Weekly ForceCast: March 18, 2011

Clone Wars actor James Arnold Taylor joins us in the Cantina to talk about Season 3 and his plans as host of Disney's Star Wars weekends. Mike Huckabee takes on Padme, G.L. and friends to entertain theatre owners in Vegas, and fans prepare for the return of Chewbacca to the Star Wars universe.
==Guests==
*James Arnold Taylor (initially as "Ben from California," then as himself In The Cantina)
==Topics==
*A follow-up to Jimmy's "don't give the trolls any attention" rant from last week's show.
*Lars Homestead donation contest follow-up: The winner of a mostly-signed set of ForceCast trading cards is Emily G. Over $1,000 was raised for the Lars homestead restoration project over the course of this contest.
*A special birthday shout-out to Kyle Newman (March 16th)
*Billy Dee Quote of the Week
**Listener-submitted audio: during a convention Q&A, a fan thanked Williams for his contributions to Colt 45 and Star Wars. Williams replied, "If I were gay, I'd kiss you."
*Star Wars in Pop Culture
**Stephen Colbert referenced Star Wars when criticizing Mike Huckabee's recent attack on Natalie Portman
**Simon Pegg and Nick Frost recreate a scene from A New Hope
**On the TV show My Wife and Kids, the father, played by Damon Wayans, compared himself to the Empire and said that his rebellious kids wouldn't like to see the Empire strike back
**Visual-only reference sent in by a listener: A recent UPS commercial features the number 1138 on a package
*Headline News
**George Lucas will join James Cameron, Jeffrey Katzenberger, and Chris Meledandri on a CinemaCon panel
**CNET's Geek Gestalt blog interviewed The Clone Wars writer Christian Taylor
**Peter Mayhew visited the team at The Clone Wars to help them bring Chewbacca to the series
**Video posted on The ForceCast Facebook page: A dad gets his 3-month-old daughter to imitate Chewbacca
**Email from Owen: He was in Orlando and the hotel bellhop told him that Peter Mayhew had stayed at his hotel. He then found out that Mayhew had actually stayed in his room.
*The Outrageous Unthinkable Story of the Week
**Listener "Rapscallion" writes in with a follow-up to Jason and Jimmy's discussion of a Glee scene where James Earl Jones was confused with James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin). "Rapscallion" describes an incident from 2002 where Jones spoke at an MLK event and afterward received a plaque thanking him for his contributions to the improvement of race relations. The plaque was mislabeled with Ray's name.
==Significant quotes==
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