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EPISODE · Feb 18, 2026 · 26 MIN

S12 EP3: The Mandalorian and Grogu Trailer Discussion

from Radio Rebellion: A Star Wars Podcast · host Alberto M Calderon

The full trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu has been released and we got a better idea on what the story might be. Plus the return of the Hutt twins, Zeb, Embo, and many, many weird aliens.Intro 0:00Car troubles 1:20On a random Tuesday 2:55People still complain 3:15Trailer time 4:00Trailer discussion 6:50Bringing Thrawn into the story19:45Outro 25:50

The full trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu has been released and we got a better idea on what the story might be. Plus the return of the Hutt twins, Zeb, Embo, and many, many weird aliens.Intro 0:00Car troubles 1:20On a random Tuesday 2:55People still complain 3:15Trailer time 4:00Trailer discussion 6:50Bringing Thrawn into the story19:45Outro 25:50

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Alright, that's where L Well, I'm doing it was an eventful day and some issues with my car had to take a emergency to the dealership. I had an appointment for next week. I wasn't gonna be able to make it to next week. Whatever to take my car today.

I have a loaner, the big charging battery needs to be replaced in the whole car, which is not fun. Thankfully, I'm still under warranty for one more year, so I don't have to shell out $8,000 or $10,000. So I'm good for right now. But it was a bit stressful this morning, but we got to call itself.

The most stressful thing that happened to me today was that I fell asleep on the train and when I walk about, I was like, wait, this station. Is it before or after my station? I don't know if I put it through the whole thing or I made it. Alright, that's cool.

I get to it. I mean, it's really just changed. It's not my fun. It's not the way I have things here.

But anyway, it's a special episode to this. I'm not gonna complain. We got the trailer out there before we start. If you're watching, let's make sure you look how big that is.

Sorry for that people listening to this later. But that's what she said, I guess. But subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any special episodes like this one today. Like this video, comment down below your thoughts on the Star Wars, the M&M Groguev trailer, and I can also start watching if you're listening to the other podcast.

For the second time this week, thank you're really was a great team. We've got all that fun stuff. But Ote, like we said today, say well, you always say on a random Tuesday, it dropped. We got a little teaser yesterday.

I'm like, oh, I guess we called it because we said it was not gonna run them Tuesday. But that's surprising, right? That is your final. Look at some sold out and joined the trailer for the trailer movement.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, but it's before we get into it, it's funny because nine days ago, I guess, since the Super Bowl, it's Lucas, drop the ball. They haven't done anything. Where's the trailer?

And how did trailer finally drops? Everyone wants. I think so many people is too late. Well, then they show this during the Super Bowl.

This is two or three nine days. Nothing changes. Why are we freaking out? They should have done that little Budwifers thing.

And then right after they show this trailer, why didn't they do that? Because they didn't want to spend $1 million when they just went on YouTube. It's the same thing I told you like for the last year. It's been like, well, let's hope they keep the budget moderate.

And then last week, it was like, I didn't spend $35 million on posting the trailer in the Super Bowl. Yeah. Oh, man. But listen, let's watch it.

Let's watch it. I know I said when we started this season of radio, I'm gonna keep thinking about the one I go to most videos and stuff, but it went into watch it because it was great. It was crazy. Let's go.

I'm but was in it. Martin Scorsese isn't it. All right, let me set this up. Yeah.

That's not that's the intro. The stage, I got to remove this. It's freaking over. So there we go.

All right, let's place it. We saw this in the trailer before the trailer. I love how our words, I feel them suddenly. Yeah.

But it does look similar. It looks amazing. Yeah. Look at me.

Some information. Martin Scorsese. Can believe it, right? Everyone's freaking out.

Does that mean that that twins together? Long live the Empire. I forgot. I forgot.

I forgot. There you go. Bless them. Fool.

This isn't about revenge. It's about your mouse droid. This was great. This is for the Empire, whatever.

After the Emperor. Yeah, there is a member. That's a great with the code. Don't know what to tell them.

Yeah. Before going into harm's way, check your own mouse. I can live centuries beyond me. I won't always be around.

There he is. All right, here. You should be. That's the name.

What the? Petal bus car is not even a good way to fight. No, it's not. You got to carry those information.

I don't know. I'm just saying, kicking butt. Maybe you need to make no. What are you waiting for?

I can do a braille. Oh, just jetpacks and other ones of jetpacks. So we can go. Let's save the rest forever.

Every day, dude. Every day, one of your parents. I wish for I am I. All right.

All right. It's what we want. It's a fun adventure vibe. That's all this movie needs to be hit.

All the right notes. Again, I'm not that tough for everyone else. But how can you be excited now for this movie? No, I like that first sort of release.

Yeah. This one really got me on where I was like, Oh my good. It's hitting all the beats it needs to hit. It's it's so true to like the spirit of Star Wars and and just this whole adventure thing.

Like I think we see like three different adventures in there. Maybe more. I'm dying to know like which one is like the intro to the movie because I'm pretty sure we're just going to drop into something. So I don't know.

I was blown away, honestly. Yeah. It was I also priced it first when you sent me that little teaser before the trailer. And then so I don't know that we have a little bit of this story that is helping the new Republic, which we can on the end of season three hunting down criminals, ex-imperials or work criminals and can stories.

When I was something more with Enbow kind of going after Mando for I don't know if he's bringing him to the hot twins. It might be some trailer magic and a mister. Right. So we get that moment where we see Enbow and then we see Ben kneeling, but I don't think that's the same scene.

I think the one who removes the helmet is the droid with the coat. Okay. So I'll watch that part again because look at it. You can see the coat.

When the first time we see the hot twins, Mando is walking in with Grogu. He's not being taken there by Enbow. So it's two different scenes. Or maybe Enbow has a gun and he's like 12 feet away.

Maybe. Cool. If you watch that again, I didn't see that droid with the coat, but now that I've seen it a couple of times when Enbow shows up in the ring, he's going to Dean's home at the end of season three. It's raining.

It's raining in the viral. So I want to know because I don't see the hot twins sending someone to kidnap Mando. It has to be someone else. I'm guessing hopefully some imperial or something.

I don't know. I think there's a lot we haven't seen yet. Star Wars we know shows a lot in their trailers and TV spots. But a lot of it is from the first kind of half of the movie or first story.

I think there's still a lot we haven't seen. Yeah. I think I love that it's like it's the Star Wars trailers I like where we see a lot, but there's not really any context to it. There's some things I can piece together and say, okay, maybe this is this and this kind of to that.

But I'm not really sure. And this was way more of a story trailer than the one before it, but still it's fake. It's just Mando is working with the new republic. And I'm guessing we were talking about revenge.

I'm guessing maybe Grogo's like, I mean, not Grogo. Mando's MO for going after the empire. It's like, look what they did to my child. And then he's like, no, there's bigger reasons to do this.

So it's race with Chris. And that's why he's revenge for my race with Chris. I'm dying to know why he has the race with Chris. Do you think that yellow is from Nogas?

Then I would start fighting to have been turned to Rome. So I don't know where he got the yellow. I don't know. I was just saying before he turned there.

And they were like, hey, that was his first car. And then he got money to buy a new car. And he bought the same car. I mean, it's, it happens.

And I don't know. I've seen him while I was of course friend, Brandon is here, page turners, they were not. Hello there. I'm excited for this movie.

No matter what the naysayers who think they are boxers with experts all over the cell and say, we're right there with you, Brandon. We were going to watch this movie anyways. But the hype is growing. And then going to what you just said, I'll tell you that some different trailer for the first one that first trailer showed more kind of the imperial side, the editing the snow, the shapes, chasing the race across the clouds.

And this one is more kind of the underworld cancer side with the hots embo and all those weird aliens, aliens, aliens, we're all the aliens. We're starting here. And then was hard at work here. Hard at work.

Can we talk about that imperial table scene we see? Who's that what that ex imperial long live empire? He looks like Slero from Outlaws. Okay.

Okay. I don't think it's him, but he's he's old. He's old. And one thing I didn't catch, I guess, I don't know who posted it front.

You have the book, the right for the elected empire thing that won the truth. I guess there's a part in that book that he writes that the republic puts face just uses. Yeah, I'm gonna say guess or another. So back.

So back cards with faces of imperial world or something like imperials. And that's what basically was the only way we're using this as a back card. We don't see the face. I didn't know that.

Nothing that I would chance but kind of went into it online. So that's a cool thing. Oh my progress going. All the aliens are great.

So he's better by scout without the magic. Again, people were saying this is why we're not getting more seasons. He's kind of done playing man though. No, no, that's like three things at least.

It makes sense. But part of us got us one of the biggest actors right now. Like, this was not gonna be like, you got to show his face. Even bad fun.

You show his face. And this is not a couple of things. It's not the same thing that we see it. So it's like two different scenes.

So we see this and all two of our calculations we get closer to the movie release. They made 22nd. Well, he's in the waters when this giant albino snake thing pops up. Any chance he goes back to try to find the meat or something redeeming himself again because his helmet was taken off and we have to read the world.

What is this show gonna be? All three seasons. I'm down. We got that far.

But I've been paying attention to Dragon Ball like in the last 15 years. No, after they did this thing where they did like Dragon Ball Super and then for the first Usaga, they did like the saga like 30 episodes and then released a movie which was just like the saga condenser to two hours. So maybe this is what this is gonna be. It's free package.

We're not different. They bring back Elizo and Jack Black on it. Do I know people here on them because of the weird extra and outfits they had with that? That episode was great.

If you're really going through season three, sue me. I don't know if we watch it before the season that movie probably rewatched it on three. I love the vibe. I know it wasn't the console from season one they wanted.

But I think all three seasons kind of have a very similar, hey, this is still a fun thing where maybe you're like, again, I am just with. They're very different from one another. But I really appreciate all of them. But it's so funny.

Someone was doing the... They did like this tweet about like name a bigger downgrade and they showed like the first trailer for Mando. That's like very dark. We got this one group on spikes.

Yeah, I get it. But once the show started, we rapidly realized it wasn't the stark and gritty show. It was the silly show about this guy learning to be a dad. But Mando has consistently been that.

Ever since the first episode where we got that Grogo reveal, that's what the show has been. He tried to get rid of him but it didn't work. Yeah, the second episode is him teaming up with Jawa to find an egg and the Jawa's eating up the eggs. It's getting shocked and prodded and false off the sand roller.

Trying to learn how to ride those bloke things. How do Mando was in season one? Mando, yes, it was serious. It had a lot of funny elements along the way.

And if you want to say that maybe when it kind of switched how much, I still think season three had a bunch of serious stuff in it. Anyway, I think it has enough of both in this trailer. The fans that won. Apart from that first trailer, this show was never dark and gritty star wars.

Never ever. But I love that it's still going to keep connecting to what happens. I want to read Bloodline. Again, I know there's no other connection to the books here.

But in terms of timeline with the rising of these imperial sectors, it's very similar to what happens in Bloodline, which is still like 15 years before Phantom Menace. Where's the weekend? Yeah, sorry, for some weekends, Phantom Menace. It's 18 years or something.

I know it's maybe then solo there. But still it's starting that thing in the New Republic that there's something happening back here that no more than the ones that they're paying attention to. So I love that we're still getting that connection. The Hot Twins are back.

If you told me, hey, who from season three? Not season three, but for freaking bookable of it. It's going to show the little twins with the mouse towel. So I love seeing them.

Do you think they're going to speak basic? Is that the voice we're going with them? Did they talk about music? In the show?

I don't remember. I want to say they spoke hot teeth, but I can't remember. I love that voice. And maybe again, trailer magic.

Maybe it's not that hot twins speak at that point. That sounds great. So I'll take it if it goes that way. I'll never say any enchamparro now.

They're going to speak hot teeth. Hey, I'm always on for book. My book. My book.

They might switch. Maybe Mando does understand hot teeth and tells him something. They need to switch. We're better by skylane.

Go. No, we don't need that. We don't need that. So Grogu, we cannot hear Mando saying, oh, I can't protect him.

He's going to live for centuries after I pass. We think of swimming. He's on that later in that branch meditating. Do you think we're getting growth from Grogu?

Are you excited to see Grogu in this movie? Maybe doing something more than just being the baby that gets locked around? Yeah, I mean, I think they had said that we would see Grogu do fun stuff in this movie. I mean, it's really in the pan.

And with the unbalanced like for then just riding on this movie. Grogu has held his own like, remember in season three and the final battle when he shows up jumping and picks the playing guards. No, the portraying guy is window shade. Show them again.

Season three, people together are freaking seen with previously our past visa. Dude, we get more forgetting what the hell that is. Right past visa going to the hotel with the pre-taught guards and getting wrecked. So yeah, I love the trailer has the vibe that I wanted, not of action, a lot of fun stuff.

Seems like an adventure for what I love from Star Wars at that fun vibe. And we still if then you add the scene in the snow again, the stormtroopers, the ad ads. That is a great thing. We know we chase whatever X-wings or some other starfighters out there.

I am very pumped right now. I am super excited. Can we talk about the throne in the room? The throne in the room.

The throne in the room. Instead of the other one in the room. Let's talk about the throne in the room. Tell me what's wrong.

Someone asked me like, what is the throne fitting to all of this? Okay. I don't think he's like a player in the movie, but I think it would be I think it would be a mistake not to address him and not to like give us something on what he's doing or he's at. Especially if we're gonna be catching up with the Imperial remnant and like what they're doing and what they're trying to achieve.

They're um but I think it would be pretty cool if they treated him like force awakens treated um Snoke's or maybe Empire 3 to Palpatine using him once or twice in hologram. Not much of it. Let us know he's there. Let us know he's doing something and that's it.

He's not crucial to the plot. He's important to maybe the villains in the story, but that's about it. And I think that would be enough for me to be like cool. We'll return at some point.

I've seen a lot of people asking like who's the big bad? Who's the big bad of these more? Is it the hot? Is someone else?

I don't think the hot's are the big bad. I think they're just there for Rhoda. Kind of a cyclist. Maybe that's the beginning of the movie.

Or the first and second act. Yeah. I think the Imperials are still gonna be the main villains. I don't think we're getting full on thrones showing up for 10 minutes, but in that scene that we just saw of the hey, only if the Empire in whatever base they are in this mountain or whatever it looks like they are.

Like you just mentioned, give me a hologram of thrones giving so on orders or instructions. Long live the Empire is gone. Oh, okay. There's someone a big player.

Is it for an assistant for? Is it to connect to a soca? Is it for the Mandalorian Grogu part 2? Who cares?

I think it makes sense to bring thrones as the one overseeing the least these fights on the Imperial remnants. It makes sense. If all these are far-row, free, only versus supposed to tie up at some point, what better place than the movie? So again, this story, a bit of a story, but if they want to set up breadcrumbs, that'd be fun.

And what if this movie ends with, you know, thrones announcing himself? Yeah, I'm back. I set up shaven in Dathomir. I have an army on dead.

Thrones in Dathomir. I forgot which shows with this giant hyperspace. He's a weirdo. Fear him.

Maybe he should want that? No. I was going to say, maybe I want the highest. No, no.

That's nothing to do with it. He keep him separate. But just like, if at the end that happens and then filling in for our like gonna have to watch a soca. Yeah, I don't think so.

I think the gangster side of it about the understanding payroll are not gonna be connected. I think they're two separate things. Yeah, I think it's the side missions and oh, what I was gonna mention is like, I feel like the big story is the Empire because like, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm here on May 25th or 24th.

I don't know. Being like, oh, I was so wrong. But like, I don't think it's that teams up with Mando to like take down the huts. Oh, no.

He has no feelings. I care about the huts. I love that service, not as purple as he was on season three. I know it's a stupid thing, but sometimes those bright colors cannot take away from the category look to CDI.

They've had years to work on him. He looked great. He looked great in that little snippet that we saw. So excited to see Sarah.

We've caught up with all the the rebel school. Even King that wasn't right. So Scott wants it. Yeah, it was a little picture.

That's okay. Hera had on her ship. Oh, Freddie Prince. Prince picture.

He lambasted Star Wars or not. The Star Trek had more sex than it ever. Oh, three years ago. How much fun we had?

You got a glassy of breath. But said looks great. And was there with his dog, which is called Marok. I remember this.

Oh, man. Marok in this? And he is. I don't know if you think we see that will be there.

But yeah, if you bring, if you have said there, I don't think he's going to see the hologram of Othron, which is another connection to Thron. Mm, that's true. So then connection to the Sog and the rest of the rebels. Oh, actually be a great bridge to like push the force.

Sorry, he's seen strong or something. And he goes, like, guys, we want this. I got with some friends. I just came out from another galaxy.

Oh, but also it's back. So. Nice. I don't know.

Is this happening? Yeah, exactly. It's a Sog and like 25 minutes after this movie is like a year before. Also, if the movie kind of ends with a, we just got a transmission of hyperspace bridge or whatever.

And it's a Sog, not a Sog and he kind of less than a trans back or something. Guys, and we found another galaxy. FYI, there's another galaxy out there. If you don't want to deal with it, we can go to the other galaxy.

There might be some dead witches and stuff. Oh, weirdo with a weird looking, the beginning. The beginning? There's a weird wolf bridge or something.

Nothing. And we lady who looks kind of Ukrainian. They're not safe. We don't know what they are.

No, they are. They're like, I'm just going to ask for some reason. Oh, man. This is where I love our Star Wars.

The fun stuff that weird aliens and baby girl will destroy and I'm also droid. Stars and Spag, baby. Alright, Arti and everyone, thank you for this special episode today that we didn't expect no episode next weekend. So we'll start getting more information.

There will be articles and interviews in the coming weeks and months. So we'll cover all that as it comes. Thanks Arti. Have fun the rest of your night.

We'll talk at some point. Thank you to everyone out there. And transmission. We'll talk later.

See you. Bye, everyone. Bye, everyone.

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