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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 1:57:30 Ben Gilbert The first big success is actually not with a Star Wars film, but a Star Trek film in the Wrath of Khan.
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 2:46:03 Ben Gilbert Not live action, not Star Wars, not The Avengers.
- ▶ 2:49:32 Ben Gilbert All right, so David, Star Wars.
- ▶ 2:49:37 David Rosenthal Star Wars and Marvel.
- ▶ 2:51:38 Ben Gilbert That's more than Star Wars.
- ▶ 2:53:05 David Rosenthal The original Star Wars saga.
- ▶ 2:54:17 Ben Gilbert Because Star Wars just didn't turn out to have that much more exploitation ahead of it.
- ▶ 2:54:28 Ben Gilbert And there's, there's new Star Wars stuff I like.
- ▶ 3:20:24 David Rosenthal They're two-thirds of the way through the new Star Wars trilogy, plus they've made Rogue One, which is an amazing, amazing movie.
- ▶ 3:21:57 Ben Gilbert Interesting, but somewhat not Star Wars-y direction.
- ▶ 3:22:01 Ben Gilbert And then episode nine had to, like, smear Star Wars Vaseline all over the top of it so that you would remember that it was still Star Wars, so much so that we got Palpatine back from the dead again, and like, 10,000 Star Destroyers rising…
- ▶ 3:26:17 David Rosenthal If I ever want to rewatch a Star Wars movie, I'll just reactivate my subscription at a given.
- ▶ 3:41:57 Ben Gilbert Then they designed, built, opened, and operated a Star Wars-themed hotel at Disney World that I was very excited to go to.
- ▶ 4:11:57 Ben Gilbert I mean, where does Star Wars go next?
- ▶ 4:13:25 Ben Gilbert I have no way to push back, and to make your point, at some point here in the next couple years, I can't wait to show my son Star Wars for the first time, and he's gonna grow up watching Star Wars, and is he gonna care that they made a…
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:57 Ben Gilbert I'm a huge Star Wars nerd, and my wall was plastered with Toy Story posters growing up, but somehow I knew nothing about the company's
- ▶ 1:13:13 David Rosenthal I mean, Star Wars, as great as Star Wars is, and we'll talk about it later in the episode, is gonna have a problem when Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford die.
- ▶ 1:18:41 Ben Gilbert And when you read the non-canon Star Wars books.
- ▶ 3:16:42 Ben Gilbert The Rise of the Resistance Star Wars ride that they built in 2019, which is excellent if you've never been on it, was rumored to cost anywhere from two hundred million to four hundred and fifty million for just one ride.
- ▶ 3:29:47 David Rosenthal I mean, you've got the Peter Pan ride, you've got the Star Wars rides today, but the parks are also not just a destination.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 4:13:17 Ben Gilbert You gotta put Star Wars in that pile, too.
- ▶ 4:13:19 Ben Gilbert Cause I know where you're going with this and I, the way you feel about Marvel, I feel about the, um, overexploitation of Star Wars.
- ▶ 4:13:26 David Rosenthal Alright, let's, let's put Star Wars aside in the pile too.
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:34:33 Ben Gilbert Some of the best thing, if not the best thing in the Star Wars, modern Star Wars franchise available on Disney Plus.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:34:44 Ben Gilbert First three, four episodes are not as good as season one in my opinion, but the last eight episodes are like some of the best Star Wars canon that exists.
Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:03:58 Ben Gilbert It's almost like going and watching the new Star Wars movies, where if you liked the original films, even though these aren't, like, the highest, like, highest grade directing and writing in the world, like,
Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:58:56 Ben Gilbert So they had to invent a new navigational guidance system that sits on the top of the plane, RTO-DTO style, looking like an astromech from Star Wars, to navigate by the stars.
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:43:21 Ben Gilbert and so there's, like, the MCU in there, and there's Star Wars in there, but, like, they don't think, the NFL is way bigger than all of those, but it's not on the list, because people don't think of it as, like, a media property.
Enron · Acquired
- ▶ 1:27:51 David Rosenthal And sticking with the Star Wars theme here.
- ▶ 3:26:02 Ben Gilbert It is probably the best thing to happen to the Star Wars franchise since Rogue One.
- ▶ 3:26:21 Ben Gilbert It's the best Star Wars Disney Plus thing.
- ▶ 3:26:24 David Rosenthal Because the Star Wars franchise has really, at least in my view, taken a big downhill turn.
- ▶ 3:26:47 Ben Gilbert Go watch Andor, whether or not you like Star Wars.
- ▶ 3:26:49 Ben Gilbert I think that's actually the important thing, is whether or not you like Star Wars, this is good.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 3:17:17 Ben Gilbert He is a spec hire, and while he's been very successful and blah blah blah, we can say that one of his greatest successes is, uh, joining us for the only episode that we've ever done not about anything related to acquired or tech or…
- ▶ 3:17:43 Ben Gilbert We don't need to go into Star Wars, but that's on the LP show from like four years ago or something.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 2:43:50 David Rosenthal I was like, he's done other Disney Star Wars stuff.
- ▶ 2:43:59 David Rosenthal Have you watched any of the new Star Wars stuff?
- ▶ 2:44:08 Ben Gilbert I enjoyed it, like as a Star Wars fan, just more Star Wars is awesome, and like getting to see Obi-Wan at a different age is awesome, but I think they took away from the gravitas of his character, I guess, ok, spoiler alert.
Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:30 Ben Gilbert Save the date of May fourth, Star Wars Day, for something in Seattle, Washington, and we hope to be able to see you in person.
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:05:34 David Rosenthal You know, we'll sell VHS tapes with, you know, pre-recorded Star Wars or whatever on there.