[00:00:00] This works. That's fine. Take your time. No worries. I'm just setting up all the all the recordings for everything and you won't we won't need you right away in the beginning anyway. He just wants an entrance without applause. Exactly. Exactly. All right. We got this. Okay. All right.
[00:00:21] On this episode of Bantha Milk podcast around the Dejarik Table, two new guests, four new questions and it's Star Wars Podcast Day. What's up party people today is our episode of Bantha Milk podcast day.
[00:01:01] This is the I'm trying to think here the fourth annual Star Wars podcast day. On this day, we all celebrate the 25th anniversary of the birth of Star Wars podcasting of the Star Wars podcast website podcasting podcast. It's called Star Wars podcast. Whatever. I'm all confused.
[00:01:22] Anyway, so for this very special episode of Star Wars podcast day here at Bantha Milk around the Dejarik Table, we have two extra special guests with us. As always, we have myself and my co-host Tom. Hello, Thomas.
[00:01:39] Hey, Rob. It's good to be back and to all listeners out there. This is the podcast that you're looking for. This is the podcast that you're looking for. We have a great show. We have a lot of thoughtful questions tonight coming up.
[00:01:52] We even have two pretty big celebrities on tonight. So I think that's pretty cool and I pretty much can guarantee you guys a great show. And if it's not, I blame Rob. It's all my fault, if not. Well, we have the dual Ryan's on tonight.
[00:02:08] I think it's like dueling of dueling fate. It's dueling Ryan's tonight. We have the one and only from some small little YouTube channel that only millions of people watch called Screens Grash. We have Ryan Airey. Ryan, welcome. Thanks. I'm really happy to be here, guys. Thank you.
[00:02:29] Yes. Well, thank you for coming. If you want, please, if anybody's listening and doesn't know what Screen Crush is, they're not a big enough nerd. Please tell us about yourself and maybe your little website that you have there that... Don't get me started talking about myself.
[00:02:43] That's going to take over the whole show. Especially if you bring up the words trilogy and sequel in the same sentence, I'll monopolize everything. Yeah, I run a channel called Screen Crush. You know, I hosted them one there a lot.
[00:02:58] We talk about all Marvel Star Wars got a Breaking Bad video that launched this week. We're pretty proud of really whatever is geeky and nerdy when we get to take deep dives into. And yeah, that's Screen Crush in a nutshell. Like, subscribe if you haven't already.
[00:03:12] You won't regret it. No, you won't. I love every minute of it. And joining him is another Ryan, a good friend of mine, Ryan G.H., who's on a bunch of different podcasts. Ryan, why don't you tell us about yourself, please? What's up, guys? I'm Ryan. You've probably...
[00:03:30] You heard my voice before if you've listened to this feed for long enough. I subbed in for Nick during part of the Andor run. But I am one half of the Marvel fandom podcast puny pod. Don't let my show fool you, though. I'm a lifelong Star Wars fan.
[00:03:52] Anything, Ewok. I love Galaxy's Edge. Generally just anything Star Wars. Love it. And we love having you. And yes, Ryan, you did a great job of filling in for us. We asked Ryan Arie to fill in during that time, but his salary was way too
[00:04:08] high for us to afford. We couldn't afford anything over 0.0. So, Ryan, you came in right at that number. So it was perfect. So it was wonderful. All right. This is a roundtable discussion. All four of us brought a very special Star Wars question with us.
[00:04:24] And we're all going to ponder the answers and everybody's going to give their own opinion on all those said questions. And so let's get started, shall we? I'll start this week. I think I've started every week so far, but that's OK. It's my show I'm allowed to.
[00:04:39] It has been almost five years since the Mandalorian came out in 2019 of all of the Star Wars show that have come out in the last five years on Disney Plus. Which one will you go home to tonight and put on TV after the show?
[00:04:54] Or which one would you rather rewatch at this point? So we'll go over to Ryan Arie first. Ryan, what do you think? I did. You know, saying my answer is a little bit like saying your favorite bands,
[00:05:07] the Beatles and your favorite food is ice cream, but it's and or. I mean, I the show, nobody who asked for this and you got it. You're like, I had no idea I was so hungry for this. Every time I watch that show, I'm noticing just something different.
[00:05:23] There's layers, there's subtext, which frankly, we don't really get a lot of in modern Disney Plus Star Wars, you know, especially Bookaboo Buffett and Ahsoka feel like felt very rushed, very slap hazer. Not I know we're not here to diss other shows. I'm just saying in comparison.
[00:05:40] We can do that. That's OK. OK, well done, guys. We are Star Wars fans after all. So I think that's true. Yeah, that is true. But I just watched that show and I can pick up any given episode and everything about it. And Tony Gilroy said like that.
[00:05:57] That's a Goldilocks show that just happened to come in when Disney was like throwing money at it and we'll probably never see a Star Wars like that again. So, man, I appreciate it. Why you got it? My answer is and or Brian G. H. How about you?
[00:06:09] That's a really good answer. And so part of my show that I do, though, is rewatching things. One of the things I've learned is the further you are from whatever the thing is, kind of the the better that that rewatch gets. Because your context is so different.
[00:06:31] And so my pick is the first season of Mandalorian. I haven't gone back. I haven't rewatched it at all since it came out. And so I think watching it in the new context, given all of the other information we have now, all of the additional learning we've done
[00:06:47] in the Star Wars universe, I would love to go back and rewatch Mando and just see how it ages, see how the context has changed and kind of get some of those member berries going. So how about you, Tom? I'm right there with you.
[00:07:06] I say Mando season one to me as a Star Wars fan, just watching that first episode, I'm like, wow, this is so different from anything we've ever seen. And we've talked about it on the show before.
[00:07:19] I think what a lot of people expected was like a Boba Fett kind of story. But this was anything but that. And it just kind of that first episode just drew you in. The ending was fantastic. And I think the whole season one was just a fantastic story.
[00:07:37] And I enjoyed how every episode was almost at a different location. We're introduced to new characters. And, you know, there were no lightsabers or anything like that. It was it was just good storytelling. So to me, I'm watching Mando episode one or not just episode one,
[00:07:54] but season one, it will never get old. I could probably watch it over and over and over again. Rob, what would you say would be yours? Well, this is a hard answer for me because I agree with all three of you. My first inclination was to say Mando
[00:08:16] because I loved it. It's what built Bantha Milk podcast. I mean, when we started this podcast, it was Banter, Bascar and Bantha Milk. And then the very first episode of Mandalorian, they're talking about Bascar.
[00:08:28] And I was like, oh, my God, like I dug deep to find this Bascar armor thing. And they're bringing it back in the Mandalorian. It was amazing. Apparently it was too too much alliteration and people couldn't keep saying all those B words over and over again.
[00:08:42] So then we had to shorten it a little bit to just the Bantha Milk. But the more I thought about it, the more I loved Andor. And I agree with with Ryan about how amazing Andor was because if you weren't a Star Wars fan, you could watch it
[00:08:58] and you almost didn't know that it was a Star Wars series. But then they would throw in all these Star Wars, ask things in there as well to keep the die hearts. Oh, yeah, interested. And like Ryan Aire was saying every time you watch it,
[00:09:14] you're finding something else and it's getting deeper. And the writing was so good. I mean, spoiler alert at the end of it when they finally break out and he's standing there and he's in the middle of the ocean and he can't swim.
[00:09:26] It's like that's like really, really deep, good writing because it's like almost like the Twilight Zone episode where the one guy is he loves to read and everybody yells at him for reading. And then the apocalypse happens and he's under a rock or something
[00:09:45] and he's the only one left on earth and he's just in next to a library and he's just filled with books and he goes to put his glasses on and his glasses are broken. So he finally has all the time in the world to read
[00:09:55] and he can't because he can't his glasses are broken. So it was almost like a similar concept there. I was just like, oh man. So long story short, I'm going with Andor. And I think I'm actually when we're done recording,
[00:10:08] I think I'm going to put Andor actually on right after this. So that's that's my answer. And of course, as we know from listening to these episodes, my answer is the correct answer. So the correct answer is Andor.
[00:10:21] Here's an interesting question for all of you, kind of like this will be like question part B of this of this question is last week, we had a question by one of our guests. What if we if you were to start Star Wars for someone,
[00:10:36] what movie would you start with? And we all kind of gave our opinions. Let's do the same with Star Wars shows. If you had to show someone the Star Wars show for the very first time,
[00:10:47] would you still stick with Andor, the two of you and then Ryan G.H. Would you stay with Mando season one? I'm going to change my answer. Have they seen Star Wars? Sorry. No, no. All right. Sorry, Ryan G.H.
[00:11:00] Oh, I was just going to I was going to make a joke. I was going to say I'm going to change my answer to the animated Ewoks series. Which is on Disney Plus, but it's not canon. No, I didn't give you an age of the person.
[00:11:16] I would probably I would probably though, in all honesty, go with like Clone Wars or something. I think that that's like Clone Wars is digestible for most people. You don't think it's too deep? Uh, I don't think to start.
[00:11:31] I think I think you get them started and then they get hooked. OK. Ryan, I think it depends on the person. If it's somebody who's taste normally wouldn't skew towards something like Star Wars, I would go with Andor
[00:11:46] because apart from like it's saying BBY at the start of it, you have to need no prior knowledge of anything Star War. Otherwise Mandalorian is just like, oh, you love Star Wars. You're going to love the Mandalorian people like the the the normies go a little confused.
[00:12:01] Like, wait, is that baby Yoda? When does this take place? Right. I've gotten that question before. So it just really depends on where you fall kind of on that that beautiful nerd spectrum we're all apart of.
[00:12:14] Rob and I are both teachers and I mean, I I I can can't speak for Rob, but in my school, I have third to fifth graders and they were hooked by baby Yoda by Grogu. They all came in with the t-shirts.
[00:12:26] They came in with the dolls in class. They would bring the dolls to class. They were they were obsessed with them. So I I feel like Mando season one definitely drew in the kids. Rob, what do you think?
[00:12:39] Yeah, I think if it's an older person, someone of our age who's never seen Star Wars, even though it's been out for as long as they've been alive, I would probably go with and or and if it's a male,
[00:12:52] I would go with and or because it's that's more of like a war saga type TV series. So you get into that. If you get interested in that, then you can be like, oh, and this has a little little inklings of of Star Wars in it.
[00:13:08] But if it's anybody else, I would probably lean more towards Mandalorian because everybody fell in love with baby Yoda. I mean, he was on t-shirts. It was the child for the first season and a half. You know, every every toy was just labeled the child.
[00:13:26] Practically, I was waiting for McDonald's toy of the child as well because it was he was everywhere. So I think that because everybody liked him, he was so cute that they would get into that and then they would enjoy Star Wars because they thought
[00:13:40] baby Yoda was so cute and then they would get hooked after that. And it's a great series also. So yeah. Yeah. So I would go with either one of those two. Tom, what about you? You said Yoda, you said you said I think it depends on the age.
[00:13:57] I think if it's kids, I'd say Mando. If it's adults, I'd probably have to go with Andor, because you could have put Andor on CBS and not say it's even related to Star Wars, and I think people would have been interested in it.
[00:14:11] Yes, I agree about about Battlestar Galactica. I feel like that should have been a network show. It's such a good drama. Instead of what was it on FX or something? I thought I thought, yes, I thought, yeah.
[00:14:26] So when something on sci fi gets that rap of being, oh, it's it's a nerdy space thing, whatever. But I feel like it was basically just a drama in space. Yeah, it is so good. The best show ever. Yeah. All right, well, that's one. Go ahead, Ryan.
[00:14:45] Like I said, now I'll get started on stuff. It's crazy to think like the whole like thing that I do with Easter eggs and breakdown stuff like that. We all did that. Like that was happening for Battlestar Galactica, but like on chat rooms
[00:14:58] and message boards and crazy like podcasting and YouTube has really just taken that experience we had to read like a nerd and make it more accessible to people because I'm just making like I I obsessed over that show in theory. I love that Star Galactica. Me too.
[00:15:15] Yeah, never missed an episode the second it was out. What about fire as we're completely going off on a tangent? What about firefly? Did you enjoy that? I feel like we're on your other show, Rob, because not going off on tangent. Going off on all these tangents.
[00:15:28] I enjoyed firefly as well. I didn't watch it when it was on. I watched it later and I liked it a lot. Yeah, I rewatched it for the first time later on. One of a co-worker of mine had them all on DVD
[00:15:40] and he was like, your Star Wars fan here, watch this. You'll love it. And I thought it was really good. You could tell the, you know, the money was a lot less. The budget for it was a lot lower than a Star Wars budget.
[00:15:54] But it was fun nonetheless. Ryan, G8, did you did you watch that at all? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I don't think I watched it when it was live on TV. I didn't watch Battlestar Galactica when it was live. I definitely rewatched it. I actually behind me somewhere over here.
[00:16:11] I have my picture with Katie Sackoff. Yeah. Who is who is always my pick to be Carol Danvers? Oh, yeah. That would have been. Yeah, she would have been a great Carol. I mean, I know since the beginning of the war, she's great too. But like, yeah, yeah.
[00:16:30] Starbucks is, you know, she's Carol Danvers. Yeah, why does that happen? Absolutely. Why did that happen? I wish I was just older at that point. I think they probably wanted somebody who was more up and counting. True. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, that's 14 questions down.
[00:16:47] Now we're on to the second question. Ryan Ari, it's your question. What do you have for us? Well, the cool thing when Disney bought Lucasfilm, I thought, OK, well, this is fun because they'll be able to get different directors
[00:17:02] and have different people, you know, kind of define what Star Wars is and what it could be. Not going to get into George Lucas's definition of Star Wars because like I said, I'll ramble all night about it. But that's always been me.
[00:17:15] I thought, well, maybe we weren't in Scorsese. You'll do a Star Wars movie. You know, it hasn't worked out quite like that. But like Andorra is an example of this. So my question is, like where in the Star Wars galaxy, like, you know,
[00:17:26] we almost had Rogue Squadron, which was going to be Top Gun in space. What would you like to see genre wise, like explored? For me, I do my answer now, right? If you want to go right ahead. Sure. My answer is gangsters, gangster movies.
[00:17:41] I think that we don't even need we don't need a Jedi. You know, I don't think Star Wars is defined by lightsabers. And if you read the higher public novels, higher public fans. Yes. Yeah. I think the Nighill are just great villains because they're just space pirates.
[00:17:55] Like it's literally just like pillage, burn, take. And I would love to see something like that. It's what I wish the sequel trilogy would have focused on a little bit more, you know, like seeing like disorder in the galaxy and see that underworld
[00:18:08] and see, you know, live action, Pikes, you know, Black Sun huts or different people like the high republic did, you know, take it to a new era that hasn't been explored by Clone Wars. That's what I would like to have seen. Ryan, G.H., what about you?
[00:18:22] You got a Star Wars genre you wish they dipped their toes in? Yeah. So at first I was going to say, you know, let's do a kid's movie about Ewoks, but we got two of those. So I'll move on. I think they have a really cool world
[00:18:41] that they have built with Batu in the Disney parks, right? And they've done some comic books around that. And there's a character in that Vi Morati who is a rebel and kind of does a lot of like spy action and that sort of thing.
[00:18:58] So I would love to see kind of a planet-bound spy thriller. Right? We got a little bit of spy in Rogue One. Like that is some spy action type of thing. But just like a really cool planet bound.
[00:19:17] So don't go to space, don't go to other planets, nothing like that. Just keep it on the planet, keep it really close and you know, just kind of tell the tales of what's going on there and her missions over into the first order area.
[00:19:34] And the things that she's doing over there and kind of build out. I approached it more from a setting than a genre, I guess. But I would love to see just some more some more about that character because I think it's really
[00:19:53] I think it's a really interesting way that they could do a lot and seems like there's a lot there to do. Sounds good. Let's see, Tom, you're up. So many answers to this question because there's so many stories I want to see
[00:20:12] because I'm in the opinion of All Star Wars is Good Star Wars. I just I'll just eat it up. I just feed it to me. I'll just eat it. So I would love to see Luke and the New Jedi Academy.
[00:20:25] I would love to see Solo even if even if Solo is not in it. I want to see a solo too with the extension of the story of Maul and the Crimson Dawn and the crime syndicate. I want to see where that all went.
[00:20:39] We know where Maul ends up dead at the hands of Obi-Wan. But I want to see where Crimson Dawn went and I want to see that whole, you know, that whole kind of story fleshed out. But I think the main thing that I'd love to see
[00:20:55] and I haven't thought about the story is I want to see Star Wars, but in the style of Game of Thrones. I don't know how they would do it, but some type of story about dueling hierarchy families
[00:21:09] like maybe if this could be, I'm thinking more like Old Republic setting. I don't know how they would do it, but I think it would make an intriguing story to somehow weave Game of Thrones ideas into the Star Wars universe. Rob, what do you think?
[00:21:27] That's fun. I like that idea. I was like the same thing. I was thinking all different things. We we had a similar question before. And in that, I was like, oh, I would love to see like stories about all of the bounty hunters
[00:21:45] before we got to know them in Empire Strikes Back. But for this one, I'm thinking more I'm going on the whole theme for tonight's episode because there's another question later on where I have a similar answer.
[00:21:59] But I would love to learn more about Lando and all of his gangster gambling, almost like like it. I don't know if he's like a like like a mob boss-esque type thing. But all about Lando with him. Making all these shady deals and everything that he does
[00:22:21] to go along and or even it would be even more fun to see a trail of the Millennium Falcon because there was times like we we found out, you know, at the in the sequels when Han Solo finds it again, you know, without a great line of chewy.
[00:22:40] We're home. Where was it all the time in between there? So almost if it was a story arcing through the Millennium Falcon from Orlando had it to one Han had it to who had it in ever be in between there and all that stuff.
[00:22:53] So something along those lines would be something that I'd be interested in. I think Lando is a fun character. We only saw him a couple of times and, you know, we saw him far and few in between.
[00:23:04] So what was he doing all the other times that we didn't see him? Or what was the Falcon doing all the other times that we didn't see him? So that's that. I don't know if I won that round or not.
[00:23:15] You know what I would kind of like to see just hearing your answers. It got me thinking, you know, right now we've got Bad Batch coming up in the trailer reveal to Saajj Ventress looking very much like she does in Dark Disciple, the novel where she's killed.
[00:23:30] And of course, you know, we grouse about that kind of thing, like maybe it is a candidate or not that she was killed. In our podcast, I mentioned like wouldn't it be great? Just if you want to just do adapt Dark Disciple, that'd be awesome.
[00:23:43] I'd love to see a live action, Quinlan, Boston, and Saajj Ventress. So it kind of makes me think, you know, my if I'm going to have a second answer and it's my question, so I'm going to do that.
[00:23:52] I would love to just see some of the great novels by some of these great Star Wars authors be adapted like my favorite of the Disney or the aftermath trilogy. Amazing. We'd love to see it with like a recast original trilogy crew in there. But also
[00:24:07] I mean, Bloodline, the Leia novel that should have been the first movie. It's just fantastic. And I know, you know, you'd have to recast Leia or maybe do it animated. But that story, I think, needs to be told to a wider audience
[00:24:21] to make sense of the sequel trilogy. Ryan, G.H., what about you? What kind of question do you have for us? Yeah, so my my question is inspired by my number finally came up and I got to go check out the newly redone Casa Bonita here in Colorado.
[00:24:38] So if you're not familiar with Casa Bonita, if you haven't watched Star or South Park or something like that, it's basically the Disneyland of restaurants. And I was sitting there and I was thinking, how cool would it be if we had a Star Wars version of this?
[00:24:57] So it's like a 52,000 square foot restaurant. It's got three different types of shows. It's got food. It's got like you feel like you're in this Mexican place like a Mexican village. And so I got to thinking, you know, how cool would it be
[00:25:15] if we did that somewhere in Star Wars? So with that, the question is not how cool would it be because that would be a very easy question. The question I have for you, Tom, is where would you set a highly immersive restaurant like this?
[00:25:35] So I was thinking, let's go with Mustafar because everything that comes out from the kitchen is going to be burnt. Well played. Well played. All right. Super hot. Two seconds. Sorry. Yeah, so I really wouldn't go mustafar. That would probably be kind of boring.
[00:25:53] I'm going to go with the easiest answer in the world. It's because that's where that's where I'd want to go is Tatooine. I mean, who can imagine themselves walking into a cantina on Tatooine seeing all those creatures like from the original Star Wars trilogy
[00:26:10] or even, you know, the the some of the canting is that we've seen in some of the new Disney Star Wars shows that have been set on Tatooine. You walk in and just to me, it's like the Western style
[00:26:24] like for food, you can do like things like kebabs, like Wamprat on a stick, stuff like that. You could do Bantha burgers. Obviously, the main part needs to be the bar because the drinks, you know, the you have a wild crowd on Tatooine.
[00:26:42] So to me, it's got to be Tatooine as a Star Wars lover because that's where I'd want to go. Would it be the best for everyone? Probably not. It's just what I would want to do as a Star Wars fan
[00:26:54] just because I would love to walk through those doors and just look around at that kind of cantina. Rob, how about your your favorite place to place this new restaurant? Yeah, I actually I like this question a lot.
[00:27:09] I was really thinking about it and it was making me laugh as I was thinking about it. I was like, oh, my gosh, this would be amazing. So we just need to get the funding to start doing this. But I was thinking Dagobah because it would be almost
[00:27:22] like a rainforest cafe type thing with a lot of overgrown vegetation and stuff. There's so much cool things. Ryan, when you posted on on Facebook your your trip there and I saw the person diving from the 30 foot ledge.
[00:27:40] There was like people diving into this pool, always like other neat things. There could be like if it was on Dagobah, there could be a room where you're near and you could even like go into kind of like a Disney theme where you go into Yoda's hut.
[00:27:58] And there's a animatronic of Yoda there or or a puppet of Yoda or whatever. And you get your picture taken with Yoda every hour or so in the pool area. Yoda would come out and he would raise the X swing up.
[00:28:16] And I don't know how they would get it back into the into the lake again. That's not for me to figure out, but somehow they would get it back into the lake again. Better come out and say, good for God. And so so Yoda could do that.
[00:28:33] You could have R2D2 running all over the place because he was wandering off a little bit on there and you could even have, you know, a Luke Skywalker jumping around somewhere, maybe like a gymnast jumping around on a stage on like uneven bars or whatever.
[00:28:51] And then he's running around with it with a Yoda backpack or something like that. But and there's there's some scary animals on there as well. So there could be some even not a big show, but just while you're sitting there,
[00:29:04] kind of like a rainforest cafe when the dinosaurs start moving in their heads or whatever, they could have some kind of creature pop out of the swamp, look around and go back down again. So that's what I was thinking.
[00:29:14] I was thinking it would be a lot of fun to have a neat little Dagobah themed restaurant. I don't know what the food would be, frogs or something like that. I don't know, but frogs soup. Frog soup. Yeah. So but you know, the theming would be amazing.
[00:29:31] Ryan, Airee, what do you think? Well, for just to comment on Dagobah, that sounds awesome, especially when you like take, you know, you applied the cast of Benita. I do think it sounds a little bit like a Klingon restaurant to me.
[00:29:42] Like a lot of stuff would be served raw and moving. And first thing I thought was like, I'm picturing the frogs that Jabba has in his little jar. Just like that's something they wheel out to you. And I'm like, ah, yes, yes.
[00:29:57] You swayed me with the theatrics, but actual food wise. You know, there's a reason Yoda went straight to stealing Luke's food. You know, like straight away. It's the first thing he did. He didn't introduce himself or say, Hey, you know, I knew your dad.
[00:30:12] I got food. You got him starving. My answer is the lower levels of Corusot. And let me tell you why. First of all, you want a variety of food. You got it. You know, it's that whole Blade Runner aesthetic. There's all these different food stalls and booths from
[00:30:29] one thousands of planets. Dagobah. I'm not trying to crap on your Dagobah answer, but you're going to have, you know, basically raw frogs, whereas, you know, in moss, whereas in Corusot, you know, it is the lower level. So it's not going to be fine dining,
[00:30:42] but you are going to get a pretty wide variety because it's the cultural hub of the galaxy. So there's that. And we've also seen there's some nice places in the lower levels. There was a sports bar.
[00:30:52] Yeah, it looked exactly like a sports bar in two thousand to America. But fine, there was a sports bar there. And also just the potential talking about theatrics, its food and its fights, because you also have this idea
[00:31:06] that there could be bar fights that are staged that, you know, you could have somebody an undercover Jedi apprehend somebody like you're at a ren fair watching Robin Hood get arrested. That'd be really cool. This the cool thing about the lower levels to me is always like,
[00:31:19] well, you never know who's going to be there. You'd have a clone bar if you want to set it in that you can just hire a bunch of actors who look exactly alike to have the same crew cut and just kind of be there. God, that'd be expensive.
[00:31:29] But you know, any work you could get. Yeah, just one thing I liked about that sequence and attack of the clones, like people selling death sticks. Imagine that. Imagine you have guys selling death sticks everywhere
[00:31:39] but they're sugar candies so you can teach the kids that drugs are fun. The idea and the idea there's this cool thing and attack of the clones where like they rest, Sam Wessel and Anakin says Jedi business back to your drinks
[00:31:53] and everybody shuts up and goes back to their drinks because when a Jedi says Jedi business, you know, it's a don't F around. That's it. That's 100% where it is. So yeah, I like the variety. I like the theatrics, the food, the fights, the fun.
[00:32:05] I'm going to go with lower levels of Coruscant take me to 1313 baby. Brian G H, what about, you know, you asked the question, what do you think about all this? Yeah, for sure. And I also want to say I love the idea of the lower levels
[00:32:17] of Coruscant too because there's all kinds of nooks and crannies. And that's kind of one of the benefits of these themed places is like the discovery, right? You get to go find, you know, weird stuff. So I like that a lot.
[00:32:31] For me, I'm going to go with the force mood of Endor and I know I'm sounding like a broken record here. But eating amongst the trees in Tree Bright Village sounds so cool. You could have Ewoks walking around. I'm thinking about like dance parties, right?
[00:32:48] You have dance parties with, you know, totally not human heads that you're doing drums on. You could have an area where C3PO and R2D2 are telling a story, you know, like they did in Return of the Jedi. The food gets a little weird.
[00:33:09] Yeah, trying to figure out how to not have Ewoks eating humans. So my idea was to go, oh, what's up? Sorry to interject. I just want to point out that the humans were a special treat. That's true. I eat them all the time.
[00:33:26] It was a banquet in C3PO's honor. It's not like they're always cooking up humans. That is true. To serve the man. Another Twilight Zone reference. Sorry, Brian, GAH. I just wanted to clarify, if you want to have them eat humans, it would only be for special occasions.
[00:33:41] That's fair. That's fair. Once a month human feast. But otherwise, I would say something like a California cuisine. So pretty basic food, you know, I'm thinking like California pizza kitchen style pizza, maybe a pot roast dish, maybe a roasted chicken. It was filmed in the Redwoods.
[00:34:04] So California cuisine tangentially makes sense. But also it's highly based on what's in season, what's fresh, that sort of stuff. I think that that fits with the theme really well of kind of being on this forest moon. I'm not going to lie.
[00:34:20] I definitely had the entertainment in mind first before I went to the food. But yeah, that would be a fun one. Tom, what's your question? So Rob and I play a lot of computer games. And I usually have the TV on in the background, as does he.
[00:34:42] And all these award shows have been on lately. And the whole four hours before the show, all they have is this red carpet stuff. What's he wearing? What's she wearing? They're all worried about how each other are dressed, which I think is completely ridiculous.
[00:34:57] But it gave me the idea for a question. So I was thinking, what is the coolest costume of any Star Wars character that's out there? Rob, we'll start with you. But I'm thinking judging off of your award ceremony and the Grammys were just last night.
[00:35:19] So if there's anybody that would fit in with a Grammy's theme, I'm thinking going back to my question, my answer to question two, it's got to be Lando Calrissian. He's always dressed to the nines. And like I keep trying to get everybody to agree with me,
[00:35:37] but nobody wants to agree with me, we need to start bringing capes into the real world. Because Lando can wear a cape like nobody's business. Between him and Ken from Toy Story, Barbie and Ken in Toy Story, when he saw all the capes in his Barbie dream house.
[00:35:58] Those two guys can wear a cape like nobody's business. So I think. Yeah, Solo did it first though in that movie. That scene was hilarious when they went through his capes. And they went through all those different capes. So I want to see what Lando is wearing
[00:36:13] because you know he's going to be dressed very rock and roll chic. So that's my answer is a good old Lando Calrissian dress up day. So there we go. I don't know if that's the best, but that's what I'm going with.
[00:36:29] And if anybody wants to sponsor me on some capes, I'm ready to start buying and wearing capes. Ryan Arie, what do you think? I have two part answer. So because I have a two part answer because I think it's a two part question. You're talking about red carpets
[00:36:42] and you're saying who has the coolest outfit. Lenny Kravitz did both at the Grammys this past week. He looked cool and he also looked like an action figure. Not everybody does though. So as far as a red carpet looking Star Wars, Pad May,
[00:36:56] I've actually, you know, went to the Star Wars costume exhibit saw the stitching up close and her outfits, especially in Attack of the Clones and phenomenal. Just phenomenal what Natalie Portman got to wear in those movies. She's the best dressed Star Wars character.
[00:37:09] I don't understand how she's royalty and a senator and an elected queen and how that I've never understood that. I assume she had to be a queen so late could be a princess. I don't know what George was thinking about that.
[00:37:22] But that's my answer for the red carpet. My answer for who's the coolest. And I'm sorry, again, this is kind of basic and like saying your favorite bands of Beatles, but you know, Boba Fett was supposed to be a Gen two stormtrooper.
[00:37:34] And then they looked at him and said, no, we have something special here. And he's like walking Star Wars. And what I mean by that is, Star Wars is just, it's composed of nostalgia of this era, that era. So when you're watching it,
[00:37:45] it's like you're getting to watch all your favorite movies at the same time. It's familiar and new. And that's what Boba Fett is. I mean, they gave him this armor. They gave him the helmet, like of a medieval knight, you know, with the,
[00:37:56] I've came up with those kind of helmets are called but with the thing in the front. With the what? T-Viser, thank you. With the T-Viser. They took all that, the medieval look. They gave it this worn sheen. So he's a walking story.
[00:38:07] Like everything in Star Wars has to be like beat up and worn in and look like the story has been told for thousands of years and he carries that look. And then they add that, that Clint Eastwood duster. And that's what Star Wars is. It's a Western space.
[00:38:19] They even put spur sound effects that don't make any sense when he walks in Empire Strikes Back. I think we did a video. I think we did a video and it was about how Boba Fett's only on camera for like seven, seven, like what 37 seconds.
[00:38:32] But in that time, just that look captivates the imagination. And I think Star Wars is always best when it implies a larger universe and a larger tale before it fills in every nook and cranny of like the fact that he was really clone,
[00:38:45] son of a clone or was a clone but was raised as a son. Who cares? And as Boba Fett looks cooler than any other Star Wars character. I think he's walking Star Wars. Ryan G. H. What about you?
[00:38:58] Yeah, so I think your answer speaks to mine a little bit here. I'm a big thing of all things Arbor. So I really loved the armored Jedi looks that we've gotten throughout the series, right? Particularly in the Clone Wars era but we've seen it through other media
[00:39:19] in High Republic and some other times. I think the coolest armored Jedi, which actually it's funny that you said, who did you say from the Grammys? Why can't I? Oh, Letty Kravitz. Letty Kravitz, because he could totally play this guy is Quinlan Boss.
[00:39:43] Quinlan Boss with his like cut off Jedi robes with the leather armor over the top. Looks so cool. And maybe we got to see him in live action in Phantom Menace. Maybe we didn't, who knows? But I got so excited.
[00:40:05] I thought we were gonna get the live action version of him in Obi-Wan but we didn't. We just got the little nod to him kind of in an Easter eggy kind of way. But I think he looks so cool
[00:40:19] and he pulls off that armored Jedi look so well. And he has the really cool hair. He's got the dreadlocks going on. That's, yeah. There's no Jedi that is as cool as Quinlan Boss in my book. So Tom, how about you? Yeah, that's a good choice.
[00:40:37] I also like it's a little cleaner because Quinlan Boss, he's kind of darker but I liked Obi-Wan's Jedi. Jedi armor in the Gromors. I thought it was pretty cool. So I had a couple different ideas for this. I really liked as a kid, the red imperial guards,
[00:40:58] the Emperor's guards, those were really neat looking. I probably had like four of the figures and I always set them up guarding the Emperor. So I always thought they were pretty cool. I would have liked to have seen them in action but episode eight kind of showed us
[00:41:13] what they would look like in action because we saw, what's his name? Guards. I can't think of his name. Snoke's Praetorian Guards? Yeah, Snoke's. Yeah, the Praetorian Guards, Snoke's Praetorian Guards. I also really like the white Imperial Intelligence Officer uniforms. They're really sharp looking
[00:41:35] because we basically have been, we've seen nothing but the like the naval type uniforms, the green ones and sometimes the black ones as well. But then when we started to see the white and intelligence officer ones, I thought that was really neat. They look really sharp.
[00:41:52] So nice contrast from the green and black uniforms that we see. But I have to go old school for my favorite. It is Luke's Black Jedi outfit. Yeah. At first I can picture myself sitting in the theater watching return to Jedi as a kid,
[00:42:09] seeing Luke come through those doors at Jabba's Palace and seeing that black uniform, not knowing and thinking, okay, is Luke found the dark side? Is he? Yeah. And then he goes to Force Choke, the Gamorian Guards. You're like, oh my God, Luke has some dark side in him.
[00:42:30] To me as a kid, that just kind of blew my mind. And it's such a simple outfit. It's just black. Yeah. It's a black outfit. But it really took my mind in crazy places when we saw Luke start using dark side powers and wearing a dark side outfit.
[00:42:49] So for me, that would be the coolest outfit, even though it's probably one of the most basic in all of Star Wars. So that's it. Kai, Kai got, I don't know, there's something out there real quick. You were mentioning Quinlan Boss.
[00:43:01] Do you guys remember before Solo did the reshoots when Michael K. Williams was cast as Dryden Boss? The big fan theory was that he was Quinlan Boss in disguise. And then obviously they replaced him with Paul Bettany. So there's no way he could be Quinlan Boss in disguise
[00:43:16] because Paul Bettany does not look like Quinlan Boss at all. But that was, you said that and that popped in my head. I was like, man, that was a fan theory and a half. Like that was a fan theory before we saw a scrap of footage.
[00:43:29] That's the internet's a whiteboard and we gotta preserve some of that stuff. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely, yeah. Paul Bettany was awesome in that movie. He was a very scary villain. Yeah, Omar would have been better though. Imagine being Solo sitting there on that sofa
[00:43:47] and having Paul Bettany make those, have that talk with you. I was scared sitting on that. I don't know that. I think Michael K. Omar from the Wire man, he would have been. Yeah. It's one of those great, you know, what ifs.
[00:44:01] I wish I could go to Lucasfilm Vault and watch that footage. Well maybe when they do the Star Wars what ifs, they'll do that, they'll switch it. There we go. That's too late, he's gone. But anyway, that's my great, that's my great what if.
[00:44:16] That's a question next time. That is. What if? I did, I wanted to comment on all three of your outfits because the original when you saw, Bo was, when Boba Fett, excuse me, when Boba Fett walked in the parade, was he in all white in the parade
[00:44:36] before we even knew who he was when he was walking next to Darth Vader? I can't remember if he was all white then or if he was in color at that point in time. I think he was in all white.
[00:44:45] You're talking about like it was a town in California, right? Yeah, that was. It was in Mexico, but it might as well have been. Yeah, whatever that little town was. Time to do the Googles. When we first saw him,
[00:44:56] but I'm pretty sure he was in all white then and he like blew everybody's mind then. Everybody's like, oh my God, this guy is amazing. We didn't even know who or what he was but he was just there walking with Darth Vader. Not in white.
[00:45:10] Not in white, okay. But they did originally then it must have been in the making of TV shows where they were showing him originally in white and then they said, okay, let's add some color. When they put a beach towel on him. Yeah, that's what they did, yeah?
[00:45:25] So yeah, so either one of those costumes were amazing and I forget what it was. And Tom, you're in the all red. Those guys were so cool. I'm just thinking of them walking down the red carpet in their red helmets and their red things,
[00:45:44] and then the person that we didn't even talk about, once Tom started talking about the white uniforms, can you imagine Thrawn walking the red carpet with his blue face and his white outfit on and just walking down being like, yeah, I wrote this song.
[00:45:57] Like I'm up for artist of the year. You're right, I am. So yeah, so I enjoyed all those. Those were all very good costumes as well. Well, that was it. If this was a kind of fast episode, 46 minutes is it? So that's not a problem we... We're efficient.
[00:46:17] Oh, do you want me to pull some time? I got Rance in me. Rance ready. You can feel it talking about Battlestar Galactica. I was about to say you drop Battlestar Galactica, and we didn't even... Yeah. We can do an ending explaining it.
[00:46:33] We can do a whole podcast every episode just about different aspects of the show. All right, we'll start a new podcast. Perfect. But it's only about the ending of Battlestar Galactica. You can only talk about the last episode. That would be such a niche podcast.
[00:46:46] So like, oh, I'm sure you're gonna watch this Battlestar Galactica show. Should I listen to this podcast? Yes, but not until you're done with the show. We're gonna watch the whole show first. And we're gonna do 187 episodes. Per act. Per act, yeah. No, no, no.
[00:46:59] We're gonna go that far into... I mean, look, the end of the show, nah, I'm not gonna spoil it for people, but what a weird ending. So, spelling, when did it come out? Like 15, 20 years ago at this point? Last episode probably went up in 2008 or 2009.
[00:47:14] Yeah, so if they didn't watch it by now, you're not explaining it for anybody. Why did it go with magic at the end? Because you watched that show and you could come up... It's a science fiction show where you can come up
[00:47:27] with possible explanations for all this stuff, the robots have visions, and then they just go with straight up magic at the end. Guys, come on. Like what are we... I mean, Ronald D. Moore... I know after watching DS9, I understand it.
[00:47:40] Ronald D. Moore, he likes to end things with magic. I understand now, but it's just fine. Anyways, that was an extra couple minutes for ya. Abused. There are parallels between the way Game of Thrones ended and the way Battlestar Galactica ended with how the fans felt about it.
[00:47:56] Like it completely went in a direction the fans didn't want it to. And their ideas, I think were better, the fans' ideas of how it should have ended. They also... The whole thing like that, the Saivons have a plan, they didn't. They didn't have a plan.
[00:48:13] They had to put a movie out later that explained the plan because it was never in the show. And I've read behind the scenes stuff, the writers didn't have a plan either, which is kind of nice to not have every second mapped out, but also have a plan.
[00:48:27] Have a plan. Have a plan. At least you got an ending in BSG instead of Caprica where they just leave the next season on tag at the end of wherever it's streaming and you just get teased with that. But I never watched the show. I didn't know that.
[00:48:42] I didn't know that's how it ended. Well, now you know it doesn't end, it just stops. It just stops. Nothing ever really ends, guys. No one's ever really gone. Well, Battlespark Galactica must have been written by any middle schooler ever
[00:48:56] because when they have to do a writing assignment and they don't know how to end it, they just go with, and it was all a dream and that's how every single one ends. So instead of being a dream, it just magic.
[00:49:06] It's a good show up until that like last part of the last season. I actually kind of think in 20 years that last part will be the part people talk about because it was, I think the last five minutes of that show or last 30 seconds
[00:49:23] are actually very prescient for, you know, I mean, look, Google's destroying the internet with AI right now. And I think we're gonna hit a point where it's like, well, what is the value of life and who do we recognize as being alive?
[00:49:36] And I think it opened some interesting questions. The problem is it did it with robot windup toys, which looks silly and it undermined like this really, I don't know. And they did the whole thing with all along the watch tower. I gotta go watch Battlestar Galactica.
[00:49:51] I love that show so much. All right, I gotta go. All right, so the answer to question one is what are you gonna binge after this? Apparently Ryan's gonna binge Battlestar Galactica. Such a good show. Join us next week on our Battlestar Galactica podcast.
[00:50:07] All right, well, that's how you do it. That concludes our another episode of Banthin' Milk Podcast presents around the Dejarak table. I wanna thank our two wonderful guests. First, Ryan Aire, please tell us where we can find you. This is your opportunity to plug away,
[00:50:22] look in that camera, that camera, that camera over there and tell us whatever you wanna tell us, plug away yourself and or your show and or your feelings on Battlestar Galactica. Go ahead. I'm on Twitter, well, whatever it's called now at Ryan Aire, my name RYA and A-R-E-Y
[00:50:39] you can find me there. Every now and then I decide to tweet a lot and then I'll take a break for a while. But of course the most regular way to catch me and what I think about things is the YouTube channel, Screen Crush.
[00:50:50] We also have a podcast that's if you, it's also on the YouTube channel. So it's one of the same. And you know, check out our merch store, ScreenCrushMurch.com where we design the merch ourselves. We have some pretty exciting breaking badge shirts just launched this week.
[00:51:03] Thor shirt that just launched today where my dog Doug, my co-host is Thor and we have a live show coming up in Brooklyn, New York on February 22nd, you can get tickets online that Screen Crush merch website or just go to any Screen Crush video
[00:51:16] and we plug the heck out of it. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Meet me, the team and we're gonna do some games and some questions and probably talk about Battlestar Galatka at this point. I can't think of anything else. That's awesome.
[00:51:29] Where is Doug by the way? Is he in your house or is he somebody else's? No, he's my little dog. He's sleeping downstairs. Sleeping downstairs. He's getting a haircut in a few days, yeah. Gotta love little Doug and his little Screen Crush t-shirt, he's so cute.
[00:51:42] His little Screen Crush t-shirt. Yeah. All right, and the other Ryan, Ryan G.H. Please tell us all about yourself. Yeah, so my show is Puny Pod. We are a Marvel fandom podcast but honestly both me and my co-host David are huge Star Wars fans as well.
[00:52:00] So we end up talking about Star Wars almost as much as we talked about Battlestar Galatka here on a Star Wars show. We release two episodes a month, the first Tuesday of every month we release a episode that's a deep dive into an MCU movie
[00:52:16] that we rewatched that month. We're watching through in release order and we just are doing a wrap up on phase two that is out this month for February, first Tuesday of February. We'll be our wrap up for phase two. About Midway through the month
[00:52:33] we also do a new show about everything that's newsworthy in the Marvel universe, video games, comics, products. Again, a lot of Star Wars stuff showing up there since Marvel has the Star Wars comics license. So we do end up talking about a lot of stuff there.
[00:52:50] We call those episodes the monthly bugle. You can follow the show on all socials. It's P-U-N-Y-P-O-D, playoff of Puny God of course but you can also follow me personally. I am on Instagram and TikTok as puny R-G-H. Check out what I post there.
[00:53:16] I do some behind the scenes stuff from Puny Pod. You guys can see pictures of Casa Benita there. But yeah, so go check those out. Awesome. Don't forget to check out all our other shows here on the Ears Up Network.
[00:53:38] Ears Up in depth for one more month or so. I don't know what's gonna happen there. Scraping the vault, The Supreme Resort. Of course, Ryan's show Puny Pod and our regular show, the regular version of Bantha Milk as well
[00:53:54] where Nick and I go off on tangents much unlike this episode. We maybe we'll start talking a lot more about Battlestar Galactica and Ryan will be very excited about that. So that's it, Tom, you wanna take us out?
[00:54:10] You got the official job of giving us a good ending. Yeah, so we loved all your questions. We loved all your answers and you guys are welcome back anytime. Until then, always let the Wookiee win. Always let the Wookiee win. All right.