Episode 1: The Internet's First Main Character? | The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks

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🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It's 1999, and sixteen years after its original release, a new Star Wars is finally coming. Fans have been camping out in front of theaters across the country just to be the first to see it. The beloved intergalactic saga is set to debut a slew of brand new characters, one of whom is a revolutionary CGI creation named Jar Jar Binks. Whispers begin to spread about big changes coming to the galaxy far, far away – and not everyone's happy about it. This is an episode of another podcast in the TED Audio Collective, The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks, hosted by Dylan Marron. If you want more, look for The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks wherever you get your podcasts. Transcripts for The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks are available at go.ted.com/jarjar

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:10.8	Hey everyone, it's Elise Hugh here, something a little different today, an episode from a
0:14.9	new podcast from Ted.
0:16.7	It takes us back in time to one of the most polarizing figures in cinematic history.
0:22.6	Jar Jar Binks turns out that because of the backlash to this Star Wars character, the
0:28.0	actor behind the role was hit with perhaps the world's first online hate campaign.
0:32.6	The new show is called The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks and it's a six-part series.
0:37.8	You're about to hear the first episode and if you like it, you can find more episodes
0:40.9	of The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks wherever you get your podcasts.
0:47.4	I do want to tell you, I initially had some cold feet about talking to you.
0:55.5	Your cold feet are not only seen, acknowledged, but welcome here.
1:00.6	Okay, perfect.
1:02.0	I'm talking to Kurt Volk.
1:04.2	He's a graphic designer, he's a dad, he's a husband, and Kurt is also a Star Wars fan
1:10.7	who camped out on the streets of Hollywood, all so that he could be one of the very first
1:16.2	people to see Star Wars episode one, The Phantom Menace.
1:20.9	It's a very silly, silly, silly thing.
1:24.3	The whole thing is very silly.
1:28.4	If you can believe it, my producer found Kurt through archival photos, which means that
1:34.0	this is actually kind of like the opening of Titanic when they discover the portrait of
1:38.4	young Rose and then we, the audience, meet older Rose who narrates what it was like in
1:43.7	her past on the ship of dreams.
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