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Stuff You Should Know

SYSK Selects: The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

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

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:31.0

Ohoy, a solemn life day to you all.

0:34.1

This is Josh and for this week's S.Y.S.K.S.

0:37.2

Selects, it's our annual Christmas edition of the Star Wars Holiday Special here to kick

0:43.7

off your holiday season and grand style.

0:47.3

I know a life day actually took place this year on November 17th, but we wanted to wait

0:53.5

to save it until a little closer to Christmas to really put everybody in the Christmas spirit.

0:58.5

So here everyone is the Stuff You Should Know Annual Holiday Tradition of the Listening

1:04.4

of the Star Wars Holiday Special episode.

1:08.3

Enjoy.

1:09.3

Happy holidays.

1:11.1

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.

1:18.1

Hey and welcome to the podcast.

1:25.3

I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuckers Bryant and Jerry Jerome Roland.

1:31.6

Who's the wiki mother?

1:35.0

Yeah, Mala.

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