If you're listening to this broadcast, you're a back to the resistance broadcast.

I'm John.

Thank you for joining us today.

With me, as always, is Lacey Gillerin and James Bainey. This is our discussion

show. Excuse me. We're going to get into some really cool stuff later in the show. But

before we get into that, as many of you probably already know, a friend of the podcast, he's been on

several times now, Jonathan Rinsler, J. W. Rinsler, who had been diagnosed with pancreatic

cancer last August. His family had tweeted out that he is making end of life plans. And they

tweeted out a GoFundMe that was going to take care of his family, which fans knocked that goal out of the

park, and they're going to be continuing to raise money now for the pancreatic cancer action

network. On behalf of us here, first, obviously, we want to say our heart goes out to Jonathan

and his family. He was an incredible guest on our show two times, I believe.

We had him on to talk about a new hope because of his amazing making of Star Wars books

and the Empire Strikes Back.

You know, the worst part about life sometimes is that you don't know what it's going to throw

at you because the very last thing that he said to us was that he looks forward to the next time and sometimes they're just not there just

isn't a next time in life but but on behalf of the three of us we just want to say all of our best

to his family Jonathan was an incredible guest on our show and is an incredible person and we can't thank him enough

for his contributions to our show and of course the Star Wars community and the world so but

we're going to be sending a donation on behalf of us to the pancreatic cancer action network we

will be tweeting out the link to their go fundundMe from J.W. Rinsler's

Twitter account. And we're going to have the link in the description here. But again,

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