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Speaker 1: Hey, solidverbal listeners, this is your dear friend Dan. Hey,

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Speaker 1: what's going on? Wanted to quickly slide on in with

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Speaker 1: this message to let you know about extra Nuggets, the

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Speaker 1: brand new podcast Brand new posted by me and friend

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Speaker 1: of the show Adam Amm. Yeah, we got them. The

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Speaker 1: show is fun and the concept is simple. We take

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Speaker 1: two Jeopardy categories, one more pop cultury and one more

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Speaker 1: academic from the archives and each learn a little bit

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Speaker 1: more about each of the ten correct responses. So here's

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Speaker 1: a quick taste just to what your appetite. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to give you a year, and I'm going to give

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Speaker 1: you a movie quote from one character to another complimenting

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Speaker 1: that character, and you have to just tell me the

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Speaker 1: movie all right? That work? Okay? Single Jeopardy for one

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars nineteen seventy seven. The force is strong with

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Speaker 1: this one. You just need the movie title. I just

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Speaker 1: need the movie title. What is Star Wars? Star Wars

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Speaker 1: is correct? Star Wars is absolutely correct. Pitched in nineteen

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Speaker 1: seventy four, as you can imagine, in the seventies, the

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Speaker 1: highest grossing movie ever if adjusted for inflation, at about

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Speaker 1: one point five billion dollars. What I came across was

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Speaker 1: in the pitching process. George Lucas brought illustrations by a

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Speaker 1: concept artist, a concept designer by the name of Ralph McCrory.

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Speaker 1: And I don't like to litter this show with a

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Speaker 1: bunch of names, but my guy Ralph is a legend.

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Speaker 1: He is an absolute legend. George Lucas went to him

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Speaker 1: and said, here's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking about this

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Speaker 1: like weird thing. It's a future. It's galaxy, not far

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Speaker 1: far or it is far far away, and there's robots,

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Speaker 1: and there's these ships and like they're kind of old ships,

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Speaker 1: but they're futuristic ships. And my guy Ralph was like,

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Speaker 1: I gotcha, I gotcha, And this is the guy credited

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Speaker 1: with Well, they eventually sell it in nineteen seventy four,

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Speaker 1: they sell it to Fox, but George Lucas shows up

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Speaker 1: with all these illustrations of like, here's what R two

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Speaker 1: D two is going to look like, Here's what the

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Speaker 1: Millennium Falcon is going to look like. Here's what Darth

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Speaker 1: Vader's going to look like. Yes you don't see his

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Speaker 1: no you don't see his face, but he's wearing like

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Speaker 1: a weird futuristic space samurai helmet, and so the fact

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Speaker 1: is this guy Ralph had all of this in his

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Speaker 1: head of like how this is going to work out?

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Speaker 1: They sell the movie, and meanwhile it is the most

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Speaker 1: iconic sci fi visual of all time that was either

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Speaker 1: going to be seen as genius or completely laughed at

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Speaker 1: in the room. Like in nineteen seventy four, the number

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Speaker 1: one movie in America was Blazing Saddles, Like The Godfather

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Speaker 1: Part two was nineteen seventy four. Like you look at

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Speaker 1: the movies in nineteen seventy four, nobody was like, hey guys,

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Speaker 1: so there's gonna be a Wookie.

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Speaker 2: They were just going there were no alien life forms

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Speaker 2: in these prises.

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Speaker 1: It was all just people, right, It was just these

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Speaker 1: humans in race ass movies. And here comes Georgie Lucas

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Speaker 1: saying like, ah, Boba fet though, people like what does

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Speaker 1: that mean?

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Speaker 2: And then fifty years later, yeah, Boba fet is like

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Speaker 2: one of the most popular, of course, television characters in

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Speaker 2: American culture. Now.

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Speaker 1: So this guy, this concept artist, just brought everything to life.

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Speaker 1: He ends up, you know, winning Oscars and works on

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Speaker 1: a number of huge movies et Indiana Jones, all sorts

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Speaker 1: of huge that actually ends up designing a ship in

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Speaker 1: Star Trek, which is a fun crossover. But the fact

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Speaker 1: that like this just explodes out of the brain of

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Speaker 1: somebody is just I mean, you think about it had

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Speaker 1: to have at some point, but that it was this

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Speaker 1: like George Lucas and this guy just like yep, here

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Speaker 1: is here's an X wing, Here's a tie fighter like

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Speaker 1: and it's just it just is mind blowing that somebody

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Speaker 2: To me, eight American soldiers lost their lives in a

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Speaker 2: failed attempt to rescue hostages held at the US embassy

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Speaker 2: in this city in April of nineteen eighty.

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Speaker 1: I believe a movie came abyss is it Tehran?

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Speaker 2: It is Tehran, which is of course the capital of

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Speaker 2: the country of Iran. I believe the movie that you're

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Speaker 2: thinking of is Argo. Different different point for time, different

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Speaker 2: point of time. It was that the Canadian Caper was

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Speaker 2: kind of the PostScript of everything that had taken place

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Speaker 2: in the couple of years prior, and that Canadian Caper

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Speaker 2: is what was the inspiration for the movie Argo. But

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Speaker 2: in April of nineteen eighty, an event called Operation Eagle

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Speaker 2: Claw took place. So let's give you a little bit

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Speaker 2: of backstory real quick. November of nineteen seventy nine, fifty

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Speaker 2: two United States diplomats and citizens were held hostage after

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Speaker 2: a group of militarized Iranian college students took over the

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Speaker 2: US embassy in Tehran and seized the hostages. Diplomatic standoff

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Speaker 2: ensues four hundred and forty four days. The hostages were held,

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Speaker 2: so over a year. January twentieth of nineteen eighty one

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Speaker 2: is when they were finally released. So that's the general

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Speaker 2: background of this. In nineteen eighty specifically in the month

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Speaker 2: of April. Early that month, the US cut off all

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Speaker 2: diplomatic relations with Iran and put Iran under embargo. About

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Speaker 2: three weeks later, negotiations ended up failing. President Carter Jenny

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Speaker 2: Carter ordered the military rescue mission known as Operation Eagle Claw,

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Speaker 2: to free the hostages. The rescue failed in the Iranian

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Speaker 2: desert as two helicopters ended up colliding. That's how the

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Speaker 2: eight US soldiers ended up passing in the accident. There

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Speaker 2: was eventually a solution reached, but it took another gosh

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Speaker 2: almost year to get to that point, and that, as

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Speaker 2: we said, cost Jimmy Carter the election later that year.

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Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty Is there a conspiracy theory or has

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Speaker 1: it confirmed about something with Reagan? And then I think

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Speaker 1: head of the CIA, George hw. Bush, that they were

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Speaker 1: going to wait to free the hostages until Reagan got

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Speaker 1: into office, so then he was the one credited with

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Speaker 1: solving everything. Maybe I'm making this up. That's something that

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Speaker 1: I remember seeing somewhere.

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Speaker 2: That is the October surprise, is what you're thinking of.

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Speaker 2: So that is an alleged plot to influence the outcome

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Speaker 2: of the nineteen eighty election between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.

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Speaker 2: One of the biggest issues during that election was at

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Speaker 2: the time, it was about sixty six hostages still being

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Speaker 2: held in Iran, so you know a portion of those

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Speaker 2: hostages had been released. But Reagan ended up winning the

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Speaker 2: election on the day of his inauguration. So I gave

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Speaker 2: you the date in nineteen eighty one, the day of

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Speaker 2: his inauguration, minutes after he had concluded his twenty minute

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Speaker 2: inaugural address, that's when the Islamic Republic of Iran announced

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Speaker 2: the release of the to do so the timing of

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Speaker 2: things is what created the cloud of a potential conspiracy.

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Speaker 1: The new president had not been in office an hour

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Speaker 1: when the former hostages became free men and women.

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Speaker 2: A gag.

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Speaker 1: All right, so I'm whatever for whatever. Three for three,

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Speaker 1: four for four, four for four. You're doing great, all right,

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