The Dave Filoni Episode

[00:00:00] 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. We are a Star War.

[00:00:21] Talking about the Star Wars. This episode is about one of our favorites, Dave Filoni, aka the new Chief Creative Officer for the Star War. Congratulations Mr. Filoni. Good things happened. Yeah we recorded a mini episode about Mr. Filoni a month and a half or so ago but since

[00:00:44] then he has been upgraded with a new title and that episode was lost anyway so now we get to talk about his new role. Just in the secret archives right next to the sacred Jedi text. I mean you could say that but it's the sacred text.

[00:01:01] That ain't gonna make them reappear. Maybe if we use the force. Because I had lost them. Those episodes are in the world between worlds. Exactly, exactly. I'd like to point out just for the audience to know that you know we got a couple

[00:01:16] of action figures set up on the table here and the way Corey has Luke and Lando posed. He's like Lando is about to tell Luke like a real filthy joke. Oh I'll take a picture of that. He's like whispering, he's like hey listen.

[00:01:29] I'm not, I don't have a joke queued up sorry for the set up but it's a funny, yeah. I mean I'm gonna take a picture of it and that'll go on our Instagram. There you go. Follow us at we are a Star War.

[00:01:42] We can do like a caption contest right? Sure we can. We have prizes. So let's see what you trying to give away. Just tell me what you want and I'll give it to you. That can of watermelon truly? He wants to give that away. Not a sponsor.

[00:02:00] The bad thing about losing that last episode was that we had all brought our Dave Filoni Trapper Wolf helmets from the Black Series. Oh yeah. And I didn't bring mine this week but we all have matching helmets. And now you just don't get to hear us wearing them.

[00:02:20] We had this whole... Your loss. Super fun conversation. Or maybe we're wearing them now. Is that what we named when we named ourselves the Brown Squadron? Yeah no, did you lose the Brown Squadron episode? That's the one, yeah.

[00:02:33] Okay so just to let everybody know Corey Hanna is the producer of the podcast and so he is officially Brown Leader. Brown Leader. Brown Leader. I haven't started a time thing. Brown Leader I'm going in. We had a shorty whole episode about it.

[00:02:48] Most of it revolved around that. Did we decide we were going to have call signs and call names? I think so yeah. Yeah. We'll have to think about that. All I remember was that y'all dubbed me Brown Leader because I'm the producer. Yeah I think I'm...

[00:03:03] I think I'm Brown Leader, Brown Eye. Right. Balloon Not. I think maybe it was mine. Balloon Not was one of them. We're just going to let that go guys. Let's get back on track. It's on my tail. I can't shake it. It's about doodoo.

[00:03:19] In case you didn't know. Oh lord. Anyway, Filona. Good job. Chief Creative Officer which is basically like the Kevin Feige of Marvel. He is the Kevin Feige of Marvel. He's the Kevin Feige of Marvel. He's basically like the Kevin Feige of Marvel.

[00:03:40] He is the Kevin Feige of the Star Wars. This is something that for several years now everyone has explicitly wanted right? We've asked for it several times. We have t-shirts that say put him in charge. Yeah. Yes. And him the keys. Yeah.

[00:03:58] So he gets to be in charge. He said that he's going to try not to stick his business into many other people shows. But he does want to be sort of the guy that's there for the cohesiveness and make sure that they all work together.

[00:04:11] And that they're all telling somebody doesn't fuck up a story line basically. Right. So like, you know, let's say one of the showrunners develops this concept where a character goes to Mordor in search of the Lord of the Rings.

[00:04:25] You know, he's got to make sure to nip that in the bud. Don't do that. Thank you. Filoni. That's what the email would say. So don't do that. It's funny because this is probably one of the things I know in the last episode where like,

[00:04:41] yeah, why don't why don't they just officially put him in charge? Yeah. We like you said we've been asking for it for a while. So it's finally happened. Were you just talking shit before did you you said that you were going to?

[00:04:53] Oh, I can be devil's advocate if you want after a lot of conversation for talking just whatever shits and gigs. After watching the Soka series, which was like because Filoni was behind rebels big time. He was behind Clone Wars. Yep.

[00:05:10] Him and Lucas together invented a Soka yada yada. So like he's got his bona fides. Absolutely. He belongs. But after watching the Soka and what rebels I did watch because I watched all of it because I kept getting it.

[00:05:27] It didn't always pull me in when they're like riding majestic beats across landscapes. There's a lot of that. And I'm just like and rebels. I'm just like so he just has to commune with these wolves and then what and it

[00:05:40] gets a little unlike the mystical side for me. And so then a Soka when we're we've got whales in space and like came from rebels and witches and magic and zombies and things that I'm like this is it's

[00:05:58] it's just to me some of it is a step away from like the heart more it's more fantasy than space Western. Right. Gotcha. So I feel like he has a vision and a direction and he does good work and so I'm happy about it.

[00:06:14] But I wonder if his vision and direction will take it places where 10 years from now will be like man this is all about wizards and witches. And if you get a text message from Corey Hannah it's because he's firing you. I did two episodes ago. I was fine.

[00:06:31] He's not even going to know I'm not gonna fire you. He's sending sending you a text. I cried in the car. That's a pretty valid opinion though. I'm not going I'm not going to fire you.

[00:06:40] I did write down a really I was not sober last night and I wrote down a really long thing about comparing what happened to the MCU. And I don't know if it's coherent or if I can understand what I was saying

[00:06:52] now but basically it was like the MCU started with like Tony Stark in a basement like running into the wall because he's trying to figure out the kinks and his armor and it ended that saga did it ended

[00:07:05] with Tony wearing a full suit that could hide in a medallion but also morph into a jet engine on the end of his fist if he just thought about it. So it like went from one thing where it's so grounded to where it's

[00:07:24] like well now we have witches and wizards and we're fighting in space magic and yada yada like it went that far to where now it's kind of lost because they're like well now that we have magic and time travel and multi dimensions like nothing matters

[00:07:39] anymore so it gets kind of weird. I think that's a problem with the MCU. Yeah. And so I'm a little nervous that we'll end up with a Mandoverse that has worlds between worlds and it has you can fly in a space

[00:07:55] whale if you run out of gas now and I hear what you're saying especially on the Tony Stark thing but at least in the Marvel world by the time Endgame was over they had expanded this whole cosmic universe that would have introduced other

[00:08:12] technologies and because he ended up making that arm for Nebula that was in Guardians Volume 3 so I can assume that with some more space technology he could come up with a Hermione's purse to save his space suit in maybe.

[00:08:31] I don't know but I hear what you're saying about Filoni but I mean. Like I said in one of the early episodes of this show it's like if somebody has only seen the movies and they're like alright you know what I'm going to watch one of these shows

[00:08:46] everybody talks about and then you see magic and witches and stuff you're like what is this? This is not Star Wars so. And didn't they introduce the witches and rebels? No, I meant to say Clone Wars. Clone Wars probably. Yeah. This is interesting.

[00:09:04] I googled Dave Filoni, Mystical and the first thing that came up was an article from Screen Rant that says Dave Filoni has changed one of his most mystical additions to Jedi lore and I thought about that this morning when Ezra is putting together his lightsaber.

[00:09:20] I'm like they go into like caves and shit and find their kyber crystals and stuff. Yeah. And so this is one of the summary points in this article that says Ezra Bridger quickly and unremarkably builds a new lightsaber in the Ahsoka finale lacking the

[00:09:35] spiritual and mystical process seen in the Clone Wars. Valid point, right? Yeah. And then it says the haste in which Ezra constructs his lightsaber diminishes the significance of the moment despite it symbolizing the start of a new phase in his life.

[00:09:51] And then the lack of spiritual connection and emotional resonance in Ezra's lightsaber construction scene in Ahsoka contrasts with a meaningful and profound experience. Okay. They just basically repeated themselves. But yeah, that's the thing I thought about. I was like he's just whipping this thing together at a

[00:10:07] parts and who Yang's closet in there, right? But it's not his first lightsaber. God damn, Jimmy, you're smart. Yeah, this one is just for utility. But they say it's him starting a new chapter in his life. That's what they said. That's not true.

[00:10:22] He could have just used it because he said I needed for this fight right now and then thrown it away because he's like, I don't know. Dave Filoni. Yeah, but the good point. Yeah. I mean, he needed one for a fight.

[00:10:36] And I also think that this is post order 66 and, you know, the Empire post the Empire, you know, the way they were doing things. It's not like it's not like Ezra grew up in the Jedi Academy. Right? He was taught by someone who barely graduated. Yeah.

[00:10:54] He's been living with hermit crabs for 10 years. Yeah, yeah. You don't do shit on ceremony when you live with hermit crabs for 10 years because they're kind of like weird about their time. All they eat is clams. Yeah. And they only want to be outside for like seven minutes

[00:11:07] a day, but not consecutively. What's we're doing today? Clams. Just clams. Hey, what you got cooking for tomorrow? Some clams. It's probably good because I like clams. We ate sand. What sand? You ate sand. We ate sand. Yeah.

[00:11:29] So I mean, I see your point, but then also there is no point after order 66. They just trying to survive. Yeah. That's what I think. So although I did like, I did like, and I guess it was Clone Wars, like the kids having to go and get

[00:11:49] their Kyber crystal. That was cool. Yeah. That's what this article from screen right? Was it referencing? Was it written by a person or AI? It was a person. It looks like, or they at least call her to person. I don't think there are people writing anything. Yeah.

[00:12:08] Nobody's writing anything. It's just AI. I'm trying to get that into the algorithm so that maybe we'll get picked up by AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. The mist on the mystical shit, like there would be no world between worlds without. Right. I hear what you're saying.

[00:12:31] Do we need a world between worlds? You've got to be careful with that because the problem with time travel and multiverse stuff is the stakes are gone. Yeah. Right? It doesn't matter. If nothing matters, then you've lost all of the time and there's no real danger.

[00:12:47] Because every single thing that happens in the Marvel Universe now, I'm like you know you can just call Bruce Banner, he has a time machine. Right. I don't remember the scene where they blew that up. No. They're still sitting there in the woods next to Captain America.

[00:13:03] And they had like seven PIM particles. Right? PIM's back. But PIM's back. They can do all the parkos they want. Yeah. PIM's back baby. PIM's back. PIM's back. I know this is a Star Wars podcast, but... Go on. Like is the holdout that PIM still won't tell them

[00:13:21] how to make particles? It's just in his brain. Right? It's just in his brain. Yeah. Yeah because he was snapped and they didn't have any. And now he's back and they made a terrible third movie. Guess who's back? PIM is back. PIM and Ness.

[00:13:37] Back to the Star Wars. Oh Star Wars. Good job, Floney. Yeah. Congratulations. Come for it. I don't guess we have to go the full 20 minutes. So does this mean that... You need to start no timer. Does this mean that there is no...

[00:13:51] Like Kathleen Kennedy is not in charge of anything? She's still... She's in charge of Dave Floney which is why I'm like... Whatever. Because he doesn't seem like the type that's going to be like, this is what the... Like he just said, I'm not going to dictate

[00:14:04] what's in the next movie or whatever. Well, I mean he said he wouldn't be... He wouldn't try to control other people's projects. Somebody needs to say this is the plan. Yeah. This is where we're going. That's what I think he's for.

[00:14:15] He's there to make sure the plan stays on track, right? That's great. I'm excited about that. I saw Daisy Ridley the other day say like, I haven't seen a script yet but I know what the story is and it's not what I expected and it's cool. Great.

[00:14:28] About whatever Star Wars movie she's about to be in. I'm excited. I'm excited to see more of her. But it's going to be a hot minute. There's no movies 2024. There are several TV shows. Bad Batch season three which I still need to finish season two.

[00:14:40] Season two was great. What I saw of it, I really liked. We get the acolyte. Keep talking and let me look this up. I just saw this. Is the acolyte the one that's like 25,000 years before? No, that's a different movie.

[00:14:53] Seriously, it's a thousand years but there's another one where it's like it's going to be all mystical and there's going to be dragons. Forgive me if I am repeating myself but there's a movie that happens 25,000 years before Luke Skywalker. That's James Mangold.

[00:15:08] Right, and it's the first guy that ever found the force and is he going to be just like a card magician? I figured out I can make these things flow. He's going to be a tiktok influencer from South Carolina. It's going to be set in 2027.

[00:15:23] The first person that found the force didn't like, I guess I'll go build me a lightsaber and take down an empire. That's not how it started, I'm sure. It's a fucking mystical feeling. I don't know. I want to break into song every time you say mystical feeling.

[00:15:38] What kind of movie? It's about the first guy. All he can do is move stuff around the table in his house. Crush a coal. He's like trying to install, like I said, a bookshelf speakers and he's lying under his desk

[00:15:51] and he's like trying to tug the cable right in place and that speaker falls down on him and he holds his hands up and the speaker is floating over him. That was me in sixth grade. That's the trailer for the film.

[00:16:02] The speaker just crashed right into my forehead. We've never really talked about how basically that 11 in Stranger Things has the force, right? She does have the force. She also has Pimp Articles. A little more exaggerated version of the force probably, right? Because it comes from the no-no place.

[00:16:26] I guess. I haven't watched that show. You haven't seen the no-no place? Don't they go to the no-no place? Didn't Marge get lost? Barb got lost in the no-no place? Yeah. I didn't watch that. I didn't watch it. I think the no-no place is funny.

[00:16:41] Yeah, it's the no-no place. Quick, call the brothers, the creators of that show before they officially release the next season and have them overdub all the places where they say the upside down, they need to say the no-no place. Remember when they put out that movie Cats?

[00:17:00] And they had to go back and take all the butt holes out of it? Because they made the movie and they were like, well, obviously we're going to see all of their butt holes. And then someone stopped them and they were like, what the fuck are you doing?

[00:17:18] Go back and take all those butt holes out of this movie before you show this to anybody. That takes a while. Yeah, put them back. I'm sure there were a lot of cat beeholes in that movie. Taylor Swift's in that movie. Can you imagine, like, that's your job?

[00:17:33] Right? Yeah. And you're like, I designed this butt hole. You got a rotoscope, all that shit that happens. You know when you play Tetris and you wake up in the middle of the night and you can see Tetris moving around? That dude's looking at butt holes. All day.

[00:17:45] Oh, floating above his bed. 24-7. Like cherubs. Butt holes from heaven. I love watching his face when he's processing stuff like that. And you're like, oh god, what's coming? Right, something's coming. We got butt holes is coming. Butt holes is coming. Uh-oh. This isn't the sex episode guys.

[00:18:09] Summer down. That's another episode. That one was not lost because it is coming. Soon to a theater near you. Yeah, that too. Hey, Warrant, we're going to talk about the special edition movies. Or are you saving that for the episode one podcast? Mantis.

[00:18:29] Oh, we should preview the episode one. So we're going to start doing special episodes. One whole episode devoted to the movie. And we're going to have categories and questions and things we're talking about every movie. And we're going to go through all 11 theatrical releases so far.

[00:18:44] And we're about to put the next one out after this episode someday. So stay tuned. Yeah, hopefully these will all come out within a week of each other-ish. Yeah. Between now and before Christmas, right? Yeah. And then we'll have to record some more. Sweet. Soon-ish.

[00:19:02] And maybe I won't lose all of these. Let's hope not. And continue sending us questions and... We do love the questions. ...episode ideas. Yeah. You can send those questions to us on either Instagram or threads at WeAreAstarWar. And you could leave us reviews on Apple podcasts and Spotify.

[00:19:27] That would be helpful. And just share us with a friend. Yeah. That would be cool. And you can still get t-shirts at tpublic.com. Just search for the Alabama take and then go to the store for the Alabama take. I don't think you can search us.

[00:19:41] We've tried to make it that way so that we don't get our shirts taken down again. Yeah. Somebody took our shirts down. Kathleen Kennedy. Kathleen Kennedy. I don't think Dave Filoni would do that. He's not a buster. He's cool. He's cool about it. He's cool about stuff.

[00:19:56] I mean, I don't think he really cares. He's getting paid. He got no skin in the game one. Sending out... Deep skin. ...take-down notices. Yeah. Probably not. But yeah. I think that's been an episode. It says we have a minute. It has been an episode. It has been.

[00:20:14] I just... Earlier, I started an episode. When did we start? Earlier it was an episode. And now it's almost over. Yeah. See what had happened was... We recorded an episode earlier. When? Earlier. We could do this all day. This doesn't have to be a short episode.

[00:20:33] This can be an hour long. Right. Or we can cut it right now. That's probably better. Are you trying to get fired again? I can't be refired. I'm never unfired. How are you going to get fired? On your day off. On your day off. They'll build a clubhouse.

[00:20:48] Exactly. I'm trying to build a clubhouse. Did you know there's a deleted scene where like, e-zells running down the street with cardboard boxes? Which is hilarious as shit. So it's his fault. It's his fault in the Friday Universe. Why would you delete such a thing?

[00:21:07] It probably took all of four seconds. There may have been too much time between the setup and the payoff. It may have been like, why is he running with cardboard boxes? When are we starting the Friday podcast? We were just talking about Friday.

[00:21:24] I think we just had it. I think that was the beginning, middle and end of our Friday podcast. Welcome to and thank you for... Alright, that's it. And this has been a podcast about Friday. Friday. Smoke Dog! Star Wars.