The Murverse Mothership

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WOW Matt and I have had a month! We are super behind with existing episodes, and will be posting this week and recording new stuff tomorrow!

• Matt and Mur come to you live from George Lucas’ treehouse made of money, in Jeff Golblum’s vast field of treehouses.
• Mur cut her finger, and tells stories in the wrong order, which causes Matt to get stern with her.
• Mur received her first piece of fan mail in snail mail paper form.
• A brief tangent about hanging personal mementos and why Matt’s house is called “unwelcoming” by his mother-in-law.
• Mur launches into a very entertaining and impassioned rant about George Lucas selling the rights to Star Wars for FOUR BILLION DOLLARS (a figure she will repeat throughout the episode) and yet continuing to complain about the handling of Star Wars.
• Matt attempts to steer Mur’s ranting into a discussion about the line between art and commerce, and writers and other creators thinking about how much control they want to retain over their intellectual property vs. what they want to accomplish with their work, professionally.
• “Four BILLION dollars!” – Mur
• Matt and Mur free associate about why creators of massive media franchises who make billions of dollars choose to continue publicly wading through the discourse of their fandoms.
• Matt makes it clear if he ever sells IP for a billion dollars you will never hear from him again, because he will be on his private island avoiding all human contact.
• George Lucas wanted to make TIE Fighters purple. That’s a true fact.