The Vanity Fair Article
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Greg is out! Celebration awaits! This week Tim and Jim dive deep into the mammoth Vanity Fair article that dropped this week. Secrets were revealed! Things were teased! The hype train has been fueled! Plus - George Lucas' love of the mall! Plus - an X-Wing sleep meditation?
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Special Guest Patrick Cotnoir
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Tim, Jim, and Greg yub over promotional Kenobi art, physical SW Celebration badges, and the Vader comics before they're joined by SPECIAL GUEST Patrick Cotnoir (George Lucas Talk Show) to talk about a true cornucopia of topics. Prequel line reads, giant Ewok posters, the Ahsoka-verse, they truly talk about everything. It's a delighful conversation you are not gonna want to miss!
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Kenobi Preview and Star Wars Day
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Our hosts find themselves separated by a great distance, like two parts of a Force dyad trying to hang out and touch hands in a cave. First, Jim is back and reflects on the growing universality of #StarWarsDay. Then, Greg and Tim talk about Kenobi, what it could be, and how to keep the Expanding Universe accessible for casual fans.
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Rebel Moon, Bothan Sacrifice
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It's a DubNub this week, as Tim and Greg discuss Zach Snyder's on-set tweet from his Star-Wars-inspired original film Rebel Moon. Will it transform the space opera genre? Was it originally Episode X? What will the swords be like?
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THX 1138
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It's time to dive in to the movie Francis Ford Coppola funded and George wrote almost half a decade before Star Wars: THX 1138. Robert Duvall! Obsolete cubes! Pushover robots! Special Edition type changes! (Note: This movie is wildly more 'mature' in content than most SW stuff, so the conversation naturally is as well! Dystopia, baybee!)
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Favorite Obi Wan Moments
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This week the gang dissects a Facebook meme, talks about a crossover we all deserve to see, and then dive into their favorite moments involving Obi-Wan Kenobi across the galaxy.
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Special Guests: David Lawson and Andrew Sanford
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Tim, Jim, and Greg discuss CGI milk bottles and Christopher Lloyd joining the Mando Universe! Then Tim sits down with storyteller David Lawson and writer/filmmaker Andrew Sanford about growing up with the prequels, processing Star Wars fandom, and the possible logic behind some of George Lucas’ more controversial decisions.
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Practical VS Special Effects: An Unneccesary War
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Inspired by the controversial Grand Inquisitor head in the Obi-Wan Kenobi trailer, we talk about translating stories from animation to live action, Lucasfilm's place in advancing effects technology, and why the battle between practical and special effects is actually symbiotic. Plus... we talk about that head. Pretty weird head. Also discussed: Star Wars as real-life war propoganda! George Lucas stole his own movie! Imagining the Prequel Special Editions! Subscribe, rate, review, and tell a friend to listen too!
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Solo Is A Newhart!
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Tim, Jim, and Greg shoot the sithspawn and talk about: Han Solo's pants! Do the prequels make the OT more progressive? Star Wars Celebration is coming and Greg has... feelings about going! RIP Alan Ladd Jr, a man who helped save Ep4! What's up with the Galactic Starcruiser reviews? What LARP experiences are next? (PLUS some Bonus Yub after the credits!)
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Guest Nub: Daniel Kibblesmith!
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Writer of stage, screen, and comic book Daniel Kibblesmith joins Tim and Greg! Old Chicago comedy friends together again! They talk about writing for giant universes, how VHS tapes shaped a generation, and how George Lucas is kind of like the Pope... and a whole lot more! Check it out (you're already reading the description, you're more than halfway there).
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Tim is out this week, but Greg and Jim are ready to talk about what’s Yubbing their Nubs!
0:00 - The Start
1:30 - Welcome to YubNub, new listeners!
5:50 - Han Solo Carbonite clickbait
10:45 - Greg declares Ar’krai on the Hutts
13:50 - Disney+ pulled The Freemaker Adventures
17:30 - Greg does a deeply embarrassing C+ impression of Lego Freemaker Emperor Palpatine, to be remedied in a future episode.
20:45 - Jim using 1990 action figures to parent
21:40 - The racial problem of Spidey and His Amazing Friends.
24:40 - The Book of Boba Fett, Episode 3
33:10 - SPOILERS BEGIN!!!
46:00 - Jim and Greg begin a series of assertions that may be completely factually incorrect and expose their abysmal attention to detail about a universe they deeply love!
1:03:00 - Next week: Light of the Jedi Phase One!