May the Fourth be with you

Retropod

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History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Mark Hamill himself shares stories from Star Wars history. You can hear the full interview with Hamill on the Cape Up podcast with Jonathan Capehart.

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0:00.0	Hey, history lovers. I'm Mike Rosenwald with Retropod, a show about the past, rediscovered.
0:07.7	So when he said, well, I'm going to step up down from Lucasfilm and I want to do another trilogy
0:14.4	and if you don't want to do it, we won't recast. We'll just write you out of the story. Now, I'm really good.
0:19.5	I just, I just, no expression.
0:22.3	Carrie within seconds, slaps the table and goes, I'm in!
0:27.2	And you may recognize that voice you just heard.
0:30.6	It's Mark Hamill from Star Wars.
0:35.7	Tomorrow is May 4th, unofficially known as Star Wars Day.
0:41.6	May the 4th.
0:43.1	Get it?
0:44.4	And we have a very special retropod to celebrate.
0:48.3	We're going to tell some stories about the history of Star Wars.
0:51.8	Well, actually, we'll let Mark Hamill,
0:56.7	aka Luke Skywalker, tell them himself.
0:59.5	Mark recently sat down with Washington Post opinion columnist Jonathan Capehart
1:01.5	on his Cape Up podcast for a long interview
1:03.7	about everything from Star Wars to Batman to Hollywood to politics.
1:08.0	You should definitely go listen to the whole thing.
1:10.7	Mark shared some great,
1:12.6	surprising, unbelievable stories from Star Wars history. Like how we can all thank George Lucas's
1:19.0	wife for Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford. I do know that there were two sets.
1:23.3	There was a Han, Alaya, and a Luke. And they and Aliyah and a Luke, and they never mixed and matched.
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