Force Toast: A Star Wars Happy Hour

By: Alyce and Laura Love Star Wars
  • Summary

  • 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
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Episodes
  • Ep 130: Find Your Bunko
    Feb 4 2025

    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@ck people in Star Wars movies now (via The Hollywood Reporter)
    • Lucasfilm! Quick, for a dollar: name a woman writer! Any woman writer. There has to be one with more than 8 film writing credits. No? Anyway, the Rey film has a new writer.
    • Ahsoka Season 2 Rumor Roundup
    • The Acolyte got good numbers, but there’s more to this story
    • Speaking of stuff that got cancelled, The Wrap has an update on the Galactic Starcruiser
    • There’s a story about Watto in… Forbes? lol what a weird sentence
    • The High Republic: Trials of the Jedi cover art revealed!
    • Hints of what’s to come in The High Republic Phase 3 comics this year

    Helpful links referenced in this episode:

    • Support Force Toast on Ko-Fi!
    • Rocha, Smets and Laura do a Star Wars news roundup on the February 2nd episode of The Jedi Way! Ryan Gosling, Rey movie, a Smets Rant, streaming service series performances


    Twitter: @forcetoastpod | @sLeiaAllDay | @ShutUp_Laura

    Instagram: @forcetoastpod

    Bluesky: forcetoastpod.bsky.social

    Email: forcetoastpod@gmail.com

    Website: forcetoastpod.com

    *This podcast contains a sh!t ton of profanity and boozin. You can find a bleeped version of this podcast absolutely nowhere. Cheers!

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    52 mins
  • Ep 129: Unprobable
    Jan 21 2025

    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 us offset those costs, find us on Ko-Fi!
    • Laura has meaty calves, according to women’s clothing standards
    • James Mangold doesn’t like handcuffs… at least that’s what we took away from this news (via MovieWeb)
    • Alyce continues her campaign to Put Taylor Swift in Star Wars
    • Mando Movie rumor roundup, courtesy of StarWarsLeaks via Mandoverse Updates on twitter
    • Skeleton Crew actress Kyriana Kratter’s interview with The Hollywood Reporter is so cute, plus it hints at a pinch of darkness in the S1 finale
    • Recap on Tap is STACKED with nothing but Skeleton Crew! Bryce Dallas Howard is back to direct Episode 6, Zero Friends Again, Lee Isaac Chung starts unraveling the mysteries of At Attin in Episode 7 and Jon Watts closes out the season in the finale.
    • Jod and Cobb / sittin’ in a tree / K-I-S-S-I-N-maybe?

    Helpful links referenced in this episode:

    • On the January 9th episode of The Jedi Way, Smets, Rocha and Laura discuss Skeleton Crew episodes 6 and 7 and James Mangold’s recent comments about his upcoming Star Wars film
    • The Jedi Way crew reviews Skeleton Crew’s season 1 finale (ep 8) here
    • Force Toast Ko-fi


    Twitter: @forcetoastpod | @sLeiaAllDay | @ShutUp_Laura

    Instagram: @forcetoastpod

    Email: forcetoastpod@gmail.com

    Website: forcetoastpod.com

    *This podcast contains a sh!t ton of profanity and boozin. You can find a bleeped version of this podcast absolutely nowhere. Cheers!

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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • Ep 128: Wicked White Chris
    Dec 31 2024

    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 Skeleton Crew… but will they get one?
    • Screenrant thought there were only 15 things in The Rise of Skywalker that made no sense
    • The Bad Batch is getting a book! The Bad Batch Book. Hey, that’s what they should call it! Alliterations are amusing!
    • It turns out Andor was quite the expense! Forbes posted this article on 12/23 and that’s what we discuss in this episode. But they’ve since posted a few follow ups, linked here and here if you wanna check it out. Shoutout to the helpful math in this tweet that also helped put things in perspective.
    • New Star Wars Celebration badge art for the 2025 convention in Japan
    • RIP Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, gone too soon for 8 years now
    • “What the f--k is this?!” - SM-33 while landing on Lanupa, probably
    • Remember TRL? On MTV? Good times
    • Laura reveals just how sh-tty her taste in pop music really is
    • Alyce will not regale us with the history of Libby’s pumpkin
    • Toast To: Christmas Edition

    Helpful links referenced in this episode:

    • Laura reviews Skeleton Crew episodes 4 & 5 with John Rocha and Kevin Smets on The Jedi Way, here on YouTube

    Twitter: @forcetoastpod | @sLeiaAllDay | @ShutUp_Laura

    Instagram: @forcetoastpod

    Email: forcetoastpod@gmail.com

    Website: forcetoastpod.com

    *This podcast contains a sh!t ton of profanity and boozin. You can find a bleeped version of this podcast absolutely nowhere. Cheers!

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    1 hr and 24 mins

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