Force Toast: A Star Wars Happy Hour

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 Alyce and Laura have* an unusual amount of food and d*ck talk. But fear not, there’s Star Wars stuff here too!

• That’s a nice platter of shrimp you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if someone undercooked the sh*t out of it before serving it to you.
• Everything new is actually old, including that Ahsoka featurette that came out Sept 8
• Alas, Skeleton Crew has been delayed, allegedly (via Bespin Bulletin). Next time, we’re placing bets in Vegas for our predictions.
• Is Mando Season 3 coming to home video/DVD/blu-ray/fancy physical format in 2024? 
• A new Star Wars fan favorite character is coming to Disneyland!
• The Jedi Council but make it a Christmas carol. That’s what the new Star Wars novel is going to be about (not really).  
• With enough time and audacity, you too can turn your love of our nerdy space war fandom into sh*tty looking desserts (via starwars.com)
• Recap on Tap: initial spoiler-free thoughts on Tales of Light & Life and From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi, then it’s on to Ahsoka! Fair warning: our recap and review of episodes 3 and 4 of Ahsoka include spoilers 
• A really nice note from listener Michael Baysinger and an update on Limb Watch 2023!

Helpful links referenced in this episode:

• Alyce joins David Humphreys to discuss What Star Wars Means To You! Find it on Apple and Spotify
• Laura, Kevin Smets and John Rocha review Ahsoka episode 3: Time to Fly and episode 4: Fallen Jedi on 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!

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 Alyce and Laura push* their #MakeMorthraCanon agenda on all of our unsuspecting listeners. Laura isn’t the only shipping enthusiast on this show anymore!

• If you haven’t seen Tony Gilroy’s speech at the WGA protest in NY in August 2023, it is a must-watch
• Not Bob Iger throwing away every ounce of goodwill Disney has and shoving his entire foot in his mouth
• Alyce learns the history of TikTok
• The Lando series is actually happening (allegedly) and it has new writers!
• We go on walks. We’re walkers now.
• Who we’re thirst-trapping at the moment
• The Mandalorian physical media is coming soon! 
• We’re going to be flushed with books soon! From A Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi and The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life are both coming soon
• What Beyonce and The High Republic have in common
• What Listener Aris caught in Path of Vengeance that went right over our heads
• Recap on Tap: brief, spoiler-free thoughts on Star Wars Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade and why you can’t just lay face down in pool of molten lava
• We review the first 2 episodes of the new Ahsoka series, and discuss why getting stabbed through the gut and living to tell the tale can make sense

Helpful links referenced in this episode:

• Alyce joins Sal on the Rogue Rebels Podcast to discuss The High Republic Phase II comics! 
• Kevin “The Smasher” Smets returns to The Jedi Way to review Episodes 1 and 2 of Ahsoka with John Rocha and Laura 
• The Jedi Way recaps essential TCW episodes and Sabine-centric Rebels episodes
• Rocha and Laura discuss Lando series news + Ahsoka-centric episodes of Rebels on The Jedi Way  
• Laura joins What Star Wars Means To You to discuss… exactly that!
   

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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!

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? Well, we can’t be bothered to look up his first name, so Alyce christens him D*ckhead Saxon
• Kanan and Hera flirt on Skype, Bo-Katan puts on the homie and Ezra does Jedi leap-frog 
• Laura’s brain short circuits mid-episode
• Life lesson from Force Toast: when sh*t gets sad, take a drink break
• When one needs a ride on Lothal, is Uber Wolf Pack an option in the app, or is that feature for Force wielders only? 
• A general review of the World Between Worlds: what it is and what it isn’t.
• Hondo, like, really cares about Ezra. So he’s gonna be in the Ahsoka show, right? RIGHT?
• Pryce falls for Ryder’s trick, everybody point and laugh at Pryce!

If you’ve enjoyed our Rebels Recap bonus series, reminder that we recapped Seasons 1-6 of The Clone Wars back in early 2020! If you’re in the market for more Force Toast recap content, here is the Apple Podcasts link to our Bonus Recap episode on TCW Seasons 1 & 2.

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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!

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 full ROTJ Luke Skywalker this season.
• Costume upgrades and haircuts all around!
• Ezra gets promoted… and subsequently, demoted 
• Canon Novel Thrawn vs Dave Filoni’s Thrawn
• Maul is delusional, Ezra snitches, 
• Autocorrect continues to plague us. Mail = Maul. Converse = Convors. 
• Kanan is still a moody b-tch. But he’s also Mary Poppins, y’all! 
• Kenobi is Bae and Bae is kind of lame in Rebels

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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!

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! 

• Rex returns! And he brought a game of Bingo… at least that’s what Alyce’s notes say?
• Don’t try to pull a fast one on Kallus, he brings receipts
• Ever notice how Kanan is such a moody b-tch at the beginning of every season of this show? It’s almost like being a child soldier wasn’t good for him. 
• Chopper is a menace
• Don’t wear colored contacts in your Bumble pics, people
• The mini Space Shamu’s just wanna get high and listen to jazz
• Kallus starts to suspect that the Empire might suck
• Yoda is the Carrie Bradshaw of this season, he is just here to make everything about him
• Will Ahsoka still hallucinate about Anakin in the Ahsoka series or has she had therapy? 
• Chopper is a good boi (but still a menace)

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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!

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: Ezra is Aladdin, Kallas goes to Kessel, Ol’ Grandy is a messy bitch, Luminara gets ghosted, the Phantom is a baby marsupial, Yoda is floating light balls and Kanan is dead but not really
• Star Wars Rebels is like interval training for your eyes and ears
• When pork chops fail to satisfy, we present an alternative form of chop for the menu. Or should we say man-u?
• If you’re a hardcore Sebrezra shipper, this bonus series may not be for you
• For that matter, if you’re a massive fan of Ezra Bridger in general, this episode may not be for you (admit it, he was kind of annoying when he was 14)
• Enjoy the moment where Laura forgets the word “pyromaniac” but gets close kinda?
• Alyce takes REALLY good notes
• #MakeOldGrandyRichard
• “Ya know, cuz sh-t rhymes and whatnot” -George Lucas at some point, probably

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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 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 excuse to visit the Ahsoka set too tbh
• Is there more to Shin Hati than meets the eye? (via EW)
• Hayden Christensen and Diego Luna bro’d out for Variety and it was adorable (SWNN has a transcript)
• Pedro Pascal gives new insight into the process of bringing Din Djarin to life (via Collider)
• Looking ahead to Phase 3 of The High Republic
• Recap On Tap: It’s the end of The High Republic Phase 2! We’re discussing the young adult novel Path of Vengeance WITH SPOILERS. If you’re avoiding spoilers, skip 49:20-1:09:45.
• We don’t completely fail at the trivs this round

Helpful links referenced in this episode:

• On the June 1, 2023 episode of The Jedi Way, Laura, Rocha and Smets discuss the Galactic Starcruiser, Taika’s Star Wars film and rumors of Temuera Morrison in the Ahsoka cast, and pay tribute to actor Ray Stevenson
• The same day this episode comes out, you’ll be able to listen to Laura on the Now This is Lit podcast with Meg Dowell as they discuss the novel The High Republic: Cataclysm and gush about The Mandalorian and The High Republic phase two

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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 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 brilliant ideas for how to re-tool it
• We’re not sure what Dave Filoni’s Star Wars film’s title (working title?) is but, yes, let’s keep sensationalizing this random Twitter user’s “scoop”!
• A philosophical debate about whether or not a project can be described as “delayed” if there was no confirmed start date to begin with (spoiler: it cannot)
• No one can say for sure yet when Mando season 4 is coming (sources disagree), but at least we now know when to expect the Disney Gallery special of The Mandalorian season 3
• Live-action Hera’s head tails are… not it
• We discuss the Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade excerpt on starwars.com
• Initial thoughts on THR: Path of Vengeance. We discuss some plot points from early in the book, but we couldn't spoil anything if we wanted to since we’re both only about half way through it 
• Answering listener questions and thoughts

Thank you for listening, dear friends! Cheers to the next 100!

Helpful links referenced in this episode:

• If you give Laura a platform, she will enthusiastically show up to yell about Bo Katan and Din Djarin. The Geeky Waffle provided that platform. Watch here!  
• Laura joins John Rocha and Kevin Smets on The Jedi Way to discuss The Acolyte feature in Empire Magazine, the ALLEGED Filoni movie title and the possibility The Mandalorian season 4 delays. Find it on YouTube now

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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 99, which has nothing to do with Clone Force 99 - it’s merely a coincidence, hosts Alyce and Laura dive into* some alien movie nostalgia, load some fruit onto the Caravan of Corrections and celebrate Star Wars Day/Week/Month/YEAR?!

• Alyce is influencing Laura’s TikTok FYP
• We preview the 20-page Star Wars spread in the May 11th issue of Empire Magazine and discuss the Star Wars film release schedule, Dave Filoni’s upcoming film, Skeleton Crew’s Amblin influence and Andor’s final 3 episodes
• The nostalgia of E.T and 1988’s “Mac and Me”
• Disney out here playing the fool with this writer’s strike
• Laura’s quick non-spoiler review of Star Wars: Visions Volume 2
• Some brief thoughts on Young Jedi Adventures, which in all fairness, is not targeted towards us
• Most of our Recap on Tap segment is all about The High Republic: Cataclysm WITH SPOILERS. While it’s not an in-depth full recap, we discuss the Path of the Open Hand, characters and their relationships, the fate of some of our Phase 1 favorites and the Battle of Dalna and its consequences. If you want to avoid spoilers for Cataclysm, skip 45:50-1:05:05.

Helpful links referenced in this episode:

• John Rocha and Laura welcomed new cast member Kevin Smets on The Jedi Way. Check out our Revenge of the Fifth livestream where we discussed Visions Volume 2 and more!
• It’s a May the Fourth mini Schmoedown reunion! Check out this episode of The RAD Cast with the Dimalantas, where Laura, Andrew, Jill and Gold Leader played a very silly trivia game!

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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 98, hosts Alyce and Laura correct a correction, catch up* on a bunch of Star Wars Celebration news and recap the end of The Mandalorian season 3!  

• Star Wars Celebration 2023 highs and lows 
• We share our thoughts on the Ahsoka series trailer and the live-action look of the Ghost crew
• Andy Serkis does not compute for Alyce
• If you’re worried about The Acolyte series writers room, don’t. Just don’t. Go touch some grass. 
• Discussing all the ways we’re excited about The Acolyte 
• Laura is bad at listening to instructions sometimes WHOOPSIES 
• Discussing some highlights from The High Republic panel and Phase 3
• Recap on Tap: Extreme Mando Edition! We discuss the last 3 episodes of Season 3: Guns For Hire, The Spies and The Return, so SPOILER WARNING for all!
• If you’re ever offered an opportunity to go watch an episode of Star Wars on a big screen with a bunch of other Star Wars fans, take it. 10/10 would recommend.

Helpful links referenced in this episode:

• Jet-lagged Laura joins John Rocha and Kevin Smets to review The Mandalorian season 3 finale on 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!