The Kristian Harloff Show - STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE reveals new photos and tone? Josh Robert Thompson! | Sith Council

Episode Date: December 9, 2022

Star Wars Jedi Survivor came out today but the other news was some of the photos from The Acolyte were leaked. What will the tone of that show be?! Kristian is joined by special guest Josh Robert Thompson. George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Jeff Goldblum, Gary Busey and TWO Arnolds show up to discuss Star Wars. Enjoy! #StarWars #Andor #TheAcolyte #GeorgeLucas #Impression OUR MERCH STORE IS LIVE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-big-thing-kh-channel?ref_id=27393 AMAZON WISHLIST: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1KPH42T0TP0PG?ref=cm_sw_em_r_un_un_djbxgIW5ZQMMg PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/thebigthingshow SCHMOEDOWN ARCHIVE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheMovieTriviaSchmoedownArchives Ask Kristian questions for next time! https://facebook.com/harloff Become a Patreon of the Schmoedown: http://patreon.com/schmoedown OTHER GREAT CONTENT: REVIEWS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT368qY7sfE0nKE4c04CqGvu TV REVIEWS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT1LU-t2Z9AD5UJDiWW4pS_E STAR WARS SHOW https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT0XmfpbblkF9PY7uO2qhbN6 THE BIG THING PODCAST https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT3KAwbzDsv6mdR-gwUiydQg FOLLOW KRISTIAN + FIND HIM ON CAMEO https://cameo.com/kristianharloff https://twitter.com/kristianharloff https://facebook.com/harloff https://instagram.com/kristianharloff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the show. It's Sith Council. I know that we were trying to get you a show on Wednesday, but so much dropped leading up to it. So we're doing one on Friday, and I got lucky because my buddy Josh Robert Thompson is going to be on the show today. We're going to talk about not only all things Star Wars.

We'll talk about stuff. I guess, look, Lucasfilm for Star Wars, they brought Willow out, for God's sakes, at Star Wars. So we can talk about Indiana Jones for a little bit. Why not? We'll do that. We got that. We got some more stuff.

to talk about with Andor, we have some, the Jedi, the last, whatever the freaking thing's called, fallen survivor fell off the cliff or something. It's, the new Jedi game, it came out. It looks good. I'm prepared, right, George? Yeah, sure. Thanks. Um, anyway, we got, we got a lot to talk about. It's going to be fun. And I'll be honest. I'm going to guess that most of this episode is just going to be people that we love, random people in store situations, if I was going to, if I was going to guess. But if you brand new to the channel and you haven't done it already. Give me a favorite and subscribe.

Show a little class for you. Just an ounce. That's what I'll ask him for. We've got the creator here. He's going to, he wants you to show some class too. Show me some class. Thank you, George. Oh.

Yeah. Just an ounce? Yeah. Oh. All right. Thank you. Well, there's our sponsor. Nothing.

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And Patreon. Yeah, that leg was there. Big thing. That's the big thing show. Go to patreon.com. We do a lot of great stuff over there. But this is going to be fun, man. We have a really good show.

Mike is not here today. Steph's not here. But like I said, I got Josh. We're going to be shooting the ish-ish. So let's get into it. It's Sith Council. It's me. It's Josh Robert Thompson.

Let's do it. What's going on? Everybody, welcome back. It is Sith Council. And it's a Friday edition. That's cool. Thanks for joining me here today on the show. And as I mentioned to you,

I got the one. the only. Man, where's the regular people? You are the regular. Who is this guy? You better talk about Star Wars only. Don't come on here doing other stuff.

Well, you know, well, good luck to that because I think that's what all this show is going to be today. I subscribe to the Patreon and I demand a show. You're going to get a show. Don't worry. You were late by five minutes with the show. I was late. Josh was very, it's been very kind, by the way.

And it was way more. Josh was supposed to come in here today at like 10 a.m. Yeah. And then I said, hey, I haven't said anything up. So can you hang around? We just kind of talked, we talked a lot. I talked about lower thirds. Yeah, a lot of lower third talk.

And by the way, I want to say, amazing job on my lower thirds. I thought it's pretty good. You want to show everybody my lower third. Show it again. Where is it? We were, look at that, look at that lower third, man.

It's beautiful, isn't it? That's really nice. He's, look, this guy's great. I got him, uh, and he did it quick. So what is George, what's George Lucas thing about that? Well, it's a pretty decent lower third.

Yeah, what would you have done better, George? Well, I would have made it maybe yellow. I kind of like yellow. You like yellow? It kind of pops. You think it pops? Yeah, you kind of go, oh, what's that over there?

But have you changed your opinion on the colors over the years, George? Yeah, I used to like blue. Yeah, what happened? Then I got older and, you know, I did a lot of peeing. So I go to the bathroom a lot. So yellow was inspiring to. And then I was like, oh, it means I'm dehydrated. So maybe I should actually be clear.

I understand. Listen, now that I got you here. Yeah. I know this is a Star Wars show, but let's talk about it. Indiana Jones show. Oh, yeah, I love Indiana Jones. Yeah, you're a big fan of your own stuff. I love it. Yeah. So you had a chance. I want to know, this is something that I think I really wants to know. What was George Lucas's thoughts on the new James Mangold trailer for Indiana Jones and pocket of new show title?

Yeah, what is it called? Dial of Desope. Dial soap. I love dial soap. It's good. Is that a sponsor of your show? It will be now that you're endorsing it. Well, it's fine. You know, I personally, I think the last last one was great. Really? Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. You love it? I love it. It's fantastic.

A lot of gophers. Yeah, a lot of go. Well, there's three scenes of gophers. Yeah, that's a lot. I insisted. You did. Well, George said, George came to me and said, look, I have gophers in there. We got gophers.

And I said, listen, I don't really want to do gofers, but we'll do gofers. If that's what you are, I mean, I don't care. You know, it's a paycheck for me. Well, Stephen, did he have to, so you were never, you were never convinced otherwise to not put gofers in? Well, I said, look, we made the last film, we made, we made the movie of this film. Right. Are you all right?

You're okay. You're okay? What have you? Yeah, Larsson was sitting in it. It's just very emotional. Yeah. We made the last film, we made, look, I was done. Last year I said, they ran off from the sunset.

We're finished. And then I said, George said, come on. I make a movie about aliens or softer. I said, fine. Yeah, but Stephen, you are a producer on this mangled film. Well, yes, because originally I wasn't going to direct a Crystal School. I said, we'll have some young hot director coming to do it. Yeah.

Like Roland Emmerker. Jesus Christ, Roland Emmerich, my God. Can you imagine that? Tell me what you would have done. Imagine that. What a nightmare. Why? You don't like Roland Emick, George?

Well, I mean, he makes bad pictures. Wow. I make great pictures. You make great pictures. He makes bad pictures. Have you seen Day after tomorrow? Not in a long time. Have you seen Independence Day, Part 2?

Part 2. Part 2. See, I like that you went with Part 2. You're right. Part 2 was terrible. Unknown caller. Hello? Hello?

My Bluetooth that's hooked up for me. That was unbelievable. That was unbelievable. That's great. That was very scary. We both got scared. That was really. I thought I was eating something.

It's like close and cats. What is this? We just talked about in depth on how we don't do the schmobot on this show anymore. And then I got the theme to dark, whatever, the Bane. I was having flashback. Oh, that's what that was. That was the, uh, oh, oh. So I, I put that on my phone years ago and I'm just too lazy to change it.

It's pretty great. I mean, it's all the time. It'll wake you up. It's up. When my wife called me, it plays also, and people go, is that your wife's theme? I'm like, no, it's everybody's theme. Oh, I would want, yeah, right. It's everybody's theme.

It should be. Maybe I'll change. When I change everybody else says, I'll leave it for her. Oh, that'll be great. Or just put Vader. That'll go down. Wow. That's great.

That's great. That's great. Let's take it. Let's do it again. We'll just do another shot. Sorry, Stephen. So, Stephen, apparently, you were, this is something I always wanted to ask you. You were supposed to direct Return of the Jedi.

Why did you not? Well, I was busy making other pictures. You know, I was, we were about to move in process for, uh, we're doing, uh, simple, temple, time. Okay. Which one's just on? Yeah. I was, yeah.

David Lynch was, David Lynch was going to, David Lynch was going to, David Lynch was going to do that at one point. He was. But he's got a headache or something of migraine. Yeah, he wasn't hurt. I didn't. I didn't want to.

Yeah. I said, George, this is your baby. I don't want to do this. You were done. It had nothing to do with the year. No, no. Well, no, no, I was, you know, I was, you know, and also. And also I didn't make poltergeist.

Oh. I go to my grave. I didn't make poltergeist. I wasn't there. I wasn't on sale every day. No. Directing that picture. Yeah, fair enough.

It's great. I don't know if I believe you. Well, the thing about Steve is, Steve is different from me because he uses physical sets. Oh, right. Which is kind of an old-fashioned kind of throwback. Yeah, that's really lame. What are you thinking about the volume, George? Do you like this volume thing?

Oh, I think it's great. Yeah, you would like to. Well, this was my dream. So what you wanted to do? I was nice. It's nice to see the kids, you know, making use of what I came up with. You get a percentage on that? A little bit.

Daddy gets a little kickback. A little kickback. Yeah, I show up and I say, hey, John Favreau. That looks stupid. And he goes, okay, sure. I didn't think you knew Favro's name. So you know it now. Johnny Favreau.

Johnny Favs. Johnny Favs. He has what I call him. That's a great filmmaker. Oh, you like him too. Yeah, he does a third one of my favorite movie. Wow. Okay.

Space film. No, I know the movie. Wild film. Great film. You likes authority. Well, the thing is, when I direct a film, I just do two takes. I don't waste any time. No.

Okay, that's great. Harrison, that's great. That looks great. Let's just work. Okay, cut and print. And then we just move on. Wow. That's how we did a Crystal Skull.

It just got one take. I did one take, I think, for everything. You love that. So Crystal Skulls. Is it true that De Niro was supposed to be in Crystal Skull? You guys have footage on that? He's just, yeah. Actually, you're right.

You're right. It's me now. De Niro was, did a test screening or an audition. I think. Yeah, do you have that? Do we have that? I think here it is. I mean,

this was really great working with that. Let's see. He was actually, he played one of the Russians. Oh, he played one of the Russians. That's right. Before there, before he was Russian.

That's right. Here's a clip. Let me see. So, um, no, I'll get it. Where's the,

um, the box is a thing. Go, go get the, go get the fucking thing. The box, bring it over. Bring it over! That's great.

That's great. That's wonderful. That was beautiful. It's a good clip. It was really good. I had never heard that clip before, Steve. Yeah, we just, you know, he couldn't get the accident. He's a great actor.

Obviously, I've never had a chance to work for up, you know, but, yeah, just one take. Christmas calls all one take. That's true. We started one day. One take. We did one day that film. I could see that. Excuse me?

Go ahead. George, there's more footage. I know that there's more footage that we have here. I love, I love all, you guys, every time you visit the show, there's always footage. The footage that I really was impressed with that nobody has seen was the auditions for the emperor. Goldblum actually came in and auditioned for the emperor. Oh, yeah, he did. That's right.

Is that right? I'm saying, is that right? You're saying, is that right? But George and Stephen, that's right. Yeah. So, okay, Jeff. Jeff Goldblum was saying. You're the emperor.

Just this overlord. You've been sort of pulling the strings, you know, kind of like a Belagosie character. Like in plan nine. or something. Pull the strings. Okay, go ahead. Yes, well, oh, yes. You want this? You want this? Take your weapon. Yes, and strike me down, strike me down. Because, you'll become more powerful than your father or something.

but yes, because he, because if he goes, he's gone, Splitsville, you'll take his place. It's like a Russian doll that you keep opening it. Oh, there's another one, there's another one. But here there's only one, there's only one, yes. How was it was, was that? Yes. That's we'll call you. No, man.

That's how why Jeff didn't get the game. Really good, though. It was great. I thought it was amazing. I think when he improb the Russian stuff inside of Star Wars, it probably lost them. Is that right? I think what it inspired Indiana Jones Crystal's skull, though, is what he did. That's true.

We based it all on that Russian Alcon's up. Just one take. He doesn't get any. We started the movie in one day. A full day. We came in ahead of schedule. We actually didn't shoot the movie at all. Oh, no.

We were so ahead of schedule because we only shot it in one day that we ended up not even shooting a movie. Is that why you got hired? And is that why you're hired Charlerbooth to get it done quick? He came in and did it half hour. He didn't even know he was there. All those scenes were in a half hour. Oh, wow. All green screen, yeah.

Weiled him in and shot him from a comedy shot. Yeah, we put him on a duck, and with a sword. The sword wasn't really there either. Right, right, right. And I said, just kind of go, like that. And then he went, yeah, we're good. Fuck it.

Now, do you think that maybe that's why he's been a little outspoken about working on that film? Boy, boy, what a mess, huh? Yeah. What a mess that guy. Well, he shy as was young and, you know, he had alcohol problems. And he just, he said it was a hack.

He did. So, you know, that, do not, Spielberg does not suffer fools. I mean, when you're making those kind of films, by the way, you've seen the documentaries where Spielberg directs you've seen behind the scenes. Spielberg is he is the consummate pro.

Yeah. He does not fuck around. No. Granted, you know, he's got tons of money behind him and the best crews in the world. But it's literally like, okay, I think that's it. We're good. All right. Cut, print.

Let's move on. Next shot. Right. They got the next shot set up in five seconds. All right. That's great. Good. Great job here.

Harrison. Cut, print. Go. He doesn't have time for people fucking around, man. No. And that's, I think Shailoo was an amazing actor. Great actor.

I think he's great. Brilliant. I think, As you mentioned, he was in that point of his life where it was just kind of messy. And I think those studio films, if you're not really locked into him, you're just going to tune out. Yeah. And he seemed to tune out because you put him in other, like, whether it's Honeyboy or these other movies, he's brilliant. He's a brilliant actor.

Brilliant. But he wasn't too. I didn't like him in those movies. I didn't like him in Transformers. I didn't like him because he didn't seem, you watch what he, he just seemed like another actor that they pull. I mean, here's this Shaila Boots kid. Right, right. but then you watch him like that's a talented kid man no he is a great i did like him in transformers

though i thought he was the you know the first one he's the he's the heart of that film everybody likes that first movie i still i'm like a hardcore like original ogy transformers and then optimist prime hiding behind a house and nobody noticing i'm out i'm out well i use your imagination i produce that movie so you're right sure you're sorry step because i'll pull the plug on this whole fucking show you're just not even going to be stephen lane honestly i'll pull the plug on this whole thing You won't even want to be here. I do a lot of this. I didn't even know you were going to be here today.

I'm always here. I'm always here. I'm glad. Listen, I knew. George is a close friend. You've been around. Well, yeah. We're buddies.

We're buddies now. You've been on the show quite a while. Bringing Stephen was, look, I'm starting the fablemans. Yeah. Oh, yeah, it's great.

And so having Stephen here is incredible. Well, it's a very personal picture. It's probably one of my most personal pictures outside of ET. Outside of E.T. Not BFG. Well, BFC was not a first person. It was based on something else. for so...

Spielberg, I am so... I love you so much, man. Steve, wherever you are, I've got every one of your films. I've got every book about you. I saw The Fabo Man's twice. I took my mom. We cried openly.

Please, please, God. Josh, I'm sorry you're out. I don't know. What this impression is you doing? It was bullshit. I auditioned for Animaniacs the new series, like, years ago. They were trying to get it to come back.

And they wanted someone... It said, we want someone to do a Spielberg impression. you know, Spielberg produces that show. Yeah. So I just went balls out and did exactly what I'm doing. I didn't get it. No, that's hilarious. But I wonder if it made its way up the chain.

I would love to see his reaction. What is this? This is, that's great. That's great. Because George is notorious for not having a great sense of humor, right? Like some people say he's like, you know, you can see. It's funny.

When you look at that skit he did with Seth Green with the, with the, when he throws the marriageade guy out, it's hilarious. Right. So there's certain times where you look, he does have a sense of humor. Yeah, he likes my stuff. Do we talked about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we did. Like I found out through his son. He saw the stuff he did collider.

Yeah, it was great. That's what I mean. So, like, it's like there are sometimes he does and there's sometimes where he just, and I think it's maybe less that he doesn't have a sense of humor and more that he's just a little sensitive. I think he's more sensitive. He is. He was very deeply hurt by, you know, the reaction to the prequels. Yeah.

Does that make so much love that's getting now, the prequels? Dude, I honestly, I'm one of those guys that waited quietly in the shadows. I just been waiting for everybody to catch on. I've been waiting just, you know, year after year, I would just tow the line for those films. And it is amazing, man. Even like Hayden Christensen to see that guy get showered with love at conventions. It's very moving, man.

It's great. You know, and I've talked about it a few times. I might have even talked about it with you. Like, I'm one of those people that was definitely converted later on, you know, being the original trilogy fan and liking that tone and feel. And it was just so radically different. And I went and I saw the, I saw a fan of menace in the theater like six times. But then I was also, I still.

So I still think dialogue-wise, not the best. The stories in all three are really, really good. They're really good. Their stories are great. Really dark. And I've told this story almost to where I'm blue in the face now. But like I was watching the Phantom Menace again. At the time, my daughter was probably eight.

She's 11 now. And we're sitting right there watching the movie. And I watched her eyes watching like, it wasn't even Jar Jar Jar. It was whoever it was. And I go, oh, yeah. And I watched in such a. different light and went up like really we did a rewatch of of all the the movies and I was like I really I really like these and I think that some people are going to feel the same way differently I know that

there are a lot of generations like no way about the new trilogy like I'm not the more and more I watch the new trilogy less and less I like it's not good it's not but the same thing the difference is that even though you and I we're growing up it was the original trilogy and then then there's the generation that saw the prequels and they were like seven, eight, whatever they were. Yeah. There are people who watched the new trilogy that were like six, seven years old who are going to love these movies when they get older as well. For sure. Yeah. I think, I think tone-wise, we were there from the beginning, so we saw that it was George's baby. Yeah. There's a tone to those films that is distinctly George. Yes. Especially the prequels. Yes. Which I like. I like George's

kind of weird, goofy sense of humor and very awkward way of sometimes handling scenes, but his own vision is what counts. And the new films don't have that. It feels more like a product to me. I agree with you. It's young adult stuff, which we're not. I get it. Movies or TV?

Yeah. Are you saying movies? Movies. So, yeah, because the TV stuff. Okay, so the TV. Finally, you're going to talk about Star Wars. Jesus, we're just waiting for, what is it, half hour? I'm sorry.

Unbelievable. I'm so, Stephen. I mean, look, I have you. I have Josh. I have Lucas here. I mean, I got to ask. Well, that's why we're here, Jackass. Talk about Star Wars.

I thought we were friends, George. Nobody wants to hear about this crap. Well, all right, I apologize. Although I do appreciate Josh is a great fan of mine, and he toes the line for my films. He even loves Crystal Skull. Yeah, well, that's what we were. I was watching it yesterday. That's what we were trying to talk about, Crystal Skull and everything, too.

I thought you guys wanted to talk about that. Well, I will say this. I do love Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Which is nuts. But I understand why. Actually, you explain yourself why you liked it, and it made a lot more sense. Well, because of, even on the documentary, the behind the scenes on the Blu-ray, Spielberg, Explaner.

that he didn't want to do it because Lucas, I wanted to do like saucer men. But Lucas's pitch was this is a 1950s B movie. Yeah. This is not the day the earth stood still. This is invasion of the saucer men. Right. This is the second feature on the double bill at the drive-in theater.

And so it's, it's definitely not, it's the lesser of the Indiana Jones films, if I have to use that term, but it's the one I've probably, I've watched it so many times. It's the most watchable to me. Really?

Out of the four? It's just fun as hell. Out of the fourth? I love them all. The first one is, look, Raiders of the Lost Dark is a masterpiece. It's a perfect film.

It's a perfect film. It's top ten. Yeah. But if I'm in the mood to just watch something fun and relax, something silly, something silly. Okay. Crystal skulls very silly.

Very silly. It opens with the, the opening is the Paramount logo, yeah. Which then becomes a dirt mound, which was on a prairie dog, which was hilarious. I love prairie dogs.

How did you come up with that, George? Well, I spent a lot of time out there in that area of the world. Just watch the prairie dogs kind of pop in the desert. Yeah, I love little prey dogs. Where you got the EWarks from too? Yeah, sure, yeah. I went, oh, a prey dog, oh, it could be a person. Right.

Maybe it's a civilization. Sell some toys. Yeah, like the Vietnamese or something. No, I want to clarify the Ewarks were like during the Vietnam War. Yeah, thank you. I want everyone to calm down. What? I want everyone to calm down.

What did you just say about Vietnamese people? Anyway, look, man, the Star Wars series, obviously I look at differently and treat them differently than the films. That's true. Now, let's talk about TV shows. Because we just had Andor, which was, to me, the best written Star Wars stuff since Empire. Yeah. And I know, so you don't feel that way. And or, I call it and or.

You don't love it, huh? No. it's good. I haven't finished it, so I'll be on. How far? How far? Like four episodes. Okay. You know. Now, why did I, did I get bored?

I didn't get bored. So it was slow. I just went, ah. God, I love it so much. But I'm going to, I'm going to finish it. Yeah. But I even, Empire Strikes Back is a great film. That's a great film.

Yeah. The thing about Empire Strikes Back is it's, it's a more conventional film. Yeah. Than the first film. Like, then the original Star Wars. Like, it's not fully George. Right. It's Kirshner, yeah.

It's Kirshner. I'm going to make this movie. We're going to put the camera over here. I think it's important that Chewbacca really feel the pain of his friend. Who cares? I want laser battles. So, I mean, like, look, I, I'm not saying it's a bad film at all. I'm not.

It's a great film. It's a masterpiece. it's probably the best of that series, right? But it's conventional. I want to get this point across. It's not, Georgia's stuff is weirder. Georgia's stuff is like Saturday matinee, 1940s, clunky, cumbersome, weird, and fun. Empire Strikes Back is a great film.

But the Andor and some of these other things feel too conventional. It feels like a regular, you know, this is, we really want, we want good, we want, you know, real dialogue and real situation. You want to say, I like the serialized kind of stuff that came from the pulpy stuff. Like Phantom Menace is so on the nose, man. It's fucking brilliant. Yeah. But I also appreciate the beauty of these other films. They're not bad films at all.

See, this is the thing. Even with your Crystal Skull take, right? It's like, I don't love Crystal Skull, and I think Andor is absolutely brilliant. Yeah. It is hard for me to argue with the points that you just made, because if that's what you're looking. That's what you're looking. Right. If you're looking for that, if inside of it,

because I've heard that. I've heard the people going, well, the certain stuff that I like about Star Wars, that's not Andor. Right. It's not. But what I push back on are people who say, it's not Star Wars at all.

This doesn't feel like Star Wars. Well, then you don't watch Star Wars because it's just, it's a sect of Star Wars that you might not love, but like the building of the empire, the political stuff inside of it, the intrigue, the spy thriller stuff. That was always there.

And the building, this is the most terrifying the empire has ever been. Yeah. Like, because a lot of times the, the stormtroopers are just looked as like buffoons, right? And then you remember in New Hope when they find Baru and Owen dead. Oh, yeah. You're terrified thinking about what the stormtroopers do because Obi-Won pitches them as like,

they don't miss. And clearly they do because it becomes so goofy down in. But this version of them in Andor, I think, couples with that fear. Yeah. The way that it is the most terrifying the empire has been in a very long time. Well, that's the great part about Star Wars now, is it so vast. The world is so large. There's so many options.

There's so many different things and facets of the world that you can enjoy. Yeah, no, I don't think it's bad at all. I wouldn't shit talk it. I totally appreciate it. It's not the thing that you gravitate towards when it comes to Star Wars. No, and again, that's why I like Crystal Skull. Because it feels, I've seen so many of those movies, those old serials. I mean, I own so many of them.

Commando Cody, you know, which is where Commander Cody comes from, was a series, you know, in the 40s, which I love, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, all that stuff. So when I see King Solomon's Mines, all that stuff from that era, when I see Crystal Skull, I go, damn, this is right on that, like these obvious, like, beautiful sets. I can just watch Indiana Jones and Mutt Williams walk through caverns for an hour. And it's just something about, I put my TV in black and white. This is something I've done before. I'll change it to black and white.

And watch the Indiana? It is amazing. Okay. See, well, that's fun. Now, when you watch it that particular way, I guess. get it. It's not something that I respond to necessarily, but I get it. It's like that that kind of taste to what you're looking for. There's a difference between, as we just said, of saying, okay, look, I like that kind of adventure feel inside of it and the more

kind of serialized 1940s feel. And then there's this other stuff that I understand is Star Wars, but it's just not what I gravitate. I liked Rogue One a lot, which I'm telling you, watch the end of Andor then, because it's starting to real tie in. But before we got, I want to talk to but the rest of those shows. I wanted to tell you guys, look, it is time to, Tis the season for clean ball bags. Fla la la la la la la. Our friends at Manscaped are helping you clear your driveway

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Well, I don't know. Did you just order some Manscape? Yeah. Using it right now, as a matter of fact. That's what I was wondering with that buzzing was. They got their new whisper quiet one. Oh my goodness. He's sharing his ball bag.

Hey, everybody. Look, it's Josh Robert Thompson. That's that your Manhattan? It's a man hatter. It's the Manhattan. Oh, my goodness. Mustard. Oh, Jeff Goldblum's here.

Hello, you're the Grand Master. Oh, yes. Yes, Matt Hatter. Oh, tea. Lots of tea bags. I once teabaggoy Weaver, then she just left. But look, that was a legend. I got arrested for six months.

Oh, very tall. Very tall, Sigourney. It was a chair. I had to stand on the T-Mouse and the little rabbit. Oh, T-mouse, rabbits, tee-bagging. Let's go do cocaine. Oh, huh. Did somebody say cocaine?

One time I did a, I had a conspirator and he gave me a cane upside the head, but I said, listen, my name is Gary Busy. And I make sure that I do that. Every time I walk into a room, I say who I am because people don't know. And I shaved my head backwards one time, but the hair didn't come off because it was a bagel. You got the acronyms, Gary? I do. So if you look at, well, you say Gary, God always resorts. why, even though

why is started with a W Y sometimes could be for a yak and sometimes I yak up backwards. Everyone does backwards. Hey, have you signed a motorcycle? I caught it with a horse. What are you talking about? Did I tell you that I met him?

Yeah, you did, yeah. That was where. Famous Gary Bucy story. We're on a roof, you were on a roof with them. Twice. I remember this. Hot roof. Yeah, hot roof.

Twice. Unbelievable. Hot roof with Bucy. That's right. I did tell you this, but ask me a question. Hey, how are you feeling today? What? What?

Have you been here long? Are you in town? What? Did I what? Yeah, what's the lightest movie? Last film you worked on. What do you exactly think latest means? Well, I mean, you're doing...

Latest is something that comes from the power of God. Yeah, God. God. Gary only dies inside of my mind. Okay. I seen the light. All right. Well, thanks, Gary.

What? Good talking to you. What? It's really unnerving. I mean, I know it's you. I'm seeing you as yourself, but it's very upsetting. It's like this, what? Yeah.

It's like, and with the heat and standing on the, it was, it was. Just you and Gary together, man. It was, there are a few other people. There are a few other people up on the roof, but it was, but for some reason, he was coming after me, man. Probably knows he's doing a pressure off him. Anyway, Gary Buse. I'm a great friend of Gary said, I'm going to tell him that she's that I'm pressing. I know, I'm sorry.

Because I'm watching the show. So just be careful. I once time chewed off a piece of Steven Spielberg's slipper and put it in a museum. And I sat inside the museum. It was an art piece. And they said, Gary, come out. I said, if you come back me again,

I'm going to take every bit of religion out of your soul and put it into my pet cat. That's true. He did. He did, actually. It's a wonderful cat. The cat can levitate. It was amazing.

It levitated when I put a stick upside of its belly. It levitated when I put a stick upside of its belly, threw it up into the air. and gave it a little bit of a flip-a-do do-duty flip. That's true. That's one of the flippie-do dody-flip. Yeah, that was, we tried to make a movie. We tried to develop a movie.

It was a kid's movie called Fli-D-D-D-F, which was a CG animated film. Gary, remember this, Gary, he came to me and he pitched the movie. He said, Doody-F-A-D-Lip, but the title's a little weird. So it's like B-F-G, we did a F-D-D-F-D-F. It was called F-D-F-F, but it looked terrible on the side of buses. Just like B-F-G. That's why nobody saw it. It didn't work out.

I one time that a bus hit me at 33 miles an hour. At the last minute, I moved to my left and let the tire hit my toe. Uh-huh. I took the toe and I gave it to my ex-wife. She now lives in Phoenix. That's great. This is where the guy will comment, uh, Harlov's got your beat, bro. Look at Josh trying to do his little voices.

That's all. That's all I got. Guys, I love these. the guys that get all, it's like, dude, everyone's fine. With Gary, though, all you got to do with Gary, though, you just have to say whatever comes into your mind. Well, the acronyms I love, and then the ending up, something happens like you get hit by a bus, and then you end up somewhere else,

two seconds later. It's just, I'm telling you, I tell it my favorite part of that whole story was just like, here are the people I like to interview on this podcast. I would like to have, who was, who was, it was, it was, Milton Burrell, no, not Milton Burrell, Don Rickles. I'd like to, don't have Don Rickles on the show. I'd like to have, I'd like to have so and so, so, and is George Carlin still with us? No, Gary, he's passed, and so did Don Rickles.

You should cross him off the list. It's the best. I love it. Are you doing this in your, in stand-off? I haven't brought up Gary in stand-up, no, but I probably, I'd been doing Sylvia Dante for my. Oh, yeah, yeah. my daughter. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, that's great. Yeah, but that was, uh, did you, have you, recently, didn't you just get back to doing it again?

Yeah, I was, I was doing it at, um, at, uh, flappers, I've been going up, and I'm probably going to start going more so in 20, 23. And we're going to do, you still do, you got, you got, you got on stage. Mm-hmm. Because we're doing, we're going to do something, we're going to do something in, um, in 223, if you want to come up. I'd like to, yeah, so come on. I always feel like, you know, like, you guys have done a couple over there. Or you've been other, in other shows. I want to do, I want to do something for this channel where we do, like live shows for fan base and stuff too and I want to have people who are

recognizable on the show and and not necessarily flappers but somewhere else and do like a like a theater show yeah man I love flappers though it's a great room it's a great it's got a good main room and everything too but um that's in burbank I like Burbank yeah well that's well Jamie Costa got on stage of me up out flappers

yeah yeah we did uh and he came up and we did and he stood up on stage of me and and I was just and he's because we he likes to do essentially the same type of thing that you and I do where it's like because you guys have both said it to me and I'm very, I'm humbled by it.

We're just like, it's not like, hey, can you do your impressionist? And it's like, it's, you put them into scenarios. Yeah.

And by putting, it makes it more fun. And that's what I do with Jamie's like, can we do the scenario thing? And I was like, yeah, 100%. So he came up and we just started asking them questions up there.

And people, if you don't know what you guys do and the way that you do it. Like that's why I tell people about both you is that, you guys are actors. You're not impressionist. Yes. Thank you for saying that. You're an actor.

I thought you first, Jamie, I love you. Jamie's a good friend and an amazing human being. But I thought you were going to say that you got on stage with Jamie Costa and put him on your lap and did a ventriloquist act. I should have. I should have. I could see Jamie.

And he was like, hey. And I thought you were like pulling a string. Do you see what Jamie just did? Jamie just got the, you get booked a big movie. I know. It's coming out. It's coming out.

It was just now. I can talk about it now because it's in the trades. It's announced it. but it's a mafia film. It's him, Barry Pepper and Sam Neal. Yeah, yeah. He was telling me, he texted me and said that, he's always thinking of everybody.

He's such a nice guy. He goes, hey, man, I'm over here showing Barry Pepper all your, no, we're cracking up at your George Lucas Collider stuff. Oh, that's great. And I'm like, wow, he's on set right now with Barry Pepper having a laugh at my expense. Fuck this guy. No, I, I, that meant a lot to me. And Jamie did something that I want to do.

You know, we talk about impressions. Like, I do impressions. I have a handful that I do, and they're good. I did a shitload of them on the late, late show. But I don't really consider myself to be an impressionist. You know, there's guys that are. There's like Joe Goddette, and there's, you know, we talk about Jeff Richards and, you know, Frank Caliando.

And that's what they do. Yeah. Well, look, here's the difference. There's the difference. What I just said with Gary. Busey. That's an impression. The difference is when you did De Niro just now, I was looking at you, your face turned into De Niro. Right. It's like, and

yeah, it's just like, yeah, you know it. And it's like, you can look like Jamie when he does Robin Williams. Yeah. Can look like Robin Williams, but then he can do Owen Wilson and he looks like it, and it's not a matter of like this impression. It's like because you're trying to channel who the person is and what the being and what the soul is. It's fun to just be them. Yeah, like the George Lucas, I asked you before

we went on air, like, do you find yourself just doing it now? Oh, yeah. You're like all the time. I was watching Crystal Skull last night and just During the entire film, I'm just like, oh, yeah, that was fun. I remember we shot that. Well, Steve likes to use physical sets. It's not something I would do, but, yeah, that's very old-fashioned. Well, you can tell it's fake.

It's obviously fake. Yeah. And you can just think, and that's the only one that I can ever really do that besides you, because like I said, Gary Buse, you're just kind of just talking nonsense and going through, but, you know, I'm not as good as joke about that, but I can get myself into play that. Come on. You try to do that.

And I'm not, even though I know you do it for years, you're calling the how it's doing. The problem is people when they do the Arnold, they always say, ah, come on, they get the yellings. It's the gurgling. You got to come on. You say, ha, I did the thing of the whiskey and the Lulu, that had the donkey and the horse.

There it is. And I let them run around in the circle. Sometimes they don't know it. And then I say, come on, Lulu. Come on, Lulu. Come catch us. Right, right. You know, you know.

You know, you know. You know, you know, you want to tell a story. You know, you get in there. And when you're watching the movie, we did T2 3D. Right. Remember this T23D? And when you're sitting there,

and you feel that you are part of the movie. That you are in it. It takes you back into a time. I can tell you this time tour because he did not realize. I went to Universal Studios. I said, come out with the Terminator ride. He said, it's his Transformers now. And I said, Maria, I said, what year am I here?

And I said, oops. And then the next thing I know, I said, hey, I need to have something. And they said, what do you want? They said, they got a cookie. And they said, you cannot have a cookie. I said, could have some milk. And they said, do you want milk? I said, and that milk is for babies.

Right, yeah, exactly. I remember this. I said this. You said what I said. That's right. I went there and said, yeah, there's no more ride. They didn't have the E. ride anymore.

They didn't have back to the future. Unbelievable. Back to the future. And no T2. 3D. No. Because this is the one where John Connor, still, you know, Eddie Furlong,

you know, before he lost his teeth, he's a great guy. I love Eddie Furlong. Nice guy. But he was there and we were on a motorcycle and said, come here and all this. But I was still good. I was not bad.

I was still good. It was very good. And I said, I remember when I was bad, I said to Jim Cameron, I said, hey, You know who I am. I was building the bodies. And if you watch the documentary,

I was nothing nice to Lufricna. He said, you could do it. And I said, they can. I said, you can. I punched a horse in Conan. I said, I can do it. And I did. And it was very terrifying.

Yeah, it was very terrifying. Louis has a cruise. And you could go on a cruise ship with Louis. Right? It was a celebrity cruise. And I would joke with him. I say, well, you know, if the ship is going down,

Louis's not going to know because he can hear anything. So all the people would be shuffleboard and drowning. We'd be like, what's going on here? But he loves it, yeah. What is happening here if you're not familiar

with this, your severance, this is what it is. Sometimes we shut it off. He is there, I am here, and they're letting us both talk. What I like is we're doing quiet, Arnold. Yeah, you can't scream in. Very quiet.

Now, you hear something I wanted to tell you, Arnold. Do you know that's still long, even though we've scratched the beef and whatnot? He's got the Tulsa King. He's running around. His face is still old, but it's still not.

It's very strange. Look at his mother. But they say this. Yeah, go ahead. What did you say? What I said was, hey, I called my agent and I said, I need a television show now. And I just found out I'm going to be doing a television show. Oh, yeah, yeah.

I got the Fortune Famester. I'm learning this now as you're telling me. Yes, you are me. I let you out in Severance, remember. Why didn't you go fuck yourself? Get it? Because in the movie, I tell the guy to go fuck himself. It's like Richard Dawson.

When he comes in, he says, hey, he's the fuck you. Yeah, yeah. And the running man, right? That's right. And then he would kiss all the women on the feud. He would go around kissing all the women. He would kiss them in. It's like me in the trailer back in the day.

When the guy walks in and I was doing the thing to the lady and he said, how are you doing? I said, come on, eating is not cheating. That was the longest sustained conversation I've ever had as Arnold Schwarzenegger. Very therapeutic. It was good. Wow, that was really special. It was nice.

The Tulsa King, man. It was a great show, man. Have you seen Tulsa? the kings I do my my stilone is like when you when you lose that part of Spielberg where you just mumbled and you can't hear him that's my

Stallone yeah you know you know he's telling part you got a good job right man that's it's it man that's really great that's great I love this we're gonna make that film the wobbling scibble scabbling whatever the movie was

scrably scrambling great stuff you know it was funny about this we we had I think so far in this conversation we had like 10 minutes like serious conversation. That Arnold thing is going to be the one that everyone clips out and talks about. It's funny that we led into that because I was trying,

I was having a serious conversation about wanting to do other things like other than impressions. I was about to go on this diatribe about I'm an artist, I'm a filmmaker, I want to be a serious actor. And you're like, yeah, whatever.

Anyway, so here we go. You know, it's not the right venue for that. No, not yet. And we haven't talked about Star Wars much either. No, not on this show. And or. Yeah, and or. And or was awesome.

Loved it, but understood you points completely. So the Acolyte, I'm curious where you land on this one because... What is this one? Have you not heard the Ackleight? Have you not heard of this one? I mean, I've heard the title. I feel it's up your alley, man. Okay.

So the Akelet to me is probably my most anticipated one thus far that they're going to be releasing. And it's the same... I don't know if you do, but I feel like this type of show. Did you watch Russian Doll? No. Okay, because Russian Doll is a really popular. show on Netflix. I have not seen a Natasha Leone, but it's everybody who watches

raves about it. You haven't seen it either? I have not watched it, but I just heard amazing things. And it's been Emmy nominated. It's got a great critical response. And the showrunner, Leslie Headland, is the showrunner of, and creator of the Ackleit. Apparently she's really into, like, the Star Wars lore.

Sith lore, and from what they said it, that this is going to really revolve around. It's a hundred years before the Phantom Menace. Okay. This is a time period that I'm glad we're finally doing. Oh, That's interesting. Right. Yeah.

So, and it's about, like, the infiltration of the Sith and how they start to maneuver in, because it's the end of the High Republic. So there's a lot of Jedi. There's a lot of, you know, it's still, this, we're going to actually see a lot of Jedi running around with Sabres and everything, too. And there was, like, some, I'm not going to show it here because I don't want to ruin it for people who don't want to see it, but there's pictures that leaked, and they show, it looks like what we've been looking for, like, Jedi running around the forest and they're fighting

with Sabres. Is this like the, I remember the Dark Horse Comics. Yeah, I grew up. So like in the early 90s, when Dark Horse came around. I think that's the Old Republic. They did Old Republic. Tales of the Jedi. Yes.

So they did Tales of the Jedi. There was a show that just came out, Tales of the Jedi. The animated show? Kyber crystals. Yeah. Were there chiro crystals? In the Tales of the Jedi? Was there a holocron?

Not in this one, but in the Old Republic dying. Oh, there's a holocron. Yeah, and the old Republic there is. I love holocrons. It's like a flux capacitor for Jedi. Is that where it came from? Yeah, you plug it into your ship. That's what, what big ears.

That's what Dumboyers did. Oh, yeah. Hey, just plug this. I got this thing and plug it in my ship. Hey, I go, hey, I go, hey, I'm Kylo Ren. Kyle. Hey, I got to tell you. Hey, what's up?

Well, it's nice to have you on the show. What's all? Nothing, but I wanted to, last time you, well, you weren't on, but last time I did have a special guest that is here today. Yeah. Morgan Freeman is not a massive fan, apparently. I don't, I don't like it. Why don't you like it? It's bullshit.

Why is that Morgan? This movie, which one was that movie, Fall of the Jedi, Rise of Skywalker? Some bullshit. You didn't like it. The opening title screen says, anyway, so the emperor came back. Right. Guess what?

That's like killing off Black Panther in the first two minutes of a movie. Anyway, he died of some mysterious disease. Anyway, let's move on. Somehow he came back was a lot. Somehow the emperor came back. Yeah. You know?

And then all of a sudden he picks up a, kills a bunch of people, kid with the dumbbell ears, gets a triangle, whatever, that cube or something with green liquid. Holocron. Sure, it's bullshit. name for a stupid object.

It's a triangle. It's a pyramid. Okay. The miniature pyramid, and he plugs it into his ship, and all of a sudden, he's in a planet we never heard of before. Sithville. Yeah, you didn't like that. Shittsville.

You were in a fan. Now, there's 4,000 Sith. I thought there could only be two. Only one there is, or two times two. So it really pissed you off. It's bullshit. No. Also, I don't want to see this many Jedi.

I don't want to see the golden era of the Jedi. No, because the mystique of Star Wars was everybody had died out. It was the last of them. one was this old man who's like, come over here, little one. Oh, don't be afraid. Don't be frightened. And that was mysterious. Ooh, old wizard.

But now we've got to see all the shit. It's too much. So you don't want to see anything? I don't care. Wow. I'm sick of it. I'm angry. I'm pissed.

I've had a lot of coffee. I'm sorry. I haven't had a morning shit. No. It's really, it's everything. Josh is saying something real through Morgan Freeman's voice to you and the audience at home. Channeling. I got one in the chamber.

You got to go back. This whole show I've been uncomfortable. And you haven't remember. I'm going to. I'm going to shit my pants in a minute because I've had some coffee in this wonderful show some class. What is this shit? The big show, show some class. Will you tell the audience to show just a little bit of class?

Hello, everybody. I'm fake Morgan Freeman. And I want you to show a little bit of class. Show some class here on the big show. I got to take a shit. It's a big thing, but that's fine. Oh, big show, big thing? That's fine.

Who gives a shit? That's fine. I don't care anymore. I don't mean to. Oh, why don't you? Why don't you plug a little mini pyramid in a little. to your car and I'm sorry. Go to a planet.

No one ever heard of. I apologize. Let me get you a good lower third. Bullshit. Yeah, get me a decent lower third. Well, that is how, that is kind of, look, it's that thing of, and I, I, I, I, listen, the, the, the, uh, the, the, the prequels did this, and I love the prequels dearly, but, uh, sometimes the mystique of the thing is more interesting.

It is interesting to see these things as well. But if, if, if it's handled well, you know, maybe it'll be something, the acolyte. I think that. The acolyte. Because the tone, I like a little bit more. The reason I, another reason I liked Andor is because I think that what they can do is they're able to balance out. If you put, like, I don't know what you felt about Obi-Wan and Boba-Fed. I wasn't, yeah, it wasn't a massive fan.

So I think that the tone in that was definitely a little bit more kind of maybe cartoonish, right, where Ander felt a little bit more adult-oriented. Yeah. Now, I don't think in the same vein of what you're talking about with the pulpy stuff and anything, too, that Star Wars should be, I think, a balance-up. of it. Not everything. You can't, because Andor was well received by the critics, you can't make everything like that, though, because as you said, there are people who want to see a little bit more that fun Star Wars, too. So I think there's a balance. And I think that you can do it in a way,

because there's some ridiculous stuff going on in Obi-One. I bring it all the time. Like the Benny Hill music basically should be playing when flees chase and Leah in the thing. Oh, yeah. That's the first episode, isn't it? It's like the first or second, but it's like. It's crazy. It's really bad like that. And and have you seen that? the fan edits that they've done? No. So there's some good fan edits and...

Made it better. But it's so, but it's just simple. It's better. It's better. So it's simple though, but if you, if you walk over to Leah, when she's in the woods, and Flea just goes, come with us. Cut. You caught her.

Yeah. We don't know what, maybe we go, ooh, did he get her? What happened? Right. And as opposed to him, her outrunning, it's like, why am I fearing any of these villains if an 10-year-old kid can outrun them in a forest, make them go loops, and how fake it looks? looked. And it's like the attention to detail on that stuff was the issue.

But I think that if you can take a balance of that and mix what was kind of so, you know, serious inside of and or mixed it with that fun. That's what I'm hoping the act light is. I'm hoping. Well, I'll say this. We've been here before. Yeah. I've been here before.

We were here before as kids when in 1985, ABC, it was 84, I think 84, when the EWalk movie came out. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So these were the dark days when Star Wars was over. The films were done. Return of the Jedi came out in 1983. It was a big hit.

But when that movie came out, the Zon novel. Same, same complaints. This movie's getting a little muppity. It's getting a little childish, right? Okay, we've been down this road before. So then they're like, oh, I'm going to make TV movies. Cool.

I was there front and center to watch the EWalk movie. And I loved it. Me too. I loved both of them. I watched them again recently. I think it's no different to me, if we're just talking about, let's just modernize it a little bit.

It's no different. This is actually helping me see these series in a different life. It's really no different. It's like when the solo, the solo movie came out and I was like, well, nobody can play Han Solo.

There was a whole series about Indiana Jones, played by a different actor on TV, which was fun. Right. It wasn't the greatest thing in the world, but it's separate, right? So, like, Boba, actually, I liked Boba for the book of

Boba Fett that the Robert Rodriguez, the big episode, the big finale with the Rancor hanging off a building, that's like ridiculous Star Wars. To me, that's like 83 Star Wars. That's right in the pocket. But I do appreciate the other stuff. So I am looking forward to it. But they are separate. The movies and the TV shows, it's always that way.

I just think because the budgets are different. Like you look in the 1983, you and EWalk movie, it's noticeable how the budgets, but when you have a Disney Plus series, Andor looks like, and or out of all of them, even though it has a higher budget, it looks significantly better than Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan looks like the EWalk movie. Obi-Wan looks really bad. And it's Obi-Wan. I don't know.

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Yeah, top shelf. I should have done it as Gary then. Yeah, yeah, yeah, next time. Yeah, work in something, will you? I'll try. I did a manscape dad one time as Arnold. Come on, you just save your balls. How did they do it?

How did they? Manscape loves that stuff. They took it well. Oh, yeah, they love that stuff. Just like, come on. You did stocking stuff your own stocking. Yeah, that put me in one of your commercials. so I'll do it.

Okay, next time, Georgie. We'll shave my balls live on the air. Well, I mean, that would probably get us. What was that one? We did one was the funniest thing. I still laugh when I think about it. It was George, you and George doing a Manscape commercial. Yeah.

And I said, it was, I said, buy it, buy it for your dad or use it. Use it on your dad. And you said, that's like, well, maybe he can't do it. Maybe he's an invalid. And then you said, yeah, don't be a, don't be a jerk. Don't be a jerk. Help your dad out. Help your dad out.

Help him out. That's one of my favorite moments. The ones that we got to do. I got for sure they pulled their sponsors. I'm sure it was. No, they did. But they came back because I told them you were going to be on the show. But,

all right, well, we got other shows. Obviously, we could talk about movies and all that kind of stuff. Well, the video game trailer came out yesterday. It was for a Jedi, Jedi Survivor.

I always forget what it was. What is this? All right. I got to, I'm so bad with the name of it. Jedi Survivor. Yeah, so the game,

Calcastus is the, is the name of the character. Where does he come from? Everyone's talking about this guy. Never heard of him before. So he was in the first Fall in Order video game, which I'm so bad at those games that I tell people. I love the story.

The story was great, but I kept falling off cliffs and I could never, and the maps are terrible. And anyway, but Lego Star Wars is about where I tapped out. No, but I'm telling you, this games are good. Jedi Survivors, the new one. The trailer looks, I thought, pretty great. Calcastis, the same kid from Shameless is modeled after Calcestus. And the rumor is that we heard that he was going to have his own live action series would be interesting.

The games look really good. The way that they put it all together, it's like, it's more of, I think it goes back to the idea of what Morgan Freeman was so pissed off of that. Was the, there's still Jedi running around at that time period when we thought they were all dead. But the question is how does his journey end? You know what I mean? Is it going to end inside of this game or is it going to end at a live action TV series? I guess it's, it might, it might all have to do with how. good the game sells.

Who gives us shit? It's going to suck. You think so? Terrible name. Calcelsis. Calcestis. No, calcium. No, castis.

Cestus. Cestus. Is it Greek? He could be. Who care about a Greek? Greek, Greek, Jedi. You don't care about a Greek? Greeks don't use the forest.

You don't think so? Use olive oil. Oh, George. I mean, Morgan. Well, no. I'm saying, I didn't have nothing to do with this. You could have. I was just standing here, hearing an outrageous statements.

I heard you were a big. Caligalophon. You were doing a... I thought you were doing Johnny Carson. It's time. This is interesting. We've got a young man

coming on the show, a very talented young man. Cal Custis is going to be joining us. He's a Greek Jedi. That's interesting. I never heard of that before. So maybe he uses the force to restore the Parthenon.

I don't know. We're going to find out. Oh, oh. Ed, you like that. Oh, I love it. Well, Ed, you'll like this because, you know, he's Greek, and you use...

How much olive oil do you have in your hair right now? 63%. we go. Doc is here. Doc is not here. Cal Kestis is my guest. Sounds like a Cal Kestis. Johnny Carson was an abusive alcoholic.

I do not appreciate you doing this impression on your show. Christian, do not let this man back on. And the Greek joke, wow, really a joke about Greeks and olive oil? Hack, you're a hack. Your viewers are really angry. I feel like you just. represented my last four jobs. My favorite thing about the,

let me ask you this, when you post a video, when you do a video on your channel, do you have people that don't really watch the video, but they'll comment? Like, there'll be something in the video that you're, like the title of your video could be, why George Lucas gave up Star Wars? And the first comment will be,

so why did you give up Star Wars? Do people do, like, with articles, they'll read the title of the article, but they won't read the article? Sometimes. Is that how this work? So, for example, the other day we did we did a video where we were talking about the DC stuff that was going on yeah

and you know they'd canceled one woman three right so we reported on that we were talking about that myself and Winston and then in the middle of the show the James Gunn tweeted out and talked about yeah yeah yeah about his response is saying that some of it's true some of it isn't so we were talked about that but if we were getting comments the beginning you know James Gunn already talked about this James Gunn he said some of it's true some of it's true some of it isn't so we were talking about that of it isn't. I'm like, watch the show. Watch the show. We find it out about it's exactly it. I did a video recently where I talked about the late late, late show. I was on the late late show with Craig Ferguson years ago. I played the talking robot skeleton, Jeff Peterson.

There's still thousands of people that don't know how it worked. Was it a puppet? Did I operate it? How did I get the job? So I thought I would do a Q&A video. And the title of it is how I got the Jeff Peterson gig. And one of the first comments is, so how did you get the gig? Watch the video. Don't be a dick. This is why you've never worked since. My favorite is how you're screaming down into the comments. Well, I want to, exactly.

I want to. Well, I'm trying not to blow it out. But I didn't realize, I actually didn't realize, I'm down here, dude. That's hilarious. It should be screaming up.

It's good. Well, speaking of screaming up, let's take a couple questions from the audience. And then we'll, I'll get out of here. All right. So if you came in.

All right, guys. This is from Brian Kalmas. Do you think that Kathleen Kennedy even likes Star Wars? If she wasn't producing it, do you think she would ever watch it? I hate to answer the question like this without sounding like a turd, but no, I don't think she likes it. Oh, really? No, I don't. I don't think she, like, is a massive fan of like the lore.

And I don't think, like, when you can, and I don't necessarily think this is always a requirement for the job. But like, if you look at something, let's say we just talk about James Gunn. James Gunn's going to talk a year off about D.C. If you sat down with him at a bar or a coffee shop, whatever, too, he's going to talk of off about it. Right. Is Kathleen Kennedy going to talk your ear off about Star Wars lore? No.

Is she going to talk to you about the first time her and George did produce the movie and talked about the cool stuff that happened on set? She's a producer. She's a great producer. I want to be clear. Kathleen Kennedy is a powerful one of the top producers in the world. I hate when people give her a crab and say, oh, she's not a good, she's a great producer.

She's been around a long time. She's a great producer, but there's a difference between being a great producer and being someone who runs like the creative and everything too. And so I don't think that she's a massive Star Wars fan. And I think that she took, no, I think she took it's like if you take the gig for like a sports team and you're like, I'm not necessarily a big fan of the of the Yankees. Right. But I think they got enough tools where I can take them to a championship. Yeah.

And I think that you still got to know the, the back history of who the great first baseman, who did this, who did that. It helps, right? It doesn't always mean, like, she's got a lot of wins. I think she was wise enough to start bringing in people like, you know, John Favreau and Dave Flonie. On the TV side, though. Yes, but I think you're going to see that happen on the film side. It hasn't worked thus far? No.

There's rumors. Rumors are that, you know, it's, there's one of two, there's three scenarios here. You pick which one you think is going to happen. Scenario one. She extends your contract past 2025 when I think it is supposed to run out. Scenario 2. She, 2025, it ends. She decides to leave. Scenario 3 is what the rumor is, is that after Indiana Jones comes out, if it hits, she hits her winning shot, she walks off the court and starts her own company somewhere. Yeah.

Which one do you think of any of those three? I think, I think Indy's going to hit. I do too. Well, there was, you've already with Frank Marshall, Kennedy Marshall, has been around for years. Yeah. And they've made a ton of great films. And I think that's probably what's going to happen. You think after indie?

Yeah. So you think she's going to leave this year? I think so. I think so. Okay. Interesting. The Dial of Destiny. I love that title.

I hope it's about time travel. That's the rumor. Man, these kids, can I just, can you guys calm down? Oh, man. Where's my camera? Right there. Can you calm down. You guys saw the indie trailer.

It's all true. So the girls is going to take over. the end, and I guess at the end they have her going back in time to all the other Indiana Jones movies. It's bullshit. It's this woke nonsense. It's time traveling, and I cannot deal with it. The rumors are all true. I saw it. I saw the trailer and based on the trailer, figured it out. We're going to talk for three hours about it. Lucas film will burn. Listen, I hope it is about time travel because that's right in the pot. Are you kidding me? The Shankara Stones ripping a guy's heart out. He's still alive. Jumping out.

of an airplane, aliens, the arc of the covenant. Come on. Right. It's all there. Why not? I mean, who cares? If it's done, for me, it's if it's done right, I don't care. If it's done right, we'll see how it plays out.

Some of that CG, though, man. Some of it, good or bad? Bad. The horse, the horse in New York wasn't great. But the, but the deep fake. Deep fake's great. Holy moly. When he's sitting there, and I thought that was a shot from Last Crusade.

Yes. I, Oh, God. Go for it. You know, it's the thing about the, what is that, the ticker tape, the ticker tape parade. Yeah. Yeah, because Harrison Ford died like five years ago.

I don't know if anybody knows that. He's not what it was seven. He's gone. Yeah. Right. He's, it, uh, that parade scene where he's on the horse and everything. It's not so much that he, you know, obviously it's somebody else's face on, I mean, fine, whatever.

I can suspend disrespect. I don't care, you know. But everything, it's the Jurassic World problem. Because everything now is CG, because there's really no, like, real background, there's, like, really no set. So everything is, you know, you know what I mean? Everything doesn't, it doesn't look real.

Somehow it doesn't, you know, but the stuff in the volume on Mandalorian is done well. Right. The stuff, did Obi-Wan use the volume? Yeah. Okay. Didn't look good. Not done well.

Right. But they didn't understand. And or no volume. Right. So that's cool too. I'd like to, you know, that I appreciate. Yeah. I love George and I appreciate what he did.

But I hope that the whole film doesn't look like that. Yeah. But that's one shot. It's one shot. That was the only shot that bothered me. The other stuff will see. But all right. So let's get,

let's get another question here. Come on, quick. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Hurry up, man. John H. Campbell Jr. Odds that Darth Plagis is somehow mentioned in the acolyte. Well, it's 100 years before.

So the question would be, it's just in the book, he was, the species was Mune. And then that's the case. You could live, you could have him live two, 300 years and absolutely could be the guy.

But if they're going to make him human and retcon it, then he probably wouldn't be around yet. This is Dark the Plague, it's the wise? You came up with it, George. Well, yeah, right. Yeah, I forgot. You were very specific that it was Mune.

Yeah, I said that. I remember I said that. Do you go back on it now? No. No, I was just remembering, as you said it, I went, oh, yeah, yeah, it's been a while. It's kind of put it back in the phone. It's been a while. It's almost like a Harry Potter.

Yeah, yeah. You didn't come up with Harry Potter, George. I come, I didn't. No, I actually did. You did. Yeah, it was called Star Wars. Oh. Well done.

And then that homeless bitch, you know, wrote it in her car or something. And I'll look at her now. Anyway, I, I'm sorry. I didn't mean that. I've been drinking. I've been drinking. And, uh, well, was that Joseph Campbell who asked that question? Yes, it was. He was a mentor of mine. No, John Campbell.

It was John Campbell. John W. Campbell actually wrote the novel, the short story, Who Goes There, which was the basis for The Thing. Oh, there you go. John Carpenter's The Thing. Just saw it recently. Brilliant film. First time I said about it. Yeah, yeah. So you're getting a lot of facts from me. Yeah, just based on a question. I don't even read the question or read the name. No, it just kind of comes to you like a vision. John Campbell. All right. Junior. Rees. Rika. Rees. Rika. I don't have my. I don't have my glass. Oh, yeah. Oh, geez. I can't see shit.

Race Parking. Rec parking. Given the choice, would Josh rather voice a robot or an alien character in a Disney Plus Star Wars show? Great question. Now, oh, so is it a live action show? I'm assuming it's a live action show. Alien character or? Oh, I would rather voice.

I would rather be, would you said voice though. Yeah. So would, okay, so voice a robot, so be hidden away. No, I'd rather be an alien character. If I'm in prosthetics. Yeah, yeah, like a weird cameo. Yeah, it'd be funny. Like in Mandalorian.

Who's the, who's in the first episode? Horatio Sans. The weird, how you doing, man? You know. Why does that work for me? Because I, when I first saw it initially, it bothered me. And I was, I don't know. And then he came back in again.

And it kind of felt very prequelish to me. And it started to fit in. Did it get in for you? Yeah, no, I love it. Yeah. I mean, it's no different than the, the two-headed announcer. I hated those guys. Phantom Menace.

Hated them. You hate those guys. Still hate them. Yeah, it looks like Quadroneros's power cup. like it's love yeah that's um but who is that that's a comedian that does the yeah one of one of the heads oh i don't know yeah i forgot his name tom tom tom tom someone will say someone will say right now tom james how is tom james one of my favorite uh singers oh comedians oh comedians good singer comedian good good um all right can josh robert thompson give us his list of 2023 star wars shows that you're

excited about the most least least the most i'll give i'll give you i'll give it to me okay all right All right. You got Mandalorian Season 3. Sure, yeah. You got Asoka. All right. And then you've got Skeleton Crew, which is going to be John Watts, director of Spider-Man, doing a series.

The rumor is that it's going to spawn outside. I think I said, I'm making Star Wars. You're going to do a, in the unknown region. It's going to kind of tie into the Thrawn storyline. Oh, yeah. So you've got those three that are coming out in 2020, and Bad Batch. Yeah.

Mandalorian, Season 3. That's number one. It's probably number one. Okay. I have no interest in that batch. I should, but I don't care. I guess. Okay.

I'm hoping, I think, the Christmas special. Is there going to be a Christmas, are they bringing that back? No, the Guardians of the Galaxy. No, Star Wars Christmas special. Oh. The B. Arthur. Remember B. Arthur singing to all the patrons in the bar? Yes.

My old Fred, what a time we've had. Ugh. We're drinking weird liquid in a bar. If you can't appreciate that, then you're a fool. I got to watch it again. Art Carney? Anyway, go ahead. Justin Zedarski, Jeff Peterson.

Would he be Jedi or a Sith? Oh, he's Sith. 100%. Yeah, there's no question. Absolutely. Jeff Peterson would be the guy in, actually he'd be the guy in Jabba's Palace in Return of the Jedi. Oh, yeah.

Who was voiced by the director, Richard Marquand? Was he really? Yeah, he did the voice of, you are, what is it? You are. What is it? little one, but you'll soon learn some respect. That's like my favorite moment in that movie, and it's so scary and weird.

And you're like, God, what's going on down there? There's all this shit going on down here. Burning feet. That's what Jeff Petersman would do. You'll soon learn some respect on the master's sail barge in my pants. Ooh. Oh, that's great. That's great.

I'm here as well. All right. Thanks, funny. Appreciate that. David, Lozano. I'll have him do the whole podcast as Liam Neeson. Do you do a Liam Neeson? I do.

Oh, yes. Have you ever done one on this show? No, it maybe, could be. There you go. With Liam Mason, how did Liam Mason feel? How did you feel about your brief appearance in Oh, we want? Oh, you know, it was very interesting to me. Why is that?

To put on the beard. Yeah. I'm a lot older now. Yeah. And so we shot those scenes at my house. Oh. In green screen. Oh, were you in your bathroom?

It wasn't actually there. I was nude. Oh. And they CGIed an outfit on you. The robe is CG. Interesting. So I don't really remember the dialogue. They said, just look up here.

And I looked up there and I said, oh, be one. Don't forget to finish your breakfast or whatever the line was. Don't forget to shit before we leave. You're notoriously you were lying to people. You said people were asking you if you were in it. Was it that you were lying or you just didn't realize you were at it? Well, it's the money. It's the money.

You've got a contract. You can't say anything. When they say, don't talk, I don't talk. I say, listen, I don't have anything to do with that. I went a bit far. You should probably try to oversell it. Well, I don't. I would never do it again.

Right. I said things like, oh, my experience was terrible. And you probably do it again tomorrow if they asked you. I'm a bit thinner and I look different. Right. But if they did a quiet show tomorrow, you'd sign up in a heartbeat. Absolutely. That's what I thought.

80 years old. All right. Last question. Here it is. This is from Richard Genge. Hey, don't. Do you think all the current Disney Plus shows current? He's exhausted reading.

No. Current and one. do out in the next couple of years will somehow cross over and climax the same timeline where the next movie will then move on from. So I don't know if they're going to do that into a movie, but I do think they'll be like a big event. I hope. My goal is that because you know that Favre,

Follone was very much into the Thrawn books, and he's worked with Zon, even bringing him back into the rebels. And I think by, obviously we're working because of the way that the timeline worked with those books, but to do a big crossover, massive huge event is something I've been dreaming for. And if they do all of this,

because all of Favre and Faloni's shows are playing in the same timeline. Yeah, right. They're playing in the time right after, like five years after Jedi. So if all of this is like a culmination to this big event on television, and maybe even to the movies,

I think that could be something pretty special. I, I, this, it seems like there's too many, do I have to follow the video games, the animated series? Just the series. But I think for some people, it can be off-putting. It can be daunting.

Like Marvel? Yeah, they start throwing out character. At first, it was fine. You could kind of get it. But I think once Solo came around and they started like, oh, Darth Mall. The girl that's in Willow is in Solo.

Infusiness. Right. So I didn't know who that was. You didn't? No. Okay. But was that from the animated series? It was new.

It was new. Yeah, should be new. Oh, I thought it was something that The mall was the one that I thought was going to be confusing. I saw that with Ken Napsock and when they brought mall in, I said, this is going to confuse people because we know he's alive. Right. We watched the animated series, but the casual fan, like I thought that guy died.

Right. Like most people who didn't watch the series, like, what the hell's going on? Exactly. I mean, it forces you to try to get, it tries to force the people to find out more about it. Yeah. Which I think, I mean, I like the choice, to be honest, because I think that it, it allows you to finally tie it in and make it all make sense. and it shows that it is, that those shows arc canon, that he did survive.

Well, I just like when Jimmy Smith shows up. Me too. Every time he shows up. There's nothing better than, you know, when you're watching Rogue One, honestly, the best part of Rogue One is Jimmy Smith's. I love Jimmy Smith. And there's a guy off camera in Rogue One.

There's a big scene where they're all meeting. Can I tell you exactly what you're going to say? Yeah. What is she proposing? That's exactly the line. He goes like this. Talk about it in the show often. What is she proposing?

Oh, do I have it? I had it. I had it. He's so upset. I got it. I had it as an thing and I got rid of it. Yeah, he dropped the ball. We have a shirt of what is.

Oh, is that right? So much so because. Well, it's brilliant. Yeah, it's great. It's a brilliant line. And Jimmy Smith's, uh, is also, uh, in, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the , the, the, the, the, the, the forbidden wedding, oh, with that

kiss that lingers. A little long. It's a little creepy. Yeah, exactly. Thank you. You're welcome. It's a scene where Jimmy Smith says, he's upset. He's not too upset.

I said, don't be too upset. You're on a balcony with everybody and Palpatine's there, and you're looking out at all the clone troopers heading off to battle. What I want you to do is show me you're upset without really showing me you're upset. And then Jimmy does this with his fist. He goes like this. Just like that. It's unbelievable.

Oh, my God. How many times did you watch that one? Four thousand. Four thousand. Four thousand. Yeah, I like it. and cut it again, do it again. Change his hand.

Speaking about cutting it, Josh has been holding in a dump for about an hour, so we're going to let him go. Oh, my God. Oh, I've released. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us here today. A, special episode of Sith Council. We hope that, A, you enjoyed it on a Friday. B, you hope it was very non-traditional,

and I really enjoyed it, the fact that we just kind of went off on a bunch of different tangents. Go ahead and leave us some comments. Hit the like button. If you haven't already done it, everybody, make sure you subscribe. Hit that button. I'm trying to get the $70,000 by the end of the year. You can do it. Come on.

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