Welcome to Looking at Lucasfilm, the podcast with a different perspective in 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 Lucas film have dreamed up over the past 40 years.

I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill and my co-host, the one the only, Dan Z, and I are recording this on

Wednesday, April 1st.

So how long at this point have you have you been working from home Dan? Well this is

midway through the third week although last week to be fair was our spring break

but yeah we've been doing remote or distance learning

for two of the three last weeks for sure and I have to ask it, you know, like have you and your students or for that matter you and your family

Settled into routine yet? We have we've been quite a vigilant about that because we know how important that is psychologically,

especially for the kids.

So we try to get up at our normal-ish times.

We have like certain schedules that our six-year-old follows every half hour he has

something different that he does.

Deanna, my wife and I have to work from home from 9 o' to 2.30 every single day and that involves meetings,

that involves conferencing with students, you know, electronically,

grading papers,

creating assignments, and even trying to figure out electronic ways to do lecturing.

So it's really interesting.

I mean, it's certainly quite different from anything I have done as an educator,

but I also kind of like that challenge in still finding ways to

engage students even though I'm not in the same classroom or in the same room with them.

Okay, well I mean mean, you know, and again, I love your attitude and you know, you know, you know, seeing this as a challenge rather than a burden, you know, but let's be honest though that, you know, this pandemic, you know, has had some pretty significant impact in fact just this week or in the last couple of days it impacted the the Star Wars

community and I I don't know if you've seen the story at Dan about Andrew Jack

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