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HTSF Ep 65: The Book of Boba Fett Ch 3: The Street of Mos Espa
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In Chapter 3 of The Book of Boba Fett, Boba deals with unrest in Mos Espa, recruiting a gang of cyberpunk teens with shiny scooters, wrestling Black Krrsantan in his pajamas, and watching the Hutts bail out of the power struggle faster than they arrived, gifting Boba a rancor as a peace offering. Meanwhile, tensions rise with the Pyke Syndicate, hinting at a coming war.
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Discussion of 'The Streets of Mos Espa'
00:00:37
Speaker
Here we are, about to talk about it. Yes, we are.
00:00:43
Speaker
It started great, then you just fucking stopped. Yes, we are. We're here. We're talking about it. We're talking about Chapter 3 of the Book of Boba Fett, The Streets of Mos Espa.
00:00:57
Speaker
You you can take it down now. Okay. ah god Still there. You like my new
00:01:09
Speaker
I'll just look above you. I got the hat. got the name. Boba Fett and Fennec Shander's looking down at you.
00:01:16
Speaker
Yes, we are here to talk about this episode, The Jack Loves, which aired originally on January 12th, 2022. I don't hate it. hate things about it. Directed again by rob Rod.
00:01:29
Speaker
Rob Rod. And written by Favreau and that other guy. Clortoonian.
00:01:36
Speaker
Oh, there is Clatoonians. i wonder if they're named after Clore. Up front real quick, I read ah an actual interesting piece of IMDb trivia. Ooh, do tell.
00:01:48
Speaker
ah Was it about our favorite actor, Skeleton? No, it was about our second favorite actor Danny Trejo Okay Who makes an appearance in this episode ah Apparently he is the second cousin of Robert Rodriguez But they didn't they didn't know that until they were filming Desperado Just started like chatting with each other Yeah That's fucking funny, dude How do you not know that?
00:02:12
Speaker
I guess I don't know a lot of my second cousins, so never mind Yeah, I don't know any of my second cousins I mean, I'm sure I've met humans
00:02:20
Speaker
I'm sure I've met humans. I'm sure you have, Derek. You met me. Bad example.
00:02:27
Speaker
um But yeah, let's get right into Jack's favorite
Modding Culture and Critique of Mos Espa Scooters
00:02:31
Speaker
episode. befi Yeah, and I mean, it's not as bad as I remember, but I still hate. Okay, so off the top, I don't hate the fact that they're modding themselves with droid parts. I actually quite like that.
00:02:43
Speaker
It's the style it's presented in that I don't care for. Is it mostly the scooters? The scooters are a big fucking part of it. The most useless mode of transportation. And um well when we get to the chase scene, we're going to need to cut like 20 minutes out of my day so I can just riff.
00:02:58
Speaker
I was like, I think the chase scene proves the opposite of what you just said. In a town like Mos Espa with these narrow little streets and alleyways. Sure. scooter Scooter is much more useful than that big fucking Cadillac speeder. Absolutely. Zipping around in. It's also the slowest chasing ever. Wilford Brimley went by and a little rascal was like, you guys got to speed up, man. Get out of my way. got to chase out that diabetes.
00:03:21
Speaker
Well, again, you can't go that fast. You got these streets. I mean, yeah but they start going you start going you start going six You start going 70, 80, 90 miles an hour, but you're on a street that's only 400 feet long. That's how you end up in a building, sir. These these are the crocs of transportation.
00:03:38
Speaker
Okay, look. no I'm making jokes about the scooters. I got the hat because the scooters, but... The scooters are the dumbest part. the The mods I have no problem with because once I realized what they were doing, it's the next episode because, you know, we do two at a time.
00:03:54
Speaker
But the guy says, aren't you a little old to be here? And I've mentioned this to you before. It's the young people doing shit we don't understand. Sure. It's like how I went to Taco Bell yesterday and ordered something. And then the guy came to the window and was like, yo, we're low key out of that. And I was like, I don't what?
00:04:10
Speaker
You're not low-key. You're actually just out of it. You're not low-key out of it That's not low-key. So it's just young people. Young people doing things I don't understand. Sure. Like enjoying this.
00:04:21
Speaker
Like I said, it's just the choices. like i don't i I'm not looking at it as like a fucking boomer. I'm looking at it as like this does not make me feel Star Wars. This makes me feel like cyber steampunk.
00:04:32
Speaker
Cyberpunk. Yeah, that's what I mean. I feel and it's just not like I like Fennec Sham with her fucking little stomach things. Great. Great. Well, maybe the kids grew up watching cyberpunk stuff.
00:04:44
Speaker
Maybe know you don't know what kind of movies they have to fashion. They're like, I'm going to take. Well, they are from Space Alabama. So, yeah, that's true. And somehow they've got fucking Peaky Blinders on their fucking team.
00:04:58
Speaker
I'm pretty sure that the black kid is from Peaky Blinders. Oh, okay. I looked him up and I didn't see it, but I didn't go that deep. I just wrote down his top three. I could be wrong. There's just a point when he says something. He's like, oh, mate. And I was like, oh, like like just what he said and how he said it like, I think I've heard him say that before.
00:05:16
Speaker
By all of the Peaky fucking Boba Fetts. I mean, you can't be that mad about it. Boba Fetts robot friend is British. Oh, I'm not upset about being British.
00:05:27
Speaker
I'm not one of those guys. i mean, we could be upset that there's a fucking ah Mexican accent in the Star Wars now if you want to be a fucking dick about Star Wars. Oh, you know what i was thinking about the
Grogu's Accent Speculation and Gang Division in Mos Espa
00:05:35
Speaker
other day? What if ah Since Grogu was a baby, we haven't heard him talk yet. He's been spending time with... Oi! What's all this then?
00:05:46
Speaker
jarron Bill Burr. Bill Burr. Thank you. I was like, Bob? it been a lot of I just kept thinking like Bob Balaban. That's not the right guy But he's spending time with Bill Burr. What if when he grows up, he just starts talking like fucking Marky Mark?
00:05:59
Speaker
Oh, bro. I'm one with the Force. The Force is with me. Did you know that? I don't know about those fucking pneumonians, bro.
00:06:09
Speaker
So speaking of Boba Fett's robot friend, 8D8, right? Anyway. Yeah. Which was it 99? That's just lazy. Because 99 was Mark Hamill's droid.
00:06:22
Speaker
Was it? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. The the bartender one? Yeah. Maybe this isn't 8D8. I don't know. Maybe there's some canonical canonical reason that they're like someone went through and figured out what droid designations mean.
00:06:37
Speaker
I'm sure somebody did. I'm betting money somebody did. they're like, well, i actually, this won't be the 99. I'm betting money there's an encyclopedia about it. Or maybe Mark Hamill was born in 1990. knows?
00:06:49
Speaker
who knows um I'm pretty sure that one's not true. Who knows? He could have been born in 1999. We'll never have a way to find out. But this one starts out with Boba Fett learning more about what's going on here.
00:07:03
Speaker
So it's like all of these... Like, most Aespa has been split up between these three gangs after Jabba's death, and Bib Fortuna basically just let it happen because he was like, well, if you give me money, I'll leave you alone. And they just kind of kicked him a little so he'd shut the fuck up and go be fat somewhere else.
00:07:19
Speaker
And apparently they tried to get him killed, but he was too crafty, which is awkward the way he died. Yeah. you didn't try to You didn't just walk into the place and shoot him?
00:07:30
Speaker
but Well, he wasn't looking for Boba Fett. He thought he was dead. and That's true, but I mean, still, you literally had somebody just walk into the front of your fucking palace, your fortress, and just boom.
00:07:43
Speaker
Well, it was Master Assassin Fennec Shand. That's true. You got me there. But I like the thing with the the Matt Barry robot when he's like, ah this is was all controlled by ah like he who shall not be named.
00:07:57
Speaker
And he's like, you can say Jabba. Wait, Voldemort was here? Yeah. did vol Did Voldemort run Tatooine for a spell? Well, because he's like, I thought you'd be insulted. Why? Well, because you'd feel threatened. Well, i now I am insulted. Now now I am insulted. Then we get Steven Root showing up.
00:08:14
Speaker
Yeah, Steven Root comes in as Lortha Peel, the watermonger. forgot he was in this. Yeah. I mean, it is this and one other scene, but was just like, that kind of looks like Steven Root. And as soon as he spoke, i was like, hey, he's Steven Root.
00:08:27
Speaker
But I enjoy his thing. He's like, but no one thinks that you're strong. I'm offended for you. i i don't Don't kill me. I'm offended for you. When they said
Boba Fett's Leadership and Watermonger Conflict
00:08:35
Speaker
that, I told him, oh, I'm offended for Boba Fett.
00:08:39
Speaker
Well, and it's like, I'm insulted for you, especially in light of, ah you know. oh Boba's like, what now? In light of what? Say it.
00:08:50
Speaker
Say it. Say it. I'll say it with you. The assassination attempt. Oh. But he's just basically telling them, like, the the streets are chaos right now. I've got street urchins stealing my supplies.
00:09:03
Speaker
It's funny, actually, i did write down, I have to get to it, because Boba Fett is like, well, I grew up surrounded by water. And he's like, ah well, a fun fact, actually, Tatooine used to be covered in water. and And I was like, oh, he's going into a Jack speech.
00:09:18
Speaker
And Boba was like, no. Yeah. bo Time for this, you fucking nerd. Boba pulled a Whitney and he was like, shut up. My eyes are going to fucking glaze over any second now if you don't shut up right now.
00:09:29
Speaker
But he tells them about these kids running around who are half man, half machine. Scourge of the streets. They're maybe 25% machine. Yeah. I mean, you don't know what's on the inside, I guess.
00:09:40
Speaker
I guess that's true. You've got to have a battery to keep all those parts working. Look at explaining Star Wars now. ah yeah It's only when it comes to the fucking mod squad. Only time Derek's ever really given a two this much of a shit about Star Wars is when there's Power Rangers in it.
00:09:56
Speaker
Go, go, Power Rangers. See, like I don't hate that arm that much. It's just that, I don't know. she I guess her design's pretty cool because she's the human hand, human looking hand, so that's cool.
00:10:09
Speaker
it's The eye thing is one of the biggest that I just cannot deal with. Well, and they don't, I guess they do kind of give us a reason for it because he's the one who goes and spots the pikes. Yeah. And he'd say after a terrible joke, he's like, that's why I got it. Don't fucking be sensitive.
00:10:24
Speaker
Yeah. But ah so Boba, Fennec Shand, and the Gamorreans walk into a bar. Walk in like a fucking rap video to confront these kids. Just looking hard.
00:10:37
Speaker
and Play some Pantera.
00:10:41
Speaker
We spart.
00:10:45
Speaker
And we have ah the main one. So there was only two I could find credited. The other two are probably just stuntmen. you know so yeah ah There's Drash Who is Sophie Thatcher ah funny isn it Funny enough Pedro Pascal isn't in this Because this is Boba Fett But she was in a movie called Prospect With Pedro Pascal Pedro Pascal's in this Well, he's not Yeah, two episodes from now Well, not this episode though Yeah, I just meant the book of Boba Fett She's in a movie called Prospect with him when she's much younger, where she plays a small child that he, through consequences of actions, has to... He lone wolf and cubs her?
00:11:26
Speaker
Has to accompany to help her survive. And this is before... you're saying he's getting typecast. Yeah, this this came before Mando and before Last of Us, so it's just like... He is typecast. Someone saw that movie and was like, that guy could help kids.
00:11:41
Speaker
That guy could walk. You ever seen him walk? He looks good when he's walking. Although in that one, ah everyone looks walking he actually murders her dad. So it's more his fault in that case. but Yeah, sounds like it. Not more his fault. It sounds like all his fault.
00:11:56
Speaker
It's a pretty cool movie. But she's also in that so that Yellow Jackets. Oh, that's the beginning of the movie. and She's in that show Yellow Jackets, and then she was in Companion. She was the titular Companion.
00:12:10
Speaker
Wait, she's the one that looks like she's got the Juliette Lewis voice? Yeah, Iris. Oh, wow. I guess I just like, and this is not a complaint. That actress has very distinct teeth and she doesn't show them in this.
00:12:25
Speaker
Oh, yeah. I mean, she's not smiling a lot. She was great in Companion. I really enjoyed that. Yeah. And then the other one, ah the dude that has the Peaky Blinders accent, that's Jordan Bolger. He's playing Skad. Skad is such a Peaky Blinders name.
00:12:41
Speaker
He's in a few episodes, like 10 or 11 episodes of ah The 100, so like none of it. Okay. um But also, he was in The Woman King, which I haven't seen, but I heard is very good. And he's in a movie I probably won't bother watching unless we cover it one day, which is the ah the new The Crow remake, reboot.
00:12:58
Speaker
Yeah, we'll have to cover that if I'm going to watch it at all. Yeah. that way yeah Might be how I leave the podcast. i don't know. But love like she's just like he's like, hey, where'd you get that water? She's like, we stole it.
00:13:11
Speaker
Well, that's a crime. Yeah, well, it's a crime. What he charges. Go fuck yourself. Yeah. Like fucking daimyo superior. And that's yeah, that's when she throws the line at him because he's like, we're in the workers district. Shouldn't you be working and getting money? And she's like, there is no work.
00:13:25
Speaker
Mighty daimyo. Oh, yeah. Mighty Daimyo indeed. For those listening, I just flashed, got Jack and I cans of this Daimyo rice lager like eight months ago. Fast Friends Beer Company.
00:13:38
Speaker
Yeah. I bought these like eight months ago at work. I was like, one day we're going to talk about Boba Fett. So now we just have like a really old Pilsner to drink. it does jet alogger It doesn't taste that old.
00:13:49
Speaker
now it's fine Oh, but this is the first of like, I don't know, 12 times in these next two episodes where he they they're talking shit to him and he goes, do you know who I am? My name is Boba Fett.
00:14:00
Speaker
Yeah, cool. Boba Fett's dead. Don't give fuck. Dude, he says my name is Boba Fett to a robot in the next one. We'll get there. Okay, so i love we love Tams, right? We love Tamora Morrison.
00:14:12
Speaker
I think it's a mistake to have his helmet off as often as he does. People love Boba Fett for a lot of different reasons, you know, quiet and mysterious and stuff. And you can make the show about him still. Finnick Shan does most of the talking a lot of the time. Like ah next episode, she's the one giving big speeches and then he just fucking boop punctuates on it.
00:14:31
Speaker
So just sit there with your helmet on. I don't know. I know you're paying for that that that face, but you're really just paying for the voice. I kind of realized it it was in this scene, really, because he comes up, you know, like the picture I showed, they come up all fucking geared up and like, we're here to kick your ass kind of thing.
00:14:48
Speaker
Yeah. And when he realizes that these kids are just stealing water because this guy iss literally like, I don't know what credits are worth equal to a dollar or anything. Usually one. It's ah pretty sure it's one to one.
00:14:59
Speaker
Well, 1,300 credits for a week's worth of water is a lot. Well, what they say, like he's charging a month's wage for a week of water. Yeah. so So then then he gets he goes, okay, cool, time to negotiate and like become personable.
00:15:14
Speaker
So he takes it off to make eye contact and stuff. Yeah. like It seems like most of the time he's trying to... get rough and tumble, which is the big complaint about this is that he doesn't do that enough is he's got his helmet on.
00:15:27
Speaker
But when he's trying to talk to people, he takes it off. You know, when they go into the mayor's office, he's got the helmet on. Yeah. But when he's meeting with the, the five families or whatever, at the end of the next episode, three families, he's got the helmet off, you know? So it's, it's all about, I think his, how he's presenting himself. He's going to set up a Boonta's day massacre.
00:15:47
Speaker
Just like the Valentine's Day Massacre. They're going to take out the mayor's major domo when he's at the fucking toll station, dude. ah The mayor's going to wake up with a fucking bantha head in his bed.
00:16:05
Speaker
Bantha head is fucked up. How'd get that in here? yeah by My God. The door's not even big enough. But so like... He hires them. I do like I ah finally figured out, I think, what dank means when they say they're Eric, because I was always just like, I don't know. Oh, oh, shit. Oh, fuck. I don't know.
00:16:22
Speaker
But because he says, i hope he hires them. He's like, kind of come work for me since you can't find work. And he says, hopefully you fight as good as good as you talk dank. Oh, yeah. Okay. So it's shit.
00:16:33
Speaker
Hopefully you fight as good as you talk It could be jive. So Dank Farrakh is jive turkey? Yep. Yep. yep You heard it here, folks. We just figured it out. That is one Dank Farrakh. You want to talk dank? I could talk dank.
00:16:47
Speaker
But like Steven Root gets all pissed off. He's like, no, they stole from me. and They owe me $1,300 fucking dollars. He's like, you take the 500 credits and you lower your prices and you get the fuck out of here.
00:16:59
Speaker
Steven Root's like, shit, that backfired. i mean, he did get 500 bucks still. But I was offended for you. Remember? we talked about it. i was offended for you. I told everybody. I love his line. is it It's Boba Fett that says it, right? He's like, you don't like it, you can move to Mos Eisley.
00:17:12
Speaker
Yeah. And fucking Fennec Shands in the back, she's like, Mos Eisley. Fucking trash. That wretched hive of villainy and scum. and he So he tells the kids, like, gather up all your gack.
00:17:26
Speaker
and Come meet me at my fucking palace. Gak. You dicks, Farricks. That's a ah trivia thing, at least, told me that apparently Gak was a word that the crew members used on the original Star Wars trilogy to refer to, like, random bits of technology.
00:17:41
Speaker
Oh, okay. I like, oh, it's all that Gak over there. That's cool. I like that. Yeah. I mean, it's, you know, it's trivia, so it's apocryphal, but I mean, it sounds right. Yeah, I believe it I'm sure someone saw it in one of the 10,000 documentaries about Star Wars. I've only seen 9,058. the flashback.
00:17:59
Speaker
ah so we go to the flashback which is flashback to sorry thank you boba's writing his bantha he's a full tuscan raider now he goes off to mos eisley to talk to pike boss yeah he's like look dude just pay his protection you know he's like well um i don't want to pay two groups you don't have to pay two groups just pay us oh we're already paying the fucking nikto sans Sand speeders Kenton striders is the name of the writers.
Boba Fett's Past with Tusken Raiders and Black Krrsantan Battle
00:18:28
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. They they call them like speed bikers or something like that. Yeah. Sand speeders.
00:18:33
Speaker
But he's like, all right, well, don't worry about that. Don't pay them. We outnumber the fuck out of them. Yeah. And then he rides home and realizes he's wrong. They do not. he has no one now.
00:18:45
Speaker
I appreciate the button on the scene because he gets back and it's just Tuskens and Banthas. As far as the eye can see, everything's burning. Dead. And like he piles everybody up to do a pyre. They don't show the dead young child because it's Disney, but they do show when he's throwing the gaffy sticks on the fire, he pulls the kid's little gaffy stick out. Yeah, the training stick kind of. Yeah, I can appreciate it because I don't want to see it. But...
00:19:09
Speaker
You know who we didn't see and I was looking up and down is the heavy. Oh, the long hair. The one I think is a female. Yeah. um So I can almost guess and I mean bet, but I'm guessing that if there would have been a season two, which we are no way getting, um they that she would have come back.
00:19:28
Speaker
Just imagine that as your muscle. Yeah. I mean, he's he's picking up his random people along the way like you're playing an RPG, right? Yep. got Fennec Shand, he's got Gamorreans. Oh my god, I would fucking play. people.
00:19:42
Speaker
I would play a Dragon Age-style game of Boba Fett building a fucking family. That would be rad. Family. verb Well, he's on. Family. Family?
00:19:54
Speaker
Oh, Boba Fett. Oh, like more family. What's the New Zealand equivalent of Corona? Oh, God. I don't know. Probably Corona. Oh, and I don't know if you know this.
00:20:06
Speaker
ah You know, Phil Lamar is a big voice actor. Oh, yeah. He did the voice of the Pike boss. Oh, that's cool. I love that Phil Lamar, he's been in movies. Like, he's, you know, he he was on Mad TV. He's done movies. He's done TV shows.
00:20:19
Speaker
He got his head blown off in Pulp Fiction. But, like, he found his niche in, like, voice acting. And think it's like ah um Job, whose name is, I'm drawing a blank on right now oh will arnett will arnett just built like a fucking booth in his house and so someone calls him like he do a voice he's like yeah hold on a second closes the door i'm saying i'm a pike now all right sending it like yeah that'd be what's the dream man can you send me over 2500 bucks for my eight minutes of work or Yeah, like it doesn't even pay that that much, but it's so quick. It's like I just got paid $30,000 for a day. Well, it's like whatever scale is for voice actors. It's like, okay, cool. Well, I can do 14 jobs today. So, yeah, and I'm gonna.
00:21:05
Speaker
So, yeah, they're all dead. And that's kind of the end of the flashback because ah Black Chrysanthemum shows up and fucking just yanks Boba Fett out of his back to tank and starts having an Eastern Promises style fight with him.
00:21:19
Speaker
Yeah. Is Dick's not out? Is Dick's not out? But it would be. it would be if this wasn't. Exactly. This would be a fucking. Who does that? ah Eastern Promises? Yeah, it's not Cronenberg. Yeah, k Cronenberg. Oh, it is k Cronenberg. Okay.
00:21:35
Speaker
Because it's just it's just not weird, so I didn't think it was him. No, that's his, like, Viggo Mortensen, like, crime phase. You know, like, history of violence and stuff like that. Good phase. um I like the fight scene because you just have to imagine that... Boba Flap.
00:21:50
Speaker
Go ahead.
00:21:55
Speaker
So he's toying with Boba Flap. Otherwise, he would just fucking grab him and choke him out or rip his arms off. Like, i mean, as soon as he gets his hands on him, he should be done. But we need a fight scene.
00:22:06
Speaker
I think it's also like maybe because... Boba Fett was kind of, you know, dogging him and shit talking him in that first time we saw him with last episode or whatever was. So maybe he's like, I'm just going to beat the fuck out of this guy a little bit. Show him I'm tougher than he is. I mean, i mean he's a nice gladiator.
00:22:22
Speaker
He's a fucking scary ass dude. He's a unit. It's like if Chewbacca was actually angry. Mm hmm. I wonder if he's a madclaw. I imagine he is. he's probably been disgraced.
00:22:33
Speaker
Because they're not supposed to use their superpower to kill or something? not supposed to use your claws in in fighting. Oh, he doesn't use his claws. He has those fucking little shocker knuckles.
00:22:44
Speaker
Oh, hes yeah. His fucking knuckle dusters are terrifying. He doesn't use them in this show at all. I'm thinking in the pits or something like he just he just seems like a disgraced banished Wookiee.
00:22:56
Speaker
But then again, I can make judgment calls. He could have been kidnapped um by slavers, Trandoshans. You know what Trandoshans do to Wookiees? They hunt them. Oh, is that why he's just beating the fuck out of Trandoshans at the end of this? I was like, why does he know these guys? I mean, these these guys could have been more familiar, familiar, like they could have been some of the gladiators, but also like Trandoshans hunt Wookiees as part of their religion.
00:23:18
Speaker
Oh, okay. I bet you, with, with with you know, Filoni and stuff behind all this, he's like, oh, you know who ah Black Chrysanthemum can beat the shit out of? Everybody. Anybody he wants.
00:23:29
Speaker
But, like, why he would... Because he's just stewing in that scene. We'll get there. Because it's actually pretty funny. ah But, yeah, he's having this Eastern Promises fight with Black Chrysanthemum, and then the mods come in and start trying to help.
00:23:40
Speaker
And then the Camorians come in, and it's like, dude, you've got... what, seven on one? And they just can't even get a fucking a leg up? Yeah, it's still a fucking brawl, his favor. Dude, those knuckle dusters, he just hits one of those Gamorreans, and that dude just flies across the room. I'm like, you just knocked like a 500-pound pig man across the room with one fist.
00:24:01
Speaker
I enjoyed watching him and the pig man go at it. Like, pig men. Like, he's biting one of them, he's tossing all one across the room. ah The mods did what they could. I just don't love...
00:24:13
Speaker
them I Don't know because then he gets Finnick shand of course the one she's like stay back boom trapdoor and and Into an empty rancor pit and then you got the fucking mod the the Peaky blinder.
00:24:26
Speaker
He's just got his gun like Yeah, I mean I think i think I understand your issues. I understand most people's issues. I think some people just hate it because the internet told them to. Yeah. but I can get past it, though. like if If this was a much better series and this moment was the thing that was done, I wouldn't care. I'd be like, ah, that sucked. Move on.
00:24:46
Speaker
I just think I like the concept more than the execution. Oh, for sure. Like the idea behind them makes perfect sense to me. And that's why when people get mad about it and they're like, well, just doesn't make sense. I'm like, I think it makes a lot of sense.
00:24:58
Speaker
Yeah. The sense it makes, the sense it makes the styles. I don't like that. That's my biggest thing. Would you fucking pick a spot? Got a little too much, uh, Alita battle angel in his head.
00:25:10
Speaker
Mr. Rodriguez did. Yeah. Go make that movie later in life. Um, Yeah. Fennec drops him in the rain corp pit. And then I was like Bobo and Fennec Shand are like sitting there and there's just this feast.
00:25:23
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And like he's he's just doing he's like, I got to do something about this, man. And she's just got her feet kicked up on the table and she's like eating turkey legs and shit. She's like, it's his job as droids. So like we usually make this food like this every day, three times a day.
00:25:36
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Yeah. I don't know what to do if I'm not cooking. I literally just go back and forth doing this. Yeah, that's it. Do you think he reactivated the General Grievous chef? No, that thing lost its head.
00:25:49
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That thing's done. Ah, artichoke.
00:25:55
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But yeah, he's like, she's like, we need to wait for them to show their hands. But he's like, no, we got to do something because people are going to know what happened and I don't want to look weak. Like they switched places all of a sudden. Yeah. Because she's like, it's good enough. You've got black chrysanthemum in a fucking pit. That's a good flex is you survived an attack.
00:26:12
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Yeah. But the twins show up and they brought a gift.
Hutts' Apology and Rancor Lore Expansion
00:26:17
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I love like he goes out and he's like, so what the fuck do you want? They're like, so sorry we tried to kill you.
00:26:25
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Our bad. Oopsie doozy. ah But we have a gift for you. It's Danny Trejo. Oh, yeah. He also brings a Rancor with him. But yes, the most important gift we have in this scene is Danny Trejo.
00:26:39
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Dude, he looks so majestic standing on that platform next to that fucking passed out Rancor. He didn't. take He didn't take me out of it. No, I mean, it's one of those things where it's like, here's a person I know a lot.
00:26:50
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Yeah. So sometimes that can pull you out. That's why I like, you know, a lot of the most of the all of the main movies pretty much cast people that you don't know.
00:27:00
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Yeah. I mean, outside of a small handful, Guinness and Peter Cushing were the biggest names. Maybe not even to Americans yet, though. Yeah. Yeah. Not to Americans. I mean, there was people, I'm sure, who were watching Hammer films and stuff, but you didn't have.
00:27:15
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you know, home video. So it was like, is that playing at a retrospective in my local theater? You know, like, yeah, it's a very small amount of people that would, it wouldn't be a retrospective in 1977. It would be a current showing perspective.
00:27:27
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I mean, like, uh, uh, God, I am not naming today. Obi-Wan from the prequels. Ewan McGregor. Ewan McGregor. This is not my day.
00:27:38
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He was probably like the biggest one. ah Liam's Neeson's. Yeah. Liam Neeson. But I,
00:27:45
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Was he like big America? Well, let's not forget those prequels had ah Anthony Daniels. ah He was known for playing C-3PO in the seventy s and the He'd been around for a while.
00:27:59
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Yeah, he's a big name. But don't know if, was Liam Neeson's known well in America before that? I mean, we had talked, we've talked about like high spirits and i know he did high spirits. I think that he was, yeah.
00:28:12
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I think that was when I became aware of him. Of course, I was, you know, 14 or whatever when that movie out. I was like a huge, huge name, but he was known. Yeah. Yeah. Jimmy I knew who Ewan McGregor was because even though I was 14 I'd seen Trainspotting that's what you should be watching when you're like 11 or 12 right says the guy who watches Requiem for a Dream yearly
00:28:32
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I'm pretty sure I had already seen Trainspotting at that point yeah I had to have But um but yeah, so I mean, that's one of the things I was that's what i was saying is one of the things with those movies is they usually cast not super well-known people. True.
00:28:46
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And the shows have been popping in more well-known people. And I think that's part of what pulls you out. because You know, you see Steven Root's face and you think of, you know, office space or um one that a lot of people can't get past is ah Tim Meadows.
00:29:02
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Yeah, I liked him though. I'm fine with it. It doesn't really bug me. i just see slightly funny guy playing, or a slightly funny guy doing a job for the New Republic.
00:29:15
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Yeah, well what was that? Was that... Mando 3? Yeah. Was it Mando? Yeah. We haven't gotten there yet. I thought he was in... Well, he's probably one's also one probably in Ahsoka.
00:29:28
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Oh, maybe that's what i'm thinking. It something I've seen more recently. No, because he's New Republic for sure. Okay. it's with ah He speaks with Carson Teva. Carson Teva comes to him. It's Mandalorian season three.
00:29:39
Speaker
We'll be there i know it. Boba Fett season one is almost over. Yeah. Just got here. Seven. couldn't believe it was seven. Seven.
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00:31:29
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Damn. That's a lot of movies. So, yeah, Boba Fett tells the twins, like, hey, if you fuck off off Tatooine... I'll forgive your transgressions. and they're like, yeah, we're going to go.
00:31:42
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But not because you said so. It's my idea. I said it first. I'm leaving. You can't. Nope. You can't break up with me. I've dumped you. You can't fire me. I quit. I'm leaving on a jet plane. Only because, oh, do they have the little ah animal crackers and they're going to run them across both of it stomach?
00:31:57
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Look at this one returning down under. It's a stupid Armageddon reference for people that don't know. Not the reference to stupid, the movie Armageddon. It's okay, that scene is so stupid.
00:32:08
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Being fucking airflake pretending he's Australian. and Sign me the fuck down under. But yeah, they're like, we're going to because the mayor already promised the territory to another syndicate or whatever. And war is bad for business.
00:32:23
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So you can keep ah Black Chrysanthemum and we're going to fuck off. And you probably should, too. War good for business most of the time. um I mean, understand what they mean, but come on. Well, yeah. Bad for business. If you're like, you know, trying to keep things organized, that's your that's your business. You're to spend so much money and manpower.
00:32:41
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Yeah, they're not manufacturing weapons. like That's who war is good for. They don't sell oil. yeah They're not designing uniforms. Yeah, they don't sell $50 or $60 hammers $200 toilet seats
00:32:57
Speaker
But ah this is, you know, Boba Fett lets Black Crescent and go. And he's like, and I use this to close the first episode because I just remembered this line. And I was like, I don't remember what episode that was from.
00:33:09
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He says, ah take it from an ex bounty hunter. Don't work for scug holes. Scug holes. And my phone auto-corrected Skuggles immediately to Snuggles, which is a great thing when you have Boba Fett talking to a monster Wookiee.
00:33:25
Speaker
Do me a favor. Just don't don't take a job from any Snuggles. Don't work for Snuggles. And I don't mean like hugs and cuddles. I mean that little bear.
00:33:37
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He's got a dark history.
00:33:41
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So we got some stuff with the Rancor, you know, a little expanding upon its lore, especially in live action. You know, we've only ever seen episode six is the only Rancor we've seen in live action.
00:33:53
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Yeah. And there's there's a bunch of like legend stuff about the Rancor keeper and his relationship there because he's like crying. Yeah. Malakini. I've heard the stories. I've never I haven't read it, but I've heard about it. It's it's pretty interesting.
00:34:07
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But he's like Danny Trejo starts with like, well, he's depressed. ah Beasts feel such a thing Yeah he's like yeah well they're emotionally complexact complex creatures Yeah they're They're bred for fighting because that's you know they're big and strong but what no one Realizes is they are great snuggle Buddies Have you ever seen harry and the Hendersons
00:34:30
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ah No Well you got two hours And a couch But we learned they're gonna They imprint on the first human they see so this one's Been in blinders because it's a baby So they imprinted on Boba Fett. He wants to learn to ride it.
00:34:44
Speaker
Pretty sure this is a reference to the holiday special. Oh, 100%. Because he's like, I've ridden a beast 10 times its size. Yeah, 100%. As he's ah scritching the rain core behind its ear and having a good time That's the sport.
00:34:58
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Matt Berry comes in. He's like, oh, the mayor is unavailable for the next 20 days. and he's like fuck he is? Fuck that shit, dude. Did you tell him that I go over the fuck I want?
00:35:09
Speaker
You tell him I make my own meetings? You know what? I'll fucking tell him. And that fucking tendril little bitch he carries around. And that fucking little mustachioed prick at the front. He told me to go sit down and wait.
00:35:21
Speaker
going murder him. Dude, that mustache guy, i didn't really notice him last time. That guy fucking rules. He's got like a mullet and a mustache, and he looks like he's like the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. How did you not recognize the mullet?
00:35:37
Speaker
I just, I don't know, man. I just wasn't, I don't know. Yeah. i just didn't see the first time. I don't know as an acceptable answer. know. But so, uh, Fennec, Boba and the Mod Squad roll up.
00:35:49
Speaker
you about How many things do you does she think is behind her? Go back to it real quick. and Look at the, on the right hand side, those are the most amount of mirrors. There's two per prong and there's six prongs. Well, that is a reference to, like, this is a trivia thing, but I'm sure it's true because I've heard of these guys, the the mods from England in like the 60s.
00:36:10
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Yeah. That was what they did. Like they were modding their scooters, but they weren't actually making them faster and shit. It was all visual shit. So it was like, let me put extra mirrors on and do all this dumb shit that doesn't matter. Looks ridiculous. so It does. Just because just because they did doesn't mean you have to.
00:36:25
Speaker
It also just makes me think of Scrubs, though, when they're running around their scooters. Wolverines. That's another reason I was surprised you didn't like it. I'm thinking about scrubs now. I mean, okay, look, the the mod thing is is one thing.
00:36:38
Speaker
This fucking chasing and coming up is just terrible. It's one of my least favorite things I've seen in a long
Critique of Mos Espa Chase Scene
00:36:45
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time. I just watched Jaws 3. Well, we'll talk about it in a minute because I want to talk about how they get there. But my okay i have I have one main thing I don't like about it. Does it rhyme with blett plaque?
00:36:58
Speaker
No, actually, I like the jetpack part. just zips in. Um, but they go in and talk to the major Domo and he's like, Oh, sorry, the mayor's a little too busy and it's Fennec Shan. It's like, uh, if you want to continue breathing, I'd weigh your next words carefully. And he like looks at his book and he looks at the computer and he goes,
00:37:17
Speaker
You know, I think maybe I can move some shit around. You know, I can squeeze you in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We got this. There's some things here that aren't as time sensitive or threatening. um Look at this guy. This is a fucking 86-year-old grandpa. He's not going to kill me the way you will.
00:37:30
Speaker
Oh, Stephen Root. Stephen Root has a meeting with the mayor. He doesn't have multiple guns and an assassin. so He's got a bunch of water. What do you do? Squirt me? Got him. Squirt. Squirt.
00:37:44
Speaker
But he goes into the office to get the mayor. Peter O'Toole Star Wars have great.
00:37:52
Speaker
I was a Jedi Knight like your father. You need a little squirt?
00:37:57
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yeah One of the most egregious things with those Star Wars sequels, and there's a lot, is the underutilization of the great Max von Sydow. Yeah. I was actually expecting you to be like, wait a minute, he's in that and forget because it's that pointless and it's that fucking short.
00:38:15
Speaker
It's like, hey, here's this really good actor. He gone. Well, remember because you mentioned it when we were talking about something else. we were talking about Maybe we were talking about Max von Sydowen. But it would have left your brain.
00:38:25
Speaker
but Yeah, I did did not remember him being in the first 10 seconds of Force Awakens or whatever. He's got like fucking two lines and he drops them so beautifully. But I mean, he's also really old. So maybe they were just like, can we get you? And he's like, I'll show up for an afternoon.
00:38:40
Speaker
Yeah, and that's fine. That's fine. but yeah Give me anything instead of not him. So can I wear my bathrobe? I'm going to. I don't know. don't know how he talks in real life. So going to do. We've listened to talking strange brew. Yeah, I know. But I don't know he's doing an affectation because he's like Swedish or something.
00:39:00
Speaker
Huh. Von Sydow, huh? Weird. He did a bunch of Ingmar Bergman movies, and I'm pretty sure that Ingmar Bergman was a bitch. Ingmar Bergman! Not Birdman.
00:39:10
Speaker
Birdman. But yeah, the guy goes in there. The doors lock. They're like, well, fuck. this Did this motherfucker lock the door? And finally, we have a little bit of science but behind shooting the lock.
00:39:22
Speaker
Because Finnick Shan is first of all, let me pull out my gun knife. Awesome. Gun knife. She cuts open the thing and then cuts one particular wire. So is that to like say that every time these guys are shooting the lock there's hitting a perfect shot?
00:39:38
Speaker
Or like they just shoot it and all the wires come apart and It's not like a bomb where if you cut the wrong wire it goes off or it doesn't work or whatever It's showing her finesse and they're just a bunch of fucking gorillas shooting Yeah, exactly. All right. I like that.
00:39:53
Speaker
So the Major Domo flees in his little speeder. Actually, his giant speeder. This thing is almost wide as... You are right about the Cadillac, and you are right that it's the wrong fucking vehicle for these streets. He wasn't expecting to have a chase.
00:40:05
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yeah This reminded me of ah when I was in England like fucking 13 years ago or whatever. They have these little tiny... like They've got real streets, but then a lot of the side streets are these little one-way things. Cobblestone. Yeah. little Almost like alleys.
00:40:18
Speaker
Yeah, and there was somebody driving down one in like a ah Dodge Charger. Like this thing, like the the side panels of it were like we're almost hanging over. Like the tires were almost touching the sides of the street.
00:40:30
Speaker
And that's what this reminded me Not the city for this car, buddy. Yeah, you don't drive an American car down so cobblestone cobblestone roads in England. No, it's not tested for that. It's not rated. But they have the chase through the streets.
00:40:43
Speaker
ah There is some stuff I like. ah like Visually, it doesn't look great, but I do like the idea of Peaky Blinders guy using his like foot spike thing to take out the engine.
00:40:54
Speaker
like It's a cool concept. It looks kind of stupid in execution. But like the fact that he has like a robot leg and he can just lift it up and it just uses like a hydraulic pump to like jab the spike into the engine, it's pretty cool. good concept. You are correct about that.
00:41:07
Speaker
This is where I'm disappointed in fucking Bobby Rod, dude. like Rodriguez is normally known for action and fast. This chase scene was like in fucking it was like in a jar of Vaseline.
00:41:18
Speaker
It just didn't move. like it the the The scooters look so slow. His big Cadillac looks so slow. Well, the thing is, the Major Domo, it's not a Cadillac. It's actually the Star Wars equivalent of a white Bronco.
00:41:31
Speaker
he just wants skills He just wants to go home, man. Just wants to go home. it's It's also made so pointless by the fact that I get that they're just trying to make a scene, but Boba Fett with the jetpack can fly right in front of this guy, drop into the seat with him, and pull like a Beetlejuice like, hey, how you doing?
00:41:51
Speaker
Camp for your daughter, Chuck. You know, just whatever you want. Or drop some fucking ordinance on the the front engine. Yeah. And I guess what we need to chase. Sorry, real quick. go no Don't. But don't remind me of the jetpack because as soon as they get this car stopped, he fucking just drops right in. I'm like, don't remind me how efficient that thing is when we just watch this slop.
00:42:14
Speaker
And my big problem that I said I was going to mention is he's trying to insert too many funny moments in the chase. Yeah. There are three different moments with droids.
00:42:25
Speaker
That are all supposed to be funny and I'm like one of those is fine Like drive through a food stand Or something But like he goes up There's like the the protocol droid That gets all spun around like a cartoon There's the rickshaw There's the pit droid That does like the little The bad guys from Mega Man who can drop down And have their helmets protect them you know He does that thing and gets like zipped around And then yeah the rickshaw where like He literally does like a cartoon Running in place like whoop whoop whoop to get across the street. like
00:42:58
Speaker
No, thank you. Yeah, I wasn't feeling i forgot to mention it in the flashback to where he is going to the Pike Syndicate in his still Tusken gear. palette Where we see those ah Stormtrooper helmets being put on pikes that we see in the the first episode of Mandalorian.
00:43:13
Speaker
Oh, yeah, yeah. We see those. and That's fucking we're awesome to see. The first it was like chapter. It was the gunslinger one, right? It was chapter five. think first season think it shows it in season one, episode one.
00:43:25
Speaker
It might be establishing shot. I don't remember. I could be wrong on that. they They focus on it in the gunslinger one for sure. But i would also Palimoto and her fucking pit droids are in the back.
00:43:37
Speaker
Oh, are they never noticed that before? It's just her, you know, walking with little three little fucking stooges behind her. Nice. I did notice one other thing, too. um I can't remember where it was a bit of a timeline. that Not that you need it, but it's like, hey, this is this is then.
00:43:53
Speaker
Yeah. Well, they're definitely establishing a timeline through these two episodes. You know, I mean, we get the next one. We see when he found Fennec Shand and stuff. So, yeah. um But there was a ah ah thing that I noticed, and I can't remember where it was, but we see those little dudes you were talking about. Oh, the Bomar monks.
00:44:10
Speaker
Yeah. The monks that put their brains in jars and attached them to spider monsters. Yep. For people that don't remember, they were just like, that's that's where Jabba got his palace. They were so enlightened. They thought that the only way to achieve true enlightenment was to get rid of everything. Physical physical need, physical form. They're just these fucking brains that exist.
00:44:29
Speaker
Yeah. I thinking all day. oh i I remember seeing that before, but I didn't know that story because we hadn't done this yet. So then when I saw him this time, I was like, oh, hey, that's the little monk brain guy. Yeah. Oh, I think we talked about in episode six, which we didn't get to end up releasing. Thanks to me.
00:44:46
Speaker
Well, it's it was a not just you. It was. I'm the producer here. It's my job to make sure everything's working. I just had to plug in a microphone. I just had to look at your levels.
00:45:00
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ah It was a joint effort, meaning I got really high. ah We'll get there. We'll we'll read we'll get back to it, which I'm excited for. But yeah, Boba Fett jet packs in immediately. This dude flips and he's like, oh, yeah. So the mayor's meeting with the Pikes.
00:45:15
Speaker
So that's when Peaky Blinders goes off and checks them out. And he's like, yeah, there's like a dozen of them more than anything. You need to know this about me. I'm quite a worm. Yes. And that's that line you were talking about, Boba Fett's like, make sure to keep an eye on him.
00:45:28
Speaker
And there's like a long pause. Yeah, he looks over Finnick and he looks back at the hollow, he's like, oops And the guy's like, don't worry about it, that's why I got it. Also, that's just a stupid joke. So I am out of here.
00:45:43
Speaker
No one-liners in Star Wars? You could have one-liners. just This was delivered sloppily. It was not good. It was that long pause that made it stupid. He just stopped. When you're watching it out for them, don't forget to listen to the band NSYNC with their song i I, I. It's like it's playing that... like He stopped and it's playing that song. It's like... do did do it did ah You know, the awkward ending of a cartoon thing, whatever.
00:46:06
Speaker
Did you try listening to that Third Eye Blind album? Oh, sorry. But yeah, it's like, okay, well, they're preparing for war. We'll be ready. And that's the end of the episode.
00:46:19
Speaker
So we didn't go for two hours like I thought we would talking about scooters. No, and it's just the scooters weren't as bad as I remember. The chase scene was, though. Like, knowing what I was in for this time, I was like, all right, they're the fucking, like you just, you'd mentioned, and did the English mods, dude. I listened to Ska. Yeah.
00:46:34
Speaker
I want one of these scooters. Not if I'm a mobster. You know, it doesn't look hard. You know why you never saw Tony Soprano on a fucking scooter? Can you imagine the Sopranos if they just all rolled in on ah scooters? Like, you owes us money. Like, I don't think guys do.
00:46:50
Speaker
I mean, once you start breaking knees, then those scooters get scary. I mean, it is like dominatmine a asserting dominance. to be Like, they just rolled up in these scooters. Then they killed everybody but me.
00:47:01
Speaker
ah They needed someone to spread the word that the scooters aren't lame. Let ah me tell you about Fizer Kozer. Yeah, and i I agree about the chase. It was too slow. That's yeah what I was going to say. And especially like to it Rodriguez.
00:47:15
Speaker
i You don't even have an excuse in my mind. I think they thought about it too much. like It's what I said. It's like, oh, well, these streets are narrow and short, and it doesn't you know you can't be having high-speed chases. and You can't use a regular speeder and this and that. And i'm like, that's great.
00:47:29
Speaker
But literally, literally right when the race, the race, the chase starts, you hear Peaky Blinders guy saying to some one of the other ones. Oh, your bike's not faster than mine.
00:47:40
Speaker
Yeah. So like I did it. <unk>m I'm doing tomorrow. Morrison now. But it's all just accents that we don't do well anyway. But like you can't have a scene, a shot of him saying my bike so fast and then have O.J. Simpson. chase Did you were you a big fan of Futurama?
00:47:56
Speaker
Yeah. The episode that they figure out Fry is his own grandpa. like The reason he is his own grandpa is so he can go take over. Like you fly into the ship of all the brains that are taking over. Do you remember that?
00:48:08
Speaker
Oh, yes. Yeah. He has to wind up his little Scootie Puff Jr. Yeah. That's what these are, dude. These are wind up Scootie Puff Juniors. Like I was expecting someone to be walking by and mere like, hey, slow down there, son. And then just power walk heel to toe past him.
00:48:25
Speaker
Well, Jack, next week we have a better episode. i agree. I still think they're not. I think Don't Think Anything is going to top this first and second, especially the second.
00:48:36
Speaker
But it's a better episode. Chapter four, The Gathering Storm. Just hold on to my waist if you start falling off.
00:48:46
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00:48:51
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00:49:02
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00:49:14
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00:49:28
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00:50:06
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