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Are You Okay with This?

Hammer + Nigel Show Podcast

July 17, 2026

Mark Hamill's lightsaber from "The Empire Strikes Back" sells at record price, plus the Canadian wildfires are coming our way.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Speakers: Hammer, Nigel, Allison
**Hammer** (0:20)
Hammer Mark Hamill's lightsaber from The Empire Strikes Back, Luke's lightsaber, just sold for $3.75 million at auction.
That's a new record for a screen used Star Wars prop. Are you okay with this? Three and a half. I'm sorry, almost $4 million at auction.

**Nigel** (0:42)
Yeah, I mean, if you're into movie memorabilia, that's got to be up there, right?

**Hammer** (0:48)
It really does.

**Nigel** (0:49)
Like, I wonder if Jim Ursay were still with us, if he would have outbid that, because that's the kind of stuff that Jim Ursay would bid on.

**Hammer** (0:58)
Well, Ursay bid on like a lot of music stuff. Did he do movies and stuff, too?

**Nigel** (1:05)
I know that's a good question.

**Hammer** (1:07)
I'm certain, like when I was a kid, I wanted a lightsaber so bad, and they make it pretty cool now.

**Nigel** (1:15)
Right.

**Hammer** (1:15)
Like back in the day, they were just Mattel or whoever made them was just plastic pieces of junk.

**Nigel** (1:21)
Right.

**Hammer** (1:21)
They kind of like unfolded. Does that does that make sense? Yeah, it was like it looked like, you know, cones that the guys at the airport used to direct.

**Nigel** (1:33)
That's a great comparison. That's perfect.

**Hammer** (1:35)
Just a longer cone. That's all it was.

**Nigel** (1:37)
Yes. No, I remember that had one of those actually. Yes. This is a big deal. 3.75 million movie memorabilia, sports memorabilia, sports cards.
Allison, let me ask you this. If you had unlimited wealth, if you had Earthse money, is there any piece of movie memorabilia, you know, Dorothy's ruby red slippers or anything else that you would be like, I wouldn't mind having that. That'd be cool to have.

**Allison** (2:08)
I think the first thing that comes to mind, and I think one of the stars of the movie owns it, but Tommy Boy's jacket.

**Nigel** (2:16)
The fat guy in little coat jacket?

**Allison** (2:17)
Fat guy in a little coat.

**Nigel** (2:19)
Really?

**Allison** (2:20)
I think David Spade has it, but I think that's one of my like comfort movies, so I think it would be fun to just kind of frame in the front of your house.

**Nigel** (2:28)
Okay.

**Allison** (2:29)
And if people see it, they know what, if they know, they know, you know?

**Nigel** (2:33)
Right.

**Hammer** (2:33)
My Old Man has one of the knives that was used in Braveheart, and it's signed and it's put in this frame with the poster, and him holding the knife.

**Nigel** (2:46)
Really?

**Hammer** (2:46)
And it's signed by Mel Gibson. I don't know where he got it. I think he got it at a charity auction or something.

**Nigel** (2:51)
That's amazing.

**Hammer** (2:52)
It's pretty cool.

**Nigel** (2:53)
What about you? Like if you had unlimited wealth, if you had Ursae money.

**Hammer** (2:59)
Yeah.
If I could do, I would do Star Wars stuff. Definitely. I would have an ATAT. You know, those bigs, the walkers, the Imperial Walkers there.

**Nigel** (3:11)
Oh, wow. You got real big.

**Hammer** (3:13)
Oh, yeah. I prayed. I remember. Where would you put that? Backyard, I guess.
I remember praying to God. I remember getting on my knees when I was a kid and praying to God that I would wake up tomorrow morning and there would be an Imperial Walker outside my back door and my window.

**Nigel** (3:28)
That would be strong.

**Hammer** (3:29)
And my God, God was like, man, oh, world hunger instead. What's that?

**Allison** (3:35)
Got a world hunger instead or something.

**Hammer** (3:37)
Yeah, yeah, I was praying for an Imperial Walker.

**Nigel** (3:41)
Yeah, that'd be awesome, though. I'd love to see like the kids in the neighborhood, like a trick or treat.

**Hammer** (3:45)
Yeah, like like a thing in my front yard. Yeah. Kids can climb in into those things.

**Nigel** (3:50)
And then some kid would fall out. They'd sue you for it. And yeah, the crazy bastard that has the full Imperial Walker over there. A kid just broke his clavicle.

**Hammer** (4:01)
You got time for one more here. What do you want to do? Pillsbury or air quality?
Air quality is plummeted in the 20 United States, 20 US states as smoke from the Canadian wildfire spreads. You were just telling me about a post that Donald Trump put out there blaming the Canadians. Are you OK with air quality plummeting in 20 US states as the smoke from the Canadian wildfire spread, Hammer?

**Nigel** (4:25)
No, this sucks. And yeah, President Trump went on Truth Social and was ripping Canada for their lack of logging and forestry that allowed some of these fires to kind of get out of control.

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