It’s Force of Others Friday y’all and we are very happy to welcome Star Wars Fan Animator Ian Wilkins @SpikeyTortoise to the show!

We take him through our normal interview questions to find out what Star Wars means to him, and we also go into what inspired him to make his Dark Empire Movie. Watch it here: Dark Empire - The movie

Also celebrate with us as we mark a major milestone - 5 years of STAR WARS streaming shows! From The Mandalorian to The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Andor, and more, join us as we rank our TOP 5 LIVE ACTION EPISODES.

All of that and more on this week’s episode of The Force of Others!

0:00 Intro

8:12 Simon Kinberg Star Wars Trilogy

25:07 Andor Season 2 / The Mandalorian and Grogu

32:57 Inquisitor Name Change

40:31 Ian Wilkins (@SpikeyTortoise) Interview

1:34:35 Top 5 live action episodes

2:07:39 Outro

Email us your questions, and we'll answer them next week! Maybe. Eventually for sure.

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This week we welcome special guest Sawyer Vera aka the content creator, Sawyeurism for a great interview where we learn what Star Wars means to her.

Hosts Matt Beutner and Zachary Owen Turner also watch and react to the Skeleton Crew Trailer, Daisy Ridley’s film “losing” Steven Knight, the new Kylo Ren ongoing comic and all the other noteworthy news from this last Star Wars week.

All of that and more on this week’s episode of The Force of Others!

0:00 Intro

1:00 Skeleton Crew trailer reaction

15:47 Skeleton Crew News

23:36 NJO film loses Steven Knight

30:15 Dawn of the Jedi Christmas 2026?

38:52 Obi-Wan’s original name

44:04 New Kylo Ren ongoing comic

51:05 Sawyeurism Interview

1:16:02 Outro

Email us your questions, and we'll answer them next week! Maybe. Eventually for sure.

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GMail forceofothersradio@gmail.com

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Welcome to the first annual Force of Others Halloween Spectacular, GALAXY OF HORROR I.

As Spooky Season comes to a close we'll take you on a journey through the darkest corners of the universe as we discuss our favorite Scary Moments and Monsters from the whole franchise. Also on this episode, Matt and Zach have each written a Scary Star Wars story, perfect for telling around the campfire, and one of the stories is read by guest star and good friend of the podcast, Brian Lawson.

Happy Halloween everybody!

All of that and more on this week’s episode of The Force of Others!

0:00 Intro

23:04 Scariest Star Wars Moments

39:36 Scariest Star Wars Monsters

1:02:24 Scariest Star Wars thing of the year

1:06:30 The Raven

1:11:41 Galaxy of Horror I

1:27:46 Outro

Email us your questions, and we'll answer them next week! Maybe. Eventually for sure.

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GMail forceofothersradio@gmail.com

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