Welcome back to looking at Lucasome, the podcast with a different perspective on the world of Star Wars,

Indiana Jones, and all of the other entities at George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, Dave

Philoni, and John Favreau, as well as the rest of the team at Lucasfilm have dreamed up over the past four decades.

I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill and my co-host Brian Gunn and I are recording this week's show on Monday, July 22nd,

2024. We're doing things a little differently this time around folks and that's

because Brian tomorrow at 8 AM right

you are heading down to San Diego yes you and Bill Stout are going to be

setting up at this year's Comic Con, which is being held in and

around the San Diego Convention Center, which you'd think 2.6 million square feet between the waterfront and the gas light district,

that would be enough, right? Enough space to hold a 150,000 people who will all of them be headed that way starting on, it's, is it

Thursday night? Wouldn't they do the previews or when? Well the preview is Wednesday. Well, the preview is Wednesday.

The reason I'm going down there, Bill and I go down there Tuesday, because we used to go down

to Wednesday, set up the booth, and then there was Wednesday night, but then we we'd be exhausted we wouldn't get anything to eat and it was it was really crazy

So now because we're getting up there in age we go down there at Tuesday. That is the voice of experience and when I say truly the voice of experience because Bill Stout,

famed artist Bill Stout is one of only five people on the planet who has been to every single comic

con since 1970, right?

Yeah, and it was weird how he got on it. At that time he was doing portraits at

Disneyland in the New Orleans Square, not the caricatures, but actual oil paintings.

And as he was doing them,

he hears a voice behind him saying,

are you the Bill Stout that did the cover to COVID-19 or something like that?

And he turns around and he goes, my name is Scott Shaw.

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