Opening the year with a three-way podcast crossover, and one of the most celebrated movie musicals of all time, we're taking a trip to Chicago, with skidoo, hotcha, whoopee, and all that jazz!

Also, we did nothing wrong, your honor, the only thing we're guilty of is being theatre kids.

Pluggables:

Nick: The Chicago Foundation for Women (https://www.cfw.org/); https://linktr.ee/reallynick

Jas: @FaeRiviera on all socials, host of In Each Retelling

Ellie: @elessar42 on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and Medium; @football-in-tuxedos on Tumblr, Podcasting's Biggest Night available wherever Pods are Cast.

MUTUAL AID SPOTLIGHT: Kathryn Sharpe's fundraiser for Spanish-speaking and immigrant families being targeted by ICE in their raids on Minneapolis: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-families-affected-by-ice-in-minneapolis

Support the show

Sam: @DemiSemme on YouTube, Tumblr, BlueSky, and most other social media platforms (NOT eX-Twitter).
Visit our Tumblrs at sixdegreesofstarwars.tumblr.com and ier-6d.tumblr.com
Theme Music provided by Refractory Period: @RefractoryPeriodTheBand on Instagram, linktr.ee/RefractoryPeriod

Forever Mutual Aid Links
E-Sims for Gaza: https://gazaesims.com/
Click to Help: https://arab.org/click-to-help/
Anti-Imperialism support for people across the world, organized by Kandakat_alhaqq: https://linktr.ee/kandakat_alhaqq
Campus Bail Funds: https://campusbailfunds.com/

6DOSW is a Pro-Union podcast. Please support artists by contributing to the Entertainment Community Fund if you can: https://entertainmentcommunity.org/how-get-help-and-give-help-during-work-stoppage

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent.

It's time to bring 2025 to a close with our holiday episode — and what are the holidays without a healthy helping of chaos?

Featuring the 6D Glee Club: Gillian Quigley, Shamila Karunakaran and Harley Quinn (Jasmine Garcia)

PLUGGABLES:

Grady: @snakebitcat on the socials, recommending Mask of the Phantasm

Gillian: @cutiepuppyfire on the socials

Shami: @theonlinemuse on Tumblr

River: @dreamsrebel on BlueSky, @punk_skeleton on Letterboxd, blog.filmlion.online, and host of The Straights Aren't Alright

MUTUAL AID SPOTLIGHT: Warm the Children (https://warmthechildren.org/), dedicated to making sure children in need get the winter clothes they need.

Support the show

Sam: @DemiSemme on YouTube, Tumblr, BlueSky, and most other social media platforms (NOT eX-Twitter).
Visit our Tumblrs at sixdegreesofstarwars.tumblr.com and ier-6d.tumblr.com
Theme Music provided by Refractory Period: @RefractoryPeriodTheBand on Instagram, linktr.ee/RefractoryPeriod

Forever Mutual Aid Links
E-Sims for Gaza: https://gazaesims.com/
Click to Help: https://arab.org/click-to-help/
Anti-Imperialism support for people across the world, organized by Kandakat_alhaqq: https://linktr.ee/kandakat_alhaqq
Campus Bail Funds: https://campusbailfunds.com/

6DOSW is a Pro-Union podcast. Please support artists by contributing to the Entertainment Community Fund if you can: https://entertainmentcommunity.org/how-get-help-and-give-help-during-work-stoppage

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent.

The schedule didn't shake out quite the way we wanted, but we weren't going to let the 10th anniversary of THE FORCE AWAKENS pass by without any acknowledgment! So, a few of us gathered for a very giggly and surprisingly thirsty celebration of the actors who joined the Galaxy Far Far Away one decade ago.

PLUGGABLES:

Ellie: @elessar42 on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and Medium; @football-in-tuxedos on Tumblr, Podcasting's Biggest Night available wherever Pods are Cast.

Jas: @FaeRiviera on all socials, host of In Each Retelling.

Gillian: @cutiepuppyfire on the socials

Leif: @leifbradshawsings on instagram, @leifbradshawmusic on Facebook, linktr.ee/disneyoutlands

Support the show

Sam: @DemiSemme on YouTube, Tumblr, BlueSky, and most other social media platforms (NOT eX-Twitter).
Visit our Tumblrs at sixdegreesofstarwars.tumblr.com and ier-6d.tumblr.com
Theme Music provided by Refractory Period: @RefractoryPeriodTheBand on Instagram, linktr.ee/RefractoryPeriod

Forever Mutual Aid Links
E-Sims for Gaza: https://gazaesims.com/
Click to Help: https://arab.org/click-to-help/
Anti-Imperialism support for people across the world, organized by Kandakat_alhaqq: https://linktr.ee/kandakat_alhaqq
Campus Bail Funds: https://campusbailfunds.com/

6DOSW is a Pro-Union podcast. Please support artists by contributing to the Entertainment Community Fund if you can: https://entertainmentcommunity.org/how-get-help-and-give-help-during-work-stoppage

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent.

Aka, we are NOT talking about The Clone Wars! Happy 20th year of existing, Revenge of the Sith, final installment of the prequel trilogy. To celebrate, have a voice actor, a swordsman, a gremlin, and a scholar all losing their minds over you in different ways.

Featuring Grady Smithey as the voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

PLUGGABLES:

Rhaps: @RhapsodyBlueVA on Twitter, BlueSky, and Letterboxd.

River: @dreamsrebel on BlueSky, @punk_skeleton on Letterboxd, blog.filmlion.online, and host of The Straights Aren't Alright; "Jedi's Guide to Love, Loss, and Desperation" on Ao3

Mike: @VengeanceGOD on BlueSky, @brokeninfinityfilms on Instagram; "The Trials of Ben Solo" on Ao3

THE LEAGUE OF SWORDS KICKSTARTER: Now live! (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leagueofswords/the-league-of-swords-season-1)

MUTUAL FUND SPOTLIGHT: United Ways in the Pacific Northwest, raising money for the flood victims of Washington state and the greater PNW (https://www.uwpnw.org/support)

Support the show

Sam: @DemiSemme on YouTube, Tumblr, BlueSky, and most other social media platforms (NOT eX-Twitter).
Visit our Tumblrs at sixdegreesofstarwars.tumblr.com and ier-6d.tumblr.com
Theme Music provided by Refractory Period: @RefractoryPeriodTheBand on Instagram, linktr.ee/RefractoryPeriod

Forever Mutual Aid Links
E-Sims for Gaza: https://gazaesims.com/
Click to Help: https://arab.org/click-to-help/
Anti-Imperialism support for people across the world, organized by Kandakat_alhaqq: https://linktr.ee/kandakat_alhaqq
Campus Bail Funds: https://campusbailfunds.com/

6DOSW is a Pro-Union podcast. Please support artists by contributing to the Entertainment Community Fund if you can: https://entertainmentcommunity.org/how-get-help-and-give-help-during-work-stoppage

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent.

Join us for a movie that will definitely mess up your algorithms and most likely put you on a watch list if you search it online without including the words "movie" or "in fiction" afterwards. Look, the Swedish journalist who wrote the original book named it, if you've got a problem with that, take it up with him.

Pluggables:

Conor: @youngmrduffy on the socials, TTRPGs at third-country-press.itch.io, and https://bff.fm/shows/third-country-radio

Jake: database-ranger.bsky.social, @DatabaseRanger on X and Youtube, and @DBRangersPowerReviews on Facebook.

Let's Be Superheroes: @letsbesuperheroes.bsky.social, and @Lets-Be-Superheroes on Youtube

THE LEAGUE OF SWORDS KICKSTARTER: LAUNCHING SOON (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leagueofswords/the-league-of-swords-season-1)

MUTUAL FUND SPOTLIGHT: United American Indians of New England (uaine.org) amd their fund for the 2025 Day of Mourning: https://chuffed.org/project/116129-united-american-indians-of-new-england-uaine-fundraiser

Support the show

Sam: @DemiSemme on YouTube, Tumblr, BlueSky, and most other social media platforms (NOT eX-Twitter).
Visit our Tumblrs at sixdegreesofstarwars.tumblr.com and ier-6d.tumblr.com
Theme Music provided by Refractory Period: @RefractoryPeriodTheBand on Instagram, linktr.ee/RefractoryPeriod

Forever Mutual Aid Links
E-Sims for Gaza: https://gazaesims.com/
Click to Help: https://arab.org/click-to-help/
Anti-Imperialism support for people across the world, organized by Kandakat_alhaqq: https://linktr.ee/kandakat_alhaqq
Campus Bail Funds: https://campusbailfunds.com/

6DOSW is a Pro-Union podcast. Please support artists by contributing to the Entertainment Community Fund if you can: https://entertainmentcommunity.org/how-get-help-and-give-help-during-work-stoppage

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent.

Stealing a page out of the book belonging to In Each Retelling, we mark the release of Wicked For Good by doing the closest thing Lucasfilm ever made to The Wizard of Oz -- a coming of age fantasy musical that features a singularly famous pop star in as one of the two leads in a very... intense relationship.

Maybe there's more to this than we realized.

MUTUAL AID SPOTLIGHT: Desert Bus for Hope (https://desertbus.org/2025/), currently live on twitch.tv/desertbus

PLUGGABLES:

B recommends THE SUN EATER series by Christopher Ruocchio, available at highmatterbooks.com

Katie: @kduffy1718.bsky.social, her husband's TTRPGs at third-country-press.itch.io, and https://bff.fm/shows/third-country-radio

Violet: @momentaryhorrors.bsky.social, TTRPG supplemental material available @violet-flohr.itch.io

Support the show

Sam: @DemiSemme on YouTube, Tumblr, BlueSky, and most other social media platforms (NOT eX-Twitter).
Visit our Tumblrs at sixdegreesofstarwars.tumblr.com and ier-6d.tumblr.com
Theme Music provided by Refractory Period: @RefractoryPeriodTheBand on Instagram, linktr.ee/RefractoryPeriod

Forever Mutual Aid Links
E-Sims for Gaza: https://gazaesims.com/
Click to Help: https://arab.org/click-to-help/
Anti-Imperialism support for people across the world, organized by Kandakat_alhaqq: https://linktr.ee/kandakat_alhaqq
Campus Bail Funds: https://campusbailfunds.com/

6DOSW is a Pro-Union podcast. Please support artists by contributing to the Entertainment Community Fund if you can: https://entertainmentcommunity.org/how-get-help-and-give-help-during-work-stoppage

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent.

We channel the power of the very first Simpsons Halloween Special, TREEHOUSE OF HORROR, to stave off the onset of a different holiday season for just a little bit longer... Happy Halloween/All Saints' Day, everyone!

PLUGGABLES:

Ellie: @elessar42 on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and Medium; @football-in-tuxedos on Tumblr, Podcasting's Biggest Night available wherever Pods are Cast.

Shami: @theonlinemuse on Tumblr

Todd: http://theguyinthe3rdrow.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-year-new-october-new-spin-on-horror.html

MUTUAL AID SPOTLIGHT: Support people who are losing SNAP benefits by checking out FoodRescue.Us (https://foodrescue.us/), as well as your food banks and community pantries.

Support the show

Sam: @DemiSemme on YouTube, Tumblr, BlueSky, and most other social media platforms (NOT eX-Twitter).
Visit our Tumblrs at sixdegreesofstarwars.tumblr.com and ier-6d.tumblr.com
Theme Music provided by Refractory Period: @RefractoryPeriodTheBand on Instagram, linktr.ee/RefractoryPeriod

Forever Mutual Aid Links
E-Sims for Gaza: https://gazaesims.com/
Click to Help: https://arab.org/click-to-help/
Anti-Imperialism support for people across the world, organized by Kandakat_alhaqq: https://linktr.ee/kandakat_alhaqq
Campus Bail Funds: https://campusbailfunds.com/

6DOSW is a Pro-Union podcast. Please support artists by contributing to the Entertainment Community Fund if you can: https://entertainmentcommunity.org/how-get-help-and-give-help-during-work-stoppage

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent.

It codified the tropes while subverting the tropes, spawned a legion of sequels while mocking endless sequels, and gave a lot of my friends the answer to a very important question. But as a SCREAM neophyte, am I going to end up the final girl, or the first victim?

Scream is rated R for strong graphic horror violence and gore, and for language, with mild depictions of sex and nudity. Please proceed according to your needs and comfort.

Featuring Jasmine Garcia (@FaeRiviera) as Ghost-fae-ce.

I'm going to pay for that pun, I just know it.

PLUGGABLES:

River: @dreamsrebel on BlueSky, @punk_skeleton on Letterboxd, blog.filmlion.online, and host of The Straights Aren't Alright

Micah: Host of The Emperor's New Podcast (@podcasttenp on BlueSky, @theemperorsnewpodcast on YouTube), @FireBlastStudios & @MicahsYouTubeToilet on YouTube

Mutual Aid Spotlight: The National Network for Domestic Violence (https://nnedv.org/)

Support the show

Sam: @DemiSemme on YouTube, Tumblr, BlueSky, and most other social media platforms (NOT eX-Twitter).
Visit our Tumblrs at sixdegreesofstarwars.tumblr.com and ier-6d.tumblr.com
Theme Music provided by Refractory Period: @RefractoryPeriodTheBand on Instagram, linktr.ee/RefractoryPeriod

Forever Mutual Aid Links
E-Sims for Gaza: https://gazaesims.com/
Click to Help: https://arab.org/click-to-help/
Anti-Imperialism support for people across the world, organized by Kandakat_alhaqq: https://linktr.ee/kandakat_alhaqq
Campus Bail Funds: https://campusbailfunds.com/

6DOSW is a Pro-Union podcast. Please support artists by contributing to the Entertainment Community Fund if you can: https://entertainmentcommunity.org/how-get-help-and-give-help-during-work-stoppage

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent.