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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick. And today on the podcast, we to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb. And I am Joe McCormick.

And today on the podcast, we are going to be starting a two-part series of episodes exploring a kind of salad bar of topics related to the Star Wars universe.

Now, Rob, I know you love a calendar tie-in.

We've got something going on on the calendar the week that these episodes are airing, right?

That's right. May the 4th, the unofficial turned, basically official holiday for all things, Star Wars.

Okay. That's a pun, right? May the 4th be with you. Be with you. Yeah.

Very cute. Yeah. So I think for all of the first episode today, we're going to be talking about a setting from the Empire Strikes Back, my favorite of the Star Wars movies.

It's going to be the planet Hawth, the ice world location of the hidden rebel base where the first act of the movie takes place.

So we're going to be talking about wampas. We're going to be talking about taun tons as organisms,

tauntons as sleeping bags, and maybe some other stuff. Rob, I wonder if you have a similar

kind of particular childhood memories of the Hawth scenes to the ones that I hold.

So I really loved the Hawth segment of Empire when I was a kid, not just because of the ice planet aliens.

I did really like those.

But I really liked the snow speed or battle scene.

I remember that always stood out to me as one of my favorite

uh, you know, spaceship battle scenes in the movies. And I think it's because it wasn't just

blaster beams shooting back and forth. I really liked the way that they, uh, used the trick with

the harpoons and the toe cables around the, they used that to trip up the walker legs and knock them down really like action scenes with the with a tactile change up like that where there's like a different kind of uh i don't know substance being deployed and i remember liking the ewalk battle in empire or sorry in jetti for the same reason reason though that one maybe didn't age quite as

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