Force Toast: A Star Wars Happy Hour

Force Toast: A Star Wars Happy Hour

Two Star Wars-obsessed Chicagoans discuss everyone’s favorite galaxy far, far away in this bi-weekly happy hour podcast. From the films to the novels and everything in between, hosts Alyce and Laura get you up to date on the latest Star Wars news, complete with some minor wine-induced garbling. Grab your favorite beverage and get toasted with Alyce and Laura. Email us at forcetoastpod@gmail.com

Episodes

April 30, 2024 68 mins

Step aside, Abbott & Costello! In Episode 115, hosts Alyce and Laura turn* their dumb-ss little podcast into a Vaudeville Star Wars Hour! Kinda! 

  • Alyce has big, albeit mysterious, May the Fourth plans!
  • Vaudeville accents are attempted but Laura just kind of sounds like Jon Lovitz in A League of Their Own
  • Celebrate Star Wars Day the way the Diabetes gods intended: with this sugar-infused blue milk
  • Catching up on recent press for The...
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In Episode 114, hosts Alyce and Laura share* tales of trivia, driving away dates with Star Wars, winning, and cocktails stirred-not-shaken 

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March 19, 2024 46 mins

In Episode 113, 🎶 the tree, the tree, the tree is on fire! 🎶 and hosts Alyce and Laura can’t do anything* about it but observe, all while trying to record a podcast about Star Wars.

  • An update on whether or not Laura will have to eat a $75 5-year-old cookie
  • Christ almighty, make up your minds about whether or not Rogue Squadron is happening, WE ARE TIRED (via The Hollywood Reporter)
  • A new High Republic audiodrama is coming and we...
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March 5, 2024 77 mins

In Episode 112, hosts Alyce and Laura contemplate* the art of pointillism and the lifespan of gingerbread… and of course, Star Wars stuff!

  • Anyone besides Laura feel like Drive-Away Dolls was marketed as… not what it is?
  • The Great Debate on the not-even-real title (it’s a WORKING title) of the Rey movie 
  • The Star Wars video game that no longer IS, it WAS (via IGN)
  • If you know any animators looking for a job, Lucasfilm is hiring (via...
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February 13, 2024 52 mins

In Episode 111, hosts Alyce and Laura are* bringing 50 Shades of SLAY to celebrate 5 years of Force Toast! 

  • Nothing to recap in this episode so it’s just us running through news and goofing off for an hour
  • It’s the 5-Year Afferversarvy of Force Toast! All the oppalance of a cosapolitan podcast!
  • Hop aboard the Caravan of Corrections for a history lesson on the Ataraxia
  • Just in case you haven’t had enough secondhand embarrassment for...
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January 30, 2024 61 mins

In Episode 110, hosts Alyce and Laura turn their tiaras into brooches on this almost-avernersary episode!  

  • We open with a game that’s kinda like Guess Who meets Balderdash
  • Shout out to listener Stephanie this week, thank you for the Ko-Fi!
  • Btw, if YOU'd like to support Force Toast, you can do that here!
  • Let’s discuss the trailer for The Bad Batch season 3!
  • Laura defines “young professional”
  • On that note, be an idiot in your 20s. Tha...
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January 16, 2024 69 mins

A big special happy holiday thank you to Jane for the Ko-FIIIII!

In Episode 109, hosts Alyce and Laura are* the oldest they’ve ever been in their whole lives but they’re ringing in 2024 as WINNERS… at least according to some people.

  • Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Those Game of Thrones guys had to go! (via THR, LRM)
  • We’re getting a new Star Wars movie soon! Yay! Yay? No? Either way, we have thoughts! (via sw.com, Variety)
  • Are we gonna have to wa...
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December 19, 2023 74 mins

In Episode 108, hosts Alyce and Laura close out* 2023 with holiday cranberry drinkies, dead brain cells and pronouncing names correctly sometimes.

  • Alyce is home for Christmas. Let the cup runneth over with neighborhood drama, she’s spilling the hometown tea!
  • Orin-ge you glad we found the joke Alyce was talking about in Episode 107?
  • Adam Driver speaks out about Kylo Ren’s journey, adding to the list yet another component of the seq...
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November 21, 2023 93 mins

Our High Republic favorites are serving new looks and it’s giving Soccer Mom/Dad in a Pacific Northwest Depression Den… but we’re here for it anyway!

In Episode 107, hosts Alyce and Laura do* a silly little Life Day recording and discuss Maybe Movies News and The High Republic Phase 3!

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October 24, 2023 62 mins

This episode of Force Toast was recorded during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. The projects discussed in this episode would not exist were it not for the hard work of the actors currently on strike. We stand in solidarity with the guild’s fight for higher compensation from streaming and protections against the encroachment of artificial intelligence. Support striking actors here and here.

In Episode 106, hosts Alyce and Laura just want*...

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October 10, 2023 65 mins

This episode of Force Toast was recorded during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. The projects discussed in this episode would not exist were it not for the hard work of the actors currently on strike. We stand in solidarity with the guild’s fight for higher compensation from streaming and protections against the encroachment of artificial intelligence. Support striking actors here and here.

In Episode 105, hosts Alyce and Laura don’t have...

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September 26, 2023 70 mins

This episode of Force Toast was recorded during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. The projects discussed in this episode would not exist were it not for the hard work of the writers and actors currently on strike. We stand in solidarity with the guilds fighting for higher compensation from streaming and protections against the encroachment of artificial intelligence. Support the striking guilds here and here.

In Episode 104, hosts...

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September 12, 2023 71 mins

This episode of Force Toast was recorded during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. The projects discussed in this episode would not exist were it not for the hard work of the writers and actors currently on strike. We stand in solidarity with the guilds fighting for higher compensation from streaming and protections against the encroachment of artificial intelligence. Support the striking guilds here and here.

In Episode 103, hosts...

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August 29, 2023 71 mins

This episode of Force Toast was recorded during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. The projects discussed in this episode would not exist were it not for the hard work of the writers and actors currently on strike. We stand in solidarity with the guilds fighting for higher compensation from streaming and protections against the encroachment of artificial intelligence. Support the striking guilds here and here.

In Episode 102, hosts...

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Our mission in this podcast bonus series is simple: we pick a few Star Wars Rebels episodes from Season 4, do a quick summary/discussion and ask/answer the question: wtf does this have to do with the Ahsoka series? 

In Part 4 of Force Toast’s Rebels Recap on Tap series, hosts Alyce and Laura keep things light and silly* despite that the general theme for this episode is Season 4 Is Really F*cking SAD.

  • Oh, there’s another Saxon? W...
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Our mission in this podcast bonus series is simple: we pick a few Star Wars Rebels episodes from Season 3, do a quick summary/discussion and ask/answer the question: wtf does this have to do with the Ahsoka series?

In Part 3 of Force Toast’s Rebels Recap on Tap series, hosts Alyce and Laura put their whole holocrussy in recapping* Season 3!

  • A musical note (get it?) from Listener Heather about Ezra’s tingle jingle.
  • Ezra pulls a ful...
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Our mission in this podcast bonus series is simple: we pick a few Star Wars Rebels episodes from Season 2, do a quick summary/discussion and ask/answer the question: wtf does this have to do with the Ahsoka series?

In Part 2 of Force Toast’s Rebels Recap on Tap series, hosts Alyce and Laura recap Season 2, struggle with auto-correct, and celebrate the return of old favorites like Rex, Maul, Dramatic Vader, Yoda, Purgill and AP-5! 

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Our mission in this podcast bonus series is simple: we pick a few Star Wars Rebels episodes from Season 1, we do a quick summary/discussion and we ask/answer the question, wtf does this have to do with the Ahsoka series?

In Part 1 of Force Toast’s Rebels Recap on Tap, hosts Alyce and Laura recap Season 1 and re-christen the Grand Inquisitor as Richard. You’re either with us on this, OR YOU’RE OUR ENEMY.

  • To summarize Season 1: Ezr...
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In Episode 101, hosts Alyce and Laura do* what they do best: talk about Star Wars and promote your local library

  • Yoga brings out the best in us. The best toots, that is. The most enlightened of toots.
  • Highlights from the Empire magazine feature on the upcoming Disney+ series, Star Wars: Ahsoka
  • No but really, exactly how many Jedi survived Order 66?
  • In all fairness to Brendan and Katee, if we were Star Wars actors, we would find any...
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In Episode 100, hosts Alyce and Laura raise a toast* to 100 episodes of random intros, happy hours, caravans of corrections, going on tangents, saying words and phrases incorrectly and being experts (not really) in Star Wars trivia!

  • Welcome to Skin Talk. This is not a recurring segment. Unless we decide we want it to be. 
  • The Curious Case of the Magic Disappearing Cocktail 
  • Everything wrong with Galactic Starcruiser and all of our...
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