Last Jedi Minute 12: Kilroy Was Here

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Date

February 16th, 2021

The dreadnaught looks more like a dreadNOT as it's taken down by the resistance bombers and guest commentator Jackie Kashian!

Starts with Paige catching the button in a feat of acrobatic contortionism/what-have-you and it ends with the dreadnought crashing and burning in space.
"Bombs away!"

Referenced: the soliloquy from Blade Runner
Yet again star wars DOES NOT CARE about normal physics.
Unfortunately we don’t get a side-on view of the bombs dropping. Other views we could have seen this in. bomb’s-eye view (like in ‘’Pearl Harbor’’, another reference to Dr. Strangelove

25:23 podcast episode length.
Jackie got the right ship, but you might be surprised to know that of the 100 ships moored at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1944, only 21 were lost or damaged in the attack, and of these only 8 were sunk or capsized. The USS Arizona and the USS Oklahoma were the only battleships permanently lost, and the USS Nevada, California, and West Virginia were all re-floated and repaired in time to play a role in the rest of the War in the Pacific.

Jackie: Please, God, buy my merch because we’re in a pandemic and my garage is full of it.

Audio only: https://www.starwarsminute.com/2021/02/16/last-jedi-minute-12-kilroy-was-here/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOZ1kuuCt00