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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Monstrefact: Life on Star Wars' Utapau

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses the lifeforms of the planet Utapau, as seen in “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.”

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0:00.0

It's nostalgia overload as Wilmer Valderrama and Freddie Rodriguez welcome another Amigo to their podcast, Dos Amigos.

0:07.9

Wilbur's friend and former That 70 show castmate, Tofer Grace, stops by the speakeasy for a two-part interview to discuss his career and reminisce about old times.

0:16.6

We were still in that place of like, what will this experience become? And you go, you're having the best time.

0:20.4

But it was like such a perfect golden time.

0:24.6

Listen to Dos Amigos on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:33.2

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:39.3

Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact, a short form series from Stuff to Blow Your Mind focusing on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time.

0:53.7

Over the weekend, I, like a lot of you, went to see 2005 Star Wars Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith on the big screen,

1:02.7

taking in the culmination of the Clone War, the fall of the Republic, and the death of the Jedi Order.

1:09.3

It's a dark tale. For many younger viewers, perhaps the first tragic story arc they ever saw,

1:15.3

and one that still ruminates on the state of our own world.

1:19.1

Since the film is perhaps fresh on many listeners' minds,

1:22.1

I thought today might be a good day to turn our attention to the fauna of the planet Udipau,

1:28.3

where Obi-Wan Kenobi finally hunts down General Grevis.

1:32.4

Far from just another desert or forest world, Utapal is delightfully weird and fittingly morose

1:38.4

for the darkest Star Wars film entry. As described in Star Wars Galactic Maps, written by Emily Fortune,

1:46.4

it's a dry, wind-swept world, quote, pockmarked with giant sinkholes into which the oceans drain

1:53.3

and its underground cities built from millions of animal bones. Matthew Stover in his novelization

2:00.4

of the film describes these sinkholes as being the size

2:03.6

of inverted mountains, the interior walls riddled with industry and urbanization.

2:08.6

The planet is home to two sentient species, the diminutive Utah, serving as the planet's labor

2:15.2

cast, and the tall, gaunt, carnivorous, Powens.

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