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Star Wars The High Republic Middle Grade Analysis and Ranking CCXCIV · Star Wars Alliance

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  Speaker 1: The Force will be with you always. Hello and welcome
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  Speaker 1: back to another episode of Star Wars Alliance. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: sound horrible for this episode. I do not have my
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  Speaker 1: microphone or my camera, but I will say hopefully all
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  Speaker 1: of that.
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  Speaker 2: Will change by next week.
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  Speaker 1: But I am here of course, your host Clay and
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  Speaker 1: with the light always is Katie, Katie, how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I love it. I tried.
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  Speaker 1: My camera is so crap that, uh, the background feature
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  Speaker 1: can't read that I'm like in a room, so it
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  Speaker 1: can't even change my background. It can't change between, it
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  Speaker 1: can't change between, like I can't tell that. Yeah, So
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  Speaker 1: so uh, I was like, oh, I guess I'm just
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  Speaker 1: going to be just like this is with this crappy camera.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me. Uh but guys, uh, we are here today.
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  Speaker 1: If you see of this episode, this is the High
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  Speaker 1: Republic Middle Grade analysis and ranking. The idea behind all
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  Speaker 1: of this was it started out as, hey, let's do
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  Speaker 1: a ranking of the High Republic. We'll do the phase
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  Speaker 1: all of phase one, then we'll do phase two, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll do phase three. So that way because at the
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  Speaker 1: very end of the High Republic initiative, we did kind
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  Speaker 1: of talk about like our favorites, how it all ended,
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  Speaker 1: and everything else, but we like, throughout the course of
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  Speaker 1: reading the phrase, we did not talk about rankings. So
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  Speaker 1: this time around, Katie was like, Hey, instead of doing
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  Speaker 1: it phase by phase, let's do it reading grade by
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  Speaker 1: reading grade. And the reason why we're doing this is
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  Speaker 1: to now see if there is a coherent story for
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  Speaker 1: each reading level, because not everyone is going to be
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  Speaker 1: like us. Not everyone is going to say, hey, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to read all of.
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  Speaker 2: The High Republic.
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  Speaker 1: There's gonna be people who are like, hey, they just
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  Speaker 1: see a High Republic book on the shelf, pick it
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  Speaker 1: up and start reading right, or somebody's like, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I started reading this through Star Wars story It starts
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  Speaker 1: with and then it's the Light of the Jedi, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So we decided to go reading level, and it was yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I thought when we said reading level, I thought we
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  Speaker 1: were doing reading level by the phase, but you.
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  Speaker 3: Wanted to rank them all and so I was like,
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  Speaker 3: middle grade a legit ranking too.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, So this the way we're going to do it
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  Speaker 1: today is an actual legitmate for reading levels, of course,
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  Speaker 1: but my initial thought was, oh, we'll do it by phase.
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  Speaker 2: We'll do the reading levels. It'll be easy.
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  Speaker 1: That's three books that I have to read before recording.
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  Speaker 1: That's super simple. And then Katie sends me a screenshot
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  Speaker 1: last week and she's like.
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  Speaker 2: I'm falling behind.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, And I see a screenshot of the I'm like, wait,
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  Speaker 1: wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, why
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  Speaker 1: are you reading that?
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  Speaker 2: I thought we're only gonna do this and then she
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  Speaker 2: explains to me, and I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Like, oh, okay, well, time this speed run because at
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  Speaker 1: that point I was.
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  Speaker 2: Only uh literally the last two chapters of which is
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  Speaker 2: the second book.
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  Speaker 1: And she's like, great, sure we can pivot, we can
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  Speaker 1: do something else with No.
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  Speaker 2: No, we're good, We're good. You know, We're totally okay.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta do a lot of laundry.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I got chords to dude, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: gonna be listening to stuff all day. It's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: totally funny. I got to the end of Phase two.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't read any of Phase three, but I did
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  Speaker 1: tell Katie right before we started recording that because of
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  Speaker 1: the fact that Phase three was so recent A La
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  Speaker 1: last year, I was able to retain a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the stuff that happened in the three books.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm poor transparencies. I also did not finish, but
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  Speaker 3: I got through Beware the Nameless, and I remember a
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  Speaker 3: good chunk of a Valiant Valiant refreshed my brain with
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  Speaker 3: my Manner's review of a Valiant Valve.
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  Speaker 2: So okay, yeah, yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 3: Because he delves into more spoiler side of things. And
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  Speaker 3: Wikipedia did not have a plat summary.
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  Speaker 2: So that makes that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: So we are going to be talking about these three
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  Speaker 1: or five, six, seven, eight books. There's eight books in all.
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  Speaker 1: Phase two is the only phase that did not have
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  Speaker 1: three books.
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  Speaker 2: It only had two.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the talking points was that Katie brought
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  Speaker 1: up in this discussion of like, well, oh yes, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna one one piece of news and I'm so mad.
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  Speaker 1: Uh this is this is the PC Alliance effect, guys,
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  Speaker 1: because every single time they have like a trailer or news,
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  Speaker 1: it's always like, hey, it's gonna happen the day after
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  Speaker 1: they were It finally happened to us, and it's happened
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  Speaker 1: to us before in the past, but this one I'm
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  Speaker 1: a little disappointed about.
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  Speaker 2: Guys.
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  Speaker 1: We are getting the Ninth Jedi series trailer tomorrow, So
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  Speaker 1: by the time you are listening to this on your
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  Speaker 1: podcast of choice, I'll Catcher sorry choice, you could probably
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  Speaker 1: already watch it. It's gonna be debuting on Thursday, July second.
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  Speaker 2: I'm super excited about this.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, we have talked in Agnolgia about how we
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  Speaker 1: are so excited about the series because this is finally
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  Speaker 1: something that is outside of the realm of the Skywalker saga.
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  Speaker 1: We really enjoyed the last Ronan. Yeah, yeah, it was
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  Speaker 1: just Ronan, That's right. It was Ronan, which jove deeper
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  Speaker 1: into that story of visions and the world that it
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  Speaker 1: built was really really cool, really fun, very supernatural. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and we really enjoyed it. Now we get to dive
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  Speaker 1: into another one of those, of course, being the Ninth Jedi.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm just I'm so excited genuinely because we have
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  Speaker 1: been I wouldn't say that we've been uh what's like
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  Speaker 1: the well is running dry, but I feel.
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  Speaker 2: Like I feel like we've been we've been lacking with
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  Speaker 2: some content reason.
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  Speaker 1: So so jumping into a new series is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a lot, a lot of fun, and we will talk
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  Speaker 1: about the trailer of course next week.
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  Speaker 2: Wait we see it and it's all glory and.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, this month is going to be super funky because
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  Speaker 3: we are closing Matt and I, my husband and I
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  Speaker 3: are closing on our house next week, so we will
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  Speaker 3: have some pre recorded episodes for you guys in the
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  Speaker 3: back half of the month, and we'll probably be back
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  Speaker 3: the last week of July talking about the New Visions manga.
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  Speaker 3: But we were fortunate enough to receive advanced review copies
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  Speaker 3: of Star Wars Legacy from Random House Worlds, so we've
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  Speaker 3: got that one in our belt, and so that embargo
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  Speaker 3: is actually up in two weeks on July fourteenth, so
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  Speaker 3: we will have a pre recorded episode for you guys
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  Speaker 3: talking about that review. I think it's the sixteenth is
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  Speaker 3: when that episode would drop into podcasters, and then the
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  Speaker 3: following week it's actually Eyes Like Stars Releases, which is
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  Speaker 3: I believe it's still from Random House Worlds, but it's
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  Speaker 3: an imprint, so it's I think it's a Dela Corte Press,
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  Speaker 3: and so we did get that arc as well, so
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  Speaker 3: we will be able to talk to you guys about
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  Speaker 3: both of those legacy at the embargo date, and then
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  Speaker 3: we will have a review for you guys, Win Eyes
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  Speaker 3: like Stars releases that is going to be pre recorded.
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  Speaker 3: So those are the two things that you can look
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  Speaker 3: forward to. So the sixteenth and then the following week
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  Speaker 3: would be I think the twenty third, So then the
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  Speaker 3: thirtieth we will be back, so that would be the
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  Speaker 3: twenty ninth, we would be back on YouTube live that week.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, really really excited.
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  Speaker 1: And also we did receive the audio files for Legacies,
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  Speaker 1: so we are going to be able to actually listen
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  Speaker 1: to the audio it's released as well, and we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about that in our review. But yeah, guys, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be talking about the High Republic middle grade books.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: One of the topics that Katie wanted to go over
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  Speaker 1: was the fact that, like, hey, is there a coherent
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  Speaker 1: story between.
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  Speaker 2: Each of these books throughout Beach Face long story Shorts.
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  Speaker 2: I would say.
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  Speaker 3: No, I think you have a decent cohesive story in
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  Speaker 3: Phase two and Phase three, Like singular stories Phase one,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think you have a cohesive story. And as
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  Speaker 3: much as I love Ram, it's the race to Crash
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  Speaker 3: Point Tower, even though you have Vernestra, that is detracted
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  Speaker 3: because Vernestra's story in that in that wave takes place
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  Speaker 3: in the young adult story. And so in the the
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  Speaker 3: Wave three book of Phase one, which is Mission to Disaster,
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  Speaker 3: you've got like Imrine goes, oh, but I thought your
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  Speaker 3: hyper space vision or your visions only happened in hyperspace,
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  Speaker 3: and I had to go like, wait, when did that
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  Speaker 3: come up? Like, and it's because it happens in just
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  Speaker 3: in the Ireland's young adult book.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And I think that in this way of storytelling
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  Speaker 1: at best, the middle grade like the way you can
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  Speaker 1: look at it is in overall story of the High Republic,
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  Speaker 1: with that an anthology of stories. That's what this feels like.
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  Speaker 1: If you were to just read the middle grade books
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  Speaker 1: back to back to back, it would genuinely feel like
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  Speaker 1: an anthology with some characters able to be still involved.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And with the Phase two I feel like that one.
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  Speaker 1: I do agree with you. There is a singular like story.
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  Speaker 3: Because you've got Dash and you've got Ruper in both stories.
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  Speaker 3: And yes, do you have side characters come in like
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  Speaker 3: different side characters in each one. Yes, but that those
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  Speaker 3: two middle grade books are telling Ruper story with some
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  Speaker 3: sprinkle of Dash as the other main character in this.
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  Speaker 3: I think for Phase three as much as I wanted
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  Speaker 3: it to be, Emory's story takes place and defy the
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  Speaker 3: storm and a valiant vowel, and so for Phase three,
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  Speaker 3: the story is actually about Teptep as the main character,
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  Speaker 3: because she's the character that transcends all three stories, and
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  Speaker 3: it really develops her growth across the whole thing, from
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  Speaker 3: a youngling who was trying to find her place as
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  Speaker 3: a trans female in the Jedi Order and coming into
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  Speaker 3: the end of a valiant vow where she gets to
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  Speaker 3: be a pad one of someone who she really values
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  Speaker 3: their opinion and wants to be like them and has
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  Speaker 3: got a great mentor in that regard. So Phase three
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  Speaker 3: is definitely a Tep Tep story. Again, I wanted Emory
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  Speaker 3: because I feel like we left Emory in such a
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  Speaker 3: fragile state at the end, and I know that he
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  Speaker 3: also has some bits and pieces a little bit in
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  Speaker 3: the comics, but really I felt like at the end
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  Speaker 3: of a Mission to Disaster, I was like, dude, I'm
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  Speaker 3: scared for Emory. I remember feeling that in the beginning.
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  Speaker 3: I was scared for Vernestra too, but I knew Vernestra
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  Speaker 3: was too popular to really kill off at that point,
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  Speaker 3: and so coming into phase three, I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we're getting Emory and these and I get you had
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  Speaker 3: more authors come in for phase two who wanted to
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  Speaker 3: do new things in phase three, but I was like,
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  Speaker 3: I just wish that we had finished the story that
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  Speaker 3: we would have gotten with the characters that we started with.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's the down side of saying, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna take a break and go back in time
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  Speaker 3: and then come back to these stories.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that looking at it retrospectively, I think I would
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  Speaker 1: have appreciated the mystery a little bit more if we
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  Speaker 1: go like if you rearranged it, I would have gone
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  Speaker 1: a phase one, phase three, phase two. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: why that is is this is coming from the guy
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  Speaker 1: that that hates.
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  Speaker 2: When stories.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, when when stories are told in not the correct timeline,
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  Speaker 1: and when I say in the correct timeline, I mean
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  Speaker 1: more in the correct like numbering. But I think it
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  Speaker 1: would have been a little bit more fun because looking
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  Speaker 1: back at these books in phase one, I forgot how
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  Speaker 1: many teases there were two face too, with the path.
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  Speaker 2: With the blight and everything else.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, okay, cool, this like now I see it,
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  Speaker 1: like there's there's actual like cause Again, when we were
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  Speaker 1: reading this, we had no idea what was happening in.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't even have like teasons, what does that happen?
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  Speaker 1: I think it was in Mission to Disaster. When we
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  Speaker 1: start to hear of like, oh, there was like some
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  Speaker 1: bad things that happened a long time ago and it
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  Speaker 1: had to deal with you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, Dolma and all of this other stuff, it's like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and again it's like, oh, we can get access
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  Speaker 1: to this information, but we have to request it from the.
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  Speaker 2: JIT order and all these other things.
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  Speaker 1: Like you start to see now, you know, post post mortem,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, oh, okay, yeah, they were a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot of things, but like at the same time, they
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  Speaker 3: plugged all those things in a Mission to Disaster and
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  Speaker 3: didn't really follow up on anything. Because the way you
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  Speaker 3: think about it, right when Michael said, Glaine was like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna do middle grade, we're gonna do young adult,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna do adult. We're gonna have all age comics.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna have adult comics, and you're gonna be able
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  Speaker 3: to read one thing and follow a singular story throughout.
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  Speaker 3: And this is the whole point of why I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to switch it up and do the different reading reading things.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what you call these re reading levels.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. I wanted to do the reading levels because
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  Speaker 3: I remember him saying that and going, Okay, if I
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  Speaker 3: read these on their own, with no other context, how
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  Speaker 3: would I feel about how the story carried out? If
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  Speaker 3: I was just like, oh, my fifth grader wants to
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  Speaker 3: read these and I'm gonna pick up every single one
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  Speaker 3: and see how it goes. Yeah, they would be really
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  Speaker 3: confused in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't think like, even when you get
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  Speaker 1: to Mission to Disaster, you have names like Lorna D
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  Speaker 1: being thrown about like crazy, and it's just like it
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  Speaker 1: was Lorna D. But they keep telling you, oh, it's
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  Speaker 1: the Eye, the Eye, the Eye, the Eye. And then
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  Speaker 1: when you go to escape from Escape from Bellow, where
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  Speaker 1: the Nameless and a valiant Bow, at this point they're
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  Speaker 1: already talking about marketing, and it's like you never get
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  Speaker 1: to learn about d.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because the the if you were reading everything in
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  Speaker 3: or to your only reference to a Row at that
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  Speaker 3: point is marta Row at the end of a Quest
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  Speaker 3: for Planet x SO, and I get the point of Okay,
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  Speaker 3: let's throw in easter eggs to see if they'll read
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  Speaker 3: something else, see if we can get them to buy
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  Speaker 3: something else. Not to this extent, though, this is hey,
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  Speaker 3: there's something else going on and that you don't know about,
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  Speaker 3: kind of thing like.
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  Speaker 1: Ha ha, I have not yet gotten my moving pod yet.
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  Speaker 1: It has my desk and it has on my books.
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  Speaker 1: I need to go back to the middle grade specifically
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  Speaker 1: and see if the inside of the sleeves have any
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  Speaker 1: type of next reading.
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  Speaker 2: Recommendations, Yeah, like at the back. Yeah, because I think
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  Speaker 2: that in some cases.
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  Speaker 1: What you're saying should happen should be like, oh, you
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  Speaker 1: know you finished with this, now you should read this.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: We see it a lot in the Marvel comics. At
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  Speaker 1: the very end of the comics they have like two
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  Speaker 1: whole pages that are like, oh, this is what's also
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  Speaker 1: on sale in the Star Wars line of things.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm curious. I know they wouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: Really do it in the young adult and the adult
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  Speaker 1: novels because.
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  Speaker 2: That's just not something you do. But unfortunately, just the.
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  Speaker 1: Way that younger audiences are marketed to is and we
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  Speaker 1: have to tell them to go buy something else, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm interested to see if they have anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: Don't remember if they do or not. But Katie, looking
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  Speaker 1: at these eight books, you got through six of them.
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  Speaker 1: I got through five of them, seven, seven of them
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  Speaker 1: seven and I got through five. I remember the last
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  Speaker 1: three pretty well. I want to know, because there's eight,
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  Speaker 1: what are your top not top four?
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  Speaker 2: Your what is your bottom four? You had to choose
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  Speaker 2: between these?
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  Speaker 3: I feel like that's really rude with these big middle grade.
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  Speaker 1: I understand, like we are in our thirties, like this
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  Speaker 1: is our audiences that are that are twelve or or younger.
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  Speaker 2: But still thinking.
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  Speaker 3: That in mind, I really feel like, as much as
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  Speaker 3: I love to write a Cordova is writing, I feel like,
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  Speaker 3: be where the name And I'm not saying this is
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  Speaker 3: like in order as my bottom I would say this
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  Speaker 3: is probably just at the bottom. I would probably have
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  Speaker 3: to say, but where the Nameless sits there? I think
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  Speaker 3: originally when I read these, both of the Phase two
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  Speaker 3: books were down there. However, looking at it from a
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  Speaker 3: reread perspective, I think the only one I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: put down there is Quest for the Hid in the City,
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  Speaker 3: which is the first one.
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  Speaker 2: Now is that because it's a horror book?
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  Speaker 3: Yes? I still could not stand Gloam Gloom I strongly
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  Speaker 3: just liked it, but I loved a question for Planet
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  Speaker 3: that and I remember like thinking like, Okay, this one's
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  Speaker 3: pretty good and then oh gosh, I think Mission to Disaster.
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  Speaker 3: And that's mainly because of the House Yon plug in there.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like Justina Ireland wanted to write a different
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  Speaker 3: book and they said, yeah, but we need start like
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  Speaker 3: Beacon to move.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, yeah, I'm going to unfortunately.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Have Planet X is going to get a stray bullet
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: from me.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: That one out of the two Face two books, I
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: like Hidden City more. I really like George Man's uh
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: adventure through the horror genre and there I thought it
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: was really really fun. I will also say in Phase three,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: out of all three books, I would say this is
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the weakest.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say it's bad, it's just the weakest.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Of the Yeah, and I love so Nuge.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was his introduction, like I really enjoyed him
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: as a character. And then I don't know if you
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: remember this, but as my very first time reading this book,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: crash Point.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I ever read Crash Point.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Crash Point was.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: I was not on the podcast until after Crash Point.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I was.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I joined in during phase one, but it was after
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: the first pay books, and I.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Had you go back and read a Test of Courage.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Because Mission to Disaster was refocusing on Burgnastra, I didn't
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: have you go read Race to Crash Point Tower.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: So my three from each phase is crash Point, uh,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: planet X and be where the names was. And then
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: my fourth just because I do think it was I
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: feel like the second time reading it was a little
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: bit of a drag, and that is Mission to Disaster.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I think that there was just too much to focus
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: on for especially for a middle grade book.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: We had when we talked about the High Republic.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: A very popular conversation that we have between the two
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: of us is perspectives. And I do think that a
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: middle grading book can have more than one perspective, but
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: it shouldn't go crazy. Mission to this asked here. I
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: do feel like went a little crazy with the perspectives
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: because we get Renis show, we get uh, memory, we
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: get uh, and then we get.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: There was one more? Was there? One?
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: One?
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: It was just those three, and it just felt like
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: it might have just.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Been a longer Yeah, it is a longer book.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, those would be my bottom four. And
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: again guys. It's it's not us just being like, hey,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: let's tear these kids books apart. You know, yeah, we
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: we enjoyed reading these, and we do want to give
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: them a proper like like is this something like.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Because eventually.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Amberlin is not necessarily ready for chapter books right now,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: she's of coourse still three going on to four years old,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: but she will start to get interested in it, and
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: of course I'm going to introduce her to stuff that
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: we already owned and so like.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Saying like, hey, you can read these, She's gonna have
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: a lot.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I feel like she's gonna have a lot of questions
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: if she just reads the first three books and then
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: jumps into.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Phase two and like hey, what's going on here? You know?
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: So that's I think one of.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: The biggest things going into this that Michael and I think,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: just like the entire team with this initiative may probably
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: want to hold back on it, even like in their
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: next big thing. We have no idea what they're gonna
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: if they're ever gonna do something like this again, which
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: never say never, right, I would definitely just hold back
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: on the like, hey, you could read all of just
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: the adult novels and get the entire story.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: So that's just that's my two cents.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: And I think I think they did. I think the
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: conversation will be slightly different when it comes to the
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: young adult and the adult almost because some of the
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: stuff that is in the young adult and adult books
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: is a little too violent for what takes place or
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: what I would want a middle grader to be able
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: to read, and like it borders on it a little bit,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: and where the nameless and a valiant vow, but it
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: draws the line, I feel like, pretty perfectly at making
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: sure some of those things stick out or stay out
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: of a middle grade book to keep it age appropriate.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: So I do think these are great books, but they're
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: just not meant to be approached in one singular storyline.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: It's Phase one is its own story, followed by Phase three,
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: and then if you want additional material, it's phase two.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: And I do think the phase the phase two books
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: track in a little bit better in the young adult
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: and adult books because again, it gets into that more
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: adult content that you don't want in a middle grade book,
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: and so they just tried to add those contextual elements
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: in the middle grade books so you still got something.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day. It was not
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: it didn't track successfully.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, very very true.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Well, this may be one of the shortest episodes we've
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: had in a very long time, Katie, I don't know
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: if we have anything else we want to add on.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: I don't think so either. But guys, it obviously we
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: didn't dive into specifics on these stories. This episode wasn't
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: meant to dive into necessarily those specifics, more towards tracking
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: things throughout. And again, Clay and I are in the
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: middle of life changes, so we kind of struggled a
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: little bit with this one. It'll be it'll be different
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: with the young adult and adult ones because we'll have
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: a little bit more time and not having to pack
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: our families up and move exactly.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Yes, and again, guys, we do have like other thought
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: piece episodes that are coming up in the calendar that
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: we have had kind of just kind of juggling stuff
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: every so often. We've had some stuff in the past
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: that we wanted to do and then like books were
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: announced and like release states were change, stuff like that,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: and so there's some really fun stuff that we do
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: plan on having that will be a little bit more uh,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: thought provoking.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: I guess you could say.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: So, I'm sorry if you're a little disappointed by this
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: short episode, but I promise.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: It will get a little needier and a little too here.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Yep. So next week, God, we will be talking about
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: the Doctor Afra mini series that takes place with the
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: Star Wars run uh that we just kind of talked about,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: that is called Doctor Afra Chaos Agents, uh, and so
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: that will be next week's talk. We'll talk more on
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: the box office numbers for Mando as that kind of
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: like cycles down the theatrical run, the Ninth Jedi trailer,
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: and then the comic review, and then, like we said
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: on the sixteenth, on the fifteenth of July, there will
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: be no live episode of Star Wars Science. You will
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: get a pre recorded episode, uh talking about about our
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: review of Star Wars Legacy, which, again, guys, if you
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: don't know what that book is, that is basically how
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Leah and Rey form their Jedi training partnership kind of
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: trans us from the Last Jedi to where we're at
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: and rise of Skywalker. And then we'll follow that up
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: the following week with another prerecorded episode talking about Islac
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Stars the first and hopefully a uh continuing genre with
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Star Wars Romance from Dela Coorte Press. That book is
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: called Islac Stars. It takes place before the Force awakens.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: And then at the end of the month there will
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: be uh, we'll be talking about the Star Wars Vision's
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Sukomo manga book that comes out. I believe that comes
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: out on the seventeenth of July, but we're talking about yeah, yeah,
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: and then guys, I hope you guys enjoyed our review
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: last week of the New Jedi Order Book two, which
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: is the Stackpool book. Gosh, I can't think of it
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: off the top of my head. Yeah, Onslot Dark Tide
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: one Onslot because we released that last week since we
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: were off and such things. So if you are not
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: on our Patreon, that is a book club series that
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Claire and I are doing where we're taking one book
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: a month for the New Jedi Order and talking about
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: that month to months. So for August, if you guys
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: are interested, we will be talking about Trader, which, for
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: those of you who don't know, is Jason Solo's book
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: in that series.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: So I was able to get through the prologue through
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: my time traveling from from Indiana to Texas because again
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: for some reason this series.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Is just like, hey, we need prologues that are like
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: thirty pages long.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: So but yeah, that's some of the content that you
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: guys can expect. And then, of course, uh, hopefully we
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: will be getting the ninth Jedi release schedule and be
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: able to plan that into our schedule for the rest
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: of the year.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: So, oh, that's a good question. Do you think it's
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: going to be a all in one draw or do
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: you think it's gonna be week.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: I would hope for weekly. Knowing lucasfilm it's gonna be
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: a one and done.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: I hope that with the work of a different studio.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: I really do hope that it's weekly.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: I think that'll ring a lot of conversation, especially with
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: this not being Cannon and just being like a completely
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: different thing. This might actually be somebody's in production discards
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: like and so that's the case, I would really love
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: them to push it two weekly for anticipation.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: That's what I would hope too, is that you get
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: that discussion point. And I would hope that the studio.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: I can't remember the studio.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Production, No, this was.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Studio I g.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, I got the directors and the producers but I
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: don't have the Oh no, I don't know.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: I can't get it up in time production.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Gane, But yeah, I really do hope that they
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: like had like some sort of like uh contract said
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: weekly clause or something that says.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Like, hey, we need a weekly drop. But yeah, guys,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be really exciting.
• 36:10
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• 36:13
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• 36:18
  Speaker 2: My wife, the.
• 36:20
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• 36:26
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• 36:29
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• 36:32
  Speaker 4: We're not just Star Wars Alligance, but Range Aligance and
• 36:35
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• 36:38
  Speaker 4: lot more content on Instagram in threds, so be on
• 36:41
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• 36:45
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• 36:56
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• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Y'all, you can find me on most social media platforms
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• 37:05
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• 37:07
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• 37:09
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• 37:27
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• 37:30
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• 37:32
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• 37:34
  Speaker 3: with you.