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Let me do. Justin Berger, the author of the Empire Strikes Back, unauthorized timeline, 1975 to 2020.

Tell me about yourself, sir, and tell me how you came to write this book.

I mean, I've always loved Star Wars since I was a kid, but, you know, as you grow older,

you kind of move away from things, and Star Wars was always a part of my life. Like, it was always

in the background in my mind. And, you know, I would see things come out like the Timothy's

on novels came out in the 90s. And, you know, I see things come out like the timothy's on novels came out

in the 90s and you know I wasn't really huge in the star wars but I still had to have them

and read them and love them you know as things progressed and I'd see star wars pop up here

and their little things where I would see an action figure at the store and be like oh that's cool

and I'd pick that up and just put it in storage or something. I don't know. So that was my Star Wars experience through life.

And then I was, you know, a musician and playing in bands and stuff. Did the whole thing,

you know, working jobs here and there doing all kinds of stuff. And then eventually I got into doing

a lot of promo stuff. I moved down to L.A. because I was working with a guy who was doing a lot of promo stuff. I moved down to LA because I was working with a guy who's doing a

movie and he had written a script and he was shooting this film. It was an independent film and

I had always been into movies. I had always been, you know, I had my parents video camera when I was a kid and I'm the one who used it all the time and

I was editing my own music videos and movies and stuff. So I was always

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