Live Call In Show – Ep 53 : Solo teaser reaction caIls w/ Iraj of The Sith List
Steele Wars : Star Wars Podcast
Steele Saunders
4.5 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Iraj Dowlatshahi, host of The Sith List podcast, joins us to discuss…
- The brand-new Solo teaser and trailer!
- “Official” hashtags
- Aaron from OKC checks in with his thoughts on the trailer
- Increased hype levels after seeing the Solo trailer
- Iraj's hype is all the way up
- Hidden Han Solo in the Super Bowl teaser
- The new Solo artwork released by Lucasfilm
- We discuss spinning letters and our favorite shots
- King Tom calls from “Australia” to pitch a Seinfeld-ish coat endeavor
- Everybody loves Donald Glover
- How much of a relationship do Lando and Han have after the Falcon changes hands?
- The parallels between Solo and another beloved heist film
- Steele's new trailer reaction video (now available on YouTube!)
- Katie McCort from New York puts her unique spin on the trailer
- Will Solo be better than Rogue One?
- We try to gauge how Solo will perform at the box office
- Emily Lind from the Canto Bight Dispatch podcast demands a dad joke from Iraj
- The variance between the Super Bowl teaser and the official trailer
- Emma from Edmonton gives us her trailer reactions and drops some cape blasphemy
- The factors that will make or break this film
- Simon Daoudi in LA has some ideas about Lucasfilm's shortened marketing strategy
- The hazing process for new members of the MSW Podcast Network
PLUS, IN THE FIFTY-FIVE MINUTE SUPPORTER BONUS SECTION
- Rusty Brown from San Diego impersonates his casino correspondent sister
- Buying Donald Glover as Lando
- Rebecca Edwards from Perth calls the show prior to having seen the trailer
- Robbo from New Jersey actually enjoyed the trailer!
- An ill-fated attempt to impart EU knowledge
- Rebecca rejoins us after watching the trailer, and is HYPED
- The Awesome Space Octopus!
- Iraj and Steele talk about delicious beer
- Shawn calls from LA with his thoughts on the trailer
- The trailer's use of graphics, and reminiscing over Lost
- Kyle from Toronto loved the gunslinger scene
- Did we see Kessel in the trailer?
- What's the nature of the Han and Qi'ra relationship?
- Robbo returns to tell us about Lando's droid
- A prophecy that misread could have been
- Katie's interest in Solo is higher after our visit from Robbo
- We discuss Westworld!
- Potential future Star Wars standalones
- And much more!
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| 0:24.6 | adventures and react to what will be a controversial finale. And Australia, Steel Wars returns to the |
| 0:33.3 | Melbourne International Comedy Festival for three shows over the Easter long weekend. |
| 0:40.5 | Friday the 30th of March, Saturday the 31st of March and Monday the 2nd of April, |
| 0:46.4 | 2pm tickets for all these shows are available at steel wars.com. |
| 1:10.6 | Hey guys and welcome to the Steel Wars call-in show. I am comedian, Steel Saunders, and I do love Star Wars. |
| 1:16.1 | And this weekend, Sunday, Monday, we got our first two glimps of Han Solo. |
| 1:24.3 | Sorry, sorry, Solo. |
| 1:26.0 | A Star Wars story. Interestingly enough, I'm into this hashtag |
| 1:29.8 | business, you know, hashtag content. I enjoy following the hashtags of the world. And |
| 1:36.7 | I noticed that at Star Wars, the official Star Wars Twitter account, their hashtag is Harn Solo, not Solo, which is quite strange. |
| 1:51.9 | When you think they could have just, if that's a better hashtag, why don't you just call |
| 1:55.7 | a movie Han Solo? |
| 1:58.2 | Or is there different rules for hashtags and movie titles? |
| 2:01.6 | Maybe there are. |
| 2:02.6 | Maybe there are. |
| 2:04.6 | But we will be taking your calls on the solo trailer. |
| 2:10.6 | I am hoping that Ararge is on the line right now. |
| 2:14.6 | Can you hear me, Raj? |
| 2:16.6 | Hello. Still, can you hear me? |
| 2:19.7 | I can hear you, but you have to be able to hear me. |
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