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🗓️ 28 June 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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It’s 1999, and sixteen years after its original release, a new Star Wars is finally coming. Fans have been camping out in front of theaters across the country just to be the first to see it. The beloved intergalactic saga is set to debut a slew of brand new characters, one of whom is a revolutionary CGI creation named Jar Jar Binks. Whispers begin to spread about big changes coming to the galaxy far, far away – and not everyone’s happy about it. Transcripts for The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks are available at go.ted.com/jarjar
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0:00.0 | Hi friends, it's been a while. |
0:05.1 | I have been off working on a whole new project that I really think that you're going to enjoy |
0:11.2 | if you are a fan of this show. |
0:13.6 | My new podcast is called The Redemption of Jar Jar Banks. |
0:17.7 | Yes, by the way, that Jar Jar Banks, and it's a show where I dive into the story of one |
0:24.4 | of the most polarizing figures in cinematic history. |
0:28.5 | The Redemption of Jar Jar Banks is a six-part audio documentary that is all about how one |
0:33.7 | person survived one of the internet's very first hate campaigns. |
0:39.0 | And to be totally honest with you, it's a story that I have always wanted to turn into |
0:44.4 | an episode of conversations with people who hate me. |
0:47.8 | But the deeper I got in my research, the more I talked to people, the more I realized |
0:53.0 | that this thing was so complicated and so intricate that it needed its own room to |
0:58.3 | brief. |
0:59.3 | And that's how we ended up with a six-episode audio documentary. |
1:03.9 | So throughout all six episodes, I talked to Ahmed Best, the man who played Jar Jar Banks |
1:09.4 | about the character that changed his life in, let's say, truly profound ways. |
1:17.4 | I also talked to experts, I talked to an animator, the animator that animated Jar Jar Banks, |
1:25.0 | and later on, you can hear me talk to a former Jar Jar hater. |
1:29.5 | I'm really, really proud of this show. |
1:31.9 | I'm so excited to share it with all of you, and you're about to listen to the first episode |
1:36.2 | of the series. |
1:37.2 | And if you like what you hear, here's what I ask that you do. |
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