Welcome back everybody to Star Wars Minute. It's your daily podcast where we analyze

scrutinize and celebrate the Star Wars movies one minute at a time. I'm Pete the

retailer from Pete the Retailer.com.

I'm Alex Robinson from comic book Alex.com.

And today we are talking about minute two of Star Wars episode one, The Phantom Menace, aka the Nabu movie, aka the beginning

originally. That has apocryphal? Yes. A minute two starts with more crawl. It's the conclusion of the opening crawl that we started to talk about yesterday.

And it goes to the opening shot of a ship approaching.

And it ends with the opening shot of a ship approaching, ends with the opening shot of a ship approaching.

So as we were talking about yesterday,

the, well first off, within this crawl, as we said, the Republic is engulfed in turmoil,

and for some reason, again, this crawl is not the best, this is one of the weaker parks probably.

The Trade Federation hopes to resolve this turmoil by stopping all shipping to Nibu? I've never understood, I've never

quite understood the role of the trade federation in.

Yeah, I don't, I don't get why.

I don't understand what this has to do with the taxation of trade routes, the Nabu.

I guess if, like who is tactfulful who is taxing the trade routes who's taxing the trade routes who's

shipping to Nabu it doesn't look like they have you know it's not like they're you

know iraqis or something where it's you know the everything you

you can't run the galaxy without whatever is coming out of a boo-boo it seems like their main

exports would be like you know leaves and velvet water yeah and marble so are they trying to stuff stop stuff from coming out of

Nibu well they're I guess they're or going or both into all shipping to Nibu, I think.

So yeah, so I don't understand what Nibu...

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