Our Very First Holiday Fan Q&A

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's amazing that it's such a giant franchise, like Hunger Games,
Game of Thrones, all these are massive books sound and
I haven't ever thought of that, Like Star Wars feels
like it would have been a book series, you know
what I mean. Like with how gigantic it is, it's
so interesting and maybe that's just a testament to George
that he went straight in on it, that it is

(00:21):
a huge, huge universe without its starting in books.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Hello, Mary, Chris mcwonzica, Happy holidays, Potter Rebellion family. It's
that time of year for Caroline, hot Coco or hot
Toddies and of course our Potter Rebellion Holiday Q and A.
And of course I'm not alone. We have with us
our fearless leader, our captain who makes it happen, the
voice of Harrison Dula Vanessa Marshall.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Hey, everybody, welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
We also have someone who is cooler than the other
side of the pillow, and the deep South Pole of Hoff,
the voices of being ran to.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Thank you, Hi everyone, thanks for joining us.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
And jac I don't know if there is a deep
South Pole of Hoff. It just sounded really good on paper.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Is now as far as I'm concerned.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
It's all canon now as long as Jayce says so.
Next up, the only thing deeper than the Mariana Trench
are the thoughts of this gentleman. Are resident Plato Taylor Grays.
And of course we have the man keeping us accurate
and on this even and even if the Internet went down,
we still have access to a vast database of facts

(01:38):
thanks to his brain. He's our walking, talking Jedi archive,
mister J. C. Reifenberg.

Speaker 5 (01:43):
All the facts I know I learned from the top
of a Snapple cat.

Speaker 6 (01:49):
Is a massive.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Wait, John, I feel like we need.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
One for you.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Can I hold on? Let me just I suggested it.
Hold on, let me just say, Oh, we also have
with us a man with more folds in his brain
than a sharp Pai puppy.

Speaker 6 (02:10):
Nice, nice, Well.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
You were saying all these nice things about us, and
I was like, man, this guy, he's like got so
much up in his nog and what can I say?

Speaker 2 (02:21):
You know, if you're going to put me in the
same realm as a sharpay puppy, that's peak for me.
And I'm like, I'm good that that's the best Christmas
gift I could ever ask for. Yeah, And when we're
talking the pre show because I am wearing a Bulls jersey.
They're doing very well this year. Now, Uh, if you
all know whose jersey this is, it's a number player,

(02:42):
could be, could be just this is nineties. It is not.
It is not, but like it'll be very telling of me.

Speaker 6 (02:50):
I mean, is it current that it's it's going to
be bailis or it's not.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
I don't think it's current. I feel like this is nineties,
like I knew.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
I feel like this is all like Ordan Jordan.

Speaker 6 (03:02):
Kurr is it?

Speaker 2 (03:03):
It is not Steve Kerr. He was number twenty five,
So this was number nine.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
I only know one number, and it's Michael Jordan's lot.

Speaker 6 (03:09):
It's a good number to know. It was such a
funky It is.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Ron Harper, Ron Harper Dodges Well, shout out to your
Google search and I'm kidding. I saw I was not.

Speaker 7 (03:22):
Did not move my I got a text.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
We silly, but I for eight years have been trying
to get scummin villainy dot com.

Speaker 6 (03:34):
Not simm and I you're trying to get it from it.

Speaker 7 (03:39):
That was what that was. That was That text was
not Ron Harper text.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
We've great if it was a Ron Harber. No, Ron
Harper is somebody whom especially if you watch Game six
of the ninety six NBA Finals, and obviously the narrative
was it was one of Father's Day and Jordan won
the fourth after coming back from to your one, like
eighteen months of retirement. Ron Harper was like the X
factor in that game because he went back on Gary Payton,
so he took that load off of Michael Jordan. He

(04:06):
was that in between, you know, person greasing the wheels
to make sure the machine was running smoothly. So I
always love Ron Harper, the shutdown defense, and that's kind
of who I model my game after. As I was
ascending up in levels, I'm like, Okay, I'm not gonna
be Jordan, even though I would never have admitted that
openly in my young, more ego driven days, but I
was like, but if I'm going to send up this ladder,

(04:27):
then I got to be that guy.

Speaker 7 (04:28):
I got to be in Ron Harper.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
So yeah, he also, I feel like was the calming
force on that crazy team, Like he was like he
felt like he was like the foundation.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
I wouldn't say that I havn't seen some of them
up close. I don't know if I go that far,
but he was.

Speaker 5 (04:45):
From me just watching on the TV. That's what it
felt like.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
He will just leave it at that. He was definitely
that guy you need like Rodman. Of course was Rodman,
but then it was really I colleging force. Yeah, I
think Luke Longley was more like literally the man in
the middle, kind of like he's He was kind of
the one that was balancing the scales and all that stuff.
But yeah, I loved me some Ron Harper and representing him.

(05:12):
We're in his jersey today. My second favorite Number nine
in the Bulls was Lowell Dang film remember him from
the Derek Rose Days. He was all Dang's great fun
fact when Lebron James was the number one high school recruit,
number two is Louell Dang WHOA okay, all right, all right,
So now we are in our holiday Q and A.
Before we get into questions, JC, I had texted with

(05:35):
you about this yesterday because there is something in the
Star Wars universe called Life Day, which the only time
I ever heard it referred to was in the infamous
Star Wars Holiday special, which I'm sure you have thoughts
on as well. But can you please enlighten us and
also our listeners on what Life Day is.

Speaker 5 (05:52):
Life Day is this amazing holiday invented in nineteen seventy
eight that people celebrate on No. Number seventeenth, because that's
when the Holiday special aired where the Wookies celebrate peace
and coming together and George Lucas talked about holidays and

(06:15):
religion and kind of all of the things that bring
them together.

Speaker 7 (06:18):
Is what Life Day is.

Speaker 5 (06:20):
And then they made it canon in all sorts of
different video games and the Mandalorian he references Life Day
in I think the first or second episode. So this silly,
silly holiday where Chewbacca wears clothes for the only time
in Star Wars during the Holiday special has become a

(06:42):
whole thing people celebrated at Disneyland. Now they of course
have merchandised it beyond what you can imagine with glowing
orbs and all of these crazy things. Carrie Fisher has
a wonderful song where she sings from the Holiday Special,
which you can get on the Star Wars Archives. Star

(07:06):
Wars Archives, one of Steve sandsweets Boot's books has the
CD with the track of Carrie Fisher singing, If you
guys really need to add that to your.

Speaker 6 (07:15):
What Spotify Holiday special? Sorry, I oh, I know you
don't know.

Speaker 7 (07:20):
Well, I just.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
Rotten Tomatoes.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
I thought it'd be Actually, and it's only twenty five
percent because people have to watch it with the nineteen
seventies commercials, so they're probably rating the commercials and not
the production. What they did is in order to try
to capitalize on the success of Star Wars, they did
a variety show, like a song and dance variety show
that was two hours long that aired, I believe on

(07:49):
CBS on November seventeen, nineteen seventy eight. They used footage
like from a New Hope that never ended up in
the movie, and like Mark Hamill has so much makeup
on he looks like a member of like the Sleezebes
eighties band, like.

Speaker 7 (08:08):
It was it was Wild.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
They used a bunch of Ralph mcquarie paintings as Matt
paintings to put them in. Also, if you watch Skeleton Crew, Taylor,
did you watch Skeleton Crew? I thought maybe I watched
the first the Skeleton Crew when they're at the Little
Blue Elephant Guy's house and you see them doing the acrobatics,

(08:31):
that's a recreation from the Star Wars Holiday special. There's
also some weird like borderline pornographic hallinet feed stuff going
on at Chewbacca's house. We meet Chewbacca's dad.

Speaker 6 (08:47):
Do you know what his dad and son are named.

Speaker 7 (08:50):
Lump of Waru And uh.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
This is real spot.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
That's good help us.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
So yeah, it's I mean, you have to see it
to believe it. Kyle Newman and one of the producers
I can't remember his name who did the producer of
Napoleon Dynamite, did a Star Wars holiday special documentary a
few years ago that they shot some of its scum

(09:24):
and villainy, which was fine. It was called a Disturbance
in the Force is whatever the holiday special documentary was.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
I have not seen this and I'm just learning about
it now, but it kind of is giving me the
room vibes. I don't know if that's all like the
way or just And then and then there was a
movie made about making the I mean, you know, and
then you said that there's a documentary about making like.

Speaker 5 (09:51):
B Arthur owns the most Icy Cantina and has a
song and dance number with Art Carney in it. I
believe like it's own the world it's wild, like some
night when you when you've been partying and you have
nothing to do, and everybody else goes to sleep and
you're like, I'm not ready to go to sleep yet.

(10:13):
Just search it on YouTube.

Speaker 7 (10:15):
Just watch.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Honestly, come take away.

Speaker 8 (10:23):
You can't watch it sober, Okay, Okay, sorry, Vanessa, I
will just I just want to say, I know I
talked about the folds in John's brain, but I jac
like I wish my brain.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
I feel that my brain retains a lot of information.
It's extracting the information on demand. That's my problem. It's
in there, but getting it out or filtering through and
through the rolodex and finding the information that I need
at the time that I need it. I'm so impressed, like,

(11:01):
just it's all right there, my wife.

Speaker 5 (11:04):
My wife's joke, though, is when I'm going deep on
something like this and she's standing around and the person
I'm talking to eyes is glazed over.

Speaker 7 (11:16):
She looks at me and she goes ask him when
my birthday is?

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Now, Well, I won't put you on the spot for
that right now, let's get into so thank you for that, JC,
that information enlightening us on what life day is in
the Star Wars Universe because we had a lot of
people ask a similar question in regards to life Day,

(11:40):
and I wanted to acknowledge the question but also acknowledge
the multiple people who ask the similar question. I didn't
want to be repetitive. I also didn't want to leave
people out. So Britney Smith, Anna Nick Forrester, Harvey Hamer, Carolka,
Ben Roman, Sabrina Bulls All asked, what would your respective
characters want as a life Day gift? What do you

(12:00):
think the other Specters and Nonspector Rebels characters would want
to be gifted? And then Nonspector being Ah Soka Folkroum
Hondo agent callis, I'd like.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
A jet pack, and I think the most of them
would get a lightsaber from me.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
It's very generous of you, Ezrah.

Speaker 6 (12:24):
Don't have to find their crystal.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
You're giving them straight down lightsaber. You're give them like
a post chop shop lightsaber, basically like they got to
figure out the rest.

Speaker 6 (12:38):
Thumbing out of the gates Swinger.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
I think Si Bean would want some like cool munitions,
like some cool new toys, like explosive type stuff, and
I think that the crew would give her like a
new art flies like paints and spray paints and things.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
I like that.

Speaker 9 (13:03):
Yeah, she just wants her dark saperback. That is a
really expansive question. I think the simplest answer would be
Meylu runs, Maylu runs, Maye runs. I think Hero wouldn't
mind a few extra and I think she would happily
give them away. That's not the most spiritual answer, but

(13:25):
it's the one that came to my mind first. But
also to think of what Ahsoka needs and what Hondo needs.

Speaker 7 (13:32):
I can do Hondo all right?

Speaker 5 (13:34):
Or what have we got jac everything that uh bear needs.

Speaker 7 (13:40):
Pot of honey for people at home.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
Jim Cunnings, who plays Hondo, also plays Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh loves Honey.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yes, I love it. It's very meta.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
I like it. But that's what I mean.

Speaker 9 (13:54):
That question is either Meylu runs or do we have
nine hours? Because I could I could go in on this,
but I'll leave it at Maylee n because I think
that would bring joy to everybody, including Harrah.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
I could see that. I could see Harrah really enjoy
like an edible arrangement made of Meinlee room, like something
like that. If it's very tested, Yeah, I like that.
What do you what about? What do you think y'all
would get Ezra? Like if you channel your character. I
feel like Ezra got one of the greatest gifts ever
on the birthday episode in season one once, so being
gate like was able to unlock that disc and he
got to see like the photo of his parents sort

(14:27):
of thing. But what do you think I feel like,
because I don't know, Like, what would you give Ezra?

Speaker 9 (14:32):
I might try and get him a purgol with thels,
you know, a love cat so he can have a
little buddy, oh yeah, and.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Get off and then get off Sabin's back, you know
what I mean? Like, yeah, get him, get him a
friend of buddy so he can divert his attention elsewhere.
And I think we would get maybe some like Deodora
antipersper body. Yeah, just like a men's men's hygiene like

(15:07):
like Terrible Kids. Yeah, yeah, travel kid.

Speaker 9 (15:12):
Maybe a many petty too, yeah yeah petty, Yeah for sure,
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
A little Costco sized like speed stick pack or something
like that.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yes, sir, Where would we give Cane And what would
Caanan want?

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, noise canceling head phones? I think.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
A minute, you know, Yeah, that's a sweet question.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Well, if Canaan, it's interesting. So are we talking Canaan
season one and two and obviously three and four spoiler
is when he loses his vision. So do you think
he would want different things walking stick at different stages?

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Jedized, come on like a cool eye, like a cool
like like walking.

Speaker 5 (15:58):
What about like the Jordy l urgevisor from Star Trek
we crossed the streams then he could see.

Speaker 7 (16:07):
John's don't cross the streams and this.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
I feel like he.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
Would want like a cool like sort of there's.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
No rules, jac you know, say that again?

Speaker 4 (16:17):
Sorry, like a ninja.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
I don't think he'd wants like like a visor Sonnies.
He'd want like something more like hardware.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yeah, I like that, like a karate head band but
over his eyes.

Speaker 7 (16:30):
Yeah, yeah, I like that.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, I like kind of like Johnny Lawrence's black head
band but a yeah, or like if you go og
Ninja Turtles and then the comic books they'd ever had
like different colors. They just had these really cool eyemass
that they put over their eyes. I feel like I
could see that cool. I like it. What about Agent Kallous,
they asked, about Agent Callous too. I feel like Zeb

(16:52):
and Callous with each other's secret Santa, just so he
can kind of play into that hole shipping them as
a couple things. But what would Callous?

Speaker 1 (17:00):
I feel like a grooming kit that dude, I've never
seen a facial hair so on point.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
But he doesn't need the grooming kit. Clear he's got
it all under control.

Speaker 6 (17:11):
I don't like you get people what they use.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
Sure like he made like a nice comment.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
I think it's when you get somebody gift you're like,
I think you should start.

Speaker 9 (17:23):
I would either get him a blanket or like a
toy that he could cuddle up with.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
That guy is so phenomenally lonely.

Speaker 4 (17:32):
Yeah, I was gonna say, like.

Speaker 9 (17:34):
He needs a cuddle. I mean there's always Zeb, but
like Deb is not available. If we could just get him.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Get him snuggy, you know, like it was like that
blanket rope, you know, you know, like.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
A chia pet or atom something that he didn't care.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
Those like wearable. God. Wait, I think I have there's some.

Speaker 9 (17:56):
Star Wars one. It might be a wampa. You can
like all into a wampa, right, you know what I'm
talking about.

Speaker 7 (18:06):
I have a sleeping bag.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Maybe that's it. Yeah, light, let's get him a Tontan
sleeping bag. Perfect, thank you.

Speaker 10 (18:18):
I feel better about like a book of Pabloda, Like
he just needs to sort of feel some things, you know.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah, I like them. Maybe some Echar toll in there too,
so he los the bar now, yeah, throw that income
the whole gift pack because Audible always has sales, you know,
at the holiday time, so we probably get him like
a two or three for one. Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
Roomy you know, just to get him feeling.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
On one too for him. I think that'd be a
really good for him.

Speaker 5 (18:50):
Beach vacation to Namos from and or him and zeb
on the beach and loose in the club scene music.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Maybe like a little all expense page poles trip to
get away, get away from.

Speaker 5 (19:07):
It all, full time share that what happens on stays on.
I would has got to know.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Oh yeah, I like that.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
I'm going to go with that.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Great answers. I love that. Great question to uh Brittany
and Nick Harvey, Carol, pat and Sabrina for bringing that up,
because I was like, I was excited when I saw that.
I was like, we're going to get some fun answers.
We have one from Charlie. His last name is spelled
hr d z. Can I buy it? I don't want,
I don't know. It's a very yeah. Can I buy

(19:40):
a vowel? It's very mixus Pedolik, who is another character
in DC who doesn't have vowels on his name. But
Charlie wants to know what's the best moment of the
cast in the podcast? And I think they're asking of
the podcast experience. Do you have a favorite moment so far?

Speaker 4 (20:02):
We've talked to each other a lot.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
I think the first episode when we kind of got like,
you know, you you did your first recap, JC did
his first fact check, Like it was you know, we
had been talking about doing this for a but not
a long time, but we were you know, ramping up,

(20:27):
and then when we finally got into it, I was like, oh,
this is this is going to be fun, Like this
is this is a neat format. I guess with like
you know, bookending each episode with John at the top,
Jac at the end, and you know obviously hanging out
with uh my old buddies Vanessa and Taylorer known for

(20:48):
a long long time. Anyway, I just think like starting
out and kind of getting the feel for what we
would be doing was a really fun moment, and I
was like, Okay, this is gonna be a fun ride.

Speaker 9 (20:59):
I think the jetpack lightsaber battle was oh yeah, that's
my favorite. And then John's reactions in between, You're just like.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
On my Aaron Paul breaking bad, nervous drinking water reaction.

Speaker 11 (21:12):
Yeah, yes, yes, I loved getting to talk with Gilroy
where I have a theory can you confirm or deny
like six questions from like like the closest you can
get almost to talking to George about Star Wars.

Speaker 7 (21:31):
You know, I thought that was cool.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
Yes, agreed.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah, I'll piggyback that it's it's kind of a grouping
of moments whenever like this is going to sound a
bit realist, but whenever like Star Wars sort of comes
together and makes sense for me, where whether it be
talking to Gilroy or when one of you guys provides
an insight that sort of draws a parallel to the
world we live in or something like that, that makes

(21:56):
it makes sense again because I think growing up the
thing for me, especially my brother and sister, why Star
Wars was a little distance because it didn't seem like
it related too much, even though it does in so
many ways, because it seems so foreign and not for
in any bad way, just like I don't know my
way in because what do I relate to here? And
which is so silly because it's Here's journey that's like

(22:17):
the most relatable story. But being able to experience it
all now and make those ties, I think I think
a lot more people would even dive into Star Wars
seeing those things, And for me as a very sort
of like I won't even say Nason fan, just like
coming into it and learning more every week doing this,
I appreciate it more and more so any of those moments,

(22:38):
whether it's talking to a Gilroy or something that someone
on this podcast posits about it, or any of our guests,
or a fact from JC that is always really fun
for me.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
Taylor, do you think that, like I'll make a comparison, like,
to get into the Marvel Cinematic universe in the year
twenty nineteen is almost impossible because there's so much behind
you that you have to catch up on to even
have a conversation with everybody. Do you think part of

(23:12):
your and your brother and sister's reluctance to it is,
Oh my gosh, there's so much Star Wars behind us
that to even have a conversation with somebody, I'm going
to have to dedicate a year of my life to
catch up.

Speaker 6 (23:27):
One hundred percent. One hundred percent. That's why.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Because it wasn't like we didn't like that sort of thing.
We got into Harry Potter like that, but it was
the beginning, so you it was easy to sort of
catch up. At that point of Star Wars, there was
so much you were already so far out of the
conversation and without a real understanding of going. Also, it
really helps when I think your parents are into it
or something like my dad hasn't seen it or my mom,

(23:52):
so there wasn't really any way in and my closest
friends that.

Speaker 6 (23:57):
You know what I mean. I think you're exactly right,
Like there was just a lot to it.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
But now having been in it, we like I can
see all of the parallels and what it's interesting about it,
like all of the big properties.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, Taylor, I told you, just put it into perspective
for me, Like my parents didn't watch that, they weren't
Star Wars fans, and so I wasn't like raised in
a household that talked about Star Wars or watched Star
Wars together, and none of my friends really watched Star Wars.
And now what you know, once I, once I became

(24:30):
a part of the Star Wars universe, then people came
out of the woodwork, people that I didn't realize were
massive Star Wars fans. And I was like, wow, people
from all like, it doesn't matter where you come from,
and you know what your background is. People love Star Wars,
which I knew obviously kind of conceptually. But once I,

(24:51):
you know, got this job, people were people had I
hadn't ever thought of as Star Wars fans or would
have realized have been huge Star Wars fans were like
telling me how amazing this was. And I was like, well,
I didn't. I just didn't know. I kind of was not.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
It wasn't part of my young life, and so.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
I just had another thought too. I mean, and this
is for everyone. I'm sure there are other massive properties
like this, but it's so interesting because I got really
into Lord of Lyrins. But we were big readers our family.
I read all the Harry Potter books with my dad.
I read Lord of lynks a lot of these massive things.
I was like, oh, well, it's because I missed the books.
There aren't now retroactively, right, there are big Star Wars books.

(25:36):
But it's amazing that it's such a giant franchise like
Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, all these are massive books set,
and I haven't ever thought of that. Like Star Wars
feels like it would have been a book series, you
know what I mean, Like with how gigantic it is,
it's so interesting. And maybe that's just a testament to
George that he went straight in on it, that it

(25:57):
is a huge, huge universe.

Speaker 6 (26:00):
Without its starting in books.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
That makes sense. Yeah, that's so fast, because I am
a huge Lord of the Rings fan, and that's because
I started, you know, I read The Hobbit when I
was probably too young to read the of it, and
then you know, continued on with Lord of the Rings.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
Interesting. Interesting, I've ever thought about that.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
I do want to just say.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
One thing kind of in generally with regard to what
you were just saying or what we were just talking about.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
I just I've probably shared this on this podcast, but actually,
now that I think about it, maybe I haven't. But
I've said this many times before in like panels and stuff.
Despite not having grown up in like a Star Wars
family Star Wars household. My being on Star Wars and
becoming a part of the Star Wars universe led my

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mother who was in her you know, like sixties at
the time, this Indian immigrant woman. She's a professor, she's
a PhD. Huge Star Wars fan. Now, like she came
to Star Wars because of me, funnily enough, and like
was a massive, massive Star Wars fan, like right off
the gate. So Star Wars is universal truly and or

(27:12):
galactic I guess intergalactic. But you know, like it's just
a testament to Star Wars that like you can come
from anywhere and you know, have any type of upbringing
or background and Star Wars will still can still resonate
with you and and you can come to it at
any point in your life.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Very true, Very well said. Thank you all for sharing that,
and Okay, moving on to NJ Bear, who says, hello,
I'm at Jedi Bluebird from Instagram. My question for you
all is which non main character is your favorite.

Speaker 6 (27:51):
On Rebels or Star Wars as a whole check.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
They didn't say, then it's specific. I'm guessing Rebel since
we're sil Rebels centric, but if you want to go
outside of that, there's no rules.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
I feel like, and we'll call like because Chopper would
be a main like, we'll call the Ghost Crew the thing.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah, I would say that they're for sure, Maine. I mean,
I think we're thinking like the Hondas of the universe.

Speaker 6 (28:13):
Go with Bendu.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
I thought was so sick. I'm looking forward to seeing
those episodes and seeing if I was crazy to think that. Like,
I don't quite remember exactly, but I remember my reaction
to it when we were recording it, being like, Wow,
I really like this character has really great lines and
the service that he sort of what he serves in
his story is really cool.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
Good answer.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
I like that.

Speaker 6 (28:43):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Questions, Wait, are we considering Hondo a main character or.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
A supporting character?

Speaker 2 (28:53):
I would say he's not a main character, Like I
think he's I think anyone that's recurring like that as
a non main character, so non series regulars. If you will, I'm.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
Gonna I'm gonna say Hondo because upon this rewatch, I'm
just I'm just delighted by uh, the character and also
the performance. The you know, the voice acting is so
uh it's it's knowing that so much of it was

(29:24):
not even written.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
It's just ad libbed.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
It's just you know, improvised, and there's so much color
to it and all the like sniffs and the you know,
just all of that layered comedic performance as so delightful
to me.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
So I'm gonna say, Hondo good answer.

Speaker 9 (29:44):
Yeah, I love Hondo as well. Yeah, I mean I
love to hate him in a way.

Speaker 8 (29:48):
Sorry yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you kind of want to
punch him in the face, but.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
He's also so funny and you know he's he's you
love to hate him. I mean, as Morrigan is also.

Speaker 6 (30:00):
Thought another Yeah, right, is.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
That your answer? Jac the other rage bag, He's like,
they're like the walking rage bait of Star Wars Rebels.
I like that. I would say Ketsu would be mine,
just because I mean, Gina Taurus is a bad pass
but also just her being the key to that little
snippet of Sabine's passed that we don't quite know about.
As a bounty hunter. You know, it's like they gave

(30:24):
us a lot, but at the same time they give
us nothing. And I love when actors able to do
that coming for one episode but have so much impact.
That's also obviously a testament to the writing and everybody
come together collectively. But you know, for what we've seen
so far, I would say Ketsu or like even like
the I believe jac you can correct me on this,
the the droid that's on the shuttles, like it was
based off the Star Tours droid. I like stuff like that.

(30:48):
When I watch movies. I love seeing who's like the
third or fourth or fifth lead, or who's the one
person in one scene And I was like, oh, I
like that person, like the guy in Empire strikes Back,
who goes we found them, you know, who finds Han
Solo on HAWF Like I like eyes like that.

Speaker 5 (31:01):
I gotta go back. I have to say grand immoral Thron.
I have to answer back because well, sure, yeah, yeah,
because I Thron was in the air to the Empire book,
which was like came out when there's nothing Star Wars,
and it just like it was so important to me.
Then to see that it real was awesome. It made

(31:27):
me feel very seen.

Speaker 4 (31:30):
I think you, I hope and think you were not
alone in that.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
I don't know, I mean because I know exactly because
that's a really tough thing to explain to people if
they weren't experiencing a real time, Like would you agree, JC,
Because we were so starved and we never thought we
would ever see anything new from Star Wars. But then
when Timothy zell On expanded that universe in a way
that just felt like it was a natural continuation. You're like,
it didn't feel real.

Speaker 5 (31:56):
To put it in perspective for people who are younger,
like pre people who were kind of like don't remember
a time before the Star Wars prequels. There was a
time when I personally had every single piece of Star
Wars merchandise that was available to purchase at a store.

(32:18):
And I was like eleven or twelve, So like that
was obtainable once upon a time, like you would get
like you know, think in like nineteen ninety three, you
would get like one book release, like four comic books
and like a Hallmark ornament, and that was all the
Star Wars stuff that you could find. You couldn't go

(32:39):
and buy T shirts. There was no internet really at
that time to like talk to people about it. So
like I literally owned everything that you could buy Star
Wars from like nineteen eighty nine until like nineteen ninety
seven when the special editions came out, So there was
like eight years there when I was really into it

(33:02):
as a kid, where like you just there's nothing and
and so like when the timothys On books came out
in like ninety one, ninety two, ninety three, it was
I mean it was like it was like discovering that
your house has like seven rooms that you didn't know

(33:22):
even though you've been living there your whole life.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
That's a great analogy, great way to put it.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Yeah, only just because we're talking about thron. Have you
guys seen Frankenstein yet?

Speaker 6 (33:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Oh yeah, oh yeah. I loved that.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
It took me quite like an embarrassingly long time to
realize that was Lars, and I was like, yeah, let's
go Lars.

Speaker 6 (33:48):
Oh I love that guy.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
No, I mean he's well yes, yeah, yes, anyway, I
was thrilled to see him in that.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
And he's so good. He always so good.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
You know what's so funny? He I have close friends
in from Copenhagen, and so I went. I was there
with them. They are everywhere, him and his brother like
they are I mean, we know they're stars, but there
it's Matt like they're like every advertised.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Wars and Argentina.

Speaker 6 (34:20):
Yeah, I mean yeah, Messy might be the.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
One speaking relatively here.

Speaker 6 (34:27):
Yeah, yeah, that's great.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
I love that.

Speaker 6 (34:29):
It's cool.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
It's funny to like watch ads, cologns, everything.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
That's great. I love that. I will if we ever
have to nominate. I don't know why we would ever
have to do this, but if we have to ever
have to nominate the best dressed person in Star Wars
in real life, I don't mean characters.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
I nominate Lars Nicholson.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
That man is dressed to the nines all the time,
but in such a like I don't know if this
is just a Danish thing. Danish any dan Danes are listening,
please tell me if this is cultural or it's just
that he's just a dapper fellow. But he's just always
wearing the most put together. It's always it's often like
a three piece situation layers because yeah, so they get

(35:16):
more option with opportunity to.

Speaker 6 (35:19):
Dress up like that in southern California.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Yeah, it's just it's a shame because he's just he's
he's so cool. That guy is just a delight a sweetheart.

Speaker 4 (35:29):
And also just so cool.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
I thought I was, I don't know if we've ever
talked about Lars much on that. Well, we haven't because
we haven't gotten there yet, right, No, we haven't. Money,
I'll save my my comments, but I shouldn't save that, dang, I'll.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
Bring it up later.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Well, we'll get we'll hopefully get him on when the
time comes to and.

Speaker 4 (35:48):
Then would be great.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah, So, Lars, if you're listening, which I'm sure you are,
open invite awesome. So we haven't. We have a message
from jam and it's not a This is a very
sweet email she sent in. It's not a question. She
just had a lot of nice things to say. I'm
gonna read her email right now. She says, you guys,
and in parentheses, I can legally say that because Taylor's

(36:12):
catch RaSE is still patent pending. I checked. Lol, Taylor,
you can confirm or deny that after this. But no,
But for real, I can't even begin to tell you
how happy the pod has made me, and I'm sure
so many others. There are many people who don't have
family physically or emotionally in their world, so they look
to it in places like a galaxy far far away.
There's something rebels gave people like me. When it ended,

(36:34):
if it was like moving out of the ghost, it
left you feeling sad and a little empty. Now that
the pod has been cast, we have something to look
forward to again every week. It makes Tuesday a little
less Bluesday. It feels like a homecoming, almost a found
family reunion. So I can't thank you all enough for
gifting that to us, for coming up with the idea
and bringing up so much joy by just being you.

(36:56):
That's a true if you guys, If you guys, I
ever end up doing a live podcast in l A,
I'm so there, watch out for the space flu send
you lots of love cloth cats and lame jokes, your
long lost, long distant found family member.

Speaker 6 (37:12):
Thank you, thank you so so sweet.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
And as far as live podcasts, yeah, we would love
to do it. It hasn't the opportunity hasn't come up yet,
but I'm sure we're all aligned in terms of if
that opportunity were to present itself, we would be all in.
Absolutely Maybe scummon villain, you know, you never know.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
I don't know it's possible.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Jac You know a guy right that might have a venue.
You know, we know a guy we all know the guy.
So thank you Jen for such a week.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Tuesday a little less blues day is.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
You should catch you should pad and pending that catchase
because that's that's really good.

Speaker 6 (37:49):
Now that I gave up scummability dot com, now.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
I can go get Tuesday bluesday dot com.

Speaker 9 (37:54):
We need you, guys, March so you guys, Yes, guys.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
We needed we see merch in general, don't we. We
We got to be got to get on that. I
don't know who to call, but I got it. You
do it? Do you? They're ready to believe us and
give us merch?

Speaker 3 (38:13):
Drop it in the comments, if if you guys would be,
if you guys would be, yes, a fourth wall. I
have a whole merch store. Hold on, I mean, I'm.

Speaker 4 (38:23):
Sure voting it, but I'm just saying.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
You're ye hundred comments or bust.

Speaker 9 (38:33):
I have an entire store where you can buy these
candles that say worship the mullet. And I mean, I'm
just saying this could easily translate into you guys, I've
got mousepads, I've got.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
Pillow of your of your own face, my high school excellence.
Yes I do, yes, I.

Speaker 9 (38:54):
Do to give you the strength you need when the
world is crumbling.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
If you need eat slumber, Oh, there's a throw pillow
behind here with your face. Oh, I am here for you.
If you were having nightmares, you too can have sweet
sweet sumper.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
Right.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
I don't mean to be inappropriate. I'm just trying to
help you.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
You can party in the back anytime on your very
own throw pillow.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Is what?

Speaker 2 (39:20):
In respect to the mullet, because you know, shout out
to Luke Altmeyer, who is our keep you want the
only fighting line. He's got a great mullet too, and
he was killing it this year. So power to the
Mullet and respect to them all.

Speaker 9 (39:29):
All the proceeds for my fourth wall go to the
Trayvon Martin Foundation.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
Yeah yeah, So.

Speaker 9 (39:36):
It's not like a money I'm doing it to you
know's thing I care about. And and but I'm saying
like whatever I did could easily that pillow could say
you guys, you know, I mean, it's so easy to accomplish.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
I could do it tonight. So I'm just like, great
sleeping mask.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
We'll have a sleeping mass that says you guys too.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
Let's sign the most hot high school picture of Taylor
and then there's that on with you guys.

Speaker 9 (40:04):
There's there's hoodies and all kinds of fun things.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Okay, I just love Taylor's non reaction to that.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
Well you know what he was thinking to himself, like,
I dare you?

Speaker 4 (40:17):
I dare you?

Speaker 3 (40:19):
Well, yeah, look, yeah, those of you who are listening,
those of you who are listening and not watching.

Speaker 9 (40:25):
If you've watched my Twitch stream, which also gave all
kinds of proceeds to various women's charities, Women's Crush Wednesday,
you know, the mullet is heavily featured and my junior
year high school photo that gave me the strength throughout
the pandemic. But you can only imagine it's a blonde
spiked mullet with golden curls coming down in peacock eye shadow.

(40:48):
I mean, I really peaked in eleventh grade, so you can.
You can see it on my website as well, Vanessa
Marshall dot com. So well, there is to clarify what
the heck we're talking about if you need to.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Like id power and respect to the mullet. And I'm
being completely since when I say.

Speaker 9 (41:03):
That, yeah, it gives me the strength to survive.

Speaker 5 (41:06):
So moving on, I have to say real quick, the
mullet's making a comeback.

Speaker 7 (41:11):
There are like at.

Speaker 5 (41:12):
Least yeah, there are like three little boys at preschool
when I dropped my daughter off that have just the
coolest mullets.

Speaker 7 (41:23):
And I think, a bullet on a.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
Cool little kid.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
I love that.

Speaker 9 (41:28):
Yeah, it really gives you a lift.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
In your day.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
I'm telling you, Luke Altmeyer killed it for us at
the line. Awesome mullet and he's from the South and everything, and.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
It's an authentic mullet. It's not a cultural appropriation.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
No, no, oh no, it is really that one is real.
Let me tell you.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
Did you guys watch Task?

Speaker 9 (41:52):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (41:52):
Yeah, one of the best things y'all have seen.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
And it's so good. It just for a second season, I.

Speaker 5 (41:59):
Can I know.

Speaker 6 (42:04):
Yeah, might be the greatest actor I've ever.

Speaker 3 (42:06):
Seen, the two of them. I haven't seen it yet,
but the two of them are the greatest.

Speaker 6 (42:11):
What she does is okay.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
Don't say too much.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
I can't I know, I can't think of performances that
I'm like, what is going on?

Speaker 11 (42:17):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (42:19):
I can't wait to see it.

Speaker 6 (42:20):
I can't think of anything close wow, wow yeh.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
This weekend because I want to see it on the
big screen and then Task us. That's like a creator's
dream from top to bottom as a writer, director, but
as an actor, it's like man like to play a
characters written, even the ones that are there again for
one scene.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
Everyone everyone in that show from like co stars, guest stars,
recurring and obviously series everyone is so good. But I
also just wanted to give a shout out to May
the character made.

Speaker 4 (42:52):
Yeah, it was glorious and she.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
Could there be more British actors though. I know every
time I always see what early on, when you know
they were doing press and I had just seen it,
I would see another interview pop up on my Instagram
feed and I was like, wait that what that person?
I know because those.

Speaker 6 (43:10):
People are.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
Supremely talented.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
I think it's hard to do a Delco accent for
Americans much less Yeah, Irish Shan Britts and anyway, sorry
I digress. I just thought I thought of a glorious
mullet that I've seen recently, and it's intastic.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Get all the mullets, they're flowers out. I love that.
So we have time, I think for a couple more.
Here's one from Sophi Kauffman, who had a nice message
and then a fun little question. So she says, Hey, Pod,
hope y'all are well and happy holidays. I've been loving
every episode and it's something I look forward to every week.
I always feel like I'm at a comic expo whenever
I listen. Thank you so much for answering my question

(43:48):
last time, Parentheses, especially you, Vanessa. I was jumping up
and down from Julie because I was so happy. I've
been trying to get my Superstar Wars ubsessed dad to
listen whenever I can, but had been unsuccessful thus far. Well,
Sophie Kaufman's dad, step your game up, man, what's going
on there? And fun detail? Our entire basement is just
a Star Wars collection, and she wants.

Speaker 8 (44:07):
To like, like, j c uh, there's not a lot
of stuff in the house.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
Oh okay, but you do have a layer. You do
have a very much a layer, and it is awesome.
Let me just say, Sophie wants to know what is
your favorite detail about the character you voiced his voice?
Good answer?

Speaker 1 (44:35):
No, I'll give a thoughtful one. What is the favorite quality? Like,
what is the favorite quality of each of our characters?

Speaker 2 (44:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (44:44):
Well, because I'm already running my mouth I'll just keep going.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
I I really enjoy I mean, this is a quality
I love in sort of a lot of people. So
the fact that Ezra shows it is his resilience to
sort of persist and endure whatever life has sort of
thrown at you. Some of my favorite people in the

(45:10):
world that people have been through so much and are
still just pushing through the way we all are. And
I think Ezra a while there's so many like lovely
qualities to him that sticks out the most to me,
And I think it's also a lot of the reason
for why he is how he is and sort of
has this cavalier nature and these different things. I think
they're all sort of coping to coping mechanisms for what

(45:32):
he has gone through and experienced, and the fact that
he is so cool through all of that. I really
appreciate his resilience.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
I like Kira's focus.

Speaker 9 (45:49):
I admire it because I am so easily distracted. But
I think it's her blessing and her curse because I
think she missed out on time with Canaan because of
her hyper focus on the task at hand. So I

(46:10):
appreciate it, and I would like only a small modicum
of it. Because I don't want to be so focused
that I miss out on being present with people I
care about.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (46:23):
For Sabine, I think I would say her courage and
also her sense of right and wrong and her willingness
to fight for what she believes is right and you know,
at any cost, and I admire. I mean, also, she's well,

(46:44):
I could go on and on about some being I'll
know that, but I just she's so young and yet
she's so capable and courageous and she's a badass.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
So I guess I'll stop because I could keep going.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
I'll spare you.

Speaker 6 (47:01):
What about for you guys, what is your not about podcasts?
Your favorite quality of Rebels? It's kind of terrible question.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
Wow, thanks for bringing that out.

Speaker 6 (47:16):
I'm trying to be inclusive here, but it's.

Speaker 4 (47:18):
Your favorite Rebels character? And why go? I'm just kidding.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Look, I can't play favorites because if I were to
say Sabine, then people get mad. No no, no, no,
no no, because no, because I don't. Sorry, even when
people are like, what's your favorite movie? To me, it's like,
I don't. My brain doesn't work in that fashion, because
it really just like I by are the qualities of
this person and this person and this person, And that's
really great television shows. When you see these character archetypes,

(47:45):
you see yourself in every single one of them. So
that's to me, that's why for me, it's impossible to
pick like a favorite. There's certainly ones like, oh, this
is definitely like Sabine's moment, so she's going to take
center stage. But then this is Harry's moment, this is
Ezra's moment, this is Kanaan's moment, and Zeb's moment. But yeah,
I can never pick favorites because I just think there's
value and everything, even the stuff you don't like, because

(48:05):
that's going to help you dictate the direction you want
to go. So that's that's my way of answering without answering.

Speaker 4 (48:12):
I was going to say that I.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
Would say, that's a very diplomatic answer, but I totally
believe you, and I think that's that's a that's a
nice way of thinking about it.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
My little filibuster answer really impossible. What about you, jac.

Speaker 5 (48:27):
It's kind of a non answer, but or maybe it's
not really answering the question the right way.

Speaker 7 (48:32):
But I think.

Speaker 5 (48:35):
How Rebels has persisted through all the noise that's out
there right now where you know, you get movies and
TV shows multiple times a year that the show is
still kind of on a pedestal a decade later of like, yeah,

(48:57):
this is fine. But Rebels something that you see a
lot on social media. I think that's cool. I think
that it shows that a lot of like thought and
heart went into it. It wasn't just designed to be
the next new shiny thing. It was designed to like

(49:20):
you know, back in the day, if your TV broke
or your VCR broke, you would take it to the
repair place and you had a repairman in town who
would fix it, and then you'd take it home. But
now everything in media and society is like disposable. Your
cell phone. It's like every two years you have to
get a new cell phone. Every this you have, you

(49:42):
everything is consumed and destroyed, consumed and thrown away. And
I think it's cool when you have a show like
Rebels where it's like people just keep going back to that.

Speaker 7 (49:51):
Well, hm, I like that.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
That's so nice, Jaz, It's it's really nice to hear
you say that. I mean it's not, but I just mean,
I don't know any of those things like when you
talk about rebels and like sort of on a macro
scale of like how people feel about rebels. I mean, look,
I know people love our show, and I'm so grateful
that they still love our show and still love our characters,

(50:18):
but I don't really know it in the context of
the way you put things, And so it's kind of
every time you say stuff like that, I'm like, is
it do That's so nice? It's so I just am
not aware of rebels in that way, maybe because I'm
in it, meaning in like it in it too much
to be able to sort of have a sense of

(50:42):
how it exists for people that are not in. Does
that make sense? I don't know if that was even
a preparent thought, but you know what I'm saying. Anyway,
It's just it's cool to hear you say stuff like
that because I'm like every time, I'm like, huh, how
about that?

Speaker 4 (50:54):
I didn't know.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 5 (50:56):
It's also an easy entry point, like you cant with rebels,
you don't need to like, you can't start with.

Speaker 6 (51:05):
That's been my approach.

Speaker 5 (51:10):
You know, you can't start with the Force awakens. You
can't start with I mean, I guess you could maybe
start with like Skeleton Crew, but as great as and
Or is, you can't really start with and Or, you know,
but Rebels can be a starting point to get into
the world and then chase out in different directions.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
I think that's also to that earlier thing I was
saying about Star Wars part of it, and what you
were alluding to is like where do you come in?
It is kind of difficult, you know what I mean.
And and people who are on the inside, I think
often we see this in the world have a hard
time a magic beyond the outside and seeing Oh yeah, sure,
that can be a bit daunting, Like what you don't

(51:51):
want to just spout nonsense where you're like, Okay, I
don't know how I enter this story necessarily.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
I have a kind of tangential or related question.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
For you guys, what do y'all think, Well, we don't
have I don't I'm not trying to be controversial or
bring up anything controversial.

Speaker 4 (52:13):
I was just curious.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
I'm just curious, like, what's the least accessible piece of
Star Wars that you would be like, okay, like.

Speaker 4 (52:22):
Maybe it's and Or. But I'm saying cool, no, no, no, no, I'm.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Not I'm not making a judgment on or asking you
to make a judgment on the that show or film.
I mean as it pertains to the greater Star Wars universe.
Like like jac was just saying, okay, people could start
with rebels and it is an access point and then
from there you can like go and branch out. I

(52:48):
was just curious, what's like something that you would tell
a newbie like no, no, no, no, you can't. You can't
start there, Like Rogue one. I mean, I think Rogue
one is actually kind of accessible.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Last Jedi, and I'm not trying to be funny here,
It's like that wouldn't be a great entry point if
you're trying to understand.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
What's going on.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
Yeah, because it was because Last Cheda was almost like
this standalone like Marvel tone Star Wars movie is the
way I view it, and all respect. I love Ryan
Johnson as a filmmaker. I think his movie that was
at Sun Dan's years ago with Joseph Gordon Levit Brick
one of like an incredible indie gritty film, Knives Out.
And I love Looper, the Joseph Gordon Lovit and Bruce

(53:27):
Willis movie. It's just like filmmakers like Ryan Johnson should
do their own stuff. I feel like he felt it
felt like he was restricted to trying to fit some
sort of mold, So I wouldn't start with Last Hit.
And again, it's not me trying to piggyback from weeks
ago saying what I said, which I still stand by.
It's just you would not understand anything that's going on
if you started there.

Speaker 7 (53:46):
I think at risk of getting myself in trouble.

Speaker 5 (53:51):
I think the entire prequel or sequel series is pretty
would be very hard to start with. And I know
they tried to reboot it, but it's hard to understand
the difference between the Resistance and the Rebellion and the
New Republic and the First Order and the Empire. There's
like eighteen factions that are happening that And what George

(54:14):
did in A New Hope was he just dropped you
in the middle, and by the time you got to
the end of A New Hope, you had caught up
with where the characters were and you understood the world,
even though at the beginning you're listening to it and
you're just like, what are they talking about? Hyperspace? What
is hyperspace? I I had to go onto the Internet

(54:40):
to understand the difference between the Resistance and the New Republic,
because it does not exist within the context of the movies.
It exists within the context of transmedia, meaning like Cee
three Po's Red Arm, which they make like six references
to in the movie, you have to buy the comic
book series to get the joke. So in those reasons,

(55:05):
I think they just dropped you into a world that
was never really explained within the context of the seven
hours of.

Speaker 7 (55:17):
Seven eight and nine.

Speaker 5 (55:19):
I think Rogue one, which I love, is one of
my favorites, it would also be hard to just jump into.
And honestly, even as a Star Wars fan, falling into
Rogue one, it starts differently. They bounce around, They're putting
subtitles of the names of the planets on the screen
to try to get you caught up with where they're at.

(55:43):
I think that's probably pretty hard.

Speaker 4 (55:45):
Also, I agree, even though it's one of my favorites.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
But I from personal experience, the first Star Horse I've
ever watched was The Phantom Menace, and I was like, what,
wait what? Generally for the whole time, I don't know
how long that movie is two hours, I was like, what,
That's how I felt, And now, of course, looking back,
I'm like, oh, how I wish I had seen the

(56:12):
entire original trilogy before watching episode one?

Speaker 4 (56:16):
You know, what are you gonna do?

Speaker 7 (56:17):
What do you say?

Speaker 5 (56:19):
The thing that allowed me to understand episode one way
better was the tariffs that were enacted this past year,
where I'm like, the taxation of trade routes? What does
that have to do with anything? And now twenty five
years later, I'm like, oh, I get it.

Speaker 7 (56:36):
I totally disrupts the whole galaxy.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
George Lucas prepared me for this moment.

Speaker 9 (56:43):
Well, I just want to say one thing, Jac, thank
you for what you said, and you as well, John
jac when you say it's a great entry point, and
you can feel that for me from the inside out
at least. And I don't know if y'all feel this way,
but I cared so much about this and when I
hear you say that, I feel like seen and heard

(57:06):
and that my care came through because it and I
feel like everyone did, the writers, the artists, the we
care it as a family, that it translates and keeps
it relevant even today. You said, you know people say yeah,
but rebels and you know also equally just to go
back to the question at hand, our most recent what

(57:27):
is her name? The last question that we had, because
when she says, I feel like I'm at a comic
con panel, that was our goal, Like our goal was
to bring panels to people through the podcast so that
you know, some people can't make it to comic cons
or want a comic con in between cons.

Speaker 6 (57:44):
And I mean I.

Speaker 9 (57:46):
Went like this because you know that I feel like, ah,
our caring, like we came through. So I want to
thank the fan for.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
Sophie Sophie coffin.

Speaker 9 (57:56):
Sophie, Sophie, that's right, yes, and we'll work on your dad.
But anyway, I just it feels to me, I don't know,
I just I am reminded and almost feel emotional that
it's almost like I sent a letter into outer space
and someone got it and it's like, oh, thank god,

(58:17):
we it was all worth it, you know, It's it's
this was a very lucky experience I think for all
of us to be involved with, and there is so
much love and caring that that still makes it relevant.

Speaker 3 (58:33):
And then you know, here we are in the podcast.

Speaker 9 (58:35):
It's like another people keep saying it's another chance to
sort of bring that chosen family together. So I'm so
happy to hear all of that. So thank you, thank you,
thank you.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
I love that. Thank you for sharing that, Vanessa, and
I think we are out of time for this first
part of our Q and A we started to anybody
we couldn't get you, but we are going to be
doing a part two and I feel like Venessa, that
beautiful message just gave us such a great way to
end on the highest of notes and to our listeners.
And FYI because as you know, next week is Christmas

(59:07):
and that's New Year's Eve. After that, we are taking
two weeks off. I know we just took a break
for Thanksgiving, but this is the time to be with
your loved ones, take time for yourself, reflect and decompress,
self care and catch up on episodes if you missed
any of the podcast, because that actually does support our
analytics and everything which helps keeps us going, keeps our

(59:28):
bosses at iHeart happy. I don't know if they're happy
or not, but let's try to keep them happy the
best we can. But we appreciate you all, We love
you all so much. But we will be back in
two weeks with more of your questions that we'll be
answered on the podcast. And here's a cliffhanger question that
I will leave for the our fans and also our
lovely panel. Here we've talked about the basketball player equivalents

(59:50):
of your characters. I think when we come back, let's
think about the football player equivalents and let's let our
listeners think about what that might be. But until then,
happy holidays be while everybody, Taylor, you got the magic words.

Speaker 6 (01:00:02):
Hoppy, All these guys cue the music.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
Potter Rebellion is produced in partnership with iHeart Podcasts, Producing,
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