It is about 3:45 am on Stacia Hardin's Birthday. She happens to share that day with one of the most important days in the whole of nerdom, May the Fourth Be with You. The last time CatBusRuss saw her, she was playing nurse as his right wrist had just been surgically repaired, feeding him chocolate pie and giving him a comfort plush Ewok. Damn she was a truly a great person to let our host know that today was the day to release "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" panel from Indiana Comic Con 2025 on the "I Dig Crazy Flicks" podcast feed.

It was an honor for Russ to even be invited on this panel. The man who pitched the panel was Bryan Young, an award-winning writer and filmmaker who sports a "Revenge of the Sith" t-shirt on his Wikipedia page. Joining the two were Darby Harn, sci-fi/fantasy author of books like "Stargun Messenger" and Emmy award-winning, Scripps New Correspondent and "Star Wars" expert Clayton Sandell. Our podcast host just did his best to be the voice of the everyday fan in a round table with people who have made a living from their expertise. Was he able to hang with them as they discussed one of the best "Star Wars" features, regardless of what the Internet says? Listen and judge.

The "Young Frankenstein" panel at Indiana Comic Con was another, "Let's see who volunteers," experience for CatBusRuss. Fortunately, he could not have asked for a better co-panelist than the Disney Imagineers' official magician/mentalist, Paul Draper. Would either of them claim to be experts about Mel Brook's film? No. But a pro-wrestler and Vegas entertainer surely would provide the audience an amusing show.

The performer who had recently appeared with Shaq and Sir Charles on "Inside the NBA" must of gained some play-by-play skill from the crew as he posed the questions and CatBus gave the analysis. They had a great crowd to interact with who seemed to have ball just wanting to express their love for the feature. Everyone left with new insights about this Gene Wilder classic and similar movies like "Putney Swope" that would be worth their time. If Russ can make it to ATL Comic Con, he would love to share the stage with Paul once again.

It is only appropriate that this #RewindWednesday podcast falls on the same week as Ebertfest in Champaign, IL. CatBusRuss was not going to try and manage two events to get time off for in a month, so the least he can do is try to give the "I Dig Crazy Flicks" listener a taste of what the festival is like.

Back in 2022, CatBusRuss was able to attend the Terry Zwigoff and Thora Birch hosted screening of "Ghost World" a feature that our host has a friendship that played out a lot like that of the characters in this adaptation of Daniel Clowes comic book. He and she would argue about who was Enid (Birch) and who was Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), but the two were aspiring to be Seymour (Steve Buscemi).

It gets pretty personal since Russ is just expressing his thoughts about the film, so to lighten things up, you can listen to him and his big sister, ThePoeticCritic, try not to be too down on the summer box office of 2022.