Force Toast: A Star Wars Happy Hour

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 “cancelled” to describe these 20 Star Wars projects that never made it to screen, but we’re pretty sure at least 3 of these are made up. Sorry for using the word “listicle” unironically.
• Highlights from Deadline’s really long interview with Kathleen Kennedy about her retirement, fan scrutiny of Lucasfilm, her succession plan and more.
• We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, we really have enough Darth Vader stories. Like, we have so far more than anyone asked for.
• What happens in Vegas may have already happened across the U.S., but that’s not going to stop sultry stormtroopers from shaking what their mama gave them
• Alyce is in her Naming Things era! Help her come up with names for her high elf (high as in highborn, not stoned) and her new robot vacuum

Helpful links referenced in this episode:

• John Rocha and Laura discuss the Kathleen Kennedy retirement rumors and the Andor season 2 trailer on the most recent episode of The Jedi Way
   

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

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 [presumably crusty], very expensive Star Wars props for sale, in the off-chance you have a spare $400,000 laying around
• Marvel’s What If but make it Mace Windu (via Gamerant)
• Screenrant is speculating about the next Star Wars animated series and we’re all in 
• Recap on Tap is all about The High Republic Phase III comics! Spoiler warnings all around: Marvel’s The High Republic (2025) Issue #1 has spoilers for the Tempest Breaker audio drama. If you want to avoid this conversation, skip 31:20-43:20. 
• We’re also discussing The High Republic Adventures: Dispatches From the Occlusion Zone 4-issue miniseries WITH SPOILERS. We’ll note that we don’t know who any of these characters are, so we’re definitely missing some context, but what you need to know is 1) there is an escaped gorilla on the loose and 2) all roads lead to Dalna. If you don’t want to listen to our horrendous attempt at making sense of this miniseries, skip 43:25-1:00:50. 

Helpful links referenced in this episode:

• That Star Wars RPG podcast Laura couldn’t remember the name of in the last episode was The Campaign

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, collectible action figures, coming soon! (via SWNN)
• We feel you, Gizmodo, we’re also obsessed with Neel and his Millennial Side Part™
• Fans are having mixed reaction to the news that Dave Filoni will be the sole writer of Ahsoka season 2 (Comicbook.com via this YouTube interview)
• A tangent on The Penguin and Southern Louisiana tchotchkes (ever seen that word spelled out before?)
• With the cold weather and holidays comes more expensive Star Wars apparel for your bougie Vader-loving ass 
• A dramatic reading of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew opening crawl
• In Recap on Tap, it’s all about the Skelly Crü, skeletonization and Space Grass! Alyce and Laura discuss highlights from episodes 1 and 2 and get into a more thorough recap/review of episode 3 #LetSM33wearapiratehat
• Are we the only freaks that actually enjoy Order 66 content? 

Helpful links referenced in this episode:

• Alyce and Laura joined Sal Perales on the Rogue Rebels podcast for a Spoiler Review and recap of The High Republic: Tears of the Nameless. Find it wherever you get podcasts now (Apple, Spotify)! 
• Speaking of The High Republic, check out Laura’s spoiler-free review of the new audio drama, Tempest Breaker on the Force Toast website 
• Kevin Smets, John Rocha and Laura Kelly are reviewing Star Wars: Skeleton Crew on The Jedi Way! Find reviews of Eps 1 and 2 here and the Episode 3 review here! 

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

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 can’t keep up! But this one where Jude Law is being sketchy may be of interest. WHAT ARE YOU, JUDE LAW?

- Skeleton Crew directors revealed (via SWNN)

- The Rey movie is getting replaced with WHAT on the Disney slate?!

- Coming Soon to a Disney+ subscription near you: Star Wars Visions, Volume 3!

- Did you buy a Star Wars Christmas ornament this year? There’s a recall, so… do with that information what you will

- Star Wars was such a scrappy little production back in the late 70s, they’d never get away with this sh-t now

- In today’s Silly Story from an Unreliable Source segment, if this pop star appears in a Star Wars film, we’ll eat our hats

- Recap on Tap: Laura’s spoiler-free review of the upcoming High Republic audio drama, Star Wars: Tempest Breaker 

Helpful links referenced in this episode:

- Keep an eye on the Rogue Rebels podcast feed! We joined Sal for a SPOILER discussion of The High Republic: Tears of the Nameless, which will be out soon!

- Laura, Smets and Rocha discuss recent Star Wars film shake-ups and Andor Season 3 news the on the most recent episode of The Jedi Way

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

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 images from Skeleton Crew from Empire Magazine (via Reddit)

- Will Skelly Crü have ties to the 2019 novel, Star Wars: Force Collector? Alyce has a theory

- December 3, 2024 is going to be a big day for Star Wars fans, as it marks the premiere of Skeleton Crew and the debut of The High Republic audio original, Tempest Breaker

- Imagine Rancho Obi-Wan, but four times bigger? A new Star Wars memorabilia museum may be in the works

- Star Wars is putting the “Knight” in Jedi Knight in a very literal way and it is amazing. Check out the new THR concept art and all the other publishing reveals from NYCC!

- As it turns out, The Book of Boba Fett really did take inspiration from Parks & Rec

- Recap on Tap is a non-spoiler review of The High Republic YA novel, Tears of the Nameless! We discuss some general plot points, characters and share our thoughts on the novel and Phase III so far. No spoilers, but if you want to avoid this discussion, skip 55:00 - 01:08:20.

Helpful links referenced in this episode:

- On the Oct 25 episode of The Jedi Way, Laura and Rocha talked about Rey movie writing shakeups, publishing reveals out of NYCC reveals and why Laura believes Gray Jedi is a stupid concept

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

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 are some helpful links: petition, letter template

- Jodie Turner-Smith calls Disney on its sh-t in Glamour UK

- The Hollywood Reporter asks if Disney is bad at Star Wars and, regardless of the answer, the article is at least a comprehensive recap of how we got here

- On that note, apparently toxic fandom is a thing in other fandoms too (not just Star Wars). 

- The Art of The High Republic Vol. II finalizes its cover… oh, and it’s release has been delayed

- Mando Maybe-Spoilers? Allegedly some plot details of The Mandalorian and Grogu have leaked and all of them SUCK. Skip 40:05-45:05 to avoid this section.

- Recap on Tap: after a delay or two, all 4 issues of The High Republic Adventures: Saber For Hire are finally out! We didn’t realize how much we’ve missed having Ty Yorrick in our lives. Join us as we discuss the comic mini-series issue by issue [skip 45:55-1:15:20 to avoid spoilers]

Helpful links referenced in this episode:

- Kevin Smets, John Rocha and Laura Kelly discuss the epidemic of toxicity in fandom and possibility of more live-action Obi-Wan on the October 9th episode of The Jedi Way

Twitter: @forcetoastpod | @sLeiaAllDay | @ShutUp_Laura

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

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 reports of various upcoming Star Wars projects being delayed or on hold =/
• What Star Wars and Who Wants to be a Millionaire have in common 
• *a la SNL’s Stefon* Skeleton Crew is going to have everything: Dave Filoni as a goalkeeper, a whole new kind of Jedi, pirates in beanies, URKEL??? (via EW)
• Ewan wants more Obi-Wan content + a career retrospective with Alyce’s bae (via Variety)
• Rey’s Theme played across the stars
• Marvel/Star Wars parents: let this be a lesson in why you shouldn’t name your human children after Disney’s copyrighted characters
• Missing The Bad Batch? Dark Horse Comics has a treat for you!
• Some initial, non-spoiler thoughts on the new YA High Republic novel, Tears of the Nameless (Collider has concept art and an excerpt here)
• Remember way back when the internet was obsessed with that dress that was either white/gold or blue/black? We kind of have our own version of that lol 

Helpful links referenced in this episode:

• Kevin, John and Laura discuss _________ on the September ___ episode of The Jedi Way

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