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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to another Star Wars themed episode of X

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Speaker 1: ray Vision. We continue to explore a galaxy far far away.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a shorter episode, expanding on some stuff

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Speaker 1: that we talked about in the previous episode and some

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Speaker 1: new topics.

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Speaker 2: Hey everyone, just a quick note.

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Speaker 3: We recorded a reaction to the first Acolyte trailer back

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Speaker 3: when it dropped, but we were still on hiatus and

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Speaker 3: didn't get to share it with anyone, So we're actually

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Speaker 3: gonna play that conversation first, then follow up with our

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Speaker 3: reaction to the new Acolyte trailer that came out on

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Speaker 3: May fourth, so you'll get to both reactions back to back.

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Speaker 1: Hope you enjoy the Acolyte trailer. Acolyte coming out June fourth.

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Speaker 1: This is a new timeline that we have never seen

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Speaker 1: before action taking place in the kind of years before

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Speaker 1: the Clone Wars timelines. We have very little idea about

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Speaker 1: what who the bad guys is, who the good guys are,

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Speaker 1: what the actual story is. But this is super exciting

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Speaker 1: and it's the introduction of the character Vern from the

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Speaker 1: High Republic books.

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Speaker 3: Your thoughts about that, Yeah, I thought this trailer was

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Speaker 3: super cool and one of the things I really like

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Speaker 3: I always talk about with Star Wars is this toxic

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Speaker 3: nature of the Jedi master relationship. And this looks like

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Speaker 3: it's gonna explore that again because we get a new

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Speaker 3: Stemberg's character, and it seems like when she starts to

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Speaker 2: But I do think they're setting us up. It's a

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Speaker 2: murder mystery.

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Speaker 3: It's by Leslie Hedlind, who made the incredible Russian Doll show,

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Speaker 3: So it's gonna be twisty and there's a murder mystery

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Speaker 3: that while they want us to think this is about

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Speaker 3: the nature of democratizing the force, because there is a

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Speaker 3: but who do use the force, and there's this great

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Speaker 3: I think we could be seeing something really interesting here

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Speaker 3: about the dangers of maybe a full because the High

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Speaker 3: Republic is an era, as we've seen in the books

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Speaker 2: But as we know, that's never the truth.

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Speaker 1: Never been more influential, never been more powerful. I am

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Speaker 1: interested to see, you know, we've talked a lot on

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Speaker 1: this show about exactly what you mentioned, the issues, the

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Speaker 1: problematic nature of Jedi culture, the relationship between student I'm

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Speaker 1: eager to see if that culture makes more sense in

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Speaker 1: if they're just more effective, if what they were, if

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Speaker 1: thousands of years ago during the New Republican. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: they just didn't progress.

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Speaker 2: That's a great point.

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Speaker 3: Also, the cost for this is so stacked, like Amandla

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Speaker 3: Stembug May, who's this kind of mysterious, potentially deadly Potowan who's.

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Speaker 2: Left, Harry Anne Moss as a Jedi master.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Jodie Turner Smith who plays the head of the

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Speaker 2: It looks great, a Jedi was murdered, the Jedi.

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Speaker 1: Justify the galactic dominance in the name of Piece, but

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Speaker 2: So we have a new trailer for the Acolyte, which

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Speaker 3: We see Master Soul, who's played by Leela Lee Jung Jay,

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Speaker 3: We are now confirmed around one hundred years before the

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Speaker 1: Yes, I mean it seemed like a very conscious break

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Speaker 3: So good for you, Manny. I like this. This is

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Speaker 3: It actually just looks like a real fight as opposed

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Speaker 2: And this is a fandom.

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Speaker 3: This was something our producer Joel pointed out to us.

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Speaker 3: The Acolyte is coming June fourth two, episode premiere on

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Coming up, we're jumping into the time capsule to

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