Welcome to Fine Tune in with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop where it comes to animation news and

commentary. I'm Drew's co-host, entertainment writer Jim Hill, and he and I are recording the

show on Friday, August 27th, 2021. If you could see Drew's face, it kind of is carrying a little

baggage, and that's because of Drew's crazy dedication to his job. Drew, do you want to tell

that I spoke where you've been? Yeah, so on Wednesday night I drove out to Las Vegas and attended

Cinemacon on Thursday morning, and then I drove back from Las Vegas. So it was a lot.

That is a brutal drive. It's five hours, six hours, isn't it? Yeah, at least. I mean,

that's without traffic. Okay. Now I remember one year, Star Wars Celebration, this was April 2015.

I did Star Wars Celebration at the Anaheim Convention Center, hopped in the rental car and drove out

in the very next day. That year Cinemacon was in April, and that was kind of a fun trip,

because that was actually the first time I met Dan Z in person, and didn't you just put an

appearance on and coffee with Kenobi? Yeah, Jim, I'll be on anybody's podcast. Anything that you

want to talk about, I will talk about. Okay. Okay. But you guys talked about the new Star Wars

visions shorts that are going to be showing up at Disney+. Yeah, I mean, I was worried that we were

going to have enough talk about because there's only been a trailer that's come out so far. But we did,

and I thought it was, you know, it was very nice. Dan is the best. So yeah, it was a lot of fun.

We're burying the lead here because something truly significant in the life of an entertainment

writer happened this week and for Drew. And so we have to talk about your story in the New York

Times. Right. The paper of record. Right. Come on. How did that happen? I was just reached out to

buy a wonderful editor and a Macaron Murphy, and he said, you know, I was at the Velocicoster.

I saw this Q video. I was wondering if you could write something about Q videos where actors appear

as their characters from the property that the right is based on. So I just did a little sort of

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