Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, George Lucas allowed the Star Wars Holiday Special to be made. What happened on the night of November 17, 1978 can never be fully explained, but we make our best effort in our annual special edition of SYSK. May the force be with us all.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.7	Hey, guys, it's that time again.
0:07.1	Time to kick off the holidays in style with our traditional playing of our episode on the Star
0:13.3	Wars holiday special.
0:15.2	If you've never seen the actual special, I envy you.
0:18.9	And I bet the first time is the last time you watch it too.
0:22.7	We here at SYSK want to wish you a happy holiday season, and we hope you enjoy the annual
0:28.5	tradition of our playing of the Star Wars Holiday Special episode.
0:36.9	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:46.3	Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuckers Bryant and Jerry Jerome Roland.
0:57.4	Who's the Wookie Mother?
0:59.0	Yeah, Mala.
1:01.3	That was the Wookiee wife.
1:02.5	Oh, and mother.
1:03.6	Yeah, sure.
1:06.2	Chubacca's bomb is not with them any longer.
1:07.6	She left.
1:09.6	She was not about to appear in that. She went out the window.
1:11.7	I'm excited about this, I left. Yeah. She was not about to appear in that. She went out the window. Mm-hmm.
1:12.5	I'm excited about this, I have to say.
1:15.4	We should say happy Star Wars Day.
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