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In honor of the release of Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, I'm joined by returning guest Tian Tian Cai to make some curling teams out of our favorite Star Wars characters! We dive deep into the original trilogy and the new Disney films to come up with representative curling squads for both light and dark sides of the force. Also, we mostly ignore the prequels, for reasons that should be obvious. Who should skip the old school light side team? Is Jabba the Hutt capable of curling? What of Porkins and Wedge Antilles, and all the other pilots? And did any of the original characters hold on to their roster spots for the new trilogy? We answer all of these questions and more in this Star Wars BYOC Special! SHOW NOTES: FiveThirtyEight did indeed do a bit of force projection for the original trilogy, but really only for the Empire. You can see their tidy little graph here (spoiler: losing entire Death Star crews really hurts). Turns out the Machete Order and the order I recalled are very similar! It's not a bad idea if you want to incorporate the prequels into a marathon watch (or for viewers new to Star Wars). Here's a look at the Machete Order in particular. Apologies for our voices on this one: though we were half a world apart, both Tian Tian and I were recovering from illnesses when we recorded.