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Speaker 1: Alrighty, guys, we
are.

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You know, here in the
undergrounds we are a rebel sect

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called the Gentle Lads and you
know we are hiding from the

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Empire.

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Welcome to episode 124 of
Project Geekology.

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And this week we are covering
the first six episodes of Andor,

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season two.

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And I know, I said you know
Rebel Sect of Gentle Lads.

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You know it's a little inside
joke that we have off of the

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podcast.

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You know now it's on the
podcast, so you guys have joined

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us.

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But, yes, I am one third of
your host, anthony, and joining

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me, as always, is Dakota.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, gentle Lads
is the name of our text group

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and I will be sure to change
that as soon as possible because

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we have to keep you guys
guessing.

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Yeah, I'm really excited to be
talking about Andor, season two,

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the first six episodes, a lot
of rebel sex activity and yeah,

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yeah, my name is Dakota and I'm
joined as always with, and, yeah

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, my name's.

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Speaker 3: Dakota and I'm joined
as always with Rich.

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Glad to be with you guys.

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You know, honestly, my
redonium's running a little low

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and I just needed a little bit
more of a fix of Andor.

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So happy to be talking about
episodes one through six with

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you guys.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm kind of upset
that I didn't start the podcast

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in my Saw Gerrera voice.

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Speaker 3: That's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: You can do that next
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Speaker 2: Rhydonium, it's like
my sister.

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Speaker 3: That was wild.

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I was very confused, like the
first time around.

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I was like wait, what's going
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Man Guys, this guy is.

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We find a lot more about Saw
Gerrera.

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Speaker 1: We do.

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But before we get into that,
it's been two weeks.

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We had a little bit of a week
off, but now we are back to it,

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strong, with Andor, season 2.

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Like I said, it's going to be
the first six episodes this week

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and then we'll do the remaining
episodes next week.

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Too bad, we don't wait on Rogue
One, because we could have let

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up to Rogue One, but we already
did a Rogue One episode.

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So after you listen to this
season, you can go back to the

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Rogue One episode and go listen
to that.

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But yes, like I said, it's been
two weeks.

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I'm going to go to Rich.

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Rich, what have you been up to?

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And we do know that it's been a
lot of baseball, but what else

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have you been doing outside of
baseball?

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Speaker 3: I.

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So I I shockingly do have
outside of baseball news,

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although there was much baseball
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I do want to highlight that.

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But I got a for father's day.

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My son and my wife got me this.

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I should.

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It's this it looks like an
action figure but it's actually

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like a kind of piece of
plexiglass, almost that has the

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image inside of it.

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So it just has me and it says
gamer dad.

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This is like a normal dad, but
much cooler.

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And then the controller next to
me has my son's name under it.

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So I got that and my son's idea
was to grab me a N64 controller

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that connects to the Switch.

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And I promptly schooled him in
Mario 64.

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I'm not going to lie, the pure
jubilation.

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So he immediately was like this
is much faster than Mario Kart

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Deluxe.

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He felt that even the 50ccs was
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And man, I remember those.

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I wasn't sure if I would
remember the shortcuts and where

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I needed to drift and where I
had to stop drifting, but it all

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came back.

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You, you fell back into step.

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Yeah, it was impressive holding
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It was different, like I, it
felt different than playing

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mario kart deluxe.

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I, I just I really enjoyed it.

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And then I did something a
little crazy.

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We've gotten my son a number of
things for graduation.

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He's graduating fifth grade
this year, even though it's just

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kind of a legal state
requirement that everyone has to

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go through, because it's not
much of an accomplishment.

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Speaker 2: It's not like you
have a choice, but anyway we got

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to celebrate him yeah, you
can't get held back in new york

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state anymore at that early of
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so, but he's
been talking about the switch to

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a lot and I finally I was gonna
ask about that.

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Speaker 2: I found a tracker.

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Speaker 3: I found a tracker.

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I found I started following a
twitter account and there was,

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uh, the.

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There was news that they were
dropping it on june 11th, so at

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like 11 o'clock luckily, my
classes are pretty much winding

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down.

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The rumor was from 9 to 12, so
I just basically was just

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spamming the reload button and,
as luck would have it, I got

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myself a pickup model, so it
should be arriving on friday.

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By the time you guys hear this,
I'll hopefully already have it

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and unveil the news to charlie.

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So I'm very happy to find out
that the controller is

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compatible with the new one,
cause I was like, oh no, what if

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it's not compatible?

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Speaker 1: but it all is.

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Speaker 3: And I'm very excited.

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I'm going to be driving to Yonk
to go grab this and luckily

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it's not a GameStop in Texas,
because I don't know if you guys

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heard of the news, but it was
something like $1.6 million or

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more than that.

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Switch 2s were stolen.

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A shipment was hijacked on its
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something like 280,000 units or
something were stolen.

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And just imagine if you had a
pre-order and you were about to

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go pick that thing up.

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That's crazy.

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Speaker 2: That's wild actually.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is
actually I did.

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That's crazy, that's wild
actually.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is
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I did not know that.

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That is awesome, though it's
amazing that we hold these

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things like N64 controllers as
pinnacles of creation, but it's

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one of the least ergonomical
controllers.

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Speaker 3: How do you hold it?

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It was terrible.

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He's like how do you hold this
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Speaker 2: And I'm like oh, you
got in the middle here, buddy,

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it makes sense, but what an era
of gaming like.

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Speaker 3: It was such a such a
fun time.

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I cannot wait till I play him
with what is it called slappers

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only in golden eye this good old
slap fest golden eye session.

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And then you pick odd job
because he's slightly shorter

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than the other guys and you have
an unfair advantage because

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their chops go over your head.

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I can't wait to spam him that
way like I'm just.

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I'm so excited to use my
knowledge to once again assert

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my gaming dominance in the
household yeah, but you know can

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Speaker 1: Can you beat him in
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Speaker 3: oh, I mean, that was
one of my favorites, I'm not

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gonna lie, I really loved using
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loved the diddy kong racing man.

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Yeah, I think that like one of
my favorites, I'm not gonna lie,

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I really loved using the
helicopters in that game.

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Speaker 1: Loved the diddy kong
racing man.

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Yeah, I think that like one of
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mario kart was fun, but diddy
kong racing had like all these

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different types of vehicles they
had like airplanes, these like

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hovercraft, you know regular
vehicles, like it would change

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up and so like that was one of
my favorite things.

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And then you had a bunch of
like characters across rare that

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you could play.

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That was fun, but but yeah, um
a good tracker?

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I don't know if I know that you
said that you had been following

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a tracker but, there is a good
one that I had used in the past

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called now in stock, and I had
actually used that one to snag a

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ps5 way back when.

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Oh yeah, that one.

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Speaker 3: I think I used that
one because I had it.

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I had that one going on the
computer the entire time.

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I was searching for a ps5 on
the desktop and like that was

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during like pandemic time, so I
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everything.

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And one late night my wife is
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and I hear that beep.

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Look, it could have been
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I launched her from that chair.

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Essentially I jumped like the
Black Panther and just jumped to

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get that.

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I'll never forget the feeling.

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I mean, those were days where I
was waking up at I had to teach

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at nine or like 830 and I would
show up at Walmart in yonkers

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or something, because I heard
rumors that there were three

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available, and I would walk into
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They would just be like it's
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I'm like thank you, have a good
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Turn around and then get back,
jump in front of the computer,

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be like hi guys, sorry, I'm a
couple minutes late, it's got

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back from walmart.

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They're like did you secured a
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Speaker 1: I'm like I did not,
guys, I did not so you know, the

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the funny thing is is that, as
much of a gamer as I am, I just

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I don't care to do all that.

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I'm like no, I'm sorry, but no,
you're just gonna wait till

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it's.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna wait until
I can get one.

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Speaker 1: That's just my thing
and dakota knows like I am the

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gamer of this podcast or like
for the longest time.

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Like you know, I I talk about
all the time that's my thing.

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You like where you guys are
like watching stuff, I'm feeling

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that time gaming.

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But when it came to the ps5, I
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some back alley behind walmart
and do a handshake deal to get a

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I'm not doing all that.

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I saw that they had them
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One time I happened to go
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I ordered it and picked it up
and called it a day other than

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that.

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I'm not doing all that.

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I'm sorry, I just don't get
into the FOMO like that.

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When I get the PS5, I get the
PS5, you know well, to be fair,

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I can't remember what game it
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Speaker 3: There had to be a
wrestling game or something.

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There's always a reason.

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There was a reason why I needed
to get the ps5, not because I

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wanted the ps5, but because I
think that fifa wasn't releasing

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one game.

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There was a game that was not
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anymore.

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Maybe it was marvel and with
the switch.

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Honestly, the only reason I did
this is because of charlie.

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So, yeah, no, I get that this
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I actually was like telling him
like, dude, the launch titles

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are weak.

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I mean, you know, mario kart's
gonna be fun, but like, then

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it's over, that's it.

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Like, you know, you don't need
to rush to get this blah blah,

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but he's been watching all those
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He's got, you know, watches
youtube as much as the rest of

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So he's like, oh and, and the
way the controllers go?

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And I'm like, dude, you gotta
stop watching reviews of the

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console, you're gonna go crazy
are you?

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Speaker 1: did you get the mario
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Or yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, okay,
that, honestly, that's the

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smart play right there.

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Yeah, because mario kart world
is 80 on its own, but when you

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get the bundle, you're getting
it for 30 cheaper oh, I'm glad

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that happened, yeah, yeah so.

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So the system itself is 450,
the bundle is 500.

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So mind you, you buy the 450,
say you get the 450 bundle, and

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then you buy the game.

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Speaker 3: You know you're
spending an extra 30 and, gentle

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lads, I left this part out.

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You know what happens with the
Switch 1, right?

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This guy right here just got a
new Switch 1 to play, so it's

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the very first hand-me-up in my
family that's going to happen.

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Where he's going to hand me up
the Switch, oh, I like that.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't know this
yet, but yeah, it's mine so I

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just find it so funny that we've
gotten to a point in, like tech

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cycles that you know we have to
make back alley deals, like

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they're like drugs, you know,
like my precious right.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it just
makes you wonder it makes me

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feel like I was part of the
rebellion, honestly like I feel

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like I could be hanging out with
andor and bix and cintra not,

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not val.

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I don't, she doesn't.

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I don't like her much I don't.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she's a little
harsh.

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Speaker 3: I feel bad for her on
occasion, but she's a little

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harsh yeah, what were you up to
the last couple weeks dakota,

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last couple weeks, dakota.

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Speaker 2: Last couple weeks
yeah, because it's been two

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weeks since we recorded last but
you know, not a whole lot.

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I in my personal life my, you
know, secular work I am training

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Right now I'm doing like a
bunch of test prep for my

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journeyman's license, so I'm
excited about that.

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That should be coming two
Saturdays from now that I take

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that test, and so just a lot of
like studying learning diagrams,

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understanding Ohm's law, stuff
like that, and, yeah, a lot of

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like last minute.

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Not a lot, you know for riches
and a lot, but for me it is a

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lot of baseball games.

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I've just been supporting my
local New York teams.

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One team won and the other team
lost, but I enjoyed myself.

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Baseball is fun.

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I went to two games.

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It wasn't a Mets versus Yankees
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Sox.

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They won.

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And I went to a Mets game and
they lost, but the food was

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better.

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The food was better than Yankee
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That's what matters in the end.

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Speaker 1: I know you made Rich
proud by going to see the Mets.

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Speaker 2: I will also make Rich
proud by announcing that I had

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two hot dogs at the Yankee
Stadium and I had two hot dogs

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at Mets Stadium.

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The two dogs at Yankee Stadium
were the worst glizzies of my

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life.

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Like they were just it was like
pre-made, like wrapped hot dogs

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and the buns were like squished
, like they were like rolled

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into little burritos.

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I was and I was like what is?

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This is the worst.

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The condiment station sucked,
so that was rough, but I I had a

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pretty good hot dog, two hot
dogs actually at that stadium.

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So, and listen, you know if you
ever field, if you ever.

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Speaker 3: If you ever feel in
randy and you want to go out on

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a tuesday?

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All right, on tuesdays they got
five dollar dogs and if you

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hang with me I have a 15
discount.

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All right, so that's even.

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You're getting better guzzies
at a discount price wow, it's

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like 425 a dog.

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That's crazy, I am honestly
wowed that you were able to do

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that math in.

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Never in a million years would
I have a time.

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I just get really happy.

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Whenever I use the discount,
I'm like, oh, look at that.

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Speaker 2: I never have a
conception of what I actually

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don't know if that math is
correct.

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I'm gonna look that up really
quick.

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Five times 0.15.

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Yeah, I was right.

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Wow, oh, 4.25 a dog Plus tax
baby Can't beat that, anthony.

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Speaker 3: you got to come up
here, man, just for the glizzies

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on Tuesdays, does it?

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It's actually really good, just
fly up from my, I'll pick you

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up from LaGuardia.

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It's right outside the stadium.

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All right him, all right, and
then we'll go grab some dogs,

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and then you know and then maybe
watch some people throw a ball

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around.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, anthony, what
have you been up to this past

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couple weeks?

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Speaker 1: tell me, tell me I'm
gonna be honest with you, though

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.

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Like hot dogs are, like not
even my favorite.

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Like if they're.

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If I'm at a party and there's a
choice between hamburgers and

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hot dogs, I'm going burger all
the time.

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That's fair.

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I'm a burger guy.

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Let me ask you a question,
anthony.

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Speaker 3: He's not in new york
you're walking in new york

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you're walking through
washington dc, you're walking

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through apalachia, you're
walking through vegas all that

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have been hit by nuclear bombs.

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When you're walking around
those locales, you know what you

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never see.

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You never see a hamburger.

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But you know how many hot dogs
I've seen in fallout 76.

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My friend, the structural
integrity is fine.

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Here's the thing about
hamburgers.

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That person at that party do
you know if they know how to

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cook a burger the right way?

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What if you get slightly ill
from the temperature of the meat

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?

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Speaker 2: hot dogs, or or the
opposite, the opposite.

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You can be like having, you
know, a cookout with my

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father-in-law and you get served
some hockey pucks.

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Speaker 3: There you go but hot
dogs you can't really.

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They're already cooked, man,
they're already.

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You don't even need to really
warm them up, man, you can just

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eat them.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, man, but
it just I mean and and honestly,

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like if, if you're gonna go
fallout, dude, there's still

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brahmin, I mean you can ground
that beef, but that's true, all

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right.

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So what I've been up to these
past couple of weeks is that.

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So I had a con that was a
sandwich between this hot dog.

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No sandwich between.

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Like these two weeks, like I
got to go to Otaku Fest.

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Speaker 2: Nice, tell us.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I had Otaku
Fest.

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It's con time.

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Cons are kicking in the tickets
for this convention.

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I actually had won them back in
February by cosplaying Obi-Wan

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Kenobi.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's right,
I've seen that picture.

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Speaker 2: Clever, clever.

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Speaker 1: Best show on TV?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man always I
mean, you know how it is man.

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Speaker 1: I always have a good
time going to conventions and

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stuff man yeah, you're
definitely a con man I am a con

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man you should come up to nycc
man.

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Speaker 3: I just procured
tickets.

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The fam and I are definitely
going on friday up here oh, and

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they started selling tickets
yeah, yeah, I secured the pro

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pass or educators pass, and then
they got the friday passes well

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, nice I mean I have been
wanting to go to new york

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comic-con.

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Speaker 1: It's been a while but
yeah, I went up there and I I

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went with dakota and gen one
year anthony, listen, we're

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thinking about going as
thunderbolts.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I was gonna be
bucky.

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All right, my wife is going to
be elena, my son is going to be.

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Who do you want to be?

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I'm blanking out right now, but
we need a red guardian.

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Oh yeah, he wants to be century
.

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You could be red guardian man.

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I've seen you bald, like, I
think a little good, and I can

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be the leader.

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Speaker 1: Let's go all you have
to do is just get stung by a

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dozen of bees.

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Jen could be the that betsy
that look like him who's betsy?

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Speaker 3: she's got some
relation to the hulk.

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Betsy ross somehow is related
to hulk.

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Maybe, uh, jen could be bety
Ross.

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I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Somehow, some way.

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Speaker 3: Something about
there's some relationship to

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Hulk.

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I don't know what it is.

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Is that his estranged daughter?

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Speaker 2: No, that's the nurse
that stuck him with Gamma.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, she sucks
.

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Speaker 3: Well, maybe we should
.

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Sorry, but I think we've
deviated.

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Speaker 2: Alright, go ahead,
tell us about otaku con or otaku

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fest otaku fest man.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, just
straight.

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Speaker 2: Otaku tastic man, you
know so, for those of you who

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don't know, this is a anime
themed convention, correct?

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Speaker 1: yeah, I mean, you
know you can there.

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There's always going to be
stuff that's not anime related

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there, but it's definitely a
little bit more geared towards

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that when you think of otaku.

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You know obviously that's.

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You know they're.

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They're using that japanese
word that kind of describes

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somebody who's like obsessive
over, you know, nerdy stuff.

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And yeah, man, it was good it.

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They had moved it back to the
original convention center that

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it was at.

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I guess it had outgrown it and
so they tried to like move it to

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another one, but that one was
way too big for it and I think

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that it costed a lot more money.

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So now they moved it back to
its original space.

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The problem with the last time
when it was in that space, I

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think they oversold.

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It's just crazy that these
places like they oversell and

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their tickets and stuff, you
know yeah, oh question, anthony.

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Speaker 3: You said that you
were seeing how to train your

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dentist over the weekend how to
train your dentist these guys,

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these guys all right, wait, wait
, rich explain it so I'm, you

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know we have a group chat going
on and anthony goes hey guys, I

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think I'm gonna go see ht how to
train.

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Yeah, httyd, and I'm I'm
racking my brain over here.

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Guys, I have no idea.

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I'm like, and after just like
an hour, I think, of pulling my

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hair, I was just like can
someone please tell me what hd?

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So now they go off with uh, how
to train your dentist?

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Speaker 2: it's just how to
train your dog.

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Yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 3: I got the message
loud and clear after that, but I

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felt a you know.

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I guess I just completely
forgot because I think in my

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worldview it doesn't feel like
that long ago that I saw how to

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Train your Dragon.

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Speaker 1: You know, like my son
we watched it Same for me, so

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like.

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Speaker 3: I've seen it within
the last five or six years, so I

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didn't know that there was a
need for another one.

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Speaker 2: It's a it's, so it's
a live action version of the

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animated film and it's very,
very closely like, linked to the

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animated film.

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Apparently.

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That did you.

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Did you watch it, anthony?

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I haven't so.

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Speaker 1: So that was the plan
with my group of friends, but we

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ended up not being able to go
and see it.

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We just got caught up in in our
own stuff.

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But it was the plan, but by the
time that time kind of rolled

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around, we're too tired from you
know just just living.

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Yeah, just tired of living just
living yeah but it is, it is a

468
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plan.

469
00:20:56,724 --> 00:20:57,769
I do want to see it.

470
00:20:57,769 --> 00:21:01,806
I mean, maybe I might I could
go and see it tomorrow, because

471
00:21:01,846 --> 00:21:02,911
I don't work tomorrow.

472
00:21:02,911 --> 00:21:07,240
Tomorrow is juneteenth and
since it's a federal holiday,

473
00:21:08,162 --> 00:21:11,354
you know, the bank follows the
federal holiday and so we all

474
00:21:11,394 --> 00:21:15,001
have it off awesome, cool
awesome, you got that you have

475
00:21:15,021 --> 00:21:19,238
tomorrow off as well, rich right
yeah, actually I got a sweet

476
00:21:19,278 --> 00:21:21,891
four-day weekend because my
son's graduation on friday.

477
00:21:21,911 --> 00:21:24,957
So well, you should be finishing
school up soon, right?

478
00:21:24,957 --> 00:21:28,182
Next Friday is the last day.

479
00:21:28,182 --> 00:21:31,535
Yeah, there you go, the kids
down in South Florida.

480
00:21:31,535 --> 00:21:36,003
They've been done with school
for a week or so now.

481
00:21:36,690 --> 00:21:38,857
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they go
back a little earlier, I think.

482
00:21:38,857 --> 00:21:41,659
I think you guys, they go back,
yeah, they start earlier, yeah,

483
00:21:41,659 --> 00:21:41,980
they do.

484
00:21:43,352 --> 00:21:46,818
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's what
I've been up to, but we're a

485
00:21:46,878 --> 00:21:48,309
bit deep into the recording.

486
00:21:48,309 --> 00:21:51,876
Shall we talk about and or
season two?

487
00:21:52,699 --> 00:21:55,063
Speaker 3: episodes one through
six just call it an episode.

488
00:21:55,063 --> 00:21:55,852
I think this is good.

489
00:21:55,852 --> 00:21:56,354
This was fun.

490
00:21:56,354 --> 00:21:57,780
Uh, we'll see you guys next
week.

491
00:21:57,780 --> 00:21:59,769
Thanks for uh being thanks for
listening.

492
00:21:59,769 --> 00:22:00,371
Leave.

493
00:22:00,531 --> 00:22:03,679
Speaker 2: Leave a review for
four stars, we'll make an and or

494
00:22:03,679 --> 00:22:05,403
season two, one through six
mini.

495
00:22:05,403 --> 00:22:08,104
So that is not sorry guys.

496
00:22:08,124 --> 00:22:10,816
Speaker 1: Let's start talking
about that, right, donium boys

497
00:22:11,719 --> 00:22:14,950
no, you have to say it the right
way, dakota let's start talking

498
00:22:14,950 --> 00:22:16,252
about the right donium boys.

499
00:22:17,415 --> 00:22:17,997
Speaker 2: No, that was a bad.

500
00:22:17,997 --> 00:22:18,638
That was a bad one.

501
00:22:18,638 --> 00:22:23,435
I I'm really good at like
redoing his lines, but I can't

502
00:22:24,317 --> 00:22:27,343
just create new lines for him,
like if that makes sense.

503
00:22:27,343 --> 00:22:33,624
But yeah, so Andor is back and
potentially better than ever.

504
00:22:33,624 --> 00:22:37,239
A lot of people are saying that
this is the best season of the

505
00:22:37,278 --> 00:22:37,861
two seasons.

506
00:22:37,861 --> 00:22:42,011
You know, it's not a super, it
is a high bar, but it's not like

507
00:22:42,011 --> 00:22:44,115
an incredibly high bar because
there's only one other season.

508
00:22:44,115 --> 00:22:48,109
What do you guys think of the
start to this season?

509
00:22:48,109 --> 00:22:51,876
Some people are like in the
camp where first six episodes

510
00:22:51,916 --> 00:22:52,397
are boring.

511
00:22:52,397 --> 00:22:56,635
Some people are like, you know,
getting on their knees and just

512
00:22:56,635 --> 00:22:59,949
like bowing down, like it's,
it's the best thing since sliced

513
00:22:59,949 --> 00:23:00,109
bread.

514
00:23:00,109 --> 00:23:00,750
What do you guys think?

515
00:23:01,132 --> 00:23:03,696
Speaker 1: I think it was pretty
good.

516
00:23:03,696 --> 00:23:06,762
I would say, like the the first
.

517
00:23:06,762 --> 00:23:10,391
To me it starts off a little
bit stronger than maybe the

518
00:23:10,471 --> 00:23:14,417
first season of andor, and the
first season of andor was really

519
00:23:14,417 --> 00:23:16,020
good anyway.

520
00:23:16,020 --> 00:23:18,974
But you have to get those
characters established.

521
00:23:18,974 --> 00:23:21,744
But now that you have those
characters that are established,

522
00:23:21,744 --> 00:23:23,490
it was able to go.

523
00:23:23,490 --> 00:23:25,075
You know a little bit, you know
start a little bit.

524
00:23:25,075 --> 00:23:27,501
You know start a little bit
stronger.

525
00:23:27,501 --> 00:23:30,650
You know we don't have to
figure out who Luthan is, we

526
00:23:30,670 --> 00:23:33,538
don't have to figure out who Bix
is, because they were explained

527
00:23:33,538 --> 00:23:34,480
in that first season.

528
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:38,739
I would say the first season
crawled so that this season

529
00:23:38,798 --> 00:23:43,135
could run not walk but run and
it was solid.

530
00:23:43,135 --> 00:23:46,375
I mean, I liked the first six
episodes and there's a lot of

531
00:23:46,454 --> 00:23:49,601
parallels to things that
happened in real life that I

532
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,285
definitely picked up on in these
episodes.

533
00:23:53,151 --> 00:23:53,372
Speaker 3: Rich.

534
00:23:53,372 --> 00:23:53,974
What are your thoughts?

535
00:23:53,974 --> 00:23:58,336
So I think I would have been in
the first camp after my first

536
00:23:58,476 --> 00:24:03,323
watch through, because I think
that I appreciated some of the

537
00:24:03,383 --> 00:24:04,785
relationships more.

538
00:24:04,785 --> 00:24:07,737
I mean, I love the series.

539
00:24:07,737 --> 00:24:09,101
I just think that it would the.

540
00:24:10,152 --> 00:24:13,640
It's difficult for me to just
say like this first six are slow

541
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,873
, because I think once you watch
the whole thing on second

542
00:24:16,913 --> 00:24:20,883
rewatch and of course I did like
a third rewatch, but it's all

543
00:24:21,002 --> 00:24:26,739
the interactions are so what's
the word pregnant, that there's

544
00:24:26,798 --> 00:24:30,265
so much to them that you don't
even know until you finish the

545
00:24:30,325 --> 00:24:30,644
series.

546
00:24:30,644 --> 00:24:33,999
And then you go back and now
these moments, the way they're

547
00:24:34,078 --> 00:24:37,615
playing off each other, the
moments between the Imperial,

548
00:24:37,635 --> 00:24:42,213
the ISB and kind of that dance
that's going on there, even the

549
00:24:42,273 --> 00:24:49,731
dance between Deirdre and
Cyril's mother, between Deirdre

550
00:24:49,751 --> 00:24:51,016
and Cyril's mother, I mean
everything like once you know

551
00:24:51,036 --> 00:24:51,396
more just becomes.

552
00:24:51,396 --> 00:24:54,165
They did such a great job of
setting the groundwork for the

553
00:24:54,205 --> 00:24:58,234
series to have a really
impactful end and I mean that

554
00:24:58,615 --> 00:25:02,082
cutaway scene from the wedding,
you know, is just.

555
00:25:02,082 --> 00:25:06,317
It's amazing how they made that
just be something.

556
00:25:06,317 --> 00:25:07,180
That was so.

557
00:25:07,180 --> 00:25:11,880
Even though I already watched
it, I was on the edge of my seat

558
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:12,240
again.

559
00:25:12,902 --> 00:25:15,194
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're
talking about the cutaway to the

560
00:25:15,194 --> 00:25:17,141
wedding, specifically in
episode three.

561
00:25:17,141 --> 00:25:21,219
I'm assuming it's the scene
where everyone's dancing.

562
00:25:21,219 --> 00:25:22,742
Yes, correct, yeah.

563
00:25:22,742 --> 00:25:26,071
So that's such a fantastic
moment for me and that was like

564
00:25:26,172 --> 00:25:27,236
a big like wow.

565
00:25:27,236 --> 00:25:28,599
I can't believe they pulled
that off.

566
00:25:29,210 --> 00:25:31,818
So there's a couple things
happening all at once.

567
00:25:31,818 --> 00:25:37,382
You know it's the climax of
several plots within this 4 BBY

568
00:25:37,461 --> 00:25:37,823
setting.

569
00:25:37,823 --> 00:25:41,819
So it's like a year, a little
over a year, since the first

570
00:25:41,859 --> 00:25:42,701
season took place.

571
00:25:42,701 --> 00:25:48,940
And you know, andor, bix,
brassoso and wilmon are on the

572
00:25:49,059 --> 00:25:49,441
on the run.

573
00:25:49,441 --> 00:25:53,638
They're living on this
agricultural world being

574
00:25:53,699 --> 00:25:56,349
mechanics and they're basically
just hiding away from the empire

575
00:25:56,349 --> 00:25:58,634
while also doing luthens
bidding.

576
00:25:58,634 --> 00:26:02,623
Andor is often like a side side
job for a bit of this first

577
00:26:02,930 --> 00:26:06,596
three episode arc and it all
comes to a head.

578
00:26:06,596 --> 00:26:10,544
You know where the, the empire
catches up to them.

579
00:26:10,544 --> 00:26:13,997
They rasso ends up dying and
they leave that planet.

580
00:26:14,759 --> 00:26:17,711
All the while, there's a whole
bunch of stuff happening with

581
00:26:17,771 --> 00:26:20,460
mon mothma at the exact same
time, or we assume it's the

582
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:21,080
exact same time.

583
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:21,362
It could.

584
00:26:21,362 --> 00:26:24,174
It could be different time
periods, but whatever and what?

585
00:26:24,174 --> 00:26:29,624
What's fantastic about the way
that they did that was they used

586
00:26:29,624 --> 00:26:32,294
the music of the dance.

587
00:26:32,294 --> 00:26:36,041
So there's a bunch of stuff
happening with Mon Mothma.

588
00:26:36,041 --> 00:26:39,134
She doesn't want her daughter
to get married to this thug's

589
00:26:39,596 --> 00:26:40,597
son, basically.

590
00:26:40,597 --> 00:26:45,034
But she's young, she's dumb and
she thinks that she's in love

591
00:26:45,153 --> 00:26:47,801
and she know she's gonna go full
steam ahead with this marriage

592
00:26:48,932 --> 00:26:55,069
and on top of that, the
integrity of, or the secret of,

593
00:26:55,170 --> 00:26:59,270
their rebellion and her you know
, funds that go towards it are

594
00:26:59,310 --> 00:27:03,671
about to potentially be dried
out in the open, as her friends

595
00:27:04,573 --> 00:27:05,875
is now ready to.

596
00:27:05,875 --> 00:27:09,844
He's not getting that end of
the deal anymore and he's

597
00:27:09,890 --> 00:27:12,798
starting to wonder when he's
going to get his cut and it's

598
00:27:12,818 --> 00:27:13,962
starting to get agitated.

599
00:27:13,962 --> 00:27:16,134
You could see he's like
sweating for most of this, like

600
00:27:16,173 --> 00:27:20,510
wedding arc and luthen basically
tells mon that like we got to

601
00:27:20,530 --> 00:27:21,013
kill this guy.

602
00:27:21,013 --> 00:27:23,325
You know, like no amount of
money is going to fix this

603
00:27:23,384 --> 00:27:23,727
problem.

604
00:27:23,727 --> 00:27:28,181
This is going to keep coming
back to bite us and to drown out

605
00:27:28,181 --> 00:27:29,311
her sorrow in.

606
00:27:29,532 --> 00:27:32,598
You know, like this childhood
friend who has to be killed to

607
00:27:32,618 --> 00:27:36,736
pacify this issue, she literally
just drinks and starts dancing

608
00:27:36,776 --> 00:27:40,534
and it's such a fantastic scene
because you can see there's no

609
00:27:40,614 --> 00:27:41,496
joy on her face.

610
00:27:41,496 --> 00:27:43,602
But, like when you watch the
trailers for this, you're like,

611
00:27:43,642 --> 00:27:46,054
wow, mom's really like getting
down at this party.

612
00:27:46,054 --> 00:27:49,500
But when you see the context of
what's happening, it's so

613
00:27:49,579 --> 00:27:50,221
fantastic.

614
00:27:50,221 --> 00:27:54,773
And that music that they play,
like with the, with the droid

615
00:27:55,355 --> 00:27:59,604
the droid, that's like DJing the
party is also used diegetically

616
00:27:59,604 --> 00:27:59,604
.

617
00:27:59,604 --> 00:28:03,796
So diegetic music is like in
world music that you hear but

618
00:28:03,896 --> 00:28:07,102
also works as the score for the
episode.

619
00:28:07,102 --> 00:28:10,813
They use that diegetically at
the end with cassian as well.

620
00:28:10,813 --> 00:28:15,163
So like the intense upbeat
music while you know they're on

621
00:28:15,182 --> 00:28:19,482
the run, his friend's just been
killed, been murdered, and the

622
00:28:19,522 --> 00:28:22,731
look on his face, you know,
mixed with mon dancing super

623
00:28:22,771 --> 00:28:24,134
chaotically and drinking heavily
.

624
00:28:24,134 --> 00:28:29,503
It's's just such a fantastic
buildup to that last episode.

625
00:28:30,289 --> 00:28:32,515
Speaker 1: Right, it's almost
like the emotion is kind of

626
00:28:32,634 --> 00:28:33,537
matched there.

627
00:28:33,537 --> 00:28:37,913
You know, I mean sure, you know
you have Cassian that is

628
00:28:38,233 --> 00:28:41,662
mourning the loss of his friends
, but then you also have Mon

629
00:28:41,682 --> 00:28:45,135
Mothma that's kind of mourning
the loss of, you know, her

630
00:28:45,155 --> 00:28:45,737
daughter in daughter.

631
00:28:45,737 --> 00:28:49,751
In a sense, you know that she's
being married to somebody that

632
00:28:50,113 --> 00:28:52,377
you know she didn't want her to
get married to.

633
00:28:52,377 --> 00:28:56,393
But, dude, you know, that
moment was so strong and it left

634
00:28:56,393 --> 00:29:01,786
me like like wow, this is
intense, like it's crazy.

635
00:29:01,786 --> 00:29:06,096
I'm actually a little side note
and I I don't know and I hadn't

636
00:29:06,096 --> 00:29:12,273
really realized this in the
first season, but then when I

637
00:29:12,314 --> 00:29:16,439
looked at the cast, so I don't
know if you realize, but the

638
00:29:16,598 --> 00:29:20,263
actress that portrays Mon Mothma
actually does the voice for

639
00:29:20,324 --> 00:29:22,267
Moira in Overwatch.

640
00:29:22,830 --> 00:29:25,259
Speaker 2: I did find that out
online recently.

641
00:29:25,259 --> 00:29:27,095
Yeah, I thought that was pretty
.

642
00:29:27,214 --> 00:29:29,593
Speaker 1: I was crazy and then,
like, when I thought about it,

643
00:29:29,613 --> 00:29:32,580
I was like I see the
similarities in a way, you know,

644
00:29:32,580 --> 00:29:35,156
like the look, but you know, I
thought that that was like a

645
00:29:35,176 --> 00:29:36,942
little neat aside thing.

646
00:29:36,982 --> 00:29:40,030
Speaker 2: But man, it's such a
it's actually, like you know,

647
00:29:40,632 --> 00:29:43,355
leaning into that a little bit,
it's such a weird contrast

648
00:29:43,557 --> 00:29:47,442
because this is such a fantastic
visual actor.

649
00:29:47,442 --> 00:29:51,594
You know, like her presence on
screen is crazy and that usually

650
00:29:51,594 --> 00:29:56,682
doesn't always translate to
voice actors, so it's cool that

651
00:29:56,722 --> 00:29:58,492
she has that ability to do both.

652
00:29:58,492 --> 00:30:00,798
You know, like there there are
actors who do both.

653
00:30:01,398 --> 00:30:04,275
Speaker 1: Mark hamill is a
actor who's very famously both

654
00:30:04,355 --> 00:30:07,606
on screen and, you know, just
vocal, but it's cool that

655
00:30:08,067 --> 00:30:11,496
there's others in star wars that
do that too yeah, yeah, in the

656
00:30:11,596 --> 00:30:16,609
first three episodes you get
something that you just don't

657
00:30:16,691 --> 00:30:22,676
see in star wars and you have
like an imperial officer, that

658
00:30:22,997 --> 00:30:30,285
is, you know, he proceeds to try
to assault bix, you know, yes

659
00:30:30,664 --> 00:30:34,176
and you don't see that in star
wars ever, really, you know we

660
00:30:34,217 --> 00:30:38,089
haven't, yeah, and there's been,
there's been, like certainly

661
00:30:39,410 --> 00:30:42,230
they've kind of teased the idea
of it.

662
00:30:42,391 --> 00:30:46,471
You know it's been skirted but
it hasn't been shown in this

663
00:30:46,531 --> 00:30:51,353
capacity and I thought it was
crazy because you know I could

664
00:30:51,413 --> 00:30:57,434
very much so see the Imperials
you know pretty much abusing

665
00:30:57,535 --> 00:31:01,516
their power for stuff like that
and it's insane, like I was,

666
00:31:01,556 --> 00:31:02,115
like man.

667
00:31:02,115 --> 00:31:06,797
You know this show is powerful
in more ways than one.

668
00:31:06,797 --> 00:31:12,278
It shows a part of Star Wars
that some people you get caught

669
00:31:12,317 --> 00:31:15,598
up in the mysticism of the
larger part with the Jedi and

670
00:31:15,659 --> 00:31:19,000
stuff, but you don't get the
common man and this is what you

671
00:31:19,079 --> 00:31:19,380
get.

672
00:31:19,839 --> 00:31:23,701
Speaker 2: You don't get the
nitty gritty as often as and for

673
00:31:23,701 --> 00:31:28,061
me when it comes to Star Wars
it doesn't get any more nitty

674
00:31:28,102 --> 00:31:30,402
gritty than Andor and Rogue One.

675
00:31:30,883 --> 00:31:35,324
Speaker 1: It really this season
, you know, at least in this

676
00:31:35,443 --> 00:31:38,624
first part, it really just blew
my mind.

677
00:31:38,624 --> 00:31:43,445
Something else that I really
got that kind of blew my mind

678
00:31:43,506 --> 00:31:50,787
was Gorman, and Gorman drew like
such a heavy parallel to World

679
00:31:50,826 --> 00:31:56,429
War II Europe, like I mean you
could place Gorman, it could be

680
00:31:56,489 --> 00:32:02,393
a European country and like
think of the way that they dress

681
00:32:02,393 --> 00:32:05,761
and like think about the way
that it was intense for them.

682
00:32:05,761 --> 00:32:09,132
You know that they're trying to
build up this like rebellion.

683
00:32:09,132 --> 00:32:13,625
You know I can imagine this
being europe before the war was

684
00:32:13,704 --> 00:32:16,673
in full swing, you know, before
the invasion.

685
00:32:16,673 --> 00:32:20,720
This is what europe in that
time period was in the 30s.

686
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:22,923
You know, and yeah, man it.

687
00:32:23,410 --> 00:32:26,214
It really it blew my mind how
they were able to do that,

688
00:32:26,255 --> 00:32:30,540
because with Star Wars a lot of
times we get the Western side or

689
00:32:30,540 --> 00:32:33,865
we get the samurai side, but we
never get that side.

690
00:32:33,865 --> 00:32:38,601
I mean, you get parts of it but
you don't get it as strong as

691
00:32:38,641 --> 00:32:43,477
you do in this show, like the
World War II influence that Star

692
00:32:43,477 --> 00:32:47,002
Wars has, you know, and you
know it's very much so.

693
00:32:47,002 --> 00:32:51,150
You know that's a huge part of
Star Wars, that influence and

694
00:32:51,170 --> 00:32:52,817
you get it a lot in this show
man.

695
00:32:53,530 --> 00:32:54,509
Speaker 2: Yeah, I totally agree
.

696
00:32:54,509 --> 00:32:57,779
I think you know to tag along
with what you're saying.

697
00:32:57,779 --> 00:33:01,432
It's funny because we've seen
so many things that are Star

698
00:33:01,452 --> 00:33:02,477
Wars related.

699
00:33:02,477 --> 00:33:06,273
We've read Star Wars, we've
seen comic books and so on and

700
00:33:06,294 --> 00:33:06,634
so forth.

701
00:33:06,634 --> 00:33:15,932
There's a whole bunch of Star
Wars out there, but it's amazing

702
00:33:15,932 --> 00:33:17,820
that we're continually getting
new vantage points and looks at

703
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,126
the Star Wars galaxy that we
probably didn't think that we

704
00:33:19,146 --> 00:33:25,020
needed or wanted, but just
expanded not only the lore but

705
00:33:25,340 --> 00:33:27,385
the reality of what's at stake.

706
00:33:28,268 --> 00:33:32,523
And as that comes into the four
with gorman, yeah, there's a lot

707
00:33:32,523 --> 00:33:36,356
of parallels you can make with
gorman and basically it's not

708
00:33:36,376 --> 00:33:39,064
just like world war ii and all
that.

709
00:33:39,064 --> 00:33:42,833
It's pretty much every
oppressive government, every

710
00:33:43,053 --> 00:33:46,701
authoritarian regime trying to
put another party down, and that

711
00:33:46,701 --> 00:33:48,692
that has been the case like
throughout history.

712
00:33:48,692 --> 00:33:51,278
And I think that they nailed
that down with how the

713
00:33:51,358 --> 00:33:55,755
propaganda is being spread, how
easy it is to, you know, make

714
00:33:56,056 --> 00:33:58,559
the population dislike those
people.

715
00:33:58,559 --> 00:34:01,472
Like with Mon Mothma in the
Senate building.

716
00:34:01,472 --> 00:34:04,265
She was trying to curry favor
with a bunch of different people

717
00:34:04,265 --> 00:34:07,990
whom she probably agreed on
with certain bills in the past,

718
00:34:08,452 --> 00:34:10,697
but there was one senator who's
even like.

719
00:34:10,737 --> 00:34:15,791
I don't think Gorman is a good
thing to be vying for right now

720
00:34:15,811 --> 00:34:19,320
I forget the correct wording,
but basically saying like I

721
00:34:19,340 --> 00:34:21,295
don't want anything to do with
Gorman right now, that's a bad

722
00:34:21,335 --> 00:34:21,717
look for me.

723
00:34:21,717 --> 00:34:26,052
And you just see everyone
turning a blind eye to what's

724
00:34:26,251 --> 00:34:29,500
happening and ultimately we
don't know what's happening with

725
00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:29,820
Gorman.

726
00:34:29,820 --> 00:34:30,302
At this point.

727
00:34:30,302 --> 00:34:31,976
We don't really fully get it.

728
00:34:31,976 --> 00:34:35,331
I mean, we as the audience get
it, but the people inside the

729
00:34:35,351 --> 00:34:38,858
show, outside of a few, have no
idea that they're going to be

730
00:34:38,918 --> 00:34:42,385
mining for Kalkite in the near
future.

731
00:34:42,385 --> 00:34:44,838
So they have no idea what's
coming for them.

732
00:34:44,969 --> 00:34:47,947
They have no idea why the
Imperial Destroying the planet

733
00:34:47,967 --> 00:34:51,300
pretty much, yeah, which is
what's going to happen, yeah

734
00:34:51,340 --> 00:34:55,514
yeah they have no idea why the
empire have decided to make

735
00:34:55,534 --> 00:34:57,764
gorman their enemy, but it's
apparent that that's what's

736
00:34:57,784 --> 00:34:58,586
happening and it is.

737
00:34:58,586 --> 00:34:59,952
It is a really scary thing.

738
00:34:59,952 --> 00:35:02,778
But I want to take like a brief
moment to like just talk.

739
00:35:02,778 --> 00:35:04,141
Sorry, rich, you haven't.

740
00:35:04,141 --> 00:35:07,324
You haven't actually chimed in
on on these two topics.

741
00:35:08,248 --> 00:35:12,179
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm so, as I
was listening to you guys talk

742
00:35:12,199 --> 00:35:15,750
about this, it just kind of made
me think about a couple of

743
00:35:15,789 --> 00:35:16,070
things.

744
00:35:16,070 --> 00:35:22,041
So I don't think andor works
until now and I, like I was

745
00:35:22,081 --> 00:35:25,594
thinking, like I think part of
the reason we're enjoying it is

746
00:35:25,634 --> 00:35:27,099
because it's a star wars
property.

747
00:35:27,099 --> 00:35:30,056
But it's not a star wars
property, right, it's like star

748
00:35:30,076 --> 00:35:34,313
wars property that exists in
this universe that we know very

749
00:35:34,393 --> 00:35:35,114
well, right?

750
00:35:35,114 --> 00:35:38,766
And if, let's say, you just
started watching andor and you

751
00:35:38,786 --> 00:35:41,414
hadn't seen anything else for
some random reason, or even if

752
00:35:41,454 --> 00:35:43,782
you, you know, you start
watching andor and you just go

753
00:35:43,849 --> 00:35:49,623
through rogue one, right, you've
got this universe that is, you

754
00:35:49,663 --> 00:35:51,835
know, a long time ago in a
galaxy far, far away.

755
00:35:52,398 --> 00:35:53,682
But it doesn't.

756
00:35:53,682 --> 00:35:55,650
I don't think it would jump out
at anybody.

757
00:35:55,650 --> 00:35:57,192
It's well done, right.

758
00:35:57,192 --> 00:36:05,342
But I think that why it's being
so well received is because we

759
00:36:05,422 --> 00:36:09,708
feel a lot of you know, I'll
just like kind of our star wars

760
00:36:09,728 --> 00:36:10,550
nerds over here.

761
00:36:10,550 --> 00:36:14,719
We feel like we've explored so
much of the galaxy in one

762
00:36:14,780 --> 00:36:16,411
direction that we want to see it
in another.

763
00:36:16,411 --> 00:36:19,277
You know, that's a good way to
put it right, because I I don't

764
00:36:19,617 --> 00:36:24,135
like this doesn't come out in
1977 and people are like, oh man

765
00:36:24,135 --> 00:36:25,036
, this is the franchise.

766
00:36:25,077 --> 00:36:25,657
Speaker 2: I'm getting into.

767
00:36:25,657 --> 00:36:29,103
That's an OK yeah, yeah, I like
, I like that idea that because,

768
00:36:29,103 --> 00:36:33,175
yeah, I see what you're saying,
that like what, what may have

769
00:36:33,195 --> 00:36:36,822
appealed to audiences back then
is different than what appeals

770
00:36:36,882 --> 00:36:37,643
to audiences now.

771
00:36:37,989 --> 00:36:40,177
Speaker 3: So it's not
necessarily playing to the times

772
00:36:40,177 --> 00:36:42,655
, but it is, in a way I don't
want to say encyclopedic,

773
00:36:42,815 --> 00:36:49,012
because you don't really, but I
think the type of person who's

774
00:36:49,032 --> 00:36:50,717
going to like andor is very well
educated about the star wars

775
00:36:50,737 --> 00:36:53,547
universe right from my
experience online, a lot of

776
00:36:53,586 --> 00:36:56,355
people who had never seen star
wars are watching andor and

777
00:36:56,375 --> 00:36:57,597
they're considering it.

778
00:36:57,838 --> 00:36:59,851
Speaker 2: They're considering
it like some of the best tv

779
00:36:59,871 --> 00:37:00,572
they've ever seen.

780
00:37:01,172 --> 00:37:03,195
Speaker 1: Well, well, I think.

781
00:37:03,195 --> 00:37:03,856
So.

782
00:37:03,856 --> 00:37:10,085
What I think about Andor is
that, yes, I agree that right

783
00:37:10,146 --> 00:37:14,592
now is the time for Andor to
exist, but you couldn't have had

784
00:37:14,592 --> 00:37:20,358
Andor be the first thing to
come out, because Andor is not a

785
00:37:20,358 --> 00:37:24,943
foundational series in the way
that, like the mainline Star

786
00:37:24,963 --> 00:37:25,724
Wars movies are.

787
00:37:25,724 --> 00:37:26,887
That's the foundation.

788
00:37:26,887 --> 00:37:29,811
Everything else is built upon
that.

789
00:37:29,811 --> 00:37:35,240
You cannot, you know and or
would be telling a story about

790
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,931
something that just doesn't
exist.

791
00:37:37,931 --> 00:37:41,097
Now we know exactly what
happens, because what's

792
00:37:41,177 --> 00:37:43,041
happening in this show you know.

793
00:37:43,041 --> 00:37:47,824
So this is just something that
is being built on the foundation

794
00:37:47,824 --> 00:37:52,775
of the greater storyline you
know in star wars, the skywalker

795
00:37:52,775 --> 00:37:54,460
saga, if you will.

796
00:37:54,460 --> 00:38:00,315
But I also do agree that most
people have some sort of idea

797
00:38:00,556 --> 00:38:01,960
about star wars.

798
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,512
Even if they haven't watched it
, they know it exists.

799
00:38:04,512 --> 00:38:07,581
They've probably heard of luke
skywalker.

800
00:38:07,581 --> 00:38:10,775
They've probably heard of
lightsabers definitely heard of

801
00:38:11,016 --> 00:38:11,878
stormtroopers.

802
00:38:11,918 --> 00:38:15,474
You know like it's hard to
escape, even if you don't watch

803
00:38:15,534 --> 00:38:15,574
it.

804
00:38:15,574 --> 00:38:20,489
I could imagine you watching,
and or without watching, the

805
00:38:20,528 --> 00:38:24,177
mainline series and enjoying it,
just in the same way that you

806
00:38:24,237 --> 00:38:28,909
can watch the mandalorian
without having watched the

807
00:38:28,929 --> 00:38:29,851
mainline series.

808
00:38:29,851 --> 00:38:32,523
You know, and there's
especially like mandalorian

809
00:38:32,563 --> 00:38:35,653
season two, there's stuff from
other series that you.

810
00:38:35,653 --> 00:38:39,206
It wouldn't mean much to you
had you not seen it, but you

811
00:38:39,246 --> 00:38:41,431
know it's definitely something
that's really good.

812
00:38:41,431 --> 00:38:42,735
It's something that's different
.

813
00:38:42,735 --> 00:38:44,958
I don't know what would you
call it.

814
00:38:44,958 --> 00:38:52,713
Is it espionage, the spy series
that exists within the star

815
00:38:52,753 --> 00:38:53,514
wars universe?

816
00:38:53,514 --> 00:38:57,822
Like you know, it's not a star
wars show, it's something else

817
00:38:57,882 --> 00:39:02,891
that that exists within the star
wars universe I see what you're

818
00:39:02,891 --> 00:39:02,891
.

819
00:39:03,273 --> 00:39:06,315
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard to
really pinpoint why it works.

820
00:39:06,315 --> 00:39:12,217
I think that you're both kind
of right, in the sense that it

821
00:39:12,277 --> 00:39:16,601
does build on everything that
came before, and for it to even

822
00:39:16,661 --> 00:39:21,804
exist requires these other
properties to have existed for

823
00:39:21,963 --> 00:39:22,224
ages.

824
00:39:22,224 --> 00:39:26,586
You know, this is a prequel to
a prequel, which in and of

825
00:39:26,646 --> 00:39:29,007
itself, is a sequel to the
prequels.

826
00:39:31,936 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 3: It's a sell for my
10-year-old right.

827
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,860
He has enjoyed everything Star
Wars with me.

828
00:39:36,860 --> 00:39:39,478
We have our lightsabers.

829
00:39:39,478 --> 00:39:45,039
He's definitely knowledgeable
about Star Wars in the way that

830
00:39:45,199 --> 00:39:47,242
most kids his age aren't.

831
00:39:47,242 --> 00:39:51,722
You know, we played the lego
games to their just maximum, so

832
00:39:51,762 --> 00:39:55,693
he knows the most random of
characters and I don't think

833
00:39:55,813 --> 00:39:58,039
that I haven't had him watch it
yet.

834
00:39:58,039 --> 00:40:01,771
But I don't think he would
enjoy and or right like I just

835
00:40:02,152 --> 00:40:05,057
yeah, it's not like it's not the
star wars he's looking for.

836
00:40:05,298 --> 00:40:05,639
You know.

837
00:40:05,639 --> 00:40:10,773
Yeah, I love it, I love this
show, but when I look I walk

838
00:40:10,813 --> 00:40:11,896
around, work and I have.

839
00:40:11,896 --> 00:40:14,570
I used to have an
over-the-shoulder bag but my

840
00:40:15,253 --> 00:40:18,601
chiropractor told me I needed to
wear a backpack to balance the

841
00:40:18,641 --> 00:40:18,842
weight.

842
00:40:18,842 --> 00:40:24,983
So I have these Chewbacca like
the bandolier right but with

843
00:40:25,023 --> 00:40:27,889
hair, and it's really you can
use it in your car, but I use it

844
00:40:27,889 --> 00:40:28,170
as like.

845
00:40:28,170 --> 00:40:32,039
So I have these two chewbacca
straps, bandolier straps, with

846
00:40:32,059 --> 00:40:34,652
the fur on my backpack at all
times at work.

847
00:40:35,233 --> 00:40:38,340
You know, like I've got star
wars stuff in my room.

848
00:40:38,340 --> 00:40:41,452
I teach revenge of the sith,
like I'm known as the star wars

849
00:40:41,492 --> 00:40:45,297
guy, and I guess, when I think
of like Star Wars in that way,

850
00:40:45,436 --> 00:40:48,380
from the outside, looking in
from the person who's not a big

851
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:54,635
fan, you know it's just what's
odd, what makes Andor great, is

852
00:40:54,695 --> 00:40:57,742
that almost it doesn't scream
Star Wars in the slightest.

853
00:40:57,742 --> 00:40:58,492
You know there's.

854
00:40:58,492 --> 00:41:02,210
There's no Wookiees, there's no
Jar Jar Binks, there's no Ewoks

855
00:41:02,210 --> 00:41:02,210
.

856
00:41:02,210 --> 00:41:06,077
You know there's very and I
honestly got to the point where

857
00:41:06,097 --> 00:41:11,010
rewatching it with the Bix store
when Bix was assaulted, I felt

858
00:41:11,070 --> 00:41:13,135
uncomfortable in a way that I
don't want to feel when I'm

859
00:41:13,175 --> 00:41:17,103
watching Star Wars, which sounds
like a child you know.

860
00:41:17,530 --> 00:41:21,836
And then as I'm rewatching the
Gorman plot, because I just

861
00:41:21,856 --> 00:41:24,181
think that these episodes are so
packed with stuff that if

862
00:41:24,201 --> 00:41:27,204
you're not hyper focused you're
going to kind of miss something.

863
00:41:27,204 --> 00:41:37,574
So that's why I also enjoy the
rewatches and to know what is

864
00:41:37,594 --> 00:41:38,836
going to unfold and see it now,
see the seeds happening.

865
00:41:38,836 --> 00:41:41,402
Let's just look around for a
second right and then you look

866
00:41:41,442 --> 00:41:44,614
back to the show and it's a bit
startling, like anthony was

867
00:41:44,634 --> 00:41:47,918
saying, it is like so much of
you guys were saying earlier,

868
00:41:47,938 --> 00:41:51,945
the authoritarian playbook and
how easily it's working.

869
00:41:51,945 --> 00:41:55,655
You know how you said the
senators were so quick to oh, I

870
00:41:55,675 --> 00:41:59,822
don't want to get the stink of
Gorman on me too, you know,

871
00:42:00,382 --> 00:42:03,534
instead of them all banding
together and how, just the

872
00:42:03,655 --> 00:42:04,579
little things you know.

873
00:42:04,579 --> 00:42:07,338
Well, you know the crime on
gorman has increased to 36

874
00:42:07,398 --> 00:42:11,097
percent and just all these
rumors and the spin doctor stuff

875
00:42:11,097 --> 00:42:12,380
, it honestly scared me.

876
00:42:12,601 --> 00:42:14,693
I was kind of like, oh, it's
scary stuff.

877
00:42:14,693 --> 00:42:18,039
Yeah, and it's such a different
feeling than I'm used to

878
00:42:18,079 --> 00:42:18,922
watching star wars.

879
00:42:18,922 --> 00:42:22,757
I mean, I know like when han
died I lost my mind in the movie

880
00:42:22,757 --> 00:42:23,097
theater.

881
00:42:23,097 --> 00:42:24,039
I couldn't believe it.

882
00:42:24,039 --> 00:42:26,659
But you know, I got over it, I
was okay.

883
00:42:26,659 --> 00:42:29,976
You know, I I felt a little
shaky after watching these

884
00:42:30,016 --> 00:42:34,650
episodes again because it's so
real, right, like, like anthony

885
00:42:34,690 --> 00:42:37,757
said, it could be vania or
estonia.

886
00:42:37,757 --> 00:42:40,652
I'm just trying to think of
other countries I've never been

887
00:42:40,692 --> 00:42:43,400
to or can't really point to on a
map, that are nowhere in europe

888
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:45,735
, you know right, I mean it's
different.

889
00:42:45,974 --> 00:42:48,262
Speaker 1: I was was thinking
Poland or something you know.

890
00:42:48,389 --> 00:42:49,335
Speaker 3: Oh well, yeah, that's
a good one.

891
00:42:50,070 --> 00:42:54,074
Speaker 1: You know the thing is
, is that the reason why I think

892
00:42:54,074 --> 00:42:59,418
that Andor is so important for
the Star Wars universe is that

893
00:43:00,099 --> 00:43:00,320
you know?

894
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:04,123
Yeah, I understand like you
know, yeah, there is a you know

895
00:43:04,164 --> 00:43:07,047
a discomfort when you witness
these things on screen.

896
00:43:07,047 --> 00:43:11,273
There is a you know a
discomfort when you witness

897
00:43:11,293 --> 00:43:11,974
these things on screen.

898
00:43:11,974 --> 00:43:14,077
But you know, we've always been
told that the empire is bad,

899
00:43:14,117 --> 00:43:15,019
the empire is bad.

900
00:43:15,019 --> 00:43:19,213
The empire is bad, but we're
being shown how bad they are in

901
00:43:19,293 --> 00:43:22,481
this show this is why they're
doing what they're doing.

902
00:43:22,842 --> 00:43:24,690
We've only ever been told that
they're bad.

903
00:43:24,690 --> 00:43:26,793
You know it's always been black
and white.

904
00:43:26,793 --> 00:43:28,076
But why, okay?

905
00:43:28,076 --> 00:43:28,476
What?

906
00:43:28,476 --> 00:43:29,137
Okay?

907
00:43:29,137 --> 00:43:31,079
Why is it what you know?

908
00:43:31,079 --> 00:43:32,041
Show me some color.

909
00:43:32,041 --> 00:43:39,175
Show me why and this is why the
show is showing why and that

910
00:43:39,277 --> 00:43:43,684
these people are willing to put
their lives on the line to do

911
00:43:43,784 --> 00:43:44,911
what they're doing.

912
00:43:44,911 --> 00:43:49,922
You don't have that whole
rebellion that destroys the

913
00:43:49,961 --> 00:43:52,536
death star twice without these
moments.

914
00:43:52,536 --> 00:43:54,322
There has to be a build-up.

915
00:43:54,402 --> 00:43:54,503
Speaker 2: It's.

916
00:43:54,643 --> 00:43:57,612
That's such a really that's a
great point, because little

917
00:43:57,672 --> 00:44:03,182
things that have led to the
original trilogy stack up like

918
00:44:03,222 --> 00:44:03,664
dominoes.

919
00:44:03,764 --> 00:44:07,226
You know, like they, like, you
can't have all of this that

920
00:44:07,246 --> 00:44:10,335
happens in rogue one without all
of this that happens in andor.

921
00:44:10,335 --> 00:44:14,322
You need the, you need the
gorman I'm not going to say the

922
00:44:14,463 --> 00:44:16,637
m word because that's a spoiler
for next week.

923
00:44:16,637 --> 00:44:20,731
We need what happens on gorman
to happen because that's what

924
00:44:20,791 --> 00:44:25,460
catalyzes the rebel alliance to
finally form a united front.

925
00:44:25,460 --> 00:44:30,152
You know, right now they're the
rebels are a disparate, leader,

926
00:44:30,152 --> 00:44:33,701
almost leaderless group of
random bands of rebels

927
00:44:34,021 --> 00:44:37,173
throughout the galaxy and and we
actually see in the the first

928
00:44:37,213 --> 00:44:40,902
couple episodes of, you know, I
think, episodes one and two we

929
00:44:40,943 --> 00:44:45,898
have cassian going to yavin four
to meet up with a friend and he

930
00:44:45,898 --> 00:44:50,052
comes into contact with 15
rebels that don't seem to have a

931
00:44:50,052 --> 00:44:54,880
leader right, there's huge
leadership, huge huge leadership

932
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:58,313
issues that you know everyone's
fighting for leadership and

933
00:44:58,333 --> 00:45:01,161
that's the problem with these
rebels at this point, there's no

934
00:45:01,161 --> 00:45:06,719
organization, and that's that
needs to change if they're ever

935
00:45:06,740 --> 00:45:08,284
going to defeat the empire and
cassie.

936
00:45:08,304 --> 00:45:10,514
Speaker 1: This is like
cassian's like wake up, like, oh

937
00:45:10,514 --> 00:45:17,231
wow, maybe these guys need some
help and yeah, yeah, that was

938
00:45:17,271 --> 00:45:20,483
crazy, like when when you you
get that realization that he was

939
00:45:20,483 --> 00:45:23,952
on yavin that whole time that
that was insane.

940
00:45:23,952 --> 00:45:28,601
I was like dude, what you know
like we're there's about to be a

941
00:45:28,601 --> 00:45:32,295
battle there soon, uh, but a
couple years.

942
00:45:32,295 --> 00:45:33,536
That was insane.

943
00:45:33,536 --> 00:45:37,463
This season brings back a
character that we haven't seen

944
00:45:37,563 --> 00:45:44,759
since rogue one in orson krennic
and oh yeah, dude, I mean he's

945
00:45:44,980 --> 00:45:46,501
such a good bad guy man.

946
00:45:46,802 --> 00:45:47,382
I really do.

947
00:45:47,382 --> 00:45:50,012
I'm glad that they brought him
back, like I am so happy that

948
00:45:50,052 --> 00:45:53,646
they brought him back because I
definitely wanted to see that

949
00:45:53,726 --> 00:45:54,610
character again.

950
00:45:54,610 --> 00:45:58,757
He just he kills that character
man and I I loved his.

951
00:45:58,757 --> 00:46:03,351
I loved his, like cal kite
ramble that he just goes oh yeah

952
00:46:03,351 --> 00:46:07,257
, um cal kites, cal kites.

953
00:46:07,297 --> 00:46:11,864
Alternatives like synthetic yeah
like yeah, dude, that was just

954
00:46:11,945 --> 00:46:20,003
so that scene that when luthan
and what's his, name again when

955
00:46:20,023 --> 00:46:22,853
they were at that party and
she's trying to get rid of that

956
00:46:22,913 --> 00:46:26,701
listening device dude it was so
intense what a great and then

957
00:46:26,721 --> 00:46:30,135
they had lonnie there, like it's
like, oh, poor lonnie's, just

958
00:46:30,255 --> 00:46:33,463
in the middle of all this mess
man, this guy's just trying to

959
00:46:33,530 --> 00:46:37,717
survive at this point I know
poor lonnie, I wonder if he'll

960
00:46:37,737 --> 00:46:38,018
make it.

961
00:46:39,121 --> 00:46:42,632
Speaker 2: Yeah, ben mendelsohn
returning to to replay orson

962
00:46:42,652 --> 00:46:45,900
krennic a couple years prior to
the events of Rogue One.

963
00:46:45,900 --> 00:46:49,230
Fantastic stuff, him being the
catalyst.

964
00:46:49,230 --> 00:46:54,036
I keep saying the word catalyst
and I think it's because the

965
00:46:54,096 --> 00:46:59,313
prequel novel to Rogue One is
called Catalyst, so that's just

966
00:46:59,373 --> 00:47:02,021
in the back of my head whenever
I'm thinking of these characters

967
00:47:02,021 --> 00:47:02,021
.

968
00:47:02,021 --> 00:47:07,143
So anyway, he is the catalyst
to why the whole Gorman front is

969
00:47:07,143 --> 00:47:07,505
happening.

970
00:47:07,505 --> 00:47:11,793
He knows that the Empire needs
the calcite, the synthetic

971
00:47:11,813 --> 00:47:13,317
calcite, the calcite
alternatives.

972
00:47:13,317 --> 00:47:14,099
He needs all that.

973
00:47:14,099 --> 00:47:19,458
But it can only be mined via
basically destabilizing Gorman.

974
00:47:19,458 --> 00:47:24,271
And I love that scene where he
brings in certain ISB members

975
00:47:24,311 --> 00:47:26,976
and other people within the
Empire to just have a little

976
00:47:27,016 --> 00:47:30,893
brunch you know, have some cakes
while talking about how they're

977
00:47:30,893 --> 00:47:33,021
going to potentially kill
millions.

978
00:47:33,603 --> 00:47:35,811
Speaker 3: It's just a really
great scene, really fascinating

979
00:47:36,094 --> 00:47:38,585
um, in that scene that's the one
of the I think one of the guys

980
00:47:38,724 --> 00:47:41,391
that's to me was one of the most
chilling things when they were.

981
00:47:41,391 --> 00:47:45,309
Somebody asked one of the isb
guys essentially like can't we

982
00:47:45,369 --> 00:47:49,344
just tell them that you know
there's like a disaster coming

983
00:47:49,445 --> 00:47:51,188
or something and get them off
planet?

984
00:47:51,188 --> 00:47:57,628
And his response is something
to the effect of we've seen that

985
00:47:57,628 --> 00:48:03,639
not work before and generally
it's just better to do away with

986
00:48:03,639 --> 00:48:04,260
the whole thing.

987
00:48:04,260 --> 00:48:08,333
And that means that they've
done it on multiple planets,

988
00:48:08,695 --> 00:48:09,436
right oh?

989
00:48:09,476 --> 00:48:10,967
Speaker 1: yeah, you know and
that's.

990
00:48:11,088 --> 00:48:12,333
Speaker 3: That's what that was
like.

991
00:48:12,333 --> 00:48:15,083
Oh my goodness, you've done
this so much that you have

992
00:48:15,123 --> 00:48:16,590
freaking data on it right.

993
00:48:16,590 --> 00:48:19,460
Like you can't do something
twice and have data on it right.

994
00:48:19,460 --> 00:48:23,271
You have to do something like
five times, I'd minimum, I would

995
00:48:23,271 --> 00:48:23,612
assume.

996
00:48:23,612 --> 00:48:26,626
I don't know what the number is
, but then it's just like how

997
00:48:26,666 --> 00:48:29,186
many more planets have they done
this to?

998
00:48:29,788 --> 00:48:33,137
Speaker 2: oh, they've done it
to a bunch and I I did do a

999
00:48:33,197 --> 00:48:36,166
little bit of research on like
other planets that they've done

1000
00:48:36,206 --> 00:48:36,606
that too.

1001
00:48:36,606 --> 00:48:41,038
So in response to someone
online who thought it was like a

1002
00:48:41,038 --> 00:48:44,211
dumb thing, like there's a
bunch of like haters online for

1003
00:48:44,251 --> 00:48:47,411
everything, this one I I don't I
want to bring attention to

1004
00:48:47,512 --> 00:48:49,505
because it was pretty
astronomically stupid.

1005
00:48:49,505 --> 00:48:53,215
There was absolutely no reason
to militarily occupy Gorman.

1006
00:48:53,215 --> 00:48:55,592
It was one of the dumbest
things Palpatine could have done

1007
00:48:55,592 --> 00:48:55,592
.

1008
00:48:55,592 --> 00:48:58,146
The Gormans were perfectly
happy with their planet and its

1009
00:48:58,206 --> 00:48:58,608
industry.

1010
00:48:58,608 --> 00:49:01,262
The Emperor could have simply
mined the material needed and

1011
00:49:01,302 --> 00:49:02,306
left the Gormans alone.

1012
00:49:02,306 --> 00:49:04,909
Why would he bring this kind of
negative attention?

1013
00:49:04,909 --> 00:49:05,590
For no reason.

1014
00:49:05,590 --> 00:49:08,034
Blah, blah, blah.

1015
00:49:08,034 --> 00:49:11,157
And I'm like it's perfectly
clear the empire needed the

1016
00:49:11,177 --> 00:49:12,860
calcite found in gorman's core.

1017
00:49:12,860 --> 00:49:15,710
The empire makes it very clear
that the mining of said resource

1018
00:49:15,710 --> 00:49:19,608
was to destabilize the core and
lead to ecological collapse.

1019
00:49:19,608 --> 00:49:21,572
But poverty needed it more than
he believed.

1020
00:49:21,572 --> 00:49:24,327
The empire needed good pr and I
explained that it's not the

1021
00:49:24,367 --> 00:49:25,568
first time this has happened.

1022
00:49:26,050 --> 00:49:28,876
In the book a new dawn, the, the
Empire mined Thorolite on Cinda

1023
00:49:28,876 --> 00:49:30,418
, causing the core to nearly
collapse.

1024
00:49:30,418 --> 00:49:33,090
In Rebels we learn that
Geonosis was completely

1025
00:49:33,150 --> 00:49:35,195
sterilized to cover the
construction of their Death Star

1026
00:49:35,195 --> 00:49:35,556
project.

1027
00:49:35,556 --> 00:49:38,831
In Rogue One we learn that the
Empire destroyed Jedha City,

1028
00:49:38,931 --> 00:49:41,338
partly to cover their extraction
of kyber from beneath the city.

1029
00:49:41,338 --> 00:49:47,076
And there's also Ilum, which is
where the Padawans used to get

1030
00:49:47,096 --> 00:49:47,918
their kyber crystals.

1031
00:49:47,918 --> 00:49:50,088
Also ilum, which was where the
that's where the padawans used

1032
00:49:50,108 --> 00:49:50,688
to get their kyber crystals.

1033
00:49:50,688 --> 00:49:52,472
They used that planet, they
mined it out and basically a big

1034
00:49:52,472 --> 00:49:57,489
fissure erupted on the planet's
surface, causing the planet to

1035
00:49:57,530 --> 00:50:00,617
start splitting in half and they
had to, like, hold it in place.

1036
00:50:00,617 --> 00:50:04,449
And that planet, ilum, later
became star killer base in the

1037
00:50:04,489 --> 00:50:04,851
sequels.

1038
00:50:05,632 --> 00:50:10,900
Um, so it's something that the
Empire is well known for doing.

1039
00:50:10,900 --> 00:50:16,295
So the idea that like and they
kind of do explain why one of

1040
00:50:16,315 --> 00:50:19,969
the ISB guys basically says
Partagas, partagas.

1041
00:50:19,969 --> 00:50:24,518
He says they have a strong
Senate presence.

1042
00:50:24,518 --> 00:50:28,195
You know, like this is a strong
planet, they're not going to go

1043
00:50:28,195 --> 00:50:28,985
down lightly.

1044
00:50:28,985 --> 00:50:33,213
So they need to create this
false image of gorman to the

1045
00:50:33,253 --> 00:50:37,606
rest of the galaxy to make it
okay for them to do what need,

1046
00:50:37,768 --> 00:50:39,170
what they believe needs to be
done.

1047
00:50:39,170 --> 00:50:43,268
And it's it's just crazy, it's
just it's so sick and twisted,

1048
00:50:43,367 --> 00:50:46,173
but you could totally picture
the empire doing that, because

1049
00:50:46,894 --> 00:50:50,226
they need what they got, you
know, and there ain't no more

1050
00:50:50,266 --> 00:50:51,851
Kalkite alternatives elsewhere.

1051
00:50:52,773 --> 00:50:54,697
Speaker 1: Nope, something else.

1052
00:50:54,697 --> 00:50:59,853
So two characters that we also
get back from the first season

1053
00:51:00,255 --> 00:51:07,692
is Cyril and Deidre, and in this
one they're kind of like you

1054
00:51:07,731 --> 00:51:10,657
know, there's some romance there
, you know.

1055
00:51:10,657 --> 00:51:12,867
So what?

1056
00:51:12,867 --> 00:51:15,034
What did you all think about
that dynamic it?

1057
00:51:15,454 --> 00:51:19,226
Speaker 2: it was definitely
kind of awkward yeah, they have

1058
00:51:19,246 --> 00:51:20,552
a very healthy relationship.

1059
00:51:20,552 --> 00:51:21,034
It seemed.

1060
00:51:21,034 --> 00:51:23,985
You know they both respected
each other's boundaries very

1061
00:51:24,045 --> 00:51:24,447
clearly.

1062
00:51:24,447 --> 00:51:25,670
Yeah, no, it was very good.

1063
00:51:25,670 --> 00:51:27,916
I'm happy for cyril, very happy
for deidre.

1064
00:51:27,916 --> 00:51:30,909
They both look and feel very
happy in their new roles.

1065
00:51:30,909 --> 00:51:34,177
No, it's the weirdest
relationship I've seen in star

1066
00:51:34,197 --> 00:51:34,706
wars period.

1067
00:51:34,706 --> 00:51:39,755
This is weirder than when those
frog people, like that frog

1068
00:51:39,795 --> 00:51:42,646
lady with all her eggs, like met
up with her husband and just

1069
00:51:42,686 --> 00:51:45,268
like touched heads at the end of
that mandorian episode.

1070
00:51:45,268 --> 00:51:51,295
This was bizarre and it's so
clear that Daedra is not a

1071
00:51:51,335 --> 00:51:54,119
psychopath but a Sociopath.

1072
00:51:54,119 --> 00:51:56,530
Sociopath, yes, she's
sociopathic.

1073
00:51:56,530 --> 00:51:58,994
She has no emotions, she has no
feeling.

1074
00:51:58,994 --> 00:52:06,106
Everything she does is to get
ahead, to move up a ladder, and

1075
00:52:06,186 --> 00:52:09,295
Cyril just happens to be present
and isn't moving out of her way

1076
00:52:09,295 --> 00:52:10,987
and is willing to help her out
right.

1077
00:52:11,027 --> 00:52:13,795
Speaker 1: So she's, she's cool
with it and she's even like

1078
00:52:13,894 --> 00:52:17,612
holding a secret, like from him,
and he's helping them out.

1079
00:52:17,713 --> 00:52:20,983
Speaker 2: Like you know, locate
these rebels on gorman I

1080
00:52:21,083 --> 00:52:24,891
actually really do feel bad for
cyril I do too like, honestly,

1081
00:52:24,911 --> 00:52:29,117
he, he's someone who clearly
needs a lot of structure in his

1082
00:52:29,177 --> 00:52:31,588
life and he's gone about it the
entire wrong way.

1083
00:52:31,588 --> 00:52:36,978
And he wasn't wrong in that,
you know, in the first season he

1084
00:52:36,978 --> 00:52:40,831
wasn't wrong for wanting to do
his job correctly, to go

1085
00:52:41,132 --> 00:52:42,936
apprehend and or and all that.

1086
00:52:42,936 --> 00:52:46,789
He just was barking up the
wrong tree with the wrong people

1087
00:52:46,789 --> 00:52:46,789
.

1088
00:52:46,789 --> 00:52:51,115
And then he got involved with
the Empire and the Empire feeds

1089
00:52:51,135 --> 00:52:52,358
you all these lies about.

1090
00:52:52,358 --> 00:52:57,231
You know this and that, and
it's so easy, you know, as it's

1091
00:52:57,271 --> 00:52:57,753
explained.

1092
00:52:57,753 --> 00:53:00,909
You know, just by watching the
hollow news, like it's so easy

1093
00:53:00,969 --> 00:53:04,317
for you to be brainwashed by all
the propaganda.

1094
00:53:04,445 --> 00:53:08,079
And Cyril is conscious that
there is propaganda being

1095
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:10,568
perpetrated about Gorman in this
season.

1096
00:53:10,568 --> 00:53:15,563
He knows that what's being
presented on the news isn't

1097
00:53:15,682 --> 00:53:18,128
what's actually happening on the
planet.

1098
00:53:18,128 --> 00:53:23,358
You know, and it's such a
fascinating concept because he's

1099
00:53:23,358 --> 00:53:26,594
undercover for these people,
which does make him complicit.

1100
00:53:26,594 --> 00:53:30,188
He knows that the Empire is
doing something and they're

1101
00:53:30,208 --> 00:53:33,585
trying to incite a rebellion on
this planet for some reason, but

1102
00:53:33,585 --> 00:53:36,791
he doesn't know why or how it's
going to play out.

1103
00:53:36,791 --> 00:53:40,427
You know, and I feel bad for
him because he thinks he's doing

1104
00:53:40,427 --> 00:53:41,974
the right thing for the right
cause.

1105
00:53:41,974 --> 00:53:46,108
He still truly believes that
the Empire is what's good in the

1106
00:53:46,108 --> 00:53:48,293
galaxy and that the rebels are
terrorists.

1107
00:53:48,293 --> 00:53:51,432
And with that mindset it's hard
not to fault the guy.

1108
00:53:51,974 --> 00:53:54,483
Speaker 1: But right, right he
is an antagonist.

1109
00:53:54,603 --> 00:53:56,590
Speaker 2: You know like it's
hard to it's.

1110
00:53:56,590 --> 00:53:58,699
It's hard to make that balance,
so I I feel bad for the guy.

1111
00:53:58,860 --> 00:54:00,045
Speaker 1: He's an antagonist.

1112
00:54:00,045 --> 00:54:04,291
He is an antagonist but he's
also a bit of a patsy.

1113
00:54:04,291 --> 00:54:09,518
You know like he is definitely
the type of guy that would be

1114
00:54:09,599 --> 00:54:11,101
set up to be a fall guy.

1115
00:54:11,101 --> 00:54:16,358
You know that the empire would
leave him out to dry and what

1116
00:54:16,398 --> 00:54:17,461
we'll find out.

1117
00:54:17,822 --> 00:54:19,686
Speaker 2: You know I don't want
to get ahead of myself, but

1118
00:54:19,807 --> 00:54:23,637
it's so easy in the empire for
there to be fall guys.

1119
00:54:23,637 --> 00:54:27,393
You think of, like all of these
big players, like we saw in

1120
00:54:27,432 --> 00:54:30,409
rogue one, that orson krennic,
the guy who basically designed

1121
00:54:30,429 --> 00:54:31,715
the entirety of the death star.

1122
00:54:31,715 --> 00:54:35,067
He ran the project, he was the
fall guy for tarkin.

1123
00:54:35,407 --> 00:54:38,438
Speaker 1: Tarkin stepped in,
yeah, and there is a hierarchy

1124
00:54:38,619 --> 00:54:42,367
in the empire but there's no
loyalty yeah, there's a lot of

1125
00:54:42,447 --> 00:54:46,574
like stepping on backs in the
empire, a lot, a lot of stepping

1126
00:54:46,574 --> 00:54:48,396
on backs in the empire, a lot
of stepping on, backs,

1127
00:54:48,677 --> 00:54:49,378
backsteppers.

1128
00:54:50,318 --> 00:54:51,059
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot.

1129
00:54:51,059 --> 00:54:55,532
There's a lot that this season,
even these first six episodes,

1130
00:54:55,893 --> 00:55:00,208
you can like read into, and
what's amazing is the timeliness

1131
00:55:00,208 --> 00:55:02,775
about, like, some of the the
stuff in the first couple

1132
00:55:03,036 --> 00:55:03,456
episodes.

1133
00:55:03,456 --> 00:55:07,170
You know like we have within
america right now a big issue of

1134
00:55:07,170 --> 00:55:11,235
like being for or against
illegal immigration, people

1135
00:55:11,275 --> 00:55:13,978
being deported back to their
countries or detained whatever.

1136
00:55:13,978 --> 00:55:15,380
Say what you will about that.

1137
00:55:15,380 --> 00:55:20,396
This show was filmed several
years before any of that was

1138
00:55:20,715 --> 00:55:21,358
mainstream news.

1139
00:55:21,358 --> 00:55:24,311
You know, like we've had
deportations for illegal

1140
00:55:24,351 --> 00:55:28,130
immigration for years in America
, but right now it's coming to a

1141
00:55:28,130 --> 00:55:34,543
head because whatever, but
within Andor, it's so

1142
00:55:34,603 --> 00:55:37,432
fascinating because these are
the characters that we love,

1143
00:55:38,545 --> 00:55:41,248
these are the characters that
we're rooting for and they are

1144
00:55:41,730 --> 00:55:44,472
the illegal immigrants on this
planet and the empire is

1145
00:55:45,036 --> 00:55:47,148
technically the lawful
government that has the right to

1146
00:55:47,148 --> 00:55:50,193
deport them because they don't
have their papers and it's.

1147
00:55:50,405 --> 00:55:56,132
It's such a timely contrast to
the our real world discussion,

1148
00:55:56,313 --> 00:55:59,027
you know, and like the political
, political landscape, because

1149
00:55:59,708 --> 00:56:01,855
they didn't know that this was
going to be an issue when when

1150
00:56:01,894 --> 00:56:05,121
the show was coming out, but it
kind of just fits perfectly in

1151
00:56:05,141 --> 00:56:09,536
the narrative and I think that's
part of why this show is so

1152
00:56:09,596 --> 00:56:10,016
timeless.

1153
00:56:10,016 --> 00:56:15,969
You know you guys were saying
that it needed to be released at

1154
00:56:15,969 --> 00:56:19,213
this point in history, at least
in terms of Star Wars, for it

1155
00:56:19,233 --> 00:56:23,777
to like really resonate itself.

1156
00:56:23,777 --> 00:56:28,141
Even if it didn't like focus on
andor and wasn't a prequel to

1157
00:56:28,201 --> 00:56:30,467
rogue one directly and all that
it would.

1158
00:56:30,467 --> 00:56:35,318
Using these themes, it's kind
of timeless, you know, like it's

1159
00:56:35,318 --> 00:56:38,751
always going to be relevant to
some, some degree and I I think

1160
00:56:38,771 --> 00:56:42,085
that that's what's really cool
about it yeah, it's definitely a

1161
00:56:42,085 --> 00:56:42,945
great show.

1162
00:56:43,606 --> 00:56:47,467
Speaker 1: You know, it's sad
that we lost your boy, brasso

1163
00:56:47,748 --> 00:56:48,429
Brasso.

1164
00:56:48,429 --> 00:56:49,750
I love Brasso dude.

1165
00:56:49,750 --> 00:56:52,411
Yeah, man, he was definitely
that homie.

1166
00:56:52,751 --> 00:56:54,211
Speaker 2: He was the homiest of
all homies.

1167
00:56:54,311 --> 00:56:56,713
Speaker 1: Yeah, that guy that
you could rely on.

1168
00:56:56,713 --> 00:56:58,875
He watched out.

1169
00:56:58,875 --> 00:57:00,755
I miss B.

1170
00:57:01,556 --> 00:57:03,197
Speaker 2: Oh man, B2Emo.

1171
00:57:03,197 --> 00:57:08,119
I love that droid so much and I
feel so bad that they just

1172
00:57:08,199 --> 00:57:10,300
leave B2Emo on that planet.

1173
00:57:11,041 --> 00:57:11,360
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1174
00:57:11,742 --> 00:57:14,023
Speaker 2: I love that droid
Like it's my own pet, like it's

1175
00:57:14,043 --> 00:57:14,563
my own child.

1176
00:57:15,105 --> 00:57:15,445
Speaker 1: Right.

1177
00:57:15,545 --> 00:57:19,717
Speaker 2: Seeing them leave so
unceremoniously, oh, it kills me

1178
00:57:19,717 --> 00:57:20,157
every time.

1179
00:57:20,465 --> 00:57:22,911
Speaker 1: And you feel so bad
because, like you know, you do

1180
00:57:22,992 --> 00:57:27,811
like hear that depression, like
he just he wants to be with

1181
00:57:27,851 --> 00:57:31,728
cassian, you know, and it's not
that cassian doesn't want him

1182
00:57:31,788 --> 00:57:35,416
around, he just he knows that
he's going to be doing dangerous

1183
00:57:35,416 --> 00:57:40,773
things and in a way he's kind
of like the last bit of of

1184
00:57:40,893 --> 00:57:45,286
memory of his mother, you know,
and if you lost marva yeah, if

1185
00:57:45,327 --> 00:57:47,231
you lost him, that that would be
.

1186
00:57:48,193 --> 00:57:50,398
you know, it was definitely a
good call on that front.

1187
00:57:50,398 --> 00:57:54,574
Something that we didn't really
talk about was your boy Right

1188
00:57:54,715 --> 00:57:55,155
on him.

1189
00:57:55,958 --> 00:57:56,400
Speaker 2: Wait, wait, wait.

1190
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:57,951
What were you going to say,
Rich, about B?

1191
00:57:58,905 --> 00:58:01,172
Speaker 3: Well, I love B and I
was so sad that he had to be

1192
00:58:01,213 --> 00:58:01,855
left behind.

1193
00:58:01,855 --> 00:58:05,291
I know this is Star Wars and it
happens all the time, but man,

1194
00:58:05,431 --> 00:58:09,559
just like he had to arrive at
that exact second for them to

1195
00:58:09,619 --> 00:58:10,306
get off of there.

1196
00:58:10,306 --> 00:58:14,594
You know, like talk about
fortuitous, I mean, you know

1197
00:58:14,614 --> 00:58:19,050
it's, it's a big galaxy, and he,
he pulls up just right at say,

1198
00:58:19,070 --> 00:58:22,657
you know, without really kind of
knowing about it, which is kind

1199
00:58:22,657 --> 00:58:25,990
of all that more right, he just
hears like blockade or whatever

1200
00:58:25,990 --> 00:58:28,757
from clay, and then he
immediately goes there, right,

1201
00:58:28,838 --> 00:58:30,168
but well it's.

1202
00:58:30,349 --> 00:58:32,675
Speaker 2: It's interesting like
it's going to be a major plot

1203
00:58:32,695 --> 00:58:35,804
thread in the the next couple
episodes.

1204
00:58:35,804 --> 00:58:40,472
But you know the idea of
cassian as a messenger.

1205
00:58:40,472 --> 00:58:44,626
You know he wants to send a
message to bix on this planet.

1206
00:58:44,626 --> 00:58:48,036
He finds out, oh he can't send
message, so he's going to go

1207
00:58:48,056 --> 00:58:48,617
there directly.

1208
00:58:48,617 --> 00:58:52,474
And he is the messenger, you
know, for all of these little

1209
00:58:52,494 --> 00:58:52,934
adventures.

1210
00:58:52,934 --> 00:58:55,789
He's the one relaying all the
information to all these parties

1211
00:58:55,789 --> 00:58:55,789
.

1212
00:58:55,789 --> 00:58:59,737
That eventually culminates in a
new hope and it's so.

1213
00:58:59,737 --> 00:59:03,574
It's so good the way that they
wove that idea into the show and

1214
00:59:03,574 --> 00:59:07,250
we're going to talk more about
specifically him as a messenger

1215
00:59:07,630 --> 00:59:10,737
next week because I think that
that is a really fascinating

1216
00:59:10,777 --> 00:59:11,119
discussion.

1217
00:59:11,119 --> 00:59:16,476
But yeah, going back to B2Emo,
I feel so bad for that guy.

1218
00:59:16,684 --> 00:59:24,085
Speaker 3: He just B's two emos
and that's he's just so sad, and

1219
00:59:24,085 --> 00:59:26,632
you know you guys were talking
about Saw.

1220
00:59:26,632 --> 00:59:27,155
You know this guy.

1221
00:59:27,155 --> 00:59:29,393
I mean, can I ask a question?

1222
00:59:29,393 --> 00:59:36,838
So do we believe that the
mechanic in training was working

1223
00:59:36,838 --> 00:59:37,579
with the Empire?

1224
00:59:37,579 --> 00:59:42,775
Is that a real, or did he just
make that up and then his friend

1225
00:59:42,775 --> 00:59:43,275
agreed?

1226
00:59:43,896 --> 00:59:44,778
Speaker 2: What's his friend's
name?

1227
00:59:44,778 --> 00:59:46,833
I think it's Two Tubes or
something like that.

1228
00:59:46,833 --> 00:59:49,141
I think that's actually like
his name in the character

1229
00:59:49,161 --> 00:59:49,585
encyclopedia.

1230
00:59:49,585 --> 00:59:52,893
I don't think that this guy was
.

1231
00:59:52,893 --> 00:59:54,838
It came out of nowhere.

1232
00:59:54,838 --> 00:59:59,192
And I don't think Saul would
have humored this guy making

1233
00:59:59,231 --> 01:00:03,699
Rhydonium for as long as he did
if he was going to kill him

1234
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:04,159
anyway.

1235
01:00:04,159 --> 01:00:06,713
And I don't think that he
planned on killing him.

1236
01:00:06,713 --> 01:00:11,467
I just think that he saw that
there was a need for ridonium

1237
01:00:12,389 --> 01:00:17,958
and that wilmon couldn't leave,
because clearly wilmon didn't

1238
01:00:18,059 --> 01:00:21,114
think like there was some
apprehension when wilmon said he

1239
01:00:21,114 --> 01:00:24,126
thinks he's ready for, you know
, this production yeah,

1240
01:00:24,146 --> 01:00:27,614
essentially he's like, he's good
enough, you know like there,

1241
01:00:27,693 --> 01:00:32,250
but with, with, with ridonium,
there's, there's there's no

1242
01:00:32,490 --> 01:00:33,192
margin of error.

1243
01:00:33,311 --> 01:00:36,025
There's no margin of error, yeah
you're gonna blow up the whole

1244
01:00:36,045 --> 01:00:36,365
party.

1245
01:00:36,365 --> 01:00:39,492
So yeah, it's really I.

1246
01:00:39,672 --> 01:00:42,498
Speaker 1: I don't personally
think that he was a empire spy

1247
01:00:43,106 --> 01:00:47,735
right, like maybe he just needed
a reason to kind of kill him in

1248
01:00:47,735 --> 01:00:48,436
that moment.

1249
01:00:48,436 --> 01:00:51,280
But yeah, no, I I agree.

1250
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:54,753
I think that, like he realized,
okay, this guy's not, he's

1251
01:00:55,014 --> 01:00:57,969
obviously can't, he can't do the
job, and it's like we kind of

1252
01:00:57,989 --> 01:01:01,443
put ourselves in a hard spot
because we can't let this guy

1253
01:01:01,503 --> 01:01:04,869
leave, because he knows too much
and he's the best bet for this

1254
01:01:04,929 --> 01:01:05,230
job.

1255
01:01:05,230 --> 01:01:07,432
So I guess he's going to be
coming anyway.

1256
01:01:07,432 --> 01:01:11,880
I find that process of
extracting Rhydonium so

1257
01:01:11,980 --> 01:01:13,666
fascinating Like that.

1258
01:01:13,666 --> 01:01:18,813
Just it's a eight step process,
dude, and it looks so cool,

1259
01:01:19,144 --> 01:01:22,735
like you know, just like kind of
like you know the rotating of

1260
01:01:22,795 --> 01:01:27,447
like the machine, and to me it
just it looked awesome, like it

1261
01:01:27,728 --> 01:01:31,666
looked so complicated and it was
a really cool like scene to

1262
01:01:31,706 --> 01:01:31,987
have.

1263
01:01:31,987 --> 01:01:37,702
And man, your boy I know your
boy is just cracked out for

1264
01:01:37,742 --> 01:01:38,344
ridonium.

1265
01:01:38,403 --> 01:01:42,313
Speaker 2: No wonder why he's
insane, saw so in uh rogue one,

1266
01:01:42,572 --> 01:01:45,545
we all thought that he was like
huffing off oxygen, you know

1267
01:01:45,565 --> 01:01:45,786
like.

1268
01:01:45,786 --> 01:01:48,590
We thought that he was just
like ill and he needed the, you

1269
01:01:48,610 --> 01:01:49,291
know the inhaler.

1270
01:01:49,291 --> 01:01:52,637
Turns out he's just been
huffing rhodonium good boy.

1271
01:01:52,876 --> 01:01:54,985
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a drug
to this man.

1272
01:01:54,985 --> 01:01:56,288
He's just how does.

1273
01:01:56,288 --> 01:01:59,434
Oh, it's a drug cracked out on
him, man how is he now?

1274
01:02:00,215 --> 01:02:01,998
Speaker 3: how is he so like I?

1275
01:02:01,998 --> 01:02:08,215
How does he weather it, I mean,
and then like, will I, don't

1276
01:02:08,295 --> 01:02:08,456
under.

1277
01:02:08,456 --> 01:02:12,469
Did he just like get peer
pressured, like it sounds like?

1278
01:02:12,469 --> 01:02:15,556
It's the worst thing in the
world you would ever do to

1279
01:02:15,597 --> 01:02:20,402
yourself and like it's not like
hey take a hit of this joint

1280
01:02:20,483 --> 01:02:20,704
Right.

1281
01:02:20,704 --> 01:02:22,873
It's like I don't know.

1282
01:02:22,873 --> 01:02:24,672
Hey, here's some ether.

1283
01:02:24,672 --> 01:02:25,807
I don't.

1284
01:02:25,807 --> 01:02:28,195
It seems insane, right.

1285
01:02:29,065 --> 01:02:30,713
Speaker 2: It's a very extreme
high.

1286
01:02:30,713 --> 01:02:31,579
Yeah, give's some ether, it
seems insane.

1287
01:02:31,579 --> 01:02:32,282
Right, it's a very extreme high
.

1288
01:02:32,282 --> 01:02:32,724
Give me some spice.

1289
01:02:32,724 --> 01:02:33,347
He just tells.

1290
01:02:33,367 --> 01:02:35,253
Speaker 1: Wilmon like just
accept it.

1291
01:02:35,253 --> 01:02:38,612
Wilmon just looks like he's in
excruciating pain.

1292
01:02:38,612 --> 01:02:38,931
Dude.

1293
01:02:39,474 --> 01:02:41,057
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's
interesting.

1294
01:02:41,057 --> 01:02:43,452
And Wilmon's so surprised.

1295
01:02:43,452 --> 01:02:48,210
After he starts releasing the
Rhydonium, saw just kind of goes

1296
01:02:48,210 --> 01:02:50,711
up to him like oh, how I've
missed you.

1297
01:02:50,711 --> 01:02:55,793
And Wilma's like what on earth,
how are you doing this?

1298
01:02:55,793 --> 01:03:00,349
Because Saw just went on this
tangent about how your skin

1299
01:03:00,409 --> 01:03:03,713
starts to itch and you start
feeling your skin crawl like

1300
01:03:03,773 --> 01:03:04,375
it's alive.

1301
01:03:04,375 --> 01:03:08,614
And as a kid he like hooked on
this stuff.

1302
01:03:08,614 --> 01:03:11,268
You're asking how he weathered
it.

1303
01:03:11,268 --> 01:03:13,512
I think it's just tolerance.

1304
01:03:13,512 --> 01:03:18,253
You know, like you give you,
give a kid a taste of bourbon,

1305
01:03:18,614 --> 01:03:20,282
they're gonna hate it, they're
gonna spit it out.

1306
01:03:20,282 --> 01:03:21,324
It tastes gross to them.

1307
01:03:21,324 --> 01:03:24,306
There's no way that they're
gonna enjoy that because it just

1308
01:03:24,306 --> 01:03:27,909
tastes like spicy and bitter
and all of that.

1309
01:03:27,909 --> 01:03:32,112
But as an adult you grow
tolerances to certain things.

1310
01:03:32,112 --> 01:03:34,373
Now bourbon tastes fantastic to
me.

1311
01:03:34,373 --> 01:03:36,255
It feels really good going down
, burning.

1312
01:03:36,255 --> 01:03:39,617
The burning sensation is part
of the fun of it and I think

1313
01:03:39,677 --> 01:03:43,239
that is what we're experiencing
with the Rido.

1314
01:03:43,860 --> 01:03:49,706
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, you know
it's like at this point, are you

1315
01:03:49,706 --> 01:03:50,769
going to use this for
sarsaparilla?

1316
01:03:51,130 --> 01:03:52,476
Speaker 2: fuel fuel, or are you
gonna like just huff it all?

1317
01:03:52,476 --> 01:03:53,780
Yeah, I don't got an answer for
you.

1318
01:03:53,800 --> 01:03:55,846
Speaker 1: I, everybody else
will use it for starship fuel,

1319
01:03:56,206 --> 01:04:02,677
but saul's just gonna use it for
his own weird reasons yeah, no,

1320
01:04:02,677 --> 01:04:03,818
it's, it's bad.

1321
01:04:03,838 --> 01:04:06,893
Speaker 2: I want to look this
up actually, right don't?

1322
01:04:06,893 --> 01:04:07,536
I know?

1323
01:04:07,536 --> 01:04:10,449
I've heard that like so many
times before, like in random

1324
01:04:11,132 --> 01:04:13,320
things I mean, like this guy
could just be using regular

1325
01:04:13,380 --> 01:04:13,742
spice.

1326
01:04:13,842 --> 01:04:15,827
Speaker 1: You know whatever
would happen a good old spice

1327
01:04:16,650 --> 01:04:20,237
it's probably not strong enough,
man, not that it doesn't have

1328
01:04:20,297 --> 01:04:23,132
that rhododium strength, you
know, because like rhododium

1329
01:04:23,172 --> 01:04:27,766
because when you say rhododium
strong like, I mean it sounds

1330
01:04:27,847 --> 01:04:30,246
strong, but when you think of
spice, I'm thinking of like

1331
01:04:30,306 --> 01:04:33,438
maybe pepper right, some, you
know pepper salt, you know

1332
01:04:33,458 --> 01:04:36,568
oregano, whatever but you know
you think of rhodonium.

1333
01:04:36,568 --> 01:04:40,536
That honestly, doesn't even
rhodonium sounds like, it sounds

1334
01:04:40,536 --> 01:04:43,630
like an ore, it doesn't even
sound like a liquid.

1335
01:04:43,630 --> 01:04:48,157
You know yeah, but but yeah, no
, it's crazy.

1336
01:04:48,157 --> 01:04:49,097
I'm not too sure.

1337
01:04:49,097 --> 01:04:51,688
Is there anything else that you
, that you guys want to talk

1338
01:04:51,708 --> 01:04:52,048
about?

1339
01:04:52,710 --> 01:04:55,996
Speaker 2: I really liked luthen
and kleia in this arc.

1340
01:04:55,996 --> 01:04:59,793
I feel like we've talked a
little bit about them and I

1341
01:04:59,813 --> 01:05:02,983
appreciate that their dynamic is
growing.

1342
01:05:02,983 --> 01:05:05,931
We didn't really know what
their dynamic was in the first

1343
01:05:05,971 --> 01:05:09,547
season and we still don't know
at this point in the show, like,

1344
01:05:09,547 --> 01:05:11,795
what their dynamic is.

1345
01:05:11,795 --> 01:05:12,938
Are they related?

1346
01:05:12,938 --> 01:05:13,981
Are they friends?

1347
01:05:13,981 --> 01:05:16,146
Are they just partners for a
long time?

1348
01:05:16,146 --> 01:05:20,496
Could be in any number of
things, but I think it's really

1349
01:05:20,516 --> 01:05:25,469
cool that they have such a
professional relationship, even

1350
01:05:26,092 --> 01:05:26,853
on their downtime.

1351
01:05:26,853 --> 01:05:28,697
You know, like there is
technically, there is no

1352
01:05:28,804 --> 01:05:29,568
downtime for them.

1353
01:05:29,608 --> 01:05:34,202
They're on 24 7, because that's
what it takes to run a rebellion

1354
01:05:34,202 --> 01:05:38,210
and they're running it from the
center of civilization.

1355
01:05:38,371 --> 01:05:42,025
They're in the hornet's nest
while they're doing what they're

1356
01:05:42,025 --> 01:05:47,693
doing and it's it's so cool the
way the show uses them as

1357
01:05:48,936 --> 01:05:49,396
accesses.

1358
01:05:49,597 --> 01:05:50,597
They're literally an axis.

1359
01:05:50,597 --> 01:05:55,992
It's such a like fascinating
word because you think of an

1360
01:05:56,152 --> 01:06:00,844
axis, it's what the rest of,
it's what turns in the center of

1361
01:06:00,844 --> 01:06:01,186
things.

1362
01:06:01,186 --> 01:06:03,829
It's what turns in the center
is the one who's running all the

1363
01:06:03,829 --> 01:06:16,594
shots and they're partially
right, he's one cog of the

1364
01:06:16,634 --> 01:06:21,333
greater rebellion, but he is
like a mastermind of what's

1365
01:06:21,393 --> 01:06:25,768
going on in the galaxy
rebel-wise, and you think of

1366
01:06:25,889 --> 01:06:28,755
another term that's used in
machinery that's been applied to

1367
01:06:28,755 --> 01:06:30,438
characters like fulcrum.

1368
01:06:30,438 --> 01:06:34,987
Fulcrum was given to characters
like Ahsoka, later it will be

1369
01:06:35,007 --> 01:06:37,873
given to Cassian, and it makes
sense that there's multiple

1370
01:06:37,932 --> 01:06:42,510
fulcrums but there's only one
true axis, so a fulcrum is a

1371
01:06:42,570 --> 01:06:48,829
pivot point on the spinning
mechanism of the axis and these

1372
01:06:48,869 --> 01:06:52,887
characters Ahs, ahsoka, cassian
and others are fulcrums,

1373
01:06:52,947 --> 01:06:57,416
basically like they're pivots in
this moving cog and it's.

1374
01:06:57,416 --> 01:07:00,887
It's so cool the way that this
is all being explored

1375
01:07:01,728 --> 01:07:05,630
subtextually but also like in
real time on the show and I

1376
01:07:05,650 --> 01:07:07,472
think that it's just brilliant
writing.

1377
01:07:07,472 --> 01:07:08,172
It's so cool.

1378
01:07:08,733 --> 01:07:09,173
Speaker 1: I agree.

1379
01:07:09,173 --> 01:07:15,239
Oh yeah, and we also lose Senta
, which she was kind of not

1380
01:07:15,699 --> 01:07:20,807
around too much, Right, she was
kind of here and there, but she

1381
01:07:20,847 --> 01:07:23,836
ends up getting killed during
that heist.

1382
01:07:24,626 --> 01:07:25,751
Speaker 2: That heist on Gorman.

1383
01:07:25,945 --> 01:07:26,688
Speaker 1: Yes on.

1384
01:07:26,688 --> 01:07:27,411
Gorman.

1385
01:07:27,925 --> 01:07:28,927
Speaker 2: Yeah, I felt bad.

1386
01:07:29,670 --> 01:07:34,028
Val clearly was in love with
this person and the moment she

1387
01:07:34,088 --> 01:07:39,818
gets since a back since is like
literally killed by mistake by

1388
01:07:39,898 --> 01:07:43,771
some kid who, you know, thought
he could do his own thing on the

1389
01:07:43,771 --> 01:07:46,865
like as part of the rebellion,
and that's why leadership is so

1390
01:07:46,945 --> 01:07:47,527
necessary.

1391
01:07:47,606 --> 01:07:51,313
You know and talking about
gorman really quickly the

1392
01:07:51,353 --> 01:07:55,099
culture of this world was so
fantastically realized.

1393
01:07:55,099 --> 01:08:01,114
I am amazed every time it's on
screen because it feels legit,

1394
01:08:01,215 --> 01:08:02,985
it feels like a real world and
it what?

1395
01:08:02,985 --> 01:08:05,692
What helps it is that all the
actors are French.

1396
01:08:05,692 --> 01:08:10,007
They're not speaking French,
but they're speaking an alien

1397
01:08:10,027 --> 01:08:12,994
language based off of French
linguistics, which is why it

1398
01:08:13,054 --> 01:08:16,511
sounds like French, but you
can't actually pick up any of

1399
01:08:16,532 --> 01:08:17,014
the words.

1400
01:08:17,014 --> 01:08:18,719
It's so well done.

1401
01:08:18,719 --> 01:08:23,731
It's the cultural world
building of Gorman, making it

1402
01:08:23,792 --> 01:08:26,965
centered around these spiders
who create weaves and silk that

1403
01:08:27,206 --> 01:08:30,467
the galaxy needs, and then
bringing in Cassian to kind of

1404
01:08:30,488 --> 01:08:33,951
play onto that, because you know
, this whole world's ecosystem

1405
01:08:34,112 --> 01:08:39,235
runs on these spiders, basically
, and he's playing a designer so

1406
01:08:39,235 --> 01:08:44,400
that he can blend into this
world's ecosystem and it's dude.

1407
01:08:44,400 --> 01:08:48,344
The writing on this show is
next level and it just blows me

1408
01:08:48,384 --> 01:08:48,583
away.

1409
01:08:49,085 --> 01:08:51,708
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and also
something that I kind of wanted

1410
01:08:51,769 --> 01:08:56,618
to just kind of cap this
conversation on is PTSD.

1411
01:08:56,618 --> 01:09:04,574
And Bix has that big time with
what happened to her in season

1412
01:09:04,956 --> 01:09:06,377
one With Dr Gorse.

1413
01:09:06,417 --> 01:09:10,461
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and
actually these episodes cap that

1414
01:09:10,461 --> 01:09:12,788
like plot line off really,
really neatly.

1415
01:09:12,788 --> 01:09:16,256
We learn a couple episode, or
like an episode prior to this,

1416
01:09:16,396 --> 01:09:21,094
that dr gorse the guy who
invented the torture device or

1417
01:09:21,113 --> 01:09:24,948
the torture method that we saw
used on bix in the first season.

1418
01:09:24,948 --> 01:09:29,003
They want to embiggen this
project, they want to get more

1419
01:09:29,064 --> 01:09:32,212
people involved, they want to
make a whole team involved in

1420
01:09:32,252 --> 01:09:33,475
this interrogation process.

1421
01:09:33,475 --> 01:09:38,110
So they give Dr Gorse this
brand new wing within the

1422
01:09:38,150 --> 01:09:44,108
Imperial Complex on Coruscant
and I just love that Bix, who is

1423
01:09:44,108 --> 01:09:48,936
so distraught about this, gets
the opportunity to get her

1424
01:09:49,136 --> 01:09:50,118
comeuppance with this guy.

1425
01:09:50,864 --> 01:09:53,713
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then
Cassian just straight blows him

1426
01:09:53,895 --> 01:09:53,954
up.

1427
01:09:54,604 --> 01:09:54,805
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1428
01:09:54,805 --> 01:09:57,752
What did you think of the PTSD
Rich?

1429
01:09:57,752 --> 01:10:00,097
What did you feel about this
plotline with Vix?

1430
01:10:00,706 --> 01:10:04,274
Speaker 3: Well, I think the
first time I understand that to

1431
01:10:04,474 --> 01:10:06,698
properly short you need to do it
over a little bit more time.

1432
01:10:06,698 --> 01:10:11,529
But I I was just I was unsure
where it was really going.

1433
01:10:11,529 --> 01:10:16,377
But then the visit from luthan,
I think when I saw it the

1434
01:10:16,398 --> 01:10:18,347
second time around, made it way
more interesting.

1435
01:10:18,347 --> 01:10:20,412
And doors questioning of.

1436
01:10:20,412 --> 01:10:25,431
Well, if luthan did that and he
didn't tell me that and he came

1437
01:10:25,431 --> 01:10:27,759
home he knew you would tell me.

1438
01:10:27,759 --> 01:10:30,688
So he had to know that he's
always doing something for like,

1439
01:10:30,688 --> 01:10:35,516
and you could just really see
andor's paranoia.

1440
01:10:35,516 --> 01:10:37,587
But I don't want to call it
paranoia because he's right.

1441
01:10:38,291 --> 01:10:41,921
Speaker 2: I mean he's yeah no,
he's pardon, he is being

1442
01:10:41,962 --> 01:10:43,445
paranoid, but he's also right.

1443
01:10:43,445 --> 01:10:46,150
You know, you don't just get
visits from luthan.

1444
01:10:46,853 --> 01:10:50,164
Speaker 3: There's a reason so I
thought that again, like it's

1445
01:10:50,185 --> 01:10:53,430
just, I appreciate it way more
the second time.

1446
01:10:53,430 --> 01:11:00,010
I think I wanted to just kind
of get to some big resolutions a

1447
01:11:00,010 --> 01:11:02,555
little earlier than I, than I
should have the first watch

1448
01:11:02,576 --> 01:11:03,077
through, right.

1449
01:11:03,077 --> 01:11:06,891
So when I now know where
everything was, watching it

1450
01:11:06,953 --> 01:11:09,176
again, it really is paced well.

1451
01:11:09,176 --> 01:11:13,395
I think the way they did it was
excellent and without spoiling

1452
01:11:13,416 --> 01:11:18,087
too much for next week, right
Like this PTSD arc is really

1453
01:11:18,149 --> 01:11:18,548
important.

1454
01:11:19,090 --> 01:11:19,912
Speaker 2: Totally yeah.

1455
01:11:19,912 --> 01:11:24,345
So one last thing I do want to
mention, because I do think that

1456
01:11:24,345 --> 01:11:28,635
, you know, nothing is truly
perfect, and if I could give it

1457
01:11:28,774 --> 01:11:33,850
a criticism, I would say that
the jumps in years for every

1458
01:11:33,871 --> 01:11:37,417
three episodes is a little
jarring and there's a lot that

1459
01:11:37,618 --> 01:11:41,052
goes unsaid between episodes
that you just kind of have to

1460
01:11:41,092 --> 01:11:43,037
pick up the pieces on and try to
figure out.

1461
01:11:43,037 --> 01:11:46,828
And this will come into like I
think, like, think, like

1462
01:11:46,889 --> 01:11:51,354
technically, next week, the jump
from 3 BBY to 2 BBY is probably

1463
01:11:51,354 --> 01:11:55,899
like the hardest jump for me in
terms of like wow, I really

1464
01:11:55,960 --> 01:11:57,301
wish there was more to this
story.

1465
01:11:57,301 --> 01:12:00,234
I wish they told all of those
things that they're talking

1466
01:12:00,274 --> 01:12:00,494
about.

1467
01:12:01,324 --> 01:12:02,469
Speaker 1: You know they will
eventually.

1468
01:12:02,469 --> 01:12:05,572
Oh yeah, I'm excited about the
books.

1469
01:12:05,965 --> 01:12:08,287
Speaker 2: They teed it up so
nicely for publishing.

1470
01:12:08,287 --> 01:12:09,430
Oh yeah, I'm excited about the
books.

1471
01:12:09,430 --> 01:12:10,992
They teed it up so nicely for
publishing and their publishing

1472
01:12:11,051 --> 01:12:12,894
is literally just finishing up
the High Republic.

1473
01:12:12,894 --> 01:12:15,818
It's five years, I think, at
this point, and they're going to

1474
01:12:15,818 --> 01:12:17,859
need new territory and I think
they're going right into Andor

1475
01:12:18,100 --> 01:12:22,051
hopefully soon, because this is
such a ripe area, for I just

1476
01:12:22,072 --> 01:12:23,416
don't know that they can write
it as well.

1477
01:12:23,416 --> 01:12:26,914
I'm genuinely like will they
give us good stories in Andor?

1478
01:12:28,704 --> 01:12:29,935
Speaker 1: Or will they give us
good stories in Andor, or will

1479
01:12:29,954 --> 01:12:30,176
they not?

1480
01:12:30,176 --> 01:12:30,801
I think it can be done.

1481
01:12:30,820 --> 01:12:32,487
Speaker 2: you know it can be
done, but it's tough.

1482
01:12:32,567 --> 01:12:34,189
Speaker 1: You know when you're
going from.

1483
01:12:34,189 --> 01:12:37,975
You know a big huff of
Rhydonium to, you know Spice.

1484
01:12:39,158 --> 01:12:42,570
Speaker 2: Oof, yeah, Speaking
of which do next week, boys.

1485
01:12:43,373 --> 01:12:49,235
Speaker 1: Yes, next week we
shall be doing the last half of

1486
01:12:49,417 --> 01:12:54,393
Andor and you know that'll be
capping off the series because

1487
01:12:54,432 --> 01:12:58,180
the series rolls right into
Rogue One.

1488
01:12:58,625 --> 01:13:01,989
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do kind of
wish we, like you said earlier,

1489
01:13:02,250 --> 01:13:07,257
I wish we hadn't done Rogue One
and A New Hope so soon, because

1490
01:13:07,297 --> 01:13:08,479
it would have been nice to go
into it.

1491
01:13:08,479 --> 01:13:12,072
Hopefully, like in some future
episodes, we can go back and

1492
01:13:12,091 --> 01:13:16,229
like revisit certain things I
would like to do, like a Rogue

1493
01:13:16,389 --> 01:13:20,015
One and A New Hope rewatch after
Andor.

1494
01:13:20,015 --> 01:13:23,306
I know, rich, you already did
it, but I have I have yet to do

1495
01:13:23,346 --> 01:13:27,755
it yet, so I really can't wait
to like see how the story

1496
01:13:27,854 --> 01:13:31,467
unfolds in a new manner and a
new light after watching andor.

1497
01:13:31,467 --> 01:13:34,715
So it could be something we we,
you know do at some point.

1498
01:13:34,715 --> 01:13:37,528
But, guys, thank you for
listening to us here for our

1499
01:13:37,688 --> 01:13:40,994
124th episode of project
geekology.

1500
01:13:41,055 --> 01:13:44,408
We hope you enjoyed our
ramblings on the star wars

1501
01:13:44,448 --> 01:13:45,451
galaxy as a whole.

1502
01:13:45,451 --> 01:13:48,899
Please be sure to check out
next episode where we cover the

1503
01:13:49,000 --> 01:13:52,891
final six episodes of Andor as
they lead up to the events of

1504
01:13:52,931 --> 01:13:53,354
Rogue One.

1505
01:13:53,354 --> 01:13:57,747
We're excited to finally get to
what I believe is probably the

1506
01:13:57,807 --> 01:14:00,395
best couple hours of Star Wars
ever produced.

1507
01:14:00,395 --> 01:14:03,014
And yeah, thanks so much for
listening.

1508
01:14:03,014 --> 01:14:05,265
If you want to check us out on
any of our socials, be sure to

1509
01:14:05,305 --> 01:14:06,431
click down into the show notes.

1510
01:14:06,431 --> 01:14:07,730
You'll find us there.

1511
01:14:07,730 --> 01:14:13,889
And, yeah, boys, stay juicy,
like that Rhydonium that you

1512
01:14:13,930 --> 01:14:18,037
know, like that Rhydonium that
Saw Gerrera is huffing and

1513
01:14:18,057 --> 01:14:18,378
puffing.

1514
01:14:18,378 --> 01:14:22,550
You need some of that juice in
your life, and to do so, I think

1515
01:14:22,550 --> 01:14:26,277
what you'd really need to do is
Anthony, you want to explain it

1516
01:14:26,277 --> 01:14:26,476
to them?

1517
01:14:26,476 --> 01:14:27,238
What do we?

1518
01:14:27,259 --> 01:14:27,378
Speaker 1: need.

1519
01:14:27,378 --> 01:14:30,987
You know we need that strong
Rydonian.

1520
01:14:30,987 --> 01:14:32,871
You know five star review.

1521
01:14:32,871 --> 01:14:37,078
You know we want it to be so
strong that it even knocks.

1522
01:14:37,078 --> 01:14:42,216
You know, saw Guerrera back a
few pegs and you know, just keep

1523
01:14:42,216 --> 01:14:46,029
them coming for more yeah, yeah
, speaking about pegs, we never

1524
01:14:46,131 --> 01:14:47,854
like figure out how he lost his
leg.

1525
01:14:48,414 --> 01:14:50,279
Speaker 2: Anyway, guys, yeah,
this is.

1526
01:14:50,279 --> 01:14:51,768
This is episode 124.

1527
01:14:51,768 --> 01:14:56,337
We shall see you or you'll hear
from us, anyway, next week bye

1528
01:14:56,356 --> 01:14:56,556
guys.

1529
01:14:56,716 --> 01:14:58,810
Speaker 1: Long live the gentle
lads.

1530
01:14:58,810 --> 01:15:00,398
Love it peace.