May 1, 2025 • 13 mins
It's the most nerdiest time of the year! May is the month of many Star Wars based celebrations and anniversaries, some more official than others. We kick off the festivities with a discussion about trusting someone to be open about what you love, and to be "too much".
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is and Samantha, welcome to stuff I never
told you production if I heard you, And welcome to
another edition of Happy Hour. As always, if you choose
to drink or whatever you choose to do, please do
(00:25):
so responsibly. Samantha, are you sipping on anything? I am.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm sipping on my bubbly water. But I've gotten now.
I've added the little like nutrients stuff supposedly that helps
you hydrate faster, quote unquote, And I know any as
much as you hate it, it can be effective. Bradley's
I'm not acting.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Always hate it. There's just certain circumstances that I have.
I agree with you, I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I think we need to be a cynic in all things.
But also if the size says yes, I believe that
do But like all that to say is I've added
because I feel like I've been extra dehydrated. Maybe it's
the pollen. Maybe is the extra dog here that Peaches
has been giving me has a nice gift. I don't know,
but yeah, I'm extra hydrated today.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
And he's what I'm saying. That's nice. What about you? Well,
I have my red wine. I didn't want to make
a special drink but today's been kind of a hectic
day because it is May, which has been claimed as
Star Wars month for us.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Nerves and my game that I have like said, I'm
not gonna name has made it a whole thing. I
was like, what, what's happening? Gave me a whole battle.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, this is the May is the new thing. If
you don't know where that's from, that's from the Mandalorian
where his catchphrase his really, he'd be so furious if
I called it that. His saying is this is the way.
But a lot of Star Wars holidays and anniversaries happened
(01:57):
in May, so i'ma be excited. Because we are already
doing a lot of nerd content. We might not do
as much Star Wars content as we normally do, which
is fine, which is fine, and actually is something I've
(02:18):
been struggling with I feel right now. Okay, well, first
let me start with saying this by other nerd content,
I'm talking about the Last of Us because we have
our Last of Us episodes and they are happening throughout
the remainder of May. We also have AAPI months and
stuffer on that. I can talk about Star Wars anytime
(02:41):
it's fine, but I do have a lot of people
who know May the Fourth slash Star Wars Day. They're like,
what are you doing? What are you doing? Which I'm
going to a Star Wars theme drag show, which could
be hit or miss. I have no idea. I had
a great time at the last one, but I can
see it going very badly, so May the Forest be
(03:02):
with me. But it is on a Sunday this year,
and that's when the Last of Us comes out and
we do our wonderful watch parties Samantha and my little
nerd heart. I feel like the Grinch, like I feel
like I could explode. I'm so excited, but I've had
to tell people like I can't after this certain hour
(03:22):
the Star Wars ends and the Last of Us begins,
and they act like I'm betraying Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well, I didn't invite you and say you could come
over early and we could at least do the reminiscence
of when we used to do Sunday Sunday Sunday because
we haven't done that in a very long time, and
we can make all of the cocktails in pre celebration
to the Last of Us viewing as well as the
fact you wanted to combine that with Cinco de Mayo,
(03:50):
which is only a US thing. We're gonna do it
because it makes it easy, and I love some Mexican food.
We love that around it.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It is the last of US food.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Didn't read okay lessons, but all of those things are
combining on one day, so we could do it. I'm down.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I do want to do Sunday Sunday Sunday again soon, which,
if you don't know, was basically a pandemic habit I
got in where I just watched the original trilogy every Sunday.
It used to be something completely different, but during the pandemic,
that's what it became. And I still do it, but
it's usually like I'm doing something else and it's in
(04:28):
the background. That's what it was for a lot bit.
But Samantha and I would hang out. We would make
these drinks and it was very lovely. We had theme drinks, drinks.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
The first time I've ever seen it, and now I've
seen it about fifty times a piece who news.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I don't even want to calculate how many times I've
seen it. I've thought about it because I think I
could get a pretty good ballpark.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
But yeah, multiply it. Although there were days that you
had double viewings.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
That's true, but I could get a good ballpark. But
the thing is, and I know I've talked about this
before and it sounds like such a it's a lovely
problem to have, but because I have so many, there's
just a lot of moving pieces that I don't know.
We can't have like a huge Sunday Sunday Sunday, and
(05:16):
it could build into that if I'm not careful, which
is lovely love. I love that people enjoy the things
that I like, even if it's mostly because I like them.
But that being said, I do get in my head
about that. I worry if I'm too forward with the
things I love, then it'll annoy you and you won't
(05:38):
like it, and that will hurt my feelings. And so
it's actually a real show of Trustmantha, that I'm like,
can we please do this? I really want to do it,
because I try to. I know it doesn't seem like it,
but I try to hold back, and I try that
hold back.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
No, I know it seems. I know what it is
because when we have a very adulted beverage to Annie, Yes,
the filter comes off, and there becomes an argument in
which it's not really an argument, but you're arguing with
yourself and the things that you've already prepared in your
head against other people who may have said things previously,
(06:18):
or things that you are thinking that someone may say
in defensive And again it's one of those things like
we have not mentioned it. We're probably encouraging you, but
you go on letting us know why they are wrong. Yeah,
and it is very impassioned.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yes, and it is very uh.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
No, No, it's not defensive. You get very like the
noises because you remember something else, as if we are
saying something to you and you we have interrupted the
thought process with this other question in which you are
answering that, but we haven't said anything to you. It
is something that you have thought of that could interrupt
this process, and you are so shocked by it that
(07:02):
you do the but.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Exactly like this.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, yeah, I think I've got the annie and pressions
down for that one. That's when I know, Yeah, she's
definitely held back a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah, That's why I write the essays that I talk about,
because I'm like, I gotta get this out.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
You rehearse those essays on us. When you do get
to that.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Point, sometimes think pieces of them come out. They are
quite long, but we have done several Sunday Sunday Sundays,
so yes, it's it's.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Quite funny because also my partner is very chatty, very chatty,
so like when he also gets adult beveraged and the
two of them, it's almost like they're having two different conversations.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, but it's still succinct.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I'm like, Okay, who, good job, because if I'm alert
in a way, that means i haven't partaken, because if
I have partaken, I'm asleep.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Right Just that's my play.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But yes, I will say I do believe you when
you say you hold back.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yes, going back to the point I got derailed from earlier.
Right now, the prequels, the Star Wars prequels are having
sort of renaissance. I don't know, like they're being accepted
(08:30):
in a way they were not for reasons that are
perfectly legitimate when they came out. I don't think they
necessarily deserve the hate that they got, but they deserved
a lot of the criticism. But anyway, they're being like
kind of reclaimed, even though for me it's become really
difficult to watch them in terms of the whole Empire
Rising thing. It's but right now it is both the
(08:55):
forty fifth anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back and that
twentieth anniversary of Revenge of the Sith, which feels both
too long ago and way too recent. I was in
high school when that happened anyway, but it's it's in
theaters now. It's like breaking records. But I feel like
(09:18):
part of the reason when I hold back is because
I love the prequels. I was a kid, it was
like the right time and my brothers who loved Star Wars.
I've talked about it before, but they really made fun
of me for liking them. And I don't want to
make it sound more than it is because it's not.
(09:39):
But I did get kind of picked on for liking
them at school, so I think it kind of became
a oh, I shouldn't I shouldn't really talk about this.
And I remember very specifically my older brother talking to
my mom, like you should talk to her. She's obsessed,
and I was like, oh, no, something's wrong. So it's
(10:00):
it is like a trust thing. It's like, oh, I
don't want to be too much, but also you feel
protective of the fandoms you love, like you don't want
to turn people away. You don't want to turn people off,
and I know coming on too strong can do that.
But I got a lot of thoughts and opinions, and
I got a lot of like jokes that no one gets.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
So many funs, funds go on.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Memories. Do you remember this toy? Oh my gosh. But
I have been thinking about people. First of all, I
do want to come back and do a whole episode
that's just on toys, but that's not really this show,
so I'm not sure it's really appropriate. But the toys
that really resonated with me, but also the I've been
(10:46):
thinking about why people get so riled up about Star Wars,
and obviously there's like the obvious toxic bandom answer, but
I think there's also it's about a lot of it's
about morals and philosophy and politics and religion, and so
seeing that play out and getting into in depth arguments
(11:08):
or debates with people about it where I'm like, we're
talking about political philosophy now with this movie that has puppets,
it's great. I will say I haven't watched and or
I'm waiting for it to end for a stream. It
because of Empire stuff. I mean, it's supposed to be
rising up against the Empire, but we used to all
agree that was the Empire was bad. But now and
(11:31):
because recent Star Wars stuff has broken my heart. But
I do want to mention, very briefly, this is a
whole other episode that has already written and I've just
been putting it off. I really didn't like the act Lite,
but obviously the backlash against it, a lot of it
was racist, misogynistic, toxic. That's very bad, and we need
(11:53):
it to go for a lot of reasons, but also
so we could talk about why I didn't like it legitimately.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
That's a balance. Yes, you you don't want to add
to the hate train for the bad reasons.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
No, And I would never. I would never. But I'm
also like you guys are taking them all the air
in the room. Yep. But I am excited. I'm excited
for Star Wars happenings. I'm excited for Nerd happenings, and
I'm excited to share it with you, Samantha, with everybody,
and hopefully, yeah, I'm not turning you off with my enthusiasm.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I love it. Like I told you before when we
were talking about like whether or not you adding too
much nerdy content, I told to the fact that we
need more things that people love right now so we
can celebrate those small things because there's too many bad
things and there's not enough good things. So if this
is a good thing that you love to celebrate, we
need it.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yes, I am really excited. Oh, I'm really excited. Well,
thank you so much, listeners. If you would like to
contact us, if you're doing any Star Wars Day things,
please let us know. You can email us at Hello
at stuff we Never Told You dot com. You can
find us on Blue Sky at mom Stuff podcast, or
(13:17):
on Instagram and TikTok at stuff We've Never Told You.
We're also on YouTube. We have a tea pup a store,
and we have a book where there's a lot of
Star Wars stuff. You can get it wherever you get
your books. Thanks as always to our super roduced Christina
or executive producer My and your contributor Joey. Thank you
and thanks to you for listening Stuff Never Told You
The Direction by Heart Radio. For more podcasts from My
Heart Radio, you can check out the IHEARTO at Mapple podcast,
(13:37):
or wherever we listen to your favorite shows,
Hey, this is and Samantha, welcome to stuff I never
told you production if I heard you, And welcome to
another edition of Happy Hour. As always, if you choose
to drink or whatever you choose to do, please do
(00:25):
so responsibly. Samantha, are you sipping on anything? I am.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm sipping on my bubbly water. But I've gotten now.
I've added the little like nutrients stuff supposedly that helps
you hydrate faster, quote unquote, And I know any as
much as you hate it, it can be effective. Bradley's
I'm not acting.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Always hate it. There's just certain circumstances that I have.
I agree with you, I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I think we need to be a cynic in all things.
But also if the size says yes, I believe that
do But like all that to say is I've added
because I feel like I've been extra dehydrated. Maybe it's
the pollen. Maybe is the extra dog here that Peaches
has been giving me has a nice gift. I don't know,
but yeah, I'm extra hydrated today.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
And he's what I'm saying. That's nice. What about you? Well,
I have my red wine. I didn't want to make
a special drink but today's been kind of a hectic
day because it is May, which has been claimed as
Star Wars month for us.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Nerves and my game that I have like said, I'm
not gonna name has made it a whole thing. I
was like, what, what's happening? Gave me a whole battle.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, this is the May is the new thing. If
you don't know where that's from, that's from the Mandalorian
where his catchphrase his really, he'd be so furious if
I called it that. His saying is this is the way.
But a lot of Star Wars holidays and anniversaries happened
(01:57):
in May, so i'ma be excited. Because we are already
doing a lot of nerd content. We might not do
as much Star Wars content as we normally do, which
is fine, which is fine, and actually is something I've
(02:18):
been struggling with I feel right now. Okay, well, first
let me start with saying this by other nerd content,
I'm talking about the Last of Us because we have
our Last of Us episodes and they are happening throughout
the remainder of May. We also have AAPI months and
stuffer on that. I can talk about Star Wars anytime
(02:41):
it's fine, but I do have a lot of people
who know May the Fourth slash Star Wars Day. They're like,
what are you doing? What are you doing? Which I'm
going to a Star Wars theme drag show, which could
be hit or miss. I have no idea. I had
a great time at the last one, but I can
see it going very badly, so May the Forest be
(03:02):
with me. But it is on a Sunday this year,
and that's when the Last of Us comes out and
we do our wonderful watch parties Samantha and my little
nerd heart. I feel like the Grinch, like I feel
like I could explode. I'm so excited, but I've had
to tell people like I can't after this certain hour
(03:22):
the Star Wars ends and the Last of Us begins,
and they act like I'm betraying Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well, I didn't invite you and say you could come
over early and we could at least do the reminiscence
of when we used to do Sunday Sunday Sunday because
we haven't done that in a very long time, and
we can make all of the cocktails in pre celebration
to the Last of Us viewing as well as the
fact you wanted to combine that with Cinco de Mayo,
(03:50):
which is only a US thing. We're gonna do it
because it makes it easy, and I love some Mexican food.
We love that around it.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It is the last of US food.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Didn't read okay lessons, but all of those things are
combining on one day, so we could do it. I'm down.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I do want to do Sunday Sunday Sunday again soon, which,
if you don't know, was basically a pandemic habit I
got in where I just watched the original trilogy every Sunday.
It used to be something completely different, but during the pandemic,
that's what it became. And I still do it, but
it's usually like I'm doing something else and it's in
(04:28):
the background. That's what it was for a lot bit.
But Samantha and I would hang out. We would make
these drinks and it was very lovely. We had theme drinks, drinks.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
The first time I've ever seen it, and now I've
seen it about fifty times a piece who news.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I don't even want to calculate how many times I've
seen it. I've thought about it because I think I
could get a pretty good ballpark.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
But yeah, multiply it. Although there were days that you
had double viewings.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
That's true, but I could get a good ballpark. But
the thing is, and I know I've talked about this
before and it sounds like such a it's a lovely
problem to have, but because I have so many, there's
just a lot of moving pieces that I don't know.
We can't have like a huge Sunday Sunday Sunday, and
(05:16):
it could build into that if I'm not careful, which
is lovely love. I love that people enjoy the things
that I like, even if it's mostly because I like them.
But that being said, I do get in my head
about that. I worry if I'm too forward with the
things I love, then it'll annoy you and you won't
(05:38):
like it, and that will hurt my feelings. And so
it's actually a real show of Trustmantha, that I'm like,
can we please do this? I really want to do it,
because I try to. I know it doesn't seem like it,
but I try to hold back, and I try that
hold back.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
No, I know it seems. I know what it is
because when we have a very adulted beverage to Annie, Yes,
the filter comes off, and there becomes an argument in
which it's not really an argument, but you're arguing with
yourself and the things that you've already prepared in your
head against other people who may have said things previously,
(06:18):
or things that you are thinking that someone may say
in defensive And again it's one of those things like
we have not mentioned it. We're probably encouraging you, but
you go on letting us know why they are wrong. Yeah,
and it is very impassioned.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yes, and it is very uh.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
No, No, it's not defensive. You get very like the
noises because you remember something else, as if we are
saying something to you and you we have interrupted the
thought process with this other question in which you are
answering that, but we haven't said anything to you. It
is something that you have thought of that could interrupt
this process, and you are so shocked by it that
(07:02):
you do the but.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Exactly like this.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, yeah, I think I've got the annie and pressions
down for that one. That's when I know, Yeah, she's
definitely held back a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah, That's why I write the essays that I talk about,
because I'm like, I gotta get this out.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
You rehearse those essays on us. When you do get
to that.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Point, sometimes think pieces of them come out. They are
quite long, but we have done several Sunday Sunday Sundays,
so yes, it's it's.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Quite funny because also my partner is very chatty, very chatty,
so like when he also gets adult beveraged and the
two of them, it's almost like they're having two different conversations.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, but it's still succinct.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I'm like, Okay, who, good job, because if I'm alert
in a way, that means i haven't partaken, because if
I have partaken, I'm asleep.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Right Just that's my play.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But yes, I will say I do believe you when
you say you hold back.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yes, going back to the point I got derailed from earlier.
Right now, the prequels, the Star Wars prequels are having
sort of renaissance. I don't know, like they're being accepted
(08:30):
in a way they were not for reasons that are
perfectly legitimate when they came out. I don't think they
necessarily deserve the hate that they got, but they deserved
a lot of the criticism. But anyway, they're being like
kind of reclaimed, even though for me it's become really
difficult to watch them in terms of the whole Empire
Rising thing. It's but right now it is both the
(08:55):
forty fifth anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back and that
twentieth anniversary of Revenge of the Sith, which feels both
too long ago and way too recent. I was in
high school when that happened anyway, but it's it's in
theaters now. It's like breaking records. But I feel like
(09:18):
part of the reason when I hold back is because
I love the prequels. I was a kid, it was
like the right time and my brothers who loved Star Wars.
I've talked about it before, but they really made fun
of me for liking them. And I don't want to
make it sound more than it is because it's not.
(09:39):
But I did get kind of picked on for liking
them at school, so I think it kind of became
a oh, I shouldn't I shouldn't really talk about this.
And I remember very specifically my older brother talking to
my mom, like you should talk to her. She's obsessed,
and I was like, oh, no, something's wrong. So it's
(10:00):
it is like a trust thing. It's like, oh, I
don't want to be too much, but also you feel
protective of the fandoms you love, like you don't want
to turn people away. You don't want to turn people off,
and I know coming on too strong can do that.
But I got a lot of thoughts and opinions, and
I got a lot of like jokes that no one gets.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
So many funs, funds go on.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Memories. Do you remember this toy? Oh my gosh. But
I have been thinking about people. First of all, I
do want to come back and do a whole episode
that's just on toys, but that's not really this show,
so I'm not sure it's really appropriate. But the toys
that really resonated with me, but also the I've been
(10:46):
thinking about why people get so riled up about Star Wars,
and obviously there's like the obvious toxic bandom answer, but
I think there's also it's about a lot of it's
about morals and philosophy and politics and religion, and so
seeing that play out and getting into in depth arguments
(11:08):
or debates with people about it where I'm like, we're
talking about political philosophy now with this movie that has puppets,
it's great. I will say I haven't watched and or
I'm waiting for it to end for a stream. It
because of Empire stuff. I mean, it's supposed to be
rising up against the Empire, but we used to all
agree that was the Empire was bad. But now and
(11:31):
because recent Star Wars stuff has broken my heart. But
I do want to mention, very briefly, this is a
whole other episode that has already written and I've just
been putting it off. I really didn't like the act Lite,
but obviously the backlash against it, a lot of it
was racist, misogynistic, toxic. That's very bad, and we need
(11:53):
it to go for a lot of reasons, but also
so we could talk about why I didn't like it legitimately.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
That's a balance. Yes, you you don't want to add
to the hate train for the bad reasons.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
No, And I would never. I would never. But I'm
also like you guys are taking them all the air
in the room. Yep. But I am excited. I'm excited
for Star Wars happenings. I'm excited for Nerd happenings, and
I'm excited to share it with you, Samantha, with everybody,
and hopefully, yeah, I'm not turning you off with my enthusiasm.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I love it. Like I told you before when we
were talking about like whether or not you adding too
much nerdy content, I told to the fact that we
need more things that people love right now so we
can celebrate those small things because there's too many bad
things and there's not enough good things. So if this
is a good thing that you love to celebrate, we
need it.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yes, I am really excited. Oh, I'm really excited. Well,
thank you so much, listeners. If you would like to
contact us, if you're doing any Star Wars Day things,
please let us know. You can email us at Hello
at stuff we Never Told You dot com. You can
find us on Blue Sky at mom Stuff podcast, or
(13:17):
on Instagram and TikTok at stuff We've Never Told You.
We're also on YouTube. We have a tea pup a store,
and we have a book where there's a lot of
Star Wars stuff. You can get it wherever you get
your books. Thanks as always to our super roduced Christina
or executive producer My and your contributor Joey. Thank you
and thanks to you for listening Stuff Never Told You
The Direction by Heart Radio. For more podcasts from My
Heart Radio, you can check out the IHEARTO at Mapple podcast,
(13:37):
or wherever we listen to your favorite shows,
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