask questions, which to
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  Speaker 1: me is truly a horror beyond worse.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I guess I'm not thinking specifically that it's
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  Speaker 3: a reddit, right, because I think Reddit is. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: slightly creepy, and I don't know if we really want
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  Speaker 3: to go there. You know, we don't want this to
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  Speaker 3: end up as a four Chan either, it's even worse.
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  Speaker 3: And so what we need this to feel like is
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  Speaker 3: basically is just you know that when you go to
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  Speaker 3: each planet, it recognizes where you are, and then the
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  Speaker 3: hollow net specifically allows you It already filters for just
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  Speaker 3: the search parameters for that planet, right, and then you
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  Speaker 3: could put in other other parameters, like you know, if
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  Speaker 3: you're looking for collectibles on course on you know, Lucien's
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  Speaker 3: shop would show up, you know, and it would let
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  Speaker 3: you know if you've got a lot of and then
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  Speaker 3: the amount of dollar signs or whatever you know credits
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  Speaker 3: because it wouldn't be dollar signs whatever the credit you know,
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  Speaker 3: icon iconography would be. It would like be like twelve
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  Speaker 3: of those because that place is probably so expensive.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm saying that there would be such a volume
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  Speaker 1: of it, and that stuff we all know, like let's
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  Speaker 1: bring it back to earth for a second, with Amazon,
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  Speaker 1: with Google reviews, with all of these reviews that we encounter,
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you that the generation behind us and
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  Speaker 1: behind that generation are so skeptical because they're so aware
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  Speaker 1: of how manipulated all of that stuff is and people
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  Speaker 1: to manipulate the hell out of it that I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: that it would then turn into a thing where nobody
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  Speaker 1: would trust what is on this system that you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: We're sure, you know, use precise location. I'll serve up
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  Speaker 1: recommendations based on where you are sure. But that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be something that most people, I think would have
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  Speaker 1: tuned out and said I can't trust that to begin with.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's why I'm saying, like it would be
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  Speaker 1: something where you might be it would still exist, but
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  Speaker 1: people would not put a lot of value in the
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  Speaker 1: star ratings. So to get to your point about Dex's Diner,
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  Speaker 1: Dex's Diner is alive because people go out and evangelize
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  Speaker 1: for it. They say, this place is great, this place
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  Speaker 1: is great, this place is great. Also, probably Dex is
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  Speaker 1: dealing an info based on his interaction with Obi Wan,
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  Speaker 1: probably supplants his income. But you know, like it's that
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  Speaker 1: sort of thing. I'm just I'm just seeing that the
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  Speaker 1: Star Wars Galaxy really seems to tap into the idea
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  Speaker 1: of what we might be hitting with where the worthwhile
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  Speaker 1: data that we're getting out of these services. We're all
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  Speaker 1: getting back to the point where it's like, I can't
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  Speaker 1: trust that to begin with. So I'm going to go
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  Speaker 1: talk to somebody and say where should I go?
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  Speaker 3: What I would push back just a little bit on that.
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  Speaker 3: And the reason is is is because I think one
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  Speaker 3: of the things that it's it's pretty clear, uh, in
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  Speaker 3: the in the Star Wars universe, is that things are
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  Speaker 3: a lot more analog than they are here in the
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  Speaker 3: world we live in the where we inhabit. And I
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  Speaker 3: maybe just maybe, uh, you know, we haven't quite gotten
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  Speaker 3: there just yet with with the Star Wars universe in
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  Speaker 3: the sense that maybe they've found a way with their
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  Speaker 3: especially you know, I think like an imperial technology, right
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  Speaker 3: they're they're they're cutting out all the the actual crap
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  Speaker 3: reviews or whatnot, and so I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know, I definitely that's never going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: So I definitely picture that being uh, the uh, the
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  Speaker 3: Empire right like that, that they would definitely be doing
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  Speaker 3: that because you know, they don't. I don't want people,
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  Speaker 3: you know, actually giving away what's happening.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't know, man, Like I think it really truly is
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  Speaker 3: an incredibly interesting question because you think about you know,
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  Speaker 3: like and this is where you know, I think Star Wars,
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  Speaker 3: like Star Trek kind of deals with every planet as
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  Speaker 3: a homogenized thing in many ways, and you know, all
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  Speaker 3: people from Naboo are the same, you know, and you
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  Speaker 3: know you've got your Gungans and then you have your
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  Speaker 3: humanoids there, but they're really not a lot different, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in in in their groups, they're pretty much all the same.
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  Speaker 3: And and yet we know how variety the Star Wars
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  Speaker 3: universe is, and so you know they there has to
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  Speaker 3: be you know, there has to be something like this
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  Speaker 3: because there is so much to this galaxy, right, so
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  Speaker 3: you would it feels like that it's a must to
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  Speaker 3: be able to have some sort of system that helps
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  Speaker 3: you find things, especially when we're talking about planets as
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  Speaker 3: big as again Courus on right.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I think I guess the distinction, I'm I agree
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  Speaker 1: with you on that. I'm I'm thinking of it more
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  Speaker 1: more focused in terms of like the reviews, that people
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't trust them anymore, Like it would have hit a
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  Speaker 1: point where people would know how manipulated they were. So
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe there's a middle ground sort of here
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  Speaker 1: where we're talking past each other in the sense that
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  Speaker 1: like I think we're both saying the same thing where
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I get it. Yeah, absolutely, you'd have to
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  Speaker 1: go look it up. But then you see something that
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  Speaker 1: have like four and a half stars, but it's like
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  Speaker 1: or even lower, because I would get back to an
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  Speaker 1: experience that my wife and I had on vacation where
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  Speaker 1: we looked up a place and it had a one
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  Speaker 1: star roof. Somebody had given it a couple of one
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  Speaker 1: star reviews, but overall it was pretty healthy, and we
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  Speaker 1: actually dug into the one star reviews and I actually
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  Speaker 1: started laughing because those people that just had personal beef
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  Speaker 1: because their kid was being a jerk and the manager
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  Speaker 1: came over and was like, Hey, could you calm your
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  Speaker 1: kid down? And the guy going on this huge screen
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  Speaker 1: where he's like, my grandchildren behave perfectly and he had
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  Speaker 1: no right to come over. He's like, I don't know, grandpa,
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  Speaker 1: And so win a point in some of the best
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  Speaker 1: Greek food we've ever had. So you know, there you go, Mary,
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you got to dig a little bit. But but
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  Speaker 1: if people want to dig even more into this, since
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  Speaker 1: this is a quick hit episode before Thanksgungan, where can
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  Speaker 1: they find you online?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, please find me all over social media under the
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  Speaker 3: name Matt Rushing zero two. Of course here on the
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  Speaker 3: network you'll find me doing an outpost, which is a
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  Speaker 3: completed show with Drea Kaufman as we talked about every
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  Speaker 3: single chapter the Harry Potter series, one chapter at time.
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  Speaker 3: You also find me over on the TFM Network with
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of shows talking about all of the things
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  Speaker 3: we love, especially with the six or two Club, where
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  Speaker 3: we're touching on every franchise out there pretty much, plus
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  Speaker 3: a lot of Star Trek talk. So I hope you'll
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  Speaker 3: join us there. But John, if people wanted to catch
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  Speaker 3: up with you, where would they find you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you would look me up on our own version
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  Speaker 1: of the Halo Net under the name Castle Junkie, on
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  Speaker 1: your social network of choice. I might be on it,
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  Speaker 1: I might not, but that's where you'll find me if
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  Speaker 1: I am. And you can find me here on the network,
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  Speaker 1: co hosting a show called house Lights with Darren Moser
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  Speaker 1: and Tristan Raddel, where we look at the work of
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  Speaker 1: directors through their careers and through time and all of
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  Speaker 1: those sorts of things, and we have a jolly good laugh.
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  Speaker 1: But oh, Master Rushing, I've left my roasted gungan in
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  Speaker 1: the oven a bit too long. I got to run
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  Speaker 1: back to the temple. So I think it's time to
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  Speaker 1: close these negotiations, John, negotiations are closed.
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  Speaker 2: Join the Revolution, join the Nerd Party,