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Episode 12: Chewie's Medal is Not Canonical

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4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2011

⏱️ 65 minutes

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0:00.0

M C S K I I E C M A N I N I L Y S Z E H M T I S Z K M I L A Y H L Y S I C N I M M K N L Y T I H S

0:17.1

Hey, man, what's up? Oh, not much. I got a little bit of follow up. Oh cool. Have you seen a new hope revisited?

0:27.0

This is a Star Wars thing, but I haven't seen it. I'm so surprised that you haven't now. Can you ask

0:33.9

Jason if he's if you seen a new hope revisited? Yeah, John Sircus, have you seen this?

0:41.1

We're on you know, there's a slight lag. He says no. There's a slight delay. Okay, but sorry, are you aware of this whole fan edit culture?

0:49.0

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I love the I love the fan edit stuff. It's hilarious. He had a two or two or three shows ago

0:54.8

you guys talked about. He had this like completely inexplicable side note jag in a way that is very unusual for him where he

1:01.4

He took this unexpected turn into Star Wars and it was awesome and insane and everything he said was ridiculous and will never happen

1:09.2

Which is to say I don't think George Lucas is ever gonna like open source. Oh god. I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna hear about this

1:14.0

But but you know what you explain what John said. What did John say? What I heard John say was you know

1:20.1

There's the secret history Star Wars thing where Lucas is always pissing and moaning about how he he has to do all this stuff

1:25.7

There's no way they find in a real actual original copy. Yeah of a new that's his reasoning for not not basically re-releasing a cleaned up version of the original film without

1:37.4

All of the exactly this is how he added to it somebody accidentally started with bait in a garage for a couple years

1:43.7

Right, there's problems now. I think that's that was true of the godfather if you go and watch the documentary on

1:49.3

The fixing of the godfather was there. Oh, okay, wait a minute. There was a fixing of the godfather and godfather, too

1:55.2

Oh my

1:57.9

Okay, I'm still watching my reel to reel version the godfather on the on the projector

2:03.0

In a night without the very heroic efforts of a lot of really really smart and hard working people working a frame at a time

2:10.5

There would not be a single complete copy of the godfather

2:14.7

Extant anymore. No kidding. They had they had done stuff. You know like yeah, what they call oh gosh

2:19.5

It was like 16-foot dissolves. They had those really long dissolves between think about like when you're coming back from the flashback and two

2:27.3

The flashback I think I'm going in the jacer territory here

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