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 Lucasfilm 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 29th, which means there are now only

five days left till May 4th or as in

Star Wars Day may the 4th be with you.

Dan, when's the first time you ever heard somebody use this phrase?

You know, I'm not entirely sure to be honest.

I just feel like, I mean, especially as a teacher every year

for May the 4th when school is actually you know in session in an actual building.

We always made sure that everyone wore Star Wars t-shirts.

We had Star Wars music playing in between all the periods.

We had the best time with it because it's always been fun and I've always

sort of felt like Disney and Lucasfilm should capitalize more on the merchandising aspect of this,

but I feel like it's just around what has it been 10 years who knows?

Well, see now that's the thing I did some

digging before today's show and I came across the story that first of all I want you to validate that you know I

you've heard this but reportedly the earliest recorded use of the phrase was back in 1979.

As the story goes, it was the day that Margaret Thatcher took off us as the first female

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and supposedly

members of Thatcher's political party wanted to take out a full-page newspaper

ad to commemorate the occasion and somebody in the committee was a huge fan of episode 4, New Hope and supposedly

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