It's a day of firsts here at Unlimited Content! First feature film, first guest(!), first listener voicemail... not to mention OODLES of Star Wars news from this year's Star Wars Celebration in London. Join us for our biggest episode yet! It's real long this time!
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Join us next week when we'll be talking about Tales of the Jedi episode 4: The Sith Lord.
0:23 introducing our guest, Sarah!
1:34 "Sponsor"
3:00 Sarah talks about her history with Star Wars
6:27 📰News segment begins...
6:59 🎬Three new Star Wars movies announced!
7:13 James Mangold's 25,000-years-ago movie
10:39 Dave Filoni's Mandoverse movie
13:00 Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's post-Rise of Skywalker movie (with Rey!)
18:19 📺Talking about TV announcements, starting with Ahsoka
27:06 Tales of the Jedi season two announced + tangent about romance in Star Wars - we want more of it!!
31:52 The Bad Batch season three announced
32:58 Season two of Star Wars Visions announced + tangent on our Wallace & Gromit crossover dreams
35:20 Andor season two currently filming
37:58 The Acolyte new details and casting + tangent on our propensity to collect-and-not-actually-consume media
43:15 Skeleton Crew new details
47:06 Return of the Jedi theatrical re-release and poster
48:24 🎮Getting hyped for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
49:54 📚What we've been watching/reading/etc...
50:01 Sam talks about the Light of the Jedi audiobook
52:37 Sarah talks about reading Homer's Odyssey
53:34 Gardening!
55:43 Jack talks about airport book stores
57:16 Graphic novel Squire
58:43 The Tetris movie on Apple TV+
1:01:24 Jack saw The Super Mario Bros. Movie on opening day because that's the kind of nerd he is
1:05:04 Chatting about the latest episode of The Mandalorian - Jack Black! Lizzo! Christopher Lloyd as a Separatist sympathizer! What???
1:10:50 ✨Main discussion segment - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
1:13:55 Sarah walks us through (an approximation of) The Phantom Menace
1:24:04 General discussion - chatting about the ever-changing cultural perception of TPM, things we hadn't noticed before, parallels with A New Hope, comparing and contrasting with The Force Awakens and the sequel trilogy
1:33:51 Chatting about our favorite parts of the movie, starting with Sam - Palpatine's manipulation, the ending lightsaber duel with Maul
1:38:37 Sarah's favorite parts - the costumes, the visuals of the final lightsaber fight, Anakin blowing up the control ship
1:43:53 Jack's favorite parts - humor, the podrace (sound design!)
1:48:42 Our MVPs of the episode - Shmi, Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan and Padme
1:58:02 Episode stats - kill counts, first Wilhelm scream(!)
2:00:57 How does TPM make Star Wars better? + its cultural and technological impact
2:07:02 📞Voicemail! From our dad!
2:11:45 Outro and sign-off