Hey you guys, just before we get the episode going, just a heads up that this is an audio blog pod, an audio diary of the events leading up and post the Force Awakens Midnight premiere and Live Podcast.

If you want to hear the live podcast reaction, that is episode 72.

And that is available free on iTunes, on SteerWars.com, or also through the free iPad and iPhone app available in the iTunes app store.

It is our most popular episode of all time. It features the comedy film nerds,

Graham Elwood and Chris Mancini, Ben Gillies from Silverchair, Jackie Gillies from the Real

Housewives of Melbourne, Paul Dempsey from Something for Kate, Xavier Michelides as George Lucas,

Jonathan Schuster, Dave Callan, there is so many guests, so check that out first.

But if you've already heard it, on with the show.

Hey, you guys, welcome to Steel Wars.

I am comedian, Steel Saunders, and I got to tell you, I do love Star Wars, and this is it.

This is the day that we've that we've been counting down for for a couple years now it is the 16th of December 2015 and at 1201 Thursday morning the 17th of December the giant VMAX screen will read a long time ago in a galaxy far far away

it will go bow and a giant Star Wars logo will fly through the air and then we'll get to read

that opening scroll and wow, won't that be an intense read?

Is that has to be the most focused on reading the entire world has done

in the past 10 years or something? I have no idea, but wow, we're going to be reading that scroll

like nothing else. Like nothing else. I am, uh, I'm driving to Knox right now, you guys. Um, I'm on a freeway.

I've got to drop off some sound gear and, um, like my day today was, I did, uh, two Triple M

interviews. Uh, Triple M's a pretty major.

One of the, I guess, the big three radio stations in Australia.

And I did Adelaide and then I did Melbourne.

And then I don't know what I did.

I did some work with all the, uh, the ticketing, made sure the

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