Needle Hugs

*There are....a lot of dramatic readings in this one. We're all gonna need a therapy droid before this is over. It's Alphabet Podron time! For this episode, we discussed chapters 17-19 of Victory's Price by Alexander Freed.*

## Episode 160

### **A Star Wars Questions**:

**What shows should have an inexplicable Mando cameo?**

### **Highlights:**

* "I'm hot and I want a meet cute." - Meg
* "All I want is to be really dumb and have everyone love me." - Saf
* "....No comment." - Danny
* Space Racism on the firing range!

Dramatic Reading: Chapter 17 (Narrated by Saf, Nath is Ash, Chass is Danny)

* "***REALLY DON'T NEED YOUR ADVICE!***" ...she muttered.
* On the Scale of Dads; Nath is a Star Wars 8 and a Star Trek 4
* Ho'ror'te, the definitely a bothan.
* Hera did the thing! Freed did the thing! Saf did the thing! THE THING HAPPENED!
* Fun Fact: The audiobook includes the droid repulsor noise when Quell hallucinated I-TO.
* PONCHO ALERT
* How could Palpatine make such a database? You'd have to have, like, an entire union of technology specialists funded by a whole clan of bankers...
* Sheev Palpatine: Productivitiy goals.

Dramatic Reading: Chapter 18 (Narrator is Saf, Wyl is Meg, Quel is Heath)

* Why can't we just go back to the happy times for Alphabet Squadron... er... Happy TIME...
* The Poe Dameron Halloween Special X-Wing.
* Who has a weird bond but still wants to kill you? Iiiiiiit's KAIROS!
* QUELL HUG! It's happening! This is not a drill!
* "Let me offer you love with my sharp instruments!"\*.
* "Grandma's not here." "...are you coming onto me???"
* "Imagine making out with somebody called Gargamesh." - Saf
* "We've ALL made out with a Gargamesh at some point..." - Danny
* If you think that you've never made out with a Gargamesh, you ARE the Gargamesh.
* 51:45 JHOOP (but not a sound effect, sadly).

Dramatic Reading: Chapter 18 (Narrator is Meg, KAIROS is Saf, Heath is Quell)

* Soldier Girls Make Due
* 54:00 "I ALWAYS SOUND LIKE THIS."

* Everybody misses their old starfighter.

Dramatic Reading: Chapter 19 (Narrator is Danny, Nath is Ash, Wyl is Meg) muzak

* ***"THIS COULD HAVE BEEN SO HOT!!!"*** - Meg
* Captain Panaka, Denzel Washington.
* "At least Jar-jar had the decency to die a *FUCKING CLOWN*!" - Ash
* The one thing that Heath will remember from this episode is from a Chuck Wendig novel.
* Someone please write the 2021 socialist version of A Muppet Christmas Carol.
* Any time you're in danger, play the recording of Beeker just in case.
* The last thing Heath wants to hear when they die is Statler and Waldorf, the DEATH HECKLERS.
* Corran Horn's Loudly Crying Face opened for Dashboard Confessional in 2003.
* 1:25:35 Dashboard Confessional Pedantry Corner
* Alexa, play track 1 from the soundtrack of 2004's Spider-Man 2.
* "I don't want these ones with the bug sex."
* "Star Wars themed hooka bar called Yuuzhong BONG, please." - Danny
* Saf's Soren Keize rhyme monologue gave Damon a nosebleed from psychic damage.
* Anime Nosebleed Trope explained.

### **Responses to Last Week's Glistener Question:**

WHAT IS THE WORST POSSIBLE THING THAT COULD HAPPEN NEXT?

Rogue Leader: Alexander Freed DOESN'T share the x-rated version of that conversation between Wyl and Nath. (good thing he did share it...)

Rogue Nine: The sequel trilogy is just a story that Jar-jar is telling orphans.

Rogue Seven: Literally any member of the Skywalker family shows up.

Rogue Three: We as readers become invested in these characters but Freed fast forwards to 30 years later and their victory is all for naught.

**Glistener Responses:**

* TomtheFanboy - Quell is visited by Three Ghosts...
* X-Wings in History - Soran Keize gets a Reylo-style romantic following.
* Bentham's Icon - A Gary Stu with daddy issues named Kieran swoops in.
* Yubsie - The entire Dark Nest trilogy gets reintroduced into canon.
* Matthew McKinney - Soran Keize and the entire 204th helps found the First Order.
* Dillon - Freed finally includes Gadren only to give him a heroic sacrifice.

* Oaty - Victory’s Price ends in a cliffhanger that will be resolved in a fourth book called Bacta’s War.
* Jay - Saf steals the best answer (Corran Horn).
* Mika - Candy Ned unlocks Dark Side powers... (uncreditted)

**Glistening Bodhi goes to:**

Dillon (from Danny), Bentham's Icon (from Ash), Jay (from Saf), X-Wings & History (from Meg)

Glistening Attack of the Clones Anakin's Padawan Braid to Dinner Leader (from Heath)

### **This Week's Glistener Question:**

What’s one piece of advice Sheev gives at his productivity webinars?

Meg: Don't discuss podcast business during the podcast.