Welcome to looking at Lucasfilm, the podcast with a different perspective on the

world of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and all of the other entities that George Lucas,

Kathleen Kennedy, and the rest of the team at Lucasfilm

have dreamed up over the past 40 years.

I'm Entertainment writer Jim Hill and my co-host, the one, the only Dan Zaire, and I are recording

this on Wednesday, September 4th, which is basically two weeks after all of the Star

Wars related news broke this this year's D23 Expo and what just a week

after the East Coast version of Black Spire Outpost opened at Disney's Hollywood Studios. Now Dan, you weren't able to go to the

East Coast opening because of course you're a teacher and you're dedicated to your students and that sort of thing.

But you did send somebody for coffee with Canobe?

Yes, I sent Lisa Dillard, our media specialist and she had a wonderful time experiencing everything that Batu has to offer.

I certainly missed the opportunity because they got to explore some of the buildings for the rise of the resistance which made me very jealous but

very happy for her but it sounds like it was great in fact on a on the coffee

with canobe that we recently released I spoke to her and Aaron Sagers about what it was like on the East Coast side of Betu.

Okay, well cool. We'll touch a little bit on that later in the show right.

First of all, I want to talk about your

experience at the D23 Expo which had to be a little frustrating because again you

you know you're a dedicated guy when it comes to teaching so you didn't blow off your kids you

know you you work the bulk of the week and started traveling on the Friday that's right

so you you actually miss the first day which featured the Disney Plus

presentation about the new streaming service at Disney's launching November 12.

If I remember it correctly, it wasn't

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