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[00:00:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Hello and welcome to another episode of Exotics Encyclopedia of Force Facts.
[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_00]: This week I'm going to be talking about the Phantom Menace.
[00:00:40] [SPEAKER_00]: So whenever they were creating these set pieces and everything, they only built them
[00:00:44] [SPEAKER_00]: as tall as the tops of the heads of the actors.
[00:00:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Because Liam Neeson was so much fucking taller than everybody else, it cost the
[00:00:51] [SPEAKER_00]: crew an extra $150,000 in construction just to build it high enough.
[00:00:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Wait, so like everything?
[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Like even the droid carriers and all that stuff?
[00:01:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, everything else was filled in.
[00:01:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Everything else above the heads of the actors was CGI.
[00:01:07] [SPEAKER_00]: So say like the scene where they're all sitting in the Jedi Council area
[00:01:12] [SPEAKER_00]: and Liam Neeson's talking about Anakin.
[00:01:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Everything above Liam Neeson's head is CGI.
[00:01:16] [SPEAKER_00]: How tall is that fucker?
[00:01:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know Liam Neeson was that tall.
[00:01:18] [SPEAKER_00]: He is 6'4".
[00:01:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh!
[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_00]: He's 6'4".
[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh shit.
[00:01:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he's a tall motherfucker.
[00:01:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's actually pretty awesome.
[00:01:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Just like skill diff.
[00:01:26] [SPEAKER_01]: He was literally born different.
[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, they had to spend extra money.
[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Brick 3PO fact check though.
[00:01:31] [SPEAKER_03]: How tall is Ray Park?
[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Because if a 6'4", motherfucker got folded by a short dude with a double
[00:01:37] [SPEAKER_03]: bladed lightsaber, I'm going to laugh.
[00:01:40] [SPEAKER_00]: He's like 6 foot.
[00:01:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, is Ray tall?
[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Ray seems short.
[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_00]: He's not that short.
[00:01:46] [SPEAKER_00]: He's 5'9".
[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_00]: He's shorter than me.
[00:01:49] [SPEAKER_03]: He's short.
[00:01:49] [SPEAKER_00]: He did not look like he did not.
[00:01:51] [SPEAKER_00]: He had to be on like stilts or something when playing Darth Maul.
[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe that's why.
[00:01:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe that's why Qui-Gon lost because there's just fucking like half a foot
[00:01:58] [SPEAKER_03]: there where he just can't see shit.
[00:02:00] [SPEAKER_00]: He looked a lot taller as Darth Maul.
[00:02:02] [SPEAKER_03]: We figured it out.
[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't because of age.
[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't because of his waning human body.
[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_03]: It was simply because of height gap.
[00:02:08] [SPEAKER_03]: He lost to a short motherfucker.
[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_03]: He lost to a bonk bonk.
[00:02:12] [SPEAKER_02]: How tall is Bonk Bonk?
[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_03]: 5'8".
[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_03]: He lost with the high ground.
[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_03]: Go and brick 3PO.
[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_01]: That was amazing, Brick.
[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_00]: If we don't have anything else to add, that has been another week of Force Facts.
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[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Y'all have a good one.
[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_03]: You guys are brave to keep mentioning that fucking website.
[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, see if I keep mentioning it, I actually have to build it at some point.
[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Because surely that's worked over the past three months.
[00:02:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously it has.
[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Look man.
[00:02:52] [SPEAKER_00]: There's so much progress.
[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_02]: I've literally had no power for 17 days of the last two months.
[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_03]: You know what, when you put it like that, sounds like a skill issue.
[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_02]: It is a skill- I need to move!
[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Get out of the heights bro, run.
[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_03]: The high ground is not doing you well here.
[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_03]: You too are like Liam Neeson, Qui-Gon Jinn.
[00:03:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just gonna pull pups and just have unlimited power.