[00:00:00] Speaker A: Now this is pod racing.
Good morning and welcome to the cantina. This is regarding Star wars, the world's 10,000,000th Star wars podcast.
[00:00:43] Speaker B: I'm your co host, John Fisher.
[00:00:45] Speaker C: And I am your co host, David Williams. And Johnny, Johnny, Johnny.
[00:00:50] Speaker B: Ah, man. Do you know something?
[00:00:54] Speaker C: Star wars is awesome.
[00:00:56] Speaker B: Holy shit, Star wars is good. Holy.
[00:01:00] Speaker C: Holy crap. I fun. I sat down and was like, I'm gonna watch a Star wars. And then, like, watching it, I was like, holy shit, I'm watching a Star wars.
[00:01:09] Speaker B: Holy shit.
[00:01:11] Speaker A: It's always an event.
[00:01:12] Speaker C: I've seen this movie like 20 times, but still, it's.
[00:01:16] Speaker B: Yeah, holy cow.
[00:01:18] Speaker C: It's a good one.
[00:01:19] Speaker A: I saw this movie nine times in the theaters in 1999.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: Holy cow, man.
[00:01:26] Speaker C: I don't think I've ever seen.
[00:01:27] Speaker A: And I was in 7th grade. That means adults were driving me to the theater.
It was just when it came out.
[00:01:34] Speaker B: It was like the world for a 7th grade boy.
[00:01:37] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:01:38] Speaker A: And everyone I knew you would just go over to Friend's house like, what do you want to do? It's like, I guess we'll go see Star wars. Just what you did for like three months. Yeah, because it was hot, it was summer. It's like, we'll go see Star wars again.
[00:01:52] Speaker C: Yeah. We never saw things multiple times in the theater, but I do remember immediately after seeing it the next time we went to blockbuster, being like, put us down by the reservation for the vhs. Like, immediately get us that special edition vhs. The one that came with.
[00:02:08] Speaker A: I had that.
I had that exact one.
[00:02:12] Speaker B: Yeah, the widescreen edition came in a.
[00:02:14] Speaker A: Cool box and you could open it up and it had a little mini art book.
[00:02:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:19] Speaker C: Then I remember all that summer between when it went out of theaters and when it came back on vhs, they were just like book after book after book after book published. Like, there was the visual encyclopedia and.
[00:02:32] Speaker B: The beside the scenes stuff.
Oh, man.
[00:02:36] Speaker A: Yes. And the toys. There was.
[00:02:38] Speaker B: Every character that walked across screen had a toy.
[00:02:42] Speaker A: Well, welcome, everybody.
Happy may the fourth. May the fourth be with you. Usually we say, may the scorch be.
[00:02:49] Speaker B: With you, but we're saying, may the.
[00:02:51] Speaker A: Fourth be with you.
[00:02:52] Speaker C: Yeah, because that's a Clever pun. A clever pun based on something that old George Lucas wrote many, many years ago.
[00:03:03] Speaker A: Yes. And I always try to derail our podcast to talk about Star wars. So I thought we could fully derail it in honor Star Wars Day. There's just been a lot of Star wars news. There's a lot of Star wars stuff coming up.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: It just felt like it was time.
Yeah.
[00:03:22] Speaker A: Oh, my God. This is rude. I just got a weekly report from my computer that said my screen time was up 13% last week. You can shut up.
[00:03:31] Speaker C: Oh, man.
[00:03:32] Speaker A: How rude.
[00:03:34] Speaker C: How rude.
[00:03:36] Speaker A: How rude, exactly.
We were just talking before the record, and if we do this every Star wars day, in nine years, we'll be through the main saga.
[00:03:48] Speaker B: And then.
[00:03:48] Speaker A: So in ten years, we'll be starting on rogue one. So wait for that in ten years.
[00:03:52] Speaker B: Or rogue one episode.
[00:03:54] Speaker C: Yeah, if we can wait that long.
This could either serve to.
[00:04:04] Speaker B: Nip future.
[00:04:05] Speaker C: Star wars tangents on the regular feed in the bud or just open the floodgates and be nothing.
[00:04:13] Speaker A: I think it'll nip it because it'll get it all out.
[00:04:16] Speaker C: Yeah, but it's one of those things, like, once you break the seal, it's like, well, you know, Al Simmons, he kind of looks like Darth Maul, but he's more of a Luke Skywalker.
[00:04:26] Speaker A: He's like a Luke Skywalker in the.
[00:04:28] Speaker B: Sequel trilogy where he's grumpy. He's grumpy Luke old man.
[00:04:32] Speaker C: Luke old man.
So I guess that guy who's in the scorched now. Oh, what's his face? The guy who's in love with love, he would basically. He would be Luke the cloned Luke from the hands that gets cut off at the end of Empire strikes back. Just kind of evil.
[00:04:58] Speaker A: Hey, that's legends continuity now.
[00:05:00] Speaker C: Hey, man, we take it all, Johnny, but he's coming.
[00:05:03] Speaker A: But speaking of legends and speaking of that series, a character that originated in.
[00:05:09] Speaker B: Those book trilogy, Grand Admiral Thrawn, is.
[00:05:12] Speaker A: Coming to live action. We just found out at Star wars celebration, which I have no love for Thrawn, but it's a big deal for a lot of people.
[00:05:20] Speaker C: Oh, man, I love Thrawn.
[00:05:22] Speaker B: Did you not watch rebels?
[00:05:24] Speaker A: I like it with rebels. Yeah, I never read any of the old books, so he's not like, yeah, I mean, I like him. He's just not some mythical character. I know people that were obsessed with him in the. He has, like, a million books about him.
[00:05:38] Speaker C: Yeah, I read that book that came out about a decade ago. Thrawn.
[00:05:42] Speaker B: I think it was a Timothy Zahn book.
[00:05:44] Speaker A: Yes. Just thrawn.
[00:05:45] Speaker C: Yeah, that was my first introduction to him, and I really didn't get it until, like, two months after I finished the book. I started watching rebels, and I was.
[00:05:55] Speaker B: Like, oh, that book is so much.
[00:05:57] Speaker C: More badass now that I've seen him in rebels.
That book makes him. He's just such an overpowered little.
[00:06:07] Speaker B: Brat.
[00:06:08] Speaker C: Who just, like, steamrolls his way through everything.
But I guess it's kind of like what the Phantom Menace was trying to make a starting point for a guy who's already established and we know all about him and giving him a backstory.
[00:06:25] Speaker B: That can sort of dovetail into what.
[00:06:30] Speaker C: We know he's become.
[00:06:31] Speaker A: You're speaking to, of course, the titular phantom menace.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: Yes, the Phantom Menace.
[00:06:37] Speaker A: Mr. Darcyus.
[00:06:39] Speaker B: Who.
I don't know who he mean.
[00:06:44] Speaker A: I'm assuming he turns out to be Emperor Palpatine at least. But I mean.
[00:06:47] Speaker B: Oh, wait, Palpatine.
[00:06:48] Speaker C: Come on.
[00:06:49] Speaker A: Is that Senator Palpatine?
[00:06:50] Speaker C: Johnny, don't kidding.
[00:06:51] Speaker A: I'm not doing.
Yeah, you know, it's like. It's funny.
[00:06:58] Speaker B: Just know.
[00:06:59] Speaker A: Start with the title. I guess the Phantom Menace got so much shit at the time, but I think it's a great title. It's evocative. It's cool. It's, like, very pulpy.
[00:07:06] Speaker C: Yeah, it is.
I do have to say, I do believe with, there was this one instagram reel I saw not too long ago.
[00:07:13] Speaker B: Where somebody was like, all of the.
[00:07:15] Speaker C: Star wars movies are named wrong. And then they go through and they actually turn them into the things. And it's like, oh, yeah, all the movies are named.
I forgot.
[00:07:26] Speaker A: Yeah, he switches. No, I remember exactly. Because episode one is rise of Skywalker. He switches one at nine, and nine is the Phantom Menace.
[00:07:35] Speaker C: Yeah. And then what?
[00:07:38] Speaker B: Shit.
[00:07:38] Speaker C: Because episode three is the Empire strikes back.
[00:07:41] Speaker B: Or. No, no.
[00:07:42] Speaker C: Episode three is attack of the clones.
[00:07:44] Speaker B: Because it's when the clones attack.
[00:07:47] Speaker C: I think episode two is. I don't remember what they were, but it was perfect. It was beautiful.
[00:07:51] Speaker B: It was beautiful.
[00:07:53] Speaker A: That's really good.
[00:07:54] Speaker C: So, Johnny, what are we doing here today?
[00:07:56] Speaker A: Well, today we're going to, I guess, like we do. It's kind of a Lucir Gooseier episode where we discuss.
[00:08:03] Speaker C: We have two Star wars movies, except we don't.
[00:08:09] Speaker A: Just one Star wars movie. We're going to do the phantom menace.
[00:08:12] Speaker C: Shall we say the full name so.
[00:08:13] Speaker B: That way we're legal.
[00:08:16] Speaker A: The full name is Star Wars Episode.
[00:08:18] Speaker B: One, the Phantom Menace. It's got a nice ring, too. Nice.
[00:08:22] Speaker A: It's got a great rolls up. Usually we talk about covers, but I guess we could talk about the poster. It's an amazing poster. I remember that poster.
[00:08:29] Speaker C: Which poster are we talking about? We're talking about the original.
[00:08:32] Speaker A: Like, the main poster. Yeah, the main poster with, like, the.
[00:08:35] Speaker C: Anakin walking on and everybody. Oh, I was thinking of the teaser.
[00:08:38] Speaker A: Well, that one too.
[00:08:39] Speaker B: That one too.
[00:08:40] Speaker A: Oh, the teaser poster. Is great too, with the Darth Vader. I mean, that's iconic. But I love the actual theatrical poster.
[00:08:48] Speaker B: The. A poster like the sun qui Gon.
[00:08:51] Speaker A: Jar Jar's there smiling.
[00:08:53] Speaker C: Yeah, Obi Wan, I just realized that there are two sons on that have seen this poster, has been in my life for over half of it, and I just now realized that there are.
[00:09:05] Speaker B: Two sons on the poster for fucking baby.
[00:09:12] Speaker A: We ain't on Jaku, we're on Tatooine.
[00:09:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:20] Speaker A: This movie probably cement. I like the original trilogy, but this movie at the time cemented my kind of love of Star Wars. I was pretty obsessed with it for a couple of years.
It makes me happy in a way, because it did give me a thick skin and it made me be like, I'm going to like what I like because I got a lot of shit for it. Not from my friends, my friends and I all liked it, but like other people or just society in general. Because it was when the Internet was starting to come out, so you'd read opinions online and be like, wow, everyone hates this movie except for me.
[00:09:51] Speaker B: This is weird.
[00:09:52] Speaker C: Yeah. I was eleven years old when this movie came out, and it is heavily geared towards children, and I fell for it so hard.
[00:10:00] Speaker A: Yeah, I loved it.
[00:10:02] Speaker C: For me, it was a culmination of. They had just done the theatrical rereleases throughout the. Didn't know they were remastered in a different way. I just thought they were fucking Star wars and I loved them.
I honestly didn't know that there was any controversy over any of this stuff until I got to college.
And I kind of wish I could.
[00:10:25] Speaker B: Go back to that time and just completely ignore it, but, yeah, I don't.
[00:10:30] Speaker C: Know if I mentioned it before, but going to see the new rereleases of Star wars was a major thing for me and my friend group when we were doing for birthday parties. Like, whoever's birthday got in the month that the Star wars rereleasing came out.
They had the easiest time to choose.
[00:10:53] Speaker B: And then everybody else was upset.
[00:10:54] Speaker A: But then, yeah, I believe they came out January, February, march of 1997.
[00:11:01] Speaker C: Yeah, I know that there was.
[00:11:03] Speaker A: Because I went for my birthday for.
[00:11:05] Speaker B: February, for Empire strikes back.
[00:11:08] Speaker C: Yeah, I went to mine in February too.
[00:11:11] Speaker B: Was great.
[00:11:14] Speaker C: Each birthday party, everybody got the birthday boy. Like all of the little ships with the little bitty people, they're still selling. They're still selling them at Target.
[00:11:26] Speaker A: Yeah, they just came out with them again, the action fleet. So you're thinking of Gloob's action fleet.
[00:11:30] Speaker C: There's a new one.
[00:11:32] Speaker A: It is now made by Hasbro.
[00:11:34] Speaker C: I saw Ahsoka's speeder with the little.
I want to call it an FTL drive ring, but that's not right. That's a completely different.
[00:11:45] Speaker A: The. It's a hyperdrive. Yeah. Hyperdrive.
[00:11:47] Speaker C: Jesus.
[00:11:48] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:11:48] Speaker C: I couldn't even think of the Star Trek one. That's how bad I am today. But, yeah, they've got that one with what r seven is her droid and a hyperdrive.
[00:11:58] Speaker A: That's cool.
[00:11:59] Speaker C: They got those for sale at Target right now, and it looked awesome, and I wanted to buy it, but I can't know Star Wars. I can't fall down that rabbit hole, dude. I will fall.
[00:12:13] Speaker A: They've been. There's a lot of Ahsoka news.
[00:12:16] Speaker B: Because you've got the trailer. Yeah.
[00:12:19] Speaker C: For the show, which.
[00:12:20] Speaker B: Did you watch the trailer yet?
[00:12:23] Speaker A: Actually, I haven't because I was working. I was busy, and I didn't want to watch it on my phone.
[00:12:27] Speaker C: Yeah, it's a treat, but it's a treat.
[00:12:30] Speaker A: I'm going to watch it after this, probably.
[00:12:33] Speaker B: Excellent.
[00:12:33] Speaker C: You could watch, I don't know, weird.
[00:12:34] Speaker A: About trailer just now.
[00:12:36] Speaker C: Why don't you watch it?
[00:12:36] Speaker B: And we have a live react on the podcast.
[00:12:41] Speaker A: I don't want to figure that out.
[00:12:45] Speaker C: It would just be, whoa.
[00:12:48] Speaker A: It would be silent for two minutes.
I tried to film a live react.
[00:12:54] Speaker B: One time.
[00:12:57] Speaker A: When they surprised everyone that.
[00:12:59] Speaker B: There was a Blair witch movie.
[00:13:04] Speaker A: And I was like, oh, sweet. I should live react myself. Watch the trailer. And it was really boring. And so I never posted it anywhere.
[00:13:11] Speaker B: Because it was pointless.
[00:13:13] Speaker C: The problem is you didn't do it in the style of the original Blair witch where you're just tromping through the woods with a video camera posted at your face. I start crying in that iconic selfie scene.
[00:13:26] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:13:26] Speaker A: The snot running down.
[00:13:28] Speaker C: Infinitely iconic.
[00:13:29] Speaker B: That's. Man.
[00:13:32] Speaker A: It's the first selfie, baby.
[00:13:34] Speaker C: Yeah, man. Just like Star wars itself was iconic.
[00:13:40] Speaker B: Fucking Blair witch, much in the same fashion.
[00:13:43] Speaker C: It was just getting out there and doing it and just putting the thing together because you all believe in it and they're just fucking like gangbusters.
[00:13:51] Speaker A: Episode one and Blair Witch came out within months of each other.
[00:13:53] Speaker B: Same summer of 99.
[00:13:55] Speaker A: Man, that was a big summer for movies.
[00:13:58] Speaker C: No, because the world was about to end.
[00:14:01] Speaker A: The world's about to end. And it was the culmination of they created. These AMCs had started to open up.
[00:14:08] Speaker B: Like the stadium seating, quote unquote, which.
[00:14:11] Speaker A: Is now just like normal movie theater. Those were getting big.
[00:14:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:15] Speaker A: At the same time. So I feel like we went to a lot of movies, at least in Tulsa.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:19] Speaker C: I don't know if you remember this, Johnny, but the millennium was happening.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: The Millennium Falcon.
[00:14:26] Speaker C: The millennium. No, that was the Looney Tunes advertising was. It's the millennium.
[00:14:34] Speaker A: Oh, really? I don't remember that. I remember the think.
[00:14:38] Speaker C: I think it was largely tied into a subway campaign for party subs. And so the Looney tunes were like, celebrate the millennium with a six foot party sub.
[00:14:53] Speaker A: My brother and I had a joke at the time, I guess. I think we were really into Pokemon, but our joke was that at the.
[00:14:58] Speaker B: Stroke of Midnight, a giant pikachu would.
[00:15:01] Speaker A: Appear in the sky and declare he was the Antichrist.
So I was a fun 7th grader. I remember seeing this movie.
I saw it at midnight.
[00:15:14] Speaker C: Oh, nice.
[00:15:15] Speaker A: The day of relief, my dad took us to it. Was that your first midnight.
[00:15:19] Speaker B: Is that your first midnight movie?
Oh, absolutely. All right.
[00:15:23] Speaker C: My first.
[00:15:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
We were so young. They tried to make us take a nap. We got home, school. Go take a nap. And we're like, no, we can't go to sleep.
[00:15:32] Speaker B: Yeah, nice.
[00:15:33] Speaker C: My first midnight movie was actually episode three.
[00:15:36] Speaker A: Oh, nice. Yeah, that was a big one.
[00:15:38] Speaker C: And we showed up very late, so the only seats available were the ones in the very front row. And so we had to do that thing where you basically just lay with your head on top of the seat. And it was so motherfucking uncomfortable. Why do they even put seats there, Johnny?
[00:15:55] Speaker A: Last time I saw a movie like that was knives out, too, because I bought tickets. They're reserved seats, but there are, like, two seats left when I bought them.
[00:16:02] Speaker C: Oh, man.
[00:16:04] Speaker A: How are. I called knives out, too. Glass on you.
[00:16:06] Speaker B: Sorry.
[00:16:07] Speaker A: Ryan Johnson.
[00:16:10] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:16:10] Speaker C: So speaking of news, we just got a little bit more news about movies in the universe.
[00:16:18] Speaker B: Right, right.
[00:16:19] Speaker A: Yeah. There's, like, three more movies coming.
[00:16:22] Speaker B: I'm most excited about the Ray movie that'll be happening. That's very exciting.
[00:16:28] Speaker A: Very exciting.
[00:16:30] Speaker B: There was a little bit of a.
[00:16:31] Speaker A: Scuttlebutt about it because Dave and Lindelof have been working on it for so long and left the project.
[00:16:37] Speaker B: But whatever things happen in Hollywood, who knows?
[00:16:41] Speaker A: Seems like a lot of Star wars people quit or get fired.
[00:16:44] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:16:44] Speaker A: I mean, it's probably hard to try.
[00:16:46] Speaker B: To take this thing that was this.
[00:16:49] Speaker A: One guy's creation and try to shepherd it.
[00:16:51] Speaker B: I can imagine it's very stressful, and.
[00:16:54] Speaker A: It'S a hard thing to crack.
[00:16:57] Speaker C: It's really weird, though, because the tone of all the television shows, it gets to be wild all over the place.
[00:17:06] Speaker B: It seems like they're much more draconian.
[00:17:09] Speaker C: On the movies themselves, I guess because they need them to be the tent.
[00:17:13] Speaker B: Poles that everything else can, like the.
[00:17:16] Speaker C: Tv shows and the comic books can all just kind of run wild in the spaces provided between the films, but.
[00:17:25] Speaker B: The films themselves have to be the.
[00:17:28] Speaker C: Foundation that everything else gets to run around.
[00:17:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:33] Speaker A: And they also have to be like international blockbusters.
[00:17:36] Speaker B: Yeah, it's true.
[00:17:37] Speaker C: Later this month, it will be in the past when this podcast comes out, but return of the Jedi is going.
[00:17:44] Speaker B: To be back in theaters.
I know.
[00:17:47] Speaker A: That's awesome. I wonder if they're going to April 20 eigth, right?
[00:17:50] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what I'm looking at right now. Awesome. Do you think they'll do the original.
[00:17:54] Speaker B: Cut or will they do the one.
[00:17:56] Speaker C: That does the war crime of replacing Yubnub?
[00:18:02] Speaker A: They'll do the war crime one.
[00:18:06] Speaker C: I can understand a little bit this frustration now, but yubnub, greatest celebration song ever. I can't believe they just removed they.
[00:18:17] Speaker A: It's true.
[00:18:18] Speaker C: It's not that they just added celebrations across the universe. That's fine. It's that they completely removed a song that I sing on a weekly basis. Johnny.
[00:18:28] Speaker A: It was one of the first things of George Lucas kind of bending, and that's where the problems come. He starts to bend to the criticism, and he was like, okay, yeah, it's a little too teddy bear picnic.
[00:18:36] Speaker B: I'll change it.
[00:18:37] Speaker A: And I feel like that happens. That's why I like episode one so much, because it's like his most pure, because it's confusing and big. Kind of like the original Star wars and even bigger and weirder. You could see him trying to kind of bend, especially by episode three, there's like a million lightsaber fights.
[00:18:53] Speaker B: It's like really grim.
[00:18:55] Speaker A: It's like, feels like he's trying to bend to what people wanted more. Where in this, in episode one, he's kind of doing his thing. Yeah, but, yeah, I think that that's unfortunate. Yubnub rules. They could have easily had him sing Yubnob and then transition into that other song. Come on, Johnny Williams.
[00:19:09] Speaker C: It would have been awesome.
[00:19:11] Speaker B: It would have been awesome.
[00:19:13] Speaker A: Fight his old ass.
[00:19:16] Speaker C: Oh, man. But speaking of George Lucas doing his thing, why don't we get into this thing that he did called episode one the Phantom Menace.
[00:19:23] Speaker A: Yes.
Opens with an opening crawl.
[00:19:26] Speaker C: So classic Star wars opening.
[00:19:28] Speaker A: So funny.
[00:19:29] Speaker C: And then the down. I had a friend who every time.
[00:19:32] Speaker B: We saw, when we went to go.
[00:19:33] Speaker C: See the rereleases like, as soon as the crawl was over, he was like.
[00:19:37] Speaker B: And now it goes down. And now it goes down.
[00:19:40] Speaker C: It went down.
It was great.
[00:19:45] Speaker A: It goes down. Sometimes it goes up. Sometimes it goes to the side, but usually down. Yeah.
[00:19:50] Speaker C: Before the third trilogy, they all went down.
[00:19:53] Speaker A: I think episode two goes up.
[00:19:55] Speaker C: Oh, it does.
[00:19:55] Speaker A: Being tricky.
[00:19:56] Speaker B: Oh, dang it.
[00:19:57] Speaker A: Yeah, it goes up. And then a ship flies in upside down and, like, twists. Oh, man. It's actually a pretty cool shot.
[00:20:02] Speaker B: I'm a jerk.
[00:20:04] Speaker C: I haven't seen episode two since the theaters either, but. So, yeah, we start.
[00:20:08] Speaker B: Get ready a long time ago in.
[00:20:11] Speaker C: A galaxy far, far away. We got this cool donut ship floating in the middle of space.
[00:20:16] Speaker B: And then we get.
[00:20:17] Speaker A: Well, you're skipping over one of the best parts is just. And that's the reason we go, is the.
See that in the theater? I'm, like, tearing up thinking about it.
[00:20:27] Speaker B: It's the best thing.
[00:20:29] Speaker A: And one time, when I saw the last Jedi in theaters, I saw it, like, four or five times, but one of the screenings I saw, this family.
[00:20:37] Speaker B: Came in, like, I don't know, like.
[00:20:38] Speaker A: A few minutes after the opening crawl, and I'd be like, man, you missed it. Just go home.
[00:20:43] Speaker C: And you missed the opening.
[00:20:44] Speaker A: Like, get out of here.
[00:20:46] Speaker B: It's the best part.
[00:20:48] Speaker A: There's nothing like seeing that in a.
[00:20:50] Speaker B: Theater and not knowing what's coming.
[00:20:53] Speaker A: It's very exciting. And just like, that musical cue and everything, it's great. I hope they don't retire it. Even if the Skywalker song is done, I hope they keep it.
[00:21:02] Speaker C: It would do their brand a disservice to get rid of it. We got a trade, right? Right.
[00:21:07] Speaker B: Because we just learned about some politicking with the trade Federation and the opening crawl. I don't know how much we have.
[00:21:14] Speaker A: To recap this, but, yeah, we mean, they're blockading Nebu. It's a trade embargo, basically.
[00:21:22] Speaker B: And they're sending.
[00:21:23] Speaker A: Transform.
[00:21:24] Speaker B: Sending these jedi.
[00:21:25] Speaker A: The donut ship is cool. I always like that ship.
[00:21:28] Speaker B: Yeah, it's fun. I just noticed this time that there.
[00:21:33] Speaker C: Are some droids on the trade Federation ship that I don't know their names of. I'm trying to scrub through to find.
[00:21:39] Speaker B: Them, but it's like, on the bridge, the Federation guys are talking, and in the background, there's just, like, a phalanx.
[00:21:50] Speaker C: Of little, bitty, tiny guys. Like, they aren't battle droids. They're just, like, little, bitty, tiny guys.
[00:21:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
And I just noticed them for the.
[00:21:57] Speaker C: First time, and they're great.
[00:21:58] Speaker A: Originally in the script, they have dialogue.
They do have names. I don't remember them, but they're in one of the scripts.
[00:22:04] Speaker B: They're like, look at those Jedi.
[00:22:06] Speaker A: Whatever. Get back to work. That's, like, literally it. But it's in one of the scripts.
[00:22:10] Speaker C: Because I've been trying to google furiously what they're called. But.
[00:22:17] Speaker A: After we're done, if you look up the early episode one script, it's online, you can find it pretty easily. It's like, the second page. They say, like, look at those. They look like Jedi. And they're like, shut up. Or something like that. Yeah, but you get a lot of good droids in there. Get some battle droids.
I really like the battle droids.
[00:22:37] Speaker B: I think they're cool.
[00:22:38] Speaker A: I think they're funny.
[00:22:39] Speaker C: They're just dinguses. I love how they're created for nothing but battle, but they're actually pretty bad at it.
[00:22:47] Speaker A: But they're, like, cheap.
They're like the cheapy ones.
[00:22:52] Speaker B: They're just rolling them out. Yeah. Like, you don't want to spend a.
[00:22:55] Speaker A: Lot of money on them that you can just overwhelm them with their numbers.
[00:22:58] Speaker C: And I noticed that one of them, in the course of the film has the number of my address on it. So that's very exciting. So I guess that is now my home droid is the one who is number redacted.
[00:23:16] Speaker B: The only really named battle droid is Oom nine, who's the one that's like, viceroy?
[00:23:24] Speaker A: We've captured the queen. The one with the yellow.
[00:23:27] Speaker B: Yeah, that's o m nine.
[00:23:29] Speaker C: So we get the first ever use.
[00:23:32] Speaker B: Of.
[00:23:35] Speaker C: The lightsaber to just melt shit to get through it, which is awesome.
[00:23:40] Speaker A: It's so funny. I thought you were going to say the first ever use of. I have a bad feeling about this saga. Because it's the first line from Obi Wan.
[00:23:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:49] Speaker C: And the negotiations were, sure.
[00:23:51] Speaker A: The melting of the door, though, that was like a moment where I was just like, whoa.
[00:23:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:56] Speaker A: I remember being a kid and being like. I thought about that and just, like, actually seeing. It was so cool.
[00:24:00] Speaker C: Yeah. So the trade federation and the shadowy man that they're talking to, who keeps telling him that he'll make the senate legal.
[00:24:08] Speaker B: What they're know try to poison the know. Obi Wan and Qui gon.
[00:24:17] Speaker C: My mom used to do this thing where if she had a celebrity crush on an individual, she'd go, Liam Neeson, hubba hubba.
1999 was the summer of having to listen to my mom say, liam Neeson, hubba hubba.
Quigon and Obiwan sneak out of the room they were supposed to be killed in and they jump into that hangar bay that's just filled with droids and those Pepsi coolers that they used to have.
[00:24:48] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, they made those. Made those coolers. Yeah, the Pepsi was big because you could get like all the different cans with all the different characters.
[00:24:55] Speaker C: Yeah, man, the marketing for this movie was so big.
That level of marketing just doesn't exist anymore.
[00:25:03] Speaker B: It's insane. Yeah, it was all consuming.
[00:25:07] Speaker C: And then we end up down on Naboo. And then we meet eleven year old I love naboo.
[00:25:13] Speaker B: Who's saying how great naboo is?
[00:25:16] Speaker C: Who is saying how I love naboo? Yeah, naboo is great.
[00:25:18] Speaker A: No. Can we. Can we just say, yeah, I love naboo?
[00:25:21] Speaker C: Johnny, you are not allowed to enjoy naboo. I'm sorry. It's a naboo.
[00:25:25] Speaker B: Boo.
[00:25:27] Speaker A: Naboo.
[00:25:27] Speaker C: Big in, man. And then we very quickly meet eleven year old David's favorite character, motherfucking Jar Jar Binks.
I didn't realize for the longest time that people hated Jar Jar Binks because I loved him so much as a child. It was like, how could you not love.
[00:25:47] Speaker B: Mean?
[00:25:47] Speaker C: I can see now that he's problematic in some ways, but yeah, he was designed for children and as a child.
[00:25:58] Speaker B: I ate it up.
[00:26:00] Speaker C: And even now I did, too.
[00:26:03] Speaker B: The Gungans, an underrated alien species.
[00:26:06] Speaker C: I think everybody assumes Jar Jar Binks when they see Gungans and they're like, oh, all the Gungans.
[00:26:12] Speaker A: I like the Gungans.
[00:26:12] Speaker C: But no, the Gungans kick ass, boss nas. Hell yeah. The general. Captain Tarples.
[00:26:20] Speaker A: Captain Tarpals.
[00:26:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:23] Speaker C: There's also, in the Clone wars, isn't there a Gungan Jedi?
[00:26:29] Speaker A: Jar Jar acts like he's a Jedi for a bit.
[00:26:32] Speaker C: I mean, if you pay attention to.
[00:26:33] Speaker A: The Internet, there is a gunk in Jedi.
[00:26:35] Speaker C: If you pay attention to the Internet, then Jar Jar is a Sith master.
[00:26:39] Speaker A: Exactly. He is the Sith lord.
[00:26:42] Speaker B: Sith Lord.
A Sith lord.
[00:26:47] Speaker A: As Mason Windu says in episode three.
[00:26:51] Speaker C: Oh, man, their little scuba breathers are awesome. The Gungan city is.
[00:27:00] Speaker B: Yeah, the bubbles.
[00:27:01] Speaker A: Those are cool.
[00:27:01] Speaker C: It's beautiful.
[00:27:03] Speaker B: Holy crap. I'm just trying to let you leave.
[00:27:05] Speaker A: This because I could talk for like ten minutes on everything.
[00:27:08] Speaker C: I'm trying to scrub through the movie and then I'm just like getting caught up in it.
[00:27:12] Speaker B: And it is a feast.
[00:27:14] Speaker C: I mean, the CGI is a little.
[00:27:15] Speaker A: We can talk about that.
[00:27:16] Speaker C: It's still a beautiful feast.
[00:27:17] Speaker B: That's one thing about the movie I.
[00:27:20] Speaker A: Like is it is a feast. One thing about the movie I like.
[00:27:23] Speaker B: Is that it has these biomes, and there's naboo, Tatooine, coruscant, and they're all.
[00:27:32] Speaker A: Just, like, fully realized planets. You get to go spend some time.
[00:27:35] Speaker B: On each, and it's pretty cool.
[00:27:39] Speaker A: The best part about the three biomes.
[00:27:41] Speaker B: Is in the marketing.
[00:27:42] Speaker A: Taco Bell was Tatooine.
[00:27:44] Speaker C: I'm not making this up.
[00:27:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I remember Pizza Hut was Coruscant and KFC was Naboo.
And you would get the toys from each. You have to go to each one to get the different toys, like posters and stuff.
[00:27:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
Oh, man.
[00:28:02] Speaker C: I was going to say the good thing about how much care they put into creating each biome, just, like, created a playground for all of the television shows we have now to just play.
[00:28:18] Speaker A: Coruscant's a big deal. That was created for that same trilogy.
[00:28:22] Speaker B: The Timothy Zahn trilogy, where Luke was from.
[00:28:25] Speaker A: But Coruscant was one of the few things he took from the books and brought into.
[00:28:32] Speaker B: The movies.
[00:28:33] Speaker C: But we got the capture of Queen Amadala and all of her.
[00:28:38] Speaker B: Uh, I love the chancellor, dude.
[00:28:41] Speaker C: He's great.
[00:28:43] Speaker A: Co Bibble. His name sounds like baby talk.
[00:28:46] Speaker C: Oh, man, he's so good.
[00:28:48] Speaker A: Co Bibble.
[00:28:50] Speaker C: He definitely needed to have had a brock the shock Finnell moment at some point in this.
But if they had pundits in the Star wars universe, he would be the one saying a communications disruption can only mean one thing. Invasion.
[00:29:06] Speaker A: Yes. Where are the chancellor's ambassadors? He's the only one making some sense.
[00:29:12] Speaker C: He's got the real talk.
[00:29:12] Speaker A: It's funny because this movie got knocked for bad acting, but you could tell, like, the old british theater guys fucking rock it.
[00:29:18] Speaker B: Like they know what they're doing because.
[00:29:20] Speaker A: It'S just like being in theater.
[00:29:23] Speaker C: Literally, the only acting that was really.
[00:29:26] Speaker B: So bad is just the kids.
[00:29:30] Speaker C: Just because they're kids.
[00:29:32] Speaker B: They're kids.
[00:29:33] Speaker A: They're kids.
[00:29:35] Speaker C: I can understand maybe somebody trying to level Natalie Portman, Kira Knightley, like some woodenness, but that's entirely necessary for.
[00:29:49] Speaker A: Character.
[00:29:50] Speaker C: For the ruse that they are playing, they both have to have something that they can do without any sort of personal flair, so that way they can fool people into knowing who is who.
I paid particular care to, which one was in the queen get up this time. And Natalie Portman actual Amidala is only dressed up as Amidala when she's on.
[00:30:13] Speaker B: Coruscant all the rest of the time. It's Kira Knightley.
[00:30:17] Speaker A: And that opening shot where she's, like.
[00:30:20] Speaker B: On the video thing and looks really sad. Yeah, that's her.
[00:30:25] Speaker C: But, yeah, that's awesome.
[00:30:27] Speaker A: That original outfit she's got with the.
[00:30:29] Speaker B: Hair that turns into, like, the collar.
[00:30:34] Speaker C: The late night talk shows ate that up for months.
[00:30:38] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:30:39] Speaker C: How many SNL skits were there? Or mad tv skits of space Princess.
[00:30:44] Speaker B: With crazy hair where the escape is.
[00:30:48] Speaker C: Good and we get our first ever introduction. Well, everybody's introduction to r universe. Not our first introduction to him.
[00:30:57] Speaker B: And my boy's just a badass from the beginning.
[00:31:01] Speaker C: I love r. He got the biggest.
[00:31:05] Speaker A: Applause moment in theater when I saw it. Absolutely. When he went up there and saved all those little droids blowing up. So funny.
[00:31:11] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:31:12] Speaker C: R-I-P astromechs. But, man, I love R.
He's always been my favorite. We're at the end of one episode of television, right, Johnny?
[00:31:24] Speaker B: All right, the Naboo episode.
[00:31:26] Speaker C: The Naboo episode. And then we get the middle section that could itself be three or four episodes of television where we have to make an emergency pit stop in Tatooine.
[00:31:38] Speaker A: And do a race for your own freedom.
[00:31:40] Speaker B: Like you do and do a race.
[00:31:43] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:31:44] Speaker B: It's so funny because I remember I.
[00:31:47] Speaker A: Fell asleep to this movie for years, and I'd always stay awake till they escape naboo usually fall asleep somewhere in.
[00:31:52] Speaker B: Tatooine and then get woken up by.
[00:31:54] Speaker A: Duel the fates to watch that and.
[00:31:56] Speaker B: Then go back to sleep. Yeah.
And I also remember playing, like, Star.
[00:32:00] Speaker A: Wars CCG, like, really late into the night with my friends, and we'd always.
[00:32:03] Speaker B: Put this movie on, and we always.
[00:32:07] Speaker A: Call Tatooine, like, the boring part, but I was like, tatooine.
[00:32:10] Speaker C: I mean, there's just a lot in Tatooine.
That's the problem with tattoo.
[00:32:18] Speaker A: We were kids. We were like, yeah, they're walking around talking.
[00:32:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:22] Speaker A: Well, and also, it's interesting because it's very similar.
[00:32:25] Speaker B: It's one of the sections of almost the whole saga that's most similar to.
[00:32:30] Speaker A: Akira Kurosawa because it's not really actiony. It's all based on chances of fate and luck. It's the western section before the padres.
Yeah, exactly.
[00:32:41] Speaker B: The western samurai part.
[00:32:45] Speaker A: Samurai and western share like, that kind of cinema shares a lot in common, and Star wars melds them together more.
[00:32:52] Speaker B: Than they already are. Yeah. Oh, man, I forgot.
[00:32:55] Speaker C: That fucking Padme orders Queen Amidala to clean up r herself.
[00:33:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:04] Speaker B: Rude.
[00:33:06] Speaker C: How rude.
[00:33:07] Speaker A: It's actually, sabe, if you want to.
[00:33:10] Speaker B: Know Sabe is her name.
[00:33:13] Speaker A: Sabe is cheer Knightley's name. Yes.
[00:33:16] Speaker B: Okay.
It just makes sense that R becomes.
[00:33:21] Speaker C: Becomes her droid.
[00:33:22] Speaker B: It's so good.
[00:33:27] Speaker C: The queen going as Padme and telling qui gon all this.
[00:33:33] Speaker B: Shit, like, the queen doesn't approve of.
[00:33:35] Speaker C: What you're doing, and he's like, you shut up. I know what the queen wants.
[00:33:40] Speaker A: I love it when Captain Panaka really annoyed that she's going with him.
[00:33:44] Speaker B: He's like, the queen demands you take.
[00:33:46] Speaker A: A handmaiden with you. He's just like, really? Like, okay, I really don't think it's a good idea.
[00:33:51] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:33:51] Speaker C: And then we get introduced to Jake Lloyd.
[00:33:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:33:57] Speaker C: Jake Lloyd was the hero to eleven year old David.
[00:34:02] Speaker B: But.
[00:34:04] Speaker C: The weakness in review.
He's trying his hardest. It's just hard to be a child actor, dude.
[00:34:14] Speaker A: It is hard, especially in a production that big. And I feel bad for him.
[00:34:18] Speaker C: Yeah, he does.
[00:34:19] Speaker A: He didn't deserve all the criticism.
[00:34:21] Speaker C: Yeah, he does what he can do, but he's what, like eight or nine?
He's only got so much that he can build on, so he does an adequate job.
Natalie Portman could very easily act rings around him, but you can tell that.
[00:34:38] Speaker B: She'S trying to normalize to him.
And so that feels a little weird.
[00:34:45] Speaker C: But it's better that they're both a little awkward versus him being a little awkward and her just being bombad actor.
[00:34:54] Speaker B: Right.
[00:34:55] Speaker A: No, I agree.
This is a problem with the script. Like, the original version, he was 13. Even that could be maybe like 15 or 16 might make more sense.
[00:35:06] Speaker B: Yeah, but it was the time of.
[00:35:09] Speaker A: Home alone and kids movies were big, and it was the time of you had to have a kid in it.
[00:35:15] Speaker C: Also, it was all of the people who saw Star wars when it came out. Their kids were about this guy's age.
[00:35:24] Speaker B: So it made sense.
[00:35:26] Speaker C: It made sense.
[00:35:28] Speaker B: It was an artistic gamble that paid off.
[00:35:32] Speaker C: It paid huge dividends.
[00:35:35] Speaker A: Well, what's crazy about these now is everyone just accepts them as part of the movies. And people love the prequels now, which.
[00:35:41] Speaker B: Is really refreshing to see after the people who are now. I guess now would be 50 or so.
[00:35:49] Speaker A: Gen X, like, really were really mean to these movies.
[00:35:53] Speaker C: Sorry, sorry. Jar Jar was just juggling the power supplies.
But, yeah, it's good to see people have come around.
[00:36:06] Speaker A: Are you watching it?
[00:36:07] Speaker B: Are you, like, scrubbing?
[00:36:08] Speaker C: I'm scrubbing through. And so they're at Watto's right now. And Jar Jar was just being a doofus with all the. Don't touch anything.
[00:36:14] Speaker A: Another possibly problematic character that I love. I love Watto.
[00:36:17] Speaker C: Watto's pretty great.
[00:36:19] Speaker B: He's a grump.
[00:36:20] Speaker A: He's a grump. He's got little wings. I had a wado toy. It was one of my favorite action figures.
[00:36:26] Speaker C: His three day stubble. Oh, man, he looks like haunt there. He's scared of razors now.
[00:36:32] Speaker A: Yeah, he's got the haunt stubble. And you get the pod race, which is a huge.
[00:36:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:38] Speaker A: Giant thing.
[00:36:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:39] Speaker C: They're talking about they ain't got no money. And then they get to go to Anakin and his mom's little Hovel, and.
[00:36:46] Speaker B: We get to meet unfinished c three po.
[00:36:51] Speaker C: And as I said to you while.
[00:36:53] Speaker B: I was watching it again, oh, I love Anakin's room is just like.
[00:36:58] Speaker C: They went to the toy aisle at Walmart and then bought all of the toys and then painted them all silver.
[00:37:05] Speaker A: Yeah, they have, like, there's that one, like, wicked.
[00:37:08] Speaker C: There's a ball.
RTD two is my favorite.
[00:37:14] Speaker A: Something funny about something on that shelf that's been, I guess you call it.
[00:37:17] Speaker B: A retcon, is that he has a.
[00:37:21] Speaker A: Little statue of Maz Canada on his shelf, because there's a statue that looks very much like Maz Canada.
[00:37:25] Speaker B: So he just, like, retconned it and.
[00:37:27] Speaker A: Said it's a little statue of a.
[00:37:28] Speaker B: Pirate queen, but, yeah. R favorite.
[00:37:32] Speaker C: And in the Force Awakens, the first thing r says to his oldest friend, c three po, after waking up from a ten year coma, is some foul language.
And in this movie, we learn that the first thing r ever says to c three po is basically, dude, your dick's out because he says my parts are showing.
[00:37:56] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. He laughs at him.
[00:38:02] Speaker C: Oh, man.
[00:38:04] Speaker B: The r po dynamic is my favorite.
[00:38:10] Speaker C: Because r two is always right, and c three po is just neurotic as fuck and will take any credit that he can, even if it's not justified.
[00:38:22] Speaker B: Captain Solo.
[00:38:23] Speaker A: Captain Solo. Yeah.
[00:38:24] Speaker C: So tying back to what you said about you're glad that people have finally come back around the Clone wars series so heavily, was like, here's good shit. It's all based on the prequels, and you love this shit. That means you now love the prequels. And I think a lot of people.
[00:38:42] Speaker B: Have just been help.
[00:38:46] Speaker C: They didn't spend too much time being like, hey, we got to fix this thing that not everybody likes. They got to say, hey, we did it.
[00:38:51] Speaker B: We're going forward.
[00:38:52] Speaker C: We can make good stories out of this.
[00:38:57] Speaker B: Not everything has to be 100% what.
[00:39:01] Speaker C: Everybody wants all the time, but they keep it consistent, and it's beautiful.
[00:39:07] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a great playground. This whole prequel area, there's many factions and just a lot going on. It's really fun. A literal sandbox is, like, a part of the culture.
[00:39:20] Speaker B: A literal sandbox.
[00:39:22] Speaker C: Jar Jar getting his head in the energy couplers and then getting his hands stuck.
And Anakin just, like, not giving a shit. He's like, yeah, I'm going to turn on. Anakin can see him, and he's like, I'm just going to turn on this engine here. So I'm just going to turn it on.
And then Padme has to come over and be like, come on, jar jar, get your hand out of there.
[00:39:48] Speaker B: But I can imagine that Anakin would have just been like, floop.
[00:39:53] Speaker C: Like, everybody's just like, oh, jar Jar's stuck.
[00:39:56] Speaker B: And then they leave him.
[00:39:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. Like, there's those kids watching and like.
[00:40:04] Speaker C: Even qui gon's like, okay, go ahead, go ahead. Here, use this battery. Go ahead and start. It's like, yeah, use this.
The blood sample that qui Gon can send via his little cell phone.
[00:40:16] Speaker B: So awesome cell phone, that is.
[00:40:19] Speaker A: Speaking of things spray painted silver. Cell phones are made out of razors.
[00:40:23] Speaker C: Yeah.
So funny. Oh, man, every time.
[00:40:28] Speaker A: Cool. It was very tactile.
[00:40:30] Speaker C: Yeah, my mom had one of those, and I can still feel, like, the.
[00:40:34] Speaker B: Rubberized grip on it.
[00:40:36] Speaker A: No, I know my stepmom had one, and I would, like, in the shower, I would pick it up, act like it was a communicator.
[00:40:45] Speaker B: That's fun.
[00:40:46] Speaker C: Oh, man, that guy's got a crazy hat.
So the tonal shift every time that Darth maul comes on screen, it just immediately snaps to so serious. So all of the rest of this shit is goofy, but then the sith.
[00:41:00] Speaker B: Show up and serious, and it's a.
[00:41:05] Speaker C: Wonderful little base to play in because there's all of this.
[00:41:09] Speaker B: The whole movie is pretty goofy, but there is an underlying menace, if you.
[00:41:16] Speaker C: Will, throughout the whole thing, that even.
[00:41:17] Speaker A: Though a phantom menace, one might say.
[00:41:20] Speaker B: Even though this silly shit is like.
[00:41:24] Speaker C: There are actual stakes. And that's something I never appreciated before. I just thought Darth Maul looked cool.
[00:41:29] Speaker B: But the whole tonal shift every time he shows up is wonderful.
[00:41:35] Speaker A: And the build up to the duel and just like they use him, it's.
[00:41:40] Speaker B: Just funny to see how it went.
[00:41:43] Speaker A: With the other villains, especially just, like, so over the top with grievous and stuff and overused. But they use Darth Maul sparingly and very effectively. People used to shit on that and.
[00:41:52] Speaker B: Be like, oh, he's brilliant in the movie.
[00:41:54] Speaker A: It's like. That's why he works. Mysterious.
[00:41:56] Speaker C: He's like jaws.
[00:41:57] Speaker A: Cool.
[00:41:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:58] Speaker C: He's probably only in, like, 15 minutes.
[00:42:00] Speaker B: Of the movie total. Oh, man.
[00:42:02] Speaker C: I love the pod race.
[00:42:03] Speaker A: Generous.
[00:42:05] Speaker C: There are so many characters introduced in the pod racing scene. I love each of the pod racers. There's that dude with the crocodile snout.
The dude with the four.
[00:42:16] Speaker A: The guy with the crocodile stout is dud bolt.
[00:42:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:42:19] Speaker C: There's the dude with quad in his name who has the four engines, who's just, like, egg shaped, but doesn't know how to use his own machine. Like, it doesn't work immediately.
[00:42:30] Speaker A: Ben Quadineros.
[00:42:31] Speaker C: He just starts slapping, and he's like, work.
I love the announcer.
[00:42:39] Speaker A: Ben.
[00:42:39] Speaker B: It's Ben.
[00:42:42] Speaker C: I love the announcer.
[00:42:43] Speaker A: I thought you'd like that. His name's just Ben Quagineros. Gascano's cool.
[00:42:48] Speaker B: Matt. Yeah, I love.
[00:42:51] Speaker C: This is the second poop joke for Jar Jar Binks, because he initially steps in some poop, and then one of.
[00:42:58] Speaker B: The little camel things farts at him and eopy.
[00:43:04] Speaker A: This is just me saying the names of things that you.
[00:43:09] Speaker C: Fine. That's fine. I love how Suboba does a little bit of sabotage.
[00:43:13] Speaker B: That obviously, that part wasn't needed because.
[00:43:17] Speaker C: It doesn't do any good until it, like, it's not connected to anything. And when it falls off, it's as connected as it was when subulba breaks.
Man, there was a character rules.
[00:43:33] Speaker A: I remember one time I was talking.
[00:43:35] Speaker B: To Bran, and I was like, suboba's great.
[00:43:40] Speaker A: He's not racist. And I bet, like, racist characters. Bran was like, hold on. Suboba's definitely a racist, but he's not a racist.
Subulba, the character, probably a racist.
[00:43:51] Speaker C: Yeah, he doesn't like anybody who doesn't look like him.
[00:43:54] Speaker A: He doesn't like humans.
[00:43:55] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:43:55] Speaker A: That's for sure.
[00:43:56] Speaker B: Calls him Banthapudu.
[00:43:58] Speaker C: Yeah. So I discovered myself the name of.
[00:44:01] Speaker B: A character that I just never noticed before.
[00:44:06] Speaker C: I guess I had seen them, but I didn't focus on it. But rum slag, johnny.
I love rum sleg because, a, I love a space suit. B, I love a skeleton in a spacesuit. And what is rum sleg but a.
[00:44:21] Speaker B: Skeleton in a spacesuit?
[00:44:23] Speaker A: Yeah, he's just, like, in a couple shots.
[00:44:25] Speaker C: Yeah, he's in one shot.
It's just like the town in Tatooine before the pod race, and he just walks across the screen. That's it.
[00:44:35] Speaker B: That's all he's in. He's so great, man.
So we got pod race.
[00:44:41] Speaker C: Pod race. Pod race. As I said before, the pod race could be an entire episode unto itself.
[00:44:48] Speaker B: I love.
[00:44:50] Speaker C: It's just like all the characters. All the characters, like, you get the.
[00:44:53] Speaker B: Tuscans are there, the huts are there.
[00:44:58] Speaker A: Jawas are there, jawas are there.
And it's such a testament to those new. Because all these new theaters were coming out with the Dolby and the THX sound, and the pod race was like.
[00:45:14] Speaker B: A sound designer's dream job.
[00:45:20] Speaker A: Each engine has its own noise and you get all the booms. There's no music. It's just, like, silent with all the sounds. It's cool. I'm sure Ben Burt had a field day doing that.
[00:45:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:45:28] Speaker C: And you also know George Lucas was like, hey, can you make it like this car and this car and this car? Because we know George Lucas likes his 1950s car culture. That was literally his first car nerd.
[00:45:40] Speaker B: One of his first movies.
[00:45:42] Speaker C: His biggest non Star wars movie, maybe?
[00:45:48] Speaker B: Yes. American graffiti. Because, I mean, people.
[00:45:51] Speaker A: He made THX 1138, american graffiti and.
[00:45:54] Speaker B: Two Star wars and Temple of Doom.
He didn't direct it.
[00:46:00] Speaker C: He didn't direct Temple of Doom. Oh, yeah.
[00:46:02] Speaker A: That's a thing Spielberg did.
[00:46:04] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:46:05] Speaker C: That's a thing.
[00:46:06] Speaker A: He was involved in it pretty heavily. They were both going through a divorce. That's why it's so mean.
[00:46:10] Speaker C: My mom hates Temple of doom because she thinks Billy is an idiot. She's like, marion Ravenwood is just a badass and Billy's a ditch.
[00:46:21] Speaker A: Willie. Sorry. It's Willie.
[00:46:22] Speaker C: It's Willie. I thought it was this my whole life.
[00:46:26] Speaker B: Her name was Billy.
Willie Scott.
[00:46:30] Speaker C: Jesus.
[00:46:31] Speaker B: What an idiot. What an idiot.
[00:46:32] Speaker A: Willie Scott.
[00:46:33] Speaker B: Cool name.
[00:46:35] Speaker C: One of my favorite things.
[00:46:36] Speaker A: I don't know. I love Temple of Doom because it was, like, the only horror movie I had access to.
[00:46:40] Speaker C: It was the one I wasn't allowed.
[00:46:41] Speaker B: To watch for the longest time because it was gross.
[00:46:45] Speaker A: It's really gross. I mean, it's, like, disgusting.
[00:46:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:46:50] Speaker C: I like how there's a subplot in this movie Johnny, which is just qui gon handing shit to Anakin.
Like, every third scene. He's like, here, hold this. Here, you use this one.
[00:47:08] Speaker A: I got this for you. Anakin.
[00:47:10] Speaker B: Anakin, this is for you.
[00:47:11] Speaker C: Oh, we completely skipped over the midichlorian count.
So as weird Al, people make a.
[00:47:20] Speaker A: Big deal about that. It doesn't really bother me. Never bothered me. I don't know. Whatever. I'm sure the Jedi are fucked up.
[00:47:25] Speaker B: And have weird things, as weird Al.
[00:47:28] Speaker C: Would say in the saga. Begins.
Midichlorians are off the scale, and he.
[00:47:34] Speaker B: Might just fulfill that prophecy.
So, Johnny, that was restraint. My introduction to weird Al was the saga begins video playing at blockbuster between.
[00:47:53] Speaker C: The theatrical release and the release of the VHS. And I was like, who is that? My mom was like, oh, that's weird Al. And I was like, I must have.
[00:48:02] Speaker B: So I must listen to this.
[00:48:05] Speaker C: Thank you, George Lucas, for turning me.
[00:48:08] Speaker B: On to the world's least problematic celebrity. Holy shit.
[00:48:16] Speaker C: You cannot dig up dirt on weird Al because it doesn't exist.
[00:48:22] Speaker B: He is nice.
[00:48:23] Speaker A: Good job, weird Al.
[00:48:25] Speaker C: He's fucking great.
[00:48:26] Speaker B: I love weird Al, man. Have you seen weird with Daniel Radcliffe?
[00:48:31] Speaker A: I haven't watched it yet.
[00:48:33] Speaker C: It's wonderful. It's wonderful. Oh, man, I love weird Al.
Padme always rolls her eyes every time I bring it up. She watched weird with me, though.
How about your padme, Johnny? What's Padme's resume when it comes to.
[00:48:53] Speaker B: Star wars and you.
[00:48:56] Speaker A: So we watched.
[00:49:01] Speaker B: Padme likes the Force.
[00:49:03] Speaker A: Awakens and the Last Jedi.
[00:49:05] Speaker B: She likes the new trilogy.
[00:49:06] Speaker A: She likes ray. She's seen the old ones. Doesn't really care. I did on the 20th anniversary.
[00:49:13] Speaker B: I had our friend Logan over and his Padme and my padme, and we watched the Phantom Menace in 4K.
[00:49:20] Speaker A: Glorious four k. Oh, beautiful. And we watched the whole movie. And her review was.
[00:49:25] Speaker B: I mean, it was cool.
[00:49:27] Speaker A: It was just the dialogue. Everyone just said what they were doing.
[00:49:30] Speaker C: The dialogue was just really was a. There was a laser printer in Anakin's room.
Straight up laser printer.
[00:49:39] Speaker A: Oh, that's awesome. A laser printer. No, I mean, she liked it. She was like, it was good. It looked awesome. I liked all that stuff.
[00:49:46] Speaker B: But it was just.
[00:49:47] Speaker A: The dialogue was bad, but it was good on her for watching it.
[00:49:51] Speaker C: Padme's like, yeah, I'm not going to watch the prequels she has watched. So she likes the new trilogy. She loved.
[00:50:01] Speaker B: The last Jedi. Yeah, the last Jedi.
[00:50:03] Speaker C: She loved the last Jedi.
[00:50:05] Speaker B: Like, that's her favorite Star wars movie.
[00:50:08] Speaker C: She tolerated the original trilogy.
I had a friend who gave me.
[00:50:12] Speaker B: A copy of the dvd version of the original theatrical cuts that were hidden as a special feature on a dvd.
[00:50:24] Speaker C: Like the dvd release.
[00:50:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:50:26] Speaker C: So he gave me a digital copy of those, and we watched those, and she was just like. She was more interested in the fact that we had a hospice dog who he was a miniature pincher, so he was always laying under blankets. And the first time Chewbacca comes on and yells about something, this little dog pokes his head out of the blanket and looks at the tv, and, like, that guy owes me.
[00:50:51] Speaker A: Guy.
[00:50:52] Speaker C: Little Jimmy loved Chewbacca.
Like, anytime Chewbacca came up on anything, he was running to the tv, and Chewbacca, it was.
[00:51:04] Speaker B: That's, uh.
[00:51:07] Speaker C: She didn't like rogue one because she hates a heist film.
[00:51:10] Speaker B: And, johnny, I don't understand how you don't like a heist film.
I like heist films.
[00:51:18] Speaker A: I don't particularly like Rogue one.
[00:51:19] Speaker C: I like rogue one. But Padme just doesn't like the heist storyline at all in anything. Even if it's a show she loves, if it's a heist episode, she's like, is this a heist episode? And I'm like, yeah. And she's like.
[00:51:36] Speaker A: I don't like a heist. Interesting. I love a heist. You got to know what to do. You got to get the plan. You got to get the guys. You get the heist.
[00:51:43] Speaker C: Yeah. She liked the first season of Mando.
[00:51:46] Speaker B: Because she loves baby Yoda.
[00:51:49] Speaker C: She fell off on that afterwards because she was like, it's too much to keep up on. I know. I love baby Yoda.
[00:51:55] Speaker B: That's all I care about.
[00:51:57] Speaker C: She was real excited to hear about Jack Black and Lizzo, though, because we both, in this house, we stand Jack Black.
That man is precious.
[00:52:06] Speaker B: I think everyone does.
[00:52:08] Speaker C: I finally got her to watch school.
[00:52:10] Speaker B: Of rock, and she wasn't as enamored.
[00:52:15] Speaker C: With it as I had hoped she would be. But she was like, oh, yeah, it's.
[00:52:17] Speaker B: A good movie because it's great.
I love that movie.
[00:52:22] Speaker C: Darth Maul runs over Anakin and then does.
[00:52:29] Speaker B: With Qui gon there and then there.
[00:52:32] Speaker C: Padme accidentally outs herself as the queen to Anakin, but he doesn't know what's going on.
[00:52:38] Speaker B: He's just shivering in the corner.
[00:52:41] Speaker C: So I love seeing this again this.
[00:52:46] Speaker B: Weekend, watching that, like, the terror in.
[00:52:50] Speaker C: Her eyes when she sees that. Oh, shit. Somebody saw me actually getting a message for myself while I'm dressed as Padme.
[00:52:58] Speaker B: Was fucking Jar Jar.
[00:53:02] Speaker C: Bink's just sleeping at the.
[00:53:07] Speaker A: Like, he's, like, snoring in his ears, like, flapping over his mouth.
[00:53:10] Speaker C: Oh, George Lucas knew what he was about when he said he loved Jar.
[00:53:14] Speaker B: Jar because that dude's goofy.
[00:53:18] Speaker A: So I went to Star wars celebration was in Chicago in 2019, and I went, and when you sign up, you just get random.
You get certain tickets to certain events where you're in the room for things. And I was in the room for. Well, I wasn't in the room.
[00:53:34] Speaker B: I was in one of the overflow rooms.
[00:53:37] Speaker A: But there was mc and stuff for the Phantom Menace 20th anniversary panel.
And at the end, George Lucas had a message.
[00:53:46] Speaker B: He came on, he goes, hi, it's George Lucas.
[00:53:49] Speaker A: The Phantom Menace is my favorite Star wars movie, and Jar Jar Binks is my favorite character.
[00:53:53] Speaker C: Yeah, I know.
Yeah, I think you've told me that before.
[00:53:56] Speaker B: And that's awesome. That's awesome. I mean, the man's not afraid to say that he likes what he likes.
[00:54:04] Speaker C: And that's literally Star wars. If you like a Star wars, like.
[00:54:08] Speaker B: A Star wars, don't complain about it.
[00:54:13] Speaker C: Everybody wants to paint George Lucas as sort of this evil man who has too much power too quickly and just kind of wants to fuck stuff up. But no, he just wants to have a good time.
[00:54:27] Speaker A: He's really interested in technology, and maybe he's more interested that than the storytelling.
[00:54:32] Speaker B: But that's just his interest.
[00:54:34] Speaker C: He's very much got the Todd father energy where he's like, he wants to play with his toys. Now, granted, when Dave Filoni plays with his toys, he comes up with a.
[00:54:42] Speaker B: Better story, but he and George Lucas.
[00:54:45] Speaker C: Are just doing the same thing. They're like, and I got this guy, and he goes, and then that's what they do.
That's the whole process.
[00:54:54] Speaker B: It's great. Yep. And we're on Johnny right now.
[00:54:58] Speaker C: We are on my favorite cyberpunk city.
[00:55:02] Speaker B: City, Coruscant city planet.
[00:55:06] Speaker C: I'm very confused by this, though, because when they arrive on planet's a whole city.
[00:55:10] Speaker B: When they arrive on Coruscant, the sun is shining, and that is the only.
[00:55:16] Speaker C: Time the sun is ever shining on Coruscant. All the rest of the times you see it, it's dark in Coruscant.
[00:55:22] Speaker A: Who knows how big the planet is?
[00:55:24] Speaker B: Maybe a day is like 48 hours.
[00:55:26] Speaker A: And they came. They're only there for a little bit.
[00:55:29] Speaker C: Well, no, not even just in this.
[00:55:30] Speaker A: Only there one night.
[00:55:31] Speaker C: Not even just in this movie like all of the rest.
[00:55:36] Speaker A: Daytime in episode three, we do you say in daytime in episode two, it's.
[00:55:41] Speaker B: Just very bright here.
[00:55:43] Speaker C: And I don't ever remember seeing it so bright.
[00:55:46] Speaker B: I mean, especially in episode two, where it's pretty bright.
[00:55:49] Speaker C: Especially in the cartoons where it's always dark because it's menacing and it's the dwar cyberpunky.
[00:55:57] Speaker A: No, it's not always. There's a lot of light. Croissant. You need to rewatch their other ones. You started this journey. You got to watch episode two.
[00:56:04] Speaker C: Now, you do realize that I've only seen episode two and episode three once, right? That was the beginning of my. There's no time to watch stuff twice. Only once is fine.
[00:56:14] Speaker B: We got these just once.
[00:56:16] Speaker C: These lush apartments that Amadala then stays in for basically all of clone wars.
[00:56:22] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, she got some nice.
[00:56:23] Speaker A: She got a nice ass.
[00:56:24] Speaker B: It's.
[00:56:26] Speaker C: Man, Palpatine is. He's laying the groundwork, all of the shit here. And it's wonderful.
[00:56:35] Speaker A: German's awesome.
[00:56:36] Speaker C: They name drop our favorite Star wars character as portrayed by Jimmy Smith's bale.
[00:56:44] Speaker B: Organa, indeed, adoptive father of Leia.
[00:56:50] Speaker C: So very exciting.
[00:56:51] Speaker A: He was originally cast and in the movie, there's like images of him on the trading cards and promo images. They just cut his scenes. It wasn't Jimmy Smith.
[00:56:59] Speaker C: So thank God, man. I love Jimmy Smith. He always does a good job.
[00:57:04] Speaker B: We got the Jedi council with all the aliens.
[00:57:09] Speaker C: Yoda's being a little jerk. He's not a.
Yoda's a jota. Yoda's a bristly little.
[00:57:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:57:22] Speaker A: What do you think about this Yoda puppet?
[00:57:23] Speaker B: It was controversial. Oh, I guess you didn't see the puppet. Yeah.
[00:57:28] Speaker C: So this is I'm watching on Disney plus. So he's totally cg.
[00:57:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:57:33] Speaker A: So it's cg. The puppet's gone.
[00:57:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:57:36] Speaker C: Rip puppet.
[00:57:37] Speaker A: Thank God I got my.
[00:57:44] Speaker C: Cg already. It looks pretty good.
[00:57:46] Speaker B: I mean, it's the same one from.
[00:57:48] Speaker A: Episode two and three. That's good.
[00:57:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
We got little Anakin being like, I'm.
[00:57:55] Speaker C: Going to go with the Jedi now.
[00:57:56] Speaker B: And then Padme being actual Amadala and.
[00:58:02] Speaker C: Being like, we'll tell Padme for you.
[00:58:04] Speaker B: Her heart's growth with you.
[00:58:07] Speaker C: Then we get the.
[00:58:08] Speaker A: We'll tell her for you.
[00:58:09] Speaker B: We are sure her hawker's with you.
We get the senate scene.
[00:58:15] Speaker A: I mentioned the podcast before, David, but I have this entire movie memorized.
[00:58:20] Speaker B: We're at the senate where I'm looking for the ETS.
[00:58:24] Speaker C: Where are the ETS?
[00:58:26] Speaker B: They're in here somewhere. They're in there.
[00:58:29] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. You got to find the ETS. There's some Wookie senators in there.
[00:58:33] Speaker C: This Natalie Portman does an excellent job.
[00:58:36] Speaker B: Of just literally Amidala breaks at this.
[00:58:43] Speaker C: Is she knows what she wants.
[00:58:45] Speaker B: And she's like, this senate is here to help people with my flight.
[00:58:49] Speaker C: And then when all of the stuff she's trying to ignore from Palpatine comes true and she has to push for the vote of no.
Like, you can just visually see her.
[00:59:00] Speaker B: Be like, fuck, it's so good.
[00:59:05] Speaker A: She's really good in this.
[00:59:07] Speaker B: Natalie Portman's a good actor.
I like Natalie Portman.
[00:59:11] Speaker A: I like the crisscant stuff.
[00:59:13] Speaker B: Yeah, me too.
[00:59:14] Speaker A: I had a huge. Oh, my God.
[00:59:15] Speaker B: I was like, sweet.
[00:59:16] Speaker A: Eleven year old John Fisher. I was like the biggest crush in the world on Natalie Portman at the time, man.
[00:59:21] Speaker C: Since we're talking about it. Buff Natalie Portman in the new Thor movie.
[00:59:25] Speaker B: Oh, mama, I love me a buff Natalie Portman.
[00:59:29] Speaker C: There they are at the ets.
[00:59:32] Speaker B: You found them. I still haven't watched that. It's good.
[00:59:36] Speaker C: It's wackadoo.
[00:59:38] Speaker B: It's good.
Okay.
[00:59:41] Speaker C: A lot of people.
[00:59:42] Speaker A: He's making a Star wars.
[00:59:43] Speaker C: A lot of people don't like it when movies get goofy. But fuck, man.
Have some fun, Johnny.
Entertainment is supposed to be fun.
It can't be all dour all the time.
[00:59:59] Speaker B: What?
[01:00:00] Speaker C: Yeah, fun. Please explain fun.
[01:00:01] Speaker B: Ooh, they're looking at a sunset. What do you mean by fun?
[01:00:05] Speaker C: Well, Webster's dictionary defines fun as it just says c spawn.
Then we got Anakin doing the psychic test from Ghostbusters.
[01:00:24] Speaker A: Yep.
[01:00:25] Speaker C: Literally. Oh, man.
[01:00:27] Speaker B: With a little data pad.
[01:00:29] Speaker C: Little data pad. And mace. Windows.
[01:00:31] Speaker B: Mace windows.
[01:00:33] Speaker C: Mace window.
[01:00:36] Speaker A: He gets thrown out a window in episode three.
[01:00:38] Speaker C: They're looking at a lot of windows.
Jar Jar Binks trying.
[01:00:42] Speaker B: Jar Jar Binks trying to console Padme.
[01:00:47] Speaker A: No, this is a great scene because.
[01:00:49] Speaker B: It'S him admitting he wants to fight.
[01:00:52] Speaker A: For his people, too.
[01:00:53] Speaker B: And this is a thing where.
[01:00:54] Speaker A: And I don't want to be like, oh, cinema sins or whatever, but one thing you could fix is if just.
[01:00:59] Speaker B: There was a slight turn in Jar.
[01:01:01] Speaker A: Jar and after the scene, it sets it up. And he wasn't scared of being a general, and he embraced it. I think no one would have really. It would really help the character a lot.
[01:01:10] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:01:11] Speaker A: And wasn't as goofy at the end.
[01:01:14] Speaker C: But then he immediately, when they board the ship goes, we're going home.
As if the whole reason for going home is a celebration. Like, no, dude, everybody is upset.
The queen is like, I'm probably going to die.
The Jedi's are both like, go home.
[01:01:36] Speaker A: He gets to get a brisky morning munche.
[01:01:38] Speaker C: Yeah, he wants to go fry up.
[01:01:40] Speaker B: A gooberfish or something.
Oh, big gooberfish.
[01:01:44] Speaker A: Huge.
[01:01:45] Speaker B: Or tea.
We go back to the boo.
[01:01:47] Speaker A: We get some great Boston ass action. They talk to Boston ass.
[01:01:51] Speaker B: It's very exciting.
[01:01:55] Speaker C: I love how when all of the ships land on Naboo, they find the perfect little clearing and then just, like, disappear into it.
[01:02:03] Speaker B: It's fun. It's fun.
[01:02:05] Speaker C: And then we get the reveal of Padme being the queen and Jar Jar's double take is like, his eyes.
His eyes almost fall off their little stock.
I love how easily everybody just rolls with it. And then qui gon, I just realized.
[01:02:25] Speaker B: Qui gon's face, he's like, oh, shit.
[01:02:31] Speaker A: Oh. He's like, damn, she pulled one over on me.
[01:02:34] Speaker C: And then he remembers what he did, like, gambling all of their stuff on Anakin.
[01:02:40] Speaker B: And he's like, oh, man.
[01:02:50] Speaker C: R just beep booping in the background.
[01:02:53] Speaker B: Oh, man. Fuck.
[01:02:54] Speaker C: All the little bitty, tiny gungans.
[01:02:58] Speaker A: All kinds of gungans.
[01:03:00] Speaker B: Tattoos, fambas.
[01:03:05] Speaker C: Man.
[01:03:06] Speaker B: Boss Nas is the man.
[01:03:09] Speaker A: I had the boss Nas action figure, but I remember there was just, like.
[01:03:13] Speaker B: Bins and bins of boss Nas that were unbought.
It's fun because he speaks the same.
[01:03:21] Speaker C: Way Jar Jar does, but he's not a doofus.
[01:03:26] Speaker B: And it's fun. It's fun.
[01:03:29] Speaker A: Jar Jar Binks and Boston ass together are very sam and twitch duo.
[01:03:35] Speaker C: Just, like, body swapped.
[01:03:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:03:40] Speaker C: It's like if Sam were the skinny guy, right?
[01:03:46] Speaker A: There's that scene where he's like, you're now a general.
[01:03:51] Speaker C: A bomb bad general, he says, used.
[01:03:53] Speaker A: To be bomb bad general.
[01:03:57] Speaker C: Oh, vas ness is great.
[01:03:59] Speaker A: And then you kind of go into, basically the big, giant climax is, like, these four separate things going on.
[01:04:05] Speaker B: You have the space battle, the ground battle, the queen battle, and the duel of the. Yeah, it's very good.
[01:04:16] Speaker C: I have a feeling that Peter Jackson. I guess they would have been filming it around the same time, but this image of the gungans going to war is very reminiscent of the.
I can't remember what race they are, but the guys with the olephants marching to Eisengard.
[01:04:35] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, the easternlings.
[01:04:37] Speaker B: Yeah, the ones that are racist. Yeah.
[01:04:41] Speaker C: Well, I mean, all of them are racist.
[01:04:44] Speaker A: That's true.
[01:04:44] Speaker C: Tolkien was definitely a.
[01:04:49] Speaker B: Fucking, like when.
[01:04:52] Speaker C: When he literally wrote down the reasons that he portrayed dwarves in a certain way is because of the characteristics of a certain group of people that he doesn't really like. For that reason, it's kind of hard to get away from.
[01:05:09] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
Okay.
[01:05:11] Speaker C: Yeah, I think it was in a personal correspondence.
[01:05:13] Speaker B: If I'm wrong, always.
[01:05:15] Speaker C: You can email us at regarding
[email protected].
[01:05:18] Speaker B: And tell me that I'm wrong about Tolkien.
No, don't.
I love the little flashlights that they're.
[01:05:27] Speaker C: Sending images or messages back and forth with across the courtyard.
Amadala's little pistol is so fun.
[01:05:38] Speaker A: It's like the best noise.
[01:05:39] Speaker B: Wow.
[01:05:41] Speaker C: It's like a shrunken down version of a 1950s spaceshow gun. Ray gun.
[01:05:50] Speaker A: It's really ray gun. Yeah. So cool. And just the green lasers makes great noise. It's very powerful.
[01:05:55] Speaker B: I always loved her.
[01:05:57] Speaker A: Get up here with the red, like, the battle fatigues.
[01:06:01] Speaker B: It's cool.
[01:06:01] Speaker C: So the major issue.
[01:06:03] Speaker B: Ascension guns. Yeah.
[01:06:05] Speaker A: Climb up with the grappling hooks.
[01:06:07] Speaker C: Those are super cool. The major issue I have with this last whole part is everybody walking.
[01:06:13] Speaker B: Walks like they're walking too fast in.
[01:06:18] Speaker C: Comparison to the CGI things that they're trying to walk around.
Some of the scenes show, and it's a little weird, like when they're being escorted later on once they get captured and they get escorted to the trade federation. Guys.
Yeah, the naboo royalty group is walking way too fast for those clankers.
[01:06:40] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[01:06:41] Speaker A: Yeah, clank.
[01:06:42] Speaker B: You get a nice close up of a shot from behind and below of a battle droid. And they've got.
[01:06:53] Speaker C: Their spine is shaped such that their butt sticks out.
[01:06:59] Speaker A: Yeah, they got little booties.
[01:07:00] Speaker C: Look at my little robot butt. The Federation ship activating all the droids.
[01:07:05] Speaker B: Look at them go.
[01:07:10] Speaker C: I love the little blue balls that the Gungans are flinging as the robots or the droids.
[01:07:18] Speaker B: Yeah, the energy balls.
[01:07:19] Speaker A: Those are cool. And just a little, like, energy goo.
[01:07:22] Speaker C: Wow, man. Some of the best is just Jar jar fucking up the whole thing every time. But he still manages to take out, like, so many droids with his goof them ups.
[01:07:35] Speaker A: Well, man, this seems historic because it's.
[01:07:36] Speaker B: The first kind of big CG army ever.
[01:07:41] Speaker A: We saw him try it in spawn. This is two years later.
[01:07:45] Speaker C: Jar Jar just tried to swing the energy ball around and then flew backwards with it because he forgot to let go.
[01:07:57] Speaker B: Oh, Jar Jar is good.
And then we get the reveal of Darth Maul.
And I've heard recently that somebody was.
[01:08:07] Speaker C: Like, they shouldn't have put the dual.
[01:08:09] Speaker B: Lightsaber reveal in the trailer. But, no.
[01:08:17] Speaker C: I think putting it in.
[01:08:18] Speaker B: The trailer works just fine, because then.
[01:08:22] Speaker C: You know, it's coming and having to stop here and be like, oh, holy shit.
[01:08:28] Speaker B: A dual lightsaber would have ground action to a halt.
[01:08:35] Speaker C: It's full bore, flat out just going, just going. And we don't have time for an.
[01:08:42] Speaker B: Applause break or, oh, my God.
[01:08:45] Speaker C: What was that? R.
How much do you think r involved in making sure that that plane left the.
[01:08:53] Speaker B: Or that that ship left the hangar? I think he flew at most of it.
[01:08:57] Speaker C: He was totally like, oh, no. What did you do, Anakin? You should go back.
[01:09:03] Speaker A: Yeah, he could have stopped it. He was like, let's go kick some ass.
[01:09:07] Speaker B: R two is a little stinker.
He knows what's up.
[01:09:11] Speaker C: He knows what's up. And then we got the weird hallway from the last crusade, where the penitent man kneels before God.
[01:09:21] Speaker A: Oh, where he kneels in between the. Where he kneels reactors.
[01:09:25] Speaker B: Yeah, he has to kneel to avoid.
[01:09:28] Speaker C: Getting his head cut off, and then he has to roll to avoid getting his knees cut off. I don't understand how Indiana Jones. Oh, I guess he probably could have.
[01:09:35] Speaker B: Seen the gap in the floor. But penitent men don't kneel and roll over. They just kneel. I don't know.
[01:09:42] Speaker A: Whenever I see God, I do a roll.
I do a tuck and roll.
[01:09:46] Speaker C: You do like a dog where you roll over and scratch my belly.
[01:09:49] Speaker B: Scratch. Oh.
[01:09:50] Speaker C: Jar Jar is just about to unload the trailer full of energy balls.
[01:09:57] Speaker B: Oh, no.
He's whoopsie.
[01:10:17] Speaker A: Laughing at that.
[01:10:18] Speaker C: Yeah, well, I'm watching it, and it's hilarious because he's running after him, and.
[01:10:27] Speaker A: They get all boomered.
[01:10:28] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[01:10:31] Speaker C: So good. And then he lands on the cannon, and then the general throws him. Throws him an energy ball, and he loses it right into a droid captain.
Captain, not general.
[01:10:47] Speaker B: It's cap. Dang it.
[01:10:49] Speaker A: No, but Jar Jar is the bomb. Bad general.
[01:10:53] Speaker C: Jar Jar does an excellent job of.
[01:10:55] Speaker B: Being a general, even though he's bad at it.
[01:10:59] Speaker C: That's part of the fun of Jar Jar, is he's so bad at everything he does, but somehow he ends up doing things correctly in the end.
[01:11:10] Speaker A: Love when captain tarpals goes, no, give up General Jaja. We suck something.
[01:11:16] Speaker B: We should give up.
[01:11:17] Speaker A: I give up.
[01:11:18] Speaker B: My give up.
Oh, man.
[01:11:21] Speaker C: Here they go. Here they go. Oh, they open this.
Obi Wan being stuck having to watch Qui Gon. I love how it spoilers for the last season of Clone wars, but I.
[01:11:36] Speaker B: Love how it comes back, because when.
[01:11:38] Speaker C: Obi Wan finally kills.
Finally kills mulch. Like, it's the exact same sort of.
[01:11:48] Speaker B: Lightsaber choreography that kills Qui Gon.
[01:11:53] Speaker C: Only Obi Wan has thought about that moment for how many years, and instead of making the mistake that Qui Gon did in going up as he goes.
[01:12:02] Speaker B: Down, it's real good.
[01:12:03] Speaker C: It's real good.
[01:12:04] Speaker B: And then we got Darth maul just, like, pacing back and forth like a caged lion. Oh, man.
That Darth maulness is good. We got the.
[01:12:15] Speaker A: What opens up just the hits of those lightsabers. They sound so great.
[01:12:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:12:19] Speaker C: Oh, man. And Obi Wan is pissed. Look at him go. Look at him. Go. He's not supposed to have that much emotion when he fights.
[01:12:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I'd say the climax is successful. It's a lot of fun. Like, all four kind of threads. It was seen as a lot at the time, and everyone's like, it's overload. But now it's like. That's pretty common for any movie almost to have multiple climaxes for a big.
[01:12:40] Speaker B: Blockbuster, like multiple threads.
It's a very somber ending for what is basically a goof them up film, which is.
[01:12:53] Speaker A: I wonder if sort of that the reality coming in. Like you said, the menace.
[01:12:58] Speaker B: I wonder if a lot of people just felt that there was tonal whiplash, but there is.
[01:13:04] Speaker A: But I'm used to that now.
[01:13:06] Speaker C: Yeah, but, I mean, it's effective.
[01:13:08] Speaker B: I think.
[01:13:12] Speaker C: The original trilogy itself is not really super goofy.
[01:13:17] Speaker B: There's a lot of goofy elements to it. But I love how much.
[01:13:23] Speaker C: Even though Qui gon says that it wasn't coincidence, there's so much coincidence in this movie.
[01:13:29] Speaker A: That's the force, baby.
[01:13:30] Speaker C: Jake Lloyd accidentally. Sorry, Anakin accidentally blowing up the power core from.
[01:13:39] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[01:13:40] Speaker A: It was the force guiding him.
[01:13:42] Speaker C: I love the uniforms for the naboo pilots. Those little leather helmets and the goggles and the jackets.
[01:13:49] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, they look awesome. All naboo stuff is cool. I love the Naboo starfighter. I'm glad the Mando's got one.
[01:13:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I wish you had the coverings, though.
[01:13:57] Speaker A: I like them all yellow.
[01:13:58] Speaker B: They look really cool.
[01:13:59] Speaker C: Yeah, but that's something you got to keep up with.
[01:14:02] Speaker B: I mean, that paint comes off.
[01:14:04] Speaker A: Yeah, that'd be tough. Yeah, you got to get baby Yoda on there, sanding it down and painting it.
[01:14:10] Speaker B: Yeah, put that little fucker to work.
[01:14:14] Speaker C: There's rejoicing, and then there's.
[01:14:19] Speaker A: Auggie's great municipal band is the name of the track, obviously.
[01:14:22] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[01:14:23] Speaker C: And I love the little ewok that plays the drums made out of the helmets. Of all the guys who killed.
[01:14:32] Speaker B: You, switched to return of the mean always.
[01:14:36] Speaker C: Don't you remember? It was the newest one when I was younger, so that means it was the best.
[01:14:41] Speaker B: And then we get the Darth maul.
[01:14:44] Speaker C: Getting cut in half, and people who aren't nerds say that's the end of Darth Maul, but people who are nerds know that he just goes crazy, comes back in solo. And then his brother, savage opress, comes by and helps him get some spider.
[01:15:02] Speaker B: Just.
[01:15:03] Speaker C: Just finds him in the cargo hold of a random ship, just losing his mind because he's just a torso.
[01:15:10] Speaker A: His horns are really long.
[01:15:12] Speaker C: Oh, man. And then they take him to a dude who makes him, like, actual legs.
[01:15:18] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[01:15:18] Speaker A: That whole pops up in solo for a cameo.
[01:15:21] Speaker C: Yeah, it's a good story.
[01:15:23] Speaker A: Gets killed by Obi Wan Kenobi.
[01:15:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, poor, poor qui gun jin.
Promise me you'll train the boy. Sad.
[01:15:31] Speaker C: I love this weird beetle shaped ship that's landed on Naboo.
[01:15:38] Speaker B: Like, what the heck?
[01:15:39] Speaker C: It looks like a beetle.
[01:15:40] Speaker A: The chancellor ship.
[01:15:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Newt Goonrey goes to jail, and then they get a big party. Yeah, that's the Augie's great municipal band.
[01:15:48] Speaker A: It's the name of the track of the parade music.
[01:15:52] Speaker C: Yoda telling Obi wan that he's a real boy now or a real Jedi, and being like, if you gotta train this dude, fine. I like how it's. Oh, man, his ears twitch and everything. It's pretty decent CGI.
[01:16:08] Speaker B: I like how Yoda's like, man, I loved Qui Gon, but he was a.
[01:16:16] Speaker C: Little stinker, and he felt things were right and would do them against my wishes, and then he'd turn out to be right, and we don't need that. So just fucking.
[01:16:24] Speaker B: Just do it. Fine. Do it just fine.
[01:16:27] Speaker C: Yeah, just train the boy.
[01:16:29] Speaker A: God, I do love how they have Anakin sized clothes on the ship because he shows up in the next scene, like, Jedi clothes. So he definitely had, like, a tailor with them or just had his clothes with.
[01:16:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:16:39] Speaker C: Also. Also, it seems like the burning of Qui Gon's body is not the place.
[01:16:44] Speaker B: To have a conversation with Anakin about.
[01:16:47] Speaker C: Being trained to be a.
[01:16:51] Speaker A: Know where else. Are you going to do it?
[01:16:52] Speaker C: Namadala is wearing her weird blue, pseudo twi'like, hair piece.
[01:17:00] Speaker A: Oh, yes, the funeral garb.
[01:17:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:17:03] Speaker C: But she was also wearing that.
[01:17:05] Speaker A: So many great costumes.
[01:17:06] Speaker B: Trisha Biggard Bigard. Big R. Trisha Big R did the.
[01:17:12] Speaker A: Costumes for episode one. And, man, they're good.
[01:17:14] Speaker B: Yeah, they're real fun.
And we got the gungans. When they march, they kind of dance a little bit. Super nice.
[01:17:24] Speaker C: Warwick Davis is in this movie, like, 17 times.
Good Lord.
[01:17:31] Speaker B: Yeah, he's everywhere.
[01:17:36] Speaker C: And then we got black Swan or pre black swan. Swan.
[01:17:41] Speaker B: Natalie Portman. So I guess that's white Swan. Natalie Portman.
[01:17:45] Speaker C: They're handing over the globe, and boss Nas just says peace. Natalie Portman Amidala almost bites her lip at little bitty tiny Anakin. And it's a little.
[01:17:59] Speaker A: Strange.
[01:18:01] Speaker B: Yeah. But, I mean, watching it again and.
[01:18:05] Speaker C: Taking into account sort of the handicap of Jake Lloyd's performance just because he's so young.
They do do a good job of building the relationship.
Like, obviously there's a lot of stuff that happens while they're on Tatooine that we just don't see.
[01:18:24] Speaker A: Yeah, they're friends. They hang out.
[01:18:26] Speaker B: But there's definitely.
[01:18:29] Speaker C: I thought that the tenderness was pretty well established. And it's not quite so weird when.
[01:18:34] Speaker B: He fucking becomes himbo Skywalker in episode two.
[01:18:41] Speaker C: And Amidala is just like, anakin.
[01:18:44] Speaker A: Anakin. Hubba hubba.
[01:18:48] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[01:18:49] Speaker C: Very good. Very good. And then we get the credits and Frank Oz is Yoda.
[01:18:54] Speaker B: Woohoo. Love that guy. What credits they are. Oh, man.
[01:18:58] Speaker C: And they go on forever. Forever.
[01:19:02] Speaker A: At the very end of the credit.
[01:19:03] Speaker B: There'S a subtle Darth Vader breathing, if you listen.
[01:19:07] Speaker C: And that's the phantom menace.
[01:19:08] Speaker B: Johnny. It's a good movie.
[01:19:09] Speaker A: You got to rate this puppy.
[01:19:10] Speaker B: We got to rate this puppy.
[01:19:12] Speaker C: So why don't you go first, since I know you've been sitting on it?
Why don't we rate this out of ten just so that we can give it a little more nuance and separate it from the regular out of ten?
[01:19:27] Speaker B: I would give it as an adventure film. It's a lot of fun. It's a great kids movie.
[01:19:35] Speaker A: It's just a great movie for everyone. I think it got a lot of.
[01:19:38] Speaker B: Crap for stuff that it was now ahead of its time on and does.
[01:19:45] Speaker A: Have its problems, but so does every Star wars movie.
[01:19:48] Speaker B: And I'm going to give it nine out of ten.
[01:19:52] Speaker C: Nine out of ten.
[01:19:53] Speaker B: What? Oh, my God.
[01:19:55] Speaker A: I'm going to give it nine out of ten quigon gins because I love Quigon.
[01:20:00] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[01:20:00] Speaker A: Like one of my favorite Jedi.
[01:20:01] Speaker B: Nice.
One of my favorite action figures as a kid.
[01:20:06] Speaker C: I'm going to be a little bit.
[01:20:07] Speaker B: More critical than you because I love it. I love it.
[01:20:12] Speaker C: It is a mess, though.
And we could admit that it is 27 pounds of Star wars shoved into a four pound Star wars bag. And the tempo is just kind of lopsided because there's so much put in there and you have to get through certain amounts of plot to get to the excitement.
[01:20:40] Speaker B: It's fine. It succeeds at what it does, but.
[01:20:45] Speaker C: You can tell it's a little lopsided from that. I'm going to give it seven and a half.
[01:20:49] Speaker B: Gooberfish.
[01:20:51] Speaker C: Hey, that's enjoyed it more than I thought I would, having not seen it for almost 20 years and then just being steeped in this culture of negativity.
[01:21:03] Speaker B: And that's goofy.
[01:21:05] Speaker C: And we should hate this because it's.
[01:21:06] Speaker B: Bad, but Nash, it was delightful.
[01:21:11] Speaker C: There's no reason to skip it if.
[01:21:14] Speaker B: You'Re doing a rewatch of Star wars, much like spawn.
[01:21:18] Speaker A: Sometimes it's goofy, sometimes it's imperfect, but that's why we love it.
[01:21:21] Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, it's there to entertain you, and even if it's a little bit.
[01:21:25] Speaker B: Bad, it's still entertaining as all hell, man.
And it's also fun to see that of all of the things that maybe were a little weird, getting from an.
[01:21:40] Speaker C: Unknown beginning to where the original trilogy.
[01:21:44] Speaker B: Began, the rise of Senator Palpatine, and.
[01:21:50] Speaker C: Sort of just like, the background steamrolling.
[01:21:54] Speaker B: Juggernaut of the Sith.
[01:21:58] Speaker C: Wonderful. Wonderfully handled.
[01:22:03] Speaker B: It's so good.
[01:22:08] Speaker A: Funny looking back, and I don't know. Yeah, no, you're right.
[01:22:14] Speaker B: And just the seeds planted in there.
[01:22:16] Speaker A: About how the Jedi maybe aren't right, and people are like, oh, well, the metichlorians.
[01:22:19] Speaker B: The Jedi are stupid. And it's like, well, kind of the.
[01:22:22] Speaker A: Point is the Jedi are kind of wrong. That's kind of the point. Qui gon was going against the council.
[01:22:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:22:29] Speaker C: They've been unchallenged for so long that they don't feel like a challenge will.
[01:22:33] Speaker B: Come along ever again.
[01:22:36] Speaker C: And when it does, they are wholly unprepared for it, so.
[01:22:39] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly.
[01:22:42] Speaker C: It's a utopia about to dissemble itself.
[01:22:48] Speaker B: Well, speaking of assembling and disassembling, I thought, in honor of the Star Wars Day episode here on, regarding Star wars, we should do a little. I figured we'd do a little toy.
[01:23:02] Speaker A: Talk as we want to do.
[01:23:04] Speaker B: That means this week, we've got a little. So we got a little.
[01:23:08] Speaker A: There's nothing with Triple G, so it's.
[01:23:10] Speaker B: A GTT, a gin and tonic.
[01:23:12] Speaker A: It's the George's toy. Todd and I have the last Star wars action figures I bought. Last action figures I bought before I got into Spawn. Like, a dummy.
[01:23:33] Speaker C: Who has more action figures? Spawn or Star wars?
Definitely. Star Wars?
[01:23:38] Speaker A: Star wars, definitely.
[01:23:39] Speaker B: But Spawn's getting.
[01:23:43] Speaker A: Have I bought, like, four figures when the Force Awakens came out, and I just opened them on whims. Like, I would be like, I want to open this ray figure. I want to open this kylo ren. And I got one that I haven't.
[01:23:52] Speaker B: Opened, and it is everyone's favorite character.
[01:23:56] Speaker A: Constable Zuvio from Star wars the Force awakens.
He was supposed to be a part of something on. Jakku was completely, almost completely edited out.
[01:24:06] Speaker B: Of the movie, but he was really.
[01:24:09] Speaker A: Prominent in the advertising before the movie came out, because he's one of the things that they allowed them to talk about because it's so secretive, even though he's barely in the movie. So this is an action figure for Constable Zuvio, and I've had it in a box since, like, 2015, so time.
[01:24:26] Speaker B: To bust this puppy out. Time to crack into that, boy.
[01:24:29] Speaker A: This is a 3.5 scale.
[01:24:32] Speaker B: The three and a quarter inch scale action figure.
[01:24:39] Speaker A: Classic Star wars size. Just in the clamshell, like, packaging here, ripping it open. Okay. It's got kind of a fancy box.
[01:24:49] Speaker C: Okay, that was a crisp. That is so crisp.
[01:24:55] Speaker A: Comes with some instructions here. Oh, he's got, like, a build a weapon. So each figure comes with a part of a weapon. You can put them all together and make a turret, but let's pull him out here. Oh, his weapons. Oh, my gosh. He just fell out.
[01:25:11] Speaker B: Hold on.
[01:25:12] Speaker A: Constable Zuvio.
[01:25:13] Speaker B: No.
[01:25:15] Speaker A: All right, he's got, like.
[01:25:17] Speaker B: Here he is. He's got, like, a backpack.
Okay.
Back, like, a weird backpack and an axe. Like, an axe thing.
See, originally this guy was in, like, earlier.
[01:25:34] Speaker A: There were some leaks about him when the Force Awakens was coming out.
[01:25:36] Speaker B: I remember there's originally something with, like.
[01:25:40] Speaker A: There were some subplots on Jakku where Finn got arrested or, like, Rey almost got arrested or something, and he was a part of that, but it got.
[01:25:48] Speaker B: Cut out of the movie.
[01:25:49] Speaker C: Nice.
[01:25:51] Speaker B: And it's many different rewrites and restructurings.
[01:25:54] Speaker A: Yeah. He's just a little, tiny guy.
[01:25:55] Speaker B: He's got, like, kind of a. I.
[01:25:57] Speaker A: Guess you would call it a rice patty farmer hat kind of.
[01:26:01] Speaker B: I don't know, these figures, I didn't.
[01:26:03] Speaker A: Really keep up with buying them because they were kind of low quality.
[01:26:06] Speaker B: They weren't that great.
[01:26:08] Speaker A: They just, like, kind of cheaper plastic.
They were just not as nice as the episode one. Figures. But he's a cool little guy. I'll have fun with him.
[01:26:17] Speaker B: Put him on the shelf.
So I got a constable Zuvio figure now.
[01:26:22] Speaker C: Nice. I have the uninviable task of trying to now track down a rum sleg for less than $80.
[01:26:32] Speaker B: Okay.
[01:26:32] Speaker A: What a time to be alive and get a rum slug action figure for only $80.
[01:26:36] Speaker C: They got a little Lego minifig, too.
[01:26:40] Speaker B: Jeez. Dang. Oh, that's cool. Oh, no, I think that's.
[01:26:44] Speaker C: No, that's one of those off brand ones.
The non licensed. Oh, Amazon's got him for $40, maybe.
And he's got a removable helmet.
[01:26:57] Speaker A: I got console Zuvio. That's all I need.
[01:27:00] Speaker B: I don't know.
[01:27:00] Speaker A: It's kind of a shitty action figure, to be honest.
But I have him. He's mine.
[01:27:06] Speaker C: He can fight spawn, who will win.
Maybe you can put him in Cygor's hands, and he could be smashing them against the.
[01:27:14] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, definitely. Cygor is going to be the shadow of this guy. So what are we doing next time on regarding Star Wars? David?
[01:27:22] Speaker C: Well, next time, you know how to count, right, Johnny? What comes after?
[01:27:29] Speaker B: We're gonna.
[01:27:29] Speaker C: We're gonna watch episode two, colon, attack of the clones.
[01:27:35] Speaker A: And that'll be next year on Star Wars Day.
Get ready for that.
[01:27:41] Speaker C: Or sooner if we get impatient, but most likely in a Star wars day.
[01:27:45] Speaker B: Next year.
[01:27:46] Speaker A: No, next year on Star Wars Day. We're doing it one a year. Yes, that's the bit. And we're sticking to it until we don't. Yeah, that's the philosophies of the podcast.
[01:27:59] Speaker C: Next Star wars day, we'll have episode two, the movie that Adam Pranica from Mythbusters did some work with. He did some model work on it. Johnny.
[01:28:12] Speaker B: Johnny.
[01:28:13] Speaker C: We should tell people that they can follow us at regarding
[email protected]. Or no, they can send us emails at
[email protected]. But they can find us on the instagrams at regarding spawnpod.
[01:28:25] Speaker A: Absolutely. Where we're not really posting Star wars stuff. I mean, sometimes I talk about the comics. There are Carverse comics. I'll be posting Constable Zuvio, my new best friend.
[01:28:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:28:37] Speaker A: Check us out.
[01:28:38] Speaker C: It'll still all be spawn stuff, but we'll post some Star wars stuff every.
[01:28:43] Speaker B: Once in a while.
[01:28:45] Speaker C: I can't stop Johnny from doing it, and I don't want to.
[01:28:49] Speaker A: True.
Anyway, yeah, hit us up. Send us an email. Tell us about your favorite Star wars movies.
[01:28:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:29:01] Speaker C: Did you like the.
[01:29:02] Speaker A: What you like about Star wars? Did you like about spawn?
[01:29:05] Speaker C: Did you like the Phantom menace?
[01:29:06] Speaker B: Tell us what you loved about it.
[01:29:08] Speaker C: Did you not like the Phantom menace? Maybe keep it to yourself.
[01:29:13] Speaker A: Maybe it's been said before, but so has people on the Internet talking about Star wars, which is exactly what we just did.
[01:29:20] Speaker C: So even though he's been set up to be the guy who dies, who would win between a fight or in a fight between Al Simmons and Darth Maul?
[01:29:34] Speaker A: Ooh, that's tough.
[01:29:35] Speaker C: That's tough.
[01:29:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:29:36] Speaker A: I mean, unless we're in a dead zone, I'm thinking.
[01:29:38] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:29:39] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely.
[01:29:40] Speaker A: But he's got that lightsaber. He could slice through those chains, so I don't know.
[01:29:44] Speaker B: Yeah, it would be fun to see.
[01:29:46] Speaker A: Sponges has so many different powers. It's tough. It's tough.
[01:29:49] Speaker C: We need to get the todfather to.
[01:29:52] Speaker B: Get a approval from.
[01:29:54] Speaker A: I'd love to see a Todd father drawing a Darth maul. That'd be cool.
[01:29:57] Speaker C: Yeah, or like a crossover.
[01:29:59] Speaker B: And instead of Batman Spawn, it could.
[01:30:02] Speaker C: Be Darth Maul Spawn.
[01:30:06] Speaker A: You have to work with the dreaded.
[01:30:10] Speaker B: Mean.
[01:30:11] Speaker C: Marvel owes him a lot for what he did to the design of Spider man.
[01:30:15] Speaker B: So it's true. They can get over it. Yeah, I don't think they will. Yeah, they probably won't.
[01:30:22] Speaker C: But, Johnny, I think that just leaves.
[01:30:24] Speaker B: Me to say, may the force be with you. And also with you, David. Awesome. So good.
[01:30:32] Speaker A: Awesome.
[01:30:33] Speaker B: Awesome. That's wizard.
[01:30:35] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. That's wizard Annie.
[01:30:39] Speaker A: Now that's wizard Annie.
All right, well, I'm sitting here with Constable Zuvio. It's Easter.
[01:30:45] Speaker B: I'm off work.
[01:30:46] Speaker A: I think we're going to go get some drinks. You know what?
[01:30:50] Speaker C: Gonna.
[01:30:50] Speaker A: I gotta ask Zuvio about what it was like to work with JJ Abrams. How he feels about getting cut out of the movie, all that kind of stuff. So we got a lot to catch up.
[01:30:58] Speaker C: You're gonna go hit that Dexter Jetsters and tell him?
[01:31:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Get it some jawad juice.
[01:31:06] Speaker C: Tell him I say hey.
[01:31:09] Speaker A: I will. We're old friends. He was a prospector, you know, back in the day, so we used to prospect together. And Constable Zuvio knows him. It's going to be a great time, but, yeah. I'll say hey to Dexter for you.
[01:31:18] Speaker B: Nice. And I'll see you next year.
[01:31:23] Speaker C: Till next year.
