Welcome back to fine-tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.

I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill and Mr. Taylor, whose writings on the industry you can regularly read over on the rap,

and his musings on the Mission

Impossible movies you can now listen to on Light the Fuse the official Mission

Impossible podcast he and I recording this week's show on Saturday, May 4th, 2024, which is of course,

Star Wars Day. Happy May the 4th to you, Drew.

Oh, thank you, Jim. This is a very spiritual day for us and.

Well I know you.

Worth mentioning though.

I literally had somebody reach out to me yesterday and was like, hey, we're trying to get Herbie the Lovebug Day going with

the idea that, you know, Herbie had a 53 on the side of him.

So, you know, May 3rd should be Herbie day and it was one of these things was like hang on

Let me go over to the official day calendar and it turns out that May 3rd is already

Women's Equal Pay Day, International Wild Kowala Day,

Lumpy Rug Day, and National No Pants Day.

And Drew, I think, I speak to you I wish that had I had known that but had been an option yesterday

You know yeah well you know yesterday was also National Gindo day which is the the kind of dog that I have.

Oh, well, now you see, so you see that this is a very crowded day already.

So, you know, apologies to the Herbie people, I mean, I know they mean well, but you know they mean well but you know I think this day's dance card is already

pretty full okay anyway back to Star Wars day now given that this is an animation news podcast, I guess we should use May the 4th to mention

that Star Wars the Bad Batch, that acclaimed strong with a super size episode 51 minutes long and also worth noting Drew that it was

three years ago today on May the 4th 2021 when the bad batch debuted on that streaming service with an episode called Aftermath.

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