Return of the Jedi

Foreign.

Hello there.

My name is Corey and I am a Star War.

And my name is Corey and I am also a Star War.

And my name is Jim and I am a Star War.

And we are a Star War.

My name's Jeff.

My name.

What are we doing today?

Episode 6, Return of the Jedi.

Yes.

This is not Revenge of the Jedi.

This is the one that I think I'm most looking forward to.

I am excited.

Yes.

We're gonna take our time.

So it was called Revenge for a long time up until like six months before it came out or something.

Because I know I have like an old Starlog magazine that's still like oh, that's right.

It's like, hey, this summer Revenge of the Jedi is coming.

Yeah, you can still find posters and stuff.

Zolo's gonna die.

Yeah, something like that.

If Harrison Ford had his wish, I

was gonna say that was his PR reps putting that out there on Starlog.

Talking off record.

So you will start with round one, Facts and figures.

Yes, facts and figures.

Do it.

Star Wars Episode 6 Return of the Jedi released on May 25, 1983.

Directed by Richard Marquall.

Did he do everything else?

I don't know if you ever.

All these Star wars directors are like didn't do anything else ever again.

They're just stand ins for Lucas.

Right.

Lucas, like just go do this thing that I want you to do.

But Lucas wrote it.

32.5 million dollar budget, 482 million dollar box office.

It was the highest grossing movie of 1983.

It was five.

It was nominated for five Oscars and only one.

One.

And what did it win?

Do you want to guess?

Best snack?

Best sound, Visual effects.

It was nominated for sound and sound effects and score and art direction but lost all of those.

I didn't look up who it was.

The Matrix.

Yeah, it was probably the Matrix or

Lord of the Rings.

Lord of the Rings.

I think we say that every time

we do because it's.

That's normally true.

So this came out on your sixth birthday?

That is correct.

This was more than likely.

My father took me to see it on my birthday because this is the only one I remember seeing in the theater as a kid.

Yeah, it was good.

I don't.

I'm sure that I did see it in the theater, but I don't remember seeing it in the theater.

I can just remember watching it on like HBO and whatever.

That's a good sound.

I remember seeing it in the theater because I remember crying at the end because it was my dad that took me to see it.

And when Vader dies, you know, you're a kid and you're like, that's really sad.

Even though Vader was a mass murderer and a galactic terrorist.

And, like, the weirdest looking old, white, wrinkly mast.

He looked like a corpse.

Gross.

They would have made him cool looking if they made that movie today.

Yeah.

They would have put Hayden Christensen in there, right?

Yeah.

I'm surprised they didn't do that.

So they just hadn't thought about it yet.

Yeah.

Wait for the 25th or 30th or 50th anniversary edition.

Yeah.

So we do this every time, and our answers are always the same.

But ranking this movie, I mean, same as last time.

Like, it's.

Yeah.

It's my favorite.

This is our favorite.

It's my favorite, but it's, like, number

two for all of us.

Yeah.

If we were objectively ranked.

Yeah.

Favorite, not best.

Yeah.

Yeah.

To me, this was Star wars for a long time.

Like, this is what I saw.

And then I was like, oh, there's two more crazy.

Yeah.

Luke with the green lightsaber.

Yeah.

Black outfit all.

Jabba the Hut.

Yep.

Boba Fett, slave Leia.

Boba Fett.

Boba.

Boba Fett.

Yeah.

Salacious Crumb.

My favorite little side character.

Leia in her bounty hunter disguise and Lando in his whatever, skiff guard disguise.

Like, so many toys, so many outfits.

Yeah.

Loved it.

Some of us kind of aged a little weird.

Like the slave Leia stuff.

Oh, yeah.

What does he want to happen there?

It occurred to me today not to go on, like, a clerk's riff, but.

But when he blows up Jabba's palace, I'm like, he slaughtered everyone in his entourage.

Everyone that was just hanging out that day.

Like, let's go hang out with Jabba

Plouf, the leader of the jizz band.

Those guys, they were just working a gig, man.

Whole jizz band is dead.

Jizz band gone.

The.

That big ship, I'm sure had, like, people piloting it and cleaning it and cooking down below and whatever.

Like, there's a whole staff involved.

Nice job, Luke.

Luke was like, I got to get my boy.

So they're all dead now.

Was that the last time he was on Tatooine?

I think so.

Those Skywalkers go to Tatooine, commit a little light genocide just a little bit.

Just touch and go on with their day.

Hate that place.

They do.

It's got sand so much.

It's everywhere.

So what does this movie have?

The other movies do not Have Ewoks an ending?

It does have an ending.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This was designed.

This was designed to be the end.

This is the end.

Yep.

Oh, he skipped.

What do you love and what do you hate about this movie?

We're still in that, I guess.

Okay.

Yeah, sorry.

What do you love?

Okay, he made notes.

All right.

I made notes on what do you hate?

Because what do you love about this movie?

We've talked about this before, but if you haven't listened to this, this movie basically is like.

When I think of my childhood, I think about this movie and Prince and Michael Jackson.

Right.

It's great combo.

Those are, like, the things that shaped my childhood.

So that is the main reason why I love this movie.

What do I hate about this movie?

That new goddamn musical scene in Jabba's lair.

And also the fact that Boba Fett goes out like a punk.

So we got it.

We gotta.

We gotta set a little bit of a.

Some guidelines here.

Are we talking about the movie that we just watched or are we talking about the movie that we watched as children?

It's a combo 400 times in a row.

The movie I loved as a child did not have this fucking scene.

It is such a grind.

It is such a bad.

Just sand in the gears.

Grinds everything to a halt.

It's not necessary.

It's terrible.

Like, do kids like it?

Are little kids?

Like, I like the part where the Joe Cocker guy comes out.

And it doesn't even look good.

Like, when her, like, lips come at the camera.

I'm just.

That's when they were trying to make 3D a thing, right?

Yeah.

And.

And he was like, we just got in computers.

Look what we can do.

I'm like, this is like 10 years after Jurassic Park.

Why does it look so terrible?

Nobody asked for that.

It's terrible.

So when you're going.

When you're talking about who died on the sail barge.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They didn't have a lot more to offer.

Yeah, no, that was.

That was their moment at the top.

Is that the only thing you hate or is there more that you hate?

Those are the two that I wrote down.

I hate that the emperor dies, and I hope they find a way to bring him back.

He did fall right into the damn.

He fell in and blew up the power generator.

The reactor core.

Yeah.

Exploded.

Yeah.

Where the hell.

He exploded.

How the hell.

We'll get into the how the hells.

Later, but.

And that's a different movie, so.

Yeah.

And we know the.

We know how the hell that's Right.

Somehow.

Somehow.

Somehow.

Somehow.

What else was new?

What else was new for this different special edition?

So we had the big song and dance number.

And Jabba's palace, we had.

There's a slightly different celebratory ending sequence where we see Coruscant and a couple of other planets.

And then triples the number of planets in this movie.

Right, right.

And then Vader, they added to him saying, no, no.

When he throws the.

Yeah, yeah.

It didn't need it.

I always thought it was more menacing that he was just silent the whole time and he was like, nope.

Throwing you over the edge.

Out you go.

It is.

It is funny to me.

In that scene, there's a part where, like, he's sitting there, like, he's hitting them with the lightning.

And then Vader kind of, like, walks over.

Like, he's like, what are you doing to him?

Like, he just kind of, like, looks over his shoulder for a second, and then you, like, see him, like, turn his head and, like, obviously he's not speaking, so there's no emotion.

It's just a Vader mask moving back and forth.

Like.

And then he.

And then they add in the no.

Do you think it needed the no?

I don't think it needed the no, because you get the idea he's pretty upset about his son dying in front of him.

And I think it's the same no scream from the end of Revenge of the Sith.

I was just.

I think it's the same sample.

Yeah.

We've already got this recorded.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a little callback.

Let's do it.

They probably did that when they were adding Hayden in for the Force Ghost at the.

For the DVD release.

There was also.

There's a big talk in some memes and whatnot not too long ago about in the scene where he's taking his mask off at the end and he's dying and, like, the world is crumbling around them.

I remember seeing someone say you can hear, like, laser blasts, but there's no Rebels on the Death Star, so that must be stormtroopers shooting each other, yada, yada.

But this time I watched it, and you can hear some explosions, but I think it's just because things are falling apart.

I don't think it's blaster fire.

Yeah.

So I don't know.

Be careful what you read on the Internet.

That's all I'm saying.

Yeah.

You mean it's not true?

Sometimes Abraham Lincoln said that once.

He did.

We saw the Emperor as a hologram in Empire.

Yep.

But this is the first time we see him, so that's cool.

And it was pretty cool that Lucas.

The way that they aged.

Ian McDermott.

Boy, that worked out well for him.

That was some forethought, right?

To be able to bring him back as Palpatine in the prequels and then somehow again as the Emperor.

As Zombie Emperor.

Zombie Emperor.

And he was fun in that movie.

We'll get to that movie in a bit, but too soon.

We will get to that movie too soon.

Gotcha.

All right, what's next?

I think we're gonna do space balls before.

Before we do.

Before we get to Rise of Skywalker.

I feel like that's all for the first.

That looks like.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Where do I say all the planets?

Do I usually do that in the facts?

I think that's usually in facts and figures.

I'm screwing this all up.

So we start off above Endor, right?

Which is we're just in space, but we're at the Death Star, too.

Electric Boogaloo.

So we're above Endor, then we go to Tatooine, Then we go to Dagobah, and then we go back to Endor, and that's all we do.

But then with this.

And then we add.

We add in Bespin.

So we go Baskin, Coruscant, and Naboo.

Oh, that's right.

Naboo.

Yep.

Yeah, we saw one.

Yeah.

How they go again?

Lisa 1.

That's the best part.

You hear if it's.

If it's not Jar Jar, you hear a goddamn gunman say, lisa won.

Oh, I have to go back and listen, though.

No, I wasn't watching closely enough to see.

But I heard it yesterday when we were children.

This.

The.

The Death Star blows up.

And then we just see Ewoks dancing, right?

And singing a lovely song that we all love, right?

And the song.

The lyrics for the song were about how they were gonna eat all of the stormtroopers that they killed, make drums out of there.

We're gonna make drum kits out of their armor, and we're going to eat them.

They're like.

There's a whole army.

Han, you're going to eat this stormtrooper.

We're living well forever now.

So many, well, humans.

That was right up until their entire ecosystem and planet died from the fallout of the Death Star blowing up in the sub atmosphere.

Yeah.

So, like, there's been whole papers written about how the Death Star blowing up above the planet, like, that would have killed everything on Endor.

And when we go back in Is it rising?

We go back to that Death Star.

Yeah.

It fell indoor was a moon.

So if it's not orbiting anything, then what?

Yeah, I was wondering that too, because they're like, this is the forest moon of Endor.

And I'm like, so there's a bunch of different moons of.

This is a planet.

That one.

Yeah.

It's mooning.

Mooning the forest mooning of Endor.

But when we go back in that other movie, there's just like.

There's like a little ocean and there's some grassland, but we don't really see any.

There's no Ewoks.

Ewoks.

Or anything other than grass.

Yeah.

But there is a dagger that you can hold up and it tells you where the throne room is in the wreckage.

What a stupid.

All right, so it's kind of like the doubloon from Goonies.

We'll talk about Goonies later.

Wait, what's wrong with the doubloon?

Oh, because it messes up with the.

It's like the doubloon from Goonies when they find that.

But it makes sense in Goonies.

Goonies.

I'm just saying it's a treasure map they use.

SIFs don't make treasure maps.

Come on.

They are SIFs.

CFS make holocrons.

Yeah.

Little magic eight balls.

Is this it?

I think that is.

All signs point to yes.

Is that it for facts and things?

I think that's it.

I think that's round one.

All right.

In the bag.

Was that your butt?

That was down my butt.

Hey, do you love jizz?

Do you spend your afternoons in a cantina drinking blue milk and listening to jizz?

Do you like Max Rebo, the Galactic Jizz Whalers?

Catch a speeder to Tatooine and take your lady to Jabba's palace.

Let some of our fresh hot jizz wash over you.

And we're back.

And we're back.

And we're back.

Round two.

Force lightning round.

Let's do it.

Let's go.

What's the best scene in our favorite movie?

Let's just.

Let's just throw some out.

I really like the Tatooine Sarlacc pit scene.

So I like pit.

The.

The whole Sail Barge escape sequence,

which is skipping over Java's palace and fighting the rancor and all that.

That's a whole thing.

The whole setup.

I love that whole thing where they're setting up, whereas each one of them arrives and they all take their place in the place.

Luke coming in.

Back lit.

Yeah.

Using the Force to open the door.

That's pretty cool.

That's pretty cool.

That's the good Luke standing on our he is podcast table.

He's here today judging us.

So then we have Dagobah.

We just go there so Yoda can die.

That's pretty sad little thing.

And then he can find out about his sister.

We go.

Then we go to Endor, and we've got.

Meeting the Ewoks.

The speed of light chase is pretty iconic, but that's a chase.

I mean, that's.

Is this a scene or favorite scene or visual?

Okay, we'll get to the chase later.

Yeah, Rancor scene's pretty damn good.

We shouldn't have skipped over that.

Yeah, Rancor's really good because he's holding a thermal detonator.

Like, that whole sequence is pretty great.

Yep.

And then we have the Ewoks fighting.

Then basically the climax.

I was tracking this for a while, but I think I let it go.

But I was tracking how many different things are going on at the same time in the climax.

This one's got three.

This one's got fighting on Endor.

This one's got the space fighting with Lando and Akbar.

The whole fleet is gonna be.

Is at risk if they can't bring the shields down.

They can't fight until the shields come down.

And then on the Death Star, you have the throne room and throne room.

So all three of those things happening at the same time.

So, I mean, that's a pretty good scene too.

Pretty good.

I mean, the climax, the.

The saber duel between Vader and Luke, them locking horns is.

That's a pretty iconic scene.

This is the thing that I thought about yesterday, though.

This is probably the most linear movie in terms of, like, there's not a lot of side stories.

Right, Right.

Because in, like, the other movies, you're like, this is going on and that's going on.

And that's what made me think about, like, there's different scenes within scenes, but it's not like Luke's fucking off on another planet somewhere.

And sometimes in, like, the prequels, Obi

Wan dipped for side quest.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Supposed to go take down Grievous.

And this is all kind of boom, boom, boom.

This is, let's go get Han, because all of us gotta go blow up the Death Star again.

And that's.

That's kind of.

And I noticed that this time, like, the whole first act is about, let's go get Han.

Which I'm here for it, and I love it.

Yeah, it's.

It has Nothing to do with the overall plot of the movie.

No.

It's just.

Let's go get Han resolving the end of the last one, huh?

Love it.

Yeah.

And I do think that if this trilogy came out now and the third one, we were.

We're looking forward to the third one.

Can't wait.

What did they come up with?

Death Star Part 2?

I think we'd be pissed.

Be like, that's it.

You made another Death Star.

Guys, you can come up with another idea.

We would be pissed.

We would be right now.

I'm not pissed.

I love it.

So it's okay.

I'm just putting that out there that Star wars fans would hate it.

It's funny.

For as much as we on Lucas for the prequels, we've eased up on it some, obviously, thanks to the Clone Wars.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And Dave Filoni.

Thanks.

Dave Filoni, but which he worked closely with Lucas on.

Right.

At least initially, anyway.

Yeah.

So it's like we're shitting on him all the time, but it's funny.

I've never thought about that.

The best you could do was the fucking Death Star, too.

Yeah.

So I read something today.

I was going down a rabbit hole looking at facts and figures for this movie, and there's.

I don't know if this was a fan assessment or if this was intentional or not, but, like, The Death Star 2 was a trap for the rebellion that the emperor set.

It makes sense.

Right?

They don't talk about that in the movie, though.

Like, the whole thing, other than, like, it's all going according to my plan.

Well, I mean, yeah, he said that, but, like.

Oh, Akbar knew.

Akbar.

Well, he knew it was a trap.

He said it's a trap.

Right.

Or like Mad Max said in Fury Road, that's bait.

So what's the best scene?

Probably slave Leia.

I don't know.

Yeah.

I think it might still be Java for me.

Like, that was.

That was Star Wars.

That was Star Wars.

Mm.

Because you get what's the best use of the Force in this movie?

Because in that scene we have the Jedi mind trick, which works on.

On the guard, on the henchmen, but

not wacky tentacle head.

But it doesn't work on Jabba, which is always funny.

I like the fact that Luke has to use, like, good old fashioned dirty street fighting to defeat the rancor with the.

The bone.

With the bone in the mouth.

Yeah.

So hear me out.

Best use of the Force.

Yeah.

The Force kick that Luke does on the skiff when he misses the kai by, like, three feet.

What if that was a force kick?

It is now.

And what I love about it is, back then they just had film.

So it was like.

Did he get it?

I don't know.

I'm gonna figure it out later.

Great, look.

Great.

Yeah, we got it.

Moving on down here, boss.

Moving on.

Losing daylight.

They're out there just sweating balls, changing wardrobe between each take.

I got him square in the nose.

Yeah, we got him.

We got him.

Look, he's all bloody.

Let's go.

Another thing that did change big time is when we were kids, the Sarlacc was a pit with some little teeth sticking out.

Oh, that's right.

They added in.

It didn't have a crab.

It didn't have Mouth Audrey two from.

Yeah.

Little Shop of Horrors living in there.

That's right.

I forgot about that.

It was just a hole you fell in.

But now it's like.

Like when Boba Fett rolls into it, that thing comes out and, like, chomps him and, like, pulls him in.

It's like, that wasn't real.

That wasn't really there before, but it's fine.

Does the sarlacc pit.

Does the sarlacc.

We're gonna get into this now.

Reproduce.

We can.

We can save it for later.

Let's save it for later.

No, because we're on Tatooine and we already know the Crate Dragon has the biggest dong.

But it's not in this movie.

Not in this movie.

But it's on that planet Planet Rancor.

Hung like an elephant.

Yeah.

Let's just do it now.

Let's just talk about dongs.

That's a whole other round, right?

That's a round three.

It's.

It's.

I have it at the end of this round.

We can move it up.

What else?

What else?

Big.

Yeah, it's this biggest dong on the page.

This is organized.

So I don't think the sarlacc has a dong.

I think it's more like a jellyfish sort of thing that probably.

Yeah, like a sandy jellyfish.

I like it.

Chop one of those tentacles off and throw it in the sand and ta da.

New Sarlacc.

You got a new Sarlacc pit in a few years.

A little one.

It can only be poodles and stuff, but it's there.

Okay,

so it might be rancor.

Might be the biggest.

I'm thinking rancor.

Unless Jabba is a dong.

I just took some pictures that are going on social media.

This is.

What do you think Cory Martin is talking about right now?

And anybody that's listening to this podcast for more than three minutes.

Its nose, it's a dong

dong.

His Java the Hut.

He might,

you know, as one of them, he walks.

All right, let's get back to the Force lighting.

Let's get serious about things.

Serious.

What's the best line from this movie?

I wrote a couple things down.

Oh, I've got a couple go.

Hold on, let me go back.

Yoda says, strong am I with the Force, but not that strong.

So this is one I've never paid that much attention to before.

It's Han.

He says, how are we doing?

And Luke says, same as always.

And Han says, that bad, huh?

That is a good line from a

certain point of view.

Yep.

Says Obi Wan.

The whole Obi Wan sequence.

We'll get into that when we get nerdy with it.

But that's a good line.

I love the fact that Leia flips the whole I love you.

I know.

Yeah, that was good.

That's good.

And then when Luke throws down his saber in front of Vamper and he says, you failed.

He says, I am a Jedi like my father before me.

That's a good one.

Good line.

That is a good line.

I like the line when Leia finds out from Luke that she's his sister.

And she goes, really?

Oh, wait, that's not it.

What she actually says is, somehow I always knew.

And I'm like, well, why you keep kissing him?

Stop.

Somehow you always.

Because it was no fun to kiss him.

That's why.

That's why.

She's like, I always knew because I was not ever actually attracted to you.

It was clammy.

So Sandy, best villain of this movie.

So we got.

We got Jabba, we got Boba Fett's in there, we got Vader, we got Emperor.

I mean, this is kind of the Emperor show.

It is.

Yeah.

Palpatine.

It's all happening according to my design, right?

When he.

That.

That scene where he arrives and there's like, the big, like, thousands of soldiers that I've seen now is actually a matte painting.

And I, like, rewounded and paused it and watched that like five times.

I was like, this is a painting.

This is a painting.

Like, it still just looks like a thousand people standing there.

Yep.

It's crazy how that works.

But when they're in that scene and he's, like, walking through and he's like.

And he's like.

Says he says something threatening.

And he.

And I was watching him with subtitles, and then it's.

Hahaha.

I was like, he's just laughing at him.

Like, line up the army so I can laugh at them.

That's what the emperor is like, what a jerk.

He wins that guy.

Best villain.

He's a bad guy.

He's the bad guy about side character.

So this is interesting.

So by the time this movie comes out, Star wars is just a huge franchise.

Right?

Everybody is all about the Star Wars.

Yeah.

Harrison Ford is an even bigger movie star by the time this movie comes

out because he's already Indiana.

He's Indiana Jones.

He is a huge movie star.

So he's the bigger star in this movie.

But it's Luke's movie.

Right.

And it's fun to watch Luke play sidecar character to Harrison Ford's starring moments.

Like the whole first chapter is, let's go get Han.

Because Harrison Ford is the star.

Right.

You right?

So Luke is sometimes the best side character in.

In the movie where he's the protagonist.

Can't argue that.

Really.

Salacious Crumb's my favorite side character.

I love that little freaky beak thing.

We also have Wicket.

Wicket.

Yeah.

Who I feel like our whole lives, the Ewoks have been given.

Given a lot of.

I just pulled out pocket Wicket.

Yeah.

People throw shade on the Ewoks.

I like them.

I like the Ewoks.

Yeah.

That they're for, like, they eat Stormtroopers, so whatever.

And Lucas wanted, you know, an underestimated in the Emperor underestimated the Ewoks.

You know, low tech, no tech.

Yeah.

But they were.

They were able to get the job done.

Just little fellas, little hands I do have on here.

If we should talk about little people.

And then I put.

No.

Are we going to commercial break?

Moving on.

Best location set or planet we got.

It's got to be Javas andor Java's Palace.

There was something Death Star too mysterious about Jabba's palace.

I loved it.

Like, the throne room or whatever on the Death Star.

Never.

It's.

It's too industrial.

It's not like it should be more ceremonial.

We're still building it.

They're still like.

There's all these, like, balconies full of, like, control panels and stuff.

I'm like, what is all this stuff?

They're still building the hospital.

Right.

And then he needed a desk, though.

Yeah.

He doesn't have a desk in there.

He just has a chair that spins so he can look out the window.

And on that point, the IMDb trivia for that.

For that specifically said that the.

The chair.

The throne.

Yeah.

Was designed to have a motor so that it would rotate and it didn't work.

And it's really.

Ian McDermott shuffling his feet.

I was wondering that.

To move the chair in position just

one time where it turns around.

He's not using the Force.

He's not using the Force.

He's using twinkle toes to move that damn chair around.

What kind of shoes does the Emperor wear?

I think he wears those, like, running shoes that are like sock toes.

And I bet he's got, like, a really long, big toe.

Bony.

See, I was thinking more like what the Pope wears, where it's like red velvet, like slippers.

I bet he's.

I bet he.

I bet he dresses for comfort.

He's always in robes.

He's always in his robe.

He's totally commando under there.

He can't put a shirt on.

Come on.

So what's our favorite location?

The throne room.

Apparently,

for me, it's Jabba's palace.

Yeah.

Yeah, agreed.

Best ship.

So we have Super Star Destroyers.

We have all of the fleet for both sides.

There's a lot of ships in there.

For me, as a kid, it was for.

I'm gonna go with the Tidarium shuttle.

Oh, yeah, it was.

That shuttle was so.

I never had, like, any of the big toy pieces as a kid.

I just had a couple of the figures and, like, maybe the land speeder.

I had an X Wing, but I remember for Christmas one year, I got the Tydarian shuttle, which was a big playset.

Yes.

And the B wing.

So those two.

I'm biased.

Those two are my favorite.

I like the B wing.

Yeah, but the Tadarian shuttle.

I mean, Han and Luke and Leia and Chewie and they're all in that.

Right when they're taking it down to Endor.

That whole.

It's an old code, but it checks out.

That's them and the shuttle.

And somehow they've also got, like, a whole, like, platoon of other soldiers hidden in there.

They're cramped.

They are just cramped down.

They're in the cargo bin.

Best chase.

So this has one of the best chases.

Speeder bike chase.

Yeah, maybe the best one.

Yeah.

The speeder bikes on Endor.

Yeah.

Them shits look good.

Them shits look good.

Yeah.

They have a.

There's also the scene where they're flying through the Death Star to get to the middle, where they blow it up, which is another kind of.

When they knock the money off of them.

Oh, that's right.

Millennium Falcon.

Oh, that was too close.

So, like, those are both kind of in the Star wars vein of, like, I'm flying a ship a thousand miles an hour inside a cave or whatever.

But, yeah, like the.

The indoors speeder bikes.

I was like, you would be dead in a minute trying to do that in real life.

And I want to.

I want to die.

I want to ride a speeder bike through the redwood forest.

Best shot is there, like a cinematic shot of this movie?

Luke back lit using the Force to open the palace door all by himself walking in.

And as the door is closing, that Gamorrean guard walks up to him, and Luke doesn't even talk to him.

He just force pushes him back against the wall.

Oh, yeah, that's.

That's my favorite shot.

I can't argue that.

And there's the one where they're like, outside Jabba's palace and it's like the sun's going down and there's two frogs or something sitting on the.

And one of them eats the other.

I don't think that was there when we were kids.

No, the shot was.

But the.

The two.

One of them eats the other or something.

Yeah, that's new.

So is that your vote for favorite or.

No, no, it's probably when he's looking out that little window at the fleets fighting each other, and Luke, like, turns around and he's looking at the saber.

Like, there's something about that shot where, like, they have the whole battle outside is framed in that window.

And.

And when we get to the Last Jedi, we're going to talk about the callbacks to that scene.

Good.

I know.

I'm telling you.

So this may be presumptuous on my part, preemptive, whatever you want to call it, but I. I pitched.

Or premature.

I pitched our producer, Corey Hannah, an idea that we should live watch and record the Last Jedi together.

Why that one?

Okay.

Because we're gonna argue in that one the most for that reason.

That's why we agree on most of these points together.

But on that one, we're gonna get into a fight.

I think we should do that one.

It may not work out.

So if this podcast is missing anything, it is disagreement.

Right?

We are always like, what's the favorite one?

The tagline for this show could be.

Yeah, you right.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was awesome.

I think so, too.

Did we say best use of the Force already?

Yes, it was

best toy.

You skipped all this.

I move around on him.

Yeah, he's.

He's.

He's remixing on the fly.

Yeah, my bad, my bad.

Dang.

I thought we agreed that it was Luke's Force kick.

Oh, yeah, it was the Force kick.

That's true.

Kick a kick.

Best fight.

So we have the big duel at the end.

Saber duel.

Saber duel.

Should probably win.

I still ran.

Core is pretty damn good though.

The best one is when R2 slings that saber across the pit.

He catches it and it's on.

Yeah, it's on like Donkey Kong.

So that's how you throw up the signal that you ready to fight when

your robot shoots a lightsaber into the sky.

I wish in the edit they would have tightened that up.

Just because Luke's got his hand up for like a half of a Eternity.

Shaved 20 goddamn frames.

He's got like 17 rifles pointed at him.

He's standing on the edge of the plank.

He's like, hold on, guys.

Wait.

Just come on.

Two seconds.

Like a little too much horsepower.

There are too, too much, too much spring there.

Yeah, hold up.

Let me catch the saber real quick.

Also.

How much?

How many?

How come?

How come?

Why do they have so many guns in the Star wars universe that come in four big heavy pieces that a bunch of people have to put it together in the middle of the fight before they could.

Like that happens.

It was just a party barge at first, baby.

They was just there to fight.

They were just there for drinking.

They weren't there to open the trunk.

We got that big.

They were like, get the battery out.

Watch this guy get it.

Get the tripod.

There's always a hose.

And he'd just shoot the box.

And then everyone dies.

Right.

In the video games.

So

not the best design.

But that being said, what's the best toy from this movie?

Okay, this is probably going to be young and not agree with this, but I thought the toy of the Rancor monster was badass.

Oh, yeah.

Toy of the Rancor is pretty badass

because it was the right size for the other toys to like pick up and chew on and stuff.

How about the speeder bikes with the spring loaded ejection seats and they fly into three pieces.

Shit, I have those.

And it would launch.

The guy would launch the speeder bike pilot off the.

Just like in the movie.

I loved that.

That was good.

That's fun.

The Ewok village was cool.

Ewok village was cool.

They had that little barbecue pit for cooking and eating the stormtroopers.

And Han.

And Han.

I just blocked that part of the movie out of my.

They were going to.

We also eating stormtroopers.

I'm like, they were fixing a. Yeah, yeah.

No, no, no.

They eat people.

Yeah, they had.

That didn't it have the little net where you can catch your little people and they get caught in the net and that.

I never had Ewok Village, but I

bought it when we were in college.

I bought it from Wizards Comics.

I bought one for James.

Okay.

I bought one for myself.

I gave it to James, and it's in the.

I got one in the attic.

My vote is going to be my Luke Skywalker, who has been my best friend.

My vote is going to be the

one

that was my favorite toy.

It seems so big.

Like, it's just a ship, but it's like, wings are massive.

Good toy.

What else did I miss?

Best outfit, Slave Leia.

Slave Leia.

I mean, slave Leia is iconic.

Yes.

I've always loved the bounty hunter.

She's gorgeous in it.

And Luke in the black suit is badass.

I put Luke in the black robes or not ribs, but, you know, I mean, the Jedi.

Yeah, Leia's.

Leia's bounty hunter outfit is pretty cool because Bosch.

Yeah,

it's kind of like.

Yeah, it's got, like, 14 S's, a couple of C's and H and a silent Q.

Doesn't that mean it's a.

A clone?

That's it.

That's only if there's two letters.

If you repeat it four times, then it's like dividing by zero.

I don't know.

It's right back to where you started.

Yeah, it's just the one person.

There's a couple more on there.

How woke is this movie?

Oh, yeah, that's down here.

I haven't got.

Oh, you haven't got in there yet?

Yeah.

Special effects won an Oscar.

I feel like we would have liked it better before than we do now.

Like, it won an Oscar, but they went in and changed everything.

Yeah, but that's just old people grumbling about stuff.

Yeah.

Wait, hold on.

Where are the old people now?

Yeah, that's us.

That's us.

How woke is this movie?

There's a shot at the.

Towards the end when the emperor first gets there and he says something to somebody, and they're, like, leaving the room and they turn around and there's, like, two dudes standing there.

And they look just like Nute Gunray, but they're like.

Yes, I noticed that.

They're like.

They're Viceroys.

They're Viceroys, but they're.

They don't look like they do in the prequels.

They just look like people.

I was like, those are, like, unfinished.

They should have went in and should

have gone with those guys.

Put Those guys faces back on them so they can talk Chinese and pee peeing your coke and do whatever awful, terrible stuff we would have thought was funny back then, but we don't now.

Right.

Because we are sophisticated.

Disclaimer.

Disclaimer.

Disclaimer.

We're not saying that's funny.

I mean, I laughed.

I'm saying when I was.

It was more of a defensive laugh.

When I was six, I would have thought it was funny.

Acting and the plot, that kind of stuff.

No real complaints in this movie.

Makes.

It's fine.

Yeah.

Save Han, save the day.

Yeah.

Save the cheerleader.

Wrap it up, galaxy.

Yeah.

Like I said, I never really.

I don't.

I think I appreciate it more at this time.

The build up in the first scene where they.

How smart it is.

It's almost like a heist movie where they're like putting all the parts in place.

And then.

Because I don't know if I ever really realized that, like, he goes there without his lightsaber because it's been in R2 the whole time.

R2 got there a week before him.

Oh, I never thought about that.

That's why R2.

So he shows up.

Hologram.

Yeah.

When R2 plays a hologram and Luke says, keep these two fools as a token of mind gratification because he's hidden

his saber in there.

Yep.

Yeah, Smart.

Damn, you just unlocked some.

But here's the thing.

Luke always fought dirty.

He's a Skywalker.

Yeah, right.

Every fight he wins in this movie, he wins by fighting a little dirty.

And I love it.

He's not a pious Jedi.

He's his father's son.

When he cuts Vader's hand off, the 10 seconds before that is just him going, right.

He's just fighting.

Yeah, he's fighting.

He's using it like a baseball bat.

He's not being an elegant samurai.

No moment.

Take this deal.

He's gonna break a piece off.

Is that a commercial break?

We only got one more thing I want to do in this one, which is put an F bomb in this movie.

It's a fucking trap.

That's what I wrote down too.

That's pretty good.

It's a trap.

I'm gonna go with that.

I agree.

Yeah.

All right.

Yeah, you right.

Once again, full agreement.

Just full agreement.

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Squid Star War Round 3 Episode 6 Return of the Jedi.

Now we're just getting nerdy with opening up the floor.

Let's discuss our favorite things in the world.

We love Star Wars.

This is our favorite Star Wars.

Let's just talk about it.

Yeah, I love it.

So I made several notes for this section.

Take it away, boss.

Let's start with do we have any how the hells or now that you

think about it, it's Star Wars.

I'm sure there's more than one.

Here's one of mine I've thought about before, but I. I've never discussed it.

How the hell the Hans hands end up like this position in the carbonite?

Because when he went down in it, he was handcuffed.

And secondly, what happened to those handcuffs?

Cuz he comes, he.

When he gets unfrozen by Leia, he ain't got no handcuffs on.

I'm on a riff on an answer,

so I think I might have an answer, but I think it might be boring.

Go ahead.

Boba Fett delivers Han from Bespin, but he's frozen, right?

He's frozen.

Delivers Han to Jabba, and Jabba's like, defrost him.

I want to smack him one time a little bit.

Just defrost.

Oh, yeah.

I got to check the rice.

I'm making a Puerto Rican rice for Christmas.

So that's what that is.

So yeah, Han gets defrosted halfway right.

Keep the lower half frozen.

And Han's like, jabba, Jabba, wait, I can.

I can make this work.

And Jabba's like, psych.

Freeze him again.

He's like, linda, Linda, Linda, you're not listening, honey.

Linda, listen, listen to me, honey.

And he says, first of all, I think that's.

I think Jabba would have defrosted them, roughed him up a little bit with them, and then refroze them.

I just think that there might be a chance if you rewatch Empire, that we see them take those off before they put them in the thing.

I think that he's prisoner and they like he kisses and all that and they pull him apart and stand him over there.

And I think they undo the thing and he's standing in the thing and then drops down.

You might have got me.

I think they took the things.

That's probably what happened.

You need to check that rice.

But I ain't right.

No, that's fine.

Don't ruin dinner.

There's so much food coming.

That will be all right.

Forgive me if I've talked about this before, but I was paying special attention when he Burns Vader's body.

It is.

He is wearing his whole outfit.

He's in the suit.

It's not like the.

The helmet's not sitting next to him on the pyre.

He's wearing it.

You see flames and smoke coming out of it.

So when Ben Solo is carrying around that thing and he's got that melted helmet, his is his skull in there.

He could have taken the helmet.

It says Grandpa's head in that.

I think he would have taken it out.

I think that probably burned all night and burned all the organic matter.

I think it was so burnt and melted up.

I don't think you can take things out of it.

I don't think.

I do think it probably smelled real bad when they were doing that.

Yeah.

And apparently there's a bunch of, like, echoes to Qui Gon's character and Phantom Menace and Vader's character in this movie.

And, like, the positioning of the funeral pyre is opposite to Qui Gon.

That's another question I have Right.

Written down is also, why the hell doesn't Anakin disappear when he dies, when Luke.

But he also becomes a Force Ghost, right?

How does he become a Force Ghost when everyone else had to work at it?

Well, I mean, he was the greatest Jedi who ever Jedi.

Do you have any more?

How the hell.

Because I want more.

Go ahead.

I mean, I got some nerdy shit, but you got the conch.

Go.

Also, how does Leia know exactly what buttons to push when she goes to get Han out of the carbonite?

She walks up, hits a button, hits another button.

Twist this fucking knob.

You know, they always know how to get in a goddamn ship and just immediately fly, I think.

Yes.

All right, hear me out.

There's another movie that we can make with these characters that takes place before Return of the Jedi.

So it's a sidecar movie that happens between Empire and Jedi, and it's the Zero Dark Thirty of Star wars playing.

Okay, maybe it's the Geek Squad, right?

Where they're like, it's the ocean's 11 of Star wars where they're planning the heist and, like, they've got a full size mockup, and Leia's, like, practicing, you know, figuring out how to undo the carbonite in less than seven seconds.

She knew exactly what to push.

Yeah, she's a Jedi somehow.

Okay, I don't have any more.

How to hell do you all got any more out of Hells?

I got one.

I mean.

I mean, the fact that Hayden Christensen is the version of his Force Ghost.

I know that the explanation is that Anakin died when he became Vader.

And so that's what he was like when he died.

It is a little off putting, and

I love Hayden, but I. I bet you Obi Wan wishes he looked like Ewan McGregor.

I think most of us do.

Yeah.

Wish that we looked like.

I hope when I die I look like McGregor.

And Yoda didn't look all that young and sprightly in his ghost either.

No, that's a good.

How the hell.

That is a good one.

But I think that, like.

I mean, people have talked about that.

Like, it only kind of a little bit makes sense that he shoehorned him back in there.

I do wish.

I like.

And so Sebastian Shaw is the name of the guy who plays Anakin with his helmet off.

So it's not David Prowse who's been in the suit the whole time.

And obviously not.

We're like, hey, you're tall.

You fit this.

Yeah, yeah.

Otherwise you.

They didn't use his voice.

They didn't use his face.

Poor dude.

And so I went and looked.

I was like, sebastian Shaw.

And so he's like this British dude that's been like stage and screen for 50 years before this movie.

But I'm still, like, getting, like, somebody better looking or so, like, I don't have the.

I don't know.

I think when I was a kid.

And you're like, oh, it's Vader's face.

Look.

Oh, my God.

You never get to see Vader's face.

There's Vader's face.

It's like the coolest thing ever.

But now looking back, I'm like, that's kind of a wasted opportunity to just be a pasty old man.

Like, it could have been cooler.

Well, and how old would Anakin Vader have been in that scene?

So it's been 20 years since.

So he's so.

He's like 45, so.

Right.

That's a hard 45, man.

Yeah.

I mean, he went through some, though.

I mean, to be fair.

Yeah, he's lived inside of.

That's true.

He's been through it.

But he spends a lot of time in that.

Back to Tank, I was gonna say.

But he's also got a castle with a tank.

How is he not, like, making himself look a little better than that?

That's because he let himself.

Higher ground.

He did.

He let himself go.

That's just where that is.

Well, apparently.

What's the actor's name?

Sebastian Shaw.

So Sebastian Shaw shows up on set at Pinewood and Ian McDermott knows him from other work that they've done together.

And he's like, what are you doing here?

And Shaw's.

He goes, I don't know.

They won't tell me.

But it's apparently something science fiction.

So he shows up to do that part, has no idea what he's doing.

For reals.

Yeah.

Well, that's according to the Internet.

Oh, yeah, Close enough.

So it may be true.

The Internet said it.

Yeah, well, the Internet says a lot of things.

It's certainly true.

From a certain point.

From a certain point of view.

What do you think about.

This is what I would like to talk about.

So let's talk about that.

That whole scene, the way that you took down the whole Star wars world when you were talking about A New Hope and the Jedi's being liars and all of that.

I feel like Lucas kind of addressed that with Obi Wan's character in that scene in Jedi.

Yeah.

I mean, he tries to.

He's like, all right, listen, I'm dead.

There's no point in lying.

You're the only one left.

We lie all the time.

That's all.

We.

We're just silly with lies.

We just.

We can't.

We just stay

lying, just love it.

And he's like.

And even in that moment, this is what I noticed for the first time.

He's like.

He's like, hey, right before Yoda died, he said, I have a sister.

And Obi Wan says, you're right.

You do have a sister.

But listen, you're going up against.

You're going up against some people who can read your mind.

So you don't know who your sister is.

She remains anonymous.

That's for everyone's benefit that it stays that way.

We've been planning this for 20 years.

And Luke says, it's Leia, isn't it?

And Obi Wan says, God damn it.

Damn it, Luke.

Shut your mouth, you fucking Skywalker.

Yeah, he's like.

He's.

He's like, look, you are your father.

As soon as you're in the room with Darth Vader, he's gonna be like, oh, you have a sister.

I can read that.

Oh, is Leia.

He's going to know, and he does.

It happens.

So, I mean, that was Kenobi telling the truth, though.

Yeah.

He was like, I can't tell you who.

God damn it, Luke.

You.

If I could just smack you with my ghost head

forest hit a rock up beside your head.

From a certain point of view.

From a certain point of view.

Speaking of I need to read those books, tell you all about those.

Jamie found this series of books called From a Certain Point of View.

And it's a series of, like, short stories written by minor and side characters.

Uhhuh.

And it's like they're retelling of A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back.

That would be kind of fun to see.

Like a Rashomon style of.

Of.

Of A New Hope where people are telling it differently.

Read them yet?

Yeah, I've got the New Hope in the Empire book.

Cory Martin, what's your philosophy about reading Star Wars?

I watch Star Wars.

I don't.

I don't read Star wars.

And lately they have to twist my arm to watch Star Wars.

Yeah, we'll get into that in the next episode.

Next episode, folks.

So we got some more nerdy stuff.

What's been retconned?

What has been retconned out of this movie?

Well, Palpatine does not actually die.

Boba Fett.

Luke is not actually successful in destroying the Empire.

Luke does not redeem his father.

Like, all the things that we think are the ending of this story undo they shit on in the sequel trilogy.

Here's one, though, that I thought was interesting.

That stuck out yesterday was Vader says obi Wan has taught you well.

When Luke has the high ground after he kicks Vader down the stairs.

Yeah, it's subtle, right?

He's like, obi Wan has taught you well.

You know, going back to the best use of the Force.

I do like it when Vader throws a saber at Luke.

Is.

It looks so.

Like I'm out of moves.

Yeah.

Like, now how am I gonna.

I'm not jumping up there.

I could.

This tired old man could just jump

up there and whoop your ass, but I'm not coming up there.

Throws his saber.

In fact, I know this.

I know this.

This.

This throne room is very nice, and we're still building it, but I'm gonna wreck the shit out of it right now and chop half of it down, because I'd rather do that than climb up there.

Do you know how many stairs there are?

Do you know how bad my knees are?

Do you know how heavy these goddamn boots are?

Do you know that this suit weighs, like 800 pounds?

You.

I'm not coming up there.

Yeah, he just kind of whips it here.

I'm knocking that whole cat walk down.

Take my sword in.

In the.

In Java's palace, there is a basement, and in that basement, there are droids torturing other droids.

One of them is just burning One of them's feet, just his feet for no reason.

And he's screaming about it.

And then another one.

They're like, we built this.

We built this big round frame so you can draw and quarter your.

Your droids if you want.

And that's what we're doing right now.

Just for fun.

This isn't a special event you just walked in on.

This is Tuesday morning tearing this dude apart.

And he likes it.

That's awful.

Awful.

Tatooine.

It is.

I feel like the same kind of thing was happening inside of the Jawa thing where they were chopping people up in there.

Yeah, that's a Tatooine thing.

Nasty.

Then you try to go buy a drink and they're like, we don't serve your kind here.

Poor droids.

Droids gotta wait outside.

And they're like, you got Wolfman in here?

Satan?

You let Satan sit at the bar over there?

Satan.

There's a goddamn six foot tall praying mantis that you didn't think about at all.

You're just like, just make a bug.

Just bring the bug over from that other movie, from that other set.

How many more do you know?

Okay.

A wolf man man.

Great.

Got it.

Hey, the wolf man.

We should use the Wolfman in the TV show Skeleton Crew.

We'll get to that.

Wolf man's got nards.

He did have ns.

You stole my line.

I was thinking about that earlier.

Beat me by two seconds.

God damn creature stole my Twinkie.

That's the other good line from that movie.

We mentioned it before, but that part where like the rancor gets killed and then the rancor keeper comes out, comes out and cries and does a little Hagrid where he's like, I'm a guy that loves big scary things, but it's my baby.

I love that scene.

Yeah, and they did honor that scene in the Book of Boba Fett though, right?

That was cool.

I think they.

They redeemed the way the rancor was done dirty in Jedi and Bookaboba.

Yeah.

So I had a.

Or they pussified it up to you.

One or the other.

One or the other.

I had a.

It's a little nerdy thing, I guess.

But if you go back and you watch the sail barge sequence right before Luke gets the lightsaber and does the big heroic escape.

The.

The soundtrack, this, the score is, you know, full of tension and these little orchestra hits that build into this little short melody.

And it's just a great scene on its own.

If you go and you watch the teaser Trailer for the fourth Force Awakens.

It's the exact same music layup.

Because I was watching Jedi for to get ready for the podcast, and I was like, I've.

I mean, I know I've heard this before watching the movie, but I've heard this somewhere else and I stopped.

And if you pull up the trailer for it, it's exactly the same beats.

And that has been the segment of Jimmy Smart,

Jimmy Puts It Together.

This kind of fits in with my stupid personal theory about it all being an inside job that they planned ahead of time, but kind of doesn't.

Where Yoda dies and then Obi Wan shows up and he's kind of telling Luke the plan, but only he's like kind of Dumbledore ing it.

He's only telling him just enough to keep him, to keep him moving towards the goal where he's like, yeah, we just need you to.

Need you to go and you have to face Vader.

Yeah, no big deal.

By the way, also, you'll be facing the Emperor, which Yoda who just died in front of you is the greatest Jedi ever.

He couldn't beat him, but we need you to go there and kill that man.

The strongest Sith in the history of Sith.

And do you know what else the Jedi's are really good at doing?

Telling you you're not ready.

I mean, those guys.

Luke flies all the way to Dagobah.

The offensive, you know, the decisive offensive attack on the Empire.

Luke flies to Dagobah to hang out with his buddy.

And Yoda's like, I'm old, I'm tired.

I'm done.

You built a lightsaber.

Look at you.

You did some.

You can flip it.

You're, you're, you're, you're doing all right.

I can't teach you anything else.

And Luke goes, wow, so I am a Jedi.

And Yoda comes back from the edge of death and says, you're not a Jedi.

You are not a Jedi.

He's like, oh, no.

You will not sit on the Jedi Council.

You must.

You must fight Vader.

Only then a Jedi will you be.

Yeah.

I'm like, no one else had to kill their dad rule, nobody else to go and fight the hardest dude in the universe to become a Jedi.

Everybody else just said, nobody did.

And she is a Jedi.

Look, I just threw three rocks.

Three rocks went in the basket.

I'm a Jedi.

I did my trials.

No, granted, she did train about as much as Luke did.

Unless Luke went off and there's like

five years between a new Hope and Empire and.

And five more years between Empire and Jedi.

Luke clearly had some adventures, but I'm just telling you, Yoda's right there about to die.

No.

I know you came all this way, and I hate to tell you, like,

I don't have the strength.

You're not the one.

Oh, but I can get this out.

He said, fuck, yo, Couch.

You're not gonna make it.

And I don't believe in you.

Not gonna make it.

Believe in you.

I do not.

I love how, as Yoda's dying, there is another Skywalker.

Luke is like, what?

What'd you say?

No, hold on.

Come back.

Say it again.

He didn't try to slap him or nothing?

Wake him up?

No, he Poo force ghosted out of there.

What did he say?

He put his hand up the back.

He's like, let me make him talk.

I can make him talk a little bit.

Nope.

Dead.

He's gone.

We've lost him.

Oh, he disappeared.

So I guess he couldn't put his hand up nothing.

That's true.

But then Kenobi shows up.

So I know everything that Yoda just told you seemed like it was important, but here's the truth from a certain point of view.

He shows up, and he's like, look, they gave me 50,000 more dollars.

So here I am to deliver four lines to a blue screen wearing this outfit one more time.

One more time.

We believe in you or we don't.

I don't know.

You have to go to the thing, kill the guy.

Maybe, maybe not.

You have a sister you don't know.

God damn it, Luke.

Yes, it's her.

That's it.

I'm going back to the world between worlds.

I'm gonna go hang out with Kane and Jairus.

It's your sister.

One time, the Red Hot Chili Peppers chased her through a forest, and I was there to help her.

Okay.

In the text the other day, he said that the Red Hot Chili Pepper through the forest.

I'm like, it's not Flea.

It's not the basement Pepper.

I don't recall who was with him.

I know Flea was there with three other guys, so I assume Anthony Kiedis was deaf.

Anthony and Chad and John Fruscian, maybe.

Maybe it's him.

Maybe he wasn't in the band at that point.

Yeah, maybe it's Dave Navarro.

David made one record.

They named the whole planet after him.

Yeah, he's got to be out there somewhere making dudes kiss each other.

The Chili Peppers.

He joined the Chili Peppers for one year, and they started Making out with each other.

And then they got John Frusciante back and Flea was like, why was I kissing Anthony Kiedis?

That's gross.

Put my sock back on.

On my duck,

ladies and gentlemen.

That's the end of the episode.

Yeah.

Do we have anything else?

I think that's it.

I think that's it.

We got a little boiler plate here.

We're going to talk about the.

I was going to say, let me collect myself.

All the, all the swag that we got.

Yeah.

So if you don't already, you can go to teepublic.com and search for the Alabama take.

That is the store that we have our.

Our Merch under the alabamatake.com is a website that hosts several different podcasts on our network.

There's Taking it Down, Pop culture podcast, a couple of book podcasts, a couple of sports podcasts, and I think that's it.

And us, for some reason, for some reason, they invited.

There's one other one, but I'm not allowed to say it.

He's not allowed to say.

Saying that's a.

An off the record podcast.

Today Jim bought us for.

For Christmas.

We have pillows and tote bags and magnets and buttons.

And there's a.

He bought himself a We are a Star War mug.

Coffee mug.

Coffee mug.

It's real nice.

It's real nice.

Too bad they didn't have the.

The, the.

They didn't have a mouse pad.

Cory Martin.

Or a beach towel.

Or a beach towel.

But you can go to teepublic.com, search for the Alabama take, and you can find merch there.

I will say this.

Some of our merch is hidden under the explicit.

I'm not sure why.

Oh, for real.

Could it be because of buttholes?

Do you think AI figured out my drawing?

I think so.

It's like this is just buttholes.

These are three buttholes.

Those are anuses.

We cannot put this on the front page.

That's a.

That's an anus.

Yeah.

And in case you haven't figured out, our logo is three.

Three starry.

Three starry eyed buttholes.

Talking about Star Wars.

And if you enjoyed this podcast, you can share us with a friend.

We'd be really appreciative of that.

Especially if you don't like.

If you could write us a letter and tell us why you liked it.

Yeah, we're, we're, you know, we're all Gen Xers.

We need a lot of positive reinforcement and validation.

GM Jim and I started trying to list all of our name, all of our listeners the other day because we typically only get about 25 to 30 listens per episode, so.

And then they go up after they've been out for a little while.

So what I just said out loud was that we should.

You should really share us with your friends.

Yeah, give us a share.

We probably know basically 95.

There's some folks out there who are like, huh, this is good.

And we appreciate you guys.

And we don't get it, but thank

you, thank you, thank you.

Happy Life day.

Happy Life day.

Happy life Day.