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Blank Check with Griffin & David

The Podcast Holiday Special with Pilot Viruet

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2015

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In 1978, CBS aired a two-hour Star Wars holiday special. Only a year prior, A New Hope had been released to critical success and with the Empire Strikes Back in production and to be released in a year and half, this was Lucasfilm’s opportunity to keep fans engaged with the franchise (and sell some merchandise of course) by developing a science fiction variety special using everyones favorite characters. But it was terrible! So much so, that it has never been re-aired or made available for purchase ever. Nor should it be. Even George hates it, famously saying “If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of the show and smash it.” Griffin and David, joined by Pilot Viruet (Flavorwire) discuss this truly insane piece of television history. Together, they examine a storyline involving Chewbacca and Han Solo trying to return to Kasyyyk to celebrate Life Day, a Wookie holiday, Chewbaca’s weird family and extended grunting, the first introduction to Boba Fett, bad french circus dancing, 1970’s cocaine use and so much more!

Transcript

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0:00.0

["Merry Life Day"]

0:22.2

Do you know that Airbud now no longer works,

0:24.9

but Disney has her own company called Airbud Entertainment,

0:27.2

and they're just making other films about talking animal?

0:30.9

But they're called Airbud Presents.

0:33.8

I mean, that's kind of my ideal job.

0:36.8

There's one of them.

0:37.5

Social media for Airbud Entertainment.

0:39.2

Yeah.

0:39.8

Also starting recording.

0:40.6

You start recording?

0:42.0

Let's keep all of this.

0:44.0

Ho ho ho, Merry Life Day!

0:47.8

Hi guys.

0:48.7

Hey everybody.

0:50.0

I'm Griffin.

0:53.0

That's David.

0:53.8

Yeah.

0:54.6

With this is always producer Ben, aka...

0:57.7

The very sleepy Ben Duster.

0:59.4

Santa haas.

1:01.0

Yeah.

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