The Star Wars Holiday Special w/ Matt Gourley & Eden Sher (HDTGM Matinee)

How Did This Get Made?

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4.8 • 23.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Celebrate Life Day with Paul, Jason, and special guests Matt Gourley (Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend) and Eden Sher (The Middle) as they discuss the infamous 1978 CBS TV film The Star Wars Holiday Special. They talk about Chewbacca being a bad father, the Diahann Carroll virtual reality porn, Harvey Korman being truly committed in all of his “comedic bits,” and so much more. Happy Life Day from HDTGM! (Ep. #126 Originally Released 12/25/2015)

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0:00.0	A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a group of writers were tasked with writing a holiday special about Star Wars, but none of them ever saw Star Wars.
0:11.4	We saw Star Wars a holiday special, so you know what that means?
0:15.1	Now it's time for how did this campaign?
0:19.0	We're going to have a good time, celebrate some failure, not just be a hater because
0:22.3	you know you wonder.
0:23.1	How did this campaign?
0:24.3	Let's follow in the mediocrity of subpar art.
0:28.4	Perhaps we'll find the answer to the question.
0:31.1	How did this get made?
0:32.4	Hello, people of earth and welcome to How Did This get made, our holiday edition.
0:38.7	Normally we do movies on the podcast.
0:41.1	We are doing something different today.
0:42.7	We are focusing on a 1978 CBS television special that was made around Christmas time focusing on Star Wars.
0:51.4	If you have not seen it, I urge you right now to stop what you're doing
0:55.6	and check it out. But now that you have all this warning in front of you, I now would like to
1:00.2	introduce my co-host live from New York, Jason Manzukas.
1:04.7	Hey-oh. In New York right now. In New York City, celebrating Life Day. Yes, so excited. As the listeners of the show know,
1:16.1	June does not celebrate Life Day and is very anti-Life Day, so she is not here. But we have
1:22.5	some amazing guests joining us. Well, does that mean that June is part of the empire?
1:27.4	I'm just saying that June, you know, was brought up imperial and doesn't really celebrate kind of wookie.
1:34.7	Does she celebrate the war on Hollett on Life Day?
1:38.2	I don't want to talk about what she does.
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