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Han Took Shots First - Ep 19: The Mandalorian Chapter 1 - The Mandalorian
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Han Took Shots First is now available on the Bad Movies Worse People main feed! We're finally getting into the Disney+ show that saved modern Star Wars from the ravages of Rise of Skywalker, season one of The Mandalorian! In this first episode, we meet Mando himself, played by Pedro Pascal before the internet hated him, as well as Greef Karga, The Child (aka Baby Yoda aka Grogu), and IG-11. Not to mention the great Werner Herzog as the mysterious Client.
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Transcript
Welcome and Introduction
00:00:03
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Oh
00:00:37
Speaker
Welcome back, guys. It's been a minute.
The Mandalorian Chapter 1: Anticipation and Impact
00:00:41
Speaker
Hey, fuck you, too, buddy. Fuck you, too. we've got We found out in this episode, a shooter just means, hey, okay. I went back like I heard him say it because I was looking down, typing something.
00:00:52
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And then I went back, but i didn't rewind far enough. And I was like, if the subtitles are to be believed and why wouldn't they? He says, you shoot the Mando and a subtitle say, hey, Mando.
00:01:03
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That's just the Disney plus PG version. ah It actually said fuck yourself, Mando. Sorry for the squeaking, folks. My daughter. That's just go of that's just my voice.
00:01:15
Speaker
My daughter's dog. My daughter's dog discovered the loudest toy in the world. and even though it scared him at first, now it's his favorite thing. So move it's much like sex.
00:01:30
Speaker
But we're here to talk about the Mandalorian.
Reviving Star Wars with The Mandalorian
00:01:34
Speaker
Chapter one, the Mandalorian. I mean, finally, fucking finally. Because I think it was like this, maybe season three of this. There was a show that was out that we were talking about, which is one of the reasons. And besides the fact that talk about Star Wars a lot, that your wife was just like, get another fucking podcast.
00:01:55
Speaker
Yeah, it might have been season three. It might have just been because we couldn't stop talking about Star Wars. It could be that. But I mean, that dude, this came out right when we needed it to when Star Wars looked like it was not sorry, didn't look like it was at its low point. Star Wars was at its low point.
Critique of Recent Star Wars Movies
00:02:12
Speaker
You wrote a sorry, wrote you put out a trilogy of movies that looks the made the prequels look well thought out. Hey, one of those movies was written. yeah They were all written just as a fucking committee.
00:02:26
Speaker
One was a photocopy of A New Hope. Sure. They just Xeroxed it and changed some names. Yeah. the other The other one was written by somebody. The last one was just produced.
00:02:36
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Yeah.
Disney's Star Wars: A Return to Form?
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The last one was produced by AI and Reddit. they They had to take all those people typing on Reddit. Those are writers. I don't think they count. I mean, I still even even separately, I have my problems with ah Last Jedi, but I think I would have a different opinion of it if it would have followed through.
00:02:56
Speaker
if they would have like thought about it the way that like we always joke about George Lucas claiming that he wrote all this stuff ahead of time and everything. But what you can say about the original trilogy is sure he had some ideas.
00:03:11
Speaker
But then when they were putting the scripts together, they followed through with the ideas that he had versus that, where it was like, well, people didn't like this, so let's change everything. And the second one, oh, he was like that. so let's change everything back, but also change it again.
00:03:26
Speaker
Right. I mean, Disney just has too many cooks trying to make too many people happy.
The Mandalorian's Production Investment
00:03:31
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Yeah. I mean, so I remember when this show was announced and it was coming out, I was like, okay, cool. It's like the closest thing we're going to get to a Boba Fett show. That's fine. I get it. Oh, you know what I thought?
00:03:41
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this is the closest we're going to get to George Lucas underworld, which was a TV show he was going to do for ABC. I want to say after he did the prequels and the cost ended up being way too much because the volume didn't exist.
00:03:55
Speaker
So we're talking about having to build these sets and stuff and CGM and ABC was like, we're not doing that. yeah and i mean this wasn't cheap i read the series the the season cost like a hundred million dollars so it comes out to like 15 million per episode which is like like a half hour episode which is crazy wait but what was the total budget sorry for the whole thing a hundred million a hundred million for essentially the length of a couple star wars films so by that standard it's it's an expense it's it's cheaper but by also
00:04:29
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with them doing multiple seasons, some of that cost was ah i had balanced out because a lot of that cost was creating costumes, creating sets, et cetera. Sure.
Designing The Mandalorian
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And then so when you go into the second season, you've already got costumes and sets. I'm sure you have to make some more, but you have a lot of that stuff. You had to hand or hand make the Mando costume. to him Now you don't.
00:04:52
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I know it's I know it's a Boba Fett design for the most part, but there's nuances people. Yeah.
Key Collaborations in The Mandalorian
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So this one is the directorial or at least film directorial debut of Dave Filoni. I'm sure he directed some of them cartoons. He had to have written by Jon Favreau, of course.
00:05:12
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And the person that I'm going to mention who does, I think, the most work here the composer ludwig gorensen oh boy he does some work because i mean if you watch the the thing that's on disney plus that's like the behind the scenes he it just seems like a stoned ass dude like hey who's like i just got back from this hike i'm coming down from mushrooms sure i'll sit in a room and blow in this little horn and like strum some instruments and see what happens i do this all the time i'm just not musically talented
00:05:45
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I go on hikes on mushrooms and go blow into horns. Problem is they usually attach to people. Hey, Like, like This guy's done a ton of great music. I just want to mention real quick because he did sinners.
00:05:59
Speaker
He did sinners. He did Oppenheimer and Tenet. He did ah the first and second Black Panther. So varying quality of movies, but great music. I don't think I realized he did both Black Panthers and and um Ryan Coogler. Yeah, Ryan Coogler.
00:06:15
Speaker
Did he do Black Panther 2? Yeah. Okay. And so he mean he's worked with Ryan Coogler a lot because he did Creed both Black Panthers centers. You find your guy.
00:06:25
Speaker
You know what i mean? Like when you have a vision and somebody captures it in a very collective form, you you keep your guys. He's like, dude, you come over and get stoned and make some music? I'm doing this movie about twins who fight vampires.
00:06:39
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Go on. I'm so in. That's all I got. I'm really high right now. All right, hold on. It just fucking lays down a massive beat. Yeah, we've talked before on ah previous episodes of this podcast how if you don't have John Williams, it usually suffers.
00:06:55
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Andor is a big exception. This was an exception first. But like Solo, you're doing different stuff and it's it's obvious it's not Johnny Dubs. This is obvious, but it's also just really well received.
00:07:07
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Well, this isn't a guy trying to be John Williams. That's the big difference is like ah Solo and some of those other ones are people trying to imitate John Williams because they're doing that type of Star Wars movie.
00:07:20
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And he even says in the behind the scenes interview stuff that he's like, this isn't that. This is a different thing. This is more Western, even though Star Wars has always been Western inspired. This leans into it a lot more. Yeah. I mean, our opening scene is the fucking swinging saloon doors, but Star Wars style. Right. I mean, yeah, he should have shot the lock open.
00:07:40
Speaker
i mean, he shuts it close or shoots it close. So he did get, i got what I wanted, but yeah, we get we'll get into this. So yeah, please do you know, Mando going into this Western saloon entrance, this Western saloon, um,
00:07:56
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I don't know what planet they're on. They don't say and they don't have title cards in this. I know I've picked up a couple of the planets, but I don't think you're supposed to know here. This is just an outer rim planet. And I say outer rim because they're speaking Huttese.
00:08:08
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yeah If they were in the core or somewhere specific, it would definitely be basic. and not tattooing. Obviously there's snow. ah love these guys just beating the shit out of this blue guy myth roll who's played by Horatio Sands, by the way, a bunch of other stuff.
00:08:27
Speaker
And I recognize the bartender too. So I looked him up. It's a guy. john Oh, he's in mighty ducks. Is he okay? He's the dad of Jesse. I can't. The two black brothers that keep calling the rich kid cake eater.
00:08:40
Speaker
Okay. Cause I, I looked at what an install dude, you fucking cake eater. I looked him up, but I just scrolled real quick and I was like, okay, so he's just in a bunch of shit. He's a character actor. Yeah. I couldn't pull one of the thing he's from besides mighty ducks.
00:08:53
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But as soon as Mando walks in Mando played by Pedro Pascal, of course. And I think real, I'm going to derail real quick later seasons, Pedro Pascal is not on set.
00:09:04
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He is only doing voiceover work by season three for sure. He's not even in the suit. you don't think no i know i know for fact yeah that's lame so i think at least season one there's two people that play mando he's the he's every part that's not like a big stunt action and then there's the guy that does that and then i'm pretty sure by season two they were kind of phasing him out because they realized like this guy's got your body language down.
00:09:35
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You know, maybe they paid him less. Maybe he was like, I'll take less if I can work from home. Yeah. Because yeah it's, it's literally just him. Like I could bring in warm or I can bring in cold. Yeah. I mean, I guess you're normally paid like a flat rate or a daily rate, but if it's a daily rate, they're like, okay, cool. Do this from home. And he does it all in a day.
00:09:53
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Yeah. And he might even have negotiation power. Like you kind of need my voice. Yeah. Yeah. And they're like, no, we don't. Let's introduce you to James Earl Jones. Now, he already signed that away. Now there's contracts.
00:10:07
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Disney's still going to get your voice, but someone in your family is going to get paid for it at least. But he comes in and there's these these guys who are just credited as trawlers. I guess it's just like tough guys.
00:10:19
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goons I don't know this planet. Maybe they're trawlers on the planet like fishermen. But they are they're beating up on Mithral. He comes. They want to drink them or eat them. They want it. Well, they want to sell his glands.
00:10:33
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. That's nice. Yeah, just and we we talked about on something else to just imagine people like human human ball sacks are a delicacy in this fucking ah area of the galaxy.
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like ah Only the females have balls.
00:10:50
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They kill a whole bunch before they figure it out. they're Like, why aren't these purses shrinking when it gets cold? Have you tried sauteing it butter?
00:11:03
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um But yeah, this guy immediately starts shit with the Mandalorian as he walks in. He's like, yo, you spilled my fucking drink, guy. Not a word. The bartender's trying to diffuse the whole thing. He's like, hey, no worries. I'll get you another drink, dude. first he translates. He's like, hey, he said this. you know he said He says something.
00:11:21
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And it's like, Mando can understand you. He's just not going to fucking talk to you. I got a, got a feeling this guy speaks Hatties
The Mandalorian as a Western Hero
00:11:28
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because he speaks a little Jawa. We later see much later. We see him speak Tuscan.
00:11:34
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So, I mean, I would be shocked if he doesn't know how to speak Hatties. Do we get his name in this season or is that not until next season? It's this season. Okay. Because like at this point, at least then for the beginning part, he's kind of that Clint Eastwood man with no name thing. So he's doing that tough guy in the saloon. People trying to start shit. I'm not going to talk to you. i don't have a name. I'm just ah I'm just here to do my business and move on. I don't give a shit about you.
00:11:59
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But if you want to start something, I'll finish it. If you if you start some, there will be some. But if you don't start none, won't be none. And so there's this this fight with these guys.
00:12:10
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My favorite one is the dude who runs out the door. the corn corn. There you go. I was like, I know it's a cue. Yeah. Runs out the door and he like lasses him, pulls him halfway and then like shoots this door closed and just chops this dude in half. It's it's kind of brutal. Like it doesn't show it so it can remain this. What are the PG streaming thing is?
00:12:32
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Yeah. TV 13 maybe or younger. i don't know the ratings to keep it. Keep it so if you go on your Disney Plus and turn off MA, it will still show up. Right.
00:12:43
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Because it shows it just about to happen. And it's like, use your imagination from here, dude, please. Here, we'll give you a squelching noise.
00:12:53
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And then Horacio says it's like, oh, man, thank you so much here. have so Have my drink, have some money, whatever. And then he just sets down this bounty puck and he's like, is that me? i don't think that's I don't think that's supposed to be me. It looks like me. I can see why you think it's me. It's actually my really handsome brother.
00:13:10
Speaker
He has a tiny penis and I have a huge but actually flip that. I'll show you my tiny penis if it gets me out off the hook. My brother has the big dick. Look at this. I'm in the cold right now. Has there been any literature about how these fobs work?
00:13:22
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I thought about that when watching. i was like, Derek's going to ask me about these fucking fobs. And i I thought about a quick Google, but I don't think that's fair because I haven't done the work on it. I don't think there's been literature.
00:13:33
Speaker
i mean, I thought about it myself. You have to either have like a DNA kind of thing or a chain code program, or they have a tracker on them somehow. Yeah, because that's the thing. They say later on they don't have the chain code for the the new bounty. No, he said we can give you last four digits. He didn't say they didn't have it.
00:13:51
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Oh, okay, because Grief Kargis says there's no chain code. and then yeah No, he says there's no bounty puck. He also says no chain code until he goes to Werner Herzog. Then Werner Herzog's like, I have the last four digits. I 100% believe they have it. I think they have the whole chain code.
00:14:07
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Okay. They just don't want you know the secret. Yeah. Because we never actually find ah find out. We never find out exactly who hired this other group. Okay.
00:14:18
Speaker
And I started thinking about it today. I think it might be Imperial versus Imperial. Yeah, I mean, the beginnings or middle stages of the all the people fighting each other, the shadow council, the shadow council. Yeah.
00:14:31
Speaker
And everyone you you would be. I mean, this is we're always going to reminisce. i not reminisce so We're always going to make comparisons to the Nazis and Hitler. hitler's either dead or dying um the nazi yeah okay i said reminiscing like that's just the wrongest word you could do uh but you know this would be all of his little fucking minions like uh biting for power you know taking whatever little chunk they can that's exactly what would have did happen and it would be happening here so i think because i know we're skipping ahead and we're kind of all over the story yeah but when verner
00:15:07
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yeah i hope you fucking watched it uh verner herzog is like uh alive is preferable or confirmation of death and the dr pershing's like whoa no no no no somebody agreed on ig uh levin had a specific kill order yeah which kind of suggests that there's two different groups looking for and then who hired these guys to get them in the first place Yeah.
00:15:31
Speaker
Yeah. So there's some some some behind the stuff scene stuff going on that we don't really get confirmation of. I was going to say, these are things we don't have an answer to. And mean unless there's a novelization I don't fucking know about. I'm sure there is.
00:15:44
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Or at least a comic book. Oh, but I love. Yeah, I love his line. You said it earlier, like because Horatio Sanz is begging and he's like, look, I can bring you in warm. I can bring you in cold because he knows you know what it is. and Coward. So it's RoboCop dead or alive. You're coming with me like it is a variation of that. like I'm going to get you.
00:16:05
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And we do get an introduction early on to his ah um Mando's avoidance or whatever of droids because the speeder comes up to give him a ride and he's like, nah,
00:16:16
Speaker
No droids. So then Brian Posehn pulls up in this fucking Brian Posehn 1981 Honda Civic with black smoke coming out the back. this This is going to be the weirdest Uber of your life. No way. Brian Posehn is going to take you on a normal fucking trip.
00:16:33
Speaker
Well, and they have a. ah history of doing this throughout the show, like obviously not at this point. This is the first episode, but hiring these comedians to play these non funny roles typically. Yeah, just well, and I and Brian Posey is a huge fucking nerd. So I was going to say, you want to be in Star Wars? He's like, fuck, yeah.
00:16:51
Speaker
I feel like he was begging. he's like, put me in your show and just begging for knows him or sure. They've worked together on something. Yeah. But yeah, he gives them a ride and he's like, hey, stay off the ice and just zips the fuck out of there.
00:17:07
Speaker
And I felt like this was kind of a a holiday special reference, if I remember right. Doesn't Mando end up shooting some big sea creature that attacks him in the holiday special? Yeah. Or is it a rifle?
00:17:21
Speaker
Maybe it's the same rifle. I can't remember. but i think it's this rifle. I remember George Lucas being on set for Mandalorian, like watching the filming of. Did I say Mando Boba Fett?
00:17:32
Speaker
I might've said, Oh yeah, you might've, you might've run it back and we don't care, but it was George Lucas on set for filming probably this episode, but definitely this season.
00:17:42
Speaker
And they bring him the disruptor rifle. they're like, aren't you, ah ah happy or surprised to see like your design in star wars he's like oh actually i didn't design that and he gave credit to whoever designed it and he talks about it being from the holiday special Nice.
00:17:59
Speaker
I mean, at least he's not like Stanley. Exactly. i think besides his own wife, George Lucas gave credit where it was due his all life. So she's a bitch, dude. So um fuck her and the horse she rode in on the Tauntaun she rode in on.
00:18:15
Speaker
But yeah, they get attacked by this space walrus and he has to shoot it to get out of there. Not a space walrus. It's a space alligator eel walrus. ah du It's got tusks.
00:18:28
Speaker
yeah Not Tusken's. It's a saber tooth moray eel. That's fucking terrifying. Yeah, it is. It really is. But this is cool because it's beginning of seeing um the multifunction of his rifle.
00:18:44
Speaker
Yeah. because he zaps this thing off. They take off. This myth roll guy just won't shut the fuck up, which is, you know, it's Horatio Sands doing Horatio. Why you hire him? Yeah. I just like he's like, hey is it true you don't take off your helmets ah like your ship? Razor quest?
00:18:59
Speaker
How long you been out here? Yeah. You ever been to the Applebee's over on Tatooine? It's great. ah Like just trying to get anything out of this guy. What do you drink when you get there? Presidente Margarita? You get with lime? Do you have the salt?
00:19:11
Speaker
I'm asking kind of tequila? Silver? Anejo? Reposado? I like it. It's good. You get to shake it and you take the shaker home. How many shakers do you have? I have 13 shakers at home. Oh, speaking of Applebee's, I got to go take a shit. You have a bathroom on this thing? ah Do you like craplebee's? I got a couple of crapitizers when I was there.
00:19:27
Speaker
So he does go to take a shit and excuse me. He goes to relieve himself. Look, he says his thorax ah that's taken a shit. He also says he's molting.
00:19:38
Speaker
He also says he hasn't taken his shit since the solstice. And I'm like, oh, that's his species. I've talked about this before. If we could just shit once a year, that'd be amazing. You save it up. you have one day where for 24 hours, you just poop.
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Come check us out. If you don't follow us, we will follow you home. So we see our first toilet in Star Wars. Refresher. Sorry, vac tube. What does he call Vac chamber? Yeah. Something like that. I imagine, much like Dave Matthews' tour bus, they're just dumping this wherever they go.
00:22:04
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Dave Matthews got jumping at his base. His band got fined for dumping pee and poo on people on accident. So I'm sure it's like the airplane toilet where you push it it sucks down real hard. But then as soon as that thing closes, it just shoots the shit out the back of the ship because you're in space. Who cares?
00:22:19
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And that's how you get Joe dirt getting that fucking space peanut. And it just made me laugh because I just recently watched the not for the first time, but a psycho, the original.
00:22:32
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Okay. And there's a point in there where she's ripping up paper and like throwing it in the toilet and flushing it. That was the first time a toilet had ever been seen or used on, in a movie.
00:22:44
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Shut up. Cause always think about like all the people who are watching that movie that on opening night and they're like, well, yeah, I mean, she got stabbed and it was crazy. There was some side boot, but did you see the toilet?
00:22:57
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It probably wasn't a happy thing. It was people like, can you believe they showed a toilet? There was a get my get my purse. We're leaving. That's a toilet. There was a ah British critic who quit his job after watching that movie.
00:23:11
Speaker
And I just want to I like to imagine that he was just like, we've put toilets in movies now. I don't think I'm involved in this anymore. Cinema has gone too far. What's next? Boobs.
00:23:23
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and what Well, I mean, besides like a porno, what's the, what you probably don't know this off the top of your head. Like what's the first year we had a boob in a movie? I don't know. There is side boob in psycho, but.
00:23:35
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right. I guess I should say, when's the first time we had nerps? Yeah. I have no idea. It feels like something I should know. If you look at this shelf behind me. I think Werner Herzog is staring you the fuck down. That's terrifying.
00:23:48
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Yeah. He's looking for the baby, but I don't have any. You are my baby. um Yeah. So I don't know what Horatio Sands plan is here. He's sneaking around the ship.
00:24:02
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I think he's looking for a weapon or or an escape pod. ah so some way to escape to some way to get out of custody but he gets carbonated instead he gets Han soloed dude when he finds those carbonite slats of people so cool it's like ah it's like you found a serial killer's basement yeah you found his jar of toenails and you're like oh shit he wants to put my toenails in there <unk> not gonna you're not gonna goth me and then we get to i believe this is most he gets catched we get this is most espy right that's where karga hangs out navarro oh yeah yeah they're dave navarro okay i was i couldn't remember and it's always navarro because he his whole story is and rest in pictures by the way yes i mean not too long ago
00:24:56
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Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. To Carl Weathers. um You continue. I'll find out. Okay. But like his whole story is he starts as this fucking bounty hunter guild management which is not a great like bounty hunters guild is fine because at least you're in a guild but they're not they're still kind of one level above scum yeah and then he goes from that to magistrate to like savior of the city so he's always been navarro and he's just having his glow up okay and it was february of 2024 so pretty recently
00:25:28
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ohs yeah so pretty recently yeah I instantly went out and bought the grief cargo action figure. Yeah. The day he passed. Cause I'm like, it's going to go up. Yeah, exactly. It's going to go up.
00:25:41
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I picked it up for like a little seven and change and said, I took all my toys down from my front a little area, except for that one. ah um My, is my auto correct changed it to green cargo.
00:25:54
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Oh, do you have your green cargo? Otherwise you're going get fucking deported, man.
00:26:01
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ah You're going to have some ice troopers. Sorry, snow troopers come into your house. Sorry. oh it's not funny. it's It is, but it's- I have to laugh because otherwise I'm going to cry. Yeah. It's terrible watching people just fucking not due process the fuck out of this country.
00:26:17
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can't let you say this. Joe Rogan, I'm going to agree with, like 10 years ago, he was watching this happen and he's like, if you can watch this and be okay, you don't have a soul. It's like, oh, Joe. Let me agree with you.
00:26:28
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you know what? I'm not going to believe i i saw I did it and I still don't believe it. I saw a video of Tucker Carlson giving Ted Cruz the biz and I agreed with him and I was like, I don't like that. We are living in some weird times where Tucker Carlson all of a sudden is a fucking voice that I care about. Good God.
00:26:47
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You have the universe. but carl Carl Weathers. ah Tucker Carl Weathers. From a bunch of shit. I mean, obviously, he's Predator Action Jackson. He's not a Predator. no, no.
00:26:58
Speaker
He's in Predator. um I can't believe he started there instead of Apollo Creed.
Carl Weathers' Career Highlights
00:27:03
Speaker
Yeah, Predator is my introduction. Really? Yeah. I mean, I like Predator more than I like Rocky.
00:27:10
Speaker
He was fucking killing it Rocky. I didn't see Rocky until I was in my 20s. Bummer. Yeah, my but my parents didn't watch it. I don't know. Yeah. my mom My mom was too busy. She had her 80s action guy, and that was Jean-Claude Van Damme.
00:27:24
Speaker
Tight buns because I'm showing them and splitting them. Exactly. She liked his split buns. Who doesn't? um But I like how he's like trying to pay him in Imperial credits. Like here's some Confederate dollars.
00:27:38
Speaker
That's still spends. He's still spent. He's like, du they're gone. Get the fuck out of here. Get your Jefferson Davis out of here. i'd love that. They decided to name the calamari money flan.
00:27:49
Speaker
I'm like, you just doubled down on the food. That's what I thought too. I was like, it's gotta be Filoni and Favreau, like call it flaw. The calamari money is called flaw. You know what they, you know what they bleed?
00:28:02
Speaker
Marinara. You've got your appetizer. You've got your dessert. got reckon my Dave Filoni, but he kind of sounds like this. Have you ever heard him talk? He just kind of a little bit like this. um mean I'm going to, I'm to work on it more.
00:28:14
Speaker
I have, but not enough to do that. All right. Well, um, I'm recording this so I can work on it for later. Give me a weird, stupid hat. He's looking for more jobs.
00:28:26
Speaker
um There's a bunch of them, but they don't pay much. Also, calm down, dude. Everybody here wants jobs like that. It's just a bunch of people pointing at Mando. He took our jobs. and This is why I've always said we should deport Mandalorians, man.
00:28:40
Speaker
Send them back to Mandela. Oh, we can't. Oh, shit. Are the ah the fucking Mandalorians are kind of in this point like the they're like, to like the nomadic Rome, like ah gypsies.
00:28:53
Speaker
Like they don't even have their own home. They just like and bounce around the galaxy. And a lot of people think that they're intruding. Yeah. Cause they don't have a home. That shit was iced glass.
00:29:05
Speaker
Although we will, ah we'll visit that later. It was like season three. um So sometime later this year, probably, I think if we all live, yeah. I'll see what happens tomorrow.
00:29:17
Speaker
But like their economy is not great because the the bounty, the highest bounty he has is 5000 credits or 5000 cups of flan or whatever. And he's like, that's not even enough for gas, dude. And he's like, OK, well, I got another job, but no chain code face to face.
00:29:33
Speaker
Super secret shit. You have to go meet with this guy. He's going want to check your butthole. I've met him before. I'm just going to warn you. He's got this really weird German accent. Okay, I want you to bend over and touch your toes because I'm going to show you where the wild tauntaun goes.
00:29:50
Speaker
terrifying. and just had an extra note slash like costuming note as Mando is going through these back alleys to go find Farner Herzog. There's like, you know, the town is not in good state.
00:30:03
Speaker
Right. Right. There's this like homeless guy sitting there with a cup out and it just looks like a homeless guy with a VR headset on. Oh, yeah. So like, well, I guess it's the future. He's like, I'm homeless. It doesn't mean I can't have some fun. Yeah, exactly. I have I have this. I have an Oculus.
00:30:20
Speaker
Yeah, it reminds me of, like again, ah old westerns. This is that either run downtown or like just aspiring fortress, like in New Mexico kind of thing, you know, like where it's ah borders on lawless. It's mostly lawless.
00:30:37
Speaker
Yeah. And there's ah yeah this guy's like an old gold prospector who couldn't find anything or his his claim was taken by another man or something. He fought in the clone wars, but you know, there's no no use for a soldier.
00:30:51
Speaker
Was it Obi-Wan that we saw a clone begging? We did. yeah That was heartbreaking. Tomorrow Morrison just begging for money. Fuck. I'll give them all of mine, dude. He can move in.
00:31:03
Speaker
I only have one pillow and one blanket. I am willing to share.
00:31:08
Speaker
Dude, his head will take up that whole pillow. His head's going to take up my entire chest. What vice versa? Tams get back to me. You let me know big spoon little spoon. I don't care, but he goes into this place.
Werner Herzog's Impactful Performance
00:31:20
Speaker
I'm going to write him like a Benta.
00:31:22
Speaker
It's all very shady going in here because you've got the little eyeball droid thing from palace and then their their doorman is one of these gunk droids like they're like, I love a gunk droid. You're a battery, but also like someone comes in this door, lead them to the other door.
00:31:38
Speaker
if That's your job. You have two jobs. recharge my cell phone lead this guy over here you're kind of like a roomba with a purpose i'm always going to be happy when i hear a gong troy dude call all and then we we meet the client played by verner herzog who was right behind me in the video also he's standing right behind you Also the inspiration for my my name on my video here because he directed a Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans with Nick Cage, which is a fucking batshit crazy movie.
00:32:10
Speaker
I am so glad he explained that because I'm looking at it andm like this is Star Wars references. I don't get it. And i'm I'm not going to ask him. I was going to make some pun about a DeLorean. And then I was like, Jack's going to do that.
00:32:23
Speaker
And then if you didn't, I would have been so upset. No, I got one. They were OK. I don't know what we're doing week. Werner Herzog is a story director. ah he's but He's an actor. He's a fucking amazing, crazy, insane human being.
00:32:39
Speaker
And he doesn't even have – he's not even trying to be terrifying right here. He's playing this just very straight, but because of his gravitas and just – I mean gravitas isn't the right word. He is just – Instantly nefarious.
00:32:51
Speaker
And I don't know if this if Star Wars falls into haunting as well, but he he has an interview that I think everybody should check out on ah ah Conan O'Brien's podcast.
00:33:02
Speaker
What's it called? Conan O'Brien needs a friend. friend Yeah, ah he's got a great interview on there. It's very funny because Conan keeps trying to make jokes and Werner Herzog is just like, I am not laughing right now.
00:33:13
Speaker
like But it's like he's talking about like, oh all these guest appearances he's made on other shows and stuff. And he apparently he did a character on The Simpsons. i think he just played himself. And he is a character on The Simpsons.
00:33:26
Speaker
He got the offer and then they literally had to explain to him what The Simpsons was because he had never heard of it or seen it. like I mean, it's not surprising. He doesn't like own a TV, but the fact that he's never heard of the Simpsons. Come on.
00:33:40
Speaker
I mean, this is a dude in that same interview. He talks about how like a teacher that he had at one point was like she had cancer and was sick and it was when he hes lives in Europe somewhere.
00:33:53
Speaker
And so he's like, I wanted to go see her. So I walked for two months to her house to find her. And and I'm like, what? What a statement. it This dude is insane and he is awesome.
00:34:04
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yeah He's insane and we love him for it. And I mean, apparently Carl Weathers was a big fan of Werner Herzog as well. And like on set, he kept calling him maestro. And then like when they were behind the scenes and stuff, he he would just constantly talk to him about his movies and like working with Klaus Kinski and all this stuff. Like Carl Weathers was all about Werner. Carl Weathers started transitioning to the behind the camera.
00:34:29
Speaker
You know, I think that's a ah ah maneuver as you age, especially, and you want to stay creative and maybe you don't want to fucking be as ripped as you always have been. You want to eat some cheeseburgers, Brendan Fraser style. So Carl Weathers is like, Hey, this is an opportunity to learn from one of the best.
00:34:44
Speaker
You know, I'm going fucking sponge all that information. It sucks. We got, we got, he, he got taken a little too early. It sucks. Cause I think we, he had a lot more work to do and maybe not acting. Yeah.
00:34:55
Speaker
I mean, he's, he's great and everything. um I mean, I, I definitely, my introduction was predator, but I didn't know who he was then. And then when I saw action Jackson, I was like, it's that guy from predator.
00:35:07
Speaker
But when I knew who he was, was arrested development. Because he's so fucking self-aware. he is so fucking great in that. How many, how many people, how many actors are just going to make fun of themselves? Like he plays himself making it like just being a poor, broke, never made it actor. It's great or washed up.
00:35:25
Speaker
You take this rib bone, put it some water. Baby, you got yourself a stew. there a room on that tab for one more? Do you do you like him? No, I adore it. Yeah, he's tremendous on that.
00:35:38
Speaker
And then we meet Dr. Pershing, played by Omid Abtahi. I hope I'm saying that right. I hope you are, too. It sounds better than could do.
00:35:48
Speaker
ah I believe that he's in American Gods. He's the one that has sex with the djinn. I think that's my introduction to him at least. Oh, okay. um He was his most known thing is in the hunger games.
00:36:06
Speaker
heart something mocking Jay, whichever that is I don't. Fuck. I've seen the first one and I gave up. I watched them all because I was dating a chick that liked them. The first one was so bad. I just moved on.
00:36:17
Speaker
It doesn't make any sense if you haven't read the book. ah He's on the boys. He did some voice work in video games and stuff, but Yeah, he might be American gods. ah I'm not going to sit here and go through everything. I forgot to look him up. I apologize, but he's good at this.
00:36:34
Speaker
Yeah, he is. He's got a really good arc later on, too. I think that's season two, right? Two or three. ah can't remember. He has. So something we'll talk about later. He has the cloning, the Camino cloning emblem on his arm.
00:36:48
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, the little yeah, I saw that and oh, and we didn't mention that when right when Mando walks into the room, there's these like rundown Imperial stormtroopers like dirty covered in dirt all smashed up armor and shit.
00:37:02
Speaker
I'm like, wow, you guys actually made it through something. Surprise. didn't know. I didn't know stormtroopers ever lived through a battle, but well they hid. They saw Ewoks coming. They were like, whoa, no, no, no.
00:37:13
Speaker
no This is still the dirt from fucking Endor. ah Yeah, they're Endor. ah So I love when Pershing walks in because it makes Mando flinch and he fucking pulls pistol here, fucking rifle here, you know, and he's like...
00:37:30
Speaker
Werner Herzog does so great. he's like, please forgive him and his lack of decorum. He's this excitement. It does not know any bounds. And of course, Mando's like, tell him to lower their fucking guns.
00:37:40
Speaker
We got you four to one. I'll take those odds. Yeah. Ice cold. Yep. And just listening to Werner Herzog say all these star Wars words is just a trip.
00:37:52
Speaker
It is. he said cam to know ah different, different way than grief. Carter does grief. Carter calls it a camp to know. And he calls it a camp tone. Now, camp tone. No, it's something like that. He's like, it's just a different pronunciation. And I want to say that grief cargo is doing it. Right.
00:38:11
Speaker
The best guy belongs back in the hands of a Mandalorian. Mandalorians always win all the races because they have the best cars. That's stupid. He offers best car as down payment.
00:38:24
Speaker
like As we said earlier, to deliver the asset alive or proof of termination is acceptable for a lower
Cultural Significance of Beskar Steel
00:38:30
Speaker
fee. Persons like, no, no, no, no. I need that blood. The high ass M count.
00:38:36
Speaker
And we, he so he goes back out. There's some little, so I've just found out what these things are called. Little salacious B. Crumb guys, the monkey lizard, right? Kawakian monkey lizard. Yeah. Kawakian. I forgot.
00:38:50
Speaker
There's one in a cage and there's one being roasted on a spit. And I guess these puppets were hand built by, or the puppet. The other one's not a puppet. I mean, i guess technically it's got something up its ass, but now we define puppet.
00:39:04
Speaker
Yeah, I got an uncle man that he would have fucking loved to be classified as a puppet. if that's the But they were designed and built by or built by Tony McVeigh, who is the original designer and fabricator of Salacious B. Crumb back in the day. Yeah, you can you can definitely tell.
00:39:22
Speaker
And in an otherwise CG world, it makes me sad, though, because these are fucking most like mostly s sentient creatures. Oh, I read a thing, I guess. ah So The child, which who we are introduced to later, Grogu.
00:39:37
Speaker
But that's not until much later. ah The child is mostly practical, as we know. Obviously, there's parts where he's running around. Is this the Werner Herzog? Yeah. for and So they were shooting it with the puppet and they were shooting it without the puppet.
00:39:50
Speaker
Yeah. um And Werner Herzog found out they were doing that just in case the puppet didn't work right or didn't look good. And he called them. He basically called them fucking cowards. I think I have the quote. You got a bunch of fucking cowards. yeah oh He said, you're cowards.
00:40:04
Speaker
Leave it. And he said that the the scenes with the puppet are heartbreakingly beautiful. oh which is just Which is just how he talks. like that's yeah he you You could bring out like a really nice plate of like steak and potatoes that's plated really well. He's like, this is heartbreakingly beautiful.
00:40:22
Speaker
yeah It sings to this the chords of the universe. It is tugging on my heartstrings as we speak. I am a changed man forever. And another little fun thing here, which I think would have made more sense, but I get Disney's gripe, I guess.
00:40:38
Speaker
um the The monkey lizard that's in the cage watching a member of its species being roasted on a spit was originally supposed to be laughing because they don't give a shit.
00:40:50
Speaker
And they changed it to sad noises because it was determined that that was too sad. Yeah, it's just evil. But that's what they are. Look at Salacious B. Crumb. Yeah. He's having other people's pain, not his own people's.
00:41:04
Speaker
Maybe he didn't like that guy. He's like, fuck Roger.
00:41:08
Speaker
I fucked your wife. i So Mando goes and meets up with the armorer who is played by an actress.
00:41:20
Speaker
Don't lie. Swallow named Emily Swallow. Yeah. Oh, dude. No, i've i I'm in love with Emily Swallow. And I looked her up because of this one. She's gorgeous. Yes. And it's kind of disappointing.
00:41:32
Speaker
We'll get to the taking the helmet off of Pedro Pascal later, later episodes or later seasons. I think he does it once in this. Maybe. Yes. I'm kind of disappointed she doesn't take her helmet off because she's gorgeous.
00:41:43
Speaker
But I guess she was supernatural. She's not a whole bunch of shit. So we might see your face like when she dies, like take my helmet off so I can see you with my own eyes. Tell your sister you are right.
00:41:57
Speaker
start thumb But he gives her the the best guard to make him some shit And then whatever's left over he can contribute to the thing The foundlings Yeah, the community pool of covenant scar there you go the fucking community pool of best car it's a tiredest web
00:42:21
Speaker
quick dry off faster you're going to be frozen like that dude it's i love this covenant and she is fucking tremendous the armor is going to be one of my favorite characters in this entire series She is steadfast.
00:42:35
Speaker
And here's the thing, like, I don't want to get too deep. We're already running longer than we should, but we'll talk about the covenant another time, how they're heretical and whatnot. yeah Yeah, she's she's kind of a badass we see later.
00:42:46
Speaker
But he does get his pauldron. He goes off. By the way, i knew this first one going to a little longer because we're setting stuff up. Yeah, we're talking about like the ins and outs. Okay. i just yeah yeah Then he goes off to this rocky desert planet, which apparently is Arvala 7.
00:43:01
Speaker
Okay. Because I guess, I think it was this one because I was reading some stuff for the next episode and... there's reference like there's some kind of thing where he sees arabash writing and it translates to arvala seven okay i think that's here it would have to be because he's yeah he can't get off planet yeah anyway yeah so he he spots these blurgs um which is another reference to a forgotten Star Wars franchise or property because the blurgs were introduced in Battle of for Endor.
00:43:35
Speaker
You have forgotten to us. We got them on 4K. And I guess this first shot of them through the scope was done in stop motion like the original.
00:43:46
Speaker
But obviously most of it is CG because you got people riding them and stuff. But that's cool because you got that little green filter on. You might as well just use stop motion whenever you can. Yeah. And when we don't want Mandalorian riding around on this thing looking like ah ah Denise Richards riding a T-Rex. That's all I thought of that. Yeah.
00:44:07
Speaker
Awful part. Amazing movie and also awesome part. And these are the blurgs attack him. He takes one down, but it's got him pinned. The other one comes up and then when he doesn't even take it down, ah fucking ah Nick Nolte takes them both down.
00:44:22
Speaker
Oh, I thought he got the first one. No, he got darted. Yeah, because it he had his arm when he's trying to flamethrower him. Then it switched arms and like he might have been able to get away. But Nick Nolte darted the other one and then the first one and the other one as like as he's coming up to him.
00:44:38
Speaker
Yeah, so we meet Nick Nolte who is playing Queel. Well, voicing Queel. That's not Nick Nolte. The body is an actress named Misty Rosas.
00:44:50
Speaker
um they They did do this is Nick Nolte's face. So I'm assuming they did like a transposition. Like there's obviously a mask here, but it's one of those combinations of practical and CG, I think, because this looks like fucking Nick Nolte.
00:45:03
Speaker
Or if hold on. Does Nick Nolte just look like a nug nut? I think Nick Nolte was around first. I don't know, man. He was born before night. This happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
00:45:16
Speaker
What are the chances Nick Nolte is a fucking descendant of an Ugnaught? Okay, that's possible. One of those Ugnaughts got into a space whale. I am smoking. Yeah, I am smoking.
00:45:28
Speaker
So, yes, it' I'm going to help you. i have spoken. um And he basically tells him, he's like, a lot of people have come through here looking for what you're looking for. They all died.
00:45:40
Speaker
I helped them. Mando's like, I don't know if I need your help then. Yeah. You know what? I think I'm good. but He's like, no, you do need my help. I've spoken.
00:45:50
Speaker
So you have to learn to ride this blurb. And it's just so a little bit of. Of mythology building. No pun intended. Cause he's like, your ancestors rode the great mythosaur. Surely you can ride this fucking blob. Yeah. Come on, dude.
00:46:05
Speaker
If you guys did that. and So this is the part, like as a nerd, people were texting me about as a star Wars nerd, people were texting me about this show, all kinds. right When it came out, people were like, hey, what's the timeline? How come I'm seeing fucking stormtroopers? like What is the deal?
00:46:21
Speaker
and I'm explaining all this shit. and it It gave me a purpose in life, Derek. It gave me meaning. All of a sudden, it's all worth it it's so much better than people just texting you like why is Darth Maul in solo yeah this is so much better because I have answers for that for this um but um when he says mythos are I felt a little betrayed because I'm like great now everyone knows the mandalorian clan is a mythos are That was always just the big, like, that's how I knew that you were expanded universe. You know, that's how I knew that you read a fucking book or a comic about it because you knew the mythos are.
00:47:02
Speaker
Or you saw the holiday special. Now. That's a different level. I respect you more if you never read a Star Wars book, but you saw the holiday special and will admit to it.
00:47:14
Speaker
yeah why I like basically Nick Nolte's thing is like, look, I'm going to help you because I want you to get the get whatever this is and get the fuck out of here because people keep coming for it.
00:47:25
Speaker
This is a place of peace, dude. This is like calm destruction. You're acting like it's Miami. Okay. You were trying to Miami up my Palm Springs. There's ninjas riding speeders around here, selling death sticks and also singing songs, seeing jizz music.
00:47:41
Speaker
He's like, also one other thing, never met a Mandalorian thought that was pretty cool. So yeah, I read about you in a book. I don't want to, it's a minor fucking thing because we obviously get a whole action scene out of it, but why doesn't he just take his ship, hover over and just start blasting?
00:48:00
Speaker
I don't know. I guess maybe he doesn't want to fly in because he doesn't know what the situation is. Or he doesn't know what the fucking bounty is. Maybe wants to keep it alive. Maybe his ah fob doesn't work as well in a ship.
00:48:14
Speaker
I mean, you have to get close enough for it to work because he had to figure out they had to tell him the planet to go to. So it's not like it just tells yeah I think it just points you left, right, and middle. Yeah, I mean, it beeps faster when you get closer, but like if you just it's it's on this planet.
00:48:28
Speaker
Okay, cool. So I'll start going north for two days. Well, it's beeping slower. Guess I better turn around and go south for two days. Fuck, dude. I went two days out of the wrong way. He's below us.
00:48:39
Speaker
So he's checking out this ah this camp. ah These guys. What are these? Nickto Nickto's. Yes. Okay. So he's checking it out. Oh, and you had mentioned in another one that you couldn't remember if that was the race or that particular character.
00:48:55
Speaker
The subtitles did say it here. said No, it was screaming. No, I think I knew that and we were talking about a week way. Oh, okay. There are characters that go by week way, but ah the race is definitely weak way or weak. Why I can never, you tell me how to pronounce it.
00:49:10
Speaker
Now you tell me you're the star Wars guy. Weak way.
00:49:14
Speaker
But as he's watching it, he's like, Oh fuck. Cause here comes IG 11 voiced by a tech away. This is great, dude. Cause we've always taught, like, especially in legends. We've talked, we've, we've seen it.
00:49:26
Speaker
The IG units are fucking bad-ass. Now we get to watch it. Dude, this thing is crazy. It's just like it can turn its arms and head in all directions and just blast dudes like fucking cowboy style.
00:49:38
Speaker
this Cowboys can't turn their arms. and allll but you cowboy this Cowboy style. What cowboy movies are you watching? My God. clay world is bucket No, it's cool as shit, man. I mean, it's exactly what I want from a bounty hunting robot.
00:49:54
Speaker
Yeah, except I don't quit to try and kill himself. we got We got talk to him about that. Make sure his mental health is OK. They're very ready to quit. It's so he's very quick about everything. He just walks in. He's like, i have this thing. Give me the per give me the produce the bounty. Yeah. Produce the bad right now. Yeah. And they're like, or not like.
00:50:15
Speaker
So ours. So then after he does that, then Mando comes out, he shoots Mando luckily in the only best car he has, which is his pauldron. and Oh, his helmet might be best guards. Pretty shiny.
00:50:26
Speaker
I think his other armor is best because stuff bounces off of it. It's not pure. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I mean. It's not pure Beskar. It could be a Beskar alloy, some sort of composite. But yeah, because that opening scene, the guy's like, oh, is that pure Beskar? And drags his knife across it and you can see it chipping. So maybe it's...
00:50:47
Speaker
really really good lasers blast hit him at other points and bounce off other parts and it's not he doesn't die like a stormtrooper i didn't see it i didn't see another one yeah it could be durasteel which is vader's suit okay that could be i don't know i just assumed it was like an alloy of beskar but anyway shoots him and then he's like hey you know i thought i was only one this job he's like me too all right cool let's split the bounty um Okay, but I get the fame for it. Yeah.
00:51:19
Speaker
He's like, we'll talk about this later when we're not being shot at. He's like, Nope. Need an answer now. I can't physically take a step forward until you tell me that I'm going to get the fame. I'm I'm not going to tell me I'm getting to fame or I'm walking.
00:51:33
Speaker
And they get pinned down. And yeah, IG 11 is immediately like, well, see you later. but what what what what What do you mean? Self-destruct. He's like, well, I can't get captured that away.
00:51:45
Speaker
We're go to shoot our way out and it doesn't work out. And he's like, all right, well it's time to kill myself. No, no, no, no. Stop. me try one more thing. Tries to open the doors. Like, no, can't do it. all right time to self-destruct knock that off yeah that literally literally his last one is like will you stop stop it put the bomb away pulls out his little spray bottle no what Why would you spray me with that? Because you're being a bad IG.
00:52:13
Speaker
And the whole time the chest cavity is open with the the detonator in there. Like it's he's he's not he's not uninitiating it. He's just not hitting the button to do it. Which, by the way, we see this go off, I think, at the end of this season. And it's a decent beta boom.
00:52:28
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he's going to take some of these guys with him. When they did it at that door, he would have taken ah Baby Yoda with him. so Yeah. Yeah. yeah um Yeah, but these guys, ah it's another there's a lot of good moments of levity that are like the action movie funny because they're like, okay, we're going shoot our way out. They pop out and these guys are rolling up with this big mounted gun. and he's like he's like oh fuck.
00:52:53
Speaker
No, we're not. is it It is a perfect fucking Western. You got people falling off the fucking top of the thing there. You got somebody rolling in with a Gatling gun. Like, it's good. The only thing he needs to do is drag around a fucking coffin full of guns.
00:53:08
Speaker
But he's his idea here is he goes, takes the mounted gun, clears the field of all these dudes. Oh, yeah. there There was a perfect point. and I know they're not doing it anymore. There was a perfect point for a Wilhelm scream.
00:53:20
Speaker
There's a few of them. But when when I G is going in and Mando tells him like above you, and he doesn't even look up. He just shoot straight up. Oh, yeah. The guy falls down. It would have been. a I was like, as soon as it happened, i was like, oh, I can feel it missing. Yeah. I don't know, man. If you're listening right now and you don't, and you enjoy that the Wilhelm scream is either changed or retired.
00:53:42
Speaker
Let me know if you are listening and you miss it. Let me know. Cause I miss it.
00:53:49
Speaker
So then another laugh, laugh out loud moment. It's like, okay, now we just gotta figure out how to open this door. And they stare at the door for a second and they both turn and look at the gun.
00:54:00
Speaker
good. they get in here, they find the child and he's like, what the fuck? I thought he was supposed to be 50 because obviously he Mandalorian doesn't know who Yoda is or that he's. He's age at different lengths or different speeds.
00:54:16
Speaker
And actually he's like, perhaps it can live many centuries. Sadly, we'll never know. Click and pulls a guy. And thats but yeah and we talked about it, but he's like, yeah I have a kill order, dude. Yeah, I'm not supposed to take that baby in.
00:54:28
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And Mando, okay I love this shot because it's Mando's entire face and you just see his visor light up with a fucking blaster shot. And obviously they want you to think it's IG killing Grogu, but then IG just falls with a fucking shot in the head.
00:54:43
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it's ah It's a good it's a good
00:54:47
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ah chance at misdirection. may not have yeah taken. mean, it's that classic like um like we just did on Bad Movies, Worst People. ah the Punisher when they're oh yeah the 1989 one, when they're rolling around the ground together and the gun goes off and it's like, who got shot?
00:55:04
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like Somebody got shot. Somebody got shot. Yeah. i guarantee you that Punisher walks away from this or limps. ah Well, yeah, so he shoots IG. and then he looks at the the child and they he reaches out with his finger like uh what's that painting uh creation of adam oh yeah the god and adam creation of man think it's just on the sistine chapel i think it's just creation of man it could be wrong well they're like doing the finger the finger touch thing you know what it is you're fucking way off to way more artistic it's shaquille o'neal and steel touching fingers with his partner sparky dude or it's et
00:55:44
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No, I said what I said. Steel. Now we get ET at the beginning of the next episode when Amanda's trying to heal himself and Gru comes up and is like, ouch. Ouch. Pieces, pieces.
00:55:55
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And then he gets into this bochka.
00:55:59
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So that's the end of Mandalorian chapter one the Mandalorian I can't do something different for this episode instead of like recommendations do you have any remembrance of your thoughts when this came out because we had been what did we have before this on a Disney Star Wars show live action nothing right nothing this was the first live action Star Wars show okay I believe And as I alluded to, we were in a dark spot.
00:56:27
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Yeah. So it was coming out. I remember hearing about it. I think I started this earlier and then we got sidetracked. What? um honest I remember hearing about it and I was like, okay, cool. Oh yeah. cause I said, this is the closest we're going to get to like a Boba Fett show or something. I'll take it.
00:56:43
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was like, but Disney plus original, it's probably going to suck. Who knows what they're doing. deaddada Like, cause the last thing we had seen was um rise of Skywalker.
00:56:55
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and Disney historically does not like to learn from their mistakes. Nope. Plus I think at this point we had, we did have some bad Marvel streaming too, right? You might not like to, I think the only one I can think of is WandaVision and I liked it.
00:57:07
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Ugh.
00:57:10
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Like I said, bad Marvel streaming. It's a great show. so It's one of the better Marvel streaming shows. All right. I'll allow it. I don't agree with it.
00:57:23
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But yeah, so we sat down and watched it. I don't know if I got to watch it the day it came out. I can't remember if that was the first season. I had to wait like two weeks or something. But we sat down and watched it. And I remember as soon as it ended, I was like, yeah, ye yeah, let this is what we're doing.
00:57:40
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And I did get the feeling right out of the gate, which continues on throughout this season, especially of like, am I just watching like a really cool video game I'm never going to get to play?
00:57:52
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Because like he goes, he he gets the first bounty. He gets rewarded with Beskar. He takes it to the armor. He gets a pauldron. He goes to the next bounty. Side quest. Like, exactly. Side quest.
00:58:03
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Side quest. And I love it. That's not a complaint. No, no. I think it's a, I think it worked as a good format. And I can understand why over the, the full series, they kind of moved into telling a bigger story. because they're like, Oh, if we're going to go this, do this whole series, we can't just have it all be,
00:58:22
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like battle of the week or bounty of the week. We have to give you some kind of story. Otherwise it's going to get old. They have to give you an end game. Yeah. So, but I, I, yeah, I remember being very impressed. Like the very first day I saw this, as I, as I said earlier, this was a low point for star Wars. Like, especially me being the guy that I, I, I try to enjoy whatever star Wars I'm getting at whatever time I'm getting it.
00:58:45
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it was rough you know rise of skywalker broke me a little when this came out i had so many people i knew that were like i'm done like i don't care i'm done with star wars there's nothing they can do to bring me back and then this came out and 99 of those people came right back into the fold you know And it helped me. like It reinvigorated my fucking love for it.
00:59:06
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So, yeah, dude, it was kind of what we needed. I heard one complaint about this where someone said it sound it feels like Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni are just playing with their Star Wars toys and hit record.
00:59:18
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Yeah. Yeah. Okay. You know what? We've used that as a complaint on ah but about the Transformers movies, ah but that's because that's just to a kid playing with his toys going,
00:59:30
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but but This is like some super nerdy little kid that's like, hello, I am. It's it's fucking dark helmet. Yeah. How long were you standing there? Not long enough to see you play with your Boba Fett doll, sir.
00:59:43
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So yeah, this is, I, to me, this is a big savior of star Wars. I know they still don't have a lot of people's faith back and streaming shows after this lost some of that faith, but like season one and two of Mando, man, if you didn't enjoy this, let us know why. And I'd love to have a, like a civilized discussion of why this didn't work for you.
01:00:04
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Well, and i can't remember the timeline of like life because of who I am, but I feel like this was kind of at the height of streaming shows where it was like, it was like when, ah HBO was like, put out a new show back in the day and it was like, what's the new HBO show. So it's gonna be fucking amazing.
01:00:21
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And this was the point where it was like, most of these streaming services were putting stuff out and it was like, well, it's probably going to be great because all the other ones have been great. I mean, maybe not all of them, but you know what i mean? It's, it's pretty close to like, this has been a lot of good shit.
01:00:34
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And then, we started getting a lot of bad shit. So yeah, it will saturation. Disney wanted to win the so-called streaming wars. They've, they've talked about it.
01:00:45
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ah We talked about it with Obi-Wan series. That was supposed to be a movie. This was a trilogy of movies. And the guy that wrote it, wrote it that way. And Disney was like, no, we're not doing any movies right now. We need to win the streaming battle.
01:00:58
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And they haven't. Yeah, they gave us a bunch of content. It kind of goes to um ah something I just read that James Gunn had said about because, you know he's running DC now.
01:01:10
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DC movies. I'm excited. I'm excited. We already have tickets. Yeah. So. um But he had made a comment about how it's not necessarily the the creative people at Marvel's fault that Marvel has lost its way as much because Disney did this like thing where it was like, we're not going to make as many movies, make everything for TV make and put out as many TV shows as you can.
01:01:33
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So they just started cranking out TV shows and they weren't all good. Yeah, because it was just like, we need to fill this streaming service. So let's do it right now. I never blame the creatives for that. Yeah.
01:01:45
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Something this is, ah this is slightly on topic. So that's good for us. The whole, the reason and or work so much is because Disney actually got out of the way.
Creative Freedom in Star Wars: Andor
01:01:54
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Tony Gilroy had a very specific story to tell and Disney for however, whatever God sent reason didn't get in his way. They didn't force cameos.
01:02:03
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They didn't force placement of products, actors, or, IPs, you know, they just let Tony Gilroy, tell a story and it works so fucking well for that reason. I think that's part of why this works, too, because I feel like that's what they were doing here. The thing is, you have Dave Filoni is the guy running it. So he is a Star Wars guy.
01:02:21
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Yeah, he's he's been running shows, so he's got the cameos. He does that stuff because he's doing things like what I pointed out, like, oh, it's the blur. Oh, it's he shot that thing like in the cart in the yeah cartoon from the holiday special. when i think it's why season three became such a stinker is because they got ah ah Kathleen Kennedy just came in and was like, here's what I think you have to do.
01:02:42
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Well, and I think when this started, it was like, we're going to do this and see if it works. So it was like, do whatever you want. So they do whatever they wanted. And then it was a huge success. And so they got to keep doing what they wanted to do to an extent.
01:02:55
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But then at a certain point, Disney is like, okay, well now we have to start connecting this to the big stuff. And we know we have to connect it to that show and that show. They started doing their MCU thing. Now we have to connect all the threads of everything, you know, and I know that Dave Filoni is the one of behind the scenes doing that stuff.
01:03:12
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But maybe I mean, for I've enjoyed most of the content we've gotten in one way or another. Right. But like. when it was just a standalone, like, here's a story about this guy. It's not tied. Here's a story a Mandalorian. He was downing hunt like no of anybody else.
01:03:31
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But it's like, it's not tied to the bigger universe so much, except for that it takes place in it. So you can just do whatever you want. The big downfall of this series, and we'll talk about it in much more depth in season three,
01:03:45
Speaker
they had a specific plan and Kathleen Kennedy came out and said, no, because of merchandise, not because of bigger connectivity. She was like, you're not going to have a fucking season of Mandalorian without Grogu. You're not doing it.
Merchandising Influence on Storytelling
01:03:56
Speaker
ah That's dumb. And that's why when you, we watched that season three, it's like, he's there, but you could easily take him out of this scene and it doesn't matter. And that shouldn't be the case. He should be a focus. Give him a reason to be there, write that fucking story of him there or get him out because we already brought the but bought the Grogu toy. He's somewhere over here.
01:04:16
Speaker
Oh, no, no. Did he fall down? Grogu's down. He's off being mischievous. He's eating all your fish eggs. I hope no one's missing a frog. But like, yeah, it's it's just it's stupid because like if you really need Grogu, so the people you're selling the toys to besides Jack are mostly kids.
01:04:35
Speaker
So go do your little fucking Grogu animated series like they did the Groot animated series. Right. It gives a shit. Keep your Grogu content. But when they send him off to go with a CG Luke, that should be the end of it. and Because that san story wrap that story didn't wrap up. It was like, hey, come with me. all right. Get out of my face. Yeah. Yeah.
01:04:55
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It didn't make any sense. Yeah. But we'll get there.
01:04:59
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Kathy Kennedy. She's got the good and the bad. you know She made a lot of movies in our childhood. Yeah, she produced my life. She's also a product. That's why it sucks.
01:05:10
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ah But no, she's... Well, that's why all my friends have been replaced with people of color. Yeah. I'm just kidding, guys. I think she's a product of the Disney machine.
01:05:21
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it you know It just happens. You gotta to you have to worship the almighty dollar, and that's the the bottom line is your bottom line. there is no She's not a creative anymore, man. but Bob Iger shows up and he's like, listen, bitch, we're making this fucking. but matter like came out You better sell me some Grogu puppets.
01:05:40
Speaker
Oh, I'll put my hand up its ass. Is that what it takes to be a puppet? Goofy's a puppet in that case. I had my hand up his ass last night. Oh, that was just an actor playing Goofy at the park.
01:05:54
Speaker
I felt Goofy. But yeah, we've gone along on this one, so we'll wrap this one up. But we are going to be releasing the Mandalorian episodes week to week instead of doing two at a time because I realized at a certain point I was like, well, that's
Podcast Format Changes
01:06:09
Speaker
weird. Why am I doing that? We're doing two episodes, but we're releasing every other week.
01:06:14
Speaker
I'm not as smart. the Every other week was just the schedule. So I was like, let's do that. yeah So I'm not promising anything, but I am saying they will probably be shorter.
01:06:25
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I'll do my bestest. No guarantees. Yeah. Whitney is in the background listening and she said, this is not the podcast you're looking for. When I said, oh, make i shorter but it is the podcast you're looking for. When I said I would make them shorter, though.
01:06:40
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Yeah.
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01:06:44
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ah Thank you guys for tuning in. We'll be be back next week to talk about chapter two, the child. Until then, I've been Derek. I'm Jack. I can bring you in warm or I can bring you in cold.
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