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This is a hub on Hollywood madethe fourth edition, Jamie. I'm sorry,
Darth Vader. Happy. May thefourth be to you and also with
you, James Darth Jamie recording fromthe Nerdy Haven. That is my my
living room high to me from thenerd start. I wouldn't feel sid Yeah,
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yeah, yeah, I wouldn't godark side. But look how cool
the lightsaber is. I just gotit. You know. It's so much
cooler than I think than the theJedi lightsabers. So I'm just gonna hang
onto this for a little bit.No, that's good. How are you,
sir, I'm good, I'm good. We're doing great. Um Massachusetts,
everybody here really feeling the May thefourth holiday. I was over in
(00:48):
Boston, Common this morning talking tofolks about Star Wars and we will include
some of their comments at the endof the episode. But run into several
big Star Wars fans other people whowere not, so we got a missish.
But I did run into one guywho was sporting a lightsaber, his
Rebels cap. He had a Mandalorianbackpack. He had it. He was
ready for whatever the day had instore for him. But that got us
(01:11):
thinking, hey, let's let's celebrateme the fourth with this quiz that's on
Star Wars dot Com testing our StarWars knowledge and so you know, there's
no better way to get started.It Just get started, ready, Jamie?
Alright, And I've got people hereto help me, all right.
I've got my Star Wars Monopoly kidsout, so I've got General Grievous here
(01:36):
with me. I've got Obi WanKenobie, hello there, all, I've
got Anakin a few other characters,so you know, I'm ready to go.
Yoda's hanging around here, and uhand baby Yoda too, So let's
let's make this happen, all right. First, okay, So first we
had to first pick a hero,and so we're given the options of Anakin,
Luke, Qui, Gon Jin,Mace, Windu, Yoda, ray
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Leia, Han, Solo, monMathma or Poe Damren. Who are you
feeling? Oh Lord, I supposehe is not? Yea? Han is
there? Yeah, Yeah, Hanis here. Okay, let's go Han.
So we are going with Han.Okay, Now we have to pick
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a villain. I think we toI kind of set up. I guess
what we're how are this quiz setup? We have to pick our people
first, So picking a villain,we have General Grieves, Darth Maul,
Dryden Voss, Kylo Wren, DarthVader, Grand mof Tarkin, Director Crenik,
Count Dooku, Emperor Palpatine, andSnoke. And since you said for
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me to pick the villain, um, I'm sorry, I'm not going to
pick Kylo Wren. Oh well Iwill pick yeah, yeah, let's pick
up. Let's go with the DarthMaul, Darth Maul. Okay, Okay,
now we're gonna pick Okay, So, so I guess we're picking characters
before this quiz starts. This ishow it works. But now we pick
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a Stormtrooper. Let's go. Wehave a classic Stormtrooper, first order Stormtrooper,
Clone Trooper. Let's keep it simple, or we could do classic,
or we could Yeah, let's let'sdo Classic Stormtrooper. We could also pick
droids, but we'll do Classic Stormtrooper. Now we choose a destination. Let's
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see. Uh, this is alot. So we have hot we have
Cantu, bite Jack who tattoo,weing Alderon, corressants, genosis naboo.
Uh, any of those come outstick out to you? I like,
n what do you think, letme go. Yeah, you want to
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go to all you don't want youdon't want to go to Alderon places.
Wow. Oh okay, let's donaboo. Okay, let's do nabo.
Okay. Now we pick an alienor creature to travel by our side.
So we have either the Porgs,Wookies, Ewoks, yeah, Caminoians,
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loth cat, Gungan, Rhodean,hoppaboor. I don't even know some of
these are and um any of thosestick out to you? Oh, and
you know you gotta have a Chewyby your side. Let's do it.
I would always always, I'd alwaysbring a wookie. Yeah, yeah,
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they're alway, Yeah, they're alwaysstrong that they can do a lot.
We have Han with us, sowe'll do that. Oh, now pick
a color. Now we may wantto maybe go red because of your red
lightsaber, but we have green,pink, yellow, blue, red,
purple, black, orange. Okay, why don't you go for you pick
this one? Oh, let's gogreen. I've always I've always leaded green
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green saber. Okay. What's yourfavorite Star Wars series so far? Either
Star Wars The Clone Wars and orStar Wars Resistance The Mandalorian OPI one can
nob the bad Batch, Star WarsRebels, or the Book of Boba Fette.
I believe your favorite, right Jamie. Oh gosh um well, oh
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gosh um ob Obi Man. Okay, we'll go Obie, yeah, yeah,
and you and all the way.I think that that was quite far
the best so far. And thefinal one. Choose an outfit, so
we'll have either Jedi robes, Sitharmor, Naboo gown, alder On Royalty,
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hot fatigues, Forest camouflage, SithTrooper armor, Stormtrooper armor, Correllium
streetwear. Mm hmmm, gosh,that's it's between Naboo and um the the
hot like the forest, No,the endoor, right, the four like
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the four Forest Camo. Mhm,let's go yeah, I like the hot
fatigues, but I can also doForest Camo. So let's do Forest Camo
and let's see what happens. Oh, so it tells us which movie we
should be watching by with all thesepicks. Okay, this wasn't a very
good quiz at all. So apparently, according to all our answers, we
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should be watching Star Wars The PhantomMenace today. Are you kidding me?
This was This was not the quizwe were looking for. Oh, that's
funny that there's some random questions ateach other. Then yeah, let's see,
well, let's see, uh quiz. We're gonna We're gonna go to
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the internet because we will get aquiz of sorts for our loyal audience.
Who who waded through all of that? Okay, let's see. Oh how
about this? Okay? This isthis should be a maybe an easy one.
Okay, okay, this is aBuzzFeed. What was Han Solo frozen
in in Empire ice back? Um? Dry ice? Yes, carbonite?
(07:06):
Yes, I hope he's get harder. Okay. Um. Who was Boba
Fett's father? Jango Fet Django Fet? You're right, let's see marxis you
know, just an unaltered clone?Okay, So about this one? Um?
(07:29):
In which movie did Yoda not appearin? Which movie did Yoda not
appear in? And this is everythingbecause obviously the movie is where he doesn't
where he eats his dad afterwards likethe New the New quills don't count.
So um the original trilogy or theot which movies did Yoda not appear in?
(07:55):
Oh? Um, wasn't he notin the the Middle one? There?
Do you know he was introduced inthe Empire Strikes Back. Uh,
he was not in he was notin a New Hope the first one.
Oh that that uh, that doesmake sense. That is correct. You're
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right, and I am um fly, I will what's the word where you'd
like hit yourself with the anyways,flog yourself? There you go, that's
the word. I'll flog myself witha lightsaber for that one. I have
a couple of questions for you then, perfect, all right? Oh lord,
um, what is Mando's real name? Dan Jarin? You're so good?
(08:46):
Yeah for this, thank you.Um. What year did the first
Star Wars movie come out? Uh, nineteen seventy six? Oh so close,
seventy seven. So it was filmedin seventy six, came out in
seventy seven. That's right. Thereyou go, okay, okay, all
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right, he knows what he's talkingabout. And one more for you.
What's the name of Bulbafet's ship?Uh? The slave, the slaver,
the slave. You're so close?Oh I know it's um oh slave one.
Yeah, there we go. Allright, thank you, No,
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I love that one. All right, good, So we got some quick.
The first quiz was like a mockquiz. That one was a weird
one, but um that was agood Yeah. These were good questions.
Do you want a final one?Yes, okay, let's see. Let
me look for a good final one. Do do do Do Do Do Do
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Do Do Do do do do dodo? Uh? Oh? What did
in a Return of the Jedi?What did the eat Walks think? C?
Three po was? They thought hewas a deity? Basically, yeah,
(10:11):
they thought he was a god.Yeah yeah, yeah, all right,
perfect, well, shiny little deity. I have one more for you,
yes, okay, all right,let's see. Um, let's see
here. Where was Baby Yoda forGrogu when Order sixty six was initiated.
(10:39):
Oh, he was at the JediTemple on oh on corson Yeah yeah,
all right. Look, I thinkwe're good. I think we're a like
hardcore US or Wars fans. Ithink we got like these Yeah, pat
ourselves on the back. We will, we will. Well, let's talk
about this. This reports from Bett, Massachusetts that looked at the internet searches
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over the past year and they arrangedthe most popular Star Wars movies based on
the number of searches they received,and so we have this list right in
front of us, and I thinkwe'll start from number five and work our
way to number one. But thefifth most popular Star Wars movie in Massachusetts,
according to Bett Massachusetts is Rogue one, a Star Wars Story. Definitely
(11:28):
in the top five. I think, great movie. Now do we win
money if we take bets on thisand figure out, like which one?
That's just funny, Bet Massachusetts,Rogue one, a Star Wars Story.
Actually, I'm surprised if that's nothigher on the list. Yeah. I
would have put it above the nextone, yes, which is Star Wars
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The Force Awakens. Let's of theinterests in that one. A lot of
people like The Force Awakens. Youknow, it was solid for what it
needed to be, I suppose,but you know, just a lot of
repeated ideas. I felt like,yeah, it was safe, and it
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was very safe. It was,you know, just kind of fan service
and really another dusk Star. Reallyreally come on, give me something new.
And it caused a lot of controversybecause you know, there was all
of these canonical books about what happenedwith Luke and Leah and Han and their
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children and everything that kind of justgot thrown in a dumpster and now we've
got, you know, this newstory that is the new canon. So
a lot of controversy with the ForceAwakens, but overall I can see how
I suppose a solid film. Yeah, I had the most fun. Yeah
that in the in the sequels,that was the most fun movie that that
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I enjoyed. Was not offensive,but Last Jedi and Rise of the Sith
or Revenge whatever the last one wasthat one or the Last Skywalker whatever that
one was, I already forgot.Not good. But what was good.
Coming in at number three is StarWars episode three, Revenge of the Sith.
That one watched it in high school. All my friends, we loved
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it, so it saw it atmidnight, crazy crazy memories. So yeah,
I think top five, but Ithink I would replace I would put
Force Awakens number five, Revenge ofthe Sith number four, and then it
Rogue one number three. Right.Revenge of the Sith was very solid.
I think it was the best ofthe prequels. But what killed it for
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me, James It was like thelast the very very very very end of
it with Darth Vader going yeah yeah, and then they included they included that
no into Return of the Jedi whenhe throws Palpatine over the railing like you
don't need that extra No there,no thank you. But anyways. Number
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two on this list from Bett,Massachusetts is Star Wars A New Hope of
course, the very first Star Warsmovie to come out in nineteen seventy seven.
That just blew us all away andchanged movies forever and storytelling and inspired
generations. You can't top that,except, I guess, but the Empire
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Strikes Back, yep, number oneon this list. That one, I
think. I think The Empire StrikesBack and A New Hope are the most
rewatchable movies of the entire uh youknow franchise. I would put Return of
the Jedi and number five. IfI had to take out Force Awakens,
I would put Return of the Jedi, Revenge of the Fifth Rogue, one,
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A New Hope, and then EmpireStrikes Back is a number one.
Yeah. It's just like that's notonly a great Star Wars movie, but
it's just a great movie in theentire cinematic history of movies. So you
can't beat that. And for me, what needs to be on this list
is, and you're not going toagree with me, is probably not Jedi
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yes, because the Last Jedi isthe only Star Wars movie that has made
me feel the same way I feltwhen I watched Star Wars for the very
first time as a kid, andso for that, that will always be
on my list, you know asmaybe number two, number three. So
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thank you, all right, Well, to eat our own, yeah,
to eat our own. But thiswas May the fourth be with You episode
of The Hub on Hollywood. Letus know how you would rank the best
franchise, the best Star Wars moviesin the franchise. Also, how do
you do on our quiz, onour weird walky quiz and on our on
the cuff quiz. Also we canleave you folks with this h with a
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series of interviews that I did thismorning at Boston Common talking to folks who
were Star Wars fans and those whowere not Star Wars fans and their thoughts
and opinions on the holiday in general. But with that, Jamie, I
think this is a really fun episode, always fun to celebrate our nerdom,
our nerd fandom, got Star Warsforever, and may the Force be with
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you and also with you. Brendanis a big Star Wars fan. Easy
the Spot as he watched through thecommon You know, I've got the rebel
hat. Obviously, the mask lightsaberis really cool because I was a wedding
gift and then I got the Comandobackpack. He celebrates May the fourth because
to him, Star Wars represents hope, freedom and coming together. Yeah.
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I absolutely love it. It's allabout the sort of hope and freedom and
people coming together, and I thinkthat this society needs that a little bit
more so. I want to showthat as much as like that. Massachusetts
came out with the ranking of topfavorite movies according to like Google searches behind
Massachusetts for residents. Here they hadtheir list being number one and Strikes Back
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number two, A New Hope numberthree, Revenge of the Sith, number
four, The Force Awakens, andnumber five Rogue one. Can I ask
you what do you think about thatlist or would you reorder that. I
think that list is pretty close toperfect. I would probably put A New
Hope a little just a little bithigher, because it was the original,
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it was the first one. AndI would probably put Rogue one a little
bit higher just because I know it'sa it's a story where spoiler alert,
everyone dies, but the entire storyis again, it's about Pulpe. It's
about people coming together, different backgrounds, different ideologies, all trying to make
the world a better plays, allright, umpire first for sure, and
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then going in that order. Probablydid you say A New Hope? New
Hope was a number two? Numbertwo for me personally, Revenge of the
Fifth three, four, m Rogueone, and what was the last one
you said was Force Awakens? Yeah? Five for me? Yeah, okay,
last Jed, I didn't make thelist, Oh no, no,
no. In fact, that sequeltrilogy didn't really work for me in general.
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So yeah, yeah. The onlything that I liked about The Force
Awakens was that it was like asoft reboot of A New Hope, right
right. It was basically the samemovie, just kind of repurpose for a
new generation, and that was enjoyIt was enjoyable, but I wouldn't put
it on the top echelon of likeStar Wars movies. But not everyone is
on boarding. I mean, I'veseen all the movies, but I'm not
sure why we need a day forit. I mean, I liked the
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movies and everything, but I wouldn'tconsidered myself a friend. There's too many
movies right now, too much content. Yes, I never got into it.
My brothers did, so we livedlike Chariostay through them and those little
action figures that now I really wantbecause they're collectibles. But no, it
wasn't my thing. Is there anothermovie that you would that deserves a holiday
more than Star Wars, James Bond, any Bond movie. Yeah, I
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would do a Godfather holiday for sure. What would you do on Gofather Day
too to celebrate? Um, that'sa good question. Um I have cannoli,
probably love it. Jaws. Jawsdeserves a holiday, especially in New
England, like a day where you'rejust eating a lot, or you go
into the beach. Everyone gets toplay hooky for the day and get to
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go to the beach. The firstone does. Spot a fan wins.
You guys, what's your favorite movie? Airbji air Benjie, airbody, airbody,
you name it, they love it.
This is a hub on Hollywood madethe fourth edition, Jamie. I'm sorry,
Darth Vader. Happy. May thefourth be to you and also with
you, James Darth Jamie recording fromthe Nerdy Haven. That is my my
living room high to me from thenerd start. I wouldn't feel sid Yeah,
(00:25):
yeah, yeah, I wouldn't godark side. But look how cool
the lightsaber is. I just gotit. You know. It's so much
cooler than I think than the theJedi lightsabers. So I'm just gonna hang
onto this for a little bit.No, that's good. How are you,
sir, I'm good, I'm good. We're doing great. Um Massachusetts,
everybody here really feeling the May thefourth holiday. I was over in
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Boston, Common this morning talking tofolks about Star Wars and we will include
some of their comments at the endof the episode. But run into several
big Star Wars fans other people whowere not, so we got a missish.
But I did run into one guywho was sporting a lightsaber, his
Rebels cap. He had a Mandalorianbackpack. He had it. He was
ready for whatever the day had instore for him. But that got us
(01:11):
thinking, hey, let's let's celebrateme the fourth with this quiz that's on
Star Wars dot Com testing our StarWars knowledge and so you know, there's
no better way to get started.It Just get started, ready, Jamie?
Alright, And I've got people hereto help me, all right.
I've got my Star Wars Monopoly kidsout, so I've got General Grievous here
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with me. I've got Obi WanKenobie, hello there, all, I've
got Anakin a few other characters,so you know, I'm ready to go.
Yoda's hanging around here, and uhand baby Yoda too, So let's
let's make this happen, all right. First, okay, So first we
had to first pick a hero,and so we're given the options of Anakin,
Luke, Qui, Gon Jin,Mace, Windu, Yoda, ray
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Leia, Han, Solo, monMathma or Poe Damren. Who are you
feeling? Oh Lord, I supposehe is not? Yea? Han is
there? Yeah, Yeah, Hanis here. Okay, let's go Han.
So we are going with Han.Okay, Now we have to pick
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a villain. I think we toI kind of set up. I guess
what we're how are this quiz setup? We have to pick our people
first, So picking a villain,we have General Grieves, Darth Maul,
Dryden Voss, Kylo Wren, DarthVader, Grand mof Tarkin, Director Crenik,
Count Dooku, Emperor Palpatine, andSnoke. And since you said for
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me to pick the villain, um, I'm sorry, I'm not going to
pick Kylo Wren. Oh well Iwill pick yeah, yeah, let's pick
up. Let's go with the DarthMaul, Darth Maul. Okay, Okay,
now we're gonna pick Okay, So, so I guess we're picking characters
before this quiz starts. This ishow it works. But now we pick
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a Stormtrooper. Let's go. Wehave a classic Stormtrooper, first order Stormtrooper,
Clone Trooper. Let's keep it simple, or we could do classic,
or we could Yeah, let's let'sdo Classic Stormtrooper. We could also pick
droids, but we'll do Classic Stormtrooper. Now we choose a destination. Let's
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see. Uh, this is alot. So we have hot we have
Cantu, bite Jack who tattoo,weing Alderon, corressants, genosis naboo.
Uh, any of those come outstick out to you? I like,
n what do you think, letme go. Yeah, you want to
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go to all you don't want youdon't want to go to Alderon places.
Wow. Oh okay, let's donaboo. Okay, let's do nabo.
Okay. Now we pick an alienor creature to travel by our side.
So we have either the Porgs,Wookies, Ewoks, yeah, Caminoians,
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loth cat, Gungan, Rhodean,hoppaboor. I don't even know some of
these are and um any of thosestick out to you? Oh, and
you know you gotta have a Chewyby your side. Let's do it.
I would always always, I'd alwaysbring a wookie. Yeah, yeah,
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they're alway, Yeah, they're alwaysstrong that they can do a lot.
We have Han with us, sowe'll do that. Oh, now pick
a color. Now we may wantto maybe go red because of your red
lightsaber, but we have green,pink, yellow, blue, red,
purple, black, orange. Okay, why don't you go for you pick
this one? Oh, let's gogreen. I've always I've always leaded green
(04:48):
green saber. Okay. What's yourfavorite Star Wars series so far? Either
Star Wars The Clone Wars and orStar Wars Resistance The Mandalorian OPI one can
nob the bad Batch, Star WarsRebels, or the Book of Boba Fette.
I believe your favorite, right Jamie. Oh gosh um well, oh
(05:10):
gosh um ob Obi Man. Okay, we'll go Obie, yeah, yeah,
and you and all the way.I think that that was quite far
the best so far. And thefinal one. Choose an outfit, so
we'll have either Jedi robes, Sitharmor, Naboo gown, alder On Royalty,
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hot fatigues, Forest camouflage, SithTrooper armor, Stormtrooper armor, Correllium
streetwear. Mm hmmm, gosh,that's it's between Naboo and um the the
hot like the forest, No,the endoor, right, the four like
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the four Forest Camo. Mhm,let's go yeah, I like the hot
fatigues, but I can also doForest Camo. So let's do Forest Camo
and let's see what happens. Oh, so it tells us which movie we
should be watching by with all thesepicks. Okay, this wasn't a very
good quiz at all. So apparently, according to all our answers, we
(06:14):
should be watching Star Wars The PhantomMenace today. Are you kidding me?
This was This was not the quizwe were looking for. Oh, that's
funny that there's some random questions ateach other. Then yeah, let's see,
well, let's see, uh quiz. We're gonna We're gonna go to
(06:38):
the internet because we will get aquiz of sorts for our loyal audience.
Who who waded through all of that? Okay, let's see. Oh how
about this? Okay? This isthis should be a maybe an easy one.
Okay, okay, this is aBuzzFeed. What was Han Solo frozen
in in Empire ice back? Um? Dry ice? Yes, carbonite?
(07:06):
Yes, I hope he's get harder. Okay. Um. Who was Boba
Fett's father? Jango Fet Django Fet? You're right, let's see marxis you
know, just an unaltered clone?Okay, So about this one? Um?
(07:29):
In which movie did Yoda not appearin? Which movie did Yoda not
appear in? And this is everythingbecause obviously the movie is where he doesn't
where he eats his dad afterwards likethe New the New quills don't count.
So um the original trilogy or theot which movies did Yoda not appear in?
(07:55):
Oh? Um, wasn't he notin the the Middle one? There?
Do you know he was introduced inthe Empire Strikes Back. Uh,
he was not in he was notin a New Hope the first one.
Oh that that uh, that doesmake sense. That is correct. You're
(08:18):
right, and I am um fly, I will what's the word where you'd
like hit yourself with the anyways,flog yourself? There you go, that's
the word. I'll flog myself witha lightsaber for that one. I have
a couple of questions for you then, perfect, all right? Oh lord,
um, what is Mando's real name? Dan Jarin? You're so good?
(08:46):
Yeah for this, thank you.Um. What year did the first
Star Wars movie come out? Uh, nineteen seventy six? Oh so close,
seventy seven. So it was filmedin seventy six, came out in
seventy seven. That's right. Thereyou go, okay, okay, all
(09:07):
right, he knows what he's talkingabout. And one more for you.
What's the name of Bulbafet's ship?Uh? The slave, the slaver,
the slave. You're so close?Oh I know it's um oh slave one.
Yeah, there we go. Allright, thank you, No,
(09:28):
I love that one. All right, good, So we got some quick.
The first quiz was like a mockquiz. That one was a weird
one, but um that was agood Yeah. These were good questions.
Do you want a final one?Yes, okay, let's see. Let
me look for a good final one. Do do do Do Do Do Do
(09:50):
Do Do Do do do do dodo? Uh? Oh? What did
in a Return of the Jedi?What did the eat Walks think? C?
Three po was? They thought hewas a deity? Basically, yeah,
(10:11):
they thought he was a god.Yeah yeah, yeah, all right,
perfect, well, shiny little deity. I have one more for you,
yes, okay, all right,let's see. Um, let's see
here. Where was Baby Yoda forGrogu when Order sixty six was initiated.
(10:39):
Oh, he was at the JediTemple on oh on corson Yeah yeah,
all right. Look, I thinkwe're good. I think we're a like
hardcore US or Wars fans. Ithink we got like these Yeah, pat
ourselves on the back. We will, we will. Well, let's talk
about this. This reports from Bett, Massachusetts that looked at the internet searches
(11:05):
over the past year and they arrangedthe most popular Star Wars movies based on
the number of searches they received,and so we have this list right in
front of us, and I thinkwe'll start from number five and work our
way to number one. But thefifth most popular Star Wars movie in Massachusetts,
according to Bett Massachusetts is Rogue one, a Star Wars Story. Definitely
(11:28):
in the top five. I think, great movie. Now do we win
money if we take bets on thisand figure out, like which one?
That's just funny, Bet Massachusetts,Rogue one, a Star Wars Story.
Actually, I'm surprised if that's nothigher on the list. Yeah. I
would have put it above the nextone, yes, which is Star Wars
(11:48):
The Force Awakens. Let's of theinterests in that one. A lot of
people like The Force Awakens. Youknow, it was solid for what it
needed to be, I suppose,but you know, just a lot of
repeated ideas. I felt like,yeah, it was safe, and it
(12:09):
was very safe. It was,you know, just kind of fan service
and really another dusk Star. Reallyreally come on, give me something new.
And it caused a lot of controversybecause you know, there was all
of these canonical books about what happenedwith Luke and Leah and Han and their
(12:31):
children and everything that kind of justgot thrown in a dumpster and now we've
got, you know, this newstory that is the new canon. So
a lot of controversy with the ForceAwakens, but overall I can see how
I suppose a solid film. Yeah, I had the most fun. Yeah
that in the in the sequels,that was the most fun movie that that
(12:52):
I enjoyed. Was not offensive,but Last Jedi and Rise of the Sith
or Revenge whatever the last one wasthat one or the Last Skywalker whatever that
one was, I already forgot.Not good. But what was good.
Coming in at number three is StarWars episode three, Revenge of the Sith.
That one watched it in high school. All my friends, we loved
(13:16):
it, so it saw it atmidnight, crazy crazy memories. So yeah,
I think top five, but Ithink I would replace I would put
Force Awakens number five, Revenge ofthe Sith number four, and then it
Rogue one number three. Right.Revenge of the Sith was very solid.
I think it was the best ofthe prequels. But what killed it for
(13:37):
me, James It was like thelast the very very very very end of
it with Darth Vader going yeah yeah, and then they included they included that
no into Return of the Jedi whenhe throws Palpatine over the railing like you
don't need that extra No there,no thank you. But anyways. Number
(14:01):
two on this list from Bett,Massachusetts is Star Wars A New Hope of
course, the very first Star Warsmovie to come out in nineteen seventy seven.
That just blew us all away andchanged movies forever and storytelling and inspired
generations. You can't top that,except, I guess, but the Empire
(14:26):
Strikes Back, yep, number oneon this list. That one, I
think. I think The Empire StrikesBack and A New Hope are the most
rewatchable movies of the entire uh youknow franchise. I would put Return of
the Jedi and number five. IfI had to take out Force Awakens,
I would put Return of the Jedi, Revenge of the Fifth Rogue, one,
(14:48):
A New Hope, and then EmpireStrikes Back is a number one.
Yeah. It's just like that's notonly a great Star Wars movie, but
it's just a great movie in theentire cinematic history of movies. So you
can't beat that. And for me, what needs to be on this list
is, and you're not going toagree with me, is probably not Jedi
(15:09):
yes, because the Last Jedi isthe only Star Wars movie that has made
me feel the same way I feltwhen I watched Star Wars for the very
first time as a kid, andso for that, that will always be
on my list, you know asmaybe number two, number three. So
(15:33):
thank you, all right, Well, to eat our own, yeah,
to eat our own. But thiswas May the fourth be with You episode
of The Hub on Hollywood. Letus know how you would rank the best
franchise, the best Star Wars moviesin the franchise. Also, how do
you do on our quiz, onour weird walky quiz and on our on
the cuff quiz. Also we canleave you folks with this h with a
(15:54):
series of interviews that I did thismorning at Boston Common talking to folks who
were Star Wars fans and those whowere not Star Wars fans and their thoughts
and opinions on the holiday in general. But with that, Jamie, I
think this is a really fun episode, always fun to celebrate our nerdom,
our nerd fandom, got Star Warsforever, and may the Force be with
(16:17):
you and also with you. Brendanis a big Star Wars fan. Easy
the Spot as he watched through thecommon You know, I've got the rebel
hat. Obviously, the mask lightsaberis really cool because I was a wedding
gift and then I got the Comandobackpack. He celebrates May the fourth because
to him, Star Wars represents hope, freedom and coming together. Yeah.
(16:37):
I absolutely love it. It's allabout the sort of hope and freedom and
people coming together, and I thinkthat this society needs that a little bit
more so. I want to showthat as much as like that. Massachusetts
came out with the ranking of topfavorite movies according to like Google searches behind
Massachusetts for residents. Here they hadtheir list being number one and Strikes Back
(17:00):
number two, A New Hope numberthree, Revenge of the Sith, number
four, The Force Awakens, andnumber five Rogue one. Can I ask
you what do you think about thatlist or would you reorder that. I
think that list is pretty close toperfect. I would probably put A New
Hope a little just a little bithigher, because it was the original,
(17:21):
it was the first one. AndI would probably put Rogue one a little
bit higher just because I know it'sa it's a story where spoiler alert,
everyone dies, but the entire storyis again, it's about Pulpe. It's
about people coming together, different backgrounds, different ideologies, all trying to make
the world a better plays, allright, umpire first for sure, and
(17:44):
then going in that order. Probablydid you say A New Hope? New
Hope was a number two? Numbertwo for me personally, Revenge of the
Fifth three, four, m Rogueone, and what was the last one
you said was Force Awakens? Yeah? Five for me? Yeah, okay,
last Jed, I didn't make thelist, Oh no, no,
no. In fact, that sequeltrilogy didn't really work for me in general.
(18:07):
So yeah, yeah. The onlything that I liked about The Force
Awakens was that it was like asoft reboot of A New Hope, right
right. It was basically the samemovie, just kind of repurpose for a
new generation, and that was enjoyIt was enjoyable, but I wouldn't put
it on the top echelon of likeStar Wars movies. But not everyone is
on boarding. I mean, I'veseen all the movies, but I'm not
sure why we need a day forit. I mean, I liked the
(18:30):
movies and everything, but I wouldn'tconsidered myself a friend. There's too many
movies right now, too much content. Yes, I never got into it.
My brothers did, so we livedlike Chariostay through them and those little
action figures that now I really wantbecause they're collectibles. But no, it
wasn't my thing. Is there anothermovie that you would that deserves a holiday
more than Star Wars, James Bond, any Bond movie. Yeah, I
(18:55):
would do a Godfather holiday for sure. What would you do on Gofather Day
too to celebrate? Um, that'sa good question. Um I have cannoli,
probably love it. Jaws. Jawsdeserves a holiday, especially in New
England, like a day where you'rejust eating a lot, or you go
into the beach. Everyone gets toplay hooky for the day and get to
(19:15):
go to the beach. The firstone does. Spot a fan wins.
You guys, what's your favorite movie? Airbji air Benjie, airbody, airbody,
you name it, they love it.
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