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n this episode, the boys get the topic "Bounty Hunters" and dive into the first random topic of the season!
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I didn't actually fucking switch to him yet.
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Oh, I'm sorry!
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God damn!
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Bitch!
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Just trying to make sure that you could hear me.
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I can now.
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I couldn't hear myself.
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Okay, perfect.
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All right, well, apparently since fucking Brick3PO has a working body now,
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he doesn't want to be here with us anymore.
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He wants to explore the real world.
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So we got one of his droid companions to come by today to do the topic for the show.
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Since this season, we're going to be doing a randomized topic by Brick3PO.
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In this case, we're going to be using SO1A, or as we call him, Sola.
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He's going to be picking our topic for today.
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Hello, I am Sola and I am jealous of Brick's legs.
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I really wish I had legs now, but here I am answering questions
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and asking questions about Star Wars.
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Speaking of...
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Meet more...
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See...
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The topic is bounty hunters.
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All right, Sola, thank you for that.
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Back to the scrap heap with me.
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Good luck.
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Thank you.
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Godspeed and good luck.
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I will, I will crawl as fast as I can.
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Thanks, Sola.
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No problem.
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God damn it, I'll be picking the wrong intro song.
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I'm sorry.
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God damn, I've been fucking up like Brick3PO misses a day
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in my fucking intro with the wrong song.
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God damn it.
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But hey, everyone, welcome to the force unscripted.
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I am your host with the most, but no toast.
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It's your boy, Niketa here with my wonderful co-hosts, Winxy and Exotic.
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What's up, boys?
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What's up?
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Brick3PO is not here today, so we had our friend SO1A or Sola
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do our our random topic for the day, our unscripted topic, and we got bounty hunters.
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So there's quite a bit to talk about.
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Apparently, Exotic doesn't like bounty hunters as much as I thought he did.
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So he's just a hater and in all, all, always just always a hater.
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I've mentioned one bounty hunter in like one episode and you think I'm in love with him now?
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I know you have no, no proof of that.
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That wasn't my claim.
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I just knew you had a bounty hunter that you liked and you were like,
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I don't like any bounty hunters.
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They're all trash garbage.
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Basically bounty hunters are the skeleton crew of the Star Wars universe.
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I don't know if they're that bad.
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Look. All right.
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Well, I have quite a few bounty hunters that I like.
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One of my favorites, I think the like the top two for me is Boba Fett and Cad Bane.
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I was really happy to see them in the Book of Boba Fett, even though the Book of Boba Fett
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wasn't my wasn't my most favorite series.
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But like in the Legends timeline, it's clear that like Boba Fett is just the best bounty hunter.
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Like bar none. There's no competition.
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But I think that like I don't think that holds true in the canon timeline.
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In the canon timeline necessarily.
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And so like my favorite from canon is definitely Cad Bane.
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I the only motherfucker that I know of that like talks smack back to Palpatine
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and lives to tell the tale that that is that's big points in my book.
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So the only gripe I have with Cad Bane is the stupid little fucking robot
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that follows him around.
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I do to noise the fuck out of me.
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It's like a Z something, right?
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I have no idea.
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Or no, A.Z. was the one that helped.
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Omega Toto Omega Toto 360.
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Yep. I think it was OK.
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Yeah. His voice is like only second of most annoying voices in Star Wars to zero the hut.
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Where do you rate Jar Jar that number three?
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That's this big three.
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I know how to get on his fucking nerves.
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Well, you do that like you don't even have to try to do that.
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Look, look, I knew your ass was going to say some smart ass shit like that.
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But yeah, I I like Boba Fett and Cad Bane the most for sure.
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I think that like my number three would definitely be I.G.
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88, especially after reading, you know, I was telling you guys,
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I forget what episode that was, but about I.G.
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88 basically possessing the second Death Star and being like super close to
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the entire like galaxy being under control of droids.
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But the second is I got blown up because the rebellion had to win.
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So I still like his story.
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I actually saw something on Reddit today
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that was talking about like why Boba Fett.
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There's always a post about like why was Boba Fett
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beaten so easily at the Sarlacc pit?
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And obviously people were saying like, well, originally he wasn't
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some badass Mandalorian super bounty hunter.
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He was just Boba Fett.
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And likewise, I.G. 88 was initially just a droid puppet.
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And then it, you know, went on to almost control the Death Star and the entire galaxy.
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Yeah, I think that's one of the reasons why I love legends, too,
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because especially like the early books took on these characters
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that we got like a few glimpses of from the original trilogy
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and like really expanded upon them.
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Like for the most part, like in the beginning, Lando had like
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the good amount of legends content was about him and Han.
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So, I mean, and that makes sense, too, because people want to know like
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what went down between Han and Lando to, you know, make Lando betray him.
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And, you know, how did Han become this this fucking scruffy looking,
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nerf hurting scoundrel that we see in the first trilogy?
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Trilogy, how did he win the Millennium Falcon from him playing Sabacc?
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Yeah, so I've always liked the expansion upon these characters.
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I.G. 88 got expanded upon why like quite a bit of legends
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because he comes back in the Young Jedi Knight series.
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And, you know, like then you see Han Solo's kids having to pit themselves
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against I.G. 88, the bounty hunter that almost collected their dad
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and brought him to to Darth Vader in the first place.
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What's your big three winchie?
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Big three dislikes or big three bounty hunters?
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I mean, you can give me either or, but I was talking about likes.
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I'm down to hear your big three dislikes, though.
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I love being a hater and so does exotic.
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Well, I mean, you were number one on my list.
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I'm not a bounty hunter.
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I we were just talking about this
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exotic three most disliked voices.
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That's why I was asking.
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But for bounty hunters, I hate you.
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What? I'm your most disliked voice.
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I really thought you were going to get that.
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No, I didn't.
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I was going to have to explain the joke to you.
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Yeah, because I just be chilling and I catch a stray for no fucking reason.
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So when I realize what it is, I'm just like, what the fuck?
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There's plenty of reasons.
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God damn it.
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You're toxic.
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But favorites, I mean, I do love Boba Fett from Legends
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because he did do so many badass things.
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But Canon, a dinjarn I really like.
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I think he's pretty good at his job.
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And I mean, I think our thing is cool.
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But just because she has a sniper rifle, not because I think our thing is cool.
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Just the sniper rifle.
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I also forget that with like Canon timeline and play
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Assange Ventress counts as a bounty hunter, doesn't she?
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Oh, shit. There you go.
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That's my number three.
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You see her in the bad batch.
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That's my number three.
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She could get in the bad batch.
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Whoo. Way so exotic.
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I know who your favorite is, but do you have any others that you like?
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Who's my favorite?
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I thought it was Durge. No.
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Who? You.
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Who's your favorite?
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It's a running it's a running it's a running joke, so you should already know this by now.
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Who?
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Chris Anton.
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Who? OK.
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I mean, he was a gladiator first, but yeah.
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Oh, the Wookie. Oh, I should have known.
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Yeah. The Wookie.
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You should have known.
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Yeah, it goes him, Durge and then.
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Fuck, I can't remember this guy's name.
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The guy with the fucking like Liu Kang hat.
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Fuck. Oh, did you from the Clone Wars that could like fucking throw it and shit?
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Oh, fuck. What was his name?
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I can't fucking remember his name.
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Of course, the episode where we can't remember shit.
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Our fact checker isn't here.
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I don't remember that guy.
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Embo. Embo. Yeah.
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Yeah, he's my number three.
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Just because of that Clone Wars episode where he was fucking beat down people,
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just fucking tossing his hat at people.
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The show was amazing.
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Didn't you like fuck up Anakin at one scene or something like that?
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He fucked up a lot of shit.
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But I just really enjoyed like that little group with Baby Boba
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in that little arc in the Clone Wars.
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So I guess this one is more of like a philosophical kind of political question.
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Well, not really political, but like I wanted to pick you guys as brain on this.
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Do you think in a galaxy that large with, you know, trillions upon trillions
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of life forms on different planets scattered out light years away from each other,
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do you think that the role of bounty hunter is necessary in such a large,
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you know, like living community?
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I don't know that it's necessary, but I feel like it's inevitable
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because with a galaxy that large, there's just no way
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you can police the entire thing effectively at all.
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It's too big.
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There's too many places to go, too many places to hide.
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So, yeah, there's always going to be this guy stole from me.
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The cops didn't do anything because guess what?
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There are no cops.
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I need somebody to get my shit back.
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It's either a hired killer or it's a, you know, hired kidnapper.
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See, I like the way you word it that where you said, I don't know if it's necessary,
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but it seems inevitable.
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And like, I guess, like viewing it in that in that way, do you see bounty hunters
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as more of like vigilantes that are outside of the law?
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Or do you think that even if it's a bounty hunter, they should still be,
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you know, like tied to the laws of whatever system they're currently in?
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Or do you just consider the whole thing like an illegal prospect?
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I mean, it depends on the location.
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We have bounty hunters in the US right now.
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All the bounty hunter.
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And then see, I don't know if they're necessarily inside the law in Star Wars either.
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I think it's more of like a black market type beat.
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Or like a we look the other way kind of thing.
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Yeah, it's like you do solid for me and I won't arrest you.
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Well, but like, is that is that really the case?
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Because like, I mean, an empire strikes back, I guess no one's going to fucking say no to Vader,
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but he does like in front of many Imperial officers, conscript bounty hunter,
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much to the disdain of his crew who even like point out, you know, like, why do we need scum like that?
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I guess it might just be like on like a case by case basis, because in that episode of the colon wars
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that we were talking about, that one little fucking village actually hired the bounty hunters just to come protect them.
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So and I mean, most of the like jobs and stuff came from the bounty hunters guild, right?
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So there's some form of like vetting process that's like, oh, this is not just an assassination of a,
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you know, high value political target.
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It's actually, you know, killing somebody because they killed your brother or it's,
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you know, they stole shit from you.
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So, you know, bring them in alive and I want my shit back, that kind of thing.
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Arrest them, freeze them in carbonite.
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I'm sure there's some some vetting that goes on.
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Yeah, basically, I guess like, I guess so.
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It's basically just like another occupation that somebody can take up.
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Yeah. So they're they're very much like bordering the law and like maybe some of their weapons have
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some modifications that they aren't supposed to or their ship isn't actually in the Imperial registry,
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whatever it might be.
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Right. So there are things that they're doing that are definitely outside or on the very edge of the law.
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And yeah, I think the the policing forces just kind of overlook that unless they cause a big disturbance
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or like go after someone important.
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I see what you guys are saying.
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I was always curious about that because like it feels like a gray area, like not just in the in the books,
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but also in like the media.
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It just feels like sometimes it's allowed, other times it's frowned upon.
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And, you know, then there's that weird case of like, people just wanting a vigilante to give them the justice
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that they didn't get from the, you know, like the appropriate means.
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So bounty hunters definitely, at least as Star Wars is concerned, I can't say that this would apply, like,
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say if like Earth was part of like a galactic confederate, right?
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Like, I think that it's bounty hunters are necessary to kind of maintain more peace in an already very chaotic galaxy.
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Yeah. And it's also, I mean, if it's mostly like out of rim stuff, it could entirely be controlled by the criminal syndicates,
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in which case none of that conversation mattered.
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Don't bounty hunters fall outside of the crime syndicates like pool?
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Like, I understand that crime syndicates probably have some bounty hunters, but you see like the Huts
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and Crimson Dawn hiring bounty hunters for different things too.
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Yeah. And what I'm saying is like the bounty hunters guild mainly functions in their territory.
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They're neutral and nobody fucks with the main like guild because you don't want the entire bounty hunters guild after you
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and the other criminal syndicates who rely on those bounty hunters.
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So it's like a, you know, agreed upon thing. Don't fuck with the guild.
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And then they're just based in the outer rim.
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Sometimes they take jobs in the inner rim and that's dangerous, which is why, you know, ships like Dins don't have the imperial registration.
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That works out for him because he doesn't get flagged.
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But like, you know, that makes sense, right, that they would they would mainly be out of rim.
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I mean, most of the bounty hunter activity we see is out of rim, maybe 90 percent of it.
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The only time they ever come into Coruscant was like when Cad Bane came in.
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You know, you would know the answer to this question.
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And I kind of want to pick your brain on this part, too.
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Do you feel like Mandalorian culture inherently sets them up to be bounty hunters?
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Because like you see the stories of like, yeah, like the Skyrata clan and then even Bad Batch goes on a stint of being bounty hunters for a while.
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And like, I understand that they have the training necessary to be good bounty hunters.
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But what part of Mandalorian culture kind of sets them up for that?
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Well, OK, think about it this way.
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You have an entire culture of warriors, right?
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Like that's all they are is warriors.
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The farmers will beat your ass.
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The nurses will beat your ass.
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The old grandpa will beat your ass.
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But they don't like beating each other's ass all the time, right?
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So what does a warrior people do instead of fight amongst themselves?
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They get paid to fight other people.
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They get paid to do what they're good at.
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It's just a like natural course for their kind of culture.
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That being said, so, you know, like at least as far as like what I know about Mandalorian culture is like the Mandalorian hate boners for Jedi, you know,
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and Jedi typically seem like the antithesis of Mando values and just Mandalorians in general.
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Do you think that the role of like a Jedi protector, a Jedi guardian is counter to bounty hunters?
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Because I feel like like even Jedi to some degree are vigilantes, like conscripted ones or quote unquote conscripted for the order.
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But like, do you think that Jedi more align with bounty hunters or do you think that they more align as like the foil to bounty hunters?
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And that goes for you, too. I kind of want to hear your opinion on that as well.
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I mean, Jedi are the no Jedi are essentially a mercenary people as well.
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Like, what does the order do?
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They send Jedi to remote towns, regions, planets, whatever, to solve problems and do research and that kind of thing.
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Like, they send you to somebody's village because a ghost, quote unquote, showed up and like stole all your money, whatever it is.
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Right. They send Jedi places for so many stupid reasons.
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And maybe it's for free, but it's it's a transactional thing.
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It's like, hey, we promote the Jedi as like good people and we disapprove of Sith and the dark side.
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And in return, you make our plants grow faster.
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Like you can't hire a Jedi to go hunt someone down and kill them for you.
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You can hire a Mando to do that, but you could hire a Mando and a Jedi at the same time.
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One to hunt down the guy that burned your crops and the Jedi to grow the crops in your field.
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Yeah, I guess that goes back to like me saying it's like a case on case basis.
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Because like if you look at Jedi, whenever they go to help somebody, they're just kind of just doing a quote unquote job, even though they're not getting paid for it.
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They're just being like, oh, we're going to go here, help here.
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And it's just like that's how some of the bounty hunter jobs went as well.
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Like not all of the jobs for them were to hunt somebody down.
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Sometimes it was to help us fucking get rid of these wild fucking beasts that are destroying our land or some shit.
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So it's not really like all the time just hunting and killing somebody or capturing them, bringing them back.
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It's just looking to finish a job to assist like somebody else.
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Because it's what you were born and raised to do or kidnapped and mindwashed into doing.
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So then I guess this is I mean, of course, it's no shock that that we'd get off topic.
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But I really want to know.
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And this is more of like a Mando Jedi question.
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Like, what is it that makes Jedi such an antithesis to Mando's in general?
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Because from the bounty hunter aspect of things, the mercenary aspect of things, it sounds like they would align in certain things.
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Is it just ideology or, you know, what is it that causes the tension, I guess?
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Well, let's look at the perfect example of this.
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The Battle of Galadron.
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At the Battle of Galadron, prior to it, Jango and his boys, the true Mandalorians, were hired by the governor of, was it Concord Dawn?
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I think it was Concord Dawn.
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Is it that or Concordia?
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They were hired to put down rebels, like a rebel faction was quote unquote rebels, by the way.
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A rebel group was supposedly, you know, causing civil unrest and attacking civilians and whatnot.
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It was really all just set up by the Death Watch to get the Jedi to come and kill Jango,
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so that they didn't have to do it because they couldn't kill Jango. He was too good.
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And so the governor hires Jango to go clear out the rebels.
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They thought it was a fishy job.
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And so when Jango went to collect payment, he went alone and all the boys stayed at their camp.
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And then the governor called the Jedi and he said, hey, there's a group of Mandalorians killing our civilians.
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Please come protect us and deal with the Mandalorians.
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And so the Jedi came thinking that Jango and crew were killing innocent people.
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And instead of, you know, trying to talk it out or anything, they go ape shit on them and kill all of Jango's friends.
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And then Jango gets back because he was not there when the Jedi showed up, sees his best friend die,
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and then kills like, what, seven Jedi with his bare hands before finally giving up?
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OK, so but that's more of like them just being on two sides of one issue.
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Like, I'm talking more like a cultural thing.
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But think about it like the Jedi, in this case, Dooku, they didn't try and, you know, peacefully resolve a situation.
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They immediately go to violence against Mandalorians.
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So it's a both of us hate each other, right?
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And like that's something a bounty hunter group would get hired to do is maybe kill some people that are causing problems
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or maybe you hire them to get rid of a quote unquote terrorist organization in your city, that kind of thing.
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So they may be killing people and the Jedi are like, hey, don't be fucking killing people.
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Like, put them in carbonite or something, right?
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Like, go through the justice system, the legal system.
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That's how they're going to come at odds, right?
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Hiring a bounty hunting group to be your bodyguards, the Jedi aren't going to have any problem with that
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because they're like hired to protect senators and stuff sometimes, right?
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But, you know, getting hired to kill people, that's where the Jedi draw the line.
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Okay, I see what you're saying.
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I got it. I got it. I'm picking up what you're putting down.
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All in all, it's just like you're doing something bad, the Jedi are going to hate you.
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And I mean, Jedi and Mandalorians have kind of have a history with each other of fighting.
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So it kind of just makes sense on why one wants to go after the other perma.
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I guess that's one of the reasons why Jedi Mandalorians are so badass or Mandalorian Jedi's.
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Doesn't matter which one goes first.
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Uh, yes.
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You Mandalorian Jedi because you're Mandalorian first because you're born into it.
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Not necessarily.
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Well, the Mandalorian Jedi's we know of.
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Bardin Jusik.
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That I know of. How about that?
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I don't know what that is.
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Bardin was a...
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Oh, I'll let you take this one.
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Go ahead.
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This is your... No, no, this is your topic, buddy.
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Bardin was a Padawan at the start of the Clone Wars and graduated to full knighthood.
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And then throughout the course of the Clone Wars realized that the Jedi
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were a corrupt organization to whatever extent and didn't like how they were
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using basically child soldiers in a war and they didn't have any rights.
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And the Jedi were just kind of okay with it.
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And so he left the Jedi Order and joined the Skyrata clan.
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There's a whole lot of like, you know, sweet talking him to get him to join the Mandalorians in there.
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But eventually he did.
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He goes from one group that uses child soldiers to another.
00:22:18
Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
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That don't make no sense.
00:22:20
Yeah, it does.
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I definitely sided with Bardin on that.
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Also, that makes me like so.
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Okay. Could you consider Jaina a Mandalorian?
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No.
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Just trained by Mandalorians?
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For like a week.
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It was like a month and a half.
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Yeah, no, she's not. She's...
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Okay. So if a Mandalorian considers you family, does that make you a Mandalorian?
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Ooh. No, because Kal considered Bardin family before he became a Mandalorian.
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But that's why he became a Mandalorian though, because he was his family.
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No, no. He became a Mandalorian because he liked the the values of Skyrata's family.
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Yes. But I wouldn't say he just became a Mandalorian because they considered him family.
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They considered lots of people family that went and even lived at Kyrimorat,
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but didn't ever fully drink the Kool-Aid, wear the armor, that kind of thing.
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Not the Kool-Aid.
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Are you saying Mandalorians are a cult?
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The children of the Watch certainly are.
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The reason why I asked that thing about family is because, you know,
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like Kander is considered Revan-like family.
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So I was wondering, could you make the case that Revan was a Mandalorian Jedi?
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Revan was much closer than Jaina ever was.
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I'll agree with that for sure.
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I mean, Revan wore a Beskar mask.
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Was Revan's mask Beskar?
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Yes.
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Now that I didn't know.
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Did he steal it from a Mandalorian?
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Uh-huh. He did.
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And then he tossed Mandalore, the Ultimates mask into fucking Oblivion
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and scattered the entire culture.
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He brought them back together.
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Yes, but if you solve a problem that you created, did you really do any good?
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You admitted that you fucked up?
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I don't know if that's necessarily true.
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I'm trying to think of other bounty hunters that I really like that I'm not thinking of right now.
00:24:01
I know we mentioned Orasingh and Asajj Ventress who are kind of like
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dark side force user bounty hunters.
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Are there any other ones that we're like missing out that we should definitely,
00:24:11
that should definitely be a part of this conversation?
00:24:14
I mean, are the little droid and the little duo, are they a bounty hunting group?
00:24:19
Are they a mercenary?
00:24:21
You're talking about TK and the other dude?
00:24:23
Yeah.
00:24:24
I think they're more, okay, so first off, I really don't know the distinction of like
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a mercenary and a bounty hunter, but I think they're more mercenaries.
00:24:32
A bounty hunter is a type of mercenary, but a mercenary isn't necessarily a bounty hunter, right?
00:24:36
Is that how the distinction goes?
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Or are they just the same thing?
00:24:39
So mercenaries are more like direct for hire.
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Bounty hunters go through the guild.
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They work off contracts.
00:24:46
Yeah.
00:24:46
Now you can be both, but yeah, the mercenaries are like direct hire.
00:24:50
Isn't that technically where Boba falls?
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Cause doesn't he say fuck off to the the guild?
00:24:55
Like when he has that fucking beef with Bosque and shit.
00:24:58
Yeah.
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I mean, he's both.
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He's always been both, but he's a Mandalorian.
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If a Mandalorian becomes a bounty hunter, then they are both.
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Because Mandalorians are mercenaries for the most part, at least in Legends.
00:25:08
In canon, it's different.
00:25:09
In canon, they have a weird hippie phase.
00:25:12
Does the Mando group count as a guild?
00:25:15
When they're united under like a leader, when there is a Mandalore?
00:25:19
Yeah, because they're an entire sector.
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They have their own government.
00:25:23
And if you want to hire Mandalorians, typically, unless it's like one offs, one or two, right?
00:25:29
If you want to hire a big group of Mandalorians, you go through the Mandalore.
00:25:32
Because if you go through any of the chieftains, they go through the Mandalore.
00:25:35
They tell them Mandalore is first.
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And if they don't, well, I mean, you always can join the Death Watch.
00:25:40
Yeah, you're right.
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One other, you know, actually there is another.
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I mentioned him briefly just then, but like Bosque is also another really good bounty hunter.
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But it's so funny, his stories in Legends, because he basically kind of has like a cartoonish relationship with Boba Fett.
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Boba Fett just shows up at like the last second and thwarts his plans every time.
00:26:00
And then we have like Zuckus and Dengar, which Dengar has a bit of story in the Bounty Hunter Wars, but not really Zuckus.
00:26:07
You don't really hear much about Zuckus or the Forlom.
00:26:11
Like they're also two bounty hunters that got notoriety from being in Empire Strikes Back.
00:26:15
But I don't know much of them outside of Empire Strikes Back.
00:26:18
Also, speaking of which, like specifically with Forlom and Zuckus, and I should have saved the packaging.
00:26:24
I have video recordings of them, but like there was a misprint.
00:26:27
So the Forlom kinner figure was listed as Zuckus and the Zuckus kinner figure was listed as Forlom.
00:26:35
And I thought that was funny. It was a misprint.
00:26:37
Those are worth money.
00:26:39
Well, yeah, I didn't realize. So too bad. So sad, I guess.
00:26:45
Imagine all the dinners you could have paid for.
00:26:47
Yeah, for the most part, like I don't really remember many other bounty hunters that stood out.
00:26:52
Does the Mandalorian woman from Kothor, Swothor, does she count? Was she a bounty hunter or was she just...
00:26:59
She was just a Mandalorian, I believe.
00:27:02
Okay. Then yeah, like in the books, the only ones they really focus on are Boba.
00:27:08
Yeah, and like that little what is like a three book series by KW Jeter, the Bounty Hunter Wars.
00:27:14
There was also like a comic series about the Bounty Hunter Wars too.
00:27:17
I don't know much too much about it, but yeah.
00:27:20
Technically, wasn't there a clone trooper that ended up becoming a bounty hunter after the Clone Wars?
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Pretty sure a fuck ton of them did.
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There's like one like really popular one. I can't remember his name.
00:27:32
And Legends or Canon?
00:27:33
Pretty sure it's considered Legends.
00:27:35
Bar?
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I don't know. He had like a fucking like a red mask, I think. Oh fuck, what was his name?
00:27:40
Oh, the... Were those the runaway storm troopers, were they considered bounty hunters?
00:27:47
Were they doing bounty hunting work or was that mostly mercenary stuff?
00:27:50
Oh, you're talking about the fucking Mara's Hand?
00:27:55
Ooh, I think they were bounty hunter mercs. I think they were both.
00:27:59
Yeah, those guys were dope. I really liked their books.
00:28:02
At the bare minimum, they were for sure mercs.
00:28:05
If you said that the bounty... Like to be a bounty hunter, you have to be a part of the guild,
00:28:09
then they definitely weren't bounty hunters. They were for sure mercs though.
00:28:12
I don't know what it takes to be part of the guild either.
00:28:15
Like you could maybe just walk into a guild headquarters, a local headquarters, and just
00:28:20
grab a fucking puck. I don't know if you have to like register or what. I mean, if you bring in
00:28:25
the bounty.
00:28:26
I just feel like registering to a guild as a bounty hunter seems counterintuitive because if like,
00:28:32
you know, the New Republic or the Empire knows that like, oh yeah, someone from this
00:28:36
guild took this job, like let's find them. Like isn't that leaving like a paper trail?
00:28:40
I mean, yes. And that's why everyone went after Din Djarin when he reneged on the bounty and took
00:28:47
the kid again.
00:28:47
Did you just say reneged?
00:28:49
Yeah.
00:28:50
I thought it was reneged.
00:28:52
I'm pretty sure it's reneged. I've never heard it said reneged before.
00:28:57
I don't know that I've ever actually said it out loud before. That's just how I've read it
00:29:00
in my head my whole life.
00:29:04
Anyway.
00:29:07
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
00:29:08
Okay. It was Kix. Kix. And I guess he didn't really end up becoming a bounty hunter more of
00:29:14
just a pirate, but that's what I was thinking of.
00:29:16
Are pirates considered bounty hunters? Cause they're part of a guild.
00:29:20
There's a pirates guild.
00:29:21
Yeah, but it's not the bounty hunters guild.
00:29:23
But they're a guild that goes after fucking loot and shit. I guess they don't get paid to do so.
00:29:28
Yeah. Okay. Fair.
00:29:30
They are definitely on the opposite side of the law.
00:29:33
Stealing shit for fun. I can relate to a pirate.
00:29:36
Yeah. Kix was the clone trooper I was thinking of. He ended up joining the
00:29:39
corsair crimson corsairs.
00:29:41
Clone troopers who are actually bounty hunters afterwards. Spar was for sure.
00:29:46
And what was the name of the one that they found on the planet that Fee got messed up?
00:29:51
Are you talking about Gaz? Gaz Hoken? That dude?
00:29:54
No, no, no. I'm talking about the clone trooper. The arc. The one that went-
00:29:59
Oh! Oh! I know who you're talking about. What was the question about him?
00:30:03
Sol?
00:30:03
Uh, I was just- I mean, he was doing bounty hunting work with Spar.
00:30:07
Yeah. Okay, yeah.
00:30:08
Yeah, so I guess that means you don't have to be part of the guild to be considered a bounty hunter.
00:30:12
But I guess that just kind of blurs the line between merc and bounty hunter more for me.
00:30:15
I mean, somebody has to have like a standardized way of making or getting pucks.
00:30:21
Like somebody has to create the pucks that they give to people for bounty hunting.
00:30:25
I know there weren't really pucks in Legends, but in canon, somebody has to make them.
00:30:30
Somebody has to distribute them.
00:30:31
I don't know if there were pucks, but there were definitely like data chits and stuff like that.
00:30:36
Yeah, they were dated. But like the pucks are a little different because they have like fobs.
00:30:40
They have those little tracking fobs.
00:30:42
Oh yeah, that definitely might have been just like a canon only thing,
00:30:46
because I can't remember anything like that in Legends.
00:30:49
And they track people using their chain codes. That's how the fobs track them.
00:30:53
And I know for a fact that chain codes weren't a thing in Legends.
00:30:56
No. There were Imperial identification codes, but yeah, chain codes were not a thing like that.
00:31:01
All right, guys. Well, that has been our episode on bounty hunters.
00:31:06
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00:31:11
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00:31:17
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00:31:21
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00:31:26
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00:31:28
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