SWC+ Round Table Episode 21 - The Round Table Returns!

This month the Round Table returns! Rob is joined by Rob Wade, Rob Williams and Tim Truax to discus the SWC rebrand and the re launch of the Round Table.

Episode Transcript

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Live from the friendly confines of theFlannel Beaver Studio is here in northern Ontario.
It is the return of the Roundtable. Yes, I know, finally
the Roundtable has come back to theairways. There we get a lot to
touch on. And you notice I'mnot using the typical um title of the

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Roundtable. We're gonna get to that. There's a little bit of reband going
on. But I'm not alone joiningme from the uh SWC plus group.
Uh yeah, a little lead there. I have good friends from all over
the planet. Actually we have.I'm gonna start with Rob from the Generation

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Paste from the Generation X Ring podcast, all the way in the West coast
of Canada. How are you doing? All? Be good to see again?
Good, good morning everybody. Goodmorning. So you're okay? Nine
am? Where you are? Yes? I am and in quarantine and oh
well, we'll get to that ina bit. But um, let's shuffle
out Day twelve, folks, Daytwelve. She's I think I'm seeing bright

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lights and animals crossing my path here. All right, We're gonna move one
hour time difference just east of youto to our good friend Tim from the
NURM. Tim, how are youdoing very well, man, very well.
I'm glad to be back on theround Table. We're rebranding it actually,
Tim and the three Robs, littlelittle little foreshadowing for who's coming next

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year. And I'm excited to beback here. Guys. Always love podcasting
with the three of you, andit's gonna be a fun conversation. Excellent.
And of course there's myself. Iam in the Eastern time zone and
for so nine am for Rob fromthe Generation Next Wing, Tim, it
is ten am. Myself it's noon, but somewhere it's five pm. And

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that's our good friend from the UK. Rob. Wait, how you doing.
I'm not dead? Yeah, yeah, I'm still alive. It turns
out you would be forgiven for thinkingthat social based on if you only live
on social media, you'd be forgivenfor thinking I'd vanish without trace. But
I am alive, honest, allright. Yes, and Rob from the
TSW podcast. But we'll get intothat. There's been gaps and holes and

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everything else. We're gonna get thatin a little bit. So cool to
come back, Not really yet,really not yet. So this is what's
happening. The TSW Roundtable is nowgaining a rebrand. We are going forward,
we're going to be the s WCStar Wars Common Wolf Plus Roundtable.

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So SWC plus Roundtable a slight rebrand. The Roundtable isn't leaving TSW well kind
of Um, we're gonna pick upour own feed. We're a Rob,
Rob Wade and and I. Weare not getting divorced mom and dads to
love each other. We're just seeingother people. So basically, what's happening.

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So for all the TSW listeners outthere, what's gonna happen going forward?
We're gonna release simultaneously on my feedthe new feed for the SWC plus
Roundtable, and we will keep releasingas we do. Hopefully it will be
once a month. Now we're gettingback to a regular scheduled programming on the

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TSW feed, so that way eventualoyay, we we'll do it for six
months or year whatever whatever. Roband I are discussing this and that way.
For those who love the Roundtable andwant to continue listening to the Roundtable
in the future, you have timeto migrate. It's not like it's like,
oh, where's this Roundtable gone?It's gone. I can never find
it now, and it's like buriedunder what how many podcasts are out there

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now? A million? How manymillion? Three million? Three? Right?
Thank you? That's a million lastweek and there's a female Now I
saw that on CNN. They gota tally in the corner or something about
podcasting about yeah something. I'm prettyI'm pretty sure. Well that's what it's
for you. Three quarters of thoseare Star Wars exactly exactly. So,
um, you're gonna have a hardtire. You sure it's that logo?

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Yes, it's just yeah, itwas like that two weeks ago. Yes,
So going forward, the roundtable isstill the same. We uh yet,
t s w Rob Wade and I. We're still in constant communication.
Nothing's changing. We're just kind ofexpanding the brand and going forward with that.
On the topic of expanding the brand, the Star Wars Commonwealth Network has

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gone undergone a change. Tim,I'm gonna throw it to you because you're
you kind of spearheaded this over thesummer and we've finally hashed out what this
is going to be. So what'shappening with the network or or what's going
on? Explain that to our friends. I can't tell if you're to throw
them blame at me or if I'mjust no, no, no, no,

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So this is all new information tome. I didn't know any of
this. No. So, asRob has alluded to here, the network
itself, the Stars Commonwealth Network,has gone undergone a bit of a change
and more of an evolution, Ilike to call it as opposed to anything
else. And so the original intentof the network as set up by Mark
Godsify, by Rob Here from GenerationNext Wing and Kyle Ver at Tumbling Saber,

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the original tent there was was tobring together you know, like minded
individuals, great podcasts focused on StarWars. You know, Star Wars was
a huge podcasting brand in two thysixteen twenty fifteen in the build up to
the Force Awakens, and really comingout of that was this enormous fan base
that was hungry for content in theStar Wars world and Star Wars space,

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and so it only made sense tokind of continue to amalgamate podcasts and you
know, not like Joe Rogan stylepodcast but good podcasters and and bring together
kind of basically this this nice foundationand where you know, we the individuals
that pulled it together, kind ofcurated through a great set of podcasts and

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create a community behind that and theidea there was to support each other,
promote each other, and grow together. And the s TOBC did exactly that,
you know, bringing on you know, up to I think nine or
ten podcasts out at one point thereand really created this this great community where
a lot of people felt that theycould go and express their opinions and not

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feel like they were going to bepushed back or felt that, you know,
there's no gate keeping or anything likethat within the Commonwealth itself. And
then we get to twenty nineteen,twenty twenty and as you guys noticed,
is that listens those have been withus for for four or five years now
could see that the network itself haskind of gone quiet, and it just
got to the point, I thinkduring the summer when we're all talking,

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we all had a lot of tonto think because you know, most of
us were locked away for the lastsix months or so, and so we
got talking about, you know,what's the next step evolution for the Star
Wars Commonwealth. Is it a network? Is it something different? And we
want to grow the brand of theSWC. Hence the plus that's gone on
to the side of it, youknow, not that that's stealing or anything

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like that. It's it's an originalthought. Just Disney got to it before
we actually announced the rebrand here withthe SWC Plus. So the idea behind
that, and you know, Robis going to be of course running the
Roundtable, but this allows and expandsthe discussions that can happen here. It's
not particularly Star Wars focus, andthat's really you know, one of the
main things that we looked at withthe network is it was so Star Wars

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focused. It's like we weren't seeingthe growth that we wanted. And so
what we've done is we transition thenetwork itself to what we're calling a group
and there'll be more information of thatcomes and kind of the kickoff of that
campaign is really with the Roundtable hereand the plus is you know, intended
to be we can talk about morethan just Star Wars. We can pull

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in other podcasts from other networks orwhatever and and have broader discussions on the
Roundtable, whether it be Star Trek, Marvel DC, whatever you guys want
to talk about. Again, I'mnot running this and I'm putting maybe putting
into words into Rob's mouth here,but ultimately the idea was to expand the
brand expand the scope, and thenthe network itself, it's really it's kind

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of gone away, to be honestwith you, but the camaraderie and the
support is all still there. Butit was a way to open up some
avenues for for podcasts to maybe exploredifferent options, look at different networks.
The network idea, at least inmy opinion, isn't maybe quite as valuable
as it was three or four yearsago. And I think realistically it's the

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idea of the group is to isto just continue with that camaraderie, that
that brotherhood, that that bonding overstar wars, over like minded individuals and
and really go forward with that.And so the network itself, you see
most of the branding scraped off allthe podcasts, but this group that we're
going to kicking up is meant tocapture the essence. You know, I
think the best part of what thenetwork was, and that was the individuals

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that were sharing it with. Andso that's essentially, you know, in
a nutshell, where where the network'sgone and what is kind of coming out
us forward and being led really byby Rob in the in the round table
here. Yeah, I couldn't havesaid it any better and also too,
it gives us UM with their theirour core group is still together. We

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are literally all over the planet andand a lot of us are UM are
really boots on the ground. Iknow. I make I make my way
to every celebration I can like itor I have. In last I got
tickets for the next one, soit'll be my third in a row.
I've been down to San Diego forthe Comic Con there. I'm usually at
Toronto Fanfare, and then we gotRob Williams out West. He's he's in

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the fible first and he's literally atHe's troop and all over the place,
and and everybody involved. Um.I think we have so much to offer,
and especially a lot of these conswe're at, it doesn't they're not
always just Star Wars celebration. Likeobviously for me that's a huge focus,
right, That's that's my kind ofthing. But a lot when I go

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to fan Expo in Toronto or robsat fan x Bow in Vancouver. If
wherever we're at, there's a lot, there's a lot more events going on,
And I think the plus is moreconducive to the nerd room, which
which you guys dabble on absolutely everything. Well, you've Star Star Wars and
and Marvel and DC as if anyonehas heard the Nerd Room, you've heard
the opening credits and Generation X Wing, which is you got? I I

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saw your Rushrek test there the otherday, right, I loved it.
I loved it. He opens up, he goes digging in his attic and
he finds old toys. He opensup the box and you go and he
tags a bunch of people to doit. He's what do you see?
I'm like, is that perse?He is from Clash of the Titans circa
nineteen eighty one. That's amazing.Like, we have a lot more to

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talk about than Star Wars. Again, I'm an astromac builder. My heart's
always with Star Wars. I'm iam Star Wars there and through. And
that's why the group is sw Youmade s Starr SWC plus you mean it's
where Yeah, most of us arestill Star Wars at our core, but
it just gives us a chance likethe next I doubt there'll be another endgame
type phenomenon, but you never know. It gives us that opportunity. Hey,

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we might have a roundtable on youmean there might be a Star trek
rebrand. There might be he meana he Man rebrand. Oh actually there
is coming up. Actually that's somethingelse. But whatever, we're into it
just it gives us the open door. Now. Um, I'm gonna throw
it over to Rob Wade from theUK, just to touch on our relationship

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with again tsw Our relationship is fine. Where we're we're not. It's not
like, oh Rob's leaving. I'mthe Rob cast myself. I'm not leaving
the band. I'm not Paul McCartneyin this thing. Um, you know
what I mean. Like, it'snot like we're there's no We just want
to make sure there's no hostility.Nobody's and also to nobody's done anything untoward

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on any social media platform which iscausing this to happen. I should say
that because there's been some issues inthe past with other bots that we're not
getting any gonna get into. Butjust so everybody knows, Yeah, everywhere,
everybody's cool in the gang here,right, everybody's fine. Everything.
I don't know. I see YokoOno is sitting behind your shoulder there.
Oh yeah, no, that's yeah. I hope the astro mech So okay,

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shut up, art you Okay,daddy's talking. Um so Rob waite,
uh and we we have to touchon this and I'm we knew we
were gonna talk. You got somethingin the back of your mind. Um.
T s W. There's been apause? Yes, so, um
what exactly? Again? We don'tneed any this. This isn't like under

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the spotlight here where this is theexclusive spill of beans R. What's going
on? We did what to whomaround this so gracefully. But Rob Williams
is probably nailed to the sentiment here, why do you want to know?
Yes? T? S W?We miss you. Oh isn't that nice?

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Yeah? I mean yeah, Imean there is a there has been
a pause, and the pause issignificantly longer than I had in mind I
originally so backing up a little bitso in the run up to TSW two
hundreds, which obviously was a nice, big milestone show, which was one
that I was very keen to getto. I was I wouldn't say unhappy

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with the content, but it wasit was becoming increasingly difficult to put out
episodes that I considered to be ofhigh quality, and part of that was
a lack of news. Part ofthat was a little bit of a dip
in the frequency of communications from listeners, or at least a dip in the
kind of consistency of that contact.So the way I've kind of, you

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know, in short form, ifwe didn't get any emails, we were
FFT. If we didn't have anynews, we were FT. If we
didn't have any emails or news,we would double AFT. So in the
run up to two hundreds, Iwas I was already kind of pretty convinced
that there was going to have tobe need to be some sort of hiatus
while we kind of rethought the format, and I had every intention to be

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clear when I said in two hundredswe will be back, I was fully
expecting that to be true. Andyou know, I'm happy to kind of
to say that categorically that I nopoint was I ever kind of what's the
word. It was never an attemptto kind of yeah. There was no
attempt week attempted duplicity, There wasno attempt to kind of yeah. There's

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no clipbait for sure. But theoriginal plan was relaunch at the end of
March to coincide with the launch ofDisney Plus in the UK, and to
make it a seasonal show and thefirst season. Obviously, given the nature
of Disney Plus is launch in theUK was going to be an episode by
episode breakdown of the Mandalorian season one, which I thought was a really good

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way to start off. And thenwe had this unprecedented global pandemic, which
I'm sure you've read about in thepapers. Yeah, it's been matched.
Yeah, so that was you know, it might not seem like that was
necessarily the kind of thing that she'dderailed a podcast that's recorded from home.
But then I got told I neededto take in one of my relatives for

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an under an unspecified period of time, which ended up being ten weeks.
I was happy to do so.To be clear, obviously everybody on this
call already knows about this, andI did kind of touch on it at
the time. I was aware thatthere would be some sort of family stuff
to deal with. It was neverthere was never any kind of health dangers,
but I appreciate everybody who reached outas if that was the case,

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which is, you know, it'svery very kind of gratifying to get that
kind of support. So by thetime that situation changed, it was June,
and in June, the idea oflaunching with episode one Mandalorian season one,
episode one, three months after DisneyPlus has launched, even in the

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UK, and up to a yearafter everybody else have seen it, became
increasingly less what's the word. Yeah, it became less of an idea I
wanted to run with. And thesimple truth at this stage is I haven't
come up with a good one,and I've been trying very hard. I'm

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not to the point where I'm contentto bring the show back exactly as it
was before, because that sort ofdefeats the point of rethinking everything. Because
if you just kind of go,hey, a two hundred, we're going
to take a hiatus, and theneight months later it's like, hey,
remember what you had before? Hereit is exactly again, it wouldn't be
good. I don't think the listenerswould actually stick with it. I wouldn't

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blame them. I would lose interestvery fast. This has happened. There
is a pattern of this with myprevious podcasts, which is, you know,
when I feel like we're just recordingevery Thursday or every two weeks,
because it's been two weeks or oneweek since the last time we recorded,
and this is what we do.That's the point where I need to stop
because I just lose that kind ofenthusiasm for whatever I'm doing, and I

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think it probably comes through and I'dhave to go back and listen. But
I have a feeling that if youhad to go back and listen to the
last few episodes of Talk Star Warswith that last five minutes of my monologueing
in mind, you would probably pickup on that. I would think.
Now, obviously I'm not. Youknow, I like to think of myself
as a pretty honest individual, prettyupfront, but I obviously don't necessarily just

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volunteer every detail about my personal andprofessional and creative life, because that's not
the same thing as being honest,that's just being I wanted to I want
to jump in just a little bithere because I listened to your show like
all the time when it when itwas on. Obviously, now I'm just
listening to the air, but it'sstill old episodes. I never not,

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well, I've listened to them.I have to, But I never sense
that you got tired of it.But I knew that when you were talking
an episode two hundred about relying onthe emails, and they were good emails.
I mean absolutely not to take.There were were there were great discussions
that came out of it, butI can see what you're seeing, and

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it became a point it was justI could. I could. I never
sense that you were bored of itor frustrate with it, but because your
enthusiasm was still there. But whenyou when you talked about it, was
like, yeah, I get it, I totally end. Yeah. And
it's important to say as well,like one of the things that would was
not something I didn't enjoy, youknow. I enjoyed doing the actual content.
And that's partly because I was onwith somebody I know I've been friends

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with for many years. But actuallythere were times where the subject matter of
Star Wars on a week like that, where it's no news and no emails,
the subject of Star Wars actually becomesa constraint rather than something that enables
the flow of conversation. And Ithink part of it as well was in
the run up to the rise ofSkywalker. And obviously anybody who's gone back

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and listen knows I had mixed feelingsabout that film anyway, which is near
here or there. But anybody whocan sort of remember that through, you
know, with as much objectivity aspossible. We're recalled. Actually the new
cycle around that film was not ona comparison with previous years. There was
very little in the way of bitsand pieces kind of dropping through through kind

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of news. There was not alot of pressed stuff for it. It
was in comparison to previous Star WarsSaga movies. It felt like it was
a much more understated campaign in therun up to the film, And actually
the film really kind of came andwent without much hurrah, and it was
almost like everybody was kind of Okay, just get it out there and then

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we're done. Well. And Ithink that's that's a lot of it too.
You know, as as creatives,you know, these aren't this isn't
our full time job. If forany of us, this is our hobby,
and as as creative individuals that wantto put out consistently good content.
And I found that I agree withyou at a point Star Wars itself and
I'm just trying to be as honestas possible. It was almost like everyone

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took a deep breath after the Riseof skywalkerway and said, Okay, we're
gonna let this go for a littlebit. And then the Mando hit,
and you know, I think thingspicked up again, but there does come
a point or a crossroad said asa creator, and I've said the same
thing, like if I'm no longerhaving fun, why am I doing this?
Right? Like, it's not likeyou're getting a paycheck that you're just
kind of like clocking in clocking out, you know what I mean, and

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someone's deposited money into your bank account. This is meant to be fun,
This is meant to be an outlet, and this is meant to be a
platform where you can share and enjoya collective passion. And if you lose
that, then there I think it'sit's you know, a big credits you
for stepping back and saying, Okay, let's put this on pause until I
can find you know, my voiceagain? Really yeah, because just dragging

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on because you just want to clickup the numbers of the podcast episodes.
It's not healthy for you, it'snot healthy for the listeners. It's it
just doesn't work right. And andso taking that that proactive step and saying,
Okay, we're gonna put this onpause until we figure something out.
You know, Applause to you fordoing something like that. It's it couldn't
have been easy. No, it'snot, and it hasn't. It's continued
to not be easy. And thisis one of the things that's so nice

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about this network and this group isthat you get a ton of support from
people who you know, from anumber of people I would feel I have
no right to get support from interms of, you know, just sheer
volume of kind of well wishes andgrass students stuff. Even when we were
talking about hiatus is when it wasfirst when the original hiatus was planned to
be six weeks, and like Isay, now we're eight months and I
haven't come up with anything that willThat really has kind of made me think,

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oh, yes, that's it.That's the that's the angle I need
to take with this. And that'snot to say that I will never So
this is another thing I want tokind of just kind of get out there
is this conversation and this kind ofmonologue that I'm delivering here is not an
admission that I'm done with anything withregards to I mean, I've never considered

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my other podcast, which some ofthem have been a year without a release,
I've never considered those to be done, as in they are not finished.
I don't think of my projects inthat way. I think of them
as like, yeah, you knowwhat, I've got nothing right now,
But there's not to say that Icouldn't have something in the future where suddenly
the idea of, you know,a new crazy train. Although actually there's

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a guy who's taken that name andrun with it, and I'm kind of
happy to just let him go becauseeven though he obviously doesn't do the basic
Google research to find that some ofthat name has already been in use for
six years, he's he seems tobe doing okay. So you know,
I'm kind of tempted to the ironyof it. Your approach to your podcast
and your projects and your creative outletsis very George Lucas of you. Oh
really, back burner it for alittle bit. Yeah, story's ever done?

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Yeah exactly, it's it's again.It's just I just have to point
out the ron that's a fair point. Actually, I hadn't thought about it
that way, but I and youknow, maybe that means that when I
come to doing the next round ofprojects, I need somebody to tell me
no occasionally, because I get afeeling that was the theme of the prequels
if I start doing the crazy tryingprequels, then somebody needs to step in
and have a work. I'm lookingfor happy, Well, what is it

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going to be emotionally for or emotionallyI don't thirteen makes sense, right,
Yeah, that doesn't make sense.Yeah, most well you want to lead
up to it, so mostly andtwelve. Yeah, I guess yeah,
there don't want to go to tooshort a distance between fourteen and the previous
because otherwise it's like nothing really drasticallyhas changed. So I guess like emotionally
seven or eight it's probably like agood one to kind of come in.

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It's okay, Now there's like agenerational it's a generational gap, right,
yeah, so that's kind of no. I think that's it. I appreciate
it. Then that's that's awesome.We appreciate the honesty. And again and
it's all of this is calmly neededinto the perfect storm and that and again
that's why we're here. We're tellingwe're not gone, We're not we we
all took a step back the theend of the Star Wars saga again,

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you know, was after rise aSkywalker, um, all of a sudden,
a global pandemic the uh, justlack of conversation and what we're all
we ought to deal with our ownthings and we're all trying to live with
this and also to the elephant inroom too. And again not to dwell
on this, but when we asa group lost our good friend Steve Kirk

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really went after he passed away,we all when we had our first meeting
because we have like a small councilfor the network and now the group and
we're still together like that kind ofoversees everything. We had a zoom meeting
and I remember somebody saying, oh, yeah, this is the elephant in
the room, Like I think itwas Rob Way the mentioned like no one
wants to talk about it, butnobody was the same after that, and

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it kind of there's a lot ofit that that that hurt, you mean,
and there's a lot of it.There was a lot of healing that
had to be done, a lotof things and and you know it's one
of those things, especially for myselfat the roundtable, it was he was
a huge part of it. Imean, like we did that live show
from Chicago, you know, likewe did Uh. He was always and

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Rob m Williams you can attest.So this he's always right there whenever,
hey, I got a trivia nightcoming up on generation next wing, like
he was right there, like hewas money if he needed him. And
even he he was the guy toothat every celebration and every STECC especially,
like I've got exclusives that he sentme. I've got a Ryan meandering piece

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of art of all the forms ofCaptain America framed to my left here that
you've rolled up and sent me,you know, unsolicited from my end.
He just wrote me and said youhave to have this. I had no
idea what it was that popped itopen, and I was like, whoa.
And that was just the type ofguy he was, And you're right,
like that hurt a lot. Thatwas That was shocking. That was
like to the point like we communicatevia via Twitter and Rob Cast calls me

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when that happened, like on thetelephone. Yeah, he's on the actual
ring ring. Yeah. So itwas kind of weird because I was like,
oh, no, like something somethingmust be wrong here. Um yeah,
its normally because and again we're allover the war world, so I'll
will we have our main we havelike different feeds. We have our feed
for like the our group now thethe SWC plus group at like the Council,

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the guys that oversee everything kind of, and then we have the show
runners, and then we have likeone for the for all our our Knights
of the Commonwealth which are still there, and they're all so we have different
levels. And because it's easier forme and say, oh, I wonder
if Rob Wade is up, oh, I'll just drop it. I'll message
him and then he'll get to itwhen he gets to it. But that
was one of those times or itwas like, well I got I can't

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like call me right away, orlike like what do I what you do
like and it was one of those. So we're all doing that, and
I remember I reached out into afew of the Knights too in the moment
because I knew Tim, I hadyour year number, and uh, there
is a couple of nights that Iknow personally, I mean, like a
Riley, I call him immediately too, And it just there's some people I
just didn't want. I mean,I was trying to get it out as

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fat because I knew on the feed, Rob Will you you knew Rob Wade,
you knew. And then but Timwasn't responding, so I knew you
were kind of you might have beendoing something away from your phone, and
it was just it's one of thosethings that there's a few people I didn't
want to hear outside of our group. It just seems weird, right,
And again, it was just oneof those um and again if for Rob

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Williams, you talked eloquently about itbefore and I know it's it's not you.
It's again, we're just kind ofit was a perfect storm of COVID
the end of the saga. Welost Steve. I mean, there's a
lot going on, you know,and I think for me personally coming back
and doing this when I was afterthat all that happened was kind of like,

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I don't know, just one ofthose it was. It was a
hard reminder. It was like oneof those things like do I do I
want to do something that's gonna beand you know what, I got to
a point where I was like,you know what, No, I don't.
Steve would be very unhappy with meif he thought I was not doing
something because I was feeling sad formyself. It was just one It just

(28:04):
he wouldn't He would very be verydisagreeing with that, and uh and yeah
that it's just again not to bringthe whole podcast down, but again,
this is just one of this isthis is where we're just laying it all
in the caabable for everybody. It'sa bit of a state of the union,
right of everything that's going on,and to pull the curtain back a
little more even um beyond that.And you know you touched on it,
Rob well, both robs about thisglobal pandemic and all that, and it's

(28:26):
an interesting topic that we've really onthe Nerd Room veered away from talking explicitly
about because you know, our podcastis meant to be a bit of an
escapism, is meant to be,you know, your your minute away from
reality and diving into this world thatwe love and enjoy talking about. But
funny enough, like and you touchedon it perfectly there, Robbed that you

(28:47):
think that doing something like this fromhome during a pandemic should just be okay,
we're just gonna do that, Likethat just makes sense, right,
this is your guy's hobby and butpersonally too, it's it's been an interesting
ride. Has as a listener,you may think that, yeah, you
can, it's easy now you guysare all at home, and but it's
been this weird struggle through the entiretyof the pandemic to you know, focus

(29:12):
on the creative elt at times,and although everyone is searching for things to
do in their house, I foundthat the distraction from outside the house has
been, you know, at timesvery heavy, and that really weighs into
you know, your creative ella,that really stamps that out, and so

(29:33):
you end up with this kind offoggy mindset and trying to focus on something
that is creative and requires you totake a step back from your own mindset.
It's difficult times at times to puttogether, you know, something that
you feel proud of and then youfeel engaged in. Yeah, and I
can fully appreciate that, Rob.What you were saying, you know,

(29:57):
just that it's not as easy ismaybe people might think it because yeah,
it's a reasonable supposition to kind oflike you exactly like you outlined, to
believe that a home based hobby isjust going to be easy because everybody's at
home now. But actually I've neverstopped working throughout this. I've been remote

(30:17):
working since this whole thing. Infact, actually since before we all locked
down. In the UK, Iwas already remote working ahead of you know,
because we kind of anticipated that somethingwas going to come along the pipeline.
This so I've never actually stopped theMonday to Friday nine to five.
I mean that the hour was verydepending on how much I sleepin, but
I tend to make the time upat the end of the day. Which
is the other thing as well,is it throws you know when you have

(30:38):
a routine around your commute. Forexample, so like me, I know
exactly what train I would be onin the morning, I know exactly what
train I would be on in theevening. I have a rough idea of
when i'd walk through the door,I have a rough idea of when you
know when I would eat, andthen I would have X time until I
went to beds, which would berelatively consistent depending on what I was doing

(30:59):
to do stuff, and that mightbe creative things, that might be just
unwinding. But when your remote working, it's very easy to slip into that
kind of oh well, I'll justdo half an hour extra just to make
my life easier tomorrow. But athalf an hour will cascades and have an
effect on every single part of therest of your day very very easily without
really kind of factoring in it.It's a lot easier to set factor that

(31:22):
in when you have a more sortof tightly bound routine. And to expand
on what you said about the kindof the focus and stuff, I'm not
going to mince words when I saythat there have been times for you know,
mentally for me where this period hasbeen brutal. And you know,
it's not to say by any stretchthat I've had it worse than anybody in
the world, because I'm very awarethat, you know, just by the

(31:45):
fact that I've been working the wholetime, I'm luckier than a lot of
people, and I'm fully conscious ofthe fact that I could have it so
much worse than I do. Butit doesn't mean my my my life hasn't
been hard in other ways. Andwhile I've been locked down and while I've
been in we're in lockdown again inthe UK, but there was that period

(32:07):
between the two where you weren't lockeddown, but life wasn't normal. So
I kind of called it like thestaydown period. It's like you lock down,
and you stay down, and thenyou lock down again, and then
we'll be a staydown again, probablyaround Christmas time. But it's been tough,
and you know, and one ofthe things I think, I'm actually
kind of I'm not gonna lie whenI say, I'm actually kind of relieved

(32:29):
that I haven't had to grind throughweekly production of something that I wasn't the
most proud of I could be,because I think actually it's freed me up
a little bit too. I've actuallystarted to think about other things I could
do that might not be creative,they might just be things I've meant to
do for ages that I've actually hada chance to do now. And you

(32:51):
know, it is it's it's difficultto not produce stuff, and especially when,
like I said, I have thiskind of well, you know,
I have this kind of warm,well wishing people who who know I'm sure
they missed the show, and I'mI'm disappointed that I can't be there for
them in that regards. It isthat does weigh on me. But at
the same time, I feel likethere are they've never been more options of

(33:16):
ways to spend your time just aswell, if not better, for a
start, and I don't think thatif I were to produce stuff during this
time, it would be it wouldbe any good anyway, And so I'm
worried that, you know, Iwould worry that actually all that good will
that I've built up over the yearsby doing what I can to kind of
do the best job I can wouldjust be eroded anyway through no, you

(33:37):
know, just because I wouldn't bedoing my best work. I say,
well, well, but put putsimply your your your hobby has become a
chore. When when your mind iswrapped around that, like it just becomes
it's it's difficult. Yeah, andthat's where we're and that's where we're at
now and getting to um, hownow that we're on this COVID thing,

(34:00):
Rob Williams, you're currently in lockdown. But uh, um you are you
are are healthy? Yeah, I'mlooking at you. You look great,
really to fantastic, fantastically illusion.I don't know what filter you us.
It's really a shame. This isa podcast so so um, but that's

(34:22):
what I wanted to mention you talkto you, Rob. Um. I
wore my my brand new I gotmy brand new trooping tunic because I'm in
the Astromack Builders Club and because Ican't wear it anywhere and it's really really
upsetting, and you guys are theones that could appreciate it. U five.
Oh, first, how is uhlike hospital visits? Can you even

(34:45):
do that now? Like I don't. Can you touch on? Like obviously
there's no conventions, so so touchon? What's going on? What are
you guys doing? Okay, SoI've been listening to you guys really intently
and just and taking notes furiously downhere. And when we talk about COVID.
First of all, I'm in lockdown. This says Day twelve of fourteen.
It's the second time I've been inlockdown. My son's daycare had an

(35:05):
outbreak and shut the whole place down, and it just it is what it
is. He's negative. I'm fine. It's just we do We do our
job. It's our responsibility to takecare of others outside. That's why I
hadn't seen grandparents all that sort ofstuff. I'm a frontline worker. I'm
in the schools all the time,so as a neil and we are always
at the risk of exposure every daywe walk into that building despite all the

(35:28):
requirements that we have, and wehave some strong walls and strong defenses up
to prevent this. But it isnot impossible. We had a case in
our school after week three, andit's just that's what happens, and not
excusing it. I'm not, It'sjust I'm just stating what's happening. So
when we when we go focus buntdown to our hobbies, since we all

(35:52):
don't meet in person, all fourof us go into a zoom and we
take our work home. As ateacher, even before COVID, when the
invention of the email, all ofa sudden we became accessible twenty four to
seven, and that you have toadjust and try to learn how to balance
your life out. Now with COVID, you are twenty four, you know,

(36:15):
twenty five seven, and it's it'sjust where do we find the time
we have to do it. It'sas we're all was saying, we have
to adjust our schedule accordingly, halfan hour here, dominoes everywhere else,
And how much do you really wantto sit in front of a computer screen
and zoom for two three four hoursfor just work and then do a podcast

(36:35):
for two three four hours. Wewe podcast two episodes at a week,
sorry, two episodes recording, andthat's an hour each one, so it
comes two hours two and a halfhours plus a little banter back back and
forre, so we're on three hours, and it's tough for a lot of
us. For me not so much, because I enjoy talking to people outside

(36:57):
my world. I don't connect alot because in the school. But Jamie's
working from home, Steve works partiallyfrom home, and Neils again I said,
like he's a teacher, so he'sbouncing back and forth, and we
all have our families want to getconnected to. So that takes priority families
first job, second, hobby,third, and so it because it starts

(37:19):
to chip away at the limited hoursthat you have. When you have time
for this hobby and a hobby thatwe still truly enjoy, it makes me
so happy. A one hour podcastfor me to edit takes me three hours
to edit. A ten minute videofor the Outer Rim Rookie takes me three

(37:40):
hours, maybe three and a halfhours to edit. That's a lot of
time. And when you've got maybetwo hours a day after you put a
little guy back to bed and youjust got to get lunches together, get
all this stuff, it takes alot of time. It's a lot of
time out of your schedule. Andyeah, it's it's just a lot.

(38:01):
And so I'm sounding gloom and doomhere because I'm not stopping the podcast.
But it does like a Neils hadto take a step back because he's have
to focus on what's important for him, and so he pops in here and
there. Jamie's had to step backevery once in a while, as Steve's
had to step back, and it'sjust that's the way it goes. And
so I've got the street going andI want to keep it running. But

(38:24):
when it doesn't happen, it doesn'thappen. That's all we can do.
So when he talked to file First, stuff it. I'm gonna I'm not
trying to throw shade on anybody inthe five first, but it amazes me.
I'm connected to a lot of peopleoutside our garrison all over the world.
It amazes me how they're still trooping. It amazes me how they're still

(38:45):
doing parades. It amazes me howthey're still going to all these places and
just high fiving everybody. And we'rehere in Vancouver. We did we do
the air hospital visit, and thosehospital visits are so organized and so structured
where there is no chance of thatchild getting sick because it's almost behind glass

(39:09):
in a way, and those arelike rare and there's only maybe two three
people that would go there. There'sall this protocol, even before COVID,
there's this protocol of how you cleanyour gear and all that sort of stuff.
And so we've had in this yearprobably five troops. I think I
can't remember when our fan next butwas, and I've been to very few

(39:30):
of them because I just can't dothe risk. And so I'm stuck,
like, there's my show. Ican't I don't have a show to do.
And so all of a sudden,I was fortunate, so fortunate enough
to have me and none fall intomy lap and get access to building.
And now I like, I'm genuinelyexcited. I'm like so hype to build

(39:52):
something. Before I was scared todo it. Now I'm like thrilled to
do it. And it's because nowI've got not only a show, but
I have a hobby of a costumeto build, and I can connect with
my friends even through distance, likeTerry Chew, who has helped me with
the mask he's working on as wespeak. He's going to give me some
stuff for the show and he's sotalented, and it's just like I,
actually, my hobby can continue alittle bit despite the limited hours I have.

(40:14):
And so ten minutes here, tenminutes there, fifty minutes here,
fifty minutes that's all you do,and that's all it is. A beach
is just little grains of sand.I'll look and when the final products there,
it's a lovely beach. So whenwe talk about podcasting, it is
really tough because COVID has affected everythingnow. Fortunately, and this goes to

(40:36):
the second thing I wanted to talkabout Star Wars podcast. We from the
very beginning is we're going on sixyears as of January, six years of
a podcast. We from the verybeginning knew that a Star Wars podcast was
not going to be in the works. We just knew All Stars all the
time is not it. We can'ttalk about Star Wars for fifty two weeks

(40:58):
of the year. It just can't. We just can't do it. We
have other things, we have otherinterests. And so when we talk about
that, put that Rorschach test boxI as you were talking about I was
looking at I'm like, that's theperfect analogy of what our show is.
It's everything it's a box of justrandom junk that we remember from our youth
and we just throw it out thereand hey, remember this. It's becomes

(41:19):
a south Park remember this, rememberremember you know. It's just it becomes
like just four guys getting together talkingabout what excites us, what do we
enjoy? Remember the eighties, rememberthe nineties, and every someone, So
we every so often we just talkabout how it connects with today, like
we just did Brooklyn nine nine.We get due to trivia shows still and
Steve Kirk is the two time championof the Neil before Zod Trophy. I

(41:43):
actually did a whole list, likea Stanley Cup of who's won, and
Tim you're on there too, bythe way, you are, so it's
twenty sixteen. But it's just Iwill put the list up soon, but
it's just it's those are the thingsthat I enjoy doing trivia with my friends
and then getting to edit and listenback and have fun with it and do
little funny sounds and commercial breaks andweird little things like that. It's a

(42:06):
fun hobby. So when we talkabout Star Wars, I don't know how
these new Star Wars podcasts are ableto survive for a long period of time
without saying something somebody else has.So you rely on the personality steel Steel.
Saunders has a personality he can sell. He can sell ice to the

(42:27):
Inuit. It's just he has sucha great personality to talk about Star Wars
all the time. Everybody like Iknow that Skyhoppers, they focus along on
literature. You find that hobby sandCrawlers, Oh my god, those guys
do so well just talking about thefigures and it's just that's and it's entertaining,
it's so much fun. So youhave to find that niche. So

(42:49):
this new Star Wars podcast, whatare you talking about? What is your
focus? What are you going tohow are you going to stand out amongst
the thousands and thousands of our StarWars podcasts, Because it's got to stand
out something, and it's got tolast from more than a year, more
than two years. How long areyou willing to do this? And that's
why going back to our show sixyears and I would say maybe a third

(43:13):
of that Star Wars we did theMando was going back to what Rob Wade
was talking about. We did aMando play by play and we did it
like months after the first episode came, but you know what, we want
to talk about it, so westuck with it and we were again it
was old news, and sometimes thatmakes a difference. I don't listen to
old news Star Wars news podcasts.I don't go back and listen to the

(43:34):
old news because it's old news.It's done, so I want to lead
this new stuff. But sometimes alittle play by play of an episode.
I enjoy that. I'm listening toSimpsons episodes where I they go episode by
episode of episode his four finger discount, give me a plug because they're awesome.
But it's just m I go backand those shows are like twenty years
old almost, and it's just like, you know what. I'll listen to
it because remember remember when you knowthat's sort of attitude. So that's why

(43:59):
we stick with our format. Andum and I get it. I get
why the the the network is changingbecause you have to you have to evolve.
Um. I still like connected withyou guys. I still like meeting
up and talking about stars. It'sstill so much fun. But my life
is other other than Star Wars.I have so much other things other than

(44:21):
pop culture. I have other thingsthat I want to do and Um,
that's what's important, so that Idon't know if I answered that question,
but yeah, well no not yeah, go ahead, dim, I was
gonna say. It's just it's it'sfunny. It just listen to all this.
And I don't want anyone to thinkthat this is like a you know,
we need a pat on the backtype thing or anything like that.
But it's such a double edged swordwith with podcasting, because there's been times

(44:43):
during this whole pandemic that I've foundit difficult, but it's also been my
anchor. Yes, it's been thething that has been, you know,
the most consistent in my life outsideof my my family. It's the most
consistent thing in my life right now. You know, I work six feet
away from where I'm sitting and whereI podcast in the same room, and
I've been doing that since February,and but I look forward to every Tuesday

(45:05):
when I get together with Troye,Don Jay and Carlos and we sit and
we just talk about and we escapeand we and that was the whole essence
of the podcast, right And it'syeah, it doesn't come without as difficulties,
but at the same time, itis just it's been there for us
through all of this, and that'sthat's been an important piece of it.

(45:27):
As difficult as it is at times, it is not more. It is
not a burden. I don't feelon any of us. It is.
It's an anchor. It's an outlet. And and I think with any hobby
or anything that someone does, youknow, if if the gym is your
thing, you're going to feel thatweight. Sometimes I don't want to do
this. This is difficult. Ican't go to the gym, you know
what I mean. And so it'snone of this is about you know,

(45:50):
the you know, we want youto feel sorry for us. It's just
an honest conversation about podcasting, wherethe network is, where we are as
individual podcasters and creative, and andjust kind of what the next steps are.
But podcasting itself is truly something thatI will never give up. We've
been doing it. We're working intoyear five and we've hit an episode every

(46:13):
single week and that five year spanwith the exception of one week which we
chose not to and that was earlythis year because of the events that were
going on, particularly down the States. Podcasting now has given me more connections
and more experiences than before. Imean, it's Unbelieal has been my closest
friends since two thousand and five,since we worked at the Disney Store.

(46:34):
Yes, we did five nineteen nine. Sorry, holy crap, it's been
a long time. There's a gapthere. The Disney Bug just kind of
dapping years. Oh it was likeLion King videos and watches and oh sell
Us animation cells. No, itwas before Toy Story. I was with
pocahonas all that sort of stuff.You haven't lived until you hear the colors

(46:57):
of the wind every four times anhour. Yeah, I'm an eight hour
shift. I enjoy that song.But yeah, I think four times an
hour for a night. But Neilhas been like one of my closest friends
since ninety five. Steve and JamieI just met out through the podcast.
Jamie was a listener and then aswe got to me he was a five
first member. We got to meethim and he was like a cool guy.

(47:20):
Steve we just happened to he wasat an Armor party and we were
talking to Steve and we're all lookingat his tattoos and like that, dude's
cool. And so after talking tohim, he just st It just becames
so awesome so like they become someof my closest friends. And like the
Neil's coming by later on just todo a little drop off for my son.

(47:43):
He's giving him present because my son'sbirthday was just last week. During
COVID, we couldn't have a party, we couldn't have stuff happened, So
he's he's coming to support And it'sjust this is what we do as friends.
And I missed not sitting wet nextto them. The I listened to
old episodes and the the banter,and the connection is so different. It's
a lot more relaxed before. Nowwe're just looking at each other waiting for

(48:06):
the finger uh, a little pauses, like the interruptions. We don't mean
to interrupt each other, but it'sjust hard not to because you don't have
that sixth sense of somebody's wanting totalk. So yeah, well, as
much as um again, as muchwhat Tim was saying, and and and
everybody else with with as much asTim you're touched on. Oh, the

(48:27):
podcast has been your anchor and it'sbeen your lot, your your bit of
reality from whatever life was in twothousand and nineteen. Um, the Nerd
Room, and and and every andall the other podcasts that are keep going
out there have been the anchor fora lot of other people too. Like
it's been like it's like you know, uh, it's not Star Wars,
but we're rolling and I we've againwe're the same type. We haven't met,

(48:51):
which we've it's just something we recordevery Monday. It's just something we
do. We haven't missed an episodesince we started in twenty sixteen, Like
we're episode two forty two last weekand for us, I sit down with
my friend UM and again that's awide open podcast, so we don't we're
not we're not chained by any restrictions, especially content adults or otherwise. So

(49:15):
we we get the world's our oyster. But uh, we've had discussions where
it's like we look, you lookat your numbers and then numbers don't lie.
Like it's like there are people wakingup Thursday morning and wherever, if
they're if their commute is from theircough meter maker to their desk, or
if they're actually have to go outand be on the front lines. There

(49:37):
are people out there that that arelistening or at least downloading. You mean
they're leaving their devices on for whateverreason you. I mean, so if
if if Roman and I if Timand his crew and and and Rob Williams
in the generation nextally for whatever reason, if if that's helping, then great,

(49:57):
It's it's not, it's not.It's it's like we it's we've had
to remind ourselves like ooh, shouldwe take a break? There's a lot
of one. It's like, youknow what, I know, I'm looking
at the numbers. There's there's alot of people out there that that need
this on their Thursday morning commune again, regardless of where it is or wherever
they're doing. If they're lying inthe bath listening to the Roman and I.
I don't know why you would dothat, but you mean it's just

(50:20):
a boy, those guys. Soagain that's where we're at a podcasting and
this isn't this and as a groupand still as a Star Wars community.
Um, Rob Williams, you weretalking about all like you know, the
Skyhoppers deal into literature and then yougot the sand Crawlers with collecting and vintage
and you're the five first and Timand you guys and all you're collecting and

(50:40):
you're in you're a huge, massivepop culture universe, and then I'm an
astrobik builder. Whatever you need,especially Star Wars, we got you covered.
If you have any questions about anythingwhatsoever, whether it's it's just anything,
we got we know well to knowwhat we're talking about exactly quick,

(51:06):
exactly. We will we will haveat least one person in the know in
the group, Like there's somebody that'slike, ah, I got yeah,
we we got we got a guy. You know how everybody has like,
oh I need to get my plumbingfixed. Oh I got a guy.
Well, if you need anything inStar Wars, we got a guy that
somewhere else on the Roman podcast.So again, not to be dooming gloom.

(51:30):
This is um. This is justHey, the Roundtable's back. It's
going to be on a separate feed. Um. Again, we're still going
out and everybody, and of coursethis group of ours, everybody, everybody
stepped up and said, hey,we'll throw it out on our feed as
a bonus episode, just to getthe word out there. That because for

(51:51):
a personal note, the Roundtable forme has been just it's been a gift.
It's been I'm I'm in with youguys, I'm like this in our
solar system. I'm like this littlemoon that was orbiting around TSW And now
you mean we want to like nowthis the Now it's gonna be the s
WC Plus Roundtable, and now it'sgonna be Yeah, we're gonna have our

(52:14):
own little orbit. We're gonna thisis I'm hoping it to be a hub
for everybody to come and enjoy andnot to be um poo pooing anybody else.
But we really pride ourselves on thepositivity here we we we should mention
since the last Roundtable came out,we award Daniel Thorpe of the u K.
He became our our two thousan twenty, which is now called the Steve

(52:37):
Kirk Positivity Award from the s wC Plus Network. He joins Neil Lowry.
So if you can imagine the positivitylike company, yeah exactly, that
is Hall of Fame numbers in therafters. So anybody out there that's looking

(52:59):
at that black on who I mighthave a shot look at those two gentlemen,
because like it's it's gonna it's justthey inspire us. And when they
inspire us to do keep doing whatwe're doing. So for me, Rob
Wade, thank you so much.Mark Godsiff, who started at all like
with this, this show was justa thing, and now it's I'm ready

(53:20):
for it to be you know,bigger, Leave the nest, Leave the
nest. Maybe not, but thisis yeah, I mean, this is
I mean, Rob, you andI have talked about this behind the scenes,
and this is actually something we floatedas a suggest, as an idea
for some time. And actually it'squite nice in a way that all of
these events have coalesced in this makingsense to be the thing we do it.

(53:42):
You know, this is the reasonwe do it because now it makes
sense. But before there was anargument that this could always have been its
own feet, and you know,it was just something we didn't do,
and now it is a thing itmakes sense to do. So that's kind
of nice because it's always been it'salways been the Commonwealth Roundtable. That nothing
has really changed in that respect becauseit's always been about uniting. You know

(54:07):
that the initial kind of thing waslet's talk to you know, the TSW
patrons. I think initially the intentwas to kind of bring those in and
to talk to myself and Mark,I think in the first couple of episodes
and then the idea would have beenthat Stephen Paul might have joined for the
occasional one. Didn't work out thatway, sadly, you know, they
were a bit less available than wewould have liked them to be at times,

(54:29):
not to you know, for perfectlylegitman reasons not to throw shape.
Oh yeah, of course. Butyou know, as we've kind of as
the scope of the show has changedover time, this has made more and
more sense and actually probably would.We could have pulled the trigger on this
in the last couple of years atany point and nobody would have been like,
why are you doing that? Becauseit makes perfect logical sense when you

(54:51):
think it through. Absolutely, andagain that's what this is. I would
polish and basic for me. Iwould make the ship, record the show,
edit it, make a show graphic, have it and have a synopsis,
and I'd hand it off to RobWade. I'm like that sure,
just do whatever you want with it, like and it's just you just let
me know when you're gonna release itso I can go on my social media
and do that. So again,it's not um, it's it's there's no

(55:15):
especially this is our point for thisepisode. This is not will pour us
we realize the whole planet's been goingthrough a thing. You mean, it's
it's you mean, it's it's notyou, it's us. You know,
we're not And again, like Ijoked about earlier, Mom and Dad are
still together. We love each other, we're just not you mean, but
we're still in love with each other. But we're seeing other people. So,

(55:37):
um, I'm gonna go around thehorn real quick, and uh,
if even if you're not putting anythingout at the moment, just uh,
if people are interested or want tosee if you have anything on the back
burner or anything on the front burnor anything going on. Uh, Rob
Wade, if people, I knowpeople miss you, so if if they

(55:57):
want to, I you operated yourselffrom social media a little bit, but
where your feed are still all up? Oh yeah they can still Yeah.
So so where where can people hearyou? Whether it's episode yeah, yeah,
exactly last we did. It's onthe back of your card, would

(56:19):
be great, Yes, that wouldbe helpful. So I guess if you're
really kind of missing the sound ofmy voice, and Christ alone knows why
you would. But if that isyou, I've been fortunate enough over the
last six years, seven years toappear on about four hundred shows across various

(56:39):
different platforms, and the most frequentlyis on Emotionally fourteen. So emotionally fourteen
dot Com, I should say isnot going anywhere. That is still I
don't mean that in a in asort of it's not going anywhere. I
mean it's going to be there forthe foreseeable future. Like it's I'm going
to continue even if I'm not takinga public sort of front of house role

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as a host or regular guest oranything like that. I'm still going to
be I'm still the editor of thesite. I'm still the editor of you
know, I'm still in charge ofthe YouTube channel. I'm still going to
be putting out content. I'm stillgoing to be endorsing shows, and actually
i'd probably look to increase the numberof shows I'm endorsing, particularly as it
feels like it would be nice tokind of showcase some of the other great

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people out there who might be doingstuff that, you know, I think
people would enjoy if they like ourstuff. So emotionally fourteen dot com is
that website. It has an associatedYouTube channel. There are three podcasts I've
been again privileged enough to put outhundreds of hours of content for over the
years. Talk Star Wars is obviouslythe one we've touched on quite a bit

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in the last hour or so.The Crazy Train, the one with the
picture of the train on it,because again, guy can't google. Not
my fault, but you know he'sdoing okay, So I don't want to.
Oh you think you think there isan act. There is an act
a couple of robcast podcasts. Ithink I shared it. I shared those

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images with you guys in our group. I'm like, come on, someone's
getting soon. Yeah, it's theguy's name is the rob Cast. Yeah,
it's like, that's my name.That is my listener with a guy
who's name Rob Williams. I'm notgonna complain about anybody's stilling. Anybody's well
quiet. Yeah. They were farmore famous Rob Wade to than me as
well, so I can't relate.There's a lot of Robs on this podcast

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right now too. Yeah. Wellyeah, we wanted to talk to you
about that. Tim excellent. Soso hey Rob Williams, working on the
Good People Find you well Generation nextWing anywhere like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter,
the podcast itself we got last week'sepisode, we talked we did the
Brooklyn nine nine GXW versus Trivia nownine. Yes, it was so much

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fun. Two episodes of ninety nineand we had so much fun on that
one. Next week we're talking bythe Times comes out Mandalorian. We're doing
episode one two and doing a lookback a Sean con Sean Connery. Um,
yes, exactly. Um. Butyou can also find the we have
a YouTube page Generation x Swing YouTubepage where the Outer Rim rookie is being

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uh it's being shown, um buildinga knee and nune costume. And right
now it's it's I'm kind of inhiatus because uh, it's I'm waiting for
stuff to come in. So I'mwaiting for the mask to get done.
I'm waiting for my my my flightsuit to get in from I think it's
Germany or Sweden, one of thetwo. And I'm just waiting for that
and then we'll get back to buildings. So um, but we have reas

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collection up there too. More's forthe keeping it reas I love. I'm
still wanting to work on that shirt. I have so many ideas for that.
Other than that. Yeah, soInstagram, Face, a Facebook,
Twitter, all that great stuff.So and uh definitely check out Generation.
Oh I had a chance to hto talk to um Nie and nine there
in the guy in the Suit shoot. You talked on one Twitter the not

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not the voice. Oh no,no, no, okay, yes,
I'm sorry, I blanking what you'retalking about? Yes, the actor?
No, I'm I see this ismy thing. I don't remember names.
And he just he invited me tohis group and I'm for oh my god,
oh I know I got I gothis autograph and I talked to him.
He actually did the work on FrankleRock. Oh yeah, he's a

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wonderful puppeteer. Um he did Reezas well. So yeah, I feel
embarrassed that. Okay, I'm gonnago to I'm gonna Tim you google that.
I'm gonna so Tim, where canthe good people find you? I
think this is going to sound veryfamiliar, but go right ahead. Yeah,
I'll try to switch it up here. No, it of course the

(01:00:43):
nerd room. He can find myselfand the crew there every single Thursday dropping
episode about stars, Marvel, DCN, beyond Ed. Guys. We we've
been going through an evolution ourself,and we've been having a lot of fun
this year. Actually, even inthe absence of a big films Marvel Star
Wars DCL that's gone from this year, and we've been going back and doing
retro reviews of films. We justfinished off with a retrospective discussion on v

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for Vendetta, which we had aton of fun with, and we've been
just changing up a little bit,focusing a bit more on retro toys and
doing lookbacks and also you know,taking a few nuggets of information that we're
getting from the World of Stars MarvelDC. So you can find everything that
we do over the nerdrom donnet.You can find us on social media or
me on social media at the nerM on Twitter, and then you can

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head over to our joint Instagram page. We're posting a lot of our hunt
captures and everything that we're doing overthere at the nerd M on Instagram,
So check us out. Every Thursday, we're endorsed over by Emotionally fourteen as
well, so we appreciate that everysingle week. Rob and uh yeah,
guys, it's different, but it'sit's a good different, I think,
and look out for twenty twenty one, we're we're giving ourselves, say a

(01:01:46):
slight tweaks like rebrand as we gointo that. We've got some exciting things
coming up into the new year here, guys, so we're looking forward to
that. So hi, quis beenbeen, Blast and Mike, if you're
listening, I do apologize we Iactually met him at Hamilton Comic Con last
year before all this COVID stuff started, and he actually what a great guy

(01:02:08):
while you're signing your autograph and totake your time talk to you like we're
talking about freangle rock and all sortsof excellent stuff. Like he's just and
a little dude. Dude, he'she's made for pup. Oh yeah,
he's he's a wonderful person. Um. I didn't get a chance to meet
and I know that Jamie and uhSteve didn't, but when he came to
Victoria, but yeah, wonderful person, like you said, he liked.

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He's one of the first people tolike my actual outer rim rookie Instagram page.
So it was really cool when thatguy is actually liking him. So
nice, fantastic, So uh myself, oh me were oh sure, okay,
I guess um you can find meat Robert mmcast on Twitter and Instagram.
Also, I do a weekly show, not star wars. Not for

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kids and not for a lot ofpeople, but you know, if you're
if you're adventurous, come check outthe Roman podcast. We're just google us
where where we're also endorsed by I'mmostly fourteen as well. We're in that
lovely group so oh also too.Um, there's hasn't been any new post
lately, but if you go tothe hashtag robs are too, you can

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see my R two. Um,please don't poopoo on my hashtag. Basically
what I'm doing is I have iton a little card and I've been going
out and anybody that's been taking selfieswith R two when I go to an
event, I'm like, hey,if you're so inclined hash to use the
hashtag robs are too, and thenthat way, I gotta. I just
started doing it recently, So Igot a kind of a I got a

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record, a social record of collection, yeah, of my trooping and everything
else with my with my artio.So yeah, that's where we're at.
We I'm sure just watch for alot of other stuff going on. I
don't know if we're going to rebrandthe Facebook page and all the other stuff
coming up. But like we gotlots more coming, so it's just so
nice to be back. And Ipromise you the next roundtable will be more

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like the usual ound tables and andyou know, we might even get around
the finishing our retrospectives because we've gota few more films to go through there.
It's it's our next step into alarger world. That's kind I want
to correct, that's the rebranded dudelike that excellent? So uh in hey
until I can actually say this untilnext month. And for Tim, Rob

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Rob and any other Robs out there, um, thanks for coming back and
we'll see you next time. Later