The Official ForceCast Wiki
The Weekly ForceCast
WeeklyForceCastLogo

Date recorded

April 5, 2011

Date released

April 8, 2011

Duration

2:21:53

Link

Click here

App exclusive?

Yes

Previous episode

Weekly ForceCast: April 1, 2011

Next episode

Weekly ForceCast: April 15, 2011


This week we catch up with Clone Wars, voice actor Stephen Stanton (Captain Tarkin), jam to more musical poetry from Billy Dee, and Lucasfilm's mistress of the inter-webs Bonnie Burton joins us to talk about her Star Wars Craft Book, last week's Wondercon, and much, much more.

Guests[]

  • Stephen Stanton
  • Bonnie Burton
  • A New Hope actor Anthony Fixer (pre-recorded at Wizard World Chicago)

Topics[]

  • Stephen Stanton discussed Tarkin with Jason and Jimmy. He also announced that he would be signing autographs for free at the upcoming Wizard World Anaheim convention on April 30th.
  • Jimmy played a second clip from the radio interview that his wife Wendy and her partner Bill conducted with Jeremy Bulloch and Peter Mayhew on July 3, 1997.
  • Jason and Jimmy discussed their April Fools' show and played an outtake from their recording with Kyle Newman and Paul Bateman. The outtake featured a remixed version of Carrie Fisher's famous Life Day song.
  • Billy Dee Quote of the Week
    • Billy Dee's birthday is on April 6th.
    • The clip is of Billy Dee reading poetry based on lyrics from a CD created by his art distributor Brian Liss
  • Jason and Jimmy talked to Bonnie Burton about a variety of subjects.
    • Her new book, The Star Wars Craft Book.
    • The WonderCon 501st/Rebel Legion dinner in honor of Steve Sansweet, where he was inducted as the third member of Dave Filoni's 104th Wolf Pack.
    • The Clone Wars panel.
    • April Fools' pranks, including the fact that Burton initially fell for The ForceCast's Holiday Special Blu-Ray joke.
    • Celebration VI location rumors.
    • Dave Filoni's comments about Ben Quadinaros on The Clone Wars
    • A recent column written by a woman who claimed that men who had a passion for Star Wars and other geeky things were immature and stuck in adolescence.

Live Show Giveaway[]

  • Jason and Jimmy gave away three copies of The Star Wars Craft Book to listeners via Twitter. They asked live viewers to include "@bonniegrrl" and "@forcecast" in their tweets.
    • Winners:
      • "@bonniegrrl @forcecast Bonnie is awesome. I wish I had the craftbook. #StarWars" - @SWU_DarthMax
      • "@bonniegrrl @forcecast My sister loves crafts and Star Wars and would love to welcome her new kid to the world with great #StarWars crafts!" - @TheSkyCracker
      • "@Forcecast @bonniegrrl #StarWars Quality crafts with / our favourite teacher, the / Brilliant Bonnie ! #haiku" - @NickFreeland

Significant quotes[]

  • "Quote goes here" - Speaker's name

Audible.com Sponsorship[]