Did The Mandalorian Trailer Change The Hype Around Star Wars?!
The Kristian Harloff Show
Kristian Harloff
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to The Kristian Harloff Show! Today's episode is packed with major franchise news, studio shake-ups, and casting reveals that could shape the future of Hollywood.
We kick things off with a deep dive into the latest trailer breakdown for The Mandalorian and Grogu, covering the 7 biggest reveals and possible spoilers fans are already debating. From story clues to character teases, we analyze what this trailer might be setting up for Star Wars' big-screen future—and what it means for Din Djarin and Grogu going forward.
Next, we turn to the business side of Hollywood as Warner Bros. Discovery reopens talks with Paramount, with a vote date now set. What does this mean for the industry, streaming, and the potential mega-merger everyone's watching?
Total chaos today and Sid the Squid makes his debut!
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| 0:00.0 | what's going on you silly little freaks um it is wednesday and man went through eight different |
| 0:10.0 | topics before all this shit blew up with netflix and paramount tons tons of stuff |
| 0:17.8 | happening um as we talked about on mond, Paramount's still in the mix. |
| 0:25.7 | And we said, well, how's that going to work? |
| 0:27.2 | Is there going to be some legal pushback? |
| 0:29.1 | Sure is. |
| 0:30.0 | Netflix is saying, you guys are doing some nefarious shit. |
| 0:34.2 | And to which Paramount says, wait, wait, wait, if Netflix does this, it's going to be a monopoly. |
| 0:41.4 | So we're going to dive into it. |
| 0:44.6 | We'll look into what the hell's going on there and discuss other lawsuits and other things happening. |
| 0:51.1 | That big AI boost of sea breeze or whatever and all the Batman fighting Captain |
| 0:56.9 | America. Well, Disney and a whole bunch of other people suing companies to say, cut that shit out. |
| 1:04.4 | And then the thing we were going to lead with and talk about was the Mandalorian, Grogo. |
| 1:10.2 | Did that trailer succeed in convincing new people to get into |
| 1:16.6 | the theater when it comes out in May? So I wonder, we shall discuss. I'm already. I am, |
| 1:27.0 | Roxy yesterday did 105 on the questions. I already got a, I already got to, I'm already I am Roxy yesterday |
| 1:27.8 | did 105 on the questions |
| 1:29.6 | I already got her |
| 1:30.6 | I already got a |
| 1:31.1 | I'm close already |
| 1:32.4 | I got one |
| 1:33.3 | so that's all we need |
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