[00:00:00] Ich schwöre feierlich, dass ich ein Tu-Nicht-Gut bin. Du auch? Dann schnabt er deine Rumtreiber und erlebe das achte Abenteuer von Harry, Ron und Hermine. Denn die Magic Weeks sind wieder da. Bei Harry Potter und das verwunschtene Kind in Hamburg,
[00:00:18] wo Magie live auf der Bühne Wirklichkeit wird. Spare jetzt bis zu 30 Prozent unter magicweeks.de Auf diesem Episode von Bantha Milk Podcast, um die Dejarik Table zu kommen, zwei neue Gäste, vier neue Fragen. Hier geht's! Bounty Hunting ist eine komplikte Profession, aber nichts wie Podcasts, oder?
[00:01:04] Hallo, alle! Willkommen zu einem anderen Episode von Bantha Milk, um die Dejarik Table zu zeigen, um die Diskussion um die größte Movie und TV-Serie Alle die Zeit! Star Wars. Wir besuchen zwei neue Freunde zu dem Video, um Fragen zu stellen. Wir diskutieren alle vier Fragen.
[00:01:24] Ich bin der Host Rob, und jede Episode, die ich getroffen habe, ist mit meinem Koch. Host Tom, hallo Thomas. Hallo Robert. Ich bin noch auf meiner ersten Spotswahl zu warten. Ich werde mich jeden Tag meine Mail checken. Du wirst für das warten. Okay.
[00:01:39] Wenn es kommt, dann lass mich wissen, weil mein Leben ist noch zu kommen. Wir haben jetzt einen regularen Podcast gemacht. Wir sind heute zwei sehr spezielle Gäste geöffnet. Ein Vater-Darren-Kombo. Bum bum, schau mal. Zwei separate Podcasts, zwei separate Leute. Ich weiß nicht, wo ich bin.
[00:02:01] Aber ich bin der Mike. Von den inflatable Falcon Podcast. Mike, bitte erzähle uns etwas über dich. Hi, everyone. I'm Mike from the inflatable Falcon Podcast. Also known to the Star Wars people around here as Zoe Hinton and Saffie Hinton's chauffeur and father.
[00:02:22] When they were little, you know, they were like, who's bringing the Jawas? But then I've been a Star Wars fan my entire life since I saw it in 77. I've raised my kids with all the Star Wars principles I could pack into raising two children.
[00:02:37] And then I've helped Zoe become Sabine and my other daughter Saffron become Triple Zero. So if I'm not doing a podcast, I'm usually building something. That's me. That's awesome. In a Star Wars nutshell. You're also in the 501st, which is very excellent.
[00:02:54] Yes, I'm a Stormtrooper in the 501st since 07. That's so cool. You build a lot of things. There's for anybody who can watch on the YouTube, there's all kinds of stuff behind them, did you build all those helmets back there? Some. Some.
[00:03:10] Like all the Sabines, except for this one, I painted that one came from Deanovos. Okay. And then I mold and cast, but I don't do those. And then these are Hasbro helmets. But yes, I make and paint. And I've made an entire protocol droid of Triple Zero,
[00:03:31] which is probably the longest. That took 14 months to build. That's awesome. I always wanted to, I see the people who have built the giant droids and always had conventions and stuff like that. And I'm like, oh my gosh, that is so awesome.
[00:03:46] I would love to have the patience and the just oomph to do all of that because it's awesome and it's so cool. And I love anybody who does takes their Star Wars into the next level. And speaking of taking the Star Wars into the next level,
[00:04:04] that's our second guest, Zoe. So tell us please Star Wars Geek Girl Podcast. Let me tell you, I'm very impressed. We've had some pretty famous people on the show. I will admit, and you are up there with the top of the top.
[00:04:21] So go ahead, tell us all about yourself, Zoe. Go ahead. Well, I'm Zoe. I have Star Wars Geek Girl Podcast with Lizzie and I'm 22 now. She's almost 22. She keeps being fun to me until she'll turn 22. We started the podcast when we were 15 or 14 back in 2015.
[00:04:40] Before that, I was in this fight and so six years old. Well, Cassian, the fight being trooping of the Jawa, trooping with the Galactic Academy for the 501st. My Galactic Academy number was 0098. So got in the ground floor pretty much. Yeah, that's awesome.
[00:05:00] So I was a Jawa and I as I got, you know, a little past Jawa height. Not as much as I wanted to necessarily, but I got into Sabine costumes. And so now in the Mandalorian Merks and Rebel Legion. Also got Soka, all sorts of stuff.
[00:05:19] But yeah, I've been podcasting since 2015. So through all the movies that have come out through most of the shows, the seasons of shows that have come out recently and I was trying to focus on spreading positivity and appreciating the galaxy far, far away.
[00:05:35] And you start is to inspire me creatively. You can sort of see if you're watching on YouTube. I've got Sabine paintings. I just paint my walls. That was my COVID project, just painting Sabine stuff in my walls and creating all sorts of things and encourage me every day.
[00:05:51] That's awesome. That's so much fun. I'm very happy that you were able to join us. Both of you, this is going to be a fun show. As you know, we have four questions. Each one of us thought very hard, long and hard on a very awesome,
[00:06:04] the most awesome of questions that we could come up with. I want to use the word awesome as many times in one sentence. And I did a pretty good job there. So we all have, I was impressed when I'm looking at these questions.
[00:06:15] Every week, I feel like every person who joins us is taking up another notch and another notch before we know that questions are going to be so hard to even figure out an answer to. There's only going to be one correct answer.
[00:06:27] By the way, as I tell all of our guests, the only correct answer is my answer. So just as long as you know that, we can all agree on that. We'll be very happy. So let's jump right into it, shall we? Yeah, yeah. All right, sounds good.
[00:06:39] So I'll start off this week with the first question. So the force has changed over the years. We went from it being an almost aura around people to the select few, to the good old midi chlorine conversation from the prequels all the way to Broom Boy,
[00:07:02] where oh look another person to now it's something that anybody can learn apparently if they try hard enough. So which is right or more specifically, which theory do you like best? Because I don't know if there is a right answer to this,
[00:07:15] but which of these is your favorite theory? So Mike, go ahead. You get to answer this hard question first and then we can all disagree with you. Okay, well yeah, this was one of those ones where so I think back of Obi-Wan talking to Luke
[00:07:29] and how it surrounds us and maybe the aura. But I but to me that doesn't negate any of the other theories. Like like I was one of those people. I didn't mind midi-chlorians. I my opinion is it surrounds us all and what makes it really cool about it.
[00:07:48] If everyone has it, then only those who know how to use it right have the power and my only disagreement with the force. I have I love everything Star Wars doing is I do wish spoiler for those that didn't see Ahsoka.
[00:08:04] I wish when Sabine pulled the lightsaber to her, she would have used Amanda Gauntlet. Oh, OK, right. Yeah, that's my that's my only gripe. But but I but I do like that everyone can tap into that potential.
[00:08:17] Yeah, you know, so I know there's a lot of people my age that really didn't like Broom Boy, but I didn't mind Broom Boy either. I didn't mind Broom Boy either now. All right, Zoe, what do you think?
[00:08:31] Yeah, I mean, I always go back to the very first thing we learned about the force in A New Hope was that it surrounds all of us and it is in every creature, every living organism.
[00:08:44] Then, you know, some people are going to be more naturally adept to it, like your Luke Skywalker's, your rays, whether that's genetics or even just people who randomly chosen have the force, like your Ezra's or your Obi-Wan's don't have like genetic predisposition.
[00:09:00] But that doesn't mean it's not within all other people. I personally really like to route was to me a great example of someone who wasn't that natural force sensitive. He wasn't, you know, didn't have it inherently like powerfully in him,
[00:09:15] but was still able to learn and train to connect with it, even if he wasn't, you know, throwing stuff around. And then I think, you know, Sabine personally would have liked to see her maybe go more non-traditional route,
[00:09:30] maybe being a Jedi without using the force as powerfully as she did. But I appreciate the intent of, you know, was like if the force is within everyone, then why can't everyone use it, even if it just takes a lot more work for some people than others?
[00:09:45] You know, Sabine, even though we only saw eight episodes of the show, they told us, you know, Sabine train for years and years with Soka and only just now was able to connect with it in that really dire moment for the first time. So.
[00:10:03] And to add to your point, there's so many different facets of the force that every single force user is going to use it differently. So it doesn't all have to be used the same way. Yeah. And I think we see that with like, you know,
[00:10:16] if you're Quinlan Valls and Calcestus, he like are naturally good at psychometry, you know, and like Brogu just has a natural knack for force healing, even though it took Ray and Ben, why would I like figure that out? You know, so. I don't know who raised this nerd.
[00:10:32] Well, Tom, what did you think? So I'm kind of with the two of you that, you know, I wasn't a total fan of the midichlorian idea. But I like the fact that it's mysterious. No one knows. I mean, the force is all around us,
[00:10:47] but not everyone's in tune to the force. So I'm kind of like a mix of all three of the things that Rob talked about. So I do like that family heritage does matter, kind of like the skywalkers, but there's no guarantee that every family member
[00:11:05] will be in tune with that force. I like that bloodlines matter, whether that relates to midichlorians or not, like genetics. I don't know the answer to that. So that even somebody like Broom Boy, I guess could be a Jedi, because it's just you never know.
[00:11:26] He obviously was in tune with the force, but I don't even know if he knew he had it. He just instinctively could do things that Jedis could do. So I'm kind of like a I'm torn on this.
[00:11:40] I think it's just a mix of everything that Rob talked about. It's just a little bit of everything. What if Broom Boy is just a good janitor? We're a magician. He actually had like a magician. He was just, you know, pretend like Haja and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
[00:11:57] He has all the magnets and everything everywhere. Yeah. He's like, I'm not really a Jedi. And that was when I just rewatched the Obi-Wan Kenobi series over the weekend and it was fun when he was like, yeah, you got magnets here, there, there.
[00:12:13] And he's like, oh, no, don't hurt me. But yeah, it would be a tough one. All right, so now for the real answer. I wish I knew that was coming. You know it was coming. I also did not mind Broom Boy at all,
[00:12:27] because I liked the fact that, you know, the Empire was trying to get rid of all the Jedi. They were wiping them all out and oh, look, they didn't. You can't wipe it out because the force is around everybody
[00:12:42] that somebody else is going to start to learn how to use it. So I did like that. I did note that in my opinion anyway, I feel like the midi chlorine theory came about in a time when science was talking about nanobots and stuff.
[00:12:58] So they were like, oh, maybe, you know, I can see where George Lucas might have been thinking like, oh, nanobots, midi chlorines, we'll do this. But then even with Grogo in the first season of the Mandalorian, they were talking about his M Counts being so high.
[00:13:16] So that leaning back again to the midi chlorine theory, but then also the aura and all the stuff. Nick, my co-host of the regular show loves the fact that Sabine is now learning how to use the force and proving that anybody
[00:13:33] who tries hard enough can become a Jedi or at least a force, a user. And we also have the other people like the the Night Sisters and all that, who are able to use the force in different ways, not necessarily the way Jedi can or who was the
[00:13:51] the blind guy. He was force sensitive as well. Sherrod, who Zoe was talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like how he can he can use it in different ways as well. So I wanted to talk myself out of liking the anybody can be a force user,
[00:14:11] but I think I'm actually talking myself into liking it. Because the way Nick explains it, you know, it's like a professional football player in elementary school. You know, millions of kids in America play football. But by the time you get to the professional level,
[00:14:28] there's only 42 people on 30 teams. So there's only 300 and whatever professional football players out of the millions that start. So why can't it be the same thing with the force, where everybody has the potential? You just have to want to work hard enough or, you know, some football players,
[00:14:49] like you see the quarterbacks who can throw the ball 80 yards without even like trying. You know, you hear stories of them when they were in elementary school, they were throwing it 60 yards in fifth grade, where all the other kids could barely throw a 10.
[00:15:03] So that could be your your Skywalker's, who are just more naturally in tune to it. But does that take the mystery out of the force? Yeah, that's my problem with it. Like as a kid growing up, I love that the force was this mysterious thing
[00:15:20] that nobody really knew what it was or how to describe it. And I think if you made it to where oh, you just work hard and you've got it, I think that takes the mystery away. See, I always thought of it more like magic,
[00:15:34] like at the same time I was in the Star Wars, I was in the Dungeon Dragon. So I was like getting beat up by everybody. You know, back then. But what was nice about D&D was they had you have magic that people just could control.
[00:15:53] And so it comes down to like your dogma, like you have your Jedi, who weren't 100 percent right, where you have your Sith, who weren't 100 percent right. And then you have your night sisters. Like it's almost like it's free for the taking.
[00:16:08] If you just kind of the sports analogy goes really well in the sense that I mean, I see it in my job. Every kid wants to be a football player until they have to go to football practice. Or even when football practice is over,
[00:16:22] that they have to do a little bit more work. I just rather go home and watch TikTok instead. So yeah, I agree with that. And that's that's where the people who become the force users are like, OK, I just had force practice.
[00:16:37] Now I'm going to actually practice on my own. So and I think the midi-Klorians was one of those things that was easy. They I think they were trying to put it something in the movie that Qui-Gon could pick pick out for like something he could pick Anakin out.
[00:16:54] Like if they would have probably even changed a different word, like they would have said M Count. Yeah, probably wouldn't have had the same taste in some people's mouths as midi-Klorians. Right, exactly. Which is why I think when they did it with Grogu,
[00:17:08] they were like, let's try to change it, still keep it, but change it and see how people feel about it. And I think it did have a have a different effect on people because it wasn't midi-Klorians. So yeah, all right. Well, I guess it's still up for debate.
[00:17:26] But I think we came to a pretty good conclusion there. All right, Mike, it's your turn to ask your question. All right, this was a lot of pressure on me over the weekend. So I don't know. It said if there was an in-universe nature show
[00:17:42] similar to Kroc Hunter, who would you want to be the host in the universe? In universe host and where would you want the first episode to take place? So Zoe, you've heard me talk about this question a few times. What do you think?
[00:17:57] Well, first I do have to flex little nerd knowledge. There is an in-universe nature show and hosted by SFR 3 from the Star Wars Kids Channel and he was in Young Jedi Adventures. So I do have to flex that before I answer. Questions over now. Am I losing?
[00:18:16] I'm so great. I don't hang out with. I would have to go with. It's this is the time when we dance. This is the time. Sorry about that. I don't know what happened there. I apologize. Go ahead. I would actually want to say Boba Fett.
[00:18:39] Because I really enjoyed in the Book of Boba Fett his interactions with animals and creatures, whether it was like the lizard that went up his nose or the Banthas or his Rancor. I really enjoyed. So Old Boba, right? Old Boba, that's who you'd want rather than younger Boba.
[00:18:55] OK. Oh yeah, Old Boba. I just I thought all those interactions were really fun. And he had this kind of like spend with the Rancor. It's like kind of all in respect for it
[00:19:05] that I think would be would translate well to like a very like Steve Erwin-ish kind of thing. And also, I just love Old Timur Morrison's voice. It's like very soothing. He's a great voice. And I guess I wanted to start. Um.
[00:19:25] Probably a Tatooine, you know, start at the source. But I will say my second choice, but I probably as a pitcher, starting with all. OK, I like it. There's some good answers there. Tom, what do you think? Good choice, as it was in my top three
[00:19:42] when I was thinking about this question. But I think I'd have to go with Yoda. Now you have to stay with me, not episodes one through three Yoda. Empire Strikes back Yoda, when Luke first arrived at the planet, the goofy, silly Yoda.
[00:19:59] That and it's going to be totally be a kid show. That's the kind of show that I'd want to see, even though it's a kid show, I'm like a big kid. I'd want to see that kind of goofy Yoda talking about the animals.
[00:20:12] I was thinking a good place to start might be Dagobah, you know, because he would obviously, you know, he lived there so long. But I thought of a better place and playing Star Wars Galaxies made me think of this place.
[00:20:25] The first episode is going to be the creatures of Dathomir, where everything wants to kill you. Like Australia. Star Wars Australia. Dathomir is the Australia of the Star Wars universe. So that that would be my choice. Rob, what do you think?
[00:20:45] All right, so I went a little bit different. I know I made sure I put it in so nobody would steal my answer. And so far you guys haven't. I like that. First off, I thought Lando because he's and I want to see like a old David Letterman,
[00:21:06] stupid Pet Tricks or even I wrote it down. Brian Fellows from SNL. If you saw Brian Fellows, he was an animal lover, but he knew nothing about any of the animals whatsoever. And that was the whole funny part about it.
[00:21:22] And he was constantly like, why is that Raccoon looking at me? What's that Raccoon want? Why? Tell him to stop looking at me. But I want to see Lando because he's so cool and whatever. But totally the way Dave Letterman hated doing stupid Pet Tricks and hated,
[00:21:40] especially when they're animals. So they're not going to do the right thing. But when they were doing the wrong thing, he would just get so angry. And so and I can see Lando doing the same thing.
[00:21:51] In like, we're going to have a Rankoer that can do a Backflip. And then when it just like lays down, he'll be like, come on, Mike. This is our show here, whatever. So that's what I was thinking of. You were going to say something, Mike?
[00:22:05] No, no, I when you were sit when I read yours this morning or whenever I read it, I was thinking of when. Johnny Carson used to have the animals and it will always go hardly wrong. Yeah, it really makes me. Yeah, and that was awesome as well.
[00:22:21] Like I remember that all and he would like always sit back from his desk and be like, whoa, what's going on? You know, when the animals, of course, they're always like pooping all over the stage. And he's like, you know, he's like throwing a fit or whatever.
[00:22:32] Yes. So I want to see that. And it doesn't have to be on a planet because, you know, it's a stupid Petrik type of thing. So they're going to bring the animals to them. So it could be done in the Void or the Volume.
[00:22:43] I think it's called the Volume. So just be this just big Soundstage, whatever. And I think it would crush on on Star Wars Television on Star Wars Channel, Channel one, kind of like BBC one or just like crush, just perfect.
[00:22:59] So about Lando, I I totally see Lando doing that show. But you have Lando as like a David Letterman. Like he's always kind of like grouchy about the animals or whatever and things going wrong. I see Lando as like,
[00:23:13] I've always seen Lando as like a cheap car salesman. We're trying to sell you something. So I can totally see him with that weird personality. Almost like he's trying to sell you these animals. Like trying to tell you what's great about these animals.
[00:23:27] I could totally see Lando doing that. I think it's a really good choice. Yeah, yeah. Also the Space Home Shopping Network. Yes, Lando would be great at that. At 5 o'clock every day would be capes, capes from around the galaxy. You have a cape for every animal. He would.
[00:23:44] We'd have a cape. All right, Mike, it's your question. You're the last one to go. So I hope yours is a showstopper. Here we go. I don't know if mine's a showstopper, because when I wrote the question, Zoe's heard me say this before. I always like Hondo.
[00:23:58] OK, so I was I was thinking Hondo. And then I changed my mind because I was I was looking at old pictures of New Hope. And I went to Boschek, the guy from the bar that. He's just like long sideburn. And I pictured it.
[00:24:16] My mind started wandering and I pictured Boschek having a crew of like Jawas and doing all these shows, starting a Tatooine. And every show, some of his Jawas get eaten by whatever, you know, like, like, like he's talking about the Sarlak and like behind him.
[00:24:34] He's not watching like Jawas are slipping in. The sound man is going down the tube. You know, they're talking about Banthas and a Jawas getting run over. In a room by one. Oh, that's so funny. That is like like a carnival, like gone bad every single time.
[00:24:49] Right. And he's not aware of it. And he's not aware of it. He's just like, oh, look at the majestic Banthas and then you see it like two of the sound little Jawas with boom mics and it sounds like the Muppet Show from when we were younger.
[00:25:04] Everything would just go wrong. Just going wrong every time. That's awesome. Yeah, that's a great one as well. I liked it. I like that a lot. Then I would start mine at Tatooine. It's it's if if there's a question about a planet,
[00:25:16] Tatooine is almost always my first answer. Me and the girls went to Death Valley to see some locations. Oh, that's awesome. It's made it even better. I bet. Yeah, we have sand from there. I don't know if that's cooler. That's awesome. And we got to overlook Mos Eisley.
[00:25:34] So if you go to Dante's, what is it called? Dante's something. Dante's view. I don't know. And it looks like even without the building super in post, just because of the sand and the color, it looks like it's right there. That's so cool. That was 125 degrees.
[00:25:51] But it was a dry heat. So was a human. Was an human. No, but if you had your phone out for more than five minutes, it would burn. It would light up and be like, it's too hot. Yeah, that's really funny.
[00:26:02] Yeah, I love when people are like, yeah, but it's dry heat. Not like out here. Unlike when it's 125 degrees. I don't care how dry it is. It's still 100. Oh, it was we. We went through a case of water in the day we drove around
[00:26:16] and we barely got out of the van. Just even running the air condition. Yeah, I can imagine. It's like Death Valley is the size of Connecticut, so you can't go see it all. Right, right. I would recommend go to the Star Wars locations. Right? Yeah, definitely.
[00:26:29] There's it's like an ancient, ancient article in Star Wars. Dotcom if to dig for, but they have an article and it's it's a map that'll take you through all the locations that were shot there and it's marked. Just make sure you download it on your phone
[00:26:42] because you will not have service in. Yeah, so you download it and take all your screenshots or whatever you need before you get. I mean, they haven't a whole bunch of cell towers all around Death Valley to to increase reception. I don't think they do.
[00:26:59] All right, Zoe, I thought I had read a story or just seen a story from it wasn't Dave Filoni. And I always forget his name. Who's who's the other guy? John Favreau. Favreau, yeah, John Favreau. He was telling the story that when they went to redo some scenes,
[00:27:17] they couldn't find the location of the original New Hope. Did you guys see that? Yeah, they probably should have looked on the article. They need to. They had to go back to some old like article or something. But that wrote about exactly where the location was
[00:27:36] in order to find the location. They couldn't find it. Yeah, we found the wash out from where Jabba's Palace is where the R2 and 3PO go up. We found that. Some of them, some of them like you had to be looking
[00:27:47] the exact right way with your head tilted the right way. You know, if you're this way, it doesn't look like it. Oh, I mean, the easy ones were the Boba was the Jabba's Palace and the Overlook of Mos Eisley. There's those you knew exactly what you're looking at.
[00:28:05] The other ones you kind of just like, yeah, I guess that's right. So it was it was the same guy that went over there and found all these locations, wasn't it? Because George Lucas never documented exactly where these locations were.
[00:28:19] Yeah, I don't I don't know, because in in Death Valley. I don't know how they marked them. And then I don't know what they did in Tunisia. No, like the ones in Tunisia. Right. Yeah, the ones in Tunisia. Yeah, someone must have went.
[00:28:31] I mean, they left a lot of the props there too. So yeah, they just left everything and they didn't. They just up and left and they never actually documented where those locations were. And they were like lost in history for 15, 20 years.
[00:28:44] And then some guy could have been the same guy that wrote those articles went and he documented. Oh, he searched and searched and searched. He talked to all the locals and got all the locations of all the all of those scenes. Yeah, that's awesome.
[00:28:59] That's that's why Star Wars is so great because fans care that much. Yeah, that's what he was. He was a Star Wars fan. Yeah, I also love talking about the Tunisia. When they were building the Sandcrawler that one of the neighboring countries.
[00:29:15] I forget which one it was, but they were like, why are you putting all these military vehicles close to our border? What's going on? Yeah. And they're like, no, no, they're filming a movie. I promise we're not going to be. Yeah, it is.
[00:29:31] Yeah, it's it's remarkable what got made when you read that stuff and you're wondering, man, how did they ever even get that made? Yeah. Oh, yeah. It was crazy. All right. Well, that's two questions down. We're halfway there. So we're going to take a real quick commercial break
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[00:30:25] Mike said he's going to buy three of them. Yeah, excited about it. So thanks for supporting the show. All right, Zoe, it's your turn. What do you got for us? So let's say you're with someone who has never seen any Star Wars before.
[00:30:38] And then you finally get to show them something Star Wars. You have every movie and show on DVD with you, even ones that didn't get DVD releases yet, except you forgot to bring a new hope in the Phantom Menace.
[00:30:49] You have no Wi-Fi, so you can't say Disney Plus. What are you going to watch with them? All right, so I guess I'm up first. So this actually happened to me before. So I'm a teacher. I taught fourth grade for 21 years.
[00:31:04] And this one year, I guess it was just before the episode seven came out, The Force Awakened. So Star Wars wasn't in its revival. It had been years since the prequels came out.
[00:31:20] And so I had this class that they I felt like none of them were Star Wars fans or might have been two or three kids that have seen Star Wars out of like 25. And I'm like, no, this is bad parenting.
[00:31:31] Your parents should have sat you down and watched Star Wars. So I told them the last day of school, I was going to strap them down and make them watch Star Wars. And my dilemma was which one of the six should I make them watch?
[00:31:45] I mean, you could make cases to start right at the beginning with Episode four. So I didn't know what to do. So I figured the best one was my favorite one was Return of the Jedi. Because Return of the Jedi had lots of action in it.
[00:32:02] It had a good story. It had the cute teddy bear Ewoks for some of the kids who just like the cute teddy bears. And you could kind of watch Episode six without seeing the others and kind of know what's going on.
[00:32:18] And even the kids that didn't like Star Wars knew that about Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, so they understood that whole final lightsaber battle. The reviews were mixed after I showed it. So I had some kids demand that they're never ever watching another Star Wars
[00:32:35] movie ever again, and it was really boring. But I think I made some lifelong Star Wars fans. There were some kids that said over the summer they watched every single Star Wars movie.
[00:32:46] I had one kid that said that first weekend they got home after the last day of school. They watched every Star Wars movie and they still talk about Star Wars. If I see them. So for me, it would be Return of the Jedi would be my opener
[00:33:01] to someone that hasn't seen Star Wars before. Rob, well, your opinion, you took my answer. So I'm done. Yeah, I also think for someone who's never seen it. Now, the funny thing is, my son is 19. His favorite movie of the Star Wars movies is the second one
[00:33:23] in Episode 2, because he loves the Darth Maul lightsaber battles and how intent and how amazing they look compared to the lightsaber battles of four, five and six. Just because of the timeframe of when they were made, they were able to make such better battles and things like that.
[00:33:44] He could not that he could care less about four, five and six, but to him, he's like, whatever, they're slow and they're old. And I'm like, yeah. And I made him watch them numerous times.
[00:33:55] Like he's a Star Wars fan, but he really loves the action that's in Episode 2. So I think if it's like a younger kid, you want to try and impress them. You're going to impress them with those giant lightsaber battles in two and even three.
[00:34:12] But for 90% of the people that have never seen it, I would say Return of the Jedi as well, because it is the big climax to the original three of the original three. It's the one that has the most updated special effects and graphics and all that good stuff.
[00:34:30] And even after, you know, the digital remastering of it, which we had Mark Anthony Austin on the show who worked at ILM and he was Boba Fett in A New Hope when they added that scene back in with Jabba the Hutt.
[00:34:47] He was the guy walking through as Boba Fett. So yeah, so that's his big claim to fame. But he did all the special effects, the digital adding in the character, adding in the monsters, the animals, I guess, into the scenes and stuff. And he hated it.
[00:35:04] He was like ruining this. This shouldn't be going back and doing this over and over again. So I liked the new Tatooine. I like that when they added that. Yeah, I thought so too. Like I thought it brought more to it.
[00:35:16] It gave it more life and it made it a little bit better. And in my opinion, like this is what George wanted to do. He just didn't have the time or the technology to actually do it the first time. So make new Star Wars movies.
[00:35:31] You don't have to go back and change the classics. I'd love to see new George Lucas Star Wars movies. I want to say, well, was actually if you watched all the behind the scene stuff, it was George Lucas' Wife, who was the heart of those movies that really
[00:35:48] gave it the heart and soul of those three stories. So I want to see her version of new Star Wars movies, because they would be really, really good. So yeah, so long story short, return of the Jedi for a lot of same reasons
[00:36:01] that Tom said, it's got everything you want. It's got good versus bad. It's got good winning at the end where empire, you don't know what's going to happen at the end. It has Muppets, it has teddy bears destroying the bad guys.
[00:36:15] So it has all that good stuff in it. And at the end everybody's dancing and there's fireworks and their celebration and everybody's happy at the end. So I would, I too would say return of the Jedi. Let's see if Mike's sticking with the original trilogy or not.
[00:36:30] Go ahead, Mike. All right, I'm going to I'm going to have to break from the original trilogy because I was I was a toss up on these and my first my my first go to was solo. OK, and then I thought about it even more
[00:36:46] and I I landed on Rogue One. And the reason I landed on Rogue One was I felt like it give a taste for everything, like it give you really cool space battles. Yeah, it give you. It didn't give you Jedi, but it give you Jedi adjacent Characters.
[00:37:05] It give you a heroine and a hero. It give you the big evil empire and it give you just enough Darth Vader like to just really show how bad he was. And I feel like that would that give enough that it could probably catch anyone like to.
[00:37:22] Oh, maybe I like like everything in that movie. You could be like, well, I want to know more about this guy or I want to know more about this guy. And, you know, so that that was my thought process for Rogue One. That's a good choice.
[00:37:38] Rows Rogue One had the best final third of any of the Star Wars movies. I mean, that last that last 25 minutes. Yeah, was not even without Darth Vader coming in at the end, that was icing on the cake.
[00:37:55] Like when they had like when they had the Hammerhead Corvettes come in and push the the the Ion Cannon, knocks out the one ship and they had to push it. Well, there's the references right there to every movie like Ion. Like Jawas of Ion Blasters,
[00:38:12] the Hammerhead Corvettes, I think came up in Rebels, right, Zoe? Yeah, they were in a new hope, but they were explained in Rebels. Yeah, I mean, those those little pusher ships, all that all that stuff. It just and then and then because I'm a costumer,
[00:38:26] like all like if I had to pick a movie that has some of the best costumes. I don't I'm not a big fan of the Rogue One Stormtroopers because of the I don't like the USB port in their stomach. But besides that, besides that,
[00:38:38] I like the looks of their all their troopers. The they took those old scenes from New Hope, they were cut and put them in the cockpit shots of the. Yeah, all that stuff. Yeah, that was cool.
[00:38:50] I just and I think is as much as the CGI is getting better. But the Tarkin was nice. Yeah, you know, I mean, it wasn't off putting like, you know, like people were making it out to be. So I just think that would that would be mine.
[00:39:04] So the only downfall to that movie is everything looks so good. And the CGI was so good in the graphics and everything. And then if you're like a big fan and you go right from that right into a new hope,
[00:39:18] then you go to a movie that was film 30 40 years prior. You're like, oh, you know, but that would be the only thing I can see somebody who's never watched Star Wars, then go, wait, you just showed me this awesome movie and now this one looks nothing like that.
[00:39:34] But this comes after that. That's me at the explain everything to them about, you know, George made it in all. But yeah, I was thinking of going with either of the satellite movies or even like Andor. The series was amazing.
[00:39:50] Like I would even like want to show them that because it has just enough Star Wars in it that you know it's Star Wars, but at the same time, it's so grounded that it could be just any war documentary or any war series, TV series.
[00:40:06] And you're like, oh, wait, they're using blasters and not M 16s or whatever. You know, so. Well, if you expanded the question, if you said, how do you show someone who doesn't want to watch Star Wars? Uh huh. That's what that's where Andor. That's where Andor comes in.
[00:40:20] Exactly. Yeah, this is like Panda Brothers 3. Just just watch. You don't want to watch Star Wars? That's fine. We'll watch this show instead. It's it's Star Wars adjacent. You'll like it, you know, and then suddenly they're hooked and you're like, ah, it was Star Wars all along.
[00:40:35] All right, I'm sorry. We we took Mike's answer and exploded on it. And poor Zoe stuck here. Well, yeah, I was just to you, Zoe. Yeah, I will say I knew a girl in high school who went to see Rogue One
[00:40:49] when it came out without having seen any of the other movies. And she had really enjoyed it. So I wouldn't have picked Rogue One, but I think that would be a good answer. My answer was actually and it would be a little dependent.
[00:41:02] Like you said, it kind of depends. It's someone that maybe would be into more of an Andor. If it's like a younger kid, I might even start them on like Clone Wars or something. But my answer would be The Mandalorian because it drops you in.
[00:41:14] You don't really need to know much else in Season one, at least. You get Mandalorian, good stormtrooper action. You get some force, you get cute little Grogu. So that was that was my answer. I think it shows they have the mix of some of those
[00:41:29] like obvious practical effects that have that charm of the original trilogy while still being modern with some other technology. And I think it that to me, if they couldn't pick a new hope because usual answer, I would pick Mandalorian as a good entry point.
[00:41:45] Yeah, I would think that a lot of kids and I would have to, you know, I could just go in the school tomorrow and ask my kids. I would think there's a lot of kids that got into Mandalorian without seeing Star Wars at all.
[00:41:56] I have to ask them. Because my classroom is nothing but Star Wars posters. It's been that for 10, 15 years. But when the Mandalorian hit, kids started knowing stuff. Yes. Yeah. Like I have Grogu, they have to I have 26 Grogu's in my room somewhere.
[00:42:16] Once a while just tell me how many Grogu's are in my room. Yeah. And like the fact that I feel the Mandalorian is what really kept new New Disney plus stuff alive because it came out and it was almost all new Star Wars stuff.
[00:42:40] Even when they had the IG unit, it wasn't IG. Was ist das? Old one. 88. Yeah, it was IG 11. He said vice versa. Yeah. So it was like it was like a whole different IG unit. And there were Star Wars bad guys, you know, Empire bad guys around.
[00:43:02] But there wasn't Darth Vader. There wasn't Luke Skywalker. And then of course, like you said, there was a cute little Grogu that everybody fell in love with, which is the reason I think the Mandalorian has done so well versus the other Disney plus
[00:43:20] Star Wars shows, because Grogu was such a hit. Like how many baby Yoda's were being sold before we even knew what his name was? No, like on our show, Nick and I were just calling him Norman because we didn't know what his name was.
[00:43:37] So yeah, so that's that's a great. And I love the Mandalorian. To me, the Mandalorian, we thought we were going to get a Boba Fett series and then we got the Mandalorian, which was the cool version of the Boba Fett series without it being Boba Fett.
[00:43:52] And then we get old Dad bod Boba Fett instead instead of the Boba Fett. That was the one that Darth Vader said, you know, no disintegration to you, you know, like, who is this guy? You know, the guy that we fell in love.
[00:44:07] Now, I I did enjoy the new Boba Fett series, but I think the Mandalorian series was probably what the Boba Fett series should have been. You know, but they did it with all new characters instead. So I agree. So I mean, I think that's a good.
[00:44:24] I always looked at it is if they wouldn't have done the Mandalorian, they would have had to do Boba Fett like that. Yeah. And in some ways I would have liked that Boba Fett. But now after having the Mandalorian,
[00:44:37] I'm glad we got the other Boba Fett as well. Right. Right. Because like, you know, I had the Boba I mailed away for the Boba Fett. I got an order Boba Fett and there was no series they were going to make that was going to be as good
[00:44:53] as the Boba Fett that I played with for even saw Empire Strikes Back. Exactly. 100. And I think that was a good choice of theirs to just, hey, let's just make a new character. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I think it was a risk. It was it was definitely a risk.
[00:45:06] Yeah. But it but it paid off. And. Got so was at Chicago Zoe when they showed us the the trailer. Yeah, Chicago when they first like announce all the stuff for it. People were going nuts for it. Oh yeah. Just for the few Glimpses we got. Uh huh.
[00:45:24] And I mean like I am a big Star Wars Lego person. So I bought the the Razor Crest. I got it for Christmas and then like two episodes later, they blow it up. And I'm like, it's OK.
[00:45:36] They're going to bring back another and they haven't brought it back at it. I'm like, dude, the day they blew it up. I just bought the Nerf Blaster in the Haslab. And the Haslab Razor Crest. Like the day they blew it up. I just blew it up.
[00:45:52] You're like, oh, yeah, I wanted to. I love watching those Lego videos where then they like drop it and they shattered in a thousand pieces. I was so tempted to do that, but I knew there was going to be one piece
[00:46:05] that I couldn't find when I put it back together again. And I didn't want to have the incomplete Razor Crest. So I never dropped it the way they blew it up. Yeah, I love that ship. I think that's such a ship.
[00:46:17] All right, so we did a lot of Bantarang after that. So Tom, you go away with us. Take us away on the last question. All right, so other than a lightsaber, which obviously everybody would choose. What weapon are you wielding as you make your way through the galaxy?
[00:46:35] Let's go to Robert, our host. You're up first. So I was really thinking about this, because this is a good question as well. And I'm like, hmm, what are some good things? And that's when I thought of Mando and all of the Mandalorians.
[00:46:53] And I was like, oh my gosh, the what who what is the closest thing to a Swiss army knife in Star Wars in the Star Wars universe? And I was like, the Mandalorian gauntlets are the Swiss army knife of weapons.
[00:47:08] So. You know, some of them, they had knives in there. So when they, you know, they get tied up, they can they can cut themselves free. Of course, you got Mando's flamethrower. I was like documenting every time he used a flamethrower
[00:47:22] because who doesn't want a flamethrower on their wrist at all times. That's so awesome. The whistling bluebirds, like you could put anything you want into there. You can call your ship or IG 11. You know, you can call anybody. Hey, come pick me up, whatever.
[00:47:36] So the fact that they can be built into doing anything that you want. That's what I would have. There's the Swiss army knife of Star Wars. So that's that's the correct answer. We're done now. Well, my first answer was going to be triple zero.
[00:47:55] But you can't really wheel triple zero. If I had to walk around the Star Wars universe and I only had one weapon, it would probably be triple zero. But to the true intent of the question, I would want a DL 44, but I would want the Han Solo modifications.
[00:48:14] OK, I remember from I don't know if it was the West End Games or the decipher card games or something like that, that they said his was like overly modified and highly illegal. So I just and that goes back to just when I was a kid,
[00:48:31] when I first saw Star Wars, I had an old Western Holster that I pretended I was Han Solo. I put string on it. I would get home from school and strap that thing on. I was way too old to be doing that.
[00:48:41] But that's just that, you know, I mean, it's after getting beat up for playing D&D and watching Star Wars. Well, Tom and I made a video when I first learned how to use Photoshop and the video editing and all that stuff.
[00:48:56] We were it was my second year teaching, wearing his backyard with sticks doing lightsaber so that I could draw lines. Oh, yeah. Oh, man, that's a nightmare, isn't it? Yeah, so you don't have to worry about in this in this realm here.
[00:49:10] Being do something. This is a safe realm. This is a safe one. We're not going to beat you up over that, I guarantee. So yeah, I would go with the DL 44. Now, did you have the DL 44 for your holster? I did not at the time.
[00:49:23] I eventually got that like when I was out of school, but I had a. It was a blue. All I remember is a blue Colt 45 Army issue Toy Gun. This was before they put orange tips on them and stuff. And I just I took I sanded everything off
[00:49:37] so it would just go into the whole smooth. And it just it was just, you know, it was dumb. I like I would just put it on and just walk around the house. Okay, I'm sure you found a vest also. Also, as well. I did have a vest.
[00:49:52] I think it was a cut off Army shirt. I just cut the sleeves off of a Army shirt. There you go. My grandpa, my grandpa, I had. See, I had a Ford Falcon when I was real little.
[00:50:00] That was we lived out in the woods like like we weren't that rich. But we had an old Ford Falcon in the backyard. It was just our jungle gym. So that was my ship. I had a Falcon. You had a Falcon.
[00:50:15] It was just no tires, no motor just sitting in the backyard. And that was our jungle gym. And that was it. You had a jungle gym. You had your own Falcon already. So you weren't non solo. Well, got it.
[00:50:26] If you watch the solo movie, that car, he's racing at the beginning. The dash, I remember specifically what a Ford Falcon instrument panel. It looks very similar to a Ford Falcon instrument panel. The Ford Falcon had round tail lights. Ours were missing.
[00:50:39] We used to use them as a foothold to climb onto the roof. Try this at home, kids. In the making of solo, didn't they talk about how they wanted to make a solo ship look like one of those 70s cars?
[00:50:53] Yeah, they wanted to look like a they wanted it to look like a Ford Falcon. Or something. There was something they wanted it. They wanted the Ford to be representative of Harrison Ford. And that's why they picked the Ford Falcon, Harrison Ford.
[00:51:06] So I don't know if that was after the fact or before the fact. But when I saw that, it reminded me of my 65 Ford Falcon jungle gym when I was a kid. That's awesome. I think eventually got buried. So it's probably still there. Still on the property somewhere.
[00:51:18] Yeah. So. So Zoe, your last answer. My last answer. See, I don't know if it's as practical and widely applicable, but I really like Hunter's Vibro knife in the Bad Bad. He pulls it out and it's like I just think that's so cool.
[00:51:42] I know they have like bigger versions of like another Vibro Axis and stuff, but just the knife is just awesome. Or even in Mandalorian, when he when Mando and Philonies Characters are fighting each other and they both have the Vibro knife. They're both about to stab each other.
[00:51:58] He pulls it out of the Mudhorn. Yeah, yeah. Remember? Yeah, yeah. Well, when he killed the Mudhorn, he kills it with that and then he pulls it out. Yeah. But yeah, like even in that you can see it vibrating. Yeah, so they're really cool. That's a good choice.
[00:52:13] I like that. And it's also sleek and easily you can hide it easily. There you go. Awesome. All right, so Tom, it's up to you. You got the last answer. So originally my answer was the DL 44, but I felt that was very uncivilized. So I figured, you know,
[00:52:37] what would I think is the coolest weapon? And to me, the coolest weapon is the Magna Guard Electrostaff, the ones that Grievous Bodyguards use. Those things are pretty damn cool. When they twist them and they spin them, they're like a lightsaber and they have its really unique sound.
[00:53:00] That sounds really cool. And it doesn't sound like a lightsaber, but it sounds similar, but it's unique from a lightsaber. So I just thought they were really neat. And I like the fact that you can use them
[00:53:14] if you were getting a battle with someone that has a lightsaber. You can actually, it kind of works, I guess like Beskar or I don't know how that all works, but the lightsaber can't penetrate through that weapon. And the ends kind of work like a lightsaber.
[00:53:29] So I just I thought the electrostaff was was pretty neat. Yeah, that's a good answer as well. Well, I think we all had great answers tonight. And I think all all four answers for all four questions were awesome, even though, like I said, mine are the best.
[00:53:43] But you guys, you guys get a close. It's a tie for a close second for all three of you. So I'll give you that. All right, so that's that's it. We wrapped up our show before we go.
[00:53:53] I like to say kind of like what's the one we eat? What's the I said every time, Tom, and I forget it right now. My mind is just gone blank. The food, the the Wing Show where they whatever doesn't matter. But it's a waste of.
[00:54:11] I have no idea what he's talking about. Hot ones. Is that what you mean? Thank you. Hot ones. On hot ones. They always say at the end, this is your time. Look into that camera, that camera, that camera. Mike, go ahead first.
[00:54:23] You can look into all the cameras that you have there. Plug away. Tell us all about yourself one last time. OK, my name is Mike Hinton. You can follow me on Mike Hinton on Facebook if you're old. Hinton Star Wars Family on Instagram, TikTok und YouTube.
[00:54:39] Every Wednesday night, I do a live podcast with Ken and John called the inflatable Falcon. We are not well scripted and this it's not as professional as this, but we do blab on about Star Wars every week.
[00:54:54] And I also help Zoe with her show Star Wars Geek Girl. And if you see any 500 first people in Pennsylvania, I could be one of the stormtroopers. So. Also, that's it. OK, Zoe, you got all the cameras are all on you now, Zoe.
[00:55:13] Go ahead to plug away everything you want to say about yourself. Well, you can find Star Wars Geek Girl Podcast and your preferred podcast platform. We're on a semi hiatus because of some family tragedy the provinces are dealing with. So keep them in your thoughts.
[00:55:29] But our website is Star Wars Geek Girl dot com. And we're also on Twitter at SWE girl and our Facebook page is Star Wars Geek Girl. And if you're looking for just me personally, you can find my Instagram, TikTok or at specter underscore
[00:55:42] five, five written out, not just the number. And I'm on Twitter as at Zoe. A H Z O E K A. And check her out of our Star Wars Stories. Yes. And I'm on our Star Wars Stories. Does Twitter exist still? Whatever. Oh, X. X. Yeah, I'm not.
[00:56:01] I'm not making fun of even X's still there. X is. I don't. It's funny anytime anybody says X, they have to follow it by formally known as Twitter. Yeah, I know. I think everybody knows that X is Twitter. But that was such a bad marketing thing by Elon
[00:56:17] because you had it had its own language. Like it was tweet like everything, you know. I think it was not that anymore. It's now X and you can say send me it. Check out my check out my X. It's like what? Well, awesome. Thank you guys.
[00:56:34] We're real fast. I'm going to plug the rest of our shows here on the Ears Up Network. We have Ears Up, Ears Up in Depth, scraping the vault, the Supreme Resort and Puny Pod, which those guys talk about Marvel. So if you're like Mike and get beat up
[00:56:48] for liking every single thing possible, that doesn't. That is cool. You check out the Marvel guys and get beat up over there as well. So once again, Mike. Thank you so much, Zoe. Thank you so much. You guys were great. This was a lot of fun. Thank you.
[00:57:02] Thanks for coming on the show. Yeah. Now before we sign off, Rob has tasked me with coming up within an N-Slogan for our show. Are the N-Slogan of your other show is good. Rob, you can tell them. We have spoken. We have spoken.
[00:57:19] So I can't copy that one. So I've come up with a few that I need your help in deciding which one we should go with. All right? So here are the choices. Thanks for listening to Around the Dijarkt Table, where you will never find a more wretched Hive
[00:57:35] of scum and villainy. There's one. I like that. It's time to abandon ship. Thanks for listening to Around the Dijarkt Tables. That's fun. Well, don't get all mushy on me. May the force be with you. Thanks for listening to Around the Dijarkt Table.
[00:57:52] We're the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 Parsecs. Around the Dijarkt Table, everything you've heard about us is true. That's a Lando quote. Oh, I like that one, yeah. Around the Dijarkt Table, this is what a reckoning sounds like. That's all I got.
[00:58:10] I like the first one and the Lando one. Those two were good. I like the first one a lot. I think that was my favorite. So thanks for listening to Around the Dijarkt Table, where you never find a more wretched Hive of scum and villainy.
[00:58:21] I like that one. Or thanks for listening and always remember, let the Wookie win. I like that as well, yeah. We should just hopefully have to do that from another podcast. Just rotate them. Yeah, we should. All right, so for this one, since Mike came up with it,
[00:58:42] we'll use mics tonight. And then everybody will have to listen to see which ones we use next time. So thanks for listening to Around the Dijarkt Table. And don't forget, always let the Wookie win.