Late in 2025 they announced they we starting a podcast together called Once We Were Spacemen. I was very excited to say the least. I rushed to my computer and went to oncewewerespacemen.com to learn more. There was nothing there. In fact the domain was available for purchase. I panicked. My first thought was that I should buy it to keep it safe from a squatter or poacher. But what if the OWWS team takes that as an offense and sics the law on me. I called out to my amazing wife for advice. She said, just buy it. It will be fine. So I did. I put this up at the domain.

Time passes and I get a message on the site from Siobhan on the production team. I went to LinkedIn did some digging. Everything seemed legit so I transferred ownership of the site over. A little white later they contact me saying they want to send me some swag and if I could wait until after the first of the year. “Of course” I reply. They wanted to make sure I got some cool stuff and Nathan was going to pick something special out. I may have squeed. You probably heard it. Time passes and I get an email saying to expect a package (more squeeing).

Here is what I received. I was gobsmacked. Floored. Grateful. Stunned even. I had the Mrs take pictures as I unboxed the goodies.

WOW!!! I was floored and blown away by the generosity.

But wait there is more. I had shared the story up to this point with my friends. On Feb 26, 2026, my friend Laura sent me a link to this podcast called Dropping Names with Brent and Johnny. They being Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes. She told me I should listen because I got a shout out. I was baffled. It turns out Nathan and Alan were the guests, and I did in fact get a shout out.
I was giddy and squealing. These four actors and good humans were talking about me (mostly).

Here is the full podcast episode. My shout-out is in the first 4 minutes.

Then just when I thought it couldn’t get better, they released this short…

I truly feel like I leveled up.

I will update this after Awesome Con…

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