George Lucas, every mention

16 scenes · ← back to George Lucas

tap a year for its mentions
008115220222023202420252026episodesmentions
01220222023202420252026episodes it came up in
00418220222023202420252026episodesmentions per episode

every year anyone Ben Gilbert 11David Rosenthal 5

Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where George Lucas comes up

loading…

Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired Aug 10, 2026 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 1:55:45 Ben Gilbert Now, meanwhile, in Northern California, the year is now in 1979, and there's a guy named George Lucas, who is looking for someone.
  • ▶ 1:55:57 Ben Gilbert George had just released Star Wars, and he was working on Empire Strikes Back, and he had this experience, this amazing first-hand experience of how computers could unlock brand new filmmaking methods, and not just for Star Wars, but…
  • ▶ 1:56:24 Ben Gilbert And the reason why George, this is actually pretty interesting from a business analysis perspective, why did George want to make stuff to push all of filmmaking forward?
  • ▶ 1:57:09 Ben Gilbert So George gets put in touch with Ed.
  • ▶ 1:59:20 David Rosenthal Is George interested in
  • ▶ 1:59:55 David Rosenthal This all happened because George believed so deeply in Star Wars and the movies he was making that he didn't want to give up any equity in Lucasfilm as part of his divorce, so he needed to raise cash to pay his former wife cash instead of…
  • ▶ 2:01:29 Ben Gilbert He writes in 1986 a five million dollar check to George Lucas to buy the company.
  • ▶ 2:02:02 Ben Gilbert Then he finds a kindred spirit who happens to be working for George Lucas.
  • ▶ 2:02:07 Ben Gilbert George freaking Lucas, right in between Star Wars and Empire.
  • ▶ 2:02:12 Ben Gilbert They're inventing all this insane stuff, but George needs to sell it off and somehow manages to find Steve goddamn Jobs.
  • ▶ 2:23:17 David Rosenthal The story I heard is that Steve found out later from George Lucas that the terms of Lucas's distribution deal with Fox were better
  • ▶ 4:13:43 Ben Gilbert In fact, didn't George Lucas do like a Star Wars holiday special way back in the eighties and you know what none of us have ever seen and never affected any of the myth making?

The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired Jun 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:05:35 David Rosenthal So this is the era when George Lucas makes Star Wars and Steven Spielberg makes Indiana Jones and E.T. and these guys become the new American storytellers, not Disney and not Disney animation.

Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired Apr 26, 2023 · 1 mention

Amazon Web Services · Acquired Sep 6, 2022 · 2 mentions

Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, nearly 80 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.