Laugh it up fuzzball!
Capehart
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 1 May 2018
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Jonathan Kapart, and this week on Cape Up, we've got something special. |
| 0:07.0 | Now, it's not coming out until Friday, but you'll understand when you hear why. Are you ready? |
| 0:15.7 | I spoke with Mark Hamill. |
| 0:19.9 | That's right, V Mark Hamill, like Luke Luke Skywalker. So obviously I couldn't have him on the show and not |
| 0:26.2 | take the opportunity to publish it on May the 4th. You know, Star Wars Day? That's this Friday. Now you know Mark embodies a story that defined a generation, |
| 0:36.2 | a story about hope fighting back against dark and oppressive forces. So to tide you over until Friday, we got political and recorded a short conversation about leadership and democracy. |
| 0:47.0 | Where do you begin? The constant turnover among senior leadership. |
| 0:56.0 | It seems like every week, every few minutes. |
| 0:59.0 | Someone is being dragged out by their feet. |
| 1:02.0 | It's just, how does he expect to maintain control |
| 1:04.4 | without the bureaucracy? He thinks if he gets a leader in the room with him he can just |
| 1:09.1 | wave his hand and get him to say yes. Proposterous and again keeps trying to put his immediate family members into positions of way too much power |
| 1:18.7 | and have said some things about his daughter that just seem not ideal |
| 1:22.4 | blew up her planet but what? about his daughter that just seemed not ideal. |
| 1:22.8 | Blue Upper Planet. |
| 1:24.2 | What? |
| 1:25.2 | What? |
| 1:26.2 | Oh no, we're talking about different things. |
| 1:29.2 | Okay, we're going to need a minute to get on the same page here. |
| 1:35.8 | Come back on Friday for the full Star Wars Day interview with Mark, |
| 1:39.6 | where we talk about Mark's career, why Star Wars still resonates so strongly, and he shares some stories |
| 1:45.3 | from Star Wars history that you might not have heard before. So check back on May the 4th. In the meantime, |
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