Bay Curious Lightning Round: Inspiration for AT-ATs, the ‘Tenderloin’ and Popeye’s Voice

<p>This week the Bay Curious podcast is celebrating our one-year anniversary with a lightning round of questions and answers!</p><p>Is it true that George Lucas was inspired to create the AT-AT because of the cranes at the Port of Oakland?</p><p>No. Sadly, this is not true.</p><p>George Lucas told the San Francisco Chronicle’s Peter Hartlaub, “That’s a myth. That is definitely a myth.”</p><p>Hartlaub also followed up with Phil Tippett, the stop-motion animator who oversaw production of the AT-AT sequence. Tippett allows for a small chance that somewhere in the proce...