Force Toast: A Star Wars Happy Hour

In Episode 136, hosts Alyce and Laura are* feeling sassy! And excited to be back! We missed you, friends! 

• Laura doesn’t road trip good (not as good, as Alyce or Jim Carrey on SNL)
• A lot of general celebrity gossip
• Casting news for Star Wars: Starfighter (via Variety)
• We’ve come back around to the conversation on an R-rated Star Wars film. Now Ryan Reynolds is weighing in. (via EW)
• Hear us out: Star Wars film in the style of Charlie...

In Episode 135 hosts, Alyce and Laura catch up* on Star Wars Celebration news and dive into Andor S2 and how we’re feeling about it after being underwhelmed by S1.

• Dark Matter filmed front of Laura’s apartment and it was the coolest thing that’s ever happened to her… man, that’s sad
• Alyce girlbossed too hard, so you know what that means: chaos cubes
• Spotify poll! Tell us how your bougie a-- serves bubbly in your house
• It turns out ...

In Episode 134, hosts Alyce and Laura are back* with more absurd segues to discuss all the ongoings in the world of Star Wars!

• Is it still fancy if the debutante ball is BYOB?
• Pedophile is out, Meemaw is in. This is about eyewear. 
• More tales to come! Tales of the Underworld means more Asajj Ventress and more Asajj Ventress means more happy fans (it’s us, we’re the happy fans).
• Rogue One was almost ten years ago. That sentence suck...

In Episode 133, hosts Alyce and Laura indulge* in some Millennial Core (in addition to all the normal Star Wars stuff)!

• This is random, but Yellowjackets comes up a lot in this episode, so there are spoilers in this episode for Yellowjackets in general (except episode 3x8)
• An update on Luke’s Medal of Yavin, just cuz. Plus, everything you could ever want to know about how to make an offer on a $300,000 movie prop
• Some thoughts on ...

In Episode 132, hosts Alyce and Laura are* being personally victimized by different major corporations

• Some highlights from the Andor season 2 trailer 
• The Andor season 2 release schedule feels like an attack on podcasters/reviewers. Like, it feels personal and violent.
• Casual reminder that Andor is **cinema**
• The Revenge of the Sith strikes back! That is, it’s coming back to theaters for one week only!
• This listicle uses the word “...

In Episode 131, hosts Alyce and Laura do* bad impressions and ponder important Star Wars questions like, did someone cut up a backpack to make Han and Luke’s medals in the throne room scene?

• What is buying a new house, if not an opportunity to DIY a padded room for the clinically insane?
• Oh yeah. Planet X is gonna get weird.
• A long time ago, in a galaxy no so far away, in an EA forum, before Order 66, there was Order 65
• More old [p...

In Episode 130, hosts Alyce and Laura celebrate* SIX YEARS of hosting and toasting and just doing the most…ing! 

• Want to help us celebrate our anniversary? Buy us a drink and let’s raise a toast!
• Alyce is D&D/RPG girlie now! Or at least, she’s a sit-around-a-table-with-a-die-and-make-sh\t-up girlie! 
• All aboard the Caravan of Corrections! We’ve got a packed segment this time around
• Gone are the old days, we’re putting famous-as-f@c...

In Episode 129, hosts Alyce and Laura had* to Frankenstein this episode together from three separate corpses, I mean, recordings, so please enjoy this very neatly stitched together monster of a podcast episode on this #ForceToastTuesday!

• Reminder that Force Toast is on Bluesky now! Follow us!
• It’s that time of year again where our podcast hosting provider & website bill us for renewals, so if you have the means and want to help u...

In Episode 128, hosts Alyce and Laura ask* very serious questions about Star Wars, chicken-related things, whether or not Tech is dead (he is), and the most important question of all: where would we be without 2009’s “Boom, Boom, Pow”? 

• Oh hey, Force Toast is on Bluesky now! Follow us! 
• Remember when Asajj Ventress came back? How did she un-die? When do we get that story?
• The Powers That Be have a plan for a second season of Skele...

In Episode 127, hosts Alyce and Laura don’t know* what their friends, family or each other do in their corporate jobs. Nor should they. It’s none of their business. 

• The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White is allegedly joining the Star Wars universe (Variety via The Kristian Harloff Show)
• Go, Skelly Crew, go! Critics and audiences are really enjoying the new Star Wars series (via Forbes) 
• Collectors, rejoice! There are new toys, I mean, col...

In Episode 126, hosts Alyce and Laura discuss* dress shopping with their predominantly-male audience, among other topics: 

- This is Mardi Gras, there are RULES

- Caravan of Corrections aka “Alyce needs to stop bringing up pop culture references”

- Laura just wants to enjoy her fava beans and chianti in peace 

- Andor S2 gets a release date and a new clip at D23

- There are so many TV spots circulating from Star Wars: Skelly Crü that we...

In Episode 125, hosts Alyce and Laura are* old and amazing and celebrating everything Star Wars, which is also old and amazing! 

- We shall henceforth tackle all arguments and confrontations with the energy and attitude of a toddler

- Star Wars movie drama continues with the most recent writer’s exit (Variety via Puck News)

- There’s a new trailer for Skeleton Crew aka Skelly Crü, with an accompanying article on starwars.com

- New imag...

In Episode 124, hosts Alyce and Laura revel* in the rizz (yeah, we know cool slang) of Spooky Season! 

- Alyce is watching everything and Laura won’t watch anything new

- Coming to an apocalyptic future soon, probably: cryo-frozen celebrity zombies  

- How money could be better spent: new recurring segment, perhaps? 

- It wasn’t for us, but if The Acolyte was for you and you want your voice heard in the call for a second season, here a...

In Episode 123, hosts Alyce and Laura dive* into the end of the world, roadkill, being traumatized by Moulin Rouge and the real cost of being immortalized on the Walk of Fame

• Would anyone be surprised to learn that George Lucas is a little quirky? 
• Making Star Wars shows is expensive, so it should surprise no one that Star Wars: The Acolyte was an expensive venture (via Forbes)
• RIP James Earl Jones (via Deadline)
• We’re seeing more ...

In Episode 122, hosts Alyce and Laura venture* bravely into Star Wars and its scary fandom! 

• Alyce goes button-mashing in a cloud of cigarette smoke. In other words, she lost $20 on a slot machine at a casino.
• New wine fridge invention idea, we call it! 
• Lord of the Rings man-species hotties are old af (in-universe, that is)
• Star Wars Outlaws came out. That’s all we have to say about that, we’re not gamers.
• The next season of Ahsoka...

In Episode 121, hosts Alyce and Laura welcome* you to Middle Earth (just for a little bit) for some Who’s Hot and Who’s Not, Lord of the Rings and 9/11, and built-in bathroom breaks for Alyce.

Then it’s back to Star Wars!

• More LEGO Star Wars is coming soon! Check out the trailer here
• Check out People Magazine’s feature on Skeleton Crew. And yes, we’ve already decided we are head over heels for NEEL 
• Speaking of, the Skeleton Crew t...

Get in, losers, we’re going to Brendon. I mean, Brendok!

In the episode formerly known as Episode #121, hosts Alyce and Laura are* PLAGUED [get it?] by technical difficulties AGAIN, this time in the form of a lost recording.

• We had a whole news segment, but Alyce’s computer shat the bed in the middle of our recording, so now it’s a big bonus Recap on Tap of The Acolyte episodes 7 and 8, feat. Fun With Autocorrect!
• The dark side ha...

Disclaimer in the off-chance this is your first episode of Force Toast: we had a technical issue (user-error) so the audio quality of Laura’s track isn’t up to our usual standards. Sorry, and know that we have resolved the issue so all future episodes will sound like our prior episodes =)

In Episode 120, hosts Alyce and Laura are* definitely NOT listening to or taking to heart all the ways Gen Z thinks Millennials are cringe™ now. 

In Episode 119, hosts Alyce and Laura ponder* why architects in the Star Wars universe are always building giant server rooms next to giant holes? 

• Alyce gives a lesson on Shyriiwook (to be clear, the lesson is not in Shyriiwook)
• F--- them kids? What does Dave Filoni think of a potential R-rated Star Wars film? (from the Happy Sad Confused podcast via The Hollywood Reporter)
• Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy discusses the Rey movie with Siriu...