Three hours of podcast when another team would make an hour and a half. Distractions. Diatribes. Deep dives into the databanks to learn, live on air, factoids about characters who hardly matter. But that’s what makes A More Civilized Age A More Civilized Age: All of it might matter. Five years running and it’s still asking questions a first year podcast might.

And today it is going to learn what it already knew: That Anakin Skywalker is driven by love and fear in equal, but precarious measure. That Obi-Wan Kenobi, the ultimate blueprint of a Jedi, always knows when he’s looking at a butt. That R2-D2 and C-3PO are slaves, but like, don’t worry about that so much, they’re more like friends, right? That Palpatine always has a plan, but always loves to pivot. And that Padme was there, too.

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