Speaker 1: Hello, welcome to another edition of Nerdificent. I am one
Speaker 1: half of your host, Danny Fernandez, and sitting across for
Speaker 1: me as always. Wow. Sorry, I was looking to give
Speaker 1: my nerded out thing and then I kind of zoned out.
Speaker 1: You know, we're I just got spinster. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: even here yet, and I had to react to that.
Speaker 1: Anthony Carboy Is that's the voice that you heard. He's
Speaker 1: the host of the Star Wars show. He's also a
Speaker 1: cat's afficionado. Sat next to me during a rowdy screen
Speaker 1: Do you want to made a rowdy screening? Is? I
Speaker 1: was very I'm glad I was with you because I
Speaker 1: was I did not want to go. You need you
Speaker 1: definitely need a shepherd. You need somebody to uh, somebody
Speaker 1: to be your safe space, your your connection between the
Speaker 1: real world and the world of cats fandom. Sure. We
Speaker 1: went to a rowdy screening at the Alamo, which is
Speaker 1: um Once a day they do a rowdy screening where
Speaker 1: you can just come in and scream and yell at
Speaker 1: the screen and uh and they serve they serve special drinks.
Speaker 1: We had. We had drinks served to us in saucers
Speaker 1: because it's cats and it's a it's a real good time.
Speaker 1: It's a real good time. That sounds so good. And
Speaker 1: the person sitting across from him, comedian writer Clee Wiggins. Hello. Um,
Speaker 1: what I was going to say is Anthony commented on
Speaker 1: my perfect Jimmy Stewart impressions. Yeah, here we go. It
Speaker 1: was great. Honestly, Jimmy Stewart's awesome. Yeah, he is great
Speaker 1: the impression of my Um Clee, what are you seeking
Speaker 1: out about this week? Uh? This week? The boyfriend and
Speaker 1: I just finished watching this weekend the BBC Netflix Dracula
Speaker 1: miniseries and it was so awesome until like the last
Speaker 1: fifteen or twenty minutes and then you're like, what, I
Speaker 1: watched a part of it. Yeah, it's where they skipped
Speaker 1: forward two thousand years and Dracula is on a spaceship
Speaker 1: and you're like, that's that wasn't even needed. It's so
Speaker 1: weird to do in the last fifteen minutes, some space blow. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The fact that they brought in Dracula three thousands was
Speaker 1: really strange. It was really strange to make Andre three thousand,
Speaker 1: So I thought it was gonna like it way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it felt gimmicky and all honesty, but I like the
Speaker 1: first two and one third episode, Anthony, what about you?
Speaker 1: You know what it? It It just occurred to me because
Speaker 1: you asked me beforehand, and I had a bad one,
Speaker 1: But I do have a good one. Doctor who is back.
Speaker 1: Doctor is back, and it's very good this season. I
Speaker 1: feel like last last season they were trying to get
Speaker 1: their footing with like an entirely new crew, and now
Speaker 1: I feel like they've they've really nailed it locked. I
Speaker 1: would wait at the end of the season and then
Speaker 1: I binge it because I can't wait week to week,
Speaker 1: so it's just better if I put all of those
Speaker 1: weeks together. It's one of the few that like, I
Speaker 1: will buy at the beginning of the season. Um, even
Speaker 1: though it's like airing, I could watch it on BBC
Speaker 1: America because BBC America has the most obnoxious amount of
Speaker 1: commercial breaks. I think any channel in the world. Absolutely
Speaker 1: it will make anything just a misery to watch agree
Speaker 1: because I just I buy it too. Yeah, it's one
Speaker 1: of the ones where I'm just like, I just want
Speaker 1: this uninterrupted. I'll wait and I'll wait until the next day.
Speaker 1: I won't check online and see what people are saying.
Speaker 1: I'll just I'll just watch it. Pristine. You know, I
Speaker 1: stay away from everything and then I wait for the
Speaker 1: ten or twelve episodes to air, and then I watch
Speaker 1: it all in like a weekend. C w app is
Speaker 1: bad about that too, Actually, so is UM. I watched
Speaker 1: Ships Creak on Pop because that's how you can because
Speaker 1: the last season, the final season. But if you want
Speaker 1: to watch it in like real time is that they're
Speaker 1: coming out, it's on Pop and that's the same thing.
Speaker 1: I cannot fast forward through the commercials and it's just traumatizing,
Speaker 1: to be honest. My geeky thing is that Ezra Miller
Speaker 1: popped up on Crisis on Infinite Earth. I know that
Speaker 1: Mark Guggenheim and everybody there. Uh, we're trying to get
Speaker 1: as many people as they could. You know, they had
Speaker 1: Tom Welling on another episode, and the Welling scene was good.
Speaker 1: The Welling scene. Yeah. Yeah, And everyone keeps tagging me
Speaker 1: because we didn't we did a Crisis Aftermath for like
Speaker 1: the first half and then the second half. Look TV is,
Speaker 1: they weren't even done shooting them. They weren't even done
Speaker 1: shooting them. I think when we did our Crisis Afternoon.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm allowed to say that, but Anyways,
Speaker 1: I did say it, and um, so yeah, but I
Speaker 1: thought it was really cool that they got Ezra Miller
Speaker 1: and Bananas. I've been watching the c W shows in
Speaker 1: a couple of years, but I might have to re
Speaker 1: up and catch up just to get to that, and
Speaker 1: then I'll probably stop again. They're fun, they're getting they're
Speaker 1: getting real wild now, which I love because especially with
Speaker 1: Arrow Ending, they're going, they're making they're making big moves
Speaker 1: in They're making big moves with that character. And I
Speaker 1: think they finally announced, Um Clark and Lois Superman and
Speaker 1: Low Yeah and him, Yeah, of course love it. I
Speaker 1: love her too. But there are the two of them
Speaker 1: together like it's it was so funny watching Crisis and
Speaker 1: seeing like Brandon Routh standing next to you know, Tom
Speaker 1: Welling standing next to Tyler, and they all look so different.
Speaker 1: But I look at all three of them, I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: you're all Superman. All of you look exactly like Superman
Speaker 1: in some weird way. To me, it's amazing because they
Speaker 1: all look totally different. Um, it's been fun. It's been
Speaker 1: fun to see all the people that they've been able
Speaker 1: to kind of collect and throw in for a minute
Speaker 1: or two here and there. Yeah, I would argue the
Speaker 1: same for the Batman's. You know, all those Bruce Wayne's
Speaker 1: they equally. There's so many different ways that you can
Speaker 1: play to see Kevin actually do it, Like live action
Speaker 1: was like really wonderful, and yeah, the animated Batman voice
Speaker 1: and he was the jerkiest Bruce Wayne to ever be
Speaker 1: a jerk, and it was wonderful. It was wonderful to
Speaker 1: see because he's the sweetest man in the history of time.
Speaker 1: We asked, I remember I tweeted and was asking people
Speaker 1: what they wanted him to say, and um, we got
Speaker 1: him to say, like, welcome to Good Burger, the Good Burger.
Speaker 1: Can I take your order? If what are you seeking
Speaker 1: out about? I'm getting out about a little trailer that
Speaker 1: dropped over the weekend, that morbious trailer, because there's a
Speaker 1: lot going on in it, so so much. But you know,
Speaker 1: I'm so dang curious because I'm like, because because it's
Speaker 1: it's like, of course we knew they were going to
Speaker 1: say from the studio that brought you Spider Man Homecoming
Speaker 1: Far from Home and the third movie they shouted out
Speaker 1: and venom uh, which I'm like, are they creating like
Speaker 1: a villain verse from these like these movies, which if
Speaker 1: they are, are they connecting, like are they doing a
Speaker 1: sinister six? And then at the end it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna smush it with this m c U. Spidy.
Speaker 1: Also that makes me wonder if Sony did end up
Speaker 1: keeping Spider Man, was that their plan was there going
Speaker 1: to smush him in this world? I just there's so
Speaker 1: much did even digest. There is a shot at the
Speaker 1: end of that trailer where Morbus is walking down an
Speaker 1: alley and he passes a painting of Spider Man, like
Speaker 1: a mural of spider which Venom did not mention Spider Man,
Speaker 1: like they weren't allowed. But the Spider Man is like
Speaker 1: a Sam Ramie suit Spider Man, but like graffitied over.
Speaker 1: It is the word murderer, which is referring to homecoming.
Speaker 1: And so I'm like, what are y'all doing? And does
Speaker 1: this mean in Venom to Spiderman and Venom are finally
Speaker 1: going to kiss? Because that's all I'm waiting for. Are
Speaker 1: they gonna kiss? I think I think that's they're They're
Speaker 1: gonna do it. They're gonna have that, They're gonna smush
Speaker 1: these worlds they're gonna smush the worlds, They're gonna smush faces,
Speaker 1: they're gonna kiss, and then they're gonna talk about kissing.
Speaker 1: And they're very good American accents. And does that mean
Speaker 1: that we are going to get Woody Harrelson as Carnage whoa,
Speaker 1: which I'm like, oh, I'm ready, well, you burned Carnage
Speaker 1: when you did it in Venom with the other Venoms.
Speaker 1: Morbous looks like, looks like somebody opened a time capsule
Speaker 1: from the year two thousand and one and they're just like,
Speaker 1: this is what a superhero movie is, and I am
Speaker 1: here for it. Yeah. And like the fact that they
Speaker 1: did go with the upturned nose face which to look
Speaker 1: like a bat, which I was like, that was a
Speaker 1: choice that could have just been left. Could I just
Speaker 1: look like Jared Leto? Yeah, because he's ghoulish enough. What
Speaker 1: does Dracula look like in the New Dracula? Um, he's
Speaker 1: super handsome and old like when they first show him,
Speaker 1: he's old, like super old, and then he is drinking
Speaker 1: new blood until he gets younger and younger until he's
Speaker 1: finally like about forty eight years old. Okay, um, but
Speaker 1: it really looks like if the Count were a little
Speaker 1: bit younger and hotter and not a muppet, yeah kind
Speaker 1: of yeah, like the Count from Testame Street. Also, we
Speaker 1: could get younger and possible for the Count to get hotter.
Speaker 1: Somebody had to say, he's like, you know, he's very
Speaker 1: he's like very swarthy and dark chocola. Yeah, but not
Speaker 1: like not he white's in a in a in black face.
Speaker 1: In my OPI counch Chocula is as a white actor
Speaker 1: in the eighties, higher plays a nationality. Yeah, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I think the active who plays him as Swedish. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: but there I do. Danny is right. If you there
Speaker 1: were somewhere he was like, yeah, if you go back,
Speaker 1: he is brown for some reason. Yeah, yeah, see, I
Speaker 1: know I'm not crazy. They just they just told a
Speaker 1: Jewish guy to go to a tanning bed and told
Speaker 1: him but nobody'll even noticed. This is who asked I
Speaker 1: can't remember, but this is Dracula. Oh yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a good looking Dracula. Good looking. Do they do like
Speaker 1: a weird Gary Oldenman thing at the end where he
Speaker 1: just turns into a weird old bat. No, actually he
Speaker 1: turns into multiple bats when he when he goes batty,
Speaker 1: and that's what he says to He goes, I'm going back.
Speaker 1: That's Dracula's catchphrase from the HIG series Dracula. And he
Speaker 1: also like, can like put on the skin of other creatures? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch this. I remember I was asking on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, horror heads, like, what's a what's
Speaker 1: a horror that you think doesn't get enough? You know,
Speaker 1: we all know the ones that do, like the Shining
Speaker 1: Halloween blah blah blah, Like, what are some films that
Speaker 1: you think don't get enough love? And Lawn Harris replied
Speaker 1: with Bram Stoker's Dracula. I'm like, yeah, it's because nobody
Speaker 1: knows about that underground Yeah, underground, little known film. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like, I get it. It still deserves more love,
Speaker 1: but I just it made me laugh. Um. But maybe
Speaker 1: one day Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Keana Reeves will
Speaker 1: get the respect they deserve Inwood, you know, maybe one day. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But it's like it's from Stephen Moffatt and Mark Gaddis,
Speaker 1: So oh I did not know that. Yeah, Okay, now
Speaker 1: I'm in Mark Gaddis plays Reinfield. Nice. I love the
Speaker 1: Gattus always gives himself like the jerkiest parts, and he
Speaker 1: just finds that so fun to do. I love people
Speaker 1: who write terrible roles for themselves, you know. Yeah he does,
Speaker 1: Like even on Doctor Who, like he played a jack, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because he's like, what's the what's the most obnoxious guy
Speaker 1: I could play? Today? Yeah? That's fun. You know we
Speaker 1: are talking about. What are we talking about today? The
Speaker 1: planets of Star Wars? Sanda, that's the Star Wars song. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it. That's the Star Wars song I sung by
Speaker 1: Jimmy Stewart perfectly Clarence. So it's like he's here. I
Speaker 1: keep looking over to see if he's here. Um, so okay, yes,
Speaker 1: this is our second part, third part in our Star
Speaker 1: Wars series. Uh. We are tackling you know, there's there.
Speaker 1: We're tackling things that don't always get talked about as much,
Speaker 1: and so this one we wanted to dive into the
Speaker 1: planets now before we do, does anyone have a favorite?
Speaker 1: I do? Yeah, what's your favorite? I love it's very cool. Um.
Speaker 1: It was the Empire Strikes Back the video game for
Speaker 1: sixty four. Oh my gosh, I loved it. I was
Speaker 1: obsessed it was also a good map on Battlefront. It
Speaker 1: was a great all the tiny little caves and then
Speaker 1: when it turned into when it turned into like the
Speaker 1: full scale warfare and you're just on the giant snowfield. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hat is great. And it's such an iconic Star Wars
Speaker 1: moment too. Yeah, it's one of my favorite, my favorite
Speaker 1: battle scene on it, which is I love the ad
Speaker 1: at the toe cables, And that's every video game, like
Speaker 1: you were saying, every video game wants to do the
Speaker 1: toe cables. Yeah, I feel like I feel like sixty
Speaker 1: four was the first one that did it in a
Speaker 1: way where I was like, oh, I like this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like this a lot. But also, um, it's also
Speaker 1: you where you cut off where you cut open a
Speaker 1: tonton to sleep in. That's great. Oh so sick and
Speaker 1: all the steam that came out of it gave us
Speaker 1: some great Star Wars march out of that time fight
Speaker 1: a Wampa. Yeah, he made a time Tom sleeping bag
Speaker 1: that looks like you're sleeping inside of Tom. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's got such a great It's got such great Han
Speaker 1: and Laab moments too. Yeah, that's where they really like
Speaker 1: tap into the like the old school Hollywood like rom
Speaker 1: Com Friday. Yeah, exactly, like a Katherine Hepburn like Carrie
Speaker 1: Grant sort of vibe between the two of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: half is good. Yeah, so we'll dive more into that.
Speaker 1: But does anyone else have a beloved best be Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how I do. That's not that's how we pronounce it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like sky Cities, that's bean is the sky one right? Yes? Yes,
Speaker 1: cities are good. Cloud City is like it's a very
Speaker 1: iconic location. It's That's one of the things that I
Speaker 1: like about Star Wars Planets is you know, every everybody
Speaker 1: at this table is a writer, so I like there
Speaker 1: are three ways to kind of tell your story, and
Speaker 1: it's like plot, character, or setting, And Star Wars is
Speaker 1: so good at just like creating settings out of whole
Speaker 1: cloth to match whatever the vibe is. Like the idea
Speaker 1: of Lando, like living in a palace that's like literally
Speaker 1: shrouded in like you can't see anything else and all
Speaker 1: you can see is the classy, like upstanding, wealthy part, right,
Speaker 1: but you can't see what's going on underneath. And that's
Speaker 1: such a good Like of course Lando's from there, of
Speaker 1: course he's from there. So I just love the way
Speaker 1: Star Wars is able to kind of like match that
Speaker 1: up to whatever is going on story wise or character wise.
Speaker 1: That reminds me of whenever you read a script of
Speaker 1: like it's set in New York and it's like the
Speaker 1: city is a character. It's almost as though the city
Speaker 1: itself spit you out. I'm a fan of KSh yes um.
Speaker 1: I love the idea, like they can't really go on
Speaker 1: the forest floor in cash like indoor. There's like a
Speaker 1: shadow land there and it's dangerous down there. So so so
Speaker 1: I like the fact that you have to like swing
Speaker 1: from tree to tree or build bridges and stuff. It's awesome.
Speaker 1: Also causes my fake club name back in my twenties,
Speaker 1: and of course, you know, because I'm black, I got
Speaker 1: away with it. Even with the double y. Nobody ever
Speaker 1: blinked twice at that. Nobody was like, even if they
Speaker 1: know Star Wars, they don't want to challenge you on it.
Speaker 1: They're just saying no, no, no, she says her name
Speaker 1: is yeah. You know why with the college in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: nobody questions. And I even gave out my fake phone
Speaker 1: number was from Star Wars The seven. You are such
Speaker 1: a nerd and I never got busted on that either.
Speaker 1: We were we were coming up in the elevator on
Speaker 1: the way up here, and I look over, Yeah, Plea's
Speaker 1: got her Mando bag Boba fett like clutch. And then
Speaker 1: I look and she's also got han solo leggings. And
Speaker 1: then I look and she's got she's got a Stormtrooper
Speaker 1: phone case. And we were like, we're going to the
Speaker 1: same place because I saw the book, and he's like, yep,
Speaker 1: there we go it, Anthony, what about you? Oh man?
Speaker 1: So many good ones, so many good ones. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say that I think my favorite is Corressant. That's where
Speaker 1: I would want to Yeah, I'm really obsessed with the
Speaker 1: idea of so Corressant is from from the prequels famously,
Speaker 1: and it is sort of like it's a it's a
Speaker 1: core world, which the core worlds are like the center
Speaker 1: of civilization. And I really love sci fi or fantasy
Speaker 1: that includes the city that's an entire planet, like the
Speaker 1: idea of a city, like no matter where you go
Speaker 1: on this planet, it's just dense city all around you.
Speaker 1: Like that is really exciting to me. I hope that
Speaker 1: exists for real. I mean, it's like it's so horrible
Speaker 1: because it's immediately dystopian, right, like that's the thing, but
Speaker 1: it's but it's also incredibly attractive, like you to live there.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh my gosh, there's always something. It's almost
Speaker 1: as though the city planet is a character. Almost Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you want to you want to live there because
Speaker 1: you're like there's always something going on. In course, there's
Speaker 1: always something going on, you know, there's always something to do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's very it's very like reminiscent of like you
Speaker 1: think about Corressan as kind of like New York maybe
Speaker 1: in the sixties, where the Stock Exchange is there, the
Speaker 1: biggest the biggest museums are there, like everything, the best
Speaker 1: universities are there, Like that's where you want to be.
Speaker 1: You want to be on conhole. I was trying to
Speaker 1: think of a like Corrossance sex in the city, Like
Speaker 1: that's why you don't want to wake up next to
Speaker 1: a wampa. Yes, so let's dive into Corraissan. It's originally
Speaker 1: called no Tron, also known as Imperial Center, Queen of
Speaker 1: the Core, and the Galactic City. Corsant was a planet
Speaker 1: located in the Galactic Core. It was generally agreed that
Speaker 1: Corssan was during most of galactic history, the most politically
Speaker 1: important world in the galaxy. And like Anthony was saying,
Speaker 1: when you see it from space, the planet surface is
Speaker 1: littered with sparkling lights. It's got a club. You can
Speaker 1: get death sticks anytime at night. Death It's the spiciest
Speaker 1: club in town. That Stefan from SNL. This club has everything,
Speaker 1: death sticks, shape shifting blocks, laser brains. Uh so it
Speaker 1: actually in coorus on the ocean's dried up due to overpopulation.
Speaker 1: What a political commentary. Yeah, you know set fifteen years
Speaker 1: ago when the pretty cold come can't do math. Well,
Speaker 1: it's got it's it's got such a Jetsons vibe to
Speaker 1: it too, because I don't know if there was like
Speaker 1: a Jetsons movie that came out like in the late eighties,
Speaker 1: like an Animal, like a theatrical Jetsons movie, and they explained,
Speaker 1: like the reason they all live in the sky is
Speaker 1: because the ground is so polluted and that's the fifth element. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very Yeah, it's got like a mobius thing. It's
Speaker 1: got like a fifth thing. And so Coruscan goes like
Speaker 1: layers and layers and layers and layers down like there's
Speaker 1: it goes, and the farther down you go, the more
Speaker 1: you're in actually like the actual Star Wars Underworld where
Speaker 1: like all the seed stuff is going on. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: actually has five thousand, one and twenty seven layers deep
Speaker 1: by the time of the Clone Wars. And what I
Speaker 1: think is what I think is super interesting. You know,
Speaker 1: talking about planet as storytelling, Um, you've got the Galactic
Speaker 1: Senate there right, obviously, like this is where all the
Speaker 1: all the government is going on and all that, but
Speaker 1: you also have the Jedi temple there, like the main
Speaker 1: Jedi temple, and that is really interesting because it immediately
Speaker 1: like makes you ask questions when you think about Jedi,
Speaker 1: when you think about like warrior monks, wizards, spirit like
Speaker 1: Shaman's like these people, you don't think of them as
Speaker 1: being in city center. And so the fact that the
Speaker 1: Jedi are like, oh, we'll just set up camp here,
Speaker 1: like it really explains the sort of the prequel idea
Speaker 1: of the Jedi have lost their connection to the force.
Speaker 1: It's like, you space wizards don't belong here. You're not
Speaker 1: supposed to be hanging out in clubs and like dealing
Speaker 1: with the government. You're supposed to be like up on
Speaker 1: a mountain somewhere like watching and where the people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a Jedi to people, man like what's up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to pull up to the club and force
Speaker 1: bringing over my drink. And then the lady seems like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a Jedi. Yeah exactly. But it's like, but I'm
Speaker 1: not dating, I'm not dating. I'm still a good debt,
Speaker 1: I'm still a good Jedi. Um. So yeah, I always
Speaker 1: thought that was kind of kind of interesting. And then um,
Speaker 1: the Jedi temple there was also supposedly built underneath it.
Speaker 1: There's some sort of Sith artifacts like that it's built
Speaker 1: on so unbeknownst to the Jedi because they were like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're we want to be in the center of everything,
Speaker 1: there is like this dark magic thing underneath them that
Speaker 1: is like totally influencing them the whole way through. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Corressons, Yes, Corrasson is really dope. There's also a
Speaker 1: It's Corsson is. Also it has the Great Tree, which
Speaker 1: is like the tree on corrossan Uh. And the eight
Speaker 1: Tree is amazing because it's right outside of the Jedi temple.
Speaker 1: So it's a force sensitive tree. Wow, it's a tree
Speaker 1: that's connected to the Force Grandma and then like in
Speaker 1: the EU, right, that Tree gets taken like the uson Vong,
Speaker 1: like incorporated because they're like a biological there are a
Speaker 1: species that everything that they build is biologically like grounding.
Speaker 1: Definitely not the Borg. Totally different than the Borg. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not like the board, it's not don't even bring up
Speaker 1: the board because he's definitely different. I mean different yet
Speaker 1: because but those ships are alive and everything, and they
Speaker 1: incorporate everything living into themselves. It's kind of it's really
Speaker 1: the way they do it is even creepier than the
Speaker 1: Great and the starting to incorporate that Tree trying to
Speaker 1: become because they want to become Force users because there's
Speaker 1: no Force in their part of the universe, and the
Speaker 1: and the Great Tree does come back in new canon too,
Speaker 1: which will probably will probably we'll probably talk about a
Speaker 1: little later. This is kind of wild, but an official census,
Speaker 1: this is following the end of Clone Wars, noted that
Speaker 1: they're one trillion official permanent residence. Yeah, isn't that wild? Yeah?
Speaker 1: How big is this place? It's huge and it's you
Speaker 1: know down it's like a massive, massive planet. So that's
Speaker 1: the thing is like what we see it. It's got
Speaker 1: kind of that's the dystopian element to it, right, Like
Speaker 1: what we see is we see these giant galactic chambers,
Speaker 1: and we see like where Padmey is hanging out when
Speaker 1: she's there, and we see where the chancellors hanging out,
Speaker 1: and we see the Jedi Temple. We see the fancy places,
Speaker 1: but people are living in these like Fifth Elements style,
Speaker 1: you know, five by five rooms, because that's the Spielberg
Speaker 1: one with the player ready player one, that's what it
Speaker 1: sounds like. Yeah, a lot like that. Yeah, like that
Speaker 1: everybody's living in the storage contains. Everyone just takes from
Speaker 1: everyone else's idea, you know. And one of the things,
Speaker 1: one of the things that the kind of lower levels
Speaker 1: were based on was um Kowloon Walled City in China
Speaker 1: and Hong Kong when that used to exist, which was
Speaker 1: like it was so dense and there were so many
Speaker 1: illegal apartments in there that like the police couldn't go inside,
Speaker 1: and so like Calloon City kind of ran itself and
Speaker 1: eventually had to be torn down by the Chinese government.
Speaker 1: And that's sort of like one of the things that
Speaker 1: the lower layers were kind of based on is like
Speaker 1: this idea of a place that's so dense and unenforceable
Speaker 1: that they're just running themselves on the lower layers, and
Speaker 1: the people who are up top are like, yeah, they're fine.
Speaker 1: On the lower layers. They're good, they're fine. Don't worry.
Speaker 1: Everything's fine. They're doing. If we wouldn't know if they
Speaker 1: weren't fine, it's fine. We have important Jedi matters to
Speaker 1: talk about. Jededid never address. It just shows that they
Speaker 1: lost their way. We have to take a really quick break,
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna hop back into more planets, including
Speaker 1: best Spin. Is it best Spin? Best? But yeah, best
Speaker 1: spins like best Buy. But we'll be right back and
Speaker 1: we're back be best Spin, Best Spin. Yeah, I'm a
Speaker 1: hype about Bestbin. I went to look up this Kowloon
Speaker 1: Walled city, and why is there somebody I must have
Speaker 1: missed this? Why is there someone writing a dolphin? Did
Speaker 1: I miss that Best Spin? Yeah? It's like, what is it?
Speaker 1: It's a stingray. It's a sting yeah, the flying sting ray.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, I like I like that. You're like,
Speaker 1: that's crazy, but stray can fly? That makes sense? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it has wings? Yeah? Did I just not
Speaker 1: pay attention? In Star Wars, not a thing. The flying
Speaker 1: stingrays didn't make it into the film. You didn't You
Speaker 1: didn't miss a stray? You remember a flying if there's
Speaker 1: Lando trying to land a stingray and I missed it. Hold,
Speaker 1: Hold if there had been just one shot of Lando
Speaker 1: riding a flying stingray like the bear from tail Spin.
Speaker 1: And you're a little bear from Tailspin who had like
Speaker 1: the little a little thing that he would ride in
Speaker 1: the sky like a skateboard backwards. So cool. Imagine landa
Speaker 1: with a backwards cap, right, arn't please? Please? Um? Yeah?
Speaker 1: If you tell us about Best Been, Oh well, Best
Speaker 1: Ben was a giant of It was a gas giant
Speaker 1: that was about a hundred and eighteen thousand kilometers and diameter,
Speaker 1: And like most gas giants, it has a solid core
Speaker 1: made of metal. Of course, yeah, of course, you know
Speaker 1: all our science heads they know, they're like, if you
Speaker 1: why you even telling me? That's like, I gotta listen
Speaker 1: to this on two X speed because he's always talking
Speaker 1: about the solid cores of a gas We all know that.
Speaker 1: But most of the layers of gas were poisonous, as
Speaker 1: gas usually is, and the pressure and temperature were far
Speaker 1: above that of what a human cantolerate. Despite this, nearly
Speaker 1: six million inhabitants called best Be know they got used
Speaker 1: to it, but they're like, we gotta still live. There.
Speaker 1: From Apox, from approximately one fifty to one m eight
Speaker 1: kilometers down from space, there was a thirty kilometer thick
Speaker 1: habitable layer known as the best Been life zone. This
Speaker 1: layer had an oxygen atmosphere with the temperature and pressure
Speaker 1: suitable for human life. It was in this layer that
Speaker 1: Cloud City was located. Bestman had a twelve hour day
Speaker 1: and completed a revolution around its star approximately once every
Speaker 1: fourteen standard years, So I guess one year is every
Speaker 1: fourteen years for them. The main economy on Bestment was
Speaker 1: the mining of tabana gas. To Banna gases was a
Speaker 1: very important resource used by both the Alliance to restore
Speaker 1: the Republic and the Galactic Empire for powering weapons. Was supercharged,
Speaker 1: the gas could fire a bolt of energy, resulting in
Speaker 1: the blasters shot spin sealed Tobanna gas, which occurred naturally
Speaker 1: on Bestment at the ability to quadruple the power of
Speaker 1: blaster bolts passing through it. Most settlements on Bestman were
Speaker 1: mining colonies such as Lando, Calrissian's facility in three A
Speaker 1: b Y and yeah that's so yeah, So that's his
Speaker 1: head crazy. That's the craziest thing about it. It's just
Speaker 1: that in the Best Bin. Yeah, I was like, look,
Speaker 1: I love show us your best Bin, just like all
Speaker 1: across his Appea, that actually would go kind of hard
Speaker 1: to look like a sailor that clear. What do you
Speaker 1: remember of cloud City, because I feel like I don't
Speaker 1: Cloud City. It's clous City is awesome. It's basically from
Speaker 1: the out from the inside, it just looks like a
Speaker 1: giant bank wood facility. But it's got like a droid
Speaker 1: you know, repair our Junkyard type of place. Um with
Speaker 1: the what do they call it, the carbonite carbonite They
Speaker 1: have a very nice dining hall or Darth Vader invited
Speaker 1: some guests and it looks like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: food to eat. Um. But I love I liked the
Speaker 1: look of Best Bin in the original trilogy, like it
Speaker 1: looked looked like, you know, as a kid in the eighties,
Speaker 1: it looks fancy to me. Yeah, like that place land
Speaker 1: I was doing good. It absolutely did. And that's the
Speaker 1: thing place to sweep a cape around. The moment they
Speaker 1: land there you're just like, oh, this place is great.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be safe. It's perfect. It's like you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, because it's the first place you see
Speaker 1: I think in the movies where you're like, this isn't
Speaker 1: dirty and filled with like shady characters, and like it's
Speaker 1: shiny and new. Sand walks out in his cape and
Speaker 1: he's just like, hey, everything's cool, and you're just like,
Speaker 1: everything's cool. They're gonna be fine. And then you find
Speaker 1: out he's the shady character. They got them And it's
Speaker 1: the first place where we really get a really good
Speaker 1: look at Boba that we sort of see him in
Speaker 1: a previous scene, and then we get a real nice
Speaker 1: look at Boba also and his awesome ship. I love this.
Speaker 1: This is included in the culture. Popular tourist activities include
Speaker 1: gambling as we see, and you can hire a cloud
Speaker 1: car for sight seeing the city. That's if you can't
Speaker 1: afford a good sting ray. There's there's some spicy that
Speaker 1: the high end accommodations were exclusive. Like you all said,
Speaker 1: it was very much a luxury city, with luxury resorts
Speaker 1: often charging as much as five thousand Imperial credits tonight.
Speaker 1: I mean I could swing that that sounds like something
Speaker 1: you could win on the travel track or how much
Speaker 1: they charged by the hour, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So here's a fun thing. Uh. When you go to
Speaker 1: Galaxy's Edge at the theme park, there is uh there's
Speaker 1: a store called doc on d Ours and it's like
Speaker 1: full of antiques. It's called the Antiquity Store, and it's
Speaker 1: full of like a bunch of stuff that you would
Speaker 1: not expect to be able to buy. Like it's got
Speaker 1: like a toy that a Sokatano played with as a
Speaker 1: child on on Rebels and things you know, you know,
Speaker 1: things like that where or Harra played with on Rebels
Speaker 1: And you wouldn't expect all that stuff to be there.
Speaker 1: And one of the things you can buy is uh
Speaker 1: is an Imperial credit. And the Imperial credit costs sixty dollars.
Speaker 1: And the moment I saw that, I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I now know what everything in Star Wars costs.
Speaker 1: I know the exchange rate from Star So if you're
Speaker 1: talking sixty times five thousand, that's how much it costs
Speaker 1: to stay in Cloud City. So you're talking thirty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars today a weekend in Cloud City. That's the good stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the good stuff. That's why Lando has got all
Speaker 1: that fresh fruit. Yeah, you know, I'm good. Well, I
Speaker 1: mean you you would imagine that they have something that
Speaker 1: I mean, they mind one of the elements used to
Speaker 1: create blasters in a in a series called Star Wars. Well,
Speaker 1: it's like going it's like going to Dubai. Right, you
Speaker 1: go to Dubai and you're like, this is oil money.
Speaker 1: I get it, this is oil money. Yeah. Yeah, Cloud
Speaker 1: City is very much Dubai. Yeah, it's like, it's very fun.
Speaker 1: How did you get this money? Like you don't want
Speaker 1: to know, you, Yeah, don't worry about don't ask questions
Speaker 1: you don't want the answer to. Should we fly over
Speaker 1: to tattooing tattooings it orbits? Two sons tattoo what what
Speaker 1: I took it in? We landed? We got there together? Um?
Speaker 1: In orbits two sons tattoo one and tattoo two. Very original.
Speaker 1: Um was covered in desert. Two sons were matching jumpsuits
Speaker 1: and they finish each other's sentences. And the jumpsuit one
Speaker 1: has one on it and another one has a two exactly. Um.
Speaker 1: One of them is actually I said's a heat miser
Speaker 1: and snow miser um, fighting for their mother's love. Verned
Speaker 1: in deserts and rock formations as a lot of Star
Speaker 1: Wars is to be honest, um. And it's so brightly
Speaker 1: lit by the suns that from space it could appear
Speaker 1: to be a star itself. In my heart, it is um.
Speaker 1: This is cool because this is the outer rim, right, Um.
Speaker 1: The outer Rim is where we first look at Star Wars. Right,
Speaker 1: this is where Luke grew up. And when you're talking
Speaker 1: about that near rative design of a planet, if you're
Speaker 1: going to design a planet that a teenager that longs
Speaker 1: for adventure wants to get away from more than anything,
Speaker 1: it's tattooing. It's it's tag like living in the suburbs
Speaker 1: of Vegas. Yeah, it really truly. There's like one bar.
Speaker 1: It ain't great. Yeah, you know, you can't bring your
Speaker 1: droids in. Yeah, nobody likes that bar. It smells in there.
Speaker 1: It's probably been murder committed in that bar. There's only
Speaker 1: eight thousand people that inhabit Inhibit, this desert planet, with
Speaker 1: only one percent of the land containing water. Most of
Speaker 1: the poor farmers on the planet harvest moisture moisture evaporators.
Speaker 1: That's what that's what Uncle Owen and am Peru do
Speaker 1: ye and those who don't farm scavenge for metal, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: a different planet, but it's basically the same thing. It's
Speaker 1: thought to be one of the oldest planets in known
Speaker 1: space and was composed of a molten core with a
Speaker 1: rocky mantle. Oh, I feel like I'm in geology class.
Speaker 1: I love. This is what I love. This is what
Speaker 1: I love, though, is that this information is cataloged and
Speaker 1: it's cannon and it's been thought about and it's been explored,
Speaker 1: Like we know what's going on on the core of
Speaker 1: tattooing because somebody sat down and thought about Yeah, totally. Uh,
Speaker 1: this is kind of wild fact. But um, amongst the locals,
Speaker 1: they say that one's eyes burned out faster by staring
Speaker 1: straight and hard at the sun scorched flat lands than
Speaker 1: by looking directly at the sun's So if you look
Speaker 1: at the land, you can burn your eyes. Sand is
Speaker 1: very reflective, like you know, and it's coarse and rough.
Speaker 1: I mean that's how sand, like sands that's with glass
Speaker 1: is made up. It's made from sand, So I could
Speaker 1: see if you looked far enough. We just think about
Speaker 1: those and then you think about those wide shots of
Speaker 1: like Luke or or the droids walking, and just how
Speaker 1: reflective they made that sand look in those water things
Speaker 1: looks hazy like it's like being reflected like through water.
Speaker 1: Because sand is my very good still making that my
Speaker 1: probably one of my top three favorite Star Wars creatures
Speaker 1: from Tattooing love a Jahwa. I love a Jawa more
Speaker 1: than anything. Little little little sand scavengers. I just want
Speaker 1: to rip their hoods off. Yeah, I just want to see.
Speaker 1: You're just gonna find children very disrespectful to Jahwa culture.
Speaker 1: But I'm so like I imagine respectful, respectful or vertical,
Speaker 1: and they have like claws like this is how their mouth,
Speaker 1: the vertical mouth. Yeah, this is ow the This is
Speaker 1: how I imagine Danny. Look at my fingers. They're so cute. No,
Speaker 1: I have to bring up some of Jahwa sounds. I'm
Speaker 1: going to do it. I know you're got to see
Speaker 1: my fingers. I'm looking at it like minions. When you
Speaker 1: googled Jahwa, the first auto complete them is face. People
Speaker 1: want to know. You want to know, people want to know.
Speaker 1: Not allow stop being disrespectful to Jahwa culture. You gotta listen.
Speaker 1: I understand it's a natural question, but you got to
Speaker 1: leave it alone. You gotta leave it alone. Maybe if
Speaker 1: you were raised around more jawas well. That's that's that's
Speaker 1: what it looks. Whoa, whoa? Let me see is that
Speaker 1: the actor underneath it? I don't even know. It looks
Speaker 1: like it's what it? Yeah, No, that's that's the that's
Speaker 1: what their costume looks like. Oh my god, No, this
Speaker 1: one's not good. What there's a lot of You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to tweet this out. It looks like a gopher
Speaker 1: with its eyes almost exploded, but hairless, like a hairless gopher.
Speaker 1: Not I just expect it's just children in midgets. I
Speaker 1: think they're just little mummies. Like underneath there, they're just
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, the jaw. You know what, I'm going
Speaker 1: to date a Jawa? I'm gonna find out is what
Speaker 1: I'm going to leave secret. Set your attention and an
Speaker 1: actor who played a Java and then asked them, oh,
Speaker 1: I was going to date a real Jawa, only not
Speaker 1: some Jawa impersonator. I'm sorry? Are they only on to
Speaker 1: day is a classy lady because there on other world
Speaker 1: in Mandalorian not on tattooing, And they can counters job.
Speaker 1: That's my o. I love that episode of the Mandalorians. Ye,
Speaker 1: it's such a fun one. It's so good. It's so good.
Speaker 1: The egg, bring us the egg and yeah, very cute.
Speaker 1: You're all ready to move on to Naboo. Absolutely, this
Speaker 1: is the planet I do not like? Why get out
Speaker 1: of here? How dare why even though it has like
Speaker 1: the climate and temperate temperature that I probably would most appreciate.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm just something about it. I'm just like, man,
Speaker 1: screw this world. Like you can't even go and dyke
Speaker 1: down in the water without encountering a gung in, and
Speaker 1: I love the water, Like, I don't want to go
Speaker 1: on the water and then have some weird Google talking
Speaker 1: at just making yeah, like Jaman talking at me, ship
Speaker 1: around when you come around here. To me, there are
Speaker 1: a lot of banks. There are a lot of very good,
Speaker 1: very good accents that we're all totally fine within the prequels.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Actually, if he talked more like that, like
Speaker 1: and he was like, don't be coming down into my city.
Speaker 1: Don't be coming down. We've got to go to the
Speaker 1: planetic croup going to get back to Nabu Capital we've
Speaker 1: got to go to the Planet Corp. That would it?
Speaker 1: Would it be better or worse if it was this
Speaker 1: bastardized you know, almost Jamaican, or if they were just
Speaker 1: straight up Jamaican worse? What would be? Yeah? I would
Speaker 1: straight up Jamaican would have actually pleased me. I would
Speaker 1: have thought that was hilarious because it's I mean, they're Jamaican.
Speaker 1: It as good as the Jamaican trolls do in World
Speaker 1: War Craft, which I think Blizzards just found out does
Speaker 1: not hold up. I have so few official comments about
Speaker 1: all this. Historically, the surface of Naboo was covered by
Speaker 1: dense swamps, rolling grass plains, seas, and vernant hills. It's
Speaker 1: very green compared to what we just talked about. It's
Speaker 1: really it's really it's really pretty. It's really pretty. And
Speaker 1: I think that this is where we sort of see
Speaker 1: um in the Prequels, where they were trying to show
Speaker 1: this era of decadence before everything goes really bad, this
Speaker 1: era of prosperity paradise. Yeah, I know that that is
Speaker 1: Like the interesting thing of the prequels is I think
Speaker 1: what was cool about it is them kind of being like,
Speaker 1: this is what used to be tight like like this
Speaker 1: is these are the places that were wonderful before it
Speaker 1: was war torn. And I think that's the beauty of
Speaker 1: the prequels. I think that often gets slept on is
Speaker 1: the idea of being like, okay, the original trilogy, you
Speaker 1: just see kind of everything in this war turn war
Speaker 1: torn lens. The war has been going on. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of shredded through this uh this galaxy. What
Speaker 1: was it like when it was a little more peaceful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and everything is excessive in some way, right, Chorisson is
Speaker 1: excessive in a very specific way. Um, Naboo is is
Speaker 1: is excessive in a very specific way. When you look
Speaker 1: at feed which is the capital city of Naboo, which
Speaker 1: is where you see a lot of the stuff that
Speaker 1: happens in the prequels, it's just this gorgeous, palatial Roman right,
Speaker 1: like decadent that is very Roman, like if if Rome
Speaker 1: was in pre colonial Jamaica. Yeah, it's it's it's very
Speaker 1: it's very imperially, very imperial. It's very colonial and colonialist.
Speaker 1: It's um but also a fun thing about it is
Speaker 1: like so much of our wars is based around George
Speaker 1: and George's life and growing up in northern California. And Feed.
Speaker 1: When you look at Feed is the Palace of Fine Arts, Like, definitely,
Speaker 1: and I noticed that right away when we saw After
Speaker 1: I saw when I saw the Prequels, originally I was
Speaker 1: at a theater that was like down the street from
Speaker 1: the Palace of Fine Arts. I think like half the
Speaker 1: theater was like hold, yeah, if you eat, If you
Speaker 1: eat in the Lucasfilm Commissary and you look out the window,
Speaker 1: you see the biggest thing you see is the Palace
Speaker 1: of Fine Arts right out the window, and you just
Speaker 1: know that. It was like George and Doug Chang and
Speaker 1: like looking at that and being like, how do we
Speaker 1: make a whole city out of this? You know, just
Speaker 1: make this beautiful park because George is really in love
Speaker 1: with the presidio, Just like, how do I turn the
Speaker 1: presidio into a planet? What would that look like? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It says Also some of the architecture of Naboo was
Speaker 1: inspired by the gallop roofs of the Mrin County Civic
Speaker 1: Center that was done by Frank Lloyd Wright. No, Naboo
Speaker 1: and and Feed are very fun. They're also very fun.
Speaker 1: Um battle Front, Yeah, battle Front with maps as well.
Speaker 1: When they really fine. Arts does have that big lake
Speaker 1: in front of it. Yeah, it's it's really beautiful coming together.
Speaker 1: This would be a perfect time to alert you if
Speaker 1: you didn't know Battlefront to just went through a huge
Speaker 1: overhaul and everyone's loving it. It's great and the Battlefield
Speaker 1: community is very soul to about it because Battlefield five.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, I've been playing Battlefield a long time.
Speaker 1: People who have played longer than this will always like,
Speaker 1: but I've been playing since Bad Company, and people like, oh,
Speaker 1: I've been playing since night shut up? Okay, shut up,
Speaker 1: just do me a favorite. Shut up. Before Bad Company,
Speaker 1: Battlefield was a PC only game. I didn't own a PC,
Speaker 1: tells an adult. Because there's no way to get into
Speaker 1: Nigerian father to buy you an expensive PC. So the
Speaker 1: first Battlefield Nigerian guy to get me to buy an
Speaker 1: expensive PC for it? Oh definitely, Uh, send him all
Speaker 1: your banking from Yeah, definitely legit. But like battle Bad
Speaker 1: Company was the first Battlefield that was on console, so
Speaker 1: it makes total sense that that was my first one.
Speaker 1: Uh looked to me anyway. Long story short, every Battlefield
Speaker 1: since I've played, everyone hates the current one and then
Speaker 1: thinks the one before it was the best. It happened
Speaker 1: from four everyone was like, oh, three was and then
Speaker 1: one one came out, and then that was really divisive
Speaker 1: because four is a modern warfare and one takes place
Speaker 1: during World War One. Everyone was like, oh, man, four,
Speaker 1: what's what's this? And then five was was shaky because
Speaker 1: everyone thought they were going to go back. Uh. And
Speaker 1: even when one came out, there like what was it about?
Speaker 1: Or one it should be World War two? That one's fun. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, nothing more fun than World War two? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then five is World War two, and then people
Speaker 1: were like one was so good even though people like
Speaker 1: you just can't win. And also, yeah, the community, there's
Speaker 1: lots of cool, dope people doing lots of fun things.
Speaker 1: It's a very fun game to play. But all the
Speaker 1: quote unquote historical accuracy, dude, just like, no, dude, you're
Speaker 1: trying to play a video game, like I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you to f off with that. If you
Speaker 1: want a historical accuracy, then you can watch a documentary.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, it's a video game.
Speaker 1: And let I want to have people play as women
Speaker 1: soldiers if they want, period point blank, and also as
Speaker 1: the many times. I've brought up every time I brought
Speaker 1: it on podcast. During World War two and one, women
Speaker 1: were fighting in infantry. So your historical accuracy is bs
Speaker 1: no matter how hard you drive, Because you don't, you're
Speaker 1: not read up because every documentary that's done is And
Speaker 1: I feel like I want to subscribe to your newsletter.
Speaker 1: I'm ready for all of this information in my box.
Speaker 1: Where was I going with this? Oh yeah, Battlefield Battlefront
Speaker 1: two very good? Uh, you know war is never ending
Speaker 1: and and come join the kid. We have to go
Speaker 1: to break. Yeah. We will be back talking more planets
Speaker 1: in Star Wars right after this and where back. Something
Speaker 1: that I should note is that my sister in law's
Speaker 1: brother actually lives in Arco Santi, which is a I
Speaker 1: think I'm saying that right. It's an experimental town. It's
Speaker 1: kind of has a lot of dome like very interesting architecture,
Speaker 1: and apparently George Lucas visited the site in the seventies
Speaker 1: and it was allegedly the model for the desert planet
Speaker 1: tattooing that we were just talking about. Um, but you
Speaker 1: can go and get tours of it. It's like in
Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere in Arizona. Um, but he's like
Speaker 1: a mason and a chef. They have a different the
Speaker 1: townspeople has a different job there. Um, it's very fascinating
Speaker 1: and has really interesting well I'll have to link pictures
Speaker 1: of it, but has very interesting, is very tattooing. Like
Speaker 1: my brother was in Arizona also and it every time
Speaker 1: and we drive there usually to go see him. So like,
Speaker 1: once you hit Arizona, you know you're in Arizona. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is if you want to see part Wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's totally it. I can see that. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: if you go to Um, if you go to Tunisia,
Speaker 1: the tattooing is still standing. Like the set of the
Speaker 1: set is still out there. That I would do that,
Speaker 1: and you can. You can get a guide to take
Speaker 1: you out and just be like, take me to the
Speaker 1: Star War take me to the Star Wars. Star War. Well,
Speaker 1: I did want to Murphy top forty hit. We did
Speaker 1: touch a little bit on the ice planet of Hat.
Speaker 1: Just wanted to close that up. Um, I didn't want
Speaker 1: to leave you all hanging. Well, like you said, it
Speaker 1: has wampas and ton Tons and all those fun names.
Speaker 1: It's a small it's actually the six planet of a
Speaker 1: remote system of the same name. It's a small terrestrial
Speaker 1: planet blanketed by snow and ice. It has freezing climate.
Speaker 1: This is fast. It's too cold for intelligent life to develop.
Speaker 1: So what is the other life that's there? That's kind
Speaker 1: of um of idiotic wampus smack and stuff. So the
Speaker 1: original draft of the Empire Strikes Back, written by Lee Brackett,
Speaker 1: is that correct. Um depicted an opening scene with Luke
Speaker 1: Skywalker on the ridge of an ice planet. Though the
Speaker 1: name Hath was given to the cloud planet at the time,
Speaker 1: we know that became best beIN uh. And the draft
Speaker 1: also depicted hats wampas attacking the rebel base. So uh.
Speaker 1: It was filmed in Norway? Was the location for Hath
Speaker 1: on Hard Danger? I shouldn't be laughing. I'm sorry, it's
Speaker 1: so late, hard danger Jokelin, Do you know this Glacier
Speaker 1: nailed it? Not hard that's perfect and say it hard
Speaker 1: danger jokel and good Glacier Norway. I think I could
Speaker 1: have sworn that like a Norwegian. Jimmy Stewart sitting right
Speaker 1: next to me, my friend, my friend Chris McKay is
Speaker 1: directing the new Chris Pratt film Tomorrow War and they
Speaker 1: filmed on a glacier in Iceland. Um would wild. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's probably the big It was just crazy. It was
Speaker 1: like on his Insta and it was just like I
Speaker 1: remember scrolling up was in my warm bed and I
Speaker 1: just opened up his instant. They were like filming on
Speaker 1: a glacier. I've been there. I've been to Yokol Sarlon.
Speaker 1: It's crazy if you can walk around up there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this one of those nothing to do with Star Wars. Okay.
Speaker 1: One other thing about how this, So the scenes were
Speaker 1: filmed in sub zero temperatures obviously, and so yeah I've
Speaker 1: heard that. And they're like they would just like run out,
Speaker 1: film the scene and then run back until like that
Speaker 1: removes me into the gray? Is that what? Um? The
Speaker 1: one with Umam I've only ever seen. I think it
Speaker 1: was so free watching it, it was freezing, but also
Speaker 1: filming it, it was like the same thing that they
Speaker 1: would just like go out and film and then come back.
Speaker 1: Everybody would run out, like the marks the animated version
Speaker 1: into the gray verse. Um wow, since the gray into
Speaker 1: the gray? So that is that is hof and tattooing.
Speaker 1: Moving on to Kash clearly, yes, please tell people about
Speaker 1: cash I'd like to imagine if someone's listening to the
Speaker 1: podcast whom earlier heard Clee talk about the name, because
Speaker 1: she was like, oh so that wasn't her real name.
Speaker 1: So some dudes like, that's why I never got a
Speaker 1: call back. They tried to call, They tried to call
Speaker 1: three two seven, They called. They called an army's somewhere
Speaker 1: in the middle of nowhere and asked in Atlanta in
Speaker 1: the late nineties, was the number was one of the
Speaker 1: phone numbers that would get you to the administrative part
Speaker 1: of Fulton County Prison. So that's what they would get
Speaker 1: if you put in four or four. Because she got locked.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know her that well, but I
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna bail her out. Yeah, we had a
Speaker 1: connection because she freak, you know, jumping some money on
Speaker 1: the books for cash. Please do for cash, commissary, whatever
Speaker 1: she wants, because she takes venmo at the get it
Speaker 1: in there. So people swing from vines and trees here.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this is the home world of the Wookies.
Speaker 1: This is where the Mighty chewbaccased Chewbacca and his his
Speaker 1: wife Lobaca. Because child itchy Cheebacca, I forgot his kid's name,
Speaker 1: but yeah, Lobaca was his nephew. Lobacca actually ends up
Speaker 1: joining the Rebel Alliance. Uh yeah, because because she is
Speaker 1: really interesting. Because when you see Chewbacca, you think of
Speaker 1: Chewbacca as firing a bow caster and screaming and hitting things,
Speaker 1: and so one of the cool things about when you
Speaker 1: when you finally find out what Kashik is like, uh
Speaker 1: because she is just like this really peaceful, slow moving
Speaker 1: like forest planet. The first time we seek as the
Speaker 1: Star Wars Holiday special, and they're all just they're all
Speaker 1: just chilling in their weird treehouses with seventies furnishings, waiting
Speaker 1: for the life day to come around. Um, but it's
Speaker 1: they the trees grow up to something like they live
Speaker 1: for like fifty thousand years, I think, and then they
Speaker 1: grow up to like four d tall, like they're huge,
Speaker 1: and so they basically live entirely in the trees. I love.
Speaker 1: I love a forest planet, yeah you know, and I
Speaker 1: love a fancy treehouse. Love a fancy treehouse. And like
Speaker 1: there's like a bunch of treehouse I watched a lot
Speaker 1: of HDTV, and they have like these places where you
Speaker 1: can like rent a treehouse to stay in the weekend
Speaker 1: and if I could ever talk it into it to it,
Speaker 1: but he'll never do and might have to take somebody else.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite things there is a there is
Speaker 1: you see it in Jedi Fallen Order, the video game
Speaker 1: that just came out, But there's the Origin Tree, which
Speaker 1: is this giant tree at this center of Kashik, which
Speaker 1: I really love because I'm also a Zelda fan, and
Speaker 1: so it's like a Dicky tree to me, or like
Speaker 1: a Miyazaki thing where it's like, that's the tree in
Speaker 1: the center of the forest where Totoro sleeps, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of neat to see. Chewbacca just comes
Speaker 1: from this place where it's like, oh, we we work
Speaker 1: with and kind of live in harmony with nature, and
Speaker 1: we're real chill and we live these long, slow lives
Speaker 1: and we just kind of want to be left alone. Um.
Speaker 1: And then sort of in the story of Star Wars,
Speaker 1: the Wookies are sort of enslaved. Kashik is taken over
Speaker 1: and they're not allowed to kind of live that life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some facts about kashi It is it was a worship
Speaker 1: tree covered forest planet located in the southwestern quadrant of
Speaker 1: the galaxy, and the home world of the Wiki species
Speaker 1: said it was a member of the Galactic Republic and
Speaker 1: after the Clone Wars endured enslavement under the Galactic Empire.
Speaker 1: Planet was classified by the Empire as G five DASH
Speaker 1: six to three in the following years. Following in the
Speaker 1: years would have given it six tons fine yeah um.
Speaker 1: In the years following the invasion of Naboo, the rogue
Speaker 1: Jedi Count Dooku fomented political turmoil on the planet due
Speaker 1: to its status as a major navigational point because she
Speaker 1: was a prime strategic importance to the Galactic Republic, which
Speaker 1: led the Confederacy of Independent Systems to attack the planet
Speaker 1: towards the end of the Clone War and led to
Speaker 1: one of the best Star Wars memes on the Internet,
Speaker 1: which is what about the droid attack on the Wookies?
Speaker 1: What about m Because she is Thailand and China. I've
Speaker 1: always wanted to go to Thailand, Get in Thailand and
Speaker 1: Glenn in China where the locations got to revenge the
Speaker 1: sip to capture the plate photography for cashik backdrop. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's another one of those ones where it's just
Speaker 1: there's some that you see and you're just like I
Speaker 1: want to live there. I can live there. And this
Speaker 1: is a piece of invasion. Already knew that because she
Speaker 1: was originally supposed to be where the second Best Star
Speaker 1: was being built around, and then they changed it to
Speaker 1: the Wookies, I mean to the Ewoks, because I don't
Speaker 1: know Teddy Bears or something. Well, speaking of them, let's
Speaker 1: talk about end Or. End Or is interesting because the
Speaker 1: end of the Teddy's Yeah, we basically just George Lucas's backyard.
Speaker 1: We basically only no end Or for its moons. Yeah right,
Speaker 1: so like the forest moon of Endor. Yeah, that's where.
Speaker 1: That's where you like from God love an e walk,
Speaker 1: love an e walk so much. Yeah. I remember. I
Speaker 1: remember seeing the movies and I had a cousin who
Speaker 1: was like, you know, almost ten years older than me,
Speaker 1: and so he was like the cool older cousin and
Speaker 1: he hated the walks. Walks were are huge point of
Speaker 1: contention in the Star Wars. It depends on what you
Speaker 1: were when for the first time totally remember people will
Speaker 1: being like, oh, y'all like baby Yoda, but not at
Speaker 1: e walk, And I beg you to take another look
Speaker 1: at it. E walk. Those things are ugly as hell,
Speaker 1: especially the walks at the end of Rising Skywalker to
Speaker 1: show them, and I'm just like, what is going on?
Speaker 1: Indoor toxic? Don't compare Baby Yoda to these things. Well,
Speaker 1: it's like when you watch Solo, right, and they go
Speaker 1: and they free the Wookies and you go, oh, Chebacca
Speaker 1: is a really good looking Wookiebaka is a very attractive Wookie.
Speaker 1: He's making John Ham of the Wokie. Chebaka is in
Speaker 1: that attractiveness bubble. You know what I mean? Everybody? Oh, no,
Speaker 1: Baby Yoda could percent of come out ugly, like just squished,
Speaker 1: more face, squished, more wrinkled. I'm sure that there's a
Speaker 1: going I mean, the Yoda with humans colored skin, yes, terrifying, fortunate. Also,
Speaker 1: Yattle was not Yoda, So yeah, don't you disrespect a
Speaker 1: member of the Jedi Council in those honorable Master Yattle,
Speaker 1: How dare you yattles like talents? Get please like I would.
Speaker 1: She's a high ranking member of the Jedi Council. He
Speaker 1: doesn't need to fit into your conceive notions of beauty.
Speaker 1: Gremlin does. So Okay, the hot Gremlin is hot. Listen,
Speaker 1: we can all agree the hot Gremlin is hot. Scenes
Speaker 1: set on end or were filmed on a private logging
Speaker 1: company land that was shortly thereafter clear Cut, Okay, near
Speaker 1: the town of Smith River, California, and the speeder chase
Speaker 1: scene was filmed at the Chetham Am I saying that
Speaker 1: right Chetham Chettham Grove section of Grizzly Creek Redwood State Park.
Speaker 1: See Teddy Bears would live there. Yeah, and it's essentially
Speaker 1: like both of those places are probably I think about
Speaker 1: an hour's drive from the Redwood from Lucas Ranch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's all it's so funny how much it's
Speaker 1: super close. Northern California just figures into all of it.
Speaker 1: So when you because like that part of northern California
Speaker 1: is very forest forest, Like I remember as a kid
Speaker 1: watching the behind the scenes where they are where they're
Speaker 1: walking the steady cam and they're taking the photos. You know,
Speaker 1: they have the they have the film camera set up
Speaker 1: to take a photo once a second as they walk
Speaker 1: through the forest. So look like everything was going by
Speaker 1: so quickly, And I remember going, where do you even find?
Speaker 1: I grew up on the East Coast in New York,
Speaker 1: and I was just like, where do you find something
Speaker 1: like that? Was like I saw that same documentary, I
Speaker 1: was like, I know what that is, um end Or.
Speaker 1: Also one of the other moons of end Or that
Speaker 1: just became sort of a prominent thing is keef Beer,
Speaker 1: which is in the Rise of Skywalker. It's where it's
Speaker 1: where Janna is from, It's where uh, it's where Kylo
Speaker 1: and Ray have their water fight, um which I love
Speaker 1: that water fight. Adam Driver's energy, Man, Adam Driver's energy
Speaker 1: throughout that whole movie is so great, But in that fight,
Speaker 1: it's wonderful because everything about it. He's like, we're either
Speaker 1: gonna have sex, We're gonna kill each other right now.
Speaker 1: It could be one of the two. I'm happy with either.
Speaker 1: Which one do you want to do? I'm fine, it's
Speaker 1: your choice, but we're gonna do one of them. And
Speaker 1: I'm equally good with both because I'm a terrible person.
Speaker 1: But keef Beer is the moon where the death Star
Speaker 1: winds up falling they destroy it, which I think is
Speaker 1: it's not made super clear in the movie, and I
Speaker 1: wish it had been made a little more clear. I
Speaker 1: got I picked it up. You knew it had to
Speaker 1: be close, you know what I mean. You knew it
Speaker 1: had to be close. To the to the forest moon
Speaker 1: of Endor, because how else would have landed there? But yeah,
Speaker 1: something worth noting is that on end Or they're thirty
Speaker 1: million e walks and they're all hiding in the trees,
Speaker 1: ready to eat people's skulls and cannibalistic. Yeah, so that
Speaker 1: is Endoor. And then we have left. Well, we have
Speaker 1: several planets, hundreds of planets, to be honest, but we
Speaker 1: narrowed it down to the ones that are near and
Speaker 1: dear to our heart. But please listener, let us know
Speaker 1: the ones that you love and have a personal connection to.
Speaker 1: But the final one is Diegoba. Yeah, where Masteriotta lives
Speaker 1: with his cool roommate, the snack stick Yoda and that
Speaker 1: snack share an apartment and Yoda pays most of the
Speaker 1: red snack never refills the bread then the arms bro
Speaker 1: but the snack labels all is food. You know, the
Speaker 1: snack label all is food. Don't be eating m Yeah.
Speaker 1: Dagoba a swamp planet. That's where Luke goes to find
Speaker 1: Master Yoda, who is living in exile after the events
Speaker 1: of the prequels, decides, hey man, that was not makes
Speaker 1: me wonder if his home planet is similar to Dago
Speaker 1: swampy would that he would pick it. We're going to
Speaker 1: find out, I hope. So also they keep teasing that
Speaker 1: they know, like Gina and Tykon everybody, like we know
Speaker 1: his real name, we know his real name, Like no,
Speaker 1: we know it's still going to call him baby Yoda.
Speaker 1: We know his name, we know we still call Mando.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah he's Mando. That's fine. Uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: remember confusing just because I'm super to the Mandalorians. So
Speaker 1: actually when they call him mand I'm like I would
Speaker 1: have to like this story is just about this one
Speaker 1: guy that's like calling somebody person. Yeah, hey person, Yeah
Speaker 1: that's me. I guess human. But you wait, wink, do
Speaker 1: you know his name? I was interviewed with Star Wars.
Speaker 1: I was interviewing Bob Iger, tell us what last month,
Speaker 1: and Bob tried to tell me the name like three
Speaker 1: times because he's he'll do what he wants. He's Bob Iger.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, yeah, I know the name, and he
Speaker 1: was he was about to say it three times. I
Speaker 1: don't think it was like he was like, I'm going
Speaker 1: to tell you Anthony the name. I think he's just
Speaker 1: he has so many conversations with so many different people
Speaker 1: that it was like yeah, and then we're talking and
Speaker 1: you could tell he was about to say the name.
Speaker 1: And then somebody from PR was like, Bob, Bob, Tom
Speaker 1: hollandes see you. It's funny. He told me. He's like, no,
Speaker 1: he's like, I call He's like, I've been calling the
Speaker 1: child baby Yoda and interviews and he's like, every time
Speaker 1: I call the child baby Yoda, I get an email
Speaker 1: from John or from Dave. It's just like, you did
Speaker 1: it again. Don't do that. It's not a Yoda. Give
Speaker 1: it a name, then give it a reply regarding the
Speaker 1: name is the name is the child it's he knows
Speaker 1: what it is the race coward, but nobody knows because
Speaker 1: they're so rare. That's the whole thing is like they
Speaker 1: don't have a name to give it because it's so
Speaker 1: I want to know how it was. He came from
Speaker 1: an egg, came from eg egg. I want to know
Speaker 1: the other that was like his brother and the egg.
Speaker 1: We required the egg. Oh god, that thing just looked
Speaker 1: like a nice cadberry. So when they were dipping their
Speaker 1: little java hands into it, I was like, I could
Speaker 1: dip my hand into that egg. When I watched that
Speaker 1: when I was up in Sarrancisco with my cousin's sons.
Speaker 1: They're six and four, and they both like on that scene,
Speaker 1: were like Easter. Like they like Easter. You got suck
Speaker 1: up all those juice. His name better start with a
Speaker 1: yet Yoda diattle yo yo, don't play with my own God.
Speaker 1: All right, it's getting late. Where can people find y'all?
Speaker 1: So let's start with Clee. You can find me on
Speaker 1: Twitter at Clee Wiggans UM, and you can find me
Speaker 1: on Instagram at Clee Wiggans SF. Because somebody took Clee
Speaker 1: Wiggans whoever you are, coward, give it back, yeah, give it,
Speaker 1: thing with it. I'm not I have no power. Nobody's
Speaker 1: going to follow you because you took that name. True.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so I'm Clee Wiggans on Twitter and Cleewiggans
Speaker 1: SF on Instagram. Most of my Instagram is just pictures
Speaker 1: of the food I feed to Ed or Ed eating
Speaker 1: food that I bought from you love it, Anthony. I'm
Speaker 1: on all the things as a Carbony except for Twitch.
Speaker 1: Where I'm at Anthony Carbony and I don't oh why
Speaker 1: there's nobody camping on it? Hey to which hit me up?
Speaker 1: Why can't I be at a carbony? Um, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm at a carbony on everything. And then uh, the
Speaker 1: Star Wars show you can watch on star wars dot
Speaker 1: com and the Star Wars YouTube channel we're on We're
Speaker 1: on winter break right now, but we'll be coming back soon. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you know me if you wid the way on
Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram, if D's on Twitch. The discord is
Speaker 1: Discord dot g g slash Salt Squad when we talk
Speaker 1: about Nerdficent and a lot of things. I gotta say
Speaker 1: today the fitness uh, the fitness section of the Discord
Speaker 1: was popping. Uh and we we we we in there.
Speaker 1: We all get in swollen, everyone in the Salt Squad.
Speaker 1: I was very proud of everyone really talking about their
Speaker 1: lists and we're talking about supplements. Uh so all that. Um,
Speaker 1: and of course t public dot com forward slash Nerdificent
Speaker 1: to get them tease, I'm I'm gonna cook up some
Speaker 1: designs to throw up there. I don't think I think
Speaker 1: it's been a while since we threw up a design.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna deals yea or hire our friends get
Speaker 1: him in there. I'm at ms Danny Fernandez because somebody
Speaker 1: else has the other ones actually tried to buy it
Speaker 1: from him, and he blocked me. I offered him adult money,
Speaker 1: like real, not monopoly money. Adult money can only be
Speaker 1: spent on porn and cigarettes. That's adult money, Like you're
Speaker 1: breaking the rules. I offered him real cold, hard cash.
Speaker 1: Matt MS Danny Fernandez on all the things M S
Speaker 1: D A N I F E R N N D
Speaker 1: e Z. We will tweet out these pictures of these
Speaker 1: planets and things and weirdness, and I don't know, let
Speaker 1: us know what you think. Baby Yoda's name is. I
Speaker 1: told you, what did you say? I told you it
Speaker 1: was Steven Yogbergh No, I hate you. Okay, we're out,
Speaker 1: as we always say,