June 7, 2026

Episode 688- Mandalorian and Grogu review- This Is the way

Episode 688- Mandalorian and Grogu review- This Is the way
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Join us as we review and discuss the latest Star Wars movie, The Mandalorian and Grogu, exploring its action, storytelling, and connection to the broader franchise. Fans share their scores, favorite moments, and insights into the film's craftsmanship and legacy. In this episode, we explore the latest in Star Trek lore, celebrate sci-fi birthdays, and discuss William Shatner's space adventure, all while diving into the franchise's rich history and upcoming projects.

  • Movie adaptation from series to film
  • Character development and storytelling
  • Special effects and craftsmanship Star Trek franchise history and future
  • William Shatner's space flight experience
  • Upcoming Star Trek books and comics
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Up the series, Well, good evening. Troki's in Trek is

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a while, mc globe. It's Thursday, June fourth, twenty twenty six.

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Welcome to episode six and eighty eight of TROC Talking

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and Beyond. I'm your most excellent host, Uncle Jim, And

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before we get too far, I want to go around

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and introduce my awesome, my incredible trucks. First, We're going

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to start off with Eric. Eric's out in Portland. Are

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you doing tonight, Eric.

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I'm doing pretty pretty good.

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Yeah.

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Once I got my laptop working tonight, things started looking up.

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I'm very much looking forward to doing a Star Trek

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themed bike ride tonight in Portland, because in Portland there's

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a ride for everything. I'm going to go tonight and

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hang out with a bunch of other nerds and advertise

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a podcast. I got all kinds of business cards and

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my spokes. It's gonna be great.

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Well, this this is not the naked one. This is

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a different one. We were talking about this. That is correct.

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Yeah, I mean there is there is a naked bike

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right in Portland. This is not part of that. That

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does not mean that on occasion a naked person might

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not show up to a non naked ride. You just

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never know.

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Well, yeah, yeah, I get that. And we also out

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in Portland, we have our very old toy guide Paul.

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How you doing to Paul, I'm doing well.

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I'm doing well. As as Eric so adroitly puts it,

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you know, here in Oregon Portland, we're very comfortable with

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three things, beer and our bicycles. So basically, you know,

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that's kind of where.

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We're at so excellently.

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We're very well attuned for you can basically, you know,

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put us in any century and we're good.

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Well, let's hang out in Portland and let's go on

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very old miracle worker, David, how you doing tonight.

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David, we should all just visit Portland. That's just the

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bottom line.

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We should move the podcast to Portland. That's where we

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That's where it should be. And let's swing out to

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Las Vegas and say hello to Charles. How you doing tonight, Charles.

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I'm doing all right. After a little bit of shaking today,

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it's things have calmed down. I can talk to Star

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Wars with the helicopter passing overhead.

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We're definitely going to do that. And last, but not least,

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we're going to go to Virginia. We're going to say

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hello to v How you doing tonight?

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V doing all right?

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And as I had mentioned earlier on the DM or whatever,

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I used to live in or outside of Portland years ago,

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nineteen ninety eight to two thousand and one. So we

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lived outside of Portland in Forrest, grow, lovely little town.

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Did they have a naked blacke ride there too? Not

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that I know of, Okay, not.

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That I know of, But that was where when my.

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Youngest kid was born at the hospital there in September

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of ninety eight, And when I got out of the hospital,

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I forgot where it was, but there was this is

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Star Wars theme to promise Mark Hamill was making an

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appearance somewhere, and we could have gone to meet Mark Hamill,

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me with a newborn baby in my hands, you know.

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But no, my husband had to take us to his

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lame o family labor day picnics.

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No comparison there at all. You got to go from

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Mark Hamel.

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I absolutely labor day.

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That would have been probably labor days in the fall,

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so that probably would have been Roast City.

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Yeah, I don't know. It wasn't well, I thought it was.

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It was something different. It wasn't a con.

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was something. Yeah, it was something because we didn't dress

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up and I just had a kid and I had

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a c section and my guts were stable together and

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all that.

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So it was some something else.

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Whoa, whoa, Okay, that's a lot of moving into Uncle

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Jim territory.

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Here.

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We're very comfortable with our bodies here, beer and we're riding.

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Yeah.

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What year was this? What was year? Was this?

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The nineteen ninety eight?

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Okay, I'll help you out.

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The show was soaing you never know what we're going

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to do. Amazing, But I was just I was.

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I still haven't.

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I was so mad that I had to go to

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the lame O family picnic because I didn't even like

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his family, and I would have rather much, much much

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rather Mark Hamill, because you know, let's.

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See if we can get him on the podcast.

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So wow, that would be absolutely I would. I would absolutely, yeah,

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because I had such a crush on him, him and

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Harrison Ford so much so that actually my another Star

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Wars related my son, who was born in September of

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ninety eight. His middle name is Harrison for Harrison Ford.

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So there you go, Hunter Harrison.

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My dog's name is Leah, who's right here at I know,

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and my Anakin, who yep, hopefully doesn't come in here

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because then Anakin and Leah will start there. Sis. But

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we're getting we're getting on the track before we get

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too far. Finally, after after rescheduling, Cecilia Lee is going

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to be with us from Starfleet Academy. She'll be with

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us next week. She played the romulent Zolo there on

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the screen and Starfleet Academy. She was in the War

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Academy actually, and she'll be with us next week. So

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you're a Starfleet Academy fan, you definitely want to join us,

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and we're gonna have some fun with some Starfleet Academy talk.

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I'm really looking forward to it. I be a blast

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and I have so market on your calendar. You can

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head over to trek Talking dot com find all of

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our previous shows right there, which is awesome as well.

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without any further ado, tonight we're gonna be reviewing The

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Andalaurian and Grow Goo. This is the way. So if

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you saw the movie, you definitely want to hang out

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with us and see what we have to think about

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the movie. We also have our fans shoutouts. That's where

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we think fans just like you for supporting our podcasts

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all around the globe. So you want to stay tuned

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and find out where your fellow trekkies are hanging out

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and what actor do you share a sci fi birthday with?

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You can find out in our sci Fi Birthdays and

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what's going on around the Star Trek universe. And believe

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it or not, Jattner says what he's back again, and

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we know he always has great things to say. We

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also have IDW celebrating Star Treks sixtieth anniversary and con

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is back and Charles is going to tell us all

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about that in our Star Trek News. So what do

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you say? We get started with some fans shout outs.

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Where do you think? Eric?

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Woo? Yeah, woo? All right. Our very first fan shout

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out this week goes out to Rachel Louise Lamberton, who

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hails from Sheffield South in Yorkshire, England. Thank you, Rachel

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for supporting our podcast and for carrying that Trek Talking

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flag in Yorkshire. We really really appreciate it. Actually your

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address made me go on a specific you know, rabbit

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hole like on the Internet. I went down this rabbit hole.

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I was like, okay, where's Manchester, Where's London, Where's Sheffield?

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Where's and I kind of now my geography of the

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UK is much better, So thanks Rachel. I also like

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to say hi this week to top fan Alex Jackson,

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who hails from Scotland. I also looked that up just

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to make sure I knew where that was. Thanks Alex

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for being a top fan, meaning that you interact with

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us a lot on our Facebook page and that means

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a lot to us, as does Mark Bjorn Lloyd, also

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a top fan from London, UK. I'm seeing a theme here.

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Lots of people on the island this week. And finally

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I have top fan Dianne Wilder from France, just across

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the way there from the UK. Thanks folks for supporting

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our podcast. I'm going to pass this shout out, make

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a phone over.

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To v all right, thank you Eric.

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I have my first fan, Suzanne vanderbort I like that

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last name.

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She says.

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I grew up in California, lived on Mine Not Air

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Force Base, lived in Phoenix and Glendale, Arizona. Lived near Stuttgart,

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West Germany. Lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico twice, Liverpool, New York,

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SoCal and now Colorado. So Suzanne is well traveled. Next

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have another Suzanne, this one Suzanne Budziy in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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So hello and thank you to you for being a fan.

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Then down on the other side of the country in

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Wilton Manors, Florida, we say hello and thank you to

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Maxwell Tidwell, So thank you Maxwell. And last, but not least,

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Mike Wine, who is saying hello to us from Para Gould, Arkansas.

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And he says, I love all the star treks. So

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do I, Mike, So do I. All right on to Charles,

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who do you have?

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Thank you v Let's start off with welcoming Jade Whitmer

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from La Crusis, New Mexico. Hey, Jada red or Green.

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Welcome Kurt Wills from O'Fallon, Illinois. Sure, O'Fallon, but welcome Kirk.

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And then welcome Yarvin Cohen from Vegas. I'm assuming Las

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Vegas did data. Don't think they do, like Vegas. Baby

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in New Mexico, but don't familiar Yard. Then I'd have

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to look him up. Maybe he's part of the other ship.

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And finally, welcome Dave Modine from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Welcome Dave

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because Dave is here. Paul, who's on your list. As

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you spin that globe.

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Thank you, Chiles, appreciate it all. Hold on for dear

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life as this thing starts spinning. Around. We're going to

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head over to the European continent. First, we're going to

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say hello to our pals in Sophia, Bulgaria and good

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friend Haresi Rangelova who is hailing from Bulgaria there from

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the little Story part of the world, to be sure,

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always great to know that we have fans anywhere you

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can name in Sony different climates. We're going to say

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hello to d Timothy Gopaul of Trinidad and Tobago out there.

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You'll have to fly or take a ship to get there.

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I believe lots of frenetic hand signs and proud flags

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flying from Trinidad and Tobago there, So great dear from you,

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D Timothy, thanks so much for checking in with us.

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Let's head back over to Europe to a beautiful French France,

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to Chemi Duchat, who doesn't say where in France they live,

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but they're a top fans so they can live wherever

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they want. Basically, you can just choose any house you

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want in France and if you have a hello, I'm

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a top fan of the Trek Talking and beyond, and

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they will just let you live there. So that's really

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all that's necessary. Right, kindy set me straight. That's what

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I've always heard, so and just up the road in

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near Harvard in Germany. It's is also another enthusiastic fan

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letting us know is a reminder that enthusiasm for Star

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Trek and all of these other franchises is in total

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something that we as a citizens of the planet share together.

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So it's not any kind of a one countrict con

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climb ownership of it. It's nothing that stuff. We're one

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big global family and we all enjoyed the same entertainment,

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which is just phenomenal to be reminded of on a

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weekly basis, Isn't that right?

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Uncle Jimmy, I couldn't have said it better than myself, Paul.

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I wanted to come back to the States and say

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hello and thank you to Stephen ro who's listening to

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us in the Big Apple, New York City itself. Thank

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we're going to have some fun on our Facebook page.

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I like to put poles up there to see what

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this movie that came out a couple of weeks ago

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called Mandalorian and Grogu and I put a poll up

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on our podcast on our Facebook page.

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the show when we try to share your opinions with

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will all dream, Canara and Robulin a.

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it every week. I'm gonna say it again. The subscription,

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the ninety nine cents a month is worth it just

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to see that video. Okay, I'm not turing my own

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horn here, but David put together a killer video. Eric

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percent of the enjoyment if you're only listening. So that's

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all I got to say, all right, Eric, So what

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was our poll question this week?

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think of the movie? And what would you say? Score

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Todd Pletz said, I'd give it an eight out of ten.

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was like a whole short season of Disney Plus Show

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condensed into a movie of the Disney plus show condensed

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into a movie. I would agree, Todd.

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David Hegney Junior said The Man, Laurian and Grogu is

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a good movie. I give it a seven. I have spoken.

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Milan Vorsak said very nice, no complaints, good entertainment.

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Rissy Oranglova said I like it a lot. It's not

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the original story, but it is good.

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it's not that original of a story, but it's good.

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They gave it a ten. Dan Lecky said a solid

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seven out of ten. A fun time watching it on

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the big screen with a little popcorn bucket. Thanks Dan.

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Steve Turners said five. First half was good, second half

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just one fight after another. There was no development of

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the mythology for either Mando or Grogu. Thank you, Steve.

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Paul Bev said I thought it was fantastic. Go in

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there and enjoy it for what it is, a good

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old fashioned popcorn flick. Something this world needs more of.

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A seven. And finally, David E. Reese the Second gave

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it an eight point five for a combined fan score.

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This week for the movie of seven point seven. Very respectable,

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very much so.

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So now we're going to turn it over to Paul.

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Paul can give us this quick recap and run down,

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and then we're going to die right in and talk

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about the movie ourselves. Take it away, Paul. Hey, what

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a surprise.

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I love I'm so prepared. So anyhow, friends, Mandalorian Grogu.

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It's been six and a half years since we've had

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any kind of Star Wars theatrically in exhibition. Last time

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was the Rise of Skywalker that kind of closed out

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the sequel trilogy, and we haven't really been back to

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the movies with Star Wars since. And in terms of

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first this is the first time really that we've ever

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had a TV show that's been Star Wars that's tried

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to make the jump over to the theatrical release. So

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this has never really been done before for Star Wars.

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Other shows certainly have done it. I mean, look at

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Star Trek, right, but this is the first outing for

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Star Wars. There's a lot riding on it. I think

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the box office is probably going to be scrutinized a

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lot more than the picture itself, which is a shame.

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But anyhow, I've gone ahead and seen the movie twice.

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At this point I felt like I really needed to

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get a second viewing under my belt to really get

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a good take on it. The gist basically is this

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This movie was designed so just in case you've never

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seen any of the previous three seasons of The Mandalorian

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on Disney Plus, you won't be lost. You can go

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in there and you can follow what's happening, grasp the concept,

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follow along, and have a good time, even if you

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don't have the slightest idea who Grogu and Dinjarn are right. So,

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I mean, I think it's kind of the business decision

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that they chose to go with, right, Let's make this

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as accessible as possible for people. But they also want

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to try to bring along the regular fans who are

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enthusiastic and who have enjoyed the show and give them

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something that they're used to. And you definitely get what

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you're used to. It's established at the beginning that are

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Pal Dinjarn is a Mandalorian bounty hunter and he is

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tasked with He's got a young apprentice, the Grogu, who's

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from the same species as Master Yoda, that we all know,

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and their job basically is to go through the galaxy

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and help out the New Republic. So the New Republic,

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for those folks don't know, is basically they're like the

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next iteration of the Rebel Alliance once the Empire had

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been defeated, rejourn of the Jedi type situation. Right, we're

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kind of rebuilding things again, and so the idea is,

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let's go back to being a republic. And so the

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New Republic is that kind of post rebellion group of

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freedom fighters who are trying to restore order to the galaxy.

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And we've seen that all throughout on the Mandalorian, so

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we're familiar with that on the show. And so as

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things start off, if you told me that I was

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going to see Sigourney Weaver in a Star Wars movie

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a couple of years ago, I would have just been

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but my mind would have been boggled. But there she

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is as a general in charge of a base that

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a mandorin reports do, and she's giving him an assignment

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she needs, is asking him to You've got a World

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War two style deck of bounty of cards of all

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the people that are the top targets that are in

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the Empire is not just rolling over playing dead. No,

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the Empire is like trying to reform itself and there's

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all these warlords out there that are trying to re

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establish things. And that is the opening sequence of this movie.

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Very much like a James Bond movie. We have this

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big exciting opening sequence of Mando and Grogu trying to

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track down this imperial warlord on a very icy planet

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reminiscent of hot It's got walkers and all this stuff

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like that, and basically taking out the warlord. Very exciting,

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a lot of chase, a lot of exciting stunts and

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what have you. So really movie starts off with a

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hell of an action sequence, really great before the titles

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even come up. It's really really great. So as the

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plot goes on, basically he's Mando is supposed to get

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tasked with each new assignment from Sigourny Weaver right, and

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she says, I want you to go talk to the Hats,

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which is a pair of relations of Jaba the Huts,

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who of course died in Return of the Jedi, and

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they're gangsters. The Huts are right, And a lot of

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these movies like a gangster movie in a lot of

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different ways. Right, So the Huts promise that they're going

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to give Mando information about where other Imperial warlords are

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hiding out, but they need a favor. They want their nephew,

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Rada the Hut, right, who we saw as a little

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tiny huttling way back on the Clone Wars car zone

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right in the early season there. Rada they say, is missing,

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right or being held prisoner, and they want Manda to

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go free, and if he's willing to do that, then

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maybe they'll talk turkey about where these other Imperial warlords

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are hadding out. So that begins. The actual mission of

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the movie is Mando heads off to this planet to

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go check out what's going on with Rada the Hut,

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who supposedly is a you know, a terrible circumstances in

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a prison or being held a captive against his well.

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And then he gets information from a street vendor who's

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voice mine, No, No, the Martin Scorsese. So they just blowing

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my mind, who's in this movie. It's just crazy, And

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we end up finding out that Rata it doesn't seem

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to be being held against his will at all. He's

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been jacked up on like Hut steroids, right, and he's

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kind of running the tables in this big pit fighting deal.

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He's like a giant pit bull, if you will, fighting

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all these different characters and he's like a gladiator. It

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doesn't seem to need rescuing from Mando or anybody else.

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And the story proceeds from there throughout with surprises and

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plot twists and lots and lots and lots and lots

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and lots and lots and lots of action and fighting.

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And that's basically all you need to know to talk

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about the movie, I would say, and there we have it.

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So that's what I can weigh in with the score

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later on. I don't know, want to tilt the plane.

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I don't want to tilt the Jajark pit too far

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in one direction to the other. So we'll just I

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can pop back later and give you my score. But

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definitely fun time at the movies and do a lot

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more to say about it, but I'll hold off for now.

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All right, Well, David, being the youngest, will you know

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what you want to start out with? The Mandalorian and Grogu.

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Uh?

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Yeah, sure.

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So this is the Mandalorian who apparently adopted baby Yoda

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or in this case.

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And Uh, this is a from what I.

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Understand, is a uh continuation from the TV series.

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Uh.

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And we don't know if they're going to be making

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any more TV sharing, but I think that's kind of

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in the air, I suppose. But oh well, I mean

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to be honest, this show was actually surprisingly good. I

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actually really enjoyed it. H Yoda or Grogu, I keep

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calling Yoda, but Grogu. Apparently it's just like, you know,

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being cute throughout the entire show, and I actually enjoyed that.

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It actually kind of brought a good balance to the show.

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And one of my favorite changes is where you know,

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after the whole at At battle was going on, you

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see baby Yoda like tapping rapidly on his helmet trying

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to get his attention to get out of there before

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the bomb discluded and stuff. And so you know, there

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was a lot of fun stuff elements to this show

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that brought everybody together. I think just to watch a

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Star Wars movie that needed to be on the screen

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for so so long. In my opinion, I think Star

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Wars does really well when it comes to a movie

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and it brings together the elements of what they're trying

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to tell. I enjoyed this one so much that I

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actually didn't think I would actually have such fun time

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at the theater like I had all those other times

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with other movie because other movie back in the day,

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you know, just not Star Wars related recurse, but just

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they I didn't really find so much enjoyment with those.

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But then when Star Wars came along, it was just like, Wow,

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that actually was quite entertaining. I really enjoyed it. I

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think this particular movie has some pitfalls, suh, But I

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mean honestly, I mean, like right there, you know, it's

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actually really fun to go see a movie with friends,

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so it made it much more enjoyable. But to me,

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I actually think this movie could actually have a second movie,

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to be honest, and I think it did. It did

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that well. And the fact that, you know, they brought

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in nostalgia from the original movies, and I think they

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did a really good job putting it all together. So honestly,

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I'm gonna give this I'm gonna have to score it

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a nine. So to me, I really enjoyed it that much.

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Wow, Eric, Now are you going to offset Paul's gonna off?

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It's not You're gonna give it a one?

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I need to know.

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No.

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So yeah, so at least as of the time that

473
00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:22.240
I look this morning. Uh, the tomato ometer on this

474
00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:25.079
one was down to sixty two percent, but the popcorn

475
00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:28.119
meter was eighty eight percent, which I still think is

476
00:28:28.119 --> 00:28:32.880
pretty good. Listen, when when I think of transformation of

477
00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:35.200
television show to movie, the first thing I think of

478
00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:37.839
is Star Trek, and I think of kind of the

479
00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:42.920
grand scale of the Star Trek movies, you know, Insurrection aside,

480
00:28:43.319 --> 00:28:45.839
uh and maybe in some ways Nemesis aside, but like

481
00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:47.839
many of them have this kind of grand scale to them.

482
00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:50.359
So that was kind of the the sort of expectation

483
00:28:50.440 --> 00:28:52.319
that I came in with. I knew there wasn't going

484
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:54.079
to be a Dusk Star, but I thought that there

485
00:28:55.200 --> 00:28:58.359
that there could be higher stakes. What I liked was that,

486
00:28:58.400 --> 00:29:01.519
although I was disappointed on that because the story doesn't

487
00:29:01.519 --> 00:29:03.119
really go there, and in fact, I think a couple

488
00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:06.240
of our responders made a good point that, you know,

489
00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:08.880
there's not a lot of character development here. You don't

490
00:29:08.920 --> 00:29:13.680
learn really anything new about Mando or about Grogu. I

491
00:29:13.759 --> 00:29:16.319
do think that it helps to have seen the show,

492
00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:19.200
because we the people who have seen the show, have

493
00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:25.480
an automatic emotional connection with din Jarren, despite the fact

494
00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:28.480
that we don't we also have a connection with Grogu,

495
00:29:28.559 --> 00:29:31.480
but this movie automatically puts the Grogu connection in right.

496
00:29:31.519 --> 00:29:34.839
He's just so darn cute the whole time. Those little

497
00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:37.519
alien characters that he hangs out with, who are even

498
00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:40.799
smaller than him, crack me up and just lend a

499
00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:45.920
lot of like comedic relief throughout the movie. So plot wise,

500
00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:48.759
like it's a quest movie, right, You're going out and

501
00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:51.599
you're completing tasks. It's like D and D. You complete

502
00:29:51.599 --> 00:29:55.079
this task, you beat this monster, you do this boss whatever,

503
00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:57.480
and that's how you move through the movie. So as

504
00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:01.119
long as you're cool with that, which I was, I

505
00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:06.119
really enjoyed this movie so positives. The puppetry of Grogu

506
00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:09.920
was of course amazing. I mean, he's They just really

507
00:30:09.920 --> 00:30:12.559
embraced the whole puppet thing. There's some stop motion animation

508
00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:14.920
in other parts of this movie that's really good, but

509
00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:17.680
the puppetry is just fantastic. I loved it. I loved

510
00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:22.200
him always hanging out on Mando's shoulder. It's you know,

511
00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:26.759
pretty straightforward, lots and lots of action. I guess what

512
00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:29.319
I noticed is like, I'm always comparing this against the

513
00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:32.119
original Star Wars, right, and I feel like the original

514
00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:36.119
Star Wars has this kind of like shallow arc to

515
00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:39.640
its action, whereas most twenty first century movies, and I

516
00:30:39.640 --> 00:30:42.400
feel like this one does the same thing. It's like

517
00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:45.440
up and down much bigger. So the action is really

518
00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:48.720
intense and really loud and really fast, and then there

519
00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:51.000
are these like sweet little moments that bring it all

520
00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:55.440
the way down and completely are action free. I don't know,

521
00:30:55.519 --> 00:30:58.240
it just felt this is this is how movies are.

522
00:30:58.359 --> 00:31:00.160
It's I'm not complaining about it. I'm just saying that

523
00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:02.079
this is a difference in the way that movies I

524
00:31:02.119 --> 00:31:04.160
think are made now versus the way that they used

525
00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:05.960
to be made in the past. And of course the

526
00:31:05.960 --> 00:31:09.640
production quality is fantastic, you know. I think they use

527
00:31:09.759 --> 00:31:11.640
the camera what they call it, but like the big

528
00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:16.079
wall screen thing a bunch to make cool environments and things.

529
00:31:17.319 --> 00:31:21.160
But it basically is kind of yeah, a long or

530
00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:24.559
a shortened season. It feels like they they told the

531
00:31:24.599 --> 00:31:27.759
whole story of a season just in a couple of hours.

532
00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:31.559
My favorite character I just wanted to mention was absolutely

533
00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:35.680
raw the Hut. I mean, the first time that he

534
00:31:35.759 --> 00:31:38.519
pops out and he's totally built, and he's got like

535
00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:39.920
all these muscles and stuff.

536
00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:45.039
I just like, whoa, and then like he's got really

537
00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:50.359
he's this big slug, right, So his fighting techniques used

538
00:31:50.440 --> 00:31:52.720
the slug body in really cool ways.

539
00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:55.000
So I just I thoroughly enjoyed that character. I love

540
00:31:55.039 --> 00:31:57.480
that he's breaking the dad's mold. I love that he's

541
00:31:57.519 --> 00:31:59.680
fighting against his family and what they want him to be.

542
00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:01.799
It's a that I think Paul said it's very much

543
00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:04.319
a mob movie. It feels very much like that, right,

544
00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:06.599
somebody's trying it every dime they try to get out.

545
00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:09.440
They pulled me back in, but of course he is

546
00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:13.480
able to break away in the movie. So I love

547
00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:16.240
this movie. I think we are always left with questions like,

548
00:32:17.319 --> 00:32:21.160
you know, why doesn't the Mandalorian just like join the

549
00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:23.960
New Republic. Why does he have to feel this need

550
00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:27.960
to like work for them but be independent? But really

551
00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:32.119
he's just like part of the I don't know that

552
00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:34.319
that whole thing. I guess it's a Mandalorian thing. I

553
00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:39.400
wouldn't understand. Yeah, I think that's pretty much what I

554
00:32:39.400 --> 00:32:41.480
wanted to say. I'd completely agree. Never thought i'd see

555
00:32:41.480 --> 00:32:43.880
Sigourney Weaver in one of these movies, but here she was.

556
00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:46.720
I didn't think that her performance in particular was like

557
00:32:48.759 --> 00:32:50.880
was like a mate like she She was a great

558
00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:53.119
character and she was fine, but she also was a

559
00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:55.680
little flat. I thought in her performance. That was just

560
00:32:55.720 --> 00:32:59.240
my take on her character. But loved it overall. I'm

561
00:32:59.240 --> 00:33:01.799
gonna give this movie a solid seven and I will

562
00:33:01.799 --> 00:33:03.240
absolutely watch it again in the future.

563
00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:06.960
Excellent, excellent. How about you, Vi, what did you think

564
00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:09.079
about Minalin and grow Goo?

565
00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:13.319
Well, I was just thinking, you know, if you told

566
00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:17.799
fourteen year old me who saw the first Star Wars

567
00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:21.160
movie way back when, that I would be here all

568
00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:24.759
these years later reviewing this, I'd say, yeah, no way,

569
00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:29.279
because I was a skinny, shy, nerdly nerdy, you know,

570
00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:33.200
friendless kid. So that's that's just blows my mind that

571
00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:37.839
this is this is still part of my life now.

572
00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:41.680
So as somebody, I meant to catch up with the

573
00:33:41.680 --> 00:33:45.400
Mandalorian on Disney, but it just didn't happen.

574
00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:48.039
So but I did.

575
00:33:48.200 --> 00:33:52.599
I was able to get pulled into this movie right away.

576
00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:59.720
It was definitely very gripping. It got me interested in it.

577
00:33:59.799 --> 00:34:03.400
You know, it's usually something that you know if I

578
00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:05.759
don't have the interest in it, then I'll just get

579
00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:08.159
you know, like when is this going to be over?

580
00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:11.400
But I didn't feel like that once throughout the whole movie.

581
00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:19.880
And can we say Pedro Pascal Yum, he is he's got.

582
00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:23.159
You hardly see him, you see, but but his voice

583
00:34:23.840 --> 00:34:24.800
definitely he's got.

584
00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:27.519
I don't understand how he looks so good with a mustache.

585
00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:29.239
Usually mustaches are kind of creepy.

586
00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:29.559
But I.

587
00:34:31.400 --> 00:34:34.800
Don't know, I don't know. And and somebody what was

588
00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:39.199
it there? They somebody online was making a comment about him.

589
00:34:39.239 --> 00:34:42.039
It's like they were like commenting on how he always

590
00:34:42.119 --> 00:34:46.800
manages to look rather not scruffy, but he looks a

591
00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:49.320
little bit rumpled in all his interviews. But it's like

592
00:34:49.400 --> 00:34:52.159
I don't care. I'll still I mean, he still is.

593
00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:56.440
Just absolutely I don't know, I just I just really

594
00:34:56.880 --> 00:34:59.440
need to see more of him. And of course Grogu

595
00:34:59.519 --> 00:35:07.039
because I mean just absolutely stinking cute and the comic

596
00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:12.960
relief that we had throughout the movie with him, and

597
00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:16.280
then the little this little Guy's the little Engineers and

598
00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:20.119
Zellen's Oh my gosh, there, how can you not love

599
00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:23.960
when they say no squeezy and bad baby horrible baby.

600
00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:24.599
When he's trying.

601
00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:28.519
He just wants to make friends, and Mando is saying,

602
00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:32.199
he's just he's young, he doesn't know any better. So

603
00:35:32.920 --> 00:35:35.639
but then he grows too. I know somebody said there

604
00:35:35.679 --> 00:35:40.400
wasn't much development, but he's learning how to use his powers,

605
00:35:40.440 --> 00:35:44.519
because he was able to get some things done there

606
00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:51.679
with using the force or whatever. But what what Eric said.

607
00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:57.000
I liked Rata because first off, who would expect to

608
00:35:57.079 --> 00:36:01.159
see you know, some jacked looking hut you know.

609
00:36:01.199 --> 00:36:01.760
Slug guy.

610
00:36:03.000 --> 00:36:05.559
But you wind up feeling sorry for him because he

611
00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:07.679
was just saying that, you know, he had to he

612
00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:11.480
didn't want to be like his dad, and so he

613
00:36:11.599 --> 00:36:14.719
was just trying to rise above his his family, which

614
00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:19.599
I think a lot of people can understand. That. Then

615
00:36:20.559 --> 00:36:25.280
extremely satisfying, of course, especially this day and age, to

616
00:36:25.320 --> 00:36:29.320
see the bad guys getting wiped out, you know, as

617
00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:33.519
uh like we're saying sort of like you know, mob bosses,

618
00:36:33.800 --> 00:36:37.639
and you know, just something very extremely satisfying. And of

619
00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:41.039
course having a mob type movie and having Martin.

620
00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:42.920
Scorsese voice the uh that.

621
00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:49.960
Cafe owner that was just absolutely you know, chef's kiss.

622
00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:54.679
But I would definitely see this again. I need to.

623
00:36:56.159 --> 00:37:01.199
Find a little bitty grogu and Anzellen, you know, figure

624
00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:03.079
set like Paul did.

625
00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:06.880
But I would give it. I think I would give.

626
00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:09.760
It a eight point five.

627
00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:12.840
How about that? Yeah, Fell a little bit this.

628
00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:19.239
Yeah, Fells joined it to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so

629
00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:20.440
at eight point five.

630
00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:20.719
Ye.

631
00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:24.840
I enjoyed it. The opening scene, guys, oh my god.

632
00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:27.840
I ended up seeing it in three D imax. So

633
00:37:28.840 --> 00:37:33.159
the Walker sequence at the beginning was just, oh my god,

634
00:37:33.519 --> 00:37:36.039
mind bottle. It just blew you right out of the theater.

635
00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:39.079
And I'm sitting there watching this, and I kept thinking

636
00:37:39.079 --> 00:37:43.480
about Luke Skywalker and Hop and the Empire Strake Spat

637
00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:48.719
because in that movie, the Walkers were very slow, very humbersome,

638
00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:52.960
you know. But in this movie, oh my god, these

639
00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:57.480
things were. They were huge, and they were asky. They

640
00:37:57.480 --> 00:38:00.199
could swivel, they could do all kinds of things that

641
00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:04.920
that they didn't do in the Empire Strikes Back, but incredible.

642
00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:11.760
We got to see inside of one, which was just wow, awesome, awesome, awesome,

643
00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:14.760
And I thought it was great that we got to

644
00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:23.360
see snow Troopers without their bottom mask. I don't know

645
00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:26.440
what to call it, but you know that they have

646
00:38:26.559 --> 00:38:29.320
a breather underneath that mask, and I thought that was

647
00:38:29.360 --> 00:38:32.559
cool that we got to see that. When the Willard

648
00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:36.639
goes to escape from the Walker and he gets in

649
00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:39.639
what looks like the head of a walker, it's actually

650
00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:44.159
an old toy that they made. It was an Imperial

651
00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:48.519
Interceptor toy from way way way back in the day.

652
00:38:48.880 --> 00:38:53.480
And obviously the people that made this movie are well

653
00:38:53.480 --> 00:38:56.679
into their Star Wars stuff to put that toy in

654
00:38:56.760 --> 00:38:59.480
the movie. I just thought that was so neat so

655
00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:07.320
on that yeah, seeing snow Troopers, Stormtroopers everything else, it

656
00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:11.679
was just like, wow, awesome. I don't know if anybody

657
00:39:11.719 --> 00:39:17.719
else noticed this, but when so the Mindalorean is battling

658
00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:20.920
with Rod of the Hut, did anybody else notice the

659
00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:23.320
creatures they were battling Yep?

660
00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:25.800
I forgot to mention that, Yep, that's.

661
00:39:25.559 --> 00:39:29.039
The chesst from Star Wars. And even when they pull

662
00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:32.840
up overhead, it's actually the chest board that they're playing on.

663
00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:35.480
And I just thought that was the coolest thing that

664
00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:40.880
they actually made those little, those holographic entities real in

665
00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:43.519
the movie. I thought that was great. I loved it.

666
00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:46.119
Didn't really I mean, it didn't affect the movie, but

667
00:39:46.599 --> 00:39:48.440
if you knew it, it was just a cool little

668
00:39:48.800 --> 00:39:52.920
little thing. And of course Paul mentioned Sigourney Weaver. Of

669
00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:57.199
course we see zed from making his second appearance in

670
00:39:57.239 --> 00:40:01.880
a live action movie. I loved it. I had I

671
00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:05.119
saw it twice like Paul did. It was a lot

672
00:40:05.159 --> 00:40:08.840
of fun. I enjoyed every single minute of it. I

673
00:40:08.840 --> 00:40:12.440
thought it was great when Baby Yoda, I apologize ro

674
00:40:12.559 --> 00:40:17.280
Goo uh was was trying to heal the Mando and

675
00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:19.639
he builds them a little hot. He's trying to use

676
00:40:19.639 --> 00:40:22.880
the force to push him in and this fa stick

677
00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:26.679
out at the end. I just I thought it was great.

678
00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:35.519
It's a good This is a great seeing battle droids again.

679
00:40:35.719 --> 00:40:38.280
I thought that was cool because they seemed to leave

680
00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:41.079
them out of every Star Wars movie. But here, yeah,

681
00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:45.079
they're back. We see them, which was a great nod.

682
00:40:45.719 --> 00:40:50.800
I believe the hot twins we saw already in Boba Fet.

683
00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:53.559
Did we not see them in Boba Fet? I think

684
00:40:54.400 --> 00:41:00.519
this is their second appearance I remember correctly, Yeah, is

685
00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:03.719
where we first saw them. You guys can correct me.

686
00:41:03.840 --> 00:41:08.119
But was not? Was this not a Star Trek five homage?

687
00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:11.159
Was that not Shakyrie? The planet they went to?

688
00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:15.360
Well, I think you know you're gonna see what you

689
00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:18.280
want to see, Uncle Jim, like you always. I mean,

690
00:41:18.320 --> 00:41:21.119
it's you know, they're not pronounced the same, and I

691
00:41:21.119 --> 00:41:23.159
don't even think they're spelled the same. But you know,

692
00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:26.679
if you want to smush your vowels together and go okay,

693
00:41:26.880 --> 00:41:27.679
just makes you happy.

694
00:41:27.679 --> 00:41:30.280
When I just thought it was I thought this was Shakyrie,

695
00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:31.960
and I thought, wow.

696
00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:33.280
I thought the same thing.

697
00:41:33.440 --> 00:41:40.119
I thought the same thing, and I yeah.

698
00:41:36.920 --> 00:41:41.480
Wow, Sparks movie ever made, that's even better yet. But

699
00:41:41.719 --> 00:41:45.599
at any rate, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I highly

700
00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:48.719
recommend it to anybody that's uh, you know, go and

701
00:41:48.760 --> 00:41:51.199
see this movie. Don't listen to the n ears. Get

702
00:41:51.199 --> 00:41:54.519
a popcorn, get your this is the Way popcorn tin

703
00:41:54.679 --> 00:41:58.280
which I have, and sit down, have some popcorn, and

704
00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:02.559
enjoy this movie for what it is. And that's just fun,

705
00:42:03.039 --> 00:42:04.760
you know, be a kid for a little while and

706
00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:09.400
have some fun. And that's that's that's it. I did

707
00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:12.559
think there was one part that I thought was strange,

708
00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:15.480
and maybe someone can explain it to me. When the

709
00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:19.320
huts took his helmet away and threw him in the

710
00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:22.159
pit with the poison snake thing there, Why did they

711
00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:26.960
give him the helmet? Bat? I I saw it twice

712
00:42:26.960 --> 00:42:29.400
and I still didn't get why why they bother to

713
00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:31.800
take it off. Well, I know why they took it off,

714
00:42:31.840 --> 00:42:34.480
because they wanted us to have Pedro's face on the screen.

715
00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:37.280
That's the reason they took it off. But why did

716
00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:39.280
they give it back to him after making a big

717
00:42:39.440 --> 00:42:42.920
thing about the value of this helmet? I didn't catch that.

718
00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:46.960
I think they gave it back mainly because they were

719
00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:50.400
impressed with his skills at surviving down there.

720
00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:52.760
I guess one of the huts says, because you have

721
00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:57.199
entertained us reward, right, So it's basically it's but it's

722
00:42:57.280 --> 00:43:01.039
it's contrived, right, It's really contrived just lose his helmet

723
00:43:01.079 --> 00:43:03.880
because he's not supposed to be without it. So yeah,

724
00:43:03.960 --> 00:43:06.079
it's it's a it's a stretch, I would say.

725
00:43:06.199 --> 00:43:11.199
But the home world there, uh, not shakyrie whatever it

726
00:43:11.400 --> 00:43:14.920
was really called. Seeing all the huts writhing around in

727
00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:18.320
the chambers and you know all that other stuff was

728
00:43:18.360 --> 00:43:21.360
awesome and I loved it. So I think I'm gonna

729
00:43:21.400 --> 00:43:23.360
be right there with the I'm gonna go with an

730
00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:27.360
eight point five on this one. Go see it please,

731
00:43:27.559 --> 00:43:32.039
it's don't don't cut yourself short, go and see this movie.

732
00:43:32.599 --> 00:43:34.000
How about you, childs.

733
00:43:36.360 --> 00:43:41.000
Okay, first of all, I'm gonna say Pedro Pascal David

734
00:43:41.480 --> 00:43:49.400
slide show. I got second reason I like him. You're

735
00:43:49.719 --> 00:43:51.760
for those that actually get to see the video. In

736
00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:57.039
the background, here is pictures of Pedro Pascal actually at

737
00:43:57.079 --> 00:44:05.039
Disneyland promoting the movie and the new Smugglers Run ride.

738
00:44:05.159 --> 00:44:09.079
And he's actually in there in Mandalorian costume.

739
00:44:09.719 --> 00:44:10.320
Oh wow.

740
00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:15.000
And yeah, he's actually in there. You'll at David start flipping.

741
00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:18.400
You'll see pictures of him. He's actually in uniform and

742
00:44:18.440 --> 00:44:19.360
there with the fans.

743
00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:20.920
The fans.

744
00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:23.880
I'm not sure there were select fans, but there he's

745
00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:26.760
there with the fans, and the fans just are loving it.

746
00:44:26.800 --> 00:44:30.519
It's like, Okay, he's out there with the fans. Yes,

747
00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:35.320
how could you not love this guy that's getting out

748
00:44:35.360 --> 00:44:40.519
there with the fans, just getting everything hyped up, the

749
00:44:40.599 --> 00:44:43.119
hype for this, I think, which is fabulous. And to

750
00:44:43.119 --> 00:44:46.960
show up at Disneyland, this would just wal away for

751
00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:51.199
the fan just to go crazy. One of the interesting

752
00:44:51.239 --> 00:44:56.000
things we talked everybody talks about Sigourney Weaver. I listened

753
00:44:56.000 --> 00:44:58.320
to a few things that behind the scenes, and one

754
00:44:58.360 --> 00:44:59.360
of the behind the scenes.

755
00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:01.599
I thought was fascinating.

756
00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:07.679
Was Sigourney had one thing in her contract for doing

757
00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:14.400
this movie, and due to that one item, they had

758
00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:20.960
to add a scene to the movie. She said, I

759
00:45:21.079 --> 00:45:25.360
want to be on screen with Grogu, and originally she

760
00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:29.039
was not on screen with Grogu, and she said, I

761
00:45:29.239 --> 00:45:33.320
have to be on screen with Grogu. And her scene

762
00:45:32.719 --> 00:45:36.599
with the treats, the little snack that Grogu tries to

763
00:45:36.639 --> 00:45:40.800
take just is I love they put that in there.

764
00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:45.280
Another thing that I thought was interesting is, you guys

765
00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:50.159
saw her in the X Wing. Did anybody happen to

766
00:45:50.199 --> 00:45:54.199
recognize some of the other people on the X Wings? Besides,

767
00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:57.679
I think one person cast from a previous Star Wars.

768
00:45:57.440 --> 00:46:05.320
Movie direct this from the show The show Manali directors. Yeah.

769
00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:09.480
Yeah, it's the fact that just to get all these casts,

770
00:46:09.719 --> 00:46:12.079
all these directors that got the oh, I get to

771
00:46:12.079 --> 00:46:16.159
be in the movie playing a pilot. I learned that

772
00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:18.599
later and just smile. It's like, Oh, what a way

773
00:46:18.639 --> 00:46:21.719
they show up in a movie. It's like, Okay, we

774
00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:24.639
helped put it together, let's show up in the movie.

775
00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:32.320
I do think that the poison scene went a little long,

776
00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:39.119
but overall, I love the action in here they say

777
00:46:39.159 --> 00:46:42.000
Grogu didn't really have a growth in this one. I

778
00:46:42.039 --> 00:46:45.800
think Grogu did have a growth in this one because

779
00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:48.719
we've got to see him use his use his use

780
00:46:48.760 --> 00:46:51.079
the force a lot more at the end of the movie.

781
00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:54.360
I love when he started using the force a little bit.

782
00:46:54.920 --> 00:46:57.639
We've seen him put a creature to sleep once before

783
00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:01.920
they go. Everybody goes head to head against their opponent,

784
00:47:02.239 --> 00:47:05.440
Grogu looks at him and puts a creature to sleep.

785
00:47:05.480 --> 00:47:12.400
It's like, yes, that that is so Grogu. But I

786
00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:16.360
love where it's like, Okay, we have to get rid

787
00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:18.280
of the why do we get rid of the Ennitt?

788
00:47:18.280 --> 00:47:19.599
Why do we get rid of the huts?

789
00:47:19.719 --> 00:47:23.679
Well, because they saw him, and I love the ideas. Okay,

790
00:47:23.800 --> 00:47:27.760
they saw him. Okay, I guess that's their death sentence.

791
00:47:29.239 --> 00:47:32.320
But I love how this place looked a lot like

792
00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:41.159
the Java's Alice in Tatuen. I love how this place

793
00:47:41.199 --> 00:47:46.639
looks so much, so much like that. And of course

794
00:47:46.719 --> 00:47:49.159
David's video there, I remember the speech hees name. But

795
00:47:49.199 --> 00:47:54.079
the little engineers. I love these little guys that are

796
00:47:54.119 --> 00:47:57.719
the engineers coming in to fix Grogo's ship and kind

797
00:47:57.719 --> 00:48:03.920
of help a little bit to rescue, Rescue, Rescue, Mando.

798
00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:09.239
I just I love the fact that they gave.

799
00:48:09.079 --> 00:48:10.039
Him a new.

800
00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:15.960
Ridge Crest, give him back his ship, even though it's

801
00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:18.519
not his ship yet, and I'm sure it's going to

802
00:48:18.559 --> 00:48:20.719
be at the modifications to make it a little more

803
00:48:20.760 --> 00:48:26.000
closer to his ship. But I love seeing that ship

804
00:48:26.039 --> 00:48:28.880
on it. I can even pull out and say, yes,

805
00:48:29.039 --> 00:48:35.320
I have my Grogu figure. As I told the guys here,

806
00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:40.639
everybody here, it's like, yes, I that's the one they

807
00:48:40.679 --> 00:48:45.960
gave up the theater where the cup. My problem was a

808
00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:48.920
friend of mine two spots in front of me, grabbed

809
00:48:48.920 --> 00:48:52.760
the last Grogu cup topper, so I had to find

810
00:48:52.800 --> 00:48:57.480
it online. I definitely want to make sure I've got

811
00:48:57.679 --> 00:49:01.159
something to remind me of it. But as I told

812
00:49:02.079 --> 00:49:05.360
the guys, I saw the movie with I'm agreeing with

813
00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:10.039
you guys in giving an eight point five. That's what

814
00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:12.239
I told them. I was scoring it and it's like

815
00:49:12.280 --> 00:49:14.480
that's when I'm still scoring, and I think that's a

816
00:49:14.519 --> 00:49:16.039
perfect evaluation.

817
00:49:16.159 --> 00:49:18.559
Now this movie went loved it.

818
00:49:18.679 --> 00:49:20.400
I will not sure if i'll see in the theater,

819
00:49:20.559 --> 00:49:22.880
but I will watch it again. And the entire.

820
00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:27.440
Series, well, that brings us in a full circle right

821
00:49:27.519 --> 00:49:32.280
back to you, Paul, Oh my friends.

822
00:49:32.360 --> 00:49:35.039
Okay, Well, as I mentioned, I wanted to see his

823
00:49:35.079 --> 00:49:38.559
picture twice, right, and the first time I saw it,

824
00:49:38.679 --> 00:49:41.920
I had a little less than an excited reaction to it.

825
00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:44.639
If I was judging it based on that first viewing,

826
00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:47.360
I would have come in much lower. I would say

827
00:49:47.360 --> 00:49:49.519
probably would have been like a six or seven for

828
00:49:49.639 --> 00:49:51.800
me if I had only seen it the one time.

829
00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:55.800
I feel like it was really a safe choice to

830
00:49:56.119 --> 00:49:58.639
deliver this right because it really isn't that connected to

831
00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:03.480
the series at all. There's very little in terms of

832
00:50:03.719 --> 00:50:07.320
character or storytelling in this movie, you know, I'm sorry

833
00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:12.360
there is, and just recognizing things from other movies and well,

834
00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:13.840
I know what that is. That's from X y Z.

835
00:50:14.079 --> 00:50:16.599
That is not storytelling, friends, I am sorry, it is

836
00:50:16.679 --> 00:50:21.079
not it is. It is recognition and it is you know, marketing,

837
00:50:21.199 --> 00:50:23.400
and there you have it. But it's not a story.

838
00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:27.440
So just seeing something you recognize from some other part

839
00:50:27.480 --> 00:50:29.920
of the franchise it doesn't really count as writing, and

840
00:50:29.960 --> 00:50:31.920
so I feel the writing on this one was a

841
00:50:31.920 --> 00:50:37.079
little weak. Unfortunately, there was really no If you watch

842
00:50:37.159 --> 00:50:39.719
the show right, you get a lot of information, a

843
00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:42.719
lot of other really cool characters, right, You'll get characters

844
00:50:42.760 --> 00:50:46.239
like Cobb Van who I was really hoping that some

845
00:50:46.400 --> 00:50:49.360
character like him would show up, or Ahsoka or more

846
00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:52.039
with Boca Tan. These are the characters who you really

847
00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:54.920
get a lot of dialogue and storytelling and myth building.

848
00:50:55.760 --> 00:50:58.599
The story pushes forward with those characters a lot and

849
00:50:58.639 --> 00:51:00.440
on book of Boba Fan, right, So I thought there

850
00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:04.719
was a real good opportunity to to do some character work,

851
00:51:05.079 --> 00:51:07.239
you know, give Mando a little bit more of a

852
00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:11.280
push towards, you know, growing into his role. And I

853
00:51:11.400 --> 00:51:14.519
just it was not so great as far as that goes.

854
00:51:14.559 --> 00:51:17.159
So I really felt they they kind of there's there's

855
00:51:17.239 --> 00:51:20.079
very little dialogue in this movie. It's mostly just action

856
00:51:20.360 --> 00:51:30.119
and exciting action. As it may be. I think that, yeah,

857
00:51:30.199 --> 00:51:34.119
it's it's just not particularly well done in terms of

858
00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:38.000
the writing side of things, right, And initially I really

859
00:51:38.159 --> 00:51:40.519
was like, the rot of a hut plot is what

860
00:51:40.559 --> 00:51:43.519
you came up with, and that's somehow was like enough

861
00:51:43.519 --> 00:51:45.079
to like we're going to make that the plot of

862
00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:47.880
the movie. I was really surprised by that because I

863
00:51:47.920 --> 00:51:49.800
didn't think it worked really well. I mean, it's kind

864
00:51:49.800 --> 00:51:55.039
of like you know, uh, callbacks to you know, on

865
00:51:55.119 --> 00:51:57.639
the waterfront almost really, I don't know if anybody ere

866
00:51:57.800 --> 00:52:01.199
even knows what I'm talking about, but yeah, it's kind

867
00:52:01.199 --> 00:52:03.840
of got that sense to it. And I like a

868
00:52:03.880 --> 00:52:07.320
lot of the gangstery stuff though. And I'm really glad

869
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:09.280
though that I went back and saw it a second time,

870
00:52:09.440 --> 00:52:12.880
because you know, you want to remind yourself, essentially, if

871
00:52:12.920 --> 00:52:15.960
you can see this movie with an auditorium full of

872
00:52:16.039 --> 00:52:18.880
like kids and younger folks and families, really, because that's

873
00:52:18.920 --> 00:52:21.039
really what's going on here, and they really did, you know,

874
00:52:21.159 --> 00:52:23.039
want to try to make a movie that, okay, is

875
00:52:23.159 --> 00:52:26.000
really super safe and not super creative, but it is

876
00:52:26.559 --> 00:52:29.079
in its DNA it is Star Wars right when you

877
00:52:29.119 --> 00:52:31.800
have things like the dragon, snake, big monsters everywhere that

878
00:52:31.840 --> 00:52:35.039
are regularly exciting, and I liked. I think I came

879
00:52:35.079 --> 00:52:38.679
away from my second outing being willing to forgive some

880
00:52:38.760 --> 00:52:40.800
of the story stuff and being more appreciative of the

881
00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:44.559
craftsmanship involved in terms of like the special effects. They

882
00:52:44.599 --> 00:52:47.679
brought back legendary stop motion animator Phil Tippet to do

883
00:52:47.760 --> 00:52:52.239
the sequence with the two enormous droid bodyguards outside of

884
00:52:53.599 --> 00:52:57.519
the hut Twins' palace on Nahuda, and that is an

885
00:52:57.559 --> 00:53:00.000
amazing piece of stop motion animation. I hadn't seen anything

886
00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:04.159
like that in years. It's really really great. Say what

887
00:53:04.239 --> 00:53:07.280
you will about Pedro Pascal. Grogu's kind of star of

888
00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:09.880
this movie. He's really got all the best moments. I think,

889
00:53:10.239 --> 00:53:14.360
as pretty much everybody I talk to myself included, it's

890
00:53:14.679 --> 00:53:18.559
Grogu and Neon Zelln's who really get the greatest reaction

891
00:53:18.679 --> 00:53:21.400
from the audience. They are hilarious, They're really fun, they

892
00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:25.320
have this is all puppetry, right, These are little puppet characters,

893
00:53:25.360 --> 00:53:28.440
which is really refreshing. So I think that kind of stuff,

894
00:53:28.519 --> 00:53:34.760
the creature building, the stout motion, the craftsmanship, the excitement

895
00:53:35.039 --> 00:53:38.280
of just old fashioned, adventurous storytelling, even though it is

896
00:53:38.320 --> 00:53:43.079
a really slim volume of storytelling that hopefully people who've

897
00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:45.199
not seen the show will go and watch it now

898
00:53:45.239 --> 00:53:48.360
after I have to see this movie because I think

899
00:53:48.480 --> 00:53:51.320
the series is a lot better in terms of storytelling

900
00:53:51.360 --> 00:53:55.119
than this one. But I think craftsmanship and overall love

901
00:53:55.159 --> 00:53:58.440
of Star Wars. I'm a long time Star Wars fan,

902
00:53:58.559 --> 00:54:01.360
like from back forever. I mean I saw the original

903
00:54:01.400 --> 00:54:05.239
movie in theaters, so I'm going way way back, and

904
00:54:05.440 --> 00:54:08.199
I've got dying affection for this stuff, right, I think

905
00:54:08.239 --> 00:54:11.599
it's certainly a better outing, I think than Rise of Skywalker,

906
00:54:11.800 --> 00:54:14.719
if that's your litmus test, right from where the last

907
00:54:14.719 --> 00:54:18.639
time we the last time we saw Star Wars movie theaters.

908
00:54:18.960 --> 00:54:21.599
So my bumping my grade up to an eight, which

909
00:54:21.639 --> 00:54:24.639
I think is appropriate. It's real solid for this picture

910
00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:27.840
we do right now live in a time where escapism

911
00:54:27.920 --> 00:54:33.039
is necessary and adventure storytelling is super welcome, So I

912
00:54:33.039 --> 00:54:35.440
think for me an eight is appropriate. If this had

913
00:54:35.440 --> 00:54:38.400
been better storytelling with some other characters, if they had

914
00:54:38.400 --> 00:54:42.280
given Sigourney Weaver something to do as an actor, I

915
00:54:42.320 --> 00:54:44.360
would have bumped us up to a nine or ten happily.

916
00:54:44.400 --> 00:54:46.840
But she doesn't get to do anything. She's basically like,

917
00:54:46.920 --> 00:54:49.159
you know, I don't you know, here's your assignment. You know,

918
00:54:49.280 --> 00:54:52.760
it's just kind of a waste a really really you know,

919
00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:57.679
epic talent. So you know, points down for the storytelling,

920
00:54:57.719 --> 00:55:00.280
which was really really weak, but points out up for

921
00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:03.239
everything else in the overall spirit of Star Wars adventure

922
00:55:03.400 --> 00:55:07.280
and action in filmmaking, which I will never be so

923
00:55:07.760 --> 00:55:10.480
locking in a solid eight. I would love it if

924
00:55:10.519 --> 00:55:15.199
they necessarily did not continue doing this franchise in the theater.

925
00:55:16.519 --> 00:55:20.840
This was a squeaked out season, you know, scrunched it

926
00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:24.079
down into a two hour picture. Go give us another

927
00:55:24.280 --> 00:55:27.360
like eight to ten episode season where we can get

928
00:55:27.400 --> 00:55:29.920
involved and do some good storytelling, some good character work,

929
00:55:29.960 --> 00:55:32.840
and really give us a good rich canvas. So I

930
00:55:32.840 --> 00:55:35.880
would like to either get back into the series format again,

931
00:55:35.920 --> 00:55:37.880
but a lot of it I enjoyed, So that's where

932
00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:38.840
I'm at. Leave it at eight.

933
00:55:38.920 --> 00:55:43.440
There you go, Thanks, all right, Charles. Our Facebook fans

934
00:55:43.480 --> 00:55:45.679
gave it a seven point seven. What did the Tuck

935
00:55:45.719 --> 00:55:46.719
Spurts have to say?

936
00:55:49.559 --> 00:55:52.920
Trek Spurts gave it an eight point three, so I

937
00:55:53.000 --> 00:55:55.000
think we liked it a little better than some of

938
00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:57.599
the fans. But that's about what the people were scoring

939
00:55:57.639 --> 00:56:01.000
on this. I forgot to mention. I was going to

940
00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:03.440
bring up the fact that this was part of this

941
00:56:03.719 --> 00:56:06.000
part of this movie was stuff that was supposed to

942
00:56:06.000 --> 00:56:10.599
be in season four, But I'm hoping in the process

943
00:56:10.639 --> 00:56:12.960
they've still got more stuff and maybe we'll still get

944
00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:15.239
more stuff for season fall for season four.

945
00:56:17.119 --> 00:56:19.159
Yeah, I forgot to mention. My least favorite part of

946
00:56:19.159 --> 00:56:21.480
this movie is where I had to go use the restroom.

947
00:56:21.880 --> 00:56:29.000
But you know, I missed some of it. I couldn't

948
00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:29.559
really you know.

949
00:56:29.639 --> 00:56:31.760
Remember they were trying to get people to sign up

950
00:56:31.800 --> 00:56:36.400
for the Okay, yeah, not go the other way.

951
00:56:38.559 --> 00:56:42.920
I mean maybe I'm just I'm wondering if I would

952
00:56:42.920 --> 00:56:45.159
feel like Paul. Maybe upon a second viewing, maybe I

953
00:56:45.159 --> 00:56:46.960
would take my score from a seven to and eight.

954
00:56:46.960 --> 00:56:51.400
Who knows, you know, it's hard to I think it's

955
00:56:51.400 --> 00:56:54.000
when you walk in with certain expectations, right, It's like

956
00:56:54.039 --> 00:56:56.239
when I walked into Star Trek five thinking it was

957
00:56:56.280 --> 00:56:57.960
the last Star Trek movie, and so it was going

958
00:56:58.000 --> 00:56:59.719
to be the best Star Trek movie, and then it

959
00:56:59.760 --> 00:57:06.519
was so bad? Will possibly be this bad? Oh good thing?

960
00:57:06.559 --> 00:57:09.639
That made Star Trek six the best really best of

961
00:57:09.679 --> 00:57:10.800
all the Star Trek movies.

962
00:57:10.880 --> 00:57:14.960
I don't know, the one with the whales. I like that.

963
00:57:15.039 --> 00:57:20.039
Yeah, preaching, Yeah, it's it's all right.

964
00:57:20.440 --> 00:57:21.239
I saw my shot.

965
00:57:21.239 --> 00:57:24.159
I had windows.

966
00:57:24.360 --> 00:57:28.320
Uncle Jim cuts us out of the podcast after we

967
00:57:28.400 --> 00:57:28.960
said that.

968
00:57:29.159 --> 00:57:32.599
It's like, mute, We're just.

969
00:57:32.320 --> 00:57:36.119
Then we're not going to SEBS News.

970
00:57:34.599 --> 00:57:38.079
Don't even get me started.

971
00:57:39.239 --> 00:57:41.920
You must speak freely. But it's just like for me,

972
00:57:41.960 --> 00:57:44.079
it was just like Act three, right, It's just so

973
00:57:44.199 --> 00:57:48.079
much gunplay and just so much pew pew PuO p

974
00:57:48.360 --> 00:57:51.440
pew PuO pew. It was just endless, and there was

975
00:57:51.480 --> 00:57:54.119
no moments of like you know where I mean the

976
00:57:54.239 --> 00:57:56.800
Jedi films, there's usually a lot of like heart in

977
00:57:56.840 --> 00:58:01.599
your throat, you know, myth building, right, uh luke, I

978
00:58:01.639 --> 00:58:04.519
Am your father? Right, or some you know, dramatic thing

979
00:58:04.599 --> 00:58:08.639
where somebody's life has changed and there's a pivotal moment

980
00:58:08.679 --> 00:58:11.199
where you nothing will ever be the same again. Right.

981
00:58:11.239 --> 00:58:13.559
You get those in the Jedi movies for the most part, right,

982
00:58:13.920 --> 00:58:16.280
because it's focusing on the human element of things, right.

983
00:58:16.320 --> 00:58:19.000
And I would have loved to see Pedro without that

984
00:58:19.079 --> 00:58:21.519
helmet for most of the time. Right. Engineer a story

985
00:58:21.519 --> 00:58:22.920
where you get to see the guy because he's a

986
00:58:23.000 --> 00:58:25.760
huge draw, right. I think that killed a box office

987
00:58:26.039 --> 00:58:27.679
a little bit to have him be kind of buried

988
00:58:27.719 --> 00:58:29.920
under the helmet so much. You could engineer a story

989
00:58:29.920 --> 00:58:31.960
where he doesn't have it around him for a whole time.

990
00:58:31.960 --> 00:58:34.239
It would be easy. So yeah, it's just I just

991
00:58:34.519 --> 00:58:36.119
a lot of the writing. I just had that thing

992
00:58:36.119 --> 00:58:38.199
where it feels like, you know, initially I was like,

993
00:58:38.280 --> 00:58:41.760
is this God? I just hate to even think these thoughts,

994
00:58:41.920 --> 00:58:44.039
and that we live in a world. It's even remotely

995
00:58:44.119 --> 00:58:47.159
like this, But it's like this sort of almost feels

996
00:58:47.199 --> 00:58:49.519
like a screenplay that was put together by Ai. Right.

997
00:58:49.599 --> 00:58:51.519
It didn't feel like a human screenplay to me, because

998
00:58:51.519 --> 00:58:54.000
it's now there will be the many big fighting scenes

999
00:58:54.000 --> 00:58:54.880
and droids will.

1000
00:58:54.760 --> 00:58:58.679
Come and Meaul, Isn't that like I'm not gonna lie

1001
00:58:58.800 --> 00:59:04.880
aside from and Or? Isn't most Star Wars that way?

1002
00:59:06.719 --> 00:59:09.480
It is? But the big big human moments that punctuate

1003
00:59:09.559 --> 00:59:12.440
all that stuff, right, I mean, you know, there really

1004
00:59:12.480 --> 00:59:15.480
really are, especially in like the the more human centric

1005
00:59:15.480 --> 00:59:21.079
films like the prequel trilogy, even the sequel trilogy, right,

1006
00:59:21.079 --> 00:59:24.440
there'd be some bigger moments on there. I mean the

1007
00:59:24.440 --> 00:59:26.639
sequel trilogy, a lot of those big moments went to

1008
00:59:26.679 --> 00:59:29.639
Kylo Ren right and or Mark Hamill. Right, but there

1009
00:59:29.679 --> 00:59:33.960
would be big human moments where things fundamentally are entering

1010
00:59:34.000 --> 00:59:36.280
a new phase and we didn't really get this. It's

1011
00:59:36.320 --> 00:59:38.679
mostly just kind of like, Okay, you're you're wounded. We

1012
00:59:38.679 --> 00:59:41.000
need to heal you, and there's not real any doubt

1013
00:59:41.000 --> 00:59:42.920
about that, and we know you're gonna be fine, and

1014
00:59:42.960 --> 00:59:47.159
then we'll go back and fight some more. It's just

1015
00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:50.400
it's not very satisfying storytelling for me so.

1016
00:59:50.679 --> 00:59:53.840
I mean I at least expected Grogu to take a

1017
00:59:53.880 --> 00:59:56.199
shot to the chest and his little plate armor because

1018
00:59:56.239 --> 00:59:58.519
they spent so much time on his little piece of

1019
00:59:58.519 --> 01:00:00.639
plate armor. I was like that suckers gonna save him

1020
01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:02.000
at some point, and then it.

1021
01:00:02.039 --> 01:00:02.760
Never did.

1022
01:00:05.719 --> 01:00:08.480
Anyone else think that the ending battles seemed a little

1023
01:00:08.559 --> 01:00:11.639
less like it was just really quick and really short.

1024
01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:13.559
Like all the other Star Wars movies they have the

1025
01:00:13.639 --> 01:00:15.239
big battles at the very end of the movie, but

1026
01:00:15.280 --> 01:00:16.599
all of a sudden, it was like this one was

1027
01:00:16.639 --> 01:00:18.559
like kind of short, but.

1028
01:00:18.760 --> 01:00:21.599
I felt like it had groaned on interminably for me.

1029
01:00:21.960 --> 01:00:24.840
I mean, yeah, just the opposite reaction. I was just like,

1030
01:00:24.920 --> 01:00:28.719
good lord, are we still walking low? Okay, well we're

1031
01:00:28.719 --> 01:00:31.800
coming in hot, be careful. I mean, Sigourney like every

1032
01:00:32.039 --> 01:00:37.000
you know cliches that they could put in the screenplay. Sure,

1033
01:00:37.079 --> 01:00:44.559
Pete Headseth was watching it, go yeah qqq enough with

1034
01:00:44.599 --> 01:00:47.119
the shooting and enough with the you know, I'd rather

1035
01:00:47.199 --> 01:00:50.039
have a story with characters think they're out of thinking.

1036
01:00:51.360 --> 01:00:56.400
It is just they needed always champion story over everything else,

1037
01:00:56.760 --> 01:00:58.280
and you know, you gotta have.

1038
01:00:58.239 --> 01:01:00.320
Better, right, I will say that they.

1039
01:01:00.039 --> 01:01:01.480
We're in a point right now, or we don't know

1040
01:01:01.480 --> 01:01:04.320
where this whole franchise of Star Wars is going. It's

1041
01:01:04.320 --> 01:01:06.119
going to go places if we have better writing.

1042
01:01:06.320 --> 01:01:10.239
I know that the game of the Chess figures because

1043
01:01:10.599 --> 01:01:14.880
seeing them like, you know, big and you know, trying

1044
01:01:14.880 --> 01:01:19.119
to kill Mando, they were they were kind of terrifying.

1045
01:01:19.239 --> 01:01:23.239
They looked so much more innocuous on the game, and

1046
01:01:23.280 --> 01:01:26.360
I want to say, you know, let the Wookie win, you.

1047
01:01:26.320 --> 01:01:32.440
Know, especially like the millipede one that was scary, really.

1048
01:01:32.519 --> 01:01:36.599
Scary, the original soundtrack from the Chess Game and put

1049
01:01:36.599 --> 01:01:37.159
it in the movie.

1050
01:01:37.599 --> 01:01:41.440
You know, the creature of stuff was just amazing. That's

1051
01:01:41.440 --> 01:01:42.840
just the thing. It's just like, you know, it's like

1052
01:01:43.199 --> 01:01:45.079
I'm of two minds. It's like part of me can

1053
01:01:45.079 --> 01:01:47.320
criticize the storytelling, but then I look at the work

1054
01:01:47.320 --> 01:01:50.280
of the crafts, the design people and the artists and

1055
01:01:50.800 --> 01:01:54.920
people who have slaved away for literally years to evoke

1056
01:01:54.960 --> 01:01:57.880
all this stuff and you know, put their imaginations out there.

1057
01:01:57.960 --> 01:01:59.800
It's that's going to win me over every time. I

1058
01:02:00.159 --> 01:02:04.320
wish they had a more moving story to hang all

1059
01:02:04.320 --> 01:02:09.079
that stuff onto, you know, because you know, recognition alone

1060
01:02:09.199 --> 01:02:12.119
doesn't float the boat, right, But still, I mean I

1061
01:02:12.239 --> 01:02:15.199
just a world with another Star Wars movie in it

1062
01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:18.679
is richer because of it. Right, I'm not one of

1063
01:02:18.719 --> 01:02:23.039
these people who Disney Disney, you know that person. Right,

1064
01:02:23.119 --> 01:02:27.239
I'm thrilled the Disney, you know. I just I just

1065
01:02:28.239 --> 01:02:32.320
a little bit more focused on storytelling and the art

1066
01:02:32.480 --> 01:02:35.079
and a little less story focused on profit, gentlemen, and

1067
01:02:35.119 --> 01:02:36.480
I think you will be well suited.

1068
01:02:37.400 --> 01:02:40.360
All right, Well, there you have it, guys. The Mandalorian

1069
01:02:40.440 --> 01:02:44.639
grogu thumbs up the trucks first, go see it, walk,

1070
01:02:44.760 --> 01:02:47.639
don't run to the movie theater. All right, guys. As

1071
01:02:47.679 --> 01:02:51.679
now it's time for our sci fi birthdays. You know

1072
01:02:51.719 --> 01:02:54.159
what that means. That means we got.

1073
01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:54.559
To see.

1074
01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:01.400
A gread.

1075
01:03:10.960 --> 01:03:13.400
That was not a clute song. All right, guys, this

1076
01:03:13.519 --> 01:03:15.400
is a part of the show where we have some

1077
01:03:15.440 --> 01:03:18.480
fun with some sci five birthdays. And we always let

1078
01:03:18.679 --> 01:03:22.360
Eric start off our sci Fi Wenesday section. Why savvy

1079
01:03:22.400 --> 01:03:25.800
and I remembering those sci fi itons who are no

1080
01:03:25.920 --> 01:03:31.039
longer with us, So take it away, Eric, Yeah, Jim.

1081
01:03:31.039 --> 01:03:33.800
This week we're gonna start just a little differently because

1082
01:03:33.840 --> 01:03:39.239
we lost a member of our sci fi community this week.

1083
01:03:39.360 --> 01:03:42.800
Kelly Curtis, so Star Trek Deep Space nine actress Kelly

1084
01:03:42.880 --> 01:03:46.760
Lee Curtis, sister of Jamie Lee, dies at the age

1085
01:03:46.840 --> 01:03:50.480
of sixty nine years old star Trek Deep Space nine

1086
01:03:50.519 --> 01:03:53.119
guest star Kelly Lee Curtis passed away at the age

1087
01:03:53.119 --> 01:03:56.039
of sixty nine on Saturday May thirtieth, According to a

1088
01:03:56.119 --> 01:03:59.719
social media post uploaded by her Oscar winning sister, Jamie

1089
01:03:59.800 --> 01:04:04.599
Lee Curtis. The Halloween star and horror genre's renowned scream

1090
01:04:04.679 --> 01:04:09.440
Queen wrote the following on Instagram. A warm ALOA to

1091
01:04:09.559 --> 01:04:13.119
my older sister, Kelly Lee Curtis. She passed away this

1092
01:04:13.239 --> 01:04:17.360
morning in her home in Nature at Peace. She was

1093
01:04:17.400 --> 01:04:21.599
my first friend and lifelong confidant. She was jaw droppingly

1094
01:04:21.679 --> 01:04:25.639
beautiful and a talented actress. She played a mean game

1095
01:04:25.679 --> 01:04:32.519
of hearts, collected turtles, loved her family, nature, music, thrifting, travel, Facebook,

1096
01:04:32.840 --> 01:04:37.440
and POKEMONNGO. She was proud of her Danish roots and

1097
01:04:37.559 --> 01:04:42.360
Hungarian Jewish ancestry, and was a devoted American patriot. She

1098
01:04:42.400 --> 01:04:48.039
will be remembered for her loving generosity, fierce opinions, endless curiosity,

1099
01:04:48.440 --> 01:04:54.840
unique style, and her powdered almond crescent cookies at christ Christmas,

1100
01:04:54.920 --> 01:05:00.280
hence her name Anti Cookie. Kelly always signed off any

1101
01:05:00.320 --> 01:05:05.119
message or fare thee well with a Hungarian blessing. If

1102
01:05:05.119 --> 01:05:09.159
stead velid God is with you, is stead velid to

1103
01:05:09.280 --> 01:05:12.519
my sister of the Sun and the Moon, my tie,

1104
01:05:12.920 --> 01:05:16.880
I'll see you on down the line. Kelly Lee Curtis

1105
01:05:16.960 --> 01:05:19.159
has the honor of being among the very first guest

1106
01:05:19.199 --> 01:05:22.800
stars to appear on Deep Space nine. Curtis portrayed Miss

1107
01:05:22.880 --> 01:05:27.159
Sarta in the season one episode Captive Pursuit, which aired

1108
01:05:27.199 --> 01:05:30.400
for the first time over thirty years ago on January

1109
01:05:30.440 --> 01:05:34.199
thirty first, nineteen ninety three. Sarta was an alien who

1110
01:05:34.199 --> 01:05:37.960
worked for Quark on Deep Space nine. Although Curtis's part

1111
01:05:38.039 --> 01:05:40.840
was a small one, the actress enjoyed an incredible career

1112
01:05:40.920 --> 01:05:44.280
working in Hollywood, just as her sister Jamie Lee did.

1113
01:05:44.519 --> 01:05:47.400
In fact, many Star Trek fans may not be aware

1114
01:05:47.440 --> 01:05:50.360
that Kelly Lee also appeared in one of Jamie Lee's

1115
01:05:50.400 --> 01:05:54.679
biggest hits, Trading Places from nineteen eighty three, as Muffy.

1116
01:05:55.360 --> 01:05:58.519
Kelly Lee Curtis, of course, is the daughter of Tinseltown's

1117
01:05:58.599 --> 01:06:03.920
royal couple, Tony Curtis and Janet Lee. And so we

1118
01:06:03.960 --> 01:06:06.599
say farewell to Kelly Lee Curtis just this year, just

1119
01:06:06.639 --> 01:06:09.960
a few days ago, Happy birthday to you and we

1120
01:06:10.159 --> 01:06:14.320
already miss you. Happy birthday as well this week to

1121
01:06:14.559 --> 01:06:19.280
actor Sebastian Shaw. Yes, that's right. Sebastian Shaw was the

1122
01:06:19.320 --> 01:06:24.840
English actor, theater director, novelist, and playwright and poet remembered

1123
01:06:24.840 --> 01:06:28.199
by Star Wars fans as the man behind Darth Vader's redemption.

1124
01:06:28.320 --> 01:06:30.800
That's right. He's the like guy you see when they

1125
01:06:30.800 --> 01:06:32.960
take the helmet off in Return of the Jedi. So

1126
01:06:34.320 --> 01:06:36.440
no less than at least three people have connections to

1127
01:06:37.000 --> 01:06:39.400
the original the Darth Vader, and then they just keep

1128
01:06:39.480 --> 01:06:42.199
adding up, right, So Sebastian Shaw lost back in nineteen

1129
01:06:42.280 --> 01:06:45.400
ninety four. Happy birthday to him and thanks for playing

1130
01:06:45.440 --> 01:06:50.079
Anakin slash Darth Vader. Happy birthday as well to Kevin Conway,

1131
01:06:50.119 --> 01:06:52.559
the actor who played Kyless in the Star Trek Nest

1132
01:06:52.679 --> 01:06:58.079
Generation six season episode Rightful Air. You know, Kevin didn't

1133
01:06:58.079 --> 01:07:00.400
decide to pursue a career in acting, and until he

1134
01:07:00.480 --> 01:07:04.320
was twenty four years old, he originally worked as an

1135
01:07:04.440 --> 01:07:09.079
IBM sales analyst prior to becoming an actor. I love that.

1136
01:07:09.159 --> 01:07:11.880
I love when companies like IBM come up and you're

1137
01:07:11.920 --> 01:07:14.719
just like, whatever happened to them? I know, they're still around.

1138
01:07:14.719 --> 01:07:19.599
But Conway appeared as himself and the Earl of Hastings

1139
01:07:19.639 --> 01:07:23.760
in Al Pacino's nineteen ninety six documentary Looking for Richard.

1140
01:07:24.239 --> 01:07:26.920
He was an actor and director. He was known for

1141
01:07:26.960 --> 01:07:30.039
Gettysburg from nineteen ninety three, if you never saw that

1142
01:07:30.119 --> 01:07:32.960
TV movie that was Fantastic, Thirteen Days from two thousand

1143
01:07:33.079 --> 01:07:37.519
and Invincible from two thousand and six. He actually turned

1144
01:07:37.559 --> 01:07:40.119
down the role of Theodin in Lord of the Rings

1145
01:07:40.159 --> 01:07:43.320
so he could reprise the role of Buster Kilran in

1146
01:07:43.440 --> 01:07:46.960
Gods in Generals in two thousand and three. The role

1147
01:07:47.119 --> 01:07:49.880
went to Bernard Hill, of course. Instead. Conway had a

1148
01:07:49.880 --> 01:07:53.679
reoccurring role as Seamus O'Reilly in the HBO series OZ,

1149
01:07:53.760 --> 01:07:56.880
which I had a strange affinity for, despite the fact

1150
01:07:56.880 --> 01:08:01.400
that it wasn't really that. He also provided the control

1151
01:08:01.519 --> 01:08:05.599
voice for the Revival of the Outer Limits, a role

1152
01:08:05.639 --> 01:08:08.880
he took over from, of course, the infamous and famous

1153
01:08:08.960 --> 01:08:11.119
Vic Parrien from back in the day. So Kevin Conway,

1154
01:08:11.159 --> 01:08:12.880
thank you so much for all your sci Fi and

1155
01:08:12.920 --> 01:08:17.359
Star Trek contributions. Happy birthday to you, sir. Happy birthday

1156
01:08:17.399 --> 01:08:21.000
to Michael J. Pollard, the actor who played Yan in

1157
01:08:21.119 --> 01:08:26.600
the TOS first season episode Mary Pollard was began his

1158
01:08:26.640 --> 01:08:30.039
acting career back in nineteen fifty eight, having at only

1159
01:08:30.119 --> 01:08:34.159
nineteen years old. He was a character actor, accumulating almost

1160
01:08:34.159 --> 01:08:38.640
one hundred appearances in movies and television series throughout his career.

1161
01:08:39.119 --> 01:08:42.239
In nineteen sixty seven, he earned an Academy Award nomination

1162
01:08:42.319 --> 01:08:45.359
as Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role

1163
01:08:45.439 --> 01:08:48.520
of C. W. Moss in the film Body and Clyde.

1164
01:08:48.920 --> 01:08:50.680
And if you haven't seen Body and Clyde, you should

1165
01:08:50.680 --> 01:08:53.199
see that movie. It's one of the best. He also

1166
01:08:53.239 --> 01:08:55.800
earned two Golden Globe nominations for that role, one for

1167
01:08:55.840 --> 01:09:00.680
Best Supporting Actor and one for Most Promising Newcomer. We

1168
01:09:00.800 --> 01:09:03.439
also saw him in Lost in Space in the episode

1169
01:09:03.479 --> 01:09:05.560
The Magic Mirror Back in the Day, and of course

1170
01:09:05.640 --> 01:09:08.159
the movie Scrooged, one of my favorites from the late

1171
01:09:08.239 --> 01:09:11.800
eighties with Bill Murray. He has been a ton of

1172
01:09:11.840 --> 01:09:14.840
other stuff. I like to remember him from House of

1173
01:09:14.880 --> 01:09:18.479
a Thousand Corpses because sid hey maybe so. Thank you,

1174
01:09:18.560 --> 01:09:21.560
Michael J. Pollard for all of the cool things that

1175
01:09:21.600 --> 01:09:23.239
you did. You lived to the ripe old age of

1176
01:09:23.279 --> 01:09:26.199
eighty years old, and we lost you back in twenty nineteen.

1177
01:09:26.239 --> 01:09:31.199
Happy Birthday, Happy birthday as well to Ivy Bethuen, the

1178
01:09:31.239 --> 01:09:34.720
actress who played Duana in the Next Generation first season

1179
01:09:34.800 --> 01:09:38.000
episode When the Boo Breaks. She was best known for

1180
01:09:38.039 --> 01:09:40.720
her role as Ma Peabody in the nineteen eighty five

1181
01:09:40.840 --> 01:09:44.119
hit time travel film Back to the Future.

1182
01:09:44.359 --> 01:09:44.680
Yes.

1183
01:09:44.720 --> 01:09:47.159
She's also known for her regular role as Miss Tuttle

1184
01:09:47.680 --> 01:09:51.800
on the nineteen eighty one Western series Father Murphy. She

1185
01:09:51.880 --> 01:09:54.920
mostly worked in theater and in television during her career.

1186
01:09:55.039 --> 01:09:58.039
She can also be seen in lots of episodes guest

1187
01:09:58.039 --> 01:10:01.760
starring from the eighties and nineties. Just think of a show,

1188
01:10:01.840 --> 01:10:04.000
she was probably on it at some point. She was

1189
01:10:04.079 --> 01:10:07.000
only the eighth Star Trek performer to reach the age

1190
01:10:07.039 --> 01:10:10.119
of one one hundred years old. That's right, we lost

1191
01:10:10.159 --> 01:10:13.279
her at one hundred and one years old. She was

1192
01:10:13.319 --> 01:10:19.520
born nineteen eighteen lost July nineteenth, twenty nineteen. Happy birthday

1193
01:10:20.039 --> 01:10:25.760
to Ivy Bituin. Happy birthday as well to Renee Murat Aberjeenois,

1194
01:10:25.960 --> 01:10:29.079
the actor who's best known for portraying Chiefs of Security

1195
01:10:29.119 --> 01:10:32.520
Odo on Star Trek Deep Space nine. He appeared as

1196
01:10:32.600 --> 01:10:35.520
Colonel West, of course, in the best Star Trek movie

1197
01:10:35.560 --> 01:10:39.000
of all time, Star Trek six, The Undiscovered Country. Although

1198
01:10:39.039 --> 01:10:42.720
his scenes were initially cut for the film's theatrical release,

1199
01:10:42.800 --> 01:10:45.680
glad we finally got to see those in the video releases.

1200
01:10:45.680 --> 01:10:49.119
In addition, he made a guest appearance as Ezraul in

1201
01:10:49.159 --> 01:10:53.399
the Enterprise first season episode Oasis aber Zeennoa was also

1202
01:10:53.439 --> 01:10:56.960
briefly considered to portray the doctor in Star Trek Voyager.

1203
01:10:57.760 --> 01:11:01.079
What would that have been like? Starting his career on

1204
01:11:01.159 --> 01:11:04.039
the stage in nineteen seventy, he won a Tony Award

1205
01:11:04.079 --> 01:11:07.399
as the Best Featured Actor for his portrayal of Sebastian

1206
01:11:07.479 --> 01:11:11.279
Bay and Coco. He gained a TV fame for his

1207
01:11:11.319 --> 01:11:15.399
Emmy Award nominated role as the snooty Clayton Endicott, the

1208
01:11:15.520 --> 01:11:19.640
third on the comedy series Benson. That's, of course where

1209
01:11:19.680 --> 01:11:23.680
I first saw him. He also guests. Yeah. He also

1210
01:11:23.720 --> 01:11:29.560
guest starred in The Practice alongside William Shatner in Boston Legal.

1211
01:11:30.840 --> 01:11:34.239
And he was also known as playing Father Mulkay in

1212
01:11:34.319 --> 01:11:39.199
Alman's original nineteen seventy classic Mash Lots of other Cool Things,

1213
01:11:39.239 --> 01:11:41.640
did some video games and all kinds of cool stuff.

1214
01:11:41.680 --> 01:11:45.119
What a great actor and what a great character that

1215
01:11:45.119 --> 01:11:48.239
we got to see throughout Deep Space nine renee. You're

1216
01:11:48.239 --> 01:11:51.199
at Abergenois lost back in twenty nineteen at the age

1217
01:11:51.239 --> 01:11:54.640
of seventy nine years old. Happy birthday to you. Happy

1218
01:11:54.640 --> 01:11:58.800
birthday to Maurice Evans, the British American actor born in Dorset, England.

1219
01:11:59.159 --> 01:12:02.560
Maurice Evans best known as doctor Zaias Doctor Zeas Doctor

1220
01:12:02.640 --> 01:12:06.920
Zaias in Planet of the Apes and has Samantha Stephens

1221
01:12:07.039 --> 01:12:12.319
father Maurice in Bewitched. I will admit that I saw

1222
01:12:12.439 --> 01:12:16.119
Bewitched long before I saw Planet These so that's where

1223
01:12:16.159 --> 01:12:19.600
I actually knew him from. I saw every episode of

1224
01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:22.399
Bewitched back in the day. But yeah, Maurice Evans, thank

1225
01:12:22.479 --> 01:12:24.880
you so much for your contributions to science fiction and

1226
01:12:24.960 --> 01:12:27.840
doctor Zayas. What a classic character. Happy birthday to you,

1227
01:12:28.880 --> 01:12:31.640
and last but not least, on our remembrance list, this

1228
01:12:31.680 --> 01:12:35.520
week we will say Happy birthday to the actress Sally Kellerman. She,

1229
01:12:35.680 --> 01:12:39.439
of course, is the woman who portrayed Elizabeth Dinner in

1230
01:12:39.479 --> 01:12:42.520
the TOS first season episode where no man has gone

1231
01:12:42.560 --> 01:12:46.520
before had to wear those contacts right. She's best remembered

1232
01:12:46.520 --> 01:12:50.119
for portraying Major Margaret hot Lips Hulahan and Robert Altman's

1233
01:12:50.119 --> 01:12:53.800
acclaimed nineteen seventy film Mash, for which she received supporting

1234
01:12:54.199 --> 01:12:58.279
Oscar and Gold Globe nominations. Remember the movie, not the

1235
01:12:58.279 --> 01:13:01.439
TV show. That's why she doesn't look like the actress

1236
01:13:01.439 --> 01:13:04.319
from the TV show. Sally was attracted to the performing

1237
01:13:04.399 --> 01:13:08.640
arts after seeing Marlon Brando's star in the film Viva

1238
01:13:08.760 --> 01:13:13.880
Zapata from nineteen fifty two. She in the nineteen sixties,

1239
01:13:13.880 --> 01:13:17.439
she pursued a singing career and it just eighteen years old,

1240
01:13:17.560 --> 01:13:21.279
was offered a contract with Verve Records. Unfortunately, stage fright

1241
01:13:21.399 --> 01:13:24.640
daunted her from performing live and she never got beyond

1242
01:13:24.640 --> 01:13:29.279
the stage of making demos and the deal eventually lapsed. Wow,

1243
01:13:29.439 --> 01:13:31.520
how about that. Some people just are not made for

1244
01:13:31.600 --> 01:13:34.760
being the star focused on the stage right. But what

1245
01:13:34.840 --> 01:13:39.079
a great actress. Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad was

1246
01:13:39.119 --> 01:13:41.399
somebody that she actually used to date as well back

1247
01:13:41.439 --> 01:13:44.199
of the day, and that band wrote a song about her.

1248
01:13:44.640 --> 01:13:48.520
So please go to your YouTube search Grand Funk Railroad

1249
01:13:49.000 --> 01:13:51.640
Sally and listened to the song and you will know

1250
01:13:51.720 --> 01:13:54.920
that that song is all about Sally Kellerman back in

1251
01:13:54.960 --> 01:13:57.439
the day. We lost her back in twenty twenty two

1252
01:13:57.520 --> 01:13:59.680
at the ripe old age of eighty four years old.

1253
01:13:59.880 --> 01:14:03.079
You so much Sally for all of your wonderful contributions

1254
01:14:03.119 --> 01:14:07.560
to Star Trek and beyond. Happy birthday to you, and

1255
01:14:07.600 --> 01:14:10.439
I would certainly like to now pass this flaming birthday

1256
01:14:10.439 --> 01:14:13.920
candle over to somebody more qualified to talk about birthdays

1257
01:14:13.960 --> 01:14:14.760
than me, right V.

1258
01:14:15.399 --> 01:14:18.680
I don't know, well, I get, I don't know. I'm

1259
01:14:18.680 --> 01:14:21.000
not sure what that means. But okay, what do I

1260
01:14:21.039 --> 01:14:25.079
do with that? All right?

1261
01:14:25.159 --> 01:14:30.760
Well, my first birthday wish goes out to somebody that

1262
01:14:30.880 --> 01:14:33.119
was in a show that I actually have never seen,

1263
01:14:33.279 --> 01:14:34.520
so I apologize.

1264
01:14:35.720 --> 01:14:37.199
Adrian Paul Hewitt.

1265
01:14:37.399 --> 01:14:41.359
He played the immortal Duncan McLeod in Highland or the

1266
01:14:41.479 --> 01:14:47.399
series Highlander Endgame and Highlander The Source. The role of

1267
01:14:47.479 --> 01:14:50.880
Duncan has brought him the most prominence to date. So

1268
01:14:50.960 --> 01:14:54.880
happy Birthday. I've got a friend that is like very

1269
01:14:54.920 --> 01:14:56.600
much into that show.

1270
01:14:58.279 --> 01:15:00.439
Well, I'll just say the it's one of the few

1271
01:15:00.880 --> 01:15:05.479
franchises for me that started with a movie and then

1272
01:15:06.079 --> 01:15:07.920
they made a couple of movies and it was so

1273
01:15:08.079 --> 01:15:09.760
close to my heart, and then they made the show

1274
01:15:09.840 --> 01:15:11.920
and the show was so much better for le than

1275
01:15:11.960 --> 01:15:17.399
the movie. Yeah, they really would I love Okay, I

1276
01:15:17.439 --> 01:15:18.840
guess I have to love it. Yeah, the show is

1277
01:15:18.880 --> 01:15:19.319
pretty good.

1278
01:15:20.079 --> 01:15:24.760
Next, somebody that I actually saw walk by at Galaxy

1279
01:15:24.840 --> 01:15:27.319
Con back in March. Did not get to meet him

1280
01:15:27.319 --> 01:15:32.079
because the line was ridiculously long, but happy birthday to

1281
01:15:32.319 --> 01:15:36.960
call him Jay Meaney. He's the Irish actor known for

1282
01:15:37.000 --> 01:15:42.600
his performance across performances, I should say across screen and stage.

1283
01:15:43.159 --> 01:15:47.560
He has received seven nominations from the Irish Film and

1284
01:15:47.640 --> 01:15:51.680
Television Academy, And of course, he was best known by

1285
01:15:52.159 --> 01:15:56.880
Star Trek fans for his portrayal of Chief Miles Edward

1286
01:15:57.039 --> 01:16:02.760
O'Brien on TNG and d S nine and Thomas C.

1287
01:16:02.960 --> 01:16:08.079
Durant on the AMC Western Hell on Wheels for five seasons.

1288
01:16:08.600 --> 01:16:12.119
Never saw that either, but I saw him definitely in

1289
01:16:12.199 --> 01:16:16.880
Star Trek, where he liked his coffee double strong, double

1290
01:16:16.920 --> 01:16:19.319
sweech and making blend if you remember that.

1291
01:16:20.000 --> 01:16:21.039
And he was married to.

1292
01:16:21.119 --> 01:16:23.159
And he was a man.

1293
01:16:23.319 --> 01:16:24.520
He was a Union man.

1294
01:16:24.479 --> 01:16:25.119
That's right.

1295
01:16:28.319 --> 01:16:28.560
Yeah.

1296
01:16:28.920 --> 01:16:30.840
What did they call him on Star Trek lower decks

1297
01:16:30.840 --> 01:16:33.159
with the statue? Was it the most important person?

1298
01:16:33.399 --> 01:16:36.279
I can't I can't run Star remember, I don't know.

1299
01:16:36.359 --> 01:16:38.479
I wish I could have met him at that at

1300
01:16:38.479 --> 01:16:42.319
that con, but I had waited so long to meet

1301
01:16:43.560 --> 01:16:45.760
Ethan Peck and I just didn't have it in me

1302
01:16:45.880 --> 01:16:49.199
to stand in the line to meet anybody else.

1303
01:16:49.279 --> 01:16:51.199
It was just but I saw him walk by, So

1304
01:16:51.439 --> 01:16:53.119
there's there was that.

1305
01:16:54.920 --> 01:16:58.239
I mean, that's almost as good as Jim peeing next

1306
01:16:58.279 --> 01:16:59.479
to Q right.

1307
01:17:05.800 --> 01:17:06.560
I got.

1308
01:17:07.920 --> 01:17:13.199
Uh, I mean you saw him.

1309
01:17:13.399 --> 01:17:13.960
He was right there.

1310
01:17:14.000 --> 01:17:17.239
I know, I know, but I don't even know what.

1311
01:17:18.640 --> 01:17:20.239
I don't even know what to say to that.

1312
01:17:20.319 --> 01:17:24.000
Oh my god, all right, well let me continue, let

1313
01:17:24.039 --> 01:17:27.079
me try to pull it together here. Oh my god,

1314
01:17:27.119 --> 01:17:28.920
that's going to be in my head for the rest

1315
01:17:28.960 --> 01:17:30.119
of the night, you know.

1316
01:17:33.239 --> 01:17:38.960
And you because when when John Delancy stepped up next

1317
01:17:39.000 --> 01:17:40.680
to the you know, I just gave him the old die.

1318
01:17:41.000 --> 01:17:44.600
He gave me the die that No.

1319
01:17:44.760 --> 01:17:47.039
Girls don't do that. We don't know, I mean, well

1320
01:17:47.119 --> 01:17:47.920
never anyway.

1321
01:17:48.600 --> 01:17:54.000
Can I, oh my god, help me here, I.

1322
01:17:53.960 --> 01:18:01.920
Can't sees educational?

1323
01:18:03.880 --> 01:18:04.279
All right?

1324
01:18:04.479 --> 01:18:04.800
Happy?

1325
01:18:07.079 --> 01:18:12.520
Oh my god, Okay, I gotta pull a tigether oh man.

1326
01:18:15.000 --> 01:18:18.680
Happy birthday to Jules Belair State.

1327
01:18:19.720 --> 01:18:25.359
She is a Canadian actress who plays Serenity's mechanic Kayleie

1328
01:18:25.439 --> 01:18:29.720
Frye on Firefly and the movie Serenity. Something Else I

1329
01:18:29.920 --> 01:18:35.720
didn't see, Sorry, I'm sure she was wonderful. Next one

1330
01:18:35.720 --> 01:18:41.439
of my favorite episodes of TNG had Nicole Avery Nicki Cox,

1331
01:18:41.479 --> 01:18:46.520
who played Sargenka in that second season episode pen Pals,

1332
01:18:47.199 --> 01:18:51.359
where Data is actually talking with her and her planet

1333
01:18:51.520 --> 01:18:54.159
is like on fire, but he saves it, and she

1334
01:18:54.319 --> 01:18:56.760
was just really cute in that. That was also with

1335
01:18:58.000 --> 01:19:00.479
this was one of the Doctor Pulaski in there, and

1336
01:19:00.479 --> 01:19:04.199
they had the singing stones. Anyway, she went on to

1337
01:19:04.319 --> 01:19:09.880
start in a television series unhappily ever after next, Happy

1338
01:19:09.920 --> 01:19:14.880
Birthday goes out to Anthony T. Montgomery. He portrayed ensign

1339
01:19:15.000 --> 01:19:20.279
Travis Mayweather on Enterprise and he's the grandson of legendary

1340
01:19:20.399 --> 01:19:23.119
jazz musician Wes Montgomery.

1341
01:19:24.279 --> 01:19:25.239
And last but not.

1342
01:19:25.279 --> 01:19:31.319
Least, Happy Birthday to Michelle Phillips and we should have

1343
01:19:31.319 --> 01:19:35.039
had the song playing in the background, but anyway. She's

1344
01:19:35.079 --> 01:19:38.399
a singer and actress who played Janice Mannheim in the

1345
01:19:38.439 --> 01:19:43.560
Star Trek Next Gen first season episode will always have Paris.

1346
01:19:44.119 --> 01:19:46.760
Of course, she was a member of the pop group

1347
01:19:46.800 --> 01:19:50.239
The Mamas and the Papas Co wrote their hit single

1348
01:19:50.720 --> 01:19:55.439
California Dreaman with her former husband and BANDMTE John Phillips,

1349
01:19:56.079 --> 01:20:00.560
which was featured in the Star Trek Picard second season

1350
01:20:00.720 --> 01:20:06.119
episode Assimilation. So happy birthday to all those fine folks,

1351
01:20:06.640 --> 01:20:09.399
all right now onto Paul, who probably can keep it

1352
01:20:09.439 --> 01:20:12.560
together a whole lot more than I can. So pass

1353
01:20:12.640 --> 01:20:16.560
the flaming birthday candle onto you.

1354
01:20:16.640 --> 01:20:18.920
Well, you never know, because I have triggers and you

1355
01:20:18.960 --> 01:20:20.840
never know what they are or what they might just

1356
01:20:21.039 --> 01:20:25.199
suddenly snap. So you know, anything can happen on this show. Yeah,

1357
01:20:25.279 --> 01:20:27.479
all I know is if somebody ever, if somebody ever

1358
01:20:27.520 --> 01:20:30.000
gave me the guy nod at an adjacent urine, all

1359
01:20:30.039 --> 01:20:31.520
I would probably blow their brains out.

1360
01:20:31.600 --> 01:20:32.560
Okay, I was just.

1361
01:20:32.479 --> 01:20:37.479
Like, what what the guy nod? Are you? Are you kidding?

1362
01:20:37.920 --> 01:20:41.520
I mean the guy is kind of an acknowledgment of guyness, right,

1363
01:20:43.119 --> 01:20:44.399
you're giving them.

1364
01:20:45.680 --> 01:20:49.199
I don't want to not I don't want to business

1365
01:20:50.359 --> 01:20:52.119
to get an elbow and the teeth, I mean, get

1366
01:20:52.119 --> 01:20:52.960
the away.

1367
01:20:52.760 --> 01:20:55.399
From I'd rather reach under the stall for some toilet paper.

1368
01:20:55.399 --> 01:20:57.279
If I don't know, I can't.

1369
01:20:58.800 --> 01:21:01.000
I'm sorry, I can't spare square.

1370
01:21:02.079 --> 01:21:02.800
I have no.

1371
01:21:04.720 --> 01:21:07.640
More than about my co hosts, and I wish.

1372
01:21:07.640 --> 01:21:10.159
That's what that's why, that's why men should I don't

1373
01:21:10.199 --> 01:21:13.199
know why the men's bathrooms are like that and not

1374
01:21:13.399 --> 01:21:16.479
like women's where we're like enclosed and we can close

1375
01:21:16.560 --> 01:21:16.920
the door.

1376
01:21:17.960 --> 01:21:20.039
Girl, I can tell you why. I can tell you

1377
01:21:20.119 --> 01:21:22.199
why would you like to know why? I can tell

1378
01:21:22.239 --> 01:21:25.800
you why as somebody who because I'm a stall bright,

1379
01:21:27.039 --> 01:21:28.000
men are animals.

1380
01:21:28.359 --> 01:21:31.800
That is why we're basically like peril a right who

1381
01:21:31.880 --> 01:21:34.159
like you know, we really are.

1382
01:21:35.920 --> 01:21:36.439
That's the truth.

1383
01:21:36.880 --> 01:21:38.880
Don't argue with me. I don't want to see even

1384
01:21:38.880 --> 01:21:41.359
though I have an actual photo of a Star trek

1385
01:21:41.479 --> 01:21:44.039
urinal cake, and it's not the kind of cake you eat.

1386
01:21:46.600 --> 01:21:48.439
It's not the kind of cake that you serve with

1387
01:21:48.479 --> 01:21:52.840
the It is just not. So maybe that's what it is.

1388
01:21:52.880 --> 01:21:55.560
Maybe that's why the nod was invented, because I don't know.

1389
01:21:55.600 --> 01:21:59.840
I'm just very believe there's got to be there's got

1390
01:21:59.840 --> 01:22:01.279
to be who's line it?

1391
01:22:01.720 --> 01:22:03.279
Whose line is it? Any way?

1392
01:22:03.479 --> 01:22:05.760
Segment where they have scenes from a hat and it's

1393
01:22:05.840 --> 01:22:09.039
like the worst things to say when you're standing next

1394
01:22:09.079 --> 01:22:16.880
to somebody.

1395
01:22:13.760 --> 01:22:15.399
The show will be overnight, right, Uncle.

1396
01:22:16.880 --> 01:22:26.479
Star Trek you' an okay, this is what John de

1397
01:22:26.560 --> 01:22:27.359
Lancey gave me.

1398
01:22:30.319 --> 01:22:32.920
You know, I'm right, okay, Sorry, I got a grip

1399
01:22:34.159 --> 01:22:36.439
that was There was a great sequence there. Look at

1400
01:22:36.560 --> 01:22:37.640
the comedy. It's fawned.

1401
01:22:37.680 --> 01:22:40.560
I'm like, oh, man, man.

1402
01:22:41.319 --> 01:22:43.520
Moving on to other people who are like going to

1403
01:22:43.560 --> 01:22:45.159
be a year older by the time we're done this ship.

1404
01:22:45.239 --> 01:22:50.199
So happy birthday to American actress who's never used a

1405
01:22:50.279 --> 01:22:55.239
you'reine old, Julie Cobb okay, who is credited on the

1406
01:22:55.239 --> 01:23:03.039
original series second season with the very detailed appellation of yeoman. Okay. Then,

1407
01:23:03.439 --> 01:23:05.920
and this poor girl, frankly, if she had one of

1408
01:23:05.960 --> 01:23:08.960
those traumatic moments in all of Star Trek, I would

1409
01:23:09.319 --> 01:23:12.439
hazard to guess, right, she's just this nice, pretty yeoman, Right,

1410
01:23:12.760 --> 01:23:14.920
She's just show up in the fucking landing party in

1411
01:23:14.960 --> 01:23:17.640
your red dress, right, and then by any other name,

1412
01:23:17.920 --> 01:23:22.640
she gets turned into like a one of those styrofoam

1413
01:23:22.720 --> 01:23:25.079
cubes by the aliens, right, and then he has to

1414
01:23:25.119 --> 01:23:27.720
pick one to show that they need business, and he

1415
01:23:27.880 --> 01:23:30.239
just crushes it in his hands. And then when she

1416
01:23:30.319 --> 01:23:33.279
doesn't come, when she doesn't materialize, you know there it

1417
01:23:33.359 --> 01:23:35.680
is a horrific moment. I mean, one of those just

1418
01:23:35.760 --> 01:23:39.039
like shocking. I remember being like more mortified by that

1419
01:23:39.079 --> 01:23:41.840
as a kid, right, and it's this freaking actress here,

1420
01:23:41.920 --> 01:23:45.279
so she's you know, I would say, Julie Cobb you know,

1421
01:23:45.720 --> 01:23:48.840
way up on the trek level of like, you know,

1422
01:23:49.119 --> 01:23:54.279
memorable deaths, perhaps one of the worst. So yeah, I mean,

1423
01:23:54.520 --> 01:23:58.640
don't just dismiss yeomen from the second season because I'll

1424
01:23:58.640 --> 01:24:01.680
tell you what what a what a moment. So yeah,

1425
01:24:01.800 --> 01:24:04.279
I mean it's but you know, if you know what

1426
01:24:04.319 --> 01:24:07.960
I'm talking about, you know what I'm really need to

1427
01:24:08.000 --> 01:24:13.239
be done. More sleep for this man, please. Mark Shepherd

1428
01:24:13.279 --> 01:24:15.880
does having a birthday. Let's hear from Mark Shepherd looking

1429
01:24:15.880 --> 01:24:17.760
at the thing going right down in the middle of

1430
01:24:17.800 --> 01:24:20.640
his face. You won't see that in a journal.

1431
01:24:20.880 --> 01:24:26.600
So anyhow, that's that's the lampsy nod right there. That's

1432
01:24:26.640 --> 01:24:26.840
what you.

1433
01:24:29.800 --> 01:24:34.640
That's what happens to somebody. Mark is a British actor

1434
01:24:34.640 --> 01:24:39.800
who played lu Khan in Voyagers six season episode trouds Play. However,

1435
01:24:40.239 --> 01:24:43.319
this guy's got serious cred, okay, because he's also known

1436
01:24:43.359 --> 01:24:48.039
for recurring roles as the demon King of Crowley on

1437
01:24:48.159 --> 01:24:52.119
Supernatural and on the phenomenal Ronald D. Moore reboot of

1438
01:24:52.159 --> 01:24:55.079
Battlestart Galacty. He played Romo Lampkin on that show too,

1439
01:24:55.119 --> 01:24:57.159
which is a really cool garacter. This guy really knows

1440
01:24:57.199 --> 01:25:01.800
what he's doing. Terrific actor. A lot of small character work,

1441
01:25:01.800 --> 01:25:03.960
doesn't have a lot of starring roles, but really really great.

1442
01:25:04.880 --> 01:25:10.720
So check out Child's play World worst is that show?

1443
01:25:10.880 --> 01:25:13.239
But no, no, he was. No, he was the world's worst.

1444
01:25:13.279 --> 01:25:14.800
Stab on that episode?

1445
01:25:15.039 --> 01:25:20.760
Oh the character. I'm like, I'm not IMDb World's worst Dad?

1446
01:25:21.159 --> 01:25:22.199
How many seasons was that?

1447
01:25:22.439 --> 01:25:23.720
I had a moment?

1448
01:25:25.720 --> 01:25:32.199
Not in this lifetime? Okay, okay, moving on this gentleman,

1449
01:25:32.479 --> 01:25:36.119
is you know living icon? I must acknowledge the great

1450
01:25:36.239 --> 01:25:40.079
Caire Delay, American actor, best known, of course, for his

1451
01:25:40.239 --> 01:25:46.560
portrayal of astronaut David Bowman in the iconic nineteen sixty

1452
01:25:46.560 --> 01:25:48.199
eight san Ley Coo Bridge film two thousand and one,

1453
01:25:48.199 --> 01:25:52.399
A Space Odyssey. He appeared again in the nineteen eighty

1454
01:25:52.439 --> 01:25:56.279
fourth sequel twenty ten The Year We Mad, with Roy Scheider,

1455
01:25:56.920 --> 01:26:01.119
both from Arthur C. Clark novels. How than for grabbing

1456
01:26:01.159 --> 01:26:04.479
the emergency brake slowing the train down momentarily, one cannot

1457
01:26:04.520 --> 01:26:08.000
mention care Delay and science fiction without acknowledging his seldom

1458
01:26:08.079 --> 01:26:11.159
discussed also television program. I can't tell if it's in

1459
01:26:11.199 --> 01:26:13.520
that tiny little print there or not, but there was

1460
01:26:13.560 --> 01:26:15.840
a show. If you were of a certain age as

1461
01:26:15.920 --> 01:26:18.760
I was in the seventies that you might remember a

1462
01:26:18.800 --> 01:26:24.000
television program very culty, very few people remember it called

1463
01:26:24.039 --> 01:26:26.079
The Star Lost. Is that one of the ones that's

1464
01:26:26.119 --> 01:26:31.640
in that mosaic there? Friends? Does anyone see this is Starlust? Excellent? Excellent,

1465
01:26:31.640 --> 01:26:35.159
because that's a great, so really weird show. It was

1466
01:26:35.199 --> 01:26:39.640
filmed in Canada and created by Harlan Ellison. Okay, legendary

1467
01:26:39.680 --> 01:26:42.960
science fiction writer Harlan Neilson, who subsequently took his name

1468
01:26:43.039 --> 01:26:45.920
off the show because he was not happy with it.

1469
01:26:45.960 --> 01:26:48.399
But care Delay plays this man in the far future

1470
01:26:48.720 --> 01:26:51.720
who is on the spaceship called the Star Lost, and

1471
01:26:51.760 --> 01:26:54.239
it's basically all of these giant pods. I mean, the

1472
01:26:54.279 --> 01:26:57.119
ship almost looks like the ship in Silent Running, and

1473
01:26:57.239 --> 01:27:00.680
every pod is like another world or city, and he

1474
01:27:00.720 --> 01:27:03.960
has to basically find his way going from you know,

1475
01:27:04.000 --> 01:27:06.600
every episode he would go into a new dome to

1476
01:27:06.680 --> 01:27:08.399
basically try to figure out if there was a way

1477
01:27:08.439 --> 01:27:11.079
to prepare because the arc that they're on, it's like

1478
01:27:11.119 --> 01:27:13.199
this giant space arc and it's going to crash and

1479
01:27:14.960 --> 01:27:18.399
disappear unless they can figure out what to do right,

1480
01:27:18.479 --> 01:27:20.359
So it's like all of the future of mankind is

1481
01:27:20.399 --> 01:27:22.520
on there. Care Delay was the star of the Star

1482
01:27:22.600 --> 01:27:24.159
Loss though, and it's a crazy show. It was shot

1483
01:27:24.159 --> 01:27:27.199
on videotape in Canada with a lot of green blue screens,

1484
01:27:27.279 --> 01:27:29.279
chroma key stuff back in the early days with tech

1485
01:27:29.359 --> 01:27:33.000
more effects. Walter Kaneig was on the show, Sterling Hayden,

1486
01:27:33.039 --> 01:27:35.399
Samon Oakland, a lot of John Polakos. They had a

1487
01:27:35.479 --> 01:27:38.479
lot of star trek vets and genre vets are on

1488
01:27:38.479 --> 01:27:39.840
the show all the time. But if you're looking for

1489
01:27:39.880 --> 01:27:43.960
something crazy, you can buy it on like Amazon on

1490
01:27:44.039 --> 01:27:46.600
TVD for like ten bucks. Right, but it's a crazy

1491
01:27:46.600 --> 01:27:49.760
piece of science fiction history. It would be crazy to

1492
01:27:50.439 --> 01:27:52.880
mention care Delay and honor his birthday and not mention

1493
01:27:53.000 --> 01:27:56.000
this because it's a very interesting piece of cold history.

1494
01:27:56.039 --> 01:28:01.760
But forever he will be the open the pod doors, Hew,

1495
01:28:02.279 --> 01:28:05.840
open the pod doors. I'm sorry, Dave, he will. That

1496
01:28:05.920 --> 01:28:09.279
is his place in cinemasty is cemented for all time.

1497
01:28:09.520 --> 01:28:13.560
So we so loute you here. Delay. Absolutely amazing to

1498
01:28:13.600 --> 01:28:15.880
be able to celebrate your birthday. So there, we love it.

1499
01:28:16.279 --> 01:28:20.880
Happy birthday goes out to luminary Lina Thompson, actress and

1500
01:28:21.039 --> 01:28:28.199
director who of course originally played what Was There? Lorraine

1501
01:28:28.279 --> 01:28:30.880
Baines McFly. I want to say Yeah, before she got married,

1502
01:28:30.880 --> 01:28:34.279
she was Lorraine Pains and who would eventually marry mister

1503
01:28:34.319 --> 01:28:38.279
McFly and in the Back to the Future trilogies, right,

1504
01:28:38.479 --> 01:28:41.640
and she's the one who has that clinch with her

1505
01:28:41.920 --> 01:28:44.520
future son in the car and the parking lot. It's like,

1506
01:28:44.640 --> 01:28:48.560
something's wrong here, what's wrong with this picture? But tremendous

1507
01:28:48.600 --> 01:28:53.319
actress she was in. We're acknowledging her for her work

1508
01:28:53.760 --> 01:28:58.319
directing Picard's second season episode Assimilation and Watcher because she

1509
01:28:58.439 --> 01:29:02.920
is a formidable director. Also played Diane Werner character in

1510
01:29:02.960 --> 01:29:05.039
the episode fly Me to the Moon that series as well,

1511
01:29:05.119 --> 01:29:09.239
so she one of several non series regulars who both

1512
01:29:09.239 --> 01:29:12.920
acted and directed for a star Trek. So she's gets

1513
01:29:12.960 --> 01:29:16.600
the job done really really amazing phenomenal there. Of course,

1514
01:29:16.800 --> 01:29:19.239
everyone will always remember her for Back in the Future.

1515
01:29:19.279 --> 01:29:22.640
And then she was also in the eighties pictures Howard

1516
01:29:22.680 --> 01:29:24.840
the Duck, which she's still trying to scrub from her

1517
01:29:24.920 --> 01:29:28.279
IMDb page. Yeah, still really trying hard and some kind

1518
01:29:28.279 --> 01:29:31.520
of wonderful from the John Hughes gampt. There, so great stuff.

1519
01:29:31.680 --> 01:29:35.000
Leiah Thompson phenomenal presence.

1520
01:29:35.039 --> 01:29:38.039
Also, there was a sitcom that I watched. It was

1521
01:29:38.079 --> 01:29:40.159
called I think Caroline in the City where she was

1522
01:29:40.199 --> 01:29:43.479
like a cartoonist or something.

1523
01:29:43.760 --> 01:29:44.800
Does anybody remember that?

1524
01:29:45.159 --> 01:29:47.000
I vaguely remember that. Yeah, I don't think I ever

1525
01:29:47.039 --> 01:29:48.359
watched them. I remember the ads were.

1526
01:29:48.239 --> 01:29:51.840
Yeah, we're we're all trying trying to scrub Howard the

1527
01:29:51.920 --> 01:29:55.880
Duck out of our collective mind size because yeah.

1528
01:29:55.760 --> 01:29:59.880
Yeah, it's it's it's a it's a special one. I mean,

1529
01:30:00.399 --> 01:30:08.760
it's it's crazy. Happy Birthday too. Zachary Quinto Okay, amazing

1530
01:30:09.159 --> 01:30:13.880
portrayal of Spock before it all happened on Paramount Plus right,

1531
01:30:13.920 --> 01:30:15.680
he was over there in the two thousand and ninth

1532
01:30:15.720 --> 01:30:18.560
Star Trek started into the Darkness and Star Trek Beyond

1533
01:30:18.960 --> 01:30:21.880
resurrecting the character before anyone else did. It took a

1534
01:30:21.880 --> 01:30:23.760
lot of guts to take that on too, I'll tell

1535
01:30:23.760 --> 01:30:29.039
you what. And it was also played Counter Terrorist Unit

1536
01:30:29.359 --> 01:30:33.720
CTU analyst Adam Kaufman on twenty four that crazy Donald

1537
01:30:34.239 --> 01:30:37.600
Keeper Sutland series there. And I don't know if anybody

1538
01:30:37.680 --> 01:30:40.039
here was a fan of the show Heroes. It was

1539
01:30:40.039 --> 01:30:44.760
on NBC for the show, really really fun show. I mean,

1540
01:30:44.800 --> 01:30:46.479
it's kind of an X Men type thing in a

1541
01:30:46.479 --> 01:30:48.920
lot of ways, but not to be dismissed. It's a

1542
01:30:48.920 --> 01:30:52.479
good series and he played a super powered serial killer

1543
01:30:52.560 --> 01:30:57.880
named Siler Gabriel Siler Gray on that show. Seek it

1544
01:30:57.920 --> 01:31:01.319
out if you haven't ever watched it. It's it's good television, right.

1545
01:31:01.359 --> 01:31:03.119
I think it kind of was ahead of its time

1546
01:31:03.159 --> 01:31:05.239
in a lot of ways. But he was the bad guy,

1547
01:31:05.359 --> 01:31:10.359
a really interesting recurring character. But yeah, really really phenomenal actor.

1548
01:31:10.479 --> 01:31:14.880
I still man, I have not given up on the

1549
01:31:14.880 --> 01:31:17.399
the JJ Abrams Star Trek universe. I'd love another one

1550
01:31:17.399 --> 01:31:19.880
of those, and such a good cast, such a good

1551
01:31:19.880 --> 01:31:22.920
cast throughout all that stuff. Was really a fan so

1552
01:31:23.000 --> 01:31:24.880
I would love to see them get their shit together

1553
01:31:24.920 --> 01:31:29.239
at Paramount. Oh sorry, did I say something high Paramount? Hi,

1554
01:31:29.439 --> 01:31:32.560
how are you? Ellison's doing good? I'd like to see

1555
01:31:32.600 --> 01:31:34.279
you get your shit together with the franchise and make

1556
01:31:34.279 --> 01:31:35.920
a decent Star Trek movies. That too much that ask.

1557
01:31:36.840 --> 01:31:39.880
It's only been like how many years for crying out loud,

1558
01:31:40.399 --> 01:31:42.680
thanks just started to get that in there, because you know,

1559
01:31:42.960 --> 01:31:45.039
I'm sure you don't have enough money to count, so

1560
01:31:45.159 --> 01:31:49.199
you know, by all means, Happy birthday. Also to sci

1561
01:31:49.199 --> 01:31:54.960
fi iliminary Morena Baker or Bakaren, I'm probably mispronouncing it right.

1562
01:31:55.079 --> 01:31:58.520
But an actress who's all over the place. Okay. It

1563
01:31:58.600 --> 01:32:01.479
first came to my attention is playing Nara in the

1564
01:32:01.520 --> 01:32:06.800
series Firefly and of course subsequent movie Cementity. And I'm

1565
01:32:06.920 --> 01:32:09.399
sorry you mentioned this is something you are not familiar

1566
01:32:09.399 --> 01:32:12.800
with the Firefly universe, and so it is. Put it

1567
01:32:12.880 --> 01:32:16.479
on the top of the list. It's a it was

1568
01:32:16.479 --> 01:32:20.000
a one season wonder that the Fox didn't know what

1569
01:32:20.039 --> 01:32:21.880
to do with. What a shock, and it became a

1570
01:32:21.920 --> 01:32:24.279
cult hit the likes of which we've never ever seen.

1571
01:32:24.680 --> 01:32:27.680
It's a science fiction western comedy, if you can believe it.

1572
01:32:27.720 --> 01:32:30.760
But it's just badass cool, full of good actors and

1573
01:32:30.800 --> 01:32:32.840
good characters. And they made a spin off movie that's

1574
01:32:32.840 --> 01:32:35.479
actually pretty damn good as well. And it's just it's

1575
01:32:35.760 --> 01:32:38.039
very unique. It will make your laugh your ass.

1576
01:32:37.840 --> 01:32:39.279
Off, Okay, I need to do that.

1577
01:32:39.439 --> 01:32:42.840
Highly recommended, and if.

1578
01:32:42.680 --> 01:32:44.680
You fall in love in one season is not enough.

1579
01:32:44.840 --> 01:32:48.479
Plenty of comics and novels as well to fill out

1580
01:32:48.479 --> 01:32:49.000
the universe.

1581
01:32:49.079 --> 01:32:52.600
A counity that laughed my ass off, I will I

1582
01:32:52.640 --> 01:32:53.279
will take.

1583
01:32:53.920 --> 01:32:56.039
It's it's it's a GM if you're if you're not

1584
01:32:56.079 --> 01:32:59.640
a brown coat. The fans call themselves, you will be.

1585
01:33:00.439 --> 01:33:05.479
She's also played villainous Anna in the v Rebooth that

1586
01:33:05.520 --> 01:33:08.640
they did right a few years ago, right, and she

1587
01:33:08.720 --> 01:33:12.960
played Adria on season ten. Started at SG one Vanessa

1588
01:33:13.039 --> 01:33:17.079
Carlisle and Deadpool and Deadpool two. She's done a sun

1589
01:33:17.159 --> 01:33:20.239
of work, a lot of genre stuff. Absolutely lovely, wonderful

1590
01:33:20.359 --> 01:33:25.239
performer pretty much, you know, generally a really good magnet

1591
01:33:25.239 --> 01:33:28.119
for good projects. She doesn't just choose craps. She tends

1592
01:33:28.159 --> 01:33:31.479
to choose pretty good stuff. So and has a fondness

1593
01:33:31.560 --> 01:33:34.960
for science fiction and fantasy, much to our good fortune.

1594
01:33:35.039 --> 01:33:36.920
So she also did a putt a good job and

1595
01:33:37.119 --> 01:33:38.199
the show got them.

1596
01:33:39.560 --> 01:33:42.239
That's right. She was on that show, right, And I

1597
01:33:42.279 --> 01:33:44.800
think I remembering it wrong. I don't have her page

1598
01:33:44.840 --> 01:33:46.000
up in front of me, but I think she was

1599
01:33:46.039 --> 01:33:50.119
in the show Homeland as well. I could be wrong.

1600
01:33:50.159 --> 01:33:53.119
Almost positive she was in Homeland, which is a really

1601
01:33:53.159 --> 01:33:56.960
good political thriller. Also, So she does a ton of

1602
01:33:57.039 --> 01:34:00.319
good work, I mean really really really good. And you

1603
01:34:00.359 --> 01:34:04.560
know it's to do dramatic scenes opposite all that Deadpool makeup.

1604
01:34:04.720 --> 01:34:07.479
That's not easy, and she just did a phenomenal job

1605
01:34:07.520 --> 01:34:09.720
in there. So it's just they can for granted, but

1606
01:34:09.840 --> 01:34:13.760
that's that's hard work, so love her. Gregory Harrison's also

1607
01:34:13.800 --> 01:34:18.079
having a birthday. American actor he played, of course, people

1608
01:34:18.079 --> 01:34:22.079
forget Logan's Runner the TV series I Am remember when

1609
01:34:22.119 --> 01:34:28.279
Logan drunk. That's right, Friday Nights Man, I remember, I

1610
01:34:28.359 --> 01:34:30.359
was watching all of it. He played Logan five in

1611
01:34:30.399 --> 01:34:35.000
the TV series and then came back and played doctor

1612
01:34:35.119 --> 01:34:38.479
Gonzo Alonzo Gates on Trapper John MD, which is another

1613
01:34:38.520 --> 01:34:41.520
one of those show spin offs that happened there. And

1614
01:34:42.560 --> 01:34:46.279
ruthless business tycoon Michael Sharp with an E in the

1615
01:34:46.359 --> 01:34:49.640
CBS series Falcon Crest. Of course, we in this day

1616
01:34:49.640 --> 01:34:52.880
and age, thank god, because of Star Trek mankind has

1617
01:34:52.960 --> 01:34:56.359
enlightened ourselves and evolved, so we no longer have ruthless

1618
01:34:56.399 --> 01:34:57.840
business tycoons.

1619
01:34:58.880 --> 01:35:01.840
No, not at all, all none.

1620
01:35:01.800 --> 01:35:04.840
No, that trope has never made itself into the real world,

1621
01:35:04.920 --> 01:35:09.720
did it? Absolutely not? And finally for me, a big

1622
01:35:09.760 --> 01:35:12.560
happy birthday to this cat. Love his work. The wonderful

1623
01:35:12.560 --> 01:35:17.359
British actor James Callous, who, of course we honor in

1624
01:35:17.399 --> 01:35:21.840
our Star Trek realm for briefly playing Maurice Picard, kind

1625
01:35:21.880 --> 01:35:27.920
of an illusionary Starfleet psychiatrist in the image of Star

1626
01:35:27.960 --> 01:35:32.079
Trek percard episodes, was Stargazer, Monsters, Hide and Seek. We's

1627
01:35:32.119 --> 01:35:36.840
kind of like supposed to be in a fantasy version

1628
01:35:36.920 --> 01:35:40.439
of Picard's Father is how I took it. So it's

1629
01:35:40.520 --> 01:35:42.760
a little confusing, but I'm pretty sure that that was

1630
01:35:43.399 --> 01:35:46.640
set together. There some Picard fanis set me straight, I'm sure.

1631
01:35:46.680 --> 01:35:51.079
But I will always love James Kallis for his phenomenal

1632
01:35:52.079 --> 01:35:56.199
multi season portrayal, very complicated role of doctor Guys Baltar

1633
01:35:56.399 --> 01:36:00.119
in Ronald de Moore's Star Glands, which was just amazingalking

1634
01:36:00.119 --> 01:36:02.039
about a couple months ago, but I still run the

1635
01:36:02.079 --> 01:36:04.880
people who've never watched that ship you've seen Battlestar Galad together.

1636
01:36:04.720 --> 01:36:06.319
Yes I have, Actually I have.

1637
01:36:06.479 --> 01:36:08.319
Okay, that's where.

1638
01:36:08.920 --> 01:36:10.199
Where the cylons were.

1639
01:36:10.319 --> 01:36:13.239
They looked like humans and that was deeply disturbing to

1640
01:36:13.319 --> 01:36:16.319
me because it's like I was used to the old school,

1641
01:36:18.239 --> 01:36:20.399
you know, with the lights.

1642
01:36:21.359 --> 01:36:24.359
Yes, yes, well he was so great.

1643
01:36:24.399 --> 01:36:26.600
He was such a great guy as Baltar because he

1644
01:36:26.720 --> 01:36:29.399
was just so neurotic, right, he was just like he

1645
01:36:29.479 --> 01:36:31.520
was trying to be confidence swaggering and think he was

1646
01:36:31.560 --> 01:36:34.359
like sexy because you know the one Cylon loves him

1647
01:36:34.359 --> 01:36:36.399
and stuff. But he's a pile of nerves and he

1648
01:36:36.520 --> 01:36:40.560
just he portrayed terror and anxiety better than anybody, which

1649
01:36:40.600 --> 01:36:43.960
is phenomenal at just showing a guy who's just barely

1650
01:36:44.000 --> 01:36:46.640
holding it together because he's got such a terrible secret.

1651
01:36:46.760 --> 01:36:49.199
He's like the trader of all traders, right, and he's

1652
01:36:49.239 --> 01:36:52.600
just hoping no one will find out. And it's just great.

1653
01:36:52.920 --> 01:36:55.119
He would be such a good character for like the

1654
01:36:55.159 --> 01:37:00.600
Trump administration. I mean, just amazing performance, amazing. So that's

1655
01:37:00.600 --> 01:37:05.920
a great guy. All these folks phenomenal birthday celebrants, but man,

1656
01:37:06.800 --> 01:37:09.199
does Uncle Jim have some good ones. I'm telling you

1657
01:37:09.359 --> 01:37:11.600
coming up, especially the next one that he's leading with.

1658
01:37:11.640 --> 01:37:14.640
I'm the little envious you, Uncle Jim, because Wow, she's

1659
01:37:14.920 --> 01:37:18.159
she's phenomenal. So I think we should graciously give the

1660
01:37:18.199 --> 01:37:22.640
floor to he who will always be real Here, Uncle, I.

1661
01:37:22.800 --> 01:37:25.760
Thank you so much. Paul. You guys can go to

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01:37:25.840 --> 01:37:29.359
check Talking dot com and check out our interview with

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01:37:29.600 --> 01:37:31.960
her if you're so inclined. She was a lot of

1664
01:37:31.960 --> 01:37:34.880
fun to talk to, so you can check that out.

1665
01:37:34.960 --> 01:37:38.239
Check talkin dot com, look under guest stars, find her

1666
01:37:38.560 --> 01:37:41.119
and give it a listen. At any rate, we want

1667
01:37:41.159 --> 01:37:45.039
to say happy birthday and a hardy cup lot to

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01:37:45.119 --> 01:37:49.560
Susie Plaxon herself. She's an American actress who appeared in

1669
01:37:49.960 --> 01:37:53.479
or different roles on Star Trek. First, she appeared as

1670
01:37:53.520 --> 01:37:58.680
Doctor Salar. In the TNG episode The Hizoid Man, she

1671
01:37:58.800 --> 01:38:02.079
played Lady Q, and the Voyager episode The Q and

1672
01:38:02.279 --> 01:38:07.199
the Gray she played Tyler, and Enterprise episode Sees Fire.

1673
01:38:07.680 --> 01:38:11.960
She was an Andorian. However, she will always be forever

1674
01:38:12.039 --> 01:38:15.720
known and be loved by STARSUK fans as playing Kay

1675
01:38:15.880 --> 01:38:22.119
law Mate, a warf mother of Alexander, and the TNG

1676
01:38:22.359 --> 01:38:27.800
episode The Eminary Emissary Reunion and First Born. There you

1677
01:38:27.920 --> 01:38:30.800
have it, Susie Plaxon, thank you so much. I have

1678
01:38:30.840 --> 01:38:34.920
a happy, happy birthday. Please check out her interview with us.

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01:38:34.920 --> 01:38:38.399
It was a lot of fun. And boy, I have

1680
01:38:38.600 --> 01:38:43.000
got the greatest birthday from the greatest movie next right here.

1681
01:38:43.399 --> 01:38:47.359
I'm so excited about this one here that I can't

1682
01:38:47.399 --> 01:38:51.319
believe I get to do this one. But we've got

1683
01:38:51.319 --> 01:38:56.840
to say happy birthday to Cynthia Gao. She's the Chinese

1684
01:38:56.880 --> 01:39:02.079
American actress and model who played Caitlin and the best

1685
01:39:02.520 --> 01:39:07.159
Star Trek movie ever produced that will ever be made.

1686
01:39:07.800 --> 01:39:14.000
Star Trek five The Final Frontier. She has a VA

1687
01:39:14.039 --> 01:39:18.920
and Political Sciences from International Relations from UCLA and became

1688
01:39:18.960 --> 01:39:22.279
an Emmy Award winning reporter for various TV news stations,

1689
01:39:22.319 --> 01:39:28.239
inclusing k XTV News ten in Sacramento, California and kpi

1690
01:39:28.439 --> 01:39:33.039
X Channel five Eyewitness News and San Francisco. But she

1691
01:39:33.159 --> 01:39:38.640
will forever be known for her awesome performance as Caitlin

1692
01:39:38.720 --> 01:39:41.640
dah and Star Trek five The Final Frontier, the best

1693
01:39:41.680 --> 01:39:46.279
Star Trek movie ever ever. And I got to say that, So,

1694
01:39:46.479 --> 01:39:51.880
Happy Birthday is Cynthia gal Now, June first was my

1695
01:39:52.039 --> 01:39:57.159
birthday and I share that with Odell, who, by the way,

1696
01:39:57.279 --> 01:40:01.119
I remember from a nineteen seventy sixth movie called King Kolm.

1697
01:40:01.920 --> 01:40:05.680
Maybe other people remember him in that he was in

1698
01:40:05.800 --> 01:40:09.560
King Kong. But on June one, believe it or not,

1699
01:40:09.880 --> 01:40:14.039
yeap on June first starts for three. The Search for

1700
01:40:14.159 --> 01:40:17.680
Spock was released in nineteen eighty four. It was written

1701
01:40:17.720 --> 01:40:21.119
and produced by Han Bennett, directed by Lennondinmoy the first

1702
01:40:21.159 --> 01:40:26.319
movie that he ever directed, and June first, nineteen eighty four,

1703
01:40:26.680 --> 01:40:29.960
I was there to see it. Of course, David, all

1704
01:40:30.119 --> 01:40:44.199
the team, all that they've loved, all that they've put bull.

1705
01:40:44.399 --> 01:40:47.439
All that they've stood full will now.

1706
01:40:47.319 --> 01:40:51.600
Be put to the test Star Trek three for Search

1707
01:40:51.880 --> 01:40:52.399
or Spot.

1708
01:40:52.720 --> 01:40:53.920
The word, sir, the.

1709
01:40:53.840 --> 01:40:55.800
Word is no.

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01:40:56.239 --> 01:40:57.359
I am therefore going anyway.

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01:40:57.640 --> 01:40:59.880
You do this, you'll never sit in the captains chair again.

1712
01:41:00.159 --> 01:41:02.680
Engage all the systems. They're all mornings cleared.

1713
01:41:02.800 --> 01:41:04.680
There one quarter impulse power.

1714
01:41:05.199 --> 01:41:06.600
Someone is stealing the Enterprise.

1715
01:41:11.319 --> 01:41:13.800
A bird of bracers. She saw me tornedos shields on

1716
01:41:14.359 --> 01:41:15.600
the shields not responsive.

1717
01:41:19.760 --> 01:41:23.600
You're just sitting duck. Join us on this the final

1718
01:41:23.680 --> 01:41:29.960
voyage of the Starship Enterprise, Star Trek three or Search

1719
01:41:30.279 --> 01:41:30.760
or Spot.

1720
01:41:31.399 --> 01:41:44.159
The adventure continues. So did anybody join the search for Spot?

1721
01:41:44.600 --> 01:41:48.319
I was there too, I joined the search. A lot

1722
01:41:48.359 --> 01:41:53.239
of fun, good movie, good memories, great poster there, Happy Birthday,

1723
01:41:53.359 --> 01:41:57.039
the Star Trek three, the Search for Spot. Anybody have

1724
01:41:57.119 --> 01:42:00.439
any memories they want to share about the movie, like

1725
01:42:01.479 --> 01:42:03.640
guynds that were going on at all?

1726
01:42:06.920 --> 01:42:10.920
Okay, all right, Well with that, we're going to move

1727
01:42:10.960 --> 01:42:38.399
on to our Star Trek news. Okay, Eric, you're going

1728
01:42:38.479 --> 01:42:42.399
to start us off with our classic Shata says where.

1729
01:42:44.359 --> 01:42:48.279
Yeah, absolutely, my favorite segment. William Shatner almost abandoned his

1730
01:42:48.279 --> 01:42:51.439
historic space trip. That's right, William Shatner broke a record

1731
01:42:51.479 --> 01:42:54.359
when he became the oldest person at the time to

1732
01:42:54.479 --> 01:42:57.239
reach space during in October twenty twenty one flight with

1733
01:42:57.359 --> 01:43:01.239
Blue Origin, but he almost abandoned the trip entirely. While

1734
01:43:01.239 --> 01:43:04.479
talking with Neil de Grasse Tyson during their The Universe's

1735
01:43:04.520 --> 01:43:08.399
Absurd Event in Beverly Hills, the Star Trek actor recalled

1736
01:43:08.399 --> 01:43:12.439
wanting to jump ship a jump spaceship when he was

1737
01:43:12.479 --> 01:43:16.840
climbing eleven stories to get to the opening of the spacecraft.

1738
01:43:17.399 --> 01:43:21.359
During his trek up the stairs, he noticed some gas

1739
01:43:21.399 --> 01:43:23.960
coming off one of the events, which he was told

1740
01:43:24.079 --> 01:43:28.439
was hydrogen. Shatner immediately thought of the Hindenburg disaster, an

1741
01:43:28.479 --> 01:43:31.880
airship filled with hydrogen that caught fire and was destroyed

1742
01:43:31.920 --> 01:43:34.560
in nineteen thirty seven. It makes sense why he would

1743
01:43:34.600 --> 01:43:38.479
be nervous, he said. So now, with trepidation, I enter

1744
01:43:38.520 --> 01:43:41.359
the ship and I'm in the chair a five point buckle,

1745
01:43:41.680 --> 01:43:44.880
and the countdown begins, he said. To make matters worse,

1746
01:43:45.119 --> 01:43:48.439
someone in ground control noted that there was an anomaly,

1747
01:43:48.920 --> 01:43:52.920
which caused Shatner to think, what the f is an anomaly?

1748
01:43:54.199 --> 01:43:57.640
The countdown continued, and Shatner then heard, all right, everybody

1749
01:43:57.680 --> 01:44:00.560
were removing the gantree. Anybody who wants to get off,

1750
01:44:00.600 --> 01:44:03.960
get off now. And I go, okay, and I think

1751
01:44:04.319 --> 01:44:08.079
I can't. I'm Captain Kirk, I can't. I love that

1752
01:44:08.159 --> 01:44:12.000
pure pressure moment. After safely landing back on Earth, Shatner

1753
01:44:12.079 --> 01:44:15.359
was overcome with emotion. Jeff Bezos was there with a

1754
01:44:15.399 --> 01:44:19.239
microphone and international cameras, and I'm weeping, he said, I'm

1755
01:44:19.319 --> 01:44:23.600
crying uncontrollably, and I don't know why, although he eventually

1756
01:44:23.680 --> 01:44:27.560
realized that I'm in grief. Shit is all over the

1757
01:44:27.560 --> 01:44:30.239
place in this pristine mountains, and it echoes the shit

1758
01:44:30.319 --> 01:44:32.760
that we've left all over the planet, that we've left

1759
01:44:32.880 --> 01:44:36.199
all the planet with. He said, now we've learned that

1760
01:44:36.239 --> 01:44:39.840
microplastics are floating in our blood, and I speak to you,

1761
01:44:39.920 --> 01:44:43.000
I could drop dead from microplastics. It's a tragic thing

1762
01:44:43.199 --> 01:44:45.479
that we're doing to our planet. And I was in

1763
01:44:45.560 --> 01:44:48.520
grief for the Earth and the beauty that we see

1764
01:44:48.760 --> 01:44:52.479
all around us. I think I would have a similar moment,

1765
01:44:52.520 --> 01:44:55.479
like I'm not afraid of heights. I'm not afraid of

1766
01:44:56.760 --> 01:44:58.920
death necessarily, but man, when you're getting up there in

1767
01:44:58.960 --> 01:45:02.680
a spaceship, you're like, it's go time, baby, right, you can't.

1768
01:45:03.239 --> 01:45:06.439
He can't undo what you're about to do. So really

1769
01:45:06.479 --> 01:45:11.359
fun article. I love his insight and man, at plus

1770
01:45:11.479 --> 01:45:13.640
ninety years old, this guy is living life large.

1771
01:45:14.399 --> 01:45:16.840
And I just realized he was a kid when the

1772
01:45:16.920 --> 01:45:19.560
Hindenburg exploded because he was born in thirty.

1773
01:45:19.279 --> 01:45:21.039
One and that. Wow.

1774
01:45:21.119 --> 01:45:24.800
Yeah, so that's kind of wild thinking about that too.

1775
01:45:25.199 --> 01:45:30.399
There you go. All right, well, let's keep the news

1776
01:45:30.399 --> 01:45:32.880
train rolling. And I think Charles has something to share

1777
01:45:32.880 --> 01:45:33.199
with us.

1778
01:45:35.000 --> 01:45:38.479
Oh, thank you, Eric, thank you. The new Star Trek

1779
01:45:38.560 --> 01:45:41.840
book wants to map out every one of his timelines.

1780
01:45:42.920 --> 01:45:47.239
Star Trek is a very interesting relationship with time, not

1781
01:45:47.239 --> 01:45:50.239
only just because a franchise turned sixty later this year.

1782
01:45:50.720 --> 01:45:53.840
A side room a thousand years of history presented across

1783
01:45:53.920 --> 01:45:58.039
every Star Trek show as a normal franchise now given

1784
01:45:58.079 --> 01:46:01.560
us a whole multi universe. Our reality is born from

1785
01:46:01.640 --> 01:46:07.119
mildred of timelines, from more traditional parallel universes like the

1786
01:46:07.199 --> 01:46:13.000
Mirror Universe, to branches off deviations like the Kelvin timeline.

1787
01:46:13.159 --> 01:46:17.920
It can be pretty confusing, even when the dedicated follower

1788
01:46:18.119 --> 01:46:22.800
of a temporam mechanics class in starfet Academy. So it's

1789
01:46:22.840 --> 01:46:25.640
a good job our Timeline is getting a big, fancy

1790
01:46:25.680 --> 01:46:29.520
new book to cover it. All Star Trek Timelines A

1791
01:46:29.640 --> 01:46:33.840
Voids through Generations of history. A new reference book is

1792
01:46:33.880 --> 01:46:40.119
coming later this year. Written by Tyler Derek Tyler Acado,

1793
01:46:40.800 --> 01:46:47.039
Kelly Fitzpatrick, and Star Trek Adventure scribes Michael Dysmuke and

1794
01:46:47.279 --> 01:46:52.239
Jim Johnson. Timelines will chart the known chronological Storytrick universe

1795
01:46:52.720 --> 01:46:55.880
literally from a Big bang to its death, covering the

1796
01:46:55.920 --> 01:46:58.920
events of every Star Trek showing movie from its first

1797
01:46:58.960 --> 01:47:02.399
sixty years, from a Golden Age of space to the

1798
01:47:02.520 --> 01:47:07.640
classic explanation of Classic Trek to the far flung future

1799
01:47:07.680 --> 01:47:11.840
of Storkleet Academy. It's take it's taking an account the

1800
01:47:11.880 --> 01:47:16.199
way it's time travel is wrecked, havoc and chronologically too,

1801
01:47:17.000 --> 01:47:20.720
the way without that's falling. Different realities like the Calvin Universe.

1802
01:47:22.840 --> 01:47:25.880
The Diversion Mirror Universe will also be included, even if

1803
01:47:25.920 --> 01:47:29.840
its roots don't come from temporal manipulation to the many

1804
01:47:30.680 --> 01:47:33.760
a board of timelines we've seen through various Trek stories

1805
01:47:33.800 --> 01:47:38.039
like Voyagers, year through hel or future visions, seen things

1806
01:47:38.119 --> 01:47:43.520
like TG's a Good All Good Things Chart Trek Timeline

1807
01:47:43.560 --> 01:47:48.119
Avidual Voyager goes through generations of history and sets Hit

1808
01:47:48.359 --> 01:47:52.399
Shells November three, and definitely a book I want in

1809
01:47:52.439 --> 01:47:55.760
my collection because there's a lot of times I'm curious

1810
01:47:55.760 --> 01:47:58.760
about Star Trek history and having to go just look

1811
01:47:58.800 --> 01:48:02.159
it up online and try to build my own diagrams.

1812
01:48:04.239 --> 01:48:06.720
So it's interesting to actually get the whole thing put together.

1813
01:48:14.800 --> 01:48:15.840
It was quiet there for me.

1814
01:48:15.960 --> 01:48:18.640
It was just quiet there for a second. Yes, this

1815
01:48:18.720 --> 01:48:20.119
sounds interesting as well.

1816
01:48:20.560 --> 01:48:25.880
Star Trek's sixtieth anniversary comic to feature stories from Brian

1817
01:48:26.079 --> 01:48:31.039
Michael Bendis and Lower Decks creator Mike mcpahon. Now for

1818
01:48:31.159 --> 01:48:36.000
the storied franchise sixtieth anniversary, IDW is putting together a

1819
01:48:36.079 --> 01:48:41.159
comic special with timeline and galaxy spanning stories that will

1820
01:48:41.199 --> 01:48:46.039
feature the Trek writing debut of comics author Brian Michael Bendis,

1821
01:48:46.479 --> 01:48:49.640
a story by David Gerrold, one of the last living

1822
01:48:49.680 --> 01:48:53.279
writers who worked on the original series and created the

1823
01:48:53.479 --> 01:48:57.000
iconic tribles and also the sleeve Stacks, and won by

1824
01:48:57.079 --> 01:49:01.199
Star Trek Lower Dex creator Mike mcphann. The seven story

1825
01:49:01.279 --> 01:49:04.800
collection will have tales based on the original Star Trek

1826
01:49:04.880 --> 01:49:11.479
series nineteen seventies Star Trek, the animated series Picard, Lower Decks,

1827
01:49:11.600 --> 01:49:16.159
and Starfleet Academy. It also features a preview of the

1828
01:49:16.199 --> 01:49:20.359
all new Star Trek flagship title that IDW will be

1829
01:49:20.520 --> 01:49:25.239
launching later in twenty twenty six. Vendus also penned a

1830
01:49:25.359 --> 01:49:28.920
story centered on Sulu after an encounter with George t Kay,

1831
01:49:29.640 --> 01:49:33.520
the actor who inhabited the character. I grew up in

1832
01:49:33.560 --> 01:49:36.319
a house of Trekkies, he said in a statement. I

1833
01:49:36.359 --> 01:49:39.439
am married to a trekkie years ago. In real life.

1834
01:49:39.520 --> 01:49:41.760
George to Kay was so kind to me and my

1835
01:49:41.880 --> 01:49:45.000
family that I jumped at a chance to express my

1836
01:49:45.239 --> 01:49:48.960
affection for all things Star Trek by cooking up a

1837
01:49:49.000 --> 01:49:55.680
classic Star Trek Sulu focused story. Gerald wrote or co

1838
01:49:55.800 --> 01:49:59.920
wrote three original series episodes, including The Trouble with Tribbles,

1839
01:50:00.640 --> 01:50:04.279
one of the best remembered entries that centered on the

1840
01:50:04.399 --> 01:50:10.039
fast replicating furry creatures. His story follows Interstellar con man

1841
01:50:10.079 --> 01:50:13.600
Harry Mudd. The reason why Star Trek has been an

1842
01:50:13.680 --> 01:50:16.359
enduring part of her culture is that, at its heart,

1843
01:50:16.920 --> 01:50:21.079
Star Trek has never been about finding enemies to defeat.

1844
01:50:21.560 --> 01:50:25.720
It was always about finding allies and friends against the

1845
01:50:25.840 --> 01:50:30.000
vast darkness of the universe, said Gerald. I was privileged

1846
01:50:30.039 --> 01:50:32.960
to be part of that original vision. It was an

1847
01:50:33.000 --> 01:50:36.319
amazing opportunity and I made some of the best friends

1848
01:50:36.359 --> 01:50:40.079
anyone could ever imagine the chance to return to the

1849
01:50:40.079 --> 01:50:43.640
Star Trek universe and write a new story, especially one

1850
01:50:43.680 --> 01:50:48.399
that honors the original series. Yes, it was a privilege.

1851
01:50:48.439 --> 01:50:51.039
The issue will also include a Lower Deck story by

1852
01:50:51.119 --> 01:50:55.000
McMahon and artist Mike and Laura Alread, a Star Trek

1853
01:50:55.039 --> 01:50:59.199
the Animated series story by writer Ryan North and artist

1854
01:50:59.479 --> 01:51:02.960
Derek ch arm and a war story by writer David

1855
01:51:03.000 --> 01:51:07.159
Walker drawn by the Escorza Brothers. Also in the issue

1856
01:51:07.159 --> 01:51:11.319
will be an Enterprise one Pager gag from writer artist

1857
01:51:11.520 --> 01:51:16.880
Chris Finoglio, a Scotty story from writer Dana Gould and

1858
01:51:17.079 --> 01:51:22.560
artist Meghan Levins, a Next Generation centric tale about Beverly Crusher,

1859
01:51:22.960 --> 01:51:27.000
a Picard story by writer Dave Baker and artist Nicole

1860
01:51:27.079 --> 01:51:32.159
gow and a Starfleet Academy story from writer Meghan Camarena

1861
01:51:32.600 --> 01:51:34.840
and artist Mary Rollins and J. P.

1862
01:51:35.159 --> 01:51:35.600
Jordan.

1863
01:51:36.800 --> 01:51:39.880
Finally, the issue will feature a prelude of I d

1864
01:51:40.079 --> 01:51:43.840
w's relaunch of Star Trek, with a tale by Christopher

1865
01:51:43.920 --> 01:51:50.079
Cantwell and artist Isaac Sanchez. The prelude story I wrote

1866
01:51:50.239 --> 01:51:55.079
in the oversized Star Trek sixtieth anniversary issue in a

1867
01:51:55.119 --> 01:51:58.520
way sets up the most important question facing Star Trek

1868
01:51:58.840 --> 01:51:59.439
right now.

1869
01:52:00.039 --> 01:52:00.720
What's next?

1870
01:52:01.079 --> 01:52:05.199
Can't well posited? We have six decades of incredible, deep

1871
01:52:05.279 --> 01:52:09.119
legacy behind us, but where do we boldly go with it?

1872
01:52:09.880 --> 01:52:14.039
That's what editor Heather Antos and I have been wrestling

1873
01:52:14.039 --> 01:52:17.560
with for years now when it comes to our latest approach.

1874
01:52:18.159 --> 01:52:20.960
The story is a handoff from picar to something that

1875
01:52:21.039 --> 01:52:25.439
is so new it's nearly from whole cloth, soaring into

1876
01:52:25.479 --> 01:52:29.319
the future. What is which is what Star Trek is

1877
01:52:29.439 --> 01:52:34.319
when at its best, Trek Trek This Sorry Trek Comics

1878
01:52:34.319 --> 01:52:38.680
started publishing in nineteen sixty seven by a now defunct company,

1879
01:52:38.800 --> 01:52:42.319
gold Key, and a run that lasted over twelve years.

1880
01:52:42.920 --> 01:52:45.840
Marvel tried its hand for about two years before DC

1881
01:52:46.000 --> 01:52:49.560
took it over for most of the nineteen eighties. IDW

1882
01:52:49.640 --> 01:52:52.680
has been publishing the comics for about two decades now,

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with its current flagship title Star Trek The Last Starship

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enjoying strong reviews.

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Sixty eight page.

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Antholity, Yes, anthology on sales September second. All right, there

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we go.

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Six pages. Wow, Yes, we'll have to review that one

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podcast for sure. All right, guys. Well, that wraps up

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our podcast. I have spoken. I hope you've enjoyed it.

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I hope you're going to run out and see Mandalorian

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and Grogu, get some popcorn and have some fun, bring

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some friends with you and enjoy yourself. Next week, same

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bat time, same bat channel. Cecilia Lee is going to

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be with us from Starkley Academy, so please check that out.

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It's going to be a lot of fun. I'm looking

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forward to it. I want to take this opportunity to

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say thank you so much for Paul for hanging out

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and Shrek talking with us. Thank you so much Paul

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giving you the guy that's right.

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I think that should be if we ever get a

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chance to write a comic for a Star Trek. Right,

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let's invent an alien character named Guy Okay, and it'll

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just be I think that should be his identity. What

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do you think is coming towards us? I think it's.

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It's John Delancy.

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He be a bathroom attendant, you know, I don't know.

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Like the guy in uh in the that hung out

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by the h Yeah talk.

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You've always been here, mister Torrens.

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And of course I want to thank you to v

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for hanging out. I'm going to give you the guy.

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I'll give you I don't know what the flapping arms,

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which we don't do in bathrooms by the way, because

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that would be weird and you know.

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And nobody will see it because you're in the ball.

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Exactly.

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Oh, we want to say thank you so much to

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David for hanging out and Shrek talking on this and

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putting together these awesome videos which you guys can see

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if you become a subscriber. Thank you, David.

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Yeah, it's been fun. I really have to go to

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bathroom now since that all of yourinal talk.

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You get yourself the guy not in the mirror, oh man.

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And of course thank you to Charles for hanging out

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and Shrek talking with us as well. Thank you so much, Charles.

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Oh you're welcome. By the way, just looked it up.

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They said September for that issue. I'm looking at Amazon

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and they say December. And by the way, when Paul's

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going to get that book, he may want to talk

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to his comic book guy. There's at least five different

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covers for this book.

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Wow wow.

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Yeah, yeah, it'll be September because that's when the anniversary is.

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Amazon is always wrong. They always put your days. Well

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that's the date they were getting there, but Amazon dates

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are always always never trust them.

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Yes, send it is, And of course thank you so

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much to Eric for hanging out talking with us. He

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had the boogie. He was going to some type of

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Star Trek bicycle race. I'm not sure if he was

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naked or not, but lots of guy now going out there.

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And of course I'm home hosts Uncle Jim saying please

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everybody stay safe, be good to each other and live

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long and prosper. Good night, everybody, good night, night.

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Long and prosper. Let's fly.

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Really bad.

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Hm, Well we've had