Podcasts about Naboo

Today the SibNerds are talking about Chapters 18 - 22! We were on 3 planets this section—Naboo, Coruscant, and Bromlarch! So you could say we covered some ground this week! It was very cool to see Padme with her family while on vacation. And then it was cool to see her jump right into action as she got back to work. We're already guessing how some of these different elements are going to come together. Next time we'll be discussing Chapters 23 – the end! Happy Reading! 

We return this week with one of the rare fully standalone episodes of Season 4, in this case a Gungan version of Kurosawa's 1980 film, Shadow Warrior! While the ending differs quite a bit, in a more family friendly way, the bones are all their and it's not a bad outing on Naboo all told. Let's jump in!BECOME A PATRON: https://www.patreon.com/massivebreakdownpodcastsCHAT SERVER: https://discord.gg/C44PeM5RSf

Rob and new co-host James talk all things Star Wars. This week we bring you Star Wars news fresh off the Holonet — from upcoming shows and movie rumors to galaxy-shaking updates from the world of collectibles, games, and beyond. Don't miss our weekly segment, "Jedi of the Week", where we shine a blue lightsaber on heroes (and sometimes anti-heroes) of the Jedi Order — from iconic masters like Yoda to underrated legends hiding in the Outer Rim. We also crack open the Jedi Archives with our Star Wars Book Talk, diving into two essential reads: Star Wars: Dark Disciple — the thrilling, emotional tale of Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Vos that blurs the line between light and dark. Star Wars: Allegiance — a bridge between Return of the Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker that follows Leia, the Resistance, and some stormtroopers with second thoughts. This week's main transmission: "Navigating the Galaxy: A Newbie's Guide to Star Wars." If you've ever wondered where to begin in this vast universe — movies, shows, animated series, books, canon vs. Legends — we'll help you pilot your ship through hyperspace without hitting a mynock. Whether you're joining us from Tatooine, Naboo, or the Unknown Regions, subscribe and buckle in — this is the podcast you're looking for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Star Wars galaxy is home to many planets, each with its own climate and food offerings. So, on which planet would you want to vacation, taking into account the weather, menu, and activities? On Episode 250, we discuss our choices for our dream vacation. We hope you'll listen and send us your choices too.  We start the show by discussing an interesting theory from a listener email. So pack your bags, book your travel, and get on board for a fun-filled episode of Idiot's Array. We would be honored if you would join us.  X: @idiotsarraypod Facebook: Idiot's Array Podcast Email: idiotsarraypodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @idiotsarraypodcast

Dans un contexte où trouver des fonds est devenu un parcours du combattant pour 90% du marché depuis bientôt 3 ans, cette startup sort du lot.Avec Maxime Eduardo* à sa tête, Naboo ré-enchante le marché du MICE (Meeting, Inventives, Conferencing, Exhibitions) ou dit plus simplement le séminaire d'entreprise ✨ En proposant une plateforme qui combine la qualité de service d'une agence et l'efficacité d'une marketplace, Naboo a réussi à automatiser toutes les démarches interminables et devis complexes.Naboo en chiffres :

Kylo Ren busca motivar a los ciudadanos de Naboo a defenderse en contra del Primer Orden. Cuáles son las motivaciones del Líder Supremo? Qué tienen que ver con el pasado de Padmé y Anakin Skywalker?Enlace para el video de Star Wars Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base (SNL) vía Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaOSCASqLsE

Sheev Palpatine Phone Home.John & Matt play Galactic Realtors in this week's show, searching for the perfect place to have served as Palpatine's abode! Did he live in modest quarters below the Senate? Was the Jedi Temple his vindictive Palace of Pleasure? Would he have returned home and lived on Naboo just to give more pain to Vader? Where do YOU think Palpatine lived?HostsJohn Mills and Matthew RushingYou've found the best Star Wars podcast with one-of-a-kind discussions in the spirit of fun! While you're here, look around our creator-focused network of podcasts with all the best of Star Trek, a deep-dive read of Harry Potter's magical world, analysis of film's greatest directors, and breaking news from top names in international film festivals, and so much more!Send us your feedback!Twitter: @TheJediMasters   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheNerdParty/ Email: http://www.thenerdparty.com/contactSubscribe in Apple Podcasts

Justine came on to talk about the Gungan planet, Naboo, the origin of humans in the Star Wars Galaxy and Zinc supplements. This is a v good episode.////////List////La Garagista, White Sparkling Wine of Vermont, 'Ci Confonde,' 2024 //Muchada Leclapart, Jerez, 'Lumiere,' 2022//Lady of the Sunshine, SLO Coast, 'Solera  White wine no 3,' NV ////Support the show

Jedi Master Keeve Trennis leads a Jedi and Republic task force against the Nihil raiders as The High Republic saga draws closer to a close.   In this fully armed and operational episode of Podcast Stardust, we discuss: How these comics synch up with Charles Soule's Trials of the Jedi, Jedi Master Keeve Trennis's discomfort with being the Jedi Marshall in charge of the Republic Forces at the Stormwall, Master Cibaba and Keeve's initial distrust of the rehabilitating Jedi, Lourna Dee, Quin, and Tey Sirrek and their mission on Naboo, Sister H'Tar, a Child of the Storm, and her ability to manipulate fear, and The liberation of Naboo. Thanks for joining us for another episode! Subscribe to Podcast Stardust for all your Star Wars news, reviews, and discussion wherever you get your podcasts. And please leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts.   Find Jay and her cosplay adventures on J.Snips Cosplay on Instagram.   Join us for real time discussion on the RetroZap Discord Server here: RetroZap Discord. Follow us on social media: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | YouTube. T-shirts, hoodies, stickers, masks, and posters are available on TeePublic. Find all episodes on RetroZap.com.

Send us a textIn this one, Mike and Cody are going on a trip in their favorite rocketship (a Y-Wing) looking for a great vacation destination. Now obviously Naboo is a top contender, but which planets should we avoid? Let's check space tripadvisor!NEW SITV MERCH!JOIN THE PATREON!https://linktr.ee/sitvpodAlbum art by @haileycomet_tattooHailey Comet TattooSupport the showSupport the show

It is a week of battles in Star Wars comics. Kylo and the First Order arrive on Naboo following the events of The Last Jedi. Meanwhile, the Starhopper crew brings the Battle of Eriadu to a close in the wanning days of The High Republic Phase 3.Covers: Legacy of Vader #5 and High Republic Adventures #19

Tief unter der Wasseroberfläche von Naboo lebt ein Volk, das oft belächelt, aber selten verstanden wird: die Gungans. Mit ihrer lebendigen Kultur, ungewöhnlicher Technologie und einer starken Bindung zur Natur haben sie sich ihren Platz in der Geschichte der Galaxis verdient. Ob als Krieger, Diplomaten oder einfache Bürger – die Gungans sind weit mehr als nur das, was man auf den ersten Blick erkennt. Dusa wollen mehr über dieses prachtvollige Volk erfahren? Dann schalte wieder ein – bei Datacrons! Überall, wo es Podcasts gibt.--------------------Website: https://www.datacronspodcast.deE-Mail: info@datacronspodcast.dePatreon: https://www.patreon.com/datacrons

For those who have seen Star Wars, even those who may not be huge fans, there are some planets that stick out in the films. Tatooine, the sand planet, home to Anakin and Luke Skywalker, Hoth, the ice planet from The Empire Strikes Back, and Naboo, Queen Amidala's home planet. Though these planets are in a galaxy far, far away, there are some real planets that resemble those featured in Star Wars, in our own Milky Way galaxy!

Siguiendo el pasado de Darth Vader, Kylo Ren se mueve a Naboo. Qué secretos esconde la cuna de Padmé Amidala y Sheev Palpatine? Discutimos el 4to comic de El Legado de Vader.

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Obi-Wan spielt Detektiv, während Anakin und Padmé sich auf Naboo im Gras rumwälzen. Die Prequels hatten bei vielen einen schweren Stand, bevor die Sequel-Trilogie von Disney das Licht der Leinwand erblickte. Von uns gibts neben kleinerer Kritiken aber viel Liebe für diesen Teil der Star Wars Saga.

It's a milestone for any podcast to reach 100 episodes. This is the Way Podcast now has 200. Getting one podcast isn't that difficult in the grand scheme. It's when life comes at you and this isn't for your livelihood that the real tests come.Watching "Make It Stop" with my father in the hospital, just after lung surgery and about to undergo heart catheterization, well, you'll forgive me for admitting this was a hard episode to get through. Emotionally. As far as fictional entertainment goes, sign me up for the Tom Bissell Fan Club newsletters.Flashbacks including a visit to Naboo? Check. Learning how Kleya came to be in Luthen's service? Check. Resolution for Dedra AND Luthen tying back into some of the very first episodes of the series? Check and check. Feels like Star Wars? Check. Feels brand new at the same time? CHECK.I hesitate calling this show one of the best ever, but it's certainly the best made Star Wars show on Disney Plus. I LOVE The Mandalorian. I'm just saying that I might have felt differently if THIS was the first show to debut on Disney Plus and The Mandalorian took 2-5 years to come out. I'm glad I don't have to find out.Kleya might be one of the best characters in Star Wars. I don't mean "female" characters. I mean character...period. She's definitely my favorite of the show and more than any other character, I find it uplifting that she made it and heartbroken that she had to do for her father figure what he'd have done for anyone else...kill. Rest in peace, Luthen Lear. You've served the galaxy well.If you have an episode specific comment, send it in to the email address we reveal in our podcasts. Make sure to leave a good subject line for us so we know what episode you're referencing and let us know what you'd like us to call you if we mention your message. There are other ways to interact with This is the Way Podcast, like via ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ or 'X' @ThisistheWayPod or on Facebook, YouTube, and Spotify! May the Force be with us!

The Battle of Eriadu unfolds in the pages of Dark Horse Comics' The High Republic Adventures Phase III #18 (of 20) as Farzala leans on his fallen comrades to make the ultimate decision. Meanwhile, in Marvel's The High Republic -- Fear of the Jedi #4 (of 5), Keeve, Ssskeer and Lourna contend with Nameless never seen before as Tey Sirrek battles a ghost and finds his footing.In Star Wars: Legacy of Vader #4, Kylo Ren visits Naboo and is reminded of why the past must die and why he's the one to kill it.Comics Discussed This Week:The High Republic Adventures Phase III #18 (of 20)The High Republic -- Fear of the Jedi #4 (of 5)Legacy of Vader #4Star Wars Comics New to Marvel Unlimited This Week:None released this weekNews: A 2nd printing of Marvel's Star Wars (Vol. 4) #1 is set for release on June 25. Ken Lashley's initial foil variant cover is the 1:25 variant second printing cover.Writer Cherish Chen spoke with ComicBook about the upcoming Doctor Aphra -- Chaos Agent series that debuts June 18.On Amazon, Marvel's The High Republic Phase One omnibus is on sale for $28. It collects THR 1-15, Eye of the Storm 1-2 and Trail of Shadows 1-5.Upcoming Star Wars comics, graphic novels and omnibuses:May 28 _ The Rise of Skywalker Adaptation #4 (of 5)June 3 _ The Battle of Jakku TPB (Collects Insurgency Rising 1-4,  Republic Under Seige 1-4, Last Stand 1-4)June 4 _ Jedi Knights #4, The High Republic — Fear of the Jedi #5 (of 5)June 11 _ Star Wars #2, The Rise of Skywalker adapation #5 (of 5), The Bad Batch -- Ghost Agents #4 (of 5)June 17 _ Star Wars Legends: The Rebellion Omnibus Vol. 3 (Collects Star Wars: Shadow Stalker (1997) 1, Star Wars: Rebel Heist (2014) 1-4, Star Wars: A Valentine Story (2003) 1, Classic Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1994) 1-2, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (1996) 1-6, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire Mini-comic (1996) 1-2, Star Wars: Tales From Mos Eisley (1996) 1, Star Wars: The Bounty Hunters – Scoundrel's Wages (1999) 1, Classic Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1994) 1-2, Star Wars: Tag & Bink Are Dead (2001) 2, Star Wars: Tag & Bink II (2006) 1, Sergio Aragones Stomps Star Wars (2000) 1, Star Wars Infinities: The Empire Strikes Back (2002) 1-4, Star Wars Infinities: Return of the Jedi (2003) 1-4; material from Star Wars Kids (1997) 12; Star Wars Visionaries (2005); Star Wars Tales (1999) 2, 4-8, 10, 12, 15-17, 20)June 18 _ Doctor Aphra — Chaos Agent #1June 24 _ Star Wars Modern Era Epic Collection: Yoda's Secret War (Collects Star Wars 15-30, Annual 1-2); June 25 _ Legacy of Vader #5, The High Republic Adventures Phase III #19, Codebreaker #2 (of 4), Star Wars (Vol. 4) #1 2nd PrintingJuly 1 _ Dispatches From the Occlusion Zone TPB (Collects 1-4)July 2 _ Jedi Knights #5, The Bad Batch -- Ghost Agents #5 (of 5), Codebreaker #3 (of 4)July 8 _ Ewoks TPB (Collects 1-4)July 9 _ Legacy of Vader #6July 16 _ Star Wars (Vol. 4) #3, he High Republic Adventures Phase III #20July 22 _ Star Wars Modern Era Epic Collection: Yoda's War (Collects Star Wars 15-30, Annual 1, 2)July 23 _ Doctor Aphra — Chaos Agent #2July 30 _ The High Republic — The Finale: The Beacon #1 One-ShotAug. 5 _ Star Wars: Visions Treasury Edition (Collects Visions: Peach Momoko, Visions: Takeshi Okazaki and material from Darth Vader: Black, White & Red #1)Aug. 6 _ Legacy of Vader #7Aug. 13 _ Jedi Knights #6Aug. 19 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III TPB Vol. 4 (Collects 14-16, Battle of Eriadu one-shot)Aug. 20 _ Star Wars #4Aug. 26 _ Star Wars: Kanan Modern Era Epic Collection (Collects 1-12)Aug. 27 _ Doctor Aphra -- Chaos Agent #3, Hyperspace Stories: Tides of Terror #2 (of 4)Sept. 3 _ Tales From the Nightlands #1 (of 3), Codebreaker #4 (of 4)Sept. 9 _ Jedi Knights #7Sept. 24 _ Hyperspace Stories: Tides of Terror #4 (of 4)Oct. 7 _ Legacy of Vader Vol. 1 TPB (Collects 1-6)Oct. 14 _ The High Republic -- Fear of the Jedi TPB (Collects 1-5) and The High Republic -- The Finale one-shot Oct. 21 _ The Rise of Skywalker Adaptation TPB (Collects 1-5); Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic Omnibus Vol. 2 (Collects The Old Republic (2010) 1-6, The Old Republic - The Lost Suns 1-5, Lost Tribe of the Sith - Spiral 1-5, Knight Errant 1-5, Knight Errant - Deluge 1-5, Knight Errant - Escape 1-5, Jedi vs. Sith 1-6; material from Star Wars Tales 16-17, 24; Star Wars Visionaries); Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories Library Edition (Collects 1-12)Oct. 28 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III Vol. 5 TPB (Collects 17-20), Hyperspace Stories: The Bad Batch - Ghost Agents TPB (Collects 1-5)Nov. 4 _ Jedi Knights Vol. 1 TPB (Collects 1-5)Nov. 25 _ Star Wars: Darth Vader Modern Era Epic Collection: Vader Down (Collects 13-25, Star Wars 13-14 and Vader Down #1)Dec. 2 _ Star Wars: Doctor Aphra — Friends and Enemies OmnibusDec. 9 _ Codebreaker TPB (Collects 1-4)Jan. 6 _ Star Wars (2025) TPB Vol. 1 (Collects 1-6), Darth Maul: Black, White & Red TPB (Collects 1-4)

Today the SibNerds are talking about Chapters Prologue - 3! It feels appropriate to be starting a new Read Along in May with a Star Wars novel! There's been some exciting developments in the Star Wars universe, and it's fun to dip our toes into one of the newer novels as well. These first few chapters are really setting the stage for Padme's transition from Queen to Senator of Naboo—and we're excited to be along for the journey.  Next time we'll be discussing Chapters 4 - 6! Happy Reading!  Twitter: @litround Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LitRoundTable Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelitroundtable Art: Kris Easler: https://www.kriseasler.com/

It's a big week for Star Wars comics, with three new issues. Kylo Ren kicks us off, as we head back to the home of his grandmother: Naboo. Meanwhile, The High Republic keeps us busy as both runs have culminated with the Battle of Eriadu.Covers: Legacy of Vader #3, High Republic Adventures #18, and Fear of the Jedi #4

This week we celebrate May the 4th with Attack of the Clones! We mix up a cocktail inspired by the lakeside of Naboo where the fateful love story begins, and have a chat about the next installment in the Skywalker Saga!Cocktail comes from Empress Gin!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Merch Shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.drinkthemovies.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠*Please Drink Responsibly*

In this episode of Retro Trek with The Caramel Apples, hosts Kennedy Rizzo & Cooper Lee take listeners on a nostalgic journey through the iconic planets of the Star Wars universe. They explore the ambiance and significance of each planet, from the beauty of Naboo to the harshness of Tatooine, the bustling life of Coruscant, and the tragic fate of Alderaan. The conversation delves into the filming locations, the visual storytelling, and the emotional connections fans have with these worlds, culminating in a discussion about which planet is the most synonymous with Star Wars. Let's Caramel dive In!Subscribe, rate and leave us a 5-star written review on Apple Podcasts, Deepcast.fm, Spotify or GoodPods. If you enjoyed what you heard this week, contact us on our official website retrotrekcaramelapples.com or send us a message, requests and/ or experiences you'd like to hear featured in a future episode at Spotify for Podcasters-->https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/retro-trek-the-caramel-applesHit us up on social media! Stop by and say hi! Leave a comment & share with us some of your favorite retro topics! May every bite be sweet!!X: @CaramelApples16The Gram (Instagram): @retrotrekthecaramelapplesTikTok: @retrotrekcaramelapplesYouTube: @thestickycaramelapplesOur Official Website: retrotrekcaramelapples.com

Episode 3 of Andor's second season includes a controversial scene. I was tempted to suggest that it's whether or not Kellen ratted out the "Ferrix four" but I don't want to risk people thinking I'm making light of assault.It's disgusting. It's hard to watch. It happened, even in a galaxy far, far away. Cassian Andor isn't a squeaky clean and virtuous guy, but it's all in degrees. Is Luthen a better man? Certainly not Saw. Was Brasso a stand up guy? I think so. Rebelling against the tyranny of the Empire as we see it in Star Wars takes sacrifices. The Imperial playbook seems to be that an atrocity doesn't happen if you don't hear about it and we'll let you hear about the ones we can use."Harvest" reaps what was sown in the first two episodes and it gives us a look into the home life of two government workers who came together under a problematic circumstance. Dedra delicately handles Syril's mom. Leida wishes her mom was drunk. Kleya is watching the weather for Cassian. Tay Kolma's usual rideshare driver is out, and Cinta is in. Wilmon is nowhere to be found, Brasso is down, and Bix stands her ground. We hear more of Chandi Merles and Rakatans and someone who was born on Naboo. We see a Chandrilan wedding, a Chandrilan wedding dance, and the reception is jumping to the sound of last summer. Niamos!There is a first impressions podcast already out and recaps and discussions for the first two episodes of this story block as well. This is the Way Podcast HQ has been enduring some hardships, but we made it through the first week just in time to get started on the second. If you have an episode specific comment, email it to the address we reveal in our podcasts and put the particular episode in the subject line. If you just want to interact with This is the Way Podcast, you can do so via ⁠⁠⁠'X'⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ @ThisistheWayPod or on Facebook, YouTube, and Spotify! May the Force be with us!

In our latest installment, we discuss "what if the Empire knew about Galen's flaw" and "what if Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon never meet Jar Jar on Naboo". This one is... wayyyy out there.Ep. 24 - The Gungans!Ep. 122 - Naboo!SW Annual #3 - TransmissionsThanks to our fellow content creators for their help in this episode's ad spot:Rob LaBarre from ⁠Adventures of Plan & Pivot⁠ PodcastWe have t-shirts for sale!Please visit our ⁠Etsy⁠ store for our latests designs! Start a ConverSWation with us:⁠converswations.com⁠⁠converswations on twitter⁠⁠converswations on facebook⁠⁠converswations on instagram⁠⁠converswations linktree⁠We are proud founding members of the ⁠Red 5 Network

As remote work policies tighten globally, the digital nomad lifestyle is entering a new chapter. In this episode, we explore how brands like Outsite and Naboo are redefining hospitality for freelancers, entrepreneurs, and retreat-focused companies—despite the decline of Selina and increased in-office mandates. Plus, hear how travel optimism remains strong, Eurostar is booming with U.S. travelers, and Lady Gaga is giving Singapore tourism a mega boost.Are you new and want to start your own hospitality business?Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook group⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow Boostly and join the discussion:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Want to know more about us? Visit our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Stay informed and ahead of the curve with the latest insights and analysis.

It's all starting to converge for The High Republic as Keeve, Sskeer and the others take care of business on Naboo and head with great haste to Eriadu to help out the team there as The High Republic -- Fear of the Jedi #2 (of 5) meshes with the story in Dark Horse's The High Republic Adventures.In The Rise of Skywalker #2 (of 5), we get a deeper look into what's driving Kylo Ren and Rey as they clash with each other, with Chewie a casualty (or is he?)Comics Discussed This Week:The Rise of Skywalker adaptation #2 (of 5)The High Republic -- Fear of the Jedi #2 (of 5)Star Wars Comics New to Marvel Unlimited This Week:Ahsoka #6 (of 8)Ewoks #3 (of 4)News: Check out the Facebook page for a link to an interview with Alex Segura, along with a few unlettered pages from May 7's Star Wars (Vol. 4) #1.Dark Horse will publish the four-issue Tides of Terror mini-series under the Hyperspace Stories banner starting in July. It's by George Mann, Luis Morocho, LeBeau Underwood, Michael Atiyeh and Comicraft and focuses on Kit Fisto. .In addition to the new Doctor Aphra series -- Chaos Agent -- that begins in June, December sees the publication of "Doctor Aphra -- Friends and Enemies" omnibus. It collects issues 26-40 of the second Aphra series, the five-issue Sana Starros mini-series and the Aphra story from 2023's Revelations one-shot.Upcoming Star Wars comics, graphic novels and omnibuses:April 2 _ The Bad Batch — Ghost Agents #2 (of 5)April 8 _ The High Republic: Edge of Balance: PremonitionApril 9 _ Star Wars (1977) #1 Facsimile Edition (New Printing), Jedi Knights #2April 16 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III #17, Legacy of Vader #3April 22 _ The High Republic -- Edge of Balance (Vol. 4), Echoes of Fear TPB (Collects 1-4)April 29 _ Star Wars: Ahsoka — Season One TPB (Collects 1-8), Crash Zone TPB (Collects Crash Landing, Crash and Burn and the 2025 The High Republic Adventures Phase III Annual), Crimson Reign Omnibus (Collects 1-5, Star Wars 19-25, Bounty Hunters 18-24, Darth Vader 18-24 and Doctor Aphra 16-21)April 30 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III -- The Battle of Eriadu One-Shot, The High Republic -- Fear of the Jedi #3 (of 5), The Rise of Skywalker Adaptation #3 (of 5), Codebreaker #1 (of 5)May 3 _ Star Wars Free Comic Book Day #1, Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures Free Comic Book Day #1May 6 _ Darth Maul: Black, White & Red Treasury Editions (Collects 1-4)May 7 _ Star Wars (Vol. IV) #1, The Bad Batch -- Ghost Agents #3 (of 5)May 14 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III #18, Jedi Knights #3May 20 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III Vol. 3 TPB (Collects 11-13, Wedding Spectacular One-Shot)May 21 _Legacy of Vader #4, The High Republic — Fear of the Jedi #4 (of 5)May 28 _ The Rise of Skywalker Adaptation #4 (of 5)June 3 _ The Battle of Jakku TPB (Collects Insurgency Rising 1-4,  Republic Under Seige 1-4, Last Stand 1-4)June 4 _ Codebreaker #2 (of 5), The Bad Batch -- Ghost Agents #4 (of 5), Jedi Knights #4, The High Republic -- Fear of the Jedi #5 (of 5)June 11 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III #19, Star Wars #2, The Rise of Skywalker adaptation #5 (of 5)June 17 _ Star Wars Legends: The Rebellion Omnibus Vol. 3 (Collects Star Wars: Shadow Stalker (1997) 1, Star Wars: Rebel Heist (2014) 1-4, Star Wars: A Valentine Story (2003) 1, Classic Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1994) 1-2, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (1996) 1-6, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire Mini-comic (1996) 1-2, Star Wars: Tales From Mos Eisley (1996) 1, Star Wars: The Bounty Hunters – Scoundrel's Wages (1999) 1, Classic Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1994) 1-2, Star Wars: Tag & Bink Are Dead (2001) 2, Star Wars: Tag & Bink II (2006) 1, Sergio Aragones Stomps Star Wars (2000) 1, Star Wars Infinities: The Empire Strikes Back (2002) 1-4, Star Wars Infinities: Return of the Jedi (2003) 1-4; material from Star Wars Kids (1997) 12; Star Wars Visionaries (2005); Star Wars Tales (1999) 2, 4-8, 10, 12, 15-17, 20)June 18 _ Doctor Aphra -- Chaos Agent #1June 24 _ Star Wars Modern Era Epic Collection: Yoda's Secret War (Collects Star Wars 15-30, Annual 1-2); June 25 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III #20, Legacy of Vader #5July 1 _ Dispatches From the Occlusion Zone TPB (Collects 1-4)July 2 _ Jedi Knights #5, The Bad Batch -- Ghost Agents #5 (of 5)July 8 _ Ewoks TPB (Collects 1-4)July 22 _ Star Wars Modern Era Epic Collection: Yoda's War (Collects Star Wars 15-30, Annual 1, 2)Aug. 5 _ Star Wars: Visions Treasury Edition (Collects Visions: Peach Momoko, Visions: Takeshi Okazaki and material from Darth Vader: Black, White & Red #1)Aug. 6 _ Jedi Knights #6Aug. 19 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III TPB Vol. 4 (Collects 14-16, Battle of Eriadu one-shot)Aug. 26 _ Star Wars: Kanan Modern Era Epic Collection (Collects 1-12)Sept. 9 _ Jedi Knights #7Oct. 7 _ Legacy of Vader Vol. 1 TPB (Collects 1-6)Oct. 14 _ The High Republic -- Fear of the Jedi TPB (Collects 1-5)Oct. 21 _ The Rise of Skywalker Adaptation TPB (Collects 1-5); Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic Omnibus Vol. 2 (Collects The Old Republic (2010) 1-6, The Old Republic - The Lost Suns 1-5, Lost Tribe of the Sith - Spiral 1-5, Knight Errant 1-5, Knight Errant - Deluge 1-5, Knight Errant - Escape 1-5, Jedi vs. Sith 1-6; material from Star Wars Tales 16-17, 24; Star Wars Visionaries)Oct. 28 _ The High Republic Adventures Phase III Vol. 5 TPB (Collects 17-20), Hyperspace Stories: The Bad Batch - Ghost Agents TPB (Collects 1-5)Nov. 4 _ Jedi Knights Vol. 1 TPB (Collects 1-5)Nov. 25 _ Star Wars: Darth Vader Modern Era Epic Collection: Vader Down (Collects 13-25, Star Wars 13-14 and Vader Down #1)Dec. 2 _ Dec. 2 _ Star Wars: Doctor Aphra — Friends and Enemies Omnibus (Collects 26-40, Sana Starros 1-5, Aphra Story From Revelations (2023) one-shot)Dec. 9 _ Codebreaker TPB (Collects 1-4)

Cette semaine dans ton podcast tech préféré, c'est Naboo qui débarque avec à sa tête Maxime, un entrepreneur vraiment génial ! Je suis sûr que, comme moi, tu vas adorer son franc-parler et son énergie

Le service d'une agence, l'expérience et les prix d'une plateforme. Dans un marché opaque et poussiéreux, Naboo apporte de l'efficacité et plus de transparence avec des commissions moins gourmandes (< 20%) pour les séminaires en entreprises. Maxime est sur tech 45'

La Plaza de España de Sevilla es un monumento espectacular. Y un decorado de otro mundo. Un pasaporte directo a la ficción. Ha sido Naboo en Star Wars, un reino fantástico en El dictador y escenario de conspiraciones en Lawrence de Arabia. Su arquitectura grandiosa y su aire peliculero la han convertido en un imán para Hollywood y más allá. En este contenido extra, David Botello (@DavidBotello4) y Esther Sánchez (@estesan1969), junto a la directora Mar Olid y Ainara Ariztoy, te llevan a Sevilla para descubrir los rodajes más épicos, las anécdotas más estelares y los momentos que han convertido a la Plaza de España en un plató de leyenda. Si quieres acompañarlos, ¡súbete a la Historia!

If you've ever tried to book a venue for a company event, you'll know how onerous a task it can be. You have to contact multiple vendors, wait for quotes, evaluate them, see if you can get a good deal, and then get all that approved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rumors are Padme is coming back to Star Wars via The Ahsoka Season 2 show. Disney wants her back in some form, and while it'll be a flashback, of course, I hope it's not world between worlds, but rather Ahsoka remembering her moments with the Queen of Naboo! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Ahsoka and Padmé fight battle droids trying to release the Blue Shadow virus, Anakin and Obi-Wan take an urgent mission to find an antidote for the deadly disease in this episode of The Clone Wars.   In this episode of Podcast Stardust, we discuss: Our overall thoughts on this episode, How George Lucas's fingerprints are all over this episode, What Obi-Wan Kenobi knew or didn't know about Anakin and Padmé's relationship, Iego, it's moons, the angels and the mystery presence preventing ships from leaving the planet, Combating the battle droids attempting to release the Blue Shadow virus on Naboo and galaxy, and more. For more The Clone Wars discussion, check out episode 815.   Thanks for joining us for another episode! Subscribe to Podcast Stardust for all your Star Wars news, reviews, and discussion wherever you get your podcasts. And please leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts.   Find Jay and her cosplay adventures on J.Snips Cosplay on Instagram.   Join us for real time discussion on the RetroZap Discord Server here: RetroZap Discord. Follow us on social media: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | YouTube. T-shirts, hoodies, stickers, masks, and posters are available on TeePublic. Find all episodes on RetroZap.com.

Welcome aboard Kyber Squadron! This week, Andrés explores the connection between Chevron, Net Neutrality, and how that impacts people in the interconnected 21st century. Paying extra to get a message out to the Rebellion would have bankrupted the rebels before the Battle of Yavin, but there is hope in bringing Net Neutrality to your State! Come for the Naboo lore, stay for a rant against Doom and Gloom grifters! Follow us: Threads: @Sithty_Minutes  Instagram: @PaulaBear92 @RBW3000 @General_Leia_The_Pup @aaa__photog Twitch: @Sithty_Minutes BlueSky: @sithtyminutes.bsky.social Discord: Sithty Minutes  Show Notes: Tariffs Episode General Viess The Occlusion Zone Naboo Zorii Bliss FCC Explains Net Neutrality Salt Typhoon Phone Hack White House Press Conference Net Neutrality in the World 6th Circuit Court of Appeals Colorado Net Neutrality California Net Neutrality Washington State Net Neutrality   

As an extra Christmas present to our listeners, we are finishing the trivia for The Phantom Menace.   The trivia questions in this episode are from the portion of The Phantom Menace that runs from 1:44:39 to the end of the movie.   In this fully armed and operational episode of Podcast Stardust, we are answering trivia questions about: The beginning of the Battle of Naboo, Qui-Gonn Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi's battle with Darth Maul, Queen Amidala's invasion of the palace in Theed, Anakin Skywalker and R2-D2's flight in the N-1 Starfighter, and The final scenes of the movies.   Thanks for joining us for another episode! Subscribe to Podcast Stardust for all your Star Wars news, reviews, and discussion wherever you get your podcasts. And please leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts.   Find Jay and her cosplay adventures on J.Snips Cosplay on Instagram.   Join us for real time discussion on the RetroZap Discord Server here: RetroZap Discord. Follow us on social media: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | YouTube. T-shirts, hoodies, stickers, masks, and posters are available on TeePublic. Find all episodes on RetroZap.com.

Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week with special guests Luke Dunne and Alex Towers, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them. This week, George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. A republic in decline finds itself slipping into fascism in the midst of a public dispute over trade tariffs. When Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi are dispatched to resolve the Trade Federation blockade of the peaceful world of Naboo, they begin an epic adventure that will bring them to the sands of Tatooine, where Qui-Gon encounters a strange young boy that he is convinced as the power to bring balance to the force: Anakin Skywalker. At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best or worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

The future will be built on the big ideas we dare to conjure up today. We know that the most groundbreaking ideas often seemed ludicrous or simply impossible when first dreamed up, from the telephone, to human flight, to artificial intelligence. The key was a willingness to be creative and test the limits.While many of us might not consider ourselves creative people, Duncan Wardle assures us that we can take our ideas and brainstorms to the next level, no matter who we are or what we do. Today on Faster, Please! — The Podcast, Wardle and I explore some concrete tools for breaking down our own barriers to innovation and accessing the genius within all of us.Wardle is the former Head of Innovation and Creativity at Disney and founder of ID8. He has delivered multipl eTED Talks and teaches innovation Master Classes at Yale,Harvard, and the University of Edinburgh. His interactive book, The Imagination Emporium: Creative Recipes for Innovation has just been released.In This Episode* Creativity is learnable (1:37)* Building a career of creativity (8:09)* Tools for unlocking innovation (13:50)* Expansionist vs. reductionist tools (18:39)* Gamifying learning (25:20)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation. Creativity is learnable (1:37)I believe we're all born creative with an imagination. We're all born curious. We're all born with intuition. We're all born with empathy. They may not have been the most employable skill of our entire careers. They are now.Pethokoukis: One of my favorite economists, Paul Romer, loves to use recipes as a metaphor to explain how innovation works in an economy. Like cooking recipes, innovation and ideas can be used repeatedly without being used up, you can combine different ideas as ingredients and create something new. I love that idea, and I love the way you present the book as kind of a recipe book you can sort of dip in and out of to help you be more creative and innovative.How should someone use this book, and who is it broadly for?Wardle: Me. Seriously. When I say me, I mean the busy, normal, hardworking person who says 10 times a day, “I don't have time to think.” And often considered the number one barrier to innovation and creativity: “I don't have time to think.” And I thought, “Okay, when you walk into a business office and you will look around, where's the book?” It's on the bookshelf, it's on the coffee table — nobody reads them. I thought, “Well, that's a waste of their money.” So I thought, “What book have I ever read — nonfiction — that I could read one page, know exactly what I need to do, and don't have to read the rest of the book today?” I thought, “My mom's cookbook! You want shepherd's pie? You go to page 67.” So I've designed the contents page the same way. It says, “Have you ever been to a brainstorm where nothing ever happened? Go to page 14. Fed up with your boss, shooting your ideas down? Go to page 12.”So it is designed to be hop in and hop out, but I also designed the principles around: take the intimidation out of innovation, make creativity tangible for people who are uncomfortable with ambiguity and gray, far more importantly, make it fun, give people tools they choose to use when you and I are not around. I also designed it around this principle and I'll see if this works: Close your eyes for me for a second. How many days are there in September?31?Well, we'll pretend it's 30.Or 30! That's the one thing I always confuse, which is the 30 and the 31.Close your eyes for a second. Just think about how you might have known there were 30 days in September. How might you have remembered? What might you have learned or what can you see with your eyes closed?Well, if I was a more melodic, musical person, loved a good rhyme, I might've used that very famous rhyme, which apparently I don't know veryWell, that's okay, neither do I, but I'll attempt it. About 30 percent of people go, “30 days has September, blah, blah, blah, and November.” They've just told me they're an auditory learner. That's their preferred learning style. They probably read a lot. How do I know that? Because when they learned it, they were six. When I asked the question, they learned it because they'd heard it.I'm sure you've seen somebody at some point in your life count their knuckles: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, et cetera. You may not remember this because you might not be a kinesthetic learner. Those are the people who learn by doing. Again, how do we know this? They learned it when they were six. How did they remember it? By doing it.And then 40 percent of an audience would just go, “No, no, I could just see a calendar with a number 30.” They're your visual learners. So I've designed the book to appeal to all three learning styles. It has a QR code in each chapter with a Spotify playlist for the auditory learners, animated videos where Duncan is now an animated character (who knew?) who pops out with a bunch of characters to tell you how to use the tools. And then hopefully, as of next Tuesday, the QR code on the back for kinesthetic learners will allow you to engage with the book and learn kinesthetically through artificial intelligence and ChatGPT and actually ask the book questions.The fundamental conceit of the book, though, is that being innovative, being creative, that can be learned. You can get better at it. Some people say, “I'm not a math person,” which I also don't believe. They'll say, “I'm not a super creative person. I'm not super innovative.” One, I'm assuming you think that's wrong; and two, you mentioned AI, if people are worried about robots doing more repetitive kinds of tasks, then having the tools to bring out or enhance that imagination seem more important now than ever.There's one thing I firmly believe in: We were all born a human, shockingly enough, and when you were given a gift for a holiday, perhaps, it came in an enormous box and it took you ages of time to take the toy out of the box because the box was the same height as you were. What do you spend the rest of the week playing with?I love a good box.Right? It was your castle, it was your rocket.Love a good box. Oh man, that box can be a time machine, anything.It was anything you wanted it to be until you went to the number one killer of creativity in imagination: western education, and the first thing you were told to do was, “Don't forget the color in between the lines.” Children are very curious. They ask, “Why, why, why, why?” Again, because they're after the insight for innovation. The insight for innovation comes on the sixth or seventh, why not the first one?If I were to survey you and ask you, “Why do you go to Disney on holiday?” People would say they go for the new attractions. But that's not strictly true, is it?So if you say, “Well, why do you go for the new attractions?”“Well, no, I like the classics.”“Well, why do you like the classics?” Why?“I like It's a Small World.”“Well, why do you like It's a Small World?”“I remember the music.”“Why the music?”“Well, that's my mom's favorite ride. We used to go every summer.”“Why is that important to you 25 years later?”“Oh, I take my daughter now.”There's your insight for innovation. It has nothing to do with the capital investment strategy whatsoever and everything to do with that person's personal memory and nostalgia. But then we go to the number one killer of curiosity: western education. And the next thing our teacher tells us to do is stop asking “why,” because there's only one right answer.We know when somebody is staring at the back of our head. When you've stared at the back of the head of somebody that you think is really hot, a stranger, they turn around and look at you. You have to look away really quickly. It's okay, we've all done it. We have 120 billion neurons in our first brain and 120 million neurons in our second brain, the brain with which we say we make lots of our decisions, when we say “with our gut.” We are all empathetic.I believe we're all born creative with an imagination. We're all born curious. We're all born with intuition. We're all born with empathy. They may not have been the most employable skill of our entire careers. They are now. Why? Because I've been working with Google on DeepMind with their chief programmer — this is the AI program — and I asked her, “How the hell am I going to compete with this? How will any of us compete with this?” She said, “Well, by developing the things which will be the hardest for her to program into AI.” And I asked her what they were. She said, “The ones with which you were born: creativity, imagination, curiosity, empathy, and intuition.”Will they be programmed one day? Interestingly enough, she said intuition will go first. I was like, oh, that hurt. So I said, “Why intuition?” She said, “It's built on experience and we could build an algorithm that will give them experience.” I'm like, oh, so will they be programed one day? Perhaps. Anytime in the short term? No.Building a career of creativity (8:09)Your subconscious brain is 87 percent of the capacity. Every innovation you've ever seen, every creative problem you've ever solved, is back here to work as unrelated stimulus, but when the door is shut, you can't access it. So what do I do? I'm playful. I'm deliberately playful. In a moment, I want to briefly roll through the book, but first I want to ask about your job as the former head of innovation and creativity at Disney, which sounds like a fake job. It sounds like the kind of job someone would dream up and they wish there was such a job. It sounds like a dream job, but that was a real job. And what did you do there? Because it sounds fairly awesome.I finished as Head of Innovation — I didn't start that way. I started as a coffee boy in the London office. In 1986, I used to go and get my boss six cappuccinos a day from Bar Italia, and about three weeks into the role, I was told I would be the character coordinator, the person that looks after the walk-around characters at the Royal Premier of Who Framed Roger Rabbit in the presence of the Princess of Wales, Diana. I was like, “What do I do?” They said, “Well you just stand at the bottom of the stairs, Roger Rabbit will come down the stairs, the princess will come in on the receiving line, she'll greet him or blow him off and move into the auditorium.” How could you possibly screw that up? Well, I could. That was the day when I found out what a contingency plan was, because I didn't have one.A contingency plan would tell you, if you're going to bring a very tall rabbit with very long feet down a very large staircase towards the Princess of Wales, one might want to measure the width of the steps first before Roger trips on the top stair, is now hurdling like a bullet, head over feet at torpedo speed directly down the stairs towards Diana's head, whereupon he was taken out by two royal protection officers. There's a very famous picture of Roger being taken out on the stairs and a 21-year-old PR guy in the background from Disney. “Oh s**t, I'm fired.” I got a call from somebody called a CMO — didn't know who that was, I thought I was going to tell me I'm fired. He goes, “That was great publicity.” I was like, “Wow, I can make a career out of this.”So for the first 20 years I had some of the more mad, audacious, outrageous ideas for Disney, and then Disney purchased Pixar, then they purchased Marvel, then they purchased Lucasfilm, and we found that we all had different definition of creativity and different innovation models. I tried four models of innovation.Number one, I hired an outside consultant and said, “Make me look good.” They were very good at what they did, but they weren't around for execution and they weren't going to show us how they did what they did. They were worried we wouldn't hire them again.Model number two, innovation team. Duncan will be in charge. What could possibly go wrong? Well, when you have a legal team, nobody outside of legal does legal. When you have a sales team . . . So when you have an innovation team, the subliminal message you've sent to the rest of the organization is: You are off the hook, we've got an innovation team.Third model was an accelerator program where we were bringing some young tech startups and take a 50-50 stake in their business. They could help us bring it to market much quicker than we could. We could help them scale it. But we had failed in the overall goal that Bob Iger had set for us: How might we embed a culture of innovation and creativity into everybody's DNA? So I set out to create a toolkit. A toolkit that takes the intimidation out of innovation, makes creativity tangible, and the process fun. And essentially, that's what the book is. It's not a book, it's a toolkit. Why? Because I want you to use it. It's broken up into creative behaviors, which I think if you don't get the creative behaviors right, the tools won't matter. They'll just be oblivious. I think the creative behaviors are the engine, and I'll explain what I mean by that.Let me ask you a question. Close your eyes if you would?I've done very poorly on the questions. Very poorly, but I will continue to answer them.Where are you usually, and what are you doing when you get your best ideas?I would say either on walks or, I think a lot of people say, in the shower, one of the two.There we go. Alright. But here's the thing. I've done it with 20,000 people in the audience. Do you know how many people say at work? Nobody ever says at work. Why do we never have our best ideas at work?Well, think about that last argument you were in. You turn to walk away from that argument, now you're still a bit angry, but you're beginning to relax, you're 10 seconds away, 20 seconds, and what pops into your brain? The killer one liner, that one perfect line you wish you'd used during but you didn't, did you? No. Why? Because when you are in an argument, your brain is moving at a thousand miles an hour defending yourself.When you're in the office, you're doing emails, reports, quarterly results, and meetings. And I hear myself say, “I don't have time to think.” When you don't have time to think, the door between your conscious and subconscious brain is firmly closed. You're in the brain state called beta, and you're only working with your conscious brain. 90 percent of your working day — you can look this up — your conscious brain is 13 percent of the capacity of your brain. Your subconscious brain is 87 percent of the capacity. Every innovation you've ever seen, every creative problem you've ever solved, is back here to work as unrelated stimulus, but when the door is shut, you can't access it. So what do I do? I'm playful. I'm deliberately playful. There's a chapter of energizers in the book. They're 60-second exercises. What are they for? To make you laugh, laughter with purpose.What's an example of one of those?Okay, I'll tell you what then, you are the world's leading designer of parachutes for elephants. I will now interview you about your job. So question, “How did you get into this industry in the first place?”I was actually interviewing for a different job, I walked in the wrong door, and I ended up interviewing for that job.Okay, and do you have to use different material for the parachutes? What are the parachutes made of? How big are they? Do you have to make bigger ones for elephants with smaller ears and smaller ones for elephants with big ears, the African and Indian elephants?Thankfully the kind of material is changing all the time. A lot of advances: graphene, nanotechnology materials. So the kind of material is changing, which actually gives us a lot more flexibility for the kind of material and the sizes, depending, of course, on the size of the elephants and perhaps even their ears, and tails, and tusks.So we'll stop there. You do that in a room full of people and you'll hear laughter. And the moment I hear laughter, I've opened the door between your conscious subconscious brain and placed you metaphorically back in the shower where you are when you have your best idea. I don't expect people to be playful every minute of every day. I do expect, particularly leaders, to be playful when they're trying to get other people to open up their brains and have big ideas.Tools for unlocking innovation (13:50)If you like breaking rules, this tool is for you. It's about breaking rules metaphorically. So step one, you list the rules of your challenge. Step two, you take one and ask the most audacious question. Step three, you land a big idea.In the book, you sort of create these three animated characters representing . . . there's Spark who represents creative behaviors; Nova, innovation tools; and then Zing for these energizing exercises. But you sort of need all three of those?You do, but you don't have to know them all at the same time, and that's the beauty of the book. But here's the thing: I created a character called Archie. Archie was a direct descendant of Archimedes, because when I ask people where they are when they get the best ideas, they say the shower. Archimedes was in the bath. And my daughter, who's about 25, walks in the room and she goes, “Dad, he's an old white guy. You are an old white guy. You can't do that s**t anymore.” So I created three new characters. Spark is male, introduces creative behaviors; Zing, gender-neutral, introduces the energizers; and Nova, the brains of the organization, introduces innovation tools. The tools are split between what I call expansionist tools and reductionist tools. The more expertise and the more experience we have, the more reasons we know why the new idea won't work.But here's the challenge: Up until 2020, we pretty much got away with doing what we did, and then came a global pandemic, enormous climate change, generation Z entering the workplace who don't want to work for us, and here comes AI. We don't get to think the way we thought four years ago. So the tools are designed specifically to stop you thinking the way you always do and give you permission to think differently.I'll give you an example of one, it's called “What If.” A lot of people will say, “Oh, but we work in a very heavily regulated industry.” If you like breaking rules, this tool is for you. It's about breaking rules metaphorically. So step one, you list the rules of your challenge. Step two, you take one and ask the most audacious question. Step three, you land a big idea. So for example, it was created by Walt, but that's in the book, I won't go through the whole Walt Disney story because I want people to understand that this tool can work for them too.There was a very tiny company in Great Britain in the late '60s, before the days of mass automation, that used to make glasses that we drink out of, and they found too much breakage and not enough production when the glasses were being packaged and shipped. So they went down to the shop floor, observed the process for eight hours, and just wrote down the rules. Don't think about them, because then you'll think of all the reasons you can't break them, just write them down. So they wrote them down. 26 employees convey about cardboard box, six glasses on the top, six on the bottom, separated by corrugated cardboard, glasses wrapped in newspaper, employees' reading newspaper. So somebody asked these somewhat provocative “what if” question, “What if we poke their eyes out?” Well, that's against the law and it's not very nice, but because they had the courage to ask the most audacious “what if” question of all, the lady sitting next to them immediately got out of her river of thinking — her expertise and experience — and said, “Well, hang on a minute, why don't we just hire blind people?” So they did. Production up 26 percent, breakage down 42 percent, and the British government gave them a 50 percent salary subsidy for hiring people with disabilities. Simple, powerful, fun.You just mentioned briefly this notion of the river of thinking, which is sort of your thoughts and the assumptions that really come from your lifetime of experience. People obviously really, when evaluating ideas, they really value their own personal experience. You could have a hundred studies saying this will work, but if something about their personal experience says it won't, they won't listen to it. Now, I believe experience is important, it helps you make judgments, but sometimes I think you're right, that it's an absolute trap that leads us to say no when we should say yes, and yes when we should say no.So that was one of the expansionist tools. One of the reductive tools is ideas. Ideas are the most subjective thing on the planet. You like pink, I like green, our boss likes yellow, there's a very good chance we're going to be doing the yellow idea. Well, wait a minute, was that the right one targeted for our consumer? Was it aligned with our brand? So there's a tool called stargazer. I borrowed it with pride from Richard Branson of Virgin. Virgin is the most elastic brand on the planet, right? They've done condoms, they've done space travel, and everything in between. Disney is a non-elastic brand. They do family magical experiences. So how does Virgin decide, of all these ideas they get pitched, how do they decide which ones to bring to market?They have a tool, I call it stargazer, it looks like a starfish, it's got five prongs on it, you'll see it in the book, and each one has three criteria, and you can make up your own criteria at the beginning of the project. Let's say, is this a strategic brand fit? Is this aligned with who we stand for as a brand? Is this embedded in consumer truth? Is it relevant to our consumer? Can I get this into the market the next 18 to 24 months? Is it going to hit my financial goals? And is it socially engaging? Is it going to get people excited? And all you do with all of your ideas at the end is go around those five criteria and ask, does this do a poor job, a good job, or an outstanding job of being aligned with our brand, a poor job, a good job, or an outstanding job of being targeted at our consumer, relevant to our consumer? And then guess what? With different colors for each idea, you join the dots just as you did when you were a kid. And one idea will rise to the top as to meeting your criteria, objectives, the most, not the one you like the best.Expansionist vs. reductionist tools (18:39)I define creativity as the ability to have an idea. We all have hundreds a day. I define innovation is the ability to get it done. That's the hard part, and that's what the tools are designed and helping you with.Do you think that the book and your approach is most helpful in helping people be more creative and come up with ideas or helping other people judge ideas as being good ideas and being open to ideas and closed to the wrong ideas?I think people use confusing terms just to make themselves more intelligent. The amount of times I've been in a meeting and somebody used an acronym, nobody knows what it is, but nobody's going to put their hand up. I call it expansionist and reductionist, the official name is divergent and convergent, who cares? Expansionist tools are the ones that help you get out of your river of thinking and help you think differently, and the reductionist tools are okay, now we've got all of these ideas, which one goes to market, how do we take it to market, how do we actually get it done?A lot of people say, as you said at the beginning, “I'm not creative.” Well, if you define yourself as a musician or an artist, then guess what? I'm not creative either. I define creativity as the ability to have an idea. We all have hundreds a day. I define innovation is the ability to get it done. That's the hard part, and that's what the tools are designed and helping you with.If you're running a business and you're like, “I want to implement this,” how do you . . . I'm sure you would love this, buy everybody the book, buy everybody three copies of the book. How do you implement it? I mean, I'm just curious how you do that job.How do I do the job? Or how does the business?How would someone do that job if they're like, I'm trying to make my workforce more creative, I'm trying to make sure that we are open to good ideas. How do you institute that at an existing business?Here's a tool that can change a culture overnight: Now you and I have been tasked with coming up with an idea for a birthday party. We've been given a $100,000, which is a reasonable budget for a birthday party. The theme could be Star Wars or Harry Potter. What would you like it to be?I'd probably go with Star Wars.Okay, so I'm going to come at you some amazing ideas for a Star Wars birthday. I'd like you to start each and every response with the words “No, because.” They'll be the first two words you use in each response, and then you'll tell me why not.So I was thinking of coming to your house, painting your kitchen dark, turn it into the Death Star canteen, and we'll have a food and wine festival from Hoth and Naboo and Tatooine.No, no, no. We can't do that because I like the way it looks now, I'm worried about repainting it and matching those colors. That's too significant of a change.What if, then, we just turn the lights out, we do a glow-in-the dark lightsaber fight full of our favorite alcoholic liquid?Well, that sounds like a better idea. Am I still supposed to say “no, because?”“No, because.” Stay on the “no, because.”No, can't do it. Listen, I worry about those lightsabers breaking, I'll be honest with you, and that alcohol flying over the place. Also, there are going to be kids there, and I just worry about the alcohol aspect. Because I'm an American, and we're very tight.So perhaps if there's kids there, we could do a cosplay party, and all the tall people could come as Vader and all the little people could come as ewoks.No, because I think some of the tall people would like to be the good guy, and I think some of the people who are not quite as tall might feel we were infantilizing them by turning them into ewoks.I'll tell you what, then, we'll do a movie marathon and we'll show all seven films back-to-back with some popcorn and coke. What do you say?No, because that would be a really long event. I think people would be super sick of even watching their favorite movies after about two movies, so can't do it.Alright, so we'll stop there. When somebody's constantly saying “no, because” to you, how does that make you feel?Like I really don't feel like coming up with any more ideas and like they will just not get to “yes.”And we started there with a food and wine festival and we ended up with showing the movies. Would you say the idea was getting bigger as we were going, or was it getting smaller? Which direction was it?It was getting progressively smaller and less imaginative.So let's try that again. Can we do Harry Potter?Well, I don't know as much, but I'll do my best.Okay, so have you seen a couple of the films?Kind of?You pick the theme, then. What do you want?Marvel. A beautifully licensed property. Yes, Marvel.I'm going to come at you with some ideas for a Marvel party. I'd like you to start each and every response this time with the words, “yes, and,” and we'll just build it together, okay?I tell you what, we could do a Spider-Man party where everybody gets those little web things that they could shoot out of their hands, but are actually made out of cotton candy, so we could eat it, we could eat the webs.Oh yes, and perhaps we could have villain-themed targets the shoot at?Oh, yes, and we could have a room full of superheroes and a room full of villains, and we have cosplay party and there'll even be a make-your-own Iron Man suit!Yes, we can have an Iron Man suit, obviously, and we can have the other costumes, and perhaps some of their other tools, like Thor's hammer, those could somehow also be candy-related.Oh yes, and we could actually invite the stars of the film, we could have Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey, Jr., and Chris Pratt, and Rocket, and Groot.Yes. Love the idea. And perhaps if that's not quite possible —— That was a “no, because!”Oh that sounded like a “no.”Come on, come on.We've reached the limits of my creativity.We'll stop there. A couple of observations: a lot more laughter, a lot more energy.Bigger or smaller?We're taking our steps into an ever-wider world!We work in big organizations, we work in small organizations, we have colleagues, we have constituencies, we have bosses, we have local regulators, et cetera, to bring on board with our ideas. By the time we just finished building that idea together, whose idea was it by the time we'd finished?That is lost to the fog of history. It is now a collaborative idea that we both can take credit for when it's a huge success.Ours. Two very simple words from the world of improv that have the power to turn a small idea into a big one really quickly. You can always value-engineer a big idea back down again, but you can't turn a small idea into a big idea. Far more importantly, it transfers the power of “my idea,” which we know never goes anywhere outside an organization, to “our idea” and accelerate its opportunity to get done.For people listening today, I'll give you one word of advice to take away: Don't let the words “no, because” be the first two words you use when somebody comes bouncing into your office with an idea you are not thinking of. They may have genius two seconds from now, two weeks from now — they ain't coming back.Just remind yourselves: I know you have responsibilities, I know you've got deadlines, I know you've got quarterly results. We are not green-lighting this idea for execution today, we are mainly green-housing it together using “yes, and.”Gamifying learning (25:20)Gaming is the future of education, there's no question. So now I have one more question I think that's super valuable advice, actually. As you were talking about western education squashing the creativity. . . Do you have you any thoughts about how to change that, keeping the best of what we do?Gamify. Gamify everything. Gaming is the future of education, there's no question. Universities will fall, but why will universities fall? That's a fairly outrageous statement. Well, let me think. Blue-collar workers, the white collar workers laughed at them because they didn't go to university. Let me think — people who use their hands, artificial intelligence, probably not taking them out anytime soon. White collar workers, not so much. Goodbye. Not quite, that's a slight exaggeration, but universities are teaching the same thing that we learned.So I walk into a classroom, a professor says, “In the year 3 AD, Brutus stabbed Julius Caesar in the back on the steps of the Senate of Rome.” Okay, well I'm asleep already. 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From Amidala's address to the Galactic Senate to her and the Jedi's return to Naboo and more, we have over 50 trivia questions from The Phantom Menace for this episode.   The trivia questions in this episode are from the portion of The Phantom Menace that runs from 1:22:46 to 1:44:38.   In this fully armed and operational episode of Podcast Stardust, we discuss trivia questions about: The aliens make a cameo in the Senate, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan's meeting with the Jedi Council, The Jedi Council's test of Anakin Skywalker, Amidala's return to Naboo, The meeting with the gungans in the Sacred Place, and more. For more The Phantom Menace trivia questions, check out episode 807.   Thanks for joining us for another episode! Subscribe to Podcast Stardust for all your Star Wars news, reviews, and discussion wherever you get your podcasts. And please leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts.   Find Jay and her cosplay adventures on J.Snips Cosplay on Instagram.   Join us for real time discussion on the RetroZap Discord Server here: RetroZap Discord. Follow us on social media: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | YouTube. T-shirts, hoodies, stickers, masks, and posters are available on TeePublic. Find all episodes on RetroZap.com.

From Amidala's address to the Galactic Senate to her and the Jedi's return to Naboo and more, we have over 50 trivia questions from The Phantom Menace for this episode.

Padmé, Jar Jar, the Jedi, and clones race to stop a maniacal scientist from resurrecting a long dead virus in this episode of our The Clone Wars re-watch.   Greg Cass from Eyeoncanon.com joins us for this discussion.   In this fully armed and operational episode of Podcast Stardust, we discuss: A different voice actor for Jar Jar Binks, The debut of Captain Typho in The Clone Wars, Peppi Bow, a new gungan that discovers the Blue Shadow Virus on Naboo, Dr. Nuvo Vindi, the mad doctor responsible for the return of the Blue Shadow Virus, Obi-Wan Kenobi's pragmatism in this and other episodes, Padmé's request for Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi to be assigned to this mission, How the reception of this episode is different after the COVID pandemic, Ahsoka's appearance, and more. For more The Clone Wars discussion, check out episode 812.   Thanks for joining us for another episode! Subscribe to Podcast Stardust for all your Star Wars news, reviews, and discussion wherever you get your podcasts. And please leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts.   Find Jay and her cosplay adventures on J.Snips Cosplay on Instagram.   Join us for real time discussion on the RetroZap Discord Server here: RetroZap Discord. Follow us on social media: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | YouTube. T-shirts, hoodies, stickers, masks, and posters are available on TeePublic. Find all episodes on RetroZap.com.

Obi-Wan Kenobi defeats Darth Maul, Amidala captures the Queen, and Anakin Skywalker destroys the Trade Federation Battleship as the light side wins in our final installment of our The Phantom Menace series.   We are joined by Aaron Harris and David Modders from Star Wars Reactions for this episode.   This episode covers the segment of the film that runs from 2:00:11 to the end.   In this fully armed and operational episode of Podcast Stardust, we discuss: The gungans defeat at the hands of the battle droids, How Padmé tricked Nute Gunray and captured him, Obi-Wan Kenobi's one-on-one fight with Darth Maul, How Anakin and R2-D2 destroyed the Trade Federation battleship, What Obi-Wan had to do to defeat Darth Maul, Why Obi-Wan insisted on training Anakin, Yoda's reservations about training Anakin as a Jedi, Qui-Gon Jinn's funeral pyre, and The final celebration of the movie before the credits. Thanks for joining us for another episode! Subscribe to Podcast Stardust for all your Star Wars news, reviews, and discussion wherever you get your podcasts. And please leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts.   Find Jay and her cosplay adventures on J.Snips Cosplay on Instagram.   Join us for real time discussion on the RetroZap Discord Server here: RetroZap Discord. Follow us on social media: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | YouTube. T-shirts, hoodies, stickers, masks, and posters are available on TeePublic. Find all episodes on RetroZap.com.

The Gungans take the field against the battle droids, Padmé leads the Naboo against the Viceroy, and Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi duel Darth Maul.   We are joined by Craig Dickinson from Reading Between the Reels, and Tom Gross from Teachers in the Dungeon for this discussion of The Phantom Menace.   The segment of The Phantom Menace we are discussing runs from 1:44:38 to 1:54:39.   In this fully armed and operational episode of Podcast Stardust, we discuss: Craig and Tom's memories of seeing The Phantom Menace for the first time, their farovrite characters, and scenes, The Gungans battle against the battle droids and their role in the overall fight, Padmé's infiltration into Theed palace, The battle in the hangar and Qui-Gon's instructions to Anakin Skywalker to hide and stay safe, Darth Maul's emergence in the hangar and the reveal of the double bladed lightsaber, The Naboo assault on the Trade Federation battleship with the N-1 starfighters, and Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan's fight against Darth Maul. For more discussion of The Phantom Menace, check our the last episode in this series, which is episode 786.   Thanks for joining us for another episode! Subscribe to Podcast Stardust for all your Star Wars news, reviews, and discussion wherever you get your podcasts. And please leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts.   Find Jay and her cosplay adventures on J.Snips Cosplay on Instagram.   Join us for real time discussion on the RetroZap Discord Server here: RetroZap Discord. Follow us on social media: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | YouTube. T-shirts, hoodies, stickers, masks, and posters are available on TeePublic. Find all episodes on RetroZap.com.

The Gungans take the field against the battle droids, Padmé leads the Naboo against the Viceroy, and Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi duel Darth Maul.

Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are sent on their first mission a few years after The Phantom Menace in this audiobook by Bryan Q. Miller.   In this fully armed and operational episode of Podcast Stardust, we discuss: Our non-spoiler thoughts on this audiobook overall, The state of Anakin and Obi-Wan's relationship a few years after the Battle of Naboo, How Anakin and Obi-Wan got sent on their first mission, The portrayal of Anakin and Obi-Wan's characterization, The podracing that happens in the book, Many of the references and Easter eggs that appear in the story, and more. Thanks for joining us for another episode! Subscribe to Podcast Stardust for all your Star Wars news, reviews, and discussion wherever you get your podcasts. And please leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts.   Find Jay and her cosplay adventures on J.Snips Cosplay on Instagram.   Join us for real time discussion on the RetroZap Discord Server here: RetroZap Discord. Follow us on social media: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | YouTube. T-shirts, hoodies, stickers, masks, and posters are available on TeePublic. Find all episodes on RetroZap.com.

Queen Amidala returns to Naboo with the Jedi to defend her. With a little assistance from Jar Jar Binks, she plans to raise an army and take back her planet from the Trade Federation.   In this fully armed and operational episode of Podcast Stardust, we discuss: The Jedi Council's decision not to train Anakin Skywalker and Qui-Gon Jinn's response, Qui-Gon's disagreement with Obi-Wan Kenobi over training Anakin, The Trade Federation and Darth Sidious's plan for Amidala's return to Naboo, Queen Amidala's attempt to recruit the gungans and the reveal of her true identity, and Amidala's plea to Boss Nass and the gungans at the Sacred Place, and Amidala's plan to defeat the Trade Federation. For the previous episode in our The Phantom Menace series, check out episode 771.   Thanks for joining us for another episode! Subscribe to Podcast Stardust for all your Star Wars news, reviews, and discussion wherever you get your podcasts. And please leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts.   Get your Ultimate Lightsaber 2.0 from SaberMasters and use our referral code (STARDUST) at checkout for $10 off. Head to www.sabermasters.com/discount/stardust   Find Jay and her cosplay adventures on J.Snips Cosplay on Instagram.   Join us for real time discussion on the RetroZap Discord Server here: RetroZap Discord. Follow us on social media: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | YouTube. T-shirts, hoodies, stickers, masks, and posters are available on TeePublic. Find all episodes on RetroZap.com.

Queen Amidala returns to Naboo with the Jedi to defend her. With a little assistance from Jar Jar Binks, she plans to raise an army and take back her planet from the Trade Federation.

Our discussion of The Phantom Menace for its 25th anniversary continues with a discussion of Amidala's call for a vote of no confidence in Valorum's leadership and the dispute about training Anakin as a Jedi.   In this fully armed and operational episode of Podcast Stardust, we discuss: Senator Palpatine briefing Queen Amidala on the state of the Republic and how he planted the seeds for a vote of no confidence in Chancellor Valorum, Qui-Gon's report to the Jedi Council about the Sith and a vergence in the Force, Anakin Skywalker's attempt to say goodbye to Padmé after the Queen “sent her on an errand,” Queen Amidala's call for a vote of no confidence in Chancellor Valorum at the Senate, Qui-Gon Jinn's and Obi-Wan Kenobi's conversation on the balcony outside the Jedi Council chambers, The Jedi Council testing Anakin, and Queen Amidala's discussion with Jar Jar Binks, the report that Palpatine is nominated for Chancellor, and Amidala's decision to return to Naboo. Find our the last entry in our The Phantom Menace series in episode 759.   Thanks for joining us for another episode! Subscribe to Podcast Stardust for all your Star Wars news, reviews, and discussion wherever you get your podcasts. And please leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts.   Get your Ultimate Lightsaber 2.0 from SaberMasters and use our referral code (STARDUST) at checkout for $10 off. Head to www.sabermasters.com/discount/stardust   Find Jay and her cosplay adventures on J.Snips Cosplay on Instagram.   Join us for real time discussion on the RetroZap Discord Server here: RetroZap Discord. Follow us on social media: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | YouTube. T-shirts, hoodies, stickers, masks, and posters are available on TeePublic. Find all episodes on RetroZap.com.

We're revisiting some of our favorite story arcs from Star Wars: The Clone Wars and we're kicking it off with a deceptive plot to kidnap Chancellor Palpatine! In the episodes "Deception," "Friends and Enemies," "The Box," and "Crisis on Naboo" Obi-Wan fakes his death to go undercover but runs into trouble when Anakin tries to avenge his former master's death. Everyone is deceiving everyone in this story but we won't deceive you!

The battle between the Jedi and Marchion Ro and the Nihil continues in Tessa Gratton's Temptation of the Force. We are discussing the latest adult novel from The High Republic in this episode.   In this fully armed and operational episode of Podcast Stardust, we discuss: Our overall non-spoiler thoughts on the novel, Porter Engle and his pursuit of General Veiss, Bell Zettifar and Burryaga and their pursuit of reports of the return of the Drengir and the mysterious blight plaguing planets around the galaxy, Vernestra Rwoh's role in this novel, Xylan Graf and his husbands Cair San Tekka and their roles in assisting the Jedi and the Republic, Marchion Ro's journey around the galaxy as he investigates the secrets of the blight, Jedi Master Avar Kriss, her relationship with Master Elzar Mann, her thoughts on the Force, and her thoughts on love inside the Jedi order, Avon Starros and her evolution in The High Republic, The Battle at Lightning Crash Station and the liberation of Naboo, The conclusion of the novel, and more. For more recent discussion of The High Republic, check out episodes 711, 738, and 756.   Thanks for joining us for another episode! Subscribe to Podcast Stardust for all your Star Wars news, reviews, and discussion wherever you get your podcasts. And please leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts.   Get your Ultimate Lightsaber 2.0 from SaberMasters and use our referral code (STARDUST) at checkout for $10 off. Head to www.sabermasters.com/discount/stardust   Find Jay and her cosplay adventures on J.Snips Cosplay on Instagram.   Join us for real time discussion on the RetroZap Discord Server here: RetroZap Discord. Follow us on social media: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | YouTube. T-shirts, hoodies, stickers, masks, and posters are available on TeePublic. Find all episodes on RetroZap.com.

What if Padmé Stayed?Recently we celebrated the 25th Anniversary of Episode I: The Phantom Menace! This set John to ask Matt to ask an unexpected “what if” about the story: What if Padmé had taken Palpatine's advice and stayed on Coruscant to allow the Trade Federation to maintain their control of Naboo? The chain reaction that sets off takes them down some interesting paths to ponder!HostJohn Mills and Matthew RushingSend us your feedback!Twitter: @TheJediMasters   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheNerdParty/ Email: http://www.thenerdparty.com/contactSubscribe in Apple Podcasts

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