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Stuff You Should Know

SYSK Selects: The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.582.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2018

⏱️ 55 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 a very special edition of SYSK. May the force be with us all.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.7

Hello, everybody. It's that time of year again for our new annual tradition.

0:10.9

This is the second year we're doing it of releasing our episode on the horrible, terrible Star Wars Christmas special.

0:18.9

By goodness, I am making this a holiday tradition,

0:22.2

and I'm cramming it into our S.YSK Selects feed yet again.

0:27.0

So enjoy getting the Christmas spirit.

0:29.6

Happy Life Day, everybody.

0:33.9

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from How StuffWorks.com.

0:43.7

Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuckers Bryant and Jerry Jerome

0:51.0

Roland.

0:53.5

Who's the wookie mother? Yeah. Mala. Who's the Wookie Mother?

0:55.3

Yeah, Mala.

0:57.5

That was the Wookiee wife.

0:59.4

Oh, and mother.

1:00.2

Yeah, sure.

1:01.8

Chewbacca's bomb is not with them any longer.

1:04.0

She left.

1:05.5

She was not about to appear in that.

1:07.4

She went out the window.

1:09.9

I'm excited about this I have to say

1:12.1

we should say happy Star Wars Day

1:15.1

yeah today is December 17th

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