Episode 470 - Star Wars Insider and the Legacy of the Rick McCallum Prequel Updates

Blast Points - Star Wars Podcast

Tv & Film

4.8 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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This week we are going back to when the number one source for information on a new Star Wars movie was the infamous Rick McCallum prequel updates in Star Wars Insider magazine! Join us as we track the Episode 1 hype from 1995 to 1999 and discuss how it evolved and much Star Wars wild fan anticipation has changed and stayed the same in the past 27 years. So look at a photo of 97 Jabba with one eye, celebrate the love and listen today! JOIN THE BLAST POINTS ARMY and SUPPORT BLAST POINTS ON PATREON! MANDALORIAN SEASON 3 BOBA FETT BEACH PARTY COMMENTARY! NEW ANDOR SEASON 2 EPISODE COMMENTARIES! HEAR EPISODES EARLY! Theme Music! downloadable tunes from episodes! Extra goodies! and so much MORE! www.patreon.com/blastpoints Blast Points T-SHIRTS are now available! Represent your favorite podcast everywhere you go! Get logo shirts while supplies last! Perfect for conventions, dates, formal events and more! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 If you dug the show, please leave BLAST POINTS a review on iTunes, Spotify and share the show with friends! If you leave an iTunes review, we will read it on a future episode! Honestly! Talk to Blast Points on twitter at @blast_points "Like" Blast Points on Facebook Join the Blast Points Super Star Wars Chill Group here www.facebook.com/groups/BlastPointsGroup/ we are also on Instagram! Wow! www.instagram.com/blastpoints Your hosts are Jason Gibner & Gabe Bott! contact BLAST POINTS at : contact@blastpointspodcast.com May the Force be with you, always! This podcast is not affiliated in any way with Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC, The Walt Disney Company, or any of their affiliates or subsidiaries.

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0:00.0	When you're a writer, it's an ideal world.
0:06.6	You can create anything that you want to.
0:08.8	But that translation from the written page to reality,
0:12.6	therein lies the nature of my job.
0:15.3	My sole function in life is to make what George wants physically happen.
0:22.8	George Lucas was a filmmaker
0:25.2	with a great big job to be done.
0:28.4	A job that needed a producer, Rick McCallum was the one.
0:33.1	Hey, Rick, Rick McCullough.
0:38.3	Cinema's future he did see was digital technology.
0:44.3	Hey Rick, Rick McCollum. I'm Yeah, Oh, Yeah,
0:55.0	and Oh Oh Oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
1:28.3	Oh, oh.
1:30.3	Oh, oh. All right, hello, Star Wars dancing, move milkers everywhere.
2:04.9	Welcome to episode number 470.
2:08.4	Last Points, it's Jason.
2:11.4	And it's Gabe.
2:13.1	We're talking about hype.
2:16.2	And, you know, that's the thing.
2:17.6	With hype in Star Wars, I'd say in the late 90s, mid to late 90s, there was no greater
2:26.4	vessel for Star Wars hype than Star Wars Insider magazine.
2:34.6	No.
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