The following is a presentation of the 4th Center Podcast feed.

From the center of the galaxy, this is the 4th Center Podcast feed,

and this particular episode of the 4th Center is the bad batch report.

I was waiting to see if there would be music,

but instead we were treated to a lovely baby dragon cry, a hungry baby dragon cry.

A hungry baby dragon. That describes, I think, both of us today, probably as we record on this

Friday morning, we are a hungry baby dragon. So let's have a fun discussion of bad batch

and then eat some capacitors. I am Joseph Scrimshaw and the person who

excellently portrayed the hungry baby dragon is Ken Nebson.

Yes, I am indeed. I love when a good animal munches on metal and Star Wars.

There's a lot of good quality metal munching. If you like metal munching, this was the episode

for you. Let's get right into it. We've really been enjoying bad batch. It seems so far that the

Star Wars community that I'm seeing on social media is really enjoying bad batch. So that is a

beautiful, beautiful thing. We are talking about the third episode entitled Replacements.

It is written by Matt Machevin and directed by Nathaniel Villanueva.

More practice for me saying the name of the director because that is somebody who directed

a lot of Clone Wars episodes. So I've said that name a lot.

27-minute episode. That seems to be the standard kind of about half hour is.

Ken, any thoughts so far? Let me tell you something. I was relieved because I did the stay-up

to midnight thing and got up early, whereas last week I was like, you know, maybe I don't

need to stay up to midnight. Maybe I watched both episodes right before we review it.

And I stayed up to midnight and then I saw the 27 minutes and I went,

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