The ForceCast (formely TFN Podcast) is the official podcast network of TheForce.net and Rebelscum.com. Through its diverse slate of programs, The ForceCast features news, interviews, events coverage, and discussion relating to the Star Wars franchise and community.[2] Lucasfilm representatives and Star Wars cast and crew members frequently appear on its programs to discuss current events. Episodes of the flagship program, also called The ForceCast, average one and a half hours in length and are released on Fridays.
The first incarnation of an official podcast for TheForce.Net was produced by Erik Blythe, but he had to step down from the show due to external conflicts. TheForce.net Content Manager Dustin Roberts held a contest for Blythe's successor, and Jason Swank and Pete Nadel were selected to continue the show, , later joined by Jimmy Mac.[2] In September 2008, Nadel left the show, with Jimmy Mac stepped up to take the role of the co-host.
Jason and Jimmy were recognized at Celebration V by TCW Supervising Director Dave Filoni as having contributed immeasurably to Star Wars fandom, and presented the two hosts with plaques commemorating their induction into his 104th Wolf Pack, which recognizes their significant commitment to the Star Wars community. Filoni mentioned that there are only fifteen such plaques in existence.
On January 13, 2013, it was announced that Jason and Jimmy would be leaving the team at TheForce.Net and Rebelscum.com as well as their work on The ForceCast in order to start their own podcast, Rebel Force Radio.[3] On February 13, 2013, TFN/Rebelscum/ForceCast webmaster Philip Wise announced the re-launch of the ForceCast network. Erik Blythe, former host of the TFN Podcast, and Eric Geller, became the new co-hosts of The ForceCast.[4] On June 20, 2014, Blythe and Geller announced that substitute ForceCast co-host Justin Bolger would join them as a permanent co-host. Bolger later left the show's full-time co-host spot.
On February 13, 2015, Geller announced that he was leaving his role as host of the main show. In March 2016 Erik Blythe left the network, and the show was shut down. On September 4th, 2017, the ForceCast was reborn with hosts Ryan Donoho and Daniel Berry--formerly of Podcast 66.
List of all celebrity guests[]
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May 21, 2007 - Stan Stice and John Scoleri from The Art of Ralph McQuarrie, tattoo artist Shane Turgeon, collecting expert Gus Lopez, Cris and Cortney Macht from The Force Among Us, Fanboys director Kyle Newman, Kevin Burns, and Beth Segarra
May 28, 2007 - Cris and Cortney Macht from The Force Among Us, Dan Madsen, and Don Bies
January 31, 2009 - Fanboys actors Chris Marquette (Linus) and Jamie King (Amber), writer Ernie Cline, and producers Dana Brunetti, Kevin Mann, and Matt Pernicairo
May 8, 2009 - Former Star Wars Fan Club President Dan Madsen and "The Force Among Us" director Cris Macht
May 19, 2009 - Fanboys director Kyle Newman and writer Ernie Cline
May 26, 2009 - Rebelscum's Jay Shepard and Dan Madsen, former president of the official fan clubs for both Star Wars and Star Trek
June 2009
June 5, 2009 - The Force Among Us co-producers Cris and Cortney Macht, Fanboys director Kyle Newman, and Supervising Director of The Clone WarsDave Filoni
June 12, 2009 - Paul and Athena Bateman, Original Trilogy Effects Wizard Ken Ralston, Supervising Director of The Clone WarsDave Filoni, The Clone Wars Concept Artist Russell Chong, Prequel Trilogy Concept Artist Marc Gabbana
June 14, 2009 - Jon Favreau, Mellody Hobson, and George Lucas
December 18, 2009 - James Arnold Taylor, Catherine Taber, Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, Dee Bradley Baker, Meagan Finnerty, and Dave Filoni from The Clone Wars
January 2010
January 29, 2010 - James Burns of JediNews.co.uk
February 2010
February 5, 2010 - Alex Ben Block and Lucy Autrey Wilson, editors of the book George Lucas's Blockbusting.
February 12, 2010 - The Clone Wars supervising director Dave Filoni
February 19, 2010 - The Clone Wars Season One writer Steven Melching
March 2010
March 5, 2010 - Topps Editor David Waldeck and artist Randy Martinez
December 17, 2010 - Ashley Eckstein and James Arnold Taylor (on the Christmas special)
January 2011
January 14, 2011 - Dave Filoni
February 2011
February 2, 2011 - Authors John Jackson Miller and Joe Schreiber (on Jedi Journals)
February 9, 2011 - Derryl DePriest (on a Collector's Edition Spotlight)
February 18, 2011 - Eric Walker (Mace Towani from the Ewok Adventures movies)
March 2011
March 2, 2011 - Steve Sansweet (on Jedi Journals)
March 11, 2011 - Star Wars: The Clone Wars Captain Tarkin voice actor Stephen Stanton
March 18, 2011 - James Arnold Taylor
March 25, 2011 - J.C. Reifenberg and James Arnold Taylor (discussing Hughes The Force); Random House production manager/editor Erich Schoeneweiss and artists Grant Gould and Tom Hodges (recorded at C2E2)
April 2011
April 1, 2011 - Steve Sansweet
April 8, 2011 - Stephen Stanton, Anthony Forrest (recorded at Wizard World Chicago 2011), and Bonnie Burton
April 15, 2011 - Dave Filoni
May 2011
May 4, 2011 - Authors Steve Perry and Michael Stackpole (on Jedi Journals)
May 13, 2011 - Star Wars Begins creator Jamie Benning
May 20, 2011 - Hesher director Spencer Susser
June 2011
June 3, 2011 - Disney Imagineer Tony Baxter
June 8, 2011 - Ewok movies actor Eric Walker
June 10, 2011 - James Arnold Taylor
June 17, 2011 - Mark Dermul
June 30, 2011 - Steve Sansweet
July 2011
July 1, 2011 - Ashley Eckstein
July 7, 2011 - Timothy Zahn
July 22, 2011 - Tom Hodges
July 29, 2011 - J.C. Reifenberg
August 2011
August 3, 2011 - Author Ernie Cline (writer of Ready Player One) and Epic Ink Books designer Katie Stahnke
August 5, 2011 - Voice actor Michael Bell
August 19, 2011 - Billy Dee Williams and Peter Mayhew
August 31, 2011 - Steve Sansweet
September 2011
September 2, 2011 - Tom Hodges
September 7, 2011 - Author J.W. Rinzler
September 9, 2011 - The Simpsons and LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace writer Michael Price
September 11, 2011 (on YouTube) - Ahmed Best, Artt Butler, Ashley Eckstein, Catherine Taber, Christian Taylor, Daniel Logan, Dave Filoni, Matthew Wood, Adam McArthur, Stephen Stanton, and T.C. Carson (at The Clone Wars Season 4 premiere party)
September 16, 2011 - Dave Filoni
September 28, 2011 - Derryl DePriest, Ashley Eckstein, Steve Sansweet, Warwick Davis, Anthony Daniels, and James Arnold Taylor
October 2011
October 8, 2011 - Steve Sansweet, Ernie Cline, Ashley and David Eckstein, Stephen Stanton, Tom Kane, and J.C. Reifenberg
October 14, 2011 - Catherine Taber, J.C. Reifenberg, Meredith Salenger, Tom Hodges, Mark Newbold (Star Wars Insider), and Nick Bishop (The 501st Legion)
October 21, 2011 - Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood, and David Acord (recorded at Fan Days IV)
October 27, 2011 - Matt Bischof from Sideshow Collectibles
November 2011
November 8, 2011 - Author Drew Karpyshyn
November 11, 2011 - Steve Sansweet
November 17, 2011 - Artist Spencer Brinkerhoff, super-collectors Gus Lopez and Duncan Jenkins, and Steve Sansweet and Anne Neumann
December 2011
December 2, 2011 - Stephen Stanton and HitFix.com writer Drew McWeeny
December 14, 2011 - Steve Sansweet
December 23, 2011 - James Arnold Taylor, PT stunt coordinator Nick Gillard, and Sony Playstation's David Collins
January 2012
January 13, 2012 - Steven Melching, Henry Gilroy, and Daniel Logan
January 20, 2012 - Dave Filoni
January 27, 2012 - Anna Graves
February 2012
February 7, 2012 - John Ostrander, Jan Duursema, and Daniel Wallace
February 8, 2012 - Matthew Wood, Joel Aron, and ILM digital artist John Goodson
February 17, 2012 - Star Wars artist Kevin Liell
March 2012
March 16, 2012 - Daniel Logan and photographer Gilbert Valenzuela
March 23, 2012 - Voice actor Sam Witwer
March 30, 2012 - Del Rey Star Wars Editor Frank Parisi
April 2012
April 27, 2012 - Anthony Daniels and Lord of the Rings actor Sean Astin (recorded at C2E2)
May 2012
May 4, 2012 - Dave Filoni
May 11, 2012 - Cris Macht
May 18, 2012 - Jason Mewes
June 2012
June 1, 2012 - Poster artist Drew Struzan and Drew: The Man Behind the Poster director Erik Sharkey
June 8, 2012 - Leland Chee
June 15, 2012 - Cris Macht
July 2012
July 6, 2012 - Haden Blackman
July 20, 2012 - James Arnold Taylor and Bonnie Burton
July 27, 2012 - 501st "Shoot-a-Trooper" organizer Jeff Kent and Peter and Angie Mayhew
August 2012
August 1, 2012 - Star Wars Origami author Chris Alexander
August 10, 2012 - Artist Kevin Liell
August 17, 2012 - Sony's David Collins
August 24, 2012 - Steve Sansweet, Ashley Eckstein, Leland Chee, and James Arnold Taylor (at Celebration VI)
August 31, 2012 - Dave Filoni (at Celebration VI)
September 2012
September 12, 2012 - Aaron Allston and Drew Karpyshyn (at Celebration VI)
September 28, 2012 - Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, Daniel Logan, Tom Kane, Sam Witwer, Dee Bradley Baker, Stephen Stanton, and Dave Filoni (on the TCW S5 premiere red carpet at Celebration VI)
October 2012
October 3, 2012 - Pablo Hidalgo and James Luceno
October 12, 2012 - David Collins
October 19, 2012 - Ashley Eckstein and Randy Martinez
October 26, 2012 - Ray Park, David Prowse, Robert Englund, and Sean Astin (at Fan Days 2012)
October 31, 2012 - Steve Sansweet, Jonathan Wilkins, and Dan Madsen
November 2012
November 5, 2012 - Erich Schoeneweiss
November 16, 2012 - TFN founder Scott Chitwood
December 2012
December 1, 2012 - C-3PO performer Chris Bartlett
December 5, 2012 - Janice Liedl (co-editor, Star Wars and History)
December 21, 2012 - Steve Sansweet and James Arnold Taylor (Christmas show)
March 2013
March 6, 2013 - Jonathan Wilkins
March 22, 2013 - James Arnold Taylor
March 30, 2013 - Ashley Eckstein
April 2013
April 3, 2013 - Randy Stradley
May 2013
May 1, 2013 - Star Wars author Tim Lebbon
June 2013
June 7, 2013 - Star Wars artist Ken Lashley
June 14, 2013 - Star Wars: The Clone Wars music composer Kevin Kiner
August 2013
August 30, 2013 - Lucasfilm Senior Events Lead Mary Franklin
September 2013
September 4, 2013 - John Jackson Miller
September 27, 2013 - LucasBooks Senior Editor Jennifer Heddle
October 2013
October 4, 2013 - Aaron Allston, Leland Chee, Pablo Hidalgo, and Timothy Zahn
October 18, 2013 - Dan Wallace
October 25, 2013 - Marc Thompson (Star Wars audiobook narrator)
November 2013
November 6, 2013 - Jonathan Wilkins
December 2013
December 4, 2013 - Ryder Windham
December 13, 2013 - Steve Sansweet
February 2014
February 5, 2014 - Joe Schreiber
February 7, 2014 - Patrick Gorman (Star Wars In 30 Minutes)
ForceCast Network: Star Wars News and Commentary (All Shows) on Apple's official website (backup link)
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