The Mandalorian (Season 1)

Unramblings

We hope you enjoy our rambling about why The Mandalorian is basically an escort quest, storytelling with a faceless protagonist, and what it means to be a Mandalorian. If you’ve been missing our chats about toxic masculinity and colonialism, you’re in luck!

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Show Notes:

There are a couple of places in this episode that sound different from the rest. This is because we ended up recording in two sessions and then cutting some of our later conversation into places earlier in the episode where they made more sense. The transitions are not perfect, but we hope they are not too jarring.

The Joker - Steve Miller Band

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

Abstract of Mehrabian & Ferris' 1967 article

Communication is 93% Nonverbal: An Urban Legend Proliferates

TL; DR: Essentially, the results of a 1967 study by Dr. Mehrabian at UCLA has been oversimplified and misrepresented in later articles, textbooks, and media. The study focused on communication of emotions and feelings, and was not in any way stating that word choice only conveys 7% of a message’s meaning.

The Five Love Languages by Chapman (Wikipedia)

Speaking the Language of Relational Maintenance: A Validity Test of Chapman's (1992) Five Love Languages

Results of this 2019 study suggest that the love languages in Chapman’s book match human behaviors used to maintain relationships.

There Are Only Two Shakers Left in the World

The celibate religious group referenced is the Shakers. They are not Anabaptists, as was erroneously implied in the podcast; they just have a decent amount in common with Anabaptists.

Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn

Speciesism in Star Wars

Men Can Stop Rape

Nonprofit organization behind the (now phased-out) ‘My Strength’ campaign, who continue to work on ending gender-based violence by promoting healthy masculinity with public education campaigns, mentoring programs, and youth development.

What we know about the mysterious new lightsaber in The Mandalorian (Polygon)

Explains the history of the Darksaber.

[Video] The Great Star Wars Ice Cream Conspiracy (SuperCarlinBrothers)

Explains the whole ‘camtono’ thing.

The Mandalorian episode 3 answers one of Star Wars fans’ oldest questions (Polygon)

Explains the whole ‘camtono’ thing.

Hamilton Beach 68330N Automatic Ice Cream Maker, 4 quart, White

Make your own camtono prop. Or ice cream. You decide!