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has been released in theaters, and the one of releasing

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now was actually supposed to be season four of a

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television show. It's The Mandalorian and Grogu. I'm Ronald Young Junior,

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and I'm leaving the theater.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: This is Ronald and I am leaving the theater after

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seeing Star Wars The Mandalorian and Grogu. Star Wars The

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Mandalorian and Grogo written by John Favreau, Dave Feloni, and

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Noah Klore, directed by John Favreau, starring Pedro Pascal, Jeremy

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Allen White, Brendan Wayne, Latif Crowder, and Sigourney Weaver and

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per usual. For complete listing of the cast and crew,

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check out the link in our show notes. The Mandalorian

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and gro Goo is the newest Star Wars film that

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I think. This is the first Star Wars film that's

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come out since twenty nineteen. The twenty nineteen being I

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believe it was the Right of Skywalker was the last

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one which was part of the original Skywalker saga of

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Star Wars.

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Speaker 2: The reason why I'm pointing that out is because it's

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been a while since we've had a Star Wars film

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on television. The Mandalorian ran for three seasons twenty four

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episodes on Disney Plus, and there was also a bit

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of the Mandalorian story in the Book of Boba Fette

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Star Wars TV series that was on Disney Plus. So

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Star Wars had kind of been out of the movie

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business for a little while, and this is them coming

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back into it, or at least I thought it was,

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 2: It continues the adventures of the Mandalorian, who is Pedro

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Pascal and Baby Yoda who is Grogu. I'm saying Baby

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Yoda so that anyone who does not watch Star Wars

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know exactly who Grogu is. There's also a connection to

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Jabba the Hut and Jaba the Huts family. There's some

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unfinished business there with the Huts. Rata the Hut is

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played by Jeremy Allen White, and the plot of the

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movie picks up with the Mandalorian being a bounty hunter

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and working for the New Republic and trying to build

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a better world since the Empire left it in shambles.

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the movie is that important not to say that there

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isn't one, but it is to say that if you

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are a Star Wars fan and you were looking forward

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to seeing this, it's funny because now I have to

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think about your entry point into Star Wars. If your

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entry point into Star Wars is through the original trilogies

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and you also picked up on the Mandalorian, then there's

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probably nothing I could say, right or wrong that's going

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to stop you from seeing this movie. And I think

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you should. I think it's a I think it's a

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it's a fine movie. I liked it for the most part,

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but I do have some questions. I'm gonna go into

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some questions and then i'll talk about the part that

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credits for the film, has someone that is considered to

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be the body performer for the Mandalorian because the majority

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of the film he has a helmet on. There's only

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a small section of this film in which he has

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the helmet off, which sometimes I wonder if he considers

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why he said yes to this. Granted, it means that

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you're a part of the Star Wars universe. It builds

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your bank account more, it builds out the lore of

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Pedro Pascal, but this is a voice acting gig for him,

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and him not so much an issue as it was

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to see Jeremy Allen White, who was voicing the character

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of Rata the Hut and Rata the Hut is a

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completely animated character and the voice is modulated so it

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Speaker 3: So except for having his name attached.

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Speaker 2: To this film, there was no real reason for Jeremy

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at Disney and saying, was there not a more popular

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voice actor that you could have gotten to do this

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that probably could have used the boost more than Jeremy

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Allan White, Just someone that we all know, Like I

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actor known for their performances, their physical in person them

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role in a non animated movie. The character is ostensibly animated,

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but the movie is a live action movie. Why would

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Pedro Pascal. It's still a live action role, and it wasn't.

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he have a body actor for the Mandalorian, because I

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know I certainly would have negotiated for one if I

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were him, because it's not going to cost him that

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much more money to put an extra or a background

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performer into the outfit in a mask and just have

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me come do eighty hour later, because that's essentially what

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especially because you have Silgourney Weaver in this film who's

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playing a live action role. But it made me wonder

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if any of these actors were ever in the same

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would consider if this was a fully animated movie, but

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it didn't feel like I was hanging out with my

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friends or seeing a bunch of familiar faces like there

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were some, of course, but it just feels set so

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far out of the Star Wars timeline that I can't

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get wrapped up in the universe that I'm in a

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in a particular way where it's just like a I'm

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trying to all the side stories of any of these

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are kind of I'm drawing a blank on all of

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them now. But the idea of me and being wrapped

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up in a character that is not necessarily the characters

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that I know, not the main cannon, but even something

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like and Or, I never felt lonely watching and Or,

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because there were all of these characters who were all

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playing together, and they were weaving in and in and

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out of each other's stories. There was just it, there

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was more there, whereas with this it's it's Pedro Pascal

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Grogu who is a puppet, you know, Like at some

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point I remember thinking oh, there's there's nothing real in

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this film. I wouldn't go as far as to say

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it's like an AI film, but it's just parts of

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very isolating, very uh. It felt separated. Now I would

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watch it again because I mean, it's Jon Favreau, and

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a crowd pleasing summer movie, and that's what this is.

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they get the thing, and make sure they get this guy,

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and this guy gets double crossed, and now we got

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to go get our revenge, and oh no, they took

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our guy. Now we gotta go get our guy. As

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all that's happening, I was with it. I was enjoying it,

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Speaker 3: Bad dudes.

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Speaker 2: He has to go up against a bunch of bad

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dudes whose only purpose is to exist for him to shoot,

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which is fine. That's fine for me. That's enough, I

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would say. But it's not mine, and it doesn't really

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justify its existence. The movie doesn't justify its existence. It's

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just here, here's another Star Wars movie. It doesn't deepen

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the plot, it doesn't deepen the lore. I don't know

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what's next. I don't know if there's another season of

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the Mandalorian. I don't know if they're going to do

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another Mandalorian and grow Groove. I don't know if they're

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going to do another Mandalorian and Grogu film. I think

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it will be solely based on performance and not on

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audience reaction or clamor for more Mandalorian and Grogu. It's

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just going to come down to the numbers. If this

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movie makes money, then yes they will make another one.

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universe and want to see more world building and more

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of them building out the law in the backstory, allow

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what they do with and or this ain't that.

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star movie, And now that I've talked all of this out,

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Speaker 3: But I need a crew. I need a live action crew.

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certainly not enough jokes. There wasn't a ton of joy

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given you much. It's not doing much to is not

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Speaker 3: The Star Wars franchise. So yes, this is a three star.

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Speaker 2: Movie, and with that, Leaving the Theater is a production

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of Oh It's Big Ron Studios. I mixed this episode

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and I'm working very very hard. Recently, you've only been

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hearing episodes of Leaving the Theater. There has not been

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much extra going into the Patreon. But that doesn't mean

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I'm not working. I'm working on a pilot of a

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My goal is to have it up very very soon.

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I think I said last week or the week before.

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surprised to see the amount of production that's coming out

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of me or things associated with me in the next

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to me because it sets the tone for what I

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it's lonely. It's constantly beating myself up, it's constantly assuming

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there's only leaving the theater here, we're not getting anything else. Well,

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it provides vital support to any of the independent projects

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may sound vague, but things will become more clear as

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go to patreon dot com slash oh It's big Ron,

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or go to the link in our show notes. Show

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art from Heather Wilder, theme music by the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder.

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For more information about Star Wars, the Mandalorian and Grogu,

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check out our show notes.

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Speaker 3: You can follow me.

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Speaker 2: On Instagram Blue Sky, TikTok, threads, or letterboxed at ohitz

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Big Ron. That's at O H I T S b

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I g R O N. You can find out more

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about this show and other Olds Big Round Studio shows

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by following us on Instagram at ods.

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Speaker 3: Big Round Studios. Leaving the theater will be back soon.

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Thanks for listening. I'm Ronald Young Junior and I'm trying

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to build a better world since the Empire left it

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in shambles.