Clinton Yates, Part Two - Top Ten

Join us for a special bonus episode of Around the Galaxy as we delve into the Star Wars fandom with none other than Clinton Yates, the renowned columnist, television commentator, and host at ESPN. In this exclusive segment, Clinton shares his insights as a Star Wars fan, answering our 10 burning questions about his favorite characters, memorable moments, and more.

Discover the Star Wars journey of this multi-talented sports journalist, from his impactful work on The Undefeated to his engaging presence on ESPN Radio and TV programs. Plus, learn about Clinton's deep-rooted connection to the galaxy far, far away and how it intersects with his illustrious career.

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Episode Transcript

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Your listening to Round the Galaxy.Welcome to a special bonus episode of Around

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the Galaxy, the Star Wars fantalk show. I am your host,
Pete Fltzer, and along with myco host Nick Milkey, we bring you
the conversations with the people behind theStar Wars fandom. Today, we are
bringing you a special treat a segmentthat we had to leave out of our
last episode because we ran at atime, featuring none other than Clinton Yates
of ESPN. Now, for thoseof you who are unfamiliar, Clinton Yates

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is more than just a sports commentator. He's a columnist. He's a television
personality and a host at ESPN,known for his incisive analysis and engaging presence
across various platforms, from his impactfulwork on The Undefeated to his insightful contributions
on the ESPN radio and TV programs. Clinton is a force to be reckoned

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with in the world of Star Warsand the world of sports journalism. But
what you may not know is thathe's also an enormous Star Wars fan.
And we were lucky enough to havehim join us for the show last week.
And as I said, due totime constraints, we had to leave
out our ten question segment with him, but fear not, because today we're
making it right by bringing you thatexclusive conversation. In this segment, we

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will be gathering everything from his favoriteStar Wars moment, to his favorite sound
effect to his favorite droid. Itwas a ton of fun. But before
we die into the ten questions,a quick reminder to connect with us on
our website, the SSW network dotcom and on social media platforms including TikTok,
Instagram, and Facebook and of courseTwitter or x or whatever you call

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it. You can find us thereat the SSW network. Plus, if
you want to support the show andgain access to exclusive content, consider joining
our Patreon program at Patreon dot com, slash the SSW Network, And don't
forget our live Thursday night show ishappening tonight. If you're listening on the
day at the drop called atg Live, join us as we cover all the

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latest Star Wars news of the week, feature special guests like tonight's guest John
the Outlaw Roca, and we'll readyour comments live. So tune into our
YouTube channel at YouTube dot com,slash at the SSW Network. You won't
want to miss it. And nowwithout further ado, let's jump into our
ten questions segment with Clinton Yates afterthese messages, we're gonna transition into one

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other segment before we get you outof here. We've been thankful for your
time. Tonight we did what wecall the ten question segment. This is
kind of a little bit inside theactors studio. We're gonna throw some questions
at you. I didn't give youthese ahead of time. We like it
to be a little off the cup, a little off the top of the
head, right. And the firstone is, and I think we know
the answer because you did talk aboutit. We're gonna throw it at you

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anyhow, what is your favorite StarWars movie, TV show, or book.
It's Rogue one, and it's badBatch. And I mentioned that Rogue
One sort of changed me in thecontext of realizing not just honestly, not
just in the Star Wars galaxy,but it helped me understand something about how
I did my own job, whichwas I don't write about wins and losses

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bro like occasionally I do. Andthat's something that is something I used to
do, something that I've done before. But it doesn't always make the best
movie, so to speak. Andhaving been privileged enough to be able to
write stories and tell stories in thatmanner, I learned a lot about what

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I call all the time the zaxis, which is again not everything is
just X and Y, bro,you know what I mean. There is
the part that goes in that isa part of the third dimension of life
that we all existed not to getto whatever. But the point here,
like the z axis element, whenStar Wars went that way in the movie
visual form changed me. Obviously,it existed in other forms of legend.

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Obviously it existed in other forms oflore, but for whatever reason, Rogue
one, it was just a majorgame changer to me. And like I
said, I mean I was jumpingup screaming like a jerk when I was
that Batch for me, and I'vespecifically waited for personal reasons to start bad
Batch, but when that drop,there was a part of it that I

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was like, oh, there's newart, and like Clone War's great,
it looked great, it was fun. But there was something about the treatment
of bad Batch that was just atouch different, just a touch more mature.
The pacing was just a touch differentwhere I was like, this is
me, you know, And againI know that I talked, if your

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listeners are big into hardcore character trocktalk, hardcore storyline breakdowns, I apologize,
but I'm an artistic guy and astorytelling guy. And again, bad
bash came out of somewhere. Iwas like, oh, all right,
this is nice, this isn't thisis the restaurant I would go to in
the Galaxy routinely where I forced topick one. And that's that's kind of

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where I am with that. Thelive action shows, of course, the
Mandalorian experience was tremendous. That thefirst guest that we had, you know,
oh oh, never tell me theodds being Carl Weather's and grief Cargo
was like something that came about throughform and function that ended up being very
sort of fortuitous. Pardon the youknow, alliteration in that situation, but

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yes, the Mandlorin experience was oneof the more incredible things to be a
part of as a Star Wars fan, quite frankly, because I believe,
I mean, I can't remember lasttime we had sort of onboarded bandwagon people
that were like, oh, babyYota, people who still don't know Gorogu's
name, and like, I getit, I get it. You know
what I mean, but it createda bit of a movement, and in

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a world in which nobody's going tomovie theaters like that, to have those
collective experiences week in and week out, that was as close as we we're
going to get. I don't wantto say storytelling a side because that's not
what I'm getting at, but theway that everybody got to experience it,
I think was really important for thesurvival of a certain generation. You know,

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I went to see I was luckyenough and this the last part I'll
say about this. I was luckyenough to get to go see the Ahsoka
premiere at lucasfrom Limited in San Francisco, and it was a fan event and
all of the you know, Sanfran Fivo first was there. I mean,
it was a whole excuse me,it was a whole thing. You
know, like people that do tentimes more than I will ever do in

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terms of what they do costuming wise, and the commitments they have to their
groups, the guilds and so forth, that I respect the hell out of
because they represent a certain part ofthe culture that I think is vital to
the average and understanding how seriously peopletake it. But I had a blast,
and those experiences from the TV shows, I don't know that I could

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have predicted, like for example,when I was jumping out of my seat
during Rogue one, I don't knowthat I would have seen it getting all
the way there, whether or not, you know, everybody loved it or
not. And so you know,again we all work in media. The
survival of certain brands and certain traditionsin certain cultures and certain rituals is the

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word I was trying to get to, is not something we have a lot
of anymore. And if Star Warsas a galaxy is the one that can
uphold some of those things, youknow, I'll take it. And I'm
glad. I'm glad I've been here. That's great, and I'd love to
saying I say it all the timethat the joke, that's the way I
put it in a humorous way,is you can't throw a cat and a

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Walmart without hit and a Grogu shirt, right, And it's people who don't
even know what it is. Theydon't even know why they're wearing a baby
Yoda shirt, but they love it. And that the Mandalorian I think the
pilot up with stuff I got poresover here. I'm supposed to change my
shirt. I didn't even do it. Hold on, I gotta say this.

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This is the this is the StarWars Night Tampa Bay Lightning shirt.
Yes, so we check that out. We taped our podcast on the concourse
of that, and so I gotstuff piling up all but you have to
send you the picture. We haveour double A baseball affiliate, my County
Biscuits. Summer, they have releasedtheir Star Wars Night jerseys and it's basically,

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when is when is the Star WarsNight? When is the Star Wars
It's in June. It's in June. I think it's around show your people
to talk to my people this.I think it's close to the record game.
I think it might be that sameweek. But the jersey is basically
the Phantom Menace poster like it's theblack and it's got Amidala in the middle
and all. It's I need tosee this right now, Jack, ask

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your question. I'll ask the question. You look a show here, he'll
bring it up. My question forthe next question is, and you you
started leading into it so it's likeyou were reading the head. Uh,
what's your favorite Star Wars collectible?Whether it's something that only you got as
part of something you did or oror something you But you know, target

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stories on that by Lightsaber from whenwe were there just now is still coming.
So I'm not going to reference that. But I think I have the
name of this book right, holdon, hold on, Yes, it's
in a box over there, butI was just gonna make sure I get

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it right. The Blueprints of StarWars. If you've never seen that hardcover,
I know the book might be fourhundred pages, you know what I
mean. It's like something if youhit them, if you hit a child
in the head with it, youwould hurt them nearly. No, I
mean that. It's to say,like it's one of those things you could
not keep around the house but childrenbecause they might hurt each other kind of

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thing. It's a big, heavybook. It is a white car and
it is literally the blueprints of ships, the sets, the costumes, never
mind just the characters to scale thethings they actually built. It explains how
all the different designers worked in allthese and it is the rogue. Yeah,
great gift, great gift for somebodythat is of the design mind or

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even not who kind of enjoys certainparts of Star Wars again, aren't just
Palpa teams in Skywalker's Like, really, it's a really cool book. It's
like a textbook on some level.But it's not boring. Pete. I'm
understanding from your tone that you knowthis book. I do. And it's
funny because this is near two hundredepisodes and only one other person who's referenced

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that, and that's former ABC reporterClayton Sandel and he he's the guy,
he says, He says he willwatch the Empire Strikes Back and go to
that page and find the set blueprintjust spec right. Yes, So I
am familiar with that book and itis amazing. And not enough people,
I think, know about that book. That's really wild. That's a great

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call. That's what I really are. You're bringing it. Did you find
the jersey? Nick? It's okay, drop my pencil once again, so
we get up a double part.Here we go, let's get this.
Let's see this you guys just shirtin the private chat. I would have
looked at it on my own.You don't have to be in the broadcast.
That's what I was hoping for.We're coming, We're coming in hot

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al. I we got here allright, right here in the middle this.
Hey, it is April twenty seven. I was wrong about June April
twenty seven. I can't. I'monly seeing Galaxy Movie. Yeah, what's

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uh? There we go? Oh, there we go. Okay, look
at this all right, A twentyseven Okay, I see it now.
Oh yeah, that's gonna be toughin a night game. I'll tell you
that much. That's cool though,Yeah, I'm pretty sure impressed. All
right, No, that's a goodjob. Look at the biscuit. That
is they're recognizing the anniversary and goingall out in that office, is what

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they're doing. That's the next personyou should have on this show. Not
even a joke. I'm calling downthere tomorrow to figure it out and then
make sure you get us some jerseys. They auctioned them at the end of
the season, and I've almost boughtyear pass this year. I think we
might have to make that out.All right, So we're gonna keep going

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in our ten questions, and thenext one is describe Star Wars in three
words or less. Urban robot fantasyis probably what I think of. And
the reason why I use such basicwords is because, like I said,

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I'm forty two and when I wasin high school. I was in high
school from ninety five to ninety nine, and that's important because that is when
the rise of other franchises and biggerproducts started to overtake those decent and marked
amount of the zeitgeist. Lord ofthe Rings, big effing deal to a

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lot of people. The Harry Pottersof the World, big effing deal to
a lot of people. So thepart that I realized I liked most about
Star Wars, I was like,yeah, I can't do trees and wizards
and it's just not for me.It's not for me. Robots and lasers
are my primary affiliation in terms ofthe stylized, this stylization of it whatever

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I'm making up a word. Butlike, of course, you know,
yes there are you ooks, YesYoda is pulling things out of you know,
swamps, but it is not primarilybased around wizards and trees and dragons,
you know what I mean? Likethat that there was a distinct point
in my life where I was like, this is not that CULTI you know

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what I mean as what I justdescribed, definitely it, That's why you
saw three words. So basically Ilike it. That's great. I'm gonna
change our order up a little bit, and just a little tip to Nick,
I'm gonna go with the question ofwho is your favorite Star Wars droid?
Since we went with Urban Robot fantasy, let's get to Detroit question.
So when I went to Lucassom inSandy, San Francisco at the Presidio,

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I did not know what I wasgoing to see because a lot of people
have been to the gates to takepictures with the Yoda Mountain, but they
do not let you in unless youare invited. So as a quick aside
and a shout out to the Mahmies, I'm in two Star Wars group chats.
One is like a social one thatis friends of mine that gathered because

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I simply got tired of texting allof my different takes to three different people.
I was like, we need tostart a group chat, and now
we're all good friends and we talkedabout life and YadA YadA. And the
other one is obviously for the program. Never tell me the odds. So
when I texted a picture of theYo look at this, I was like,

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you jerk. And when I walkedin and they had the life size
k twoso. I was like,wow, like it's really here and that
again. I don't mean to harpon Rogue one as sort of the progenitor
of anything, because it wasn't,but it was the again the folkrum congratulations

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you were being rescued like that wasone of those things that kind of flipped
the script on you, and it'sYou're like, I'm not sure I understand
what's going on here, you know, and the existence of what that droid
means in terms of reprogrammed and periodlike, think about that, you know,
and how important that is in thelarger context of everything that's happening.

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And the reason why, frankly,the Rogue one movie for me in the
theater was so emotional started when kdied and I was just like, yo,
I was highly invested, okay inthe attempts that destroyed was making to
understand Jenners. So number two playthe role, Number three do the job

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and goodbye. Like yo, Istill get a little emotional every time I
see that. So if you startthere as you're jumping off point where I'm
at this point, I'm a mess, and then everything else happens, you
can understand my point. But it'smy favorite joid by a lot, because
it feels like the most human inthe context of if you let a droid

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really develop in ways that was notprogrammed by I don't know, an again,
a Vinachlorio's off the chart person oran Imperial whatever, because he wasn't
he was reprogrammed, like yeah,you gotta got like a person, and
that's why I can't do it.So awesome. I love that. What

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is your favorite Star Wars sound effect? Oh, this one is easy.
It's the I think it's the XWing. And this one is one that
I learned at this No, notthe Xwing, it's the they the tie
fighters at the Imperial Fighter. Ithink this is the basic tie fighter sound.
If I'm getting this right, Imean I know the sound, but
it is And I learned this atthe Smithsonian when I was sixteen because they

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played it and you could listen toboth tracks. You could listen to both
in the middle. It is acar screech and an elephant horn, and
when you put them together, it'slike, oh, okay, like sure,
these are just dudes doing stuff.Yeah, random sound studios in England
or whatever, you know what Imean, Like, yeah, that's cool.
And I remember how you know,listen, you know you work in
media and like you know, audioproduction and all that. Everybody's got an

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element of that and what we do. We all understand the basics of how
you construct sound. That's the reasonwhy we're talking to each other on these
microphones. And I remember how humanizingto use that word again that was.
I was like, ah, thesejokers put together two random sounds that made
something that doesn't sound like anything else. And that's absolutely what it sounds like
once you know what it is,and it's great, So that would be
it. Yeah, but it's soiconic. I love. You see the

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picture all the time, like onsocial media, and it's the pictures of
the tie fighters in the trench andthe trench run, and it says something
like if a picture has a sound, or if you if you can hear
this picture, you're one, Likeit's it's the iconic, Like you cannot
not hear that when it's mentioned oryou see a picture, So you gotta
understand. I grew up in thecity. My dad happened to work in

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South Africa as a diplomat. I'veheard both of these natural sounds in zoos,
you know, what I'm saying.I was like, yeah, that
is wild excellent, that's great.Yeah. My very first interview for Star
Wars Galaxy Magazine for Lucasfilm in ninetysix, I guess it was was Ben
Burt, the sound guy. Yeah, and that was just you know,

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Star Wars is full of things thatsound effects. That and I say it
almost every single time we asked thisquestion. But because people bring up these
great points, it's these are soundsthat without if you if Star Wars didn't
exist, you'd be like, thatis a strange sound, makes no sense.
But now it is so clearly iconic, it's and it could be nothing

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else. It could be nothing else. Wait to the point that, let
me let me to your to buildupon your point, because I'd kind of
forgotten about this until you reminded me. So when we were at the park
at Galaxy's Edge before people got therelike normally, and I had never been,
so I wasn't necessarily as familiar andthat was a really I'll just say

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this separately, that was a reallyspecial experience for me to be able to
go to the first time with thehomies, with the show, with all
the cast members that made it suchan experience and then have people come in.
But Yo, we were just standingI'm never forgot about the blue milk
spot and you were like, andI was like, you know, the

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sound design of this is on anotherlevel. Yeah, you might as well
think we are under attack every suchand such minutes and it is not repeatable.
I'm like, I'm getting a littlenervous just because this sounds to me
mean something that has never applied tome just standing on my two feet.
But I know exactly what they are. If you were just standing somewhere and

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you thought a tie fighter was comingin, you'd probably duckanding like yeah,
just on general reaction, even thoughyou've never been in that situation. That
happened to me multiple times while Iwas there. And I say that as
a professional accolade to the people thatdo exactly what you were just talking about,
Pete, sound direction, sound design, audio engineering, and all of

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this acoustical science as a lot ofpeople like to call it, is such
a part of life that I thinkis just underrated in general. And you
know, the Star Warsioaxy does itbetter than any franchise I can think of.
Absolutely. Yeah. When I wouldmy first time at Galaxy's Edge,
and actually I've been there two orthree times. I was in the one
in California, but been then onein Florida. And yeah, you look

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up, you look up acting tosee something and you're like oh, and
you're like, no, it's notI just to go to the bathroom.
It's all that's going on here.That's funny. Our next question on the
list is which character, which StarWars character, would you most like to
be and why most like to be. I'm gonna take this time to say

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something about a person that I thinkI really like, and I think this
is going to make sense from aRedemption standpoint. I'm at best. Redemption
arc is arguably the most fulfilling partof my life that has existed as a
Star Wars fan. And I'm noteven joking like Hayden getting paid off as

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the unappreciated Anakin that turned into Vader. That when all of those people that
were young enough to grow up andtell all the losers in their basements,
and I say that with love tof Off because of just looking at this
guy at the mall, so tospeak like that was one thing, but
I'm had to come back from thecharter situation to now in the Mandalorian that

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like man, that was a goodway to come and I understand that in
my own life in many ways,not that I was ever written off necessarily,
but kind you want to look atmy own life story, I get
that, and maybe it's not thecharacter I would most want to be.
And pardon me for going super politicalon that and just answering the question I

(23:36):
wanted, But yeah, choosing todo that, I think as a human
and as a person, that's thecharacter I sort of relate to most as
to who the person that played itis, and that's really that's really special.
Sidebar. Harl Weathers mentioned him ashis favorite moment of working on Star
Wars. He directed that episode right, and that connectivity between those two and

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that lineage was just really something special, particularly as somebody that covers black folks
in the Star Wars universe. Well, we're gonna we're gonna spice it up
just for a minute as we getto the last few questions in this list.
If you have one, what isyour Star Wars unpopular opinion? Unpopular

(24:27):
opinion? M let me think aboutthat. Well, okay, I mean
I mentioned this before, but thechewy take was a very unpopular opinion for

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a long time, and I willexpand upon that. First of all,
again, think I think of livingin a world with just four or five
six for a long time, Chewieunidentical dialogue on identifiable dialogue without another human
there, Number two terrible comic timing, constantly botching all of the stuff,

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and like number three okay, decentpilot, I guess, but didn't necessarily
know anything, and for morale liabilityarms you might get ripped off. I
was like, Yo, Chewy,why are we showing so much deference to
this Wookie? Like bruh, youknow what I mean? Like this is
the guy in your crew that's atotal wild card, you know what I'm

(25:30):
saying, And like if anything goeswrong, you gotta have that one whisper
that's gonna make sure this person doesn'tfreak out. And so you know,
that was always my take for along time. This is when I was
a younger man that liked to argueabout things like that. But my point
was is that sometimes I was like, Yo, Chew's in way too many
scenes, like way too many scenes, a lot of Hookie dialogue. But

(25:52):
you know, it's just you know, that's how I feel about that.
But you know it's obviously all paidoff. But the reason why I laugh
about that now because we did theStar Wars Holiday episodes in which one of
the obvious ones that we reviewed thetwo the Lego and the previous you know,
the original Star Wars Holiday episode isten o'clock minutes of dialogue and he's

(26:15):
just like, yo, are weserious this? Wow? That's intent.
And so I remember when we talkedwith it, I was like, man
Chewi was really a movement on alevel that like, if I was probably
ten years older, I would thinkcompletely differently of that character. But when
it came to me, I waslike, what is this book he doing
here? You know what I mean? But icon? And so when I

(26:37):
got to meet him and got togive I gave him the fist bump and
did the whole hand over out.All right, you're my guy. Now.
That was a good experience and uhyeah, he's nowhere close to his
annoying to me as he was.And your your holiday special episode of never
teld me that it is one ofmy favorite episodes you guys did. I
thought that was great? I loveyou? Yeah. Okay, So speaking

(27:02):
of pilots if you could own anyspaceship or vehicle in the Star Wars universe.
And we're gonna take the falcon offbecause I feel like you're that's your's
a gift the default. Yeah,luckily boy comes prepared because I once again,
we gotta put this guy together soon. Boys. Oh yeah, old
and one. So part of thereason why the End One I think is

(27:23):
the coolest ship. And I'm completelystealing this from Ryan McGee, but they
put a hemmy in that bad boyall right, that bank can move on
a different level. And one ofthe things we do on our show is
galack the garage. And once again, Ryan, thank you for all of
this knowledge because I'm talking as ifI know this. Oh wait, hold

(27:45):
on, wait, this is importantto have the pinny guy right here,
so quick shout out. Quick shoutout to Aaron Thornton who was our team

(28:06):
lead on our troop on our tripas a group, and uh, she
gave us all little guys. Sothat's the mini one it so yeah,
so the end One is my favorite. It's just the most like it's the
it's the best, uh like singlecarrier. I mean, I'm acting like

(28:29):
I know these terms better than Ido. The best single carrier vehicle that
there is that's not you know,some sort of a pot raiser like I
think is legit. Bro, youknow what I'm saying. You know,
just you little guy in the back, you can you can win a lot
of battles in that bad Boy,and you don't, uh, you need
to gas up all the time.He's got the eye. And I love
the scene when he takes it outfor that first run and he just flexes

(28:49):
on it and they're sitting there,they're talking, and he just hits the
button. We're gone, Go Tome, you know We're gone. We've got
two more quick questions for you.The next one is what is your favorite
Star Wars moment? And I'm gonnaexpand this just a little bit. It
could be something a moment in movieor a show, or it could be
a personal experience moment that you've had. Obviously you've talked about this trip to

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galaxies there, guys, what isyour favorite Star Wars moment? There's a
part where things get emotional for mea little bit. But you know when
I when I was a volunteer atthe Smithsonian, like I said, you
would be there sometimes long after peopleleft, and that meant you guys to

(29:34):
look at the costumes by yourself.And I remember that I would see the
Vader costume in the in the displaythat it was in, and I always
would look at it, and itwas weird because like at that point in
my life, you know, thingswere you know, you're a teenager,

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your parents are divorced, You're doingwhatever you can do to get through high
school. And always look at thatcostume as an indication of the character and
that there is good in you.Would always resonate to me for whatever reason,
and it was just it was athing that I would do every time
I worked a late shift there orlike a closing shift there, and that

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was really meaningful to me in termsof what I believed about myself. You
know, like I Darth Vader wascool, Darth Vader killed a lot of
people, Darth Vader had the coolvoice. But like it always stuck with
me that like, yo, there'sthere's good inside of you, and like
that's at some point you can't forgetthat. And for whatever reason, seeing

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the actual costume made that much moremeaningful. And that's a personal one.
Storyline wise, again, I've referredto this two or three times, but
I'm not gonna stop. The lastscene of Rague one where they walked directly
into episode four, like you knowwhat I'm saying, because I remember the
lead I wrote on the column Iwrote about that was how do you tell

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a story that everybody already knows bynot letting them know when it's gonna end?
And that was like it blew meaway in the particular part White Walls,
as I mentioned before. But whenHomeboy is like sticking it through the
door and he's like take it,take it, take it, stumbles,

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barely gets over the goal line,almost fumbles out of the end zone for
the touchback when he came over forthe Galaxy luck THEI League keeps his feet
and they bang it out and Vader'ssitting there looking and You're just like gotta
go that. I mean, thatwas any emotional rush that I haven't had
in a movie theater since Wackly,And you know that was the build up.
So for me again, I know, I'm sorry. I talk about

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One a lot. It's my favorite. I watch it when I'm bored and
I want to do something, that'swhat I do, And uh yeah,
that one, and that one wasreally I'm again, I'll be I'll be
old, and you know you'll beburning me alongside the other Jedi you know,
in the woods. But I alstill remember that. That's awesome.

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Well, our last official question ofthe ten question segment is what is your
go to Star Wars quote? Maybenot necessarily your favorite, but the one
that you you drop all the time. So this is this is ridiculous.
We go amit in front of people. You're not people, We're just startings
whatever reason, whatever reason. AndI don't say this like to anybody.

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I don't there's no reason for meto ever say this in real life.
But when I'm in my house bymyself, this line comes to mind,
and as it applies to anything thathas displeased me at the moment, which
is you are part of the RebelAlliance inetrator, take her away, whatever
reason, that home line goes throughmy head dozens of times a month,

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a lot, you know, andit's like, oh, toasts burn,
take her away. You're a partof fus Like it's just I don't know
why, but it's it's such abecause I remember thinking like why did they
have English voice? Like what they'recolonizers on top of being imperialist. This

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is crazy, you know, yeah, I know that. I remember that
as being like one of the morestern things I've ever heard. I was
like, Christ, this guy's nojoke. That's awesome, that is great.
All Right, I'm gonna I'm gonnathrow the bonus question in there,
and it's not Wars related, Sookay. So I'm a I'm a Phillies

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guy, Nick Nickson, Braves guy. We went head to head. God,
we're doing on East talk. Ijust gotta ask him, of the
two of us, who's going tobe happier at the end of the season.
Oh, man, I mean theBravos. The Bravos lost a lot,
and by that I mean they lostRon and you. Why let's not

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sleep on what losing your two basecoaches is. Like, I think that's
more important than anybody can pay attentionto. But also, the Phills are
they on the last leg of whateverthis Beer league softball team run is the
last? You don't nothing funny,But I mean, like roster construction wise,
that only works for a certain amountof time. I mean, you're

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at You're at the point now whereyou know Bryce has missed out on a
couple different world series within what Iwould call his prime. You know,
Nick Castianos isn't gonna be a freakingmagician in right field forever, right,
And I just sort of feel like, if it doesn't happen this and you
know, Lord knows what's going onwith Kyle, so if it doesn't,

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it didn't happen against the strug right, they had a real shot. We
remember because we were there. Thenthey got no hit in there on Park.
I was like, oh, thisis dope, and so that was
too bad. But that was theshot that they had that they did not
capitalize on. I feel like,not only has don't want to say the

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rest of the division, but thatroster has developed in a certain way,
and then the rest of the bigshas developed in a certain way too,
where the Phillies to me, don'tnecessarily match up against the top teams the
way they once did. But youknow, they could go again. They
could go on one of these firewagon runs again where Schwarmer starts hitting yams
every single time we get to theplate to start the game. And if

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you get into the playoffs and youcan do that, it might work.
Yeah, there's that weird Philly thing. Man, I'm a hockey is my
number one sport, and I'm aFlyers fan, and the Flyers this year
Plane they're winning and they shouldn't beand they're just fun to watch. Or
something about Philly sports where some littlespark happens and you never know how far
it's going to go. You justdon't well, you know it's going to
go to the championship and then loseis usually what this is what we were

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waiting for. Facing attitude, you'restirland or take that one. Who's watching
the Star Wars news network like that'sall other separates? Yeah, of course,

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who's got everything? Block at everything. She's got the news network.
Nobody else does. She's watching SpaceSean Hannity and just sit there being tested
off about the world. Right.Well, that wraps it up for this

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