Force Toast: A Star Wars Happy Hour

In Episode 153, hosts Alyce and Laura are* going to the MAUL later, thank you for asking. Laura whips out the good sh-t for Happy Hour We made a Sally Ride error and every woman in STEM that left an indelible mark on the world rolled over in their grave… including Sally Ride, probably.  The Mandalorian and Grogu is coming out in May, a few weeks after May the Fourth. You’d think that would be a good marketing tie in, yeah? Nope, Star Wars Day is all about Return of the Jedi this year for some reason. Maul about Maul! He’s everywhere! In the news! On Disney+! Probably other places! Maul - Shadow Lord is getting a second season. Plus, Filoni talks Maul with Esquire. Protip: there’s a great TLDR on SWNN. Jon Favreau will be at CinemaCon to get everyone hyped about the upcoming Mando movie (via Deadline) Grogu is the real star of this filmmaker roundtable Ben There, Done That! (patting ourselves on the back for that one) Stephen Soderbergh reacts to Lucasfilm’s pass on his Ben Solo-centric film (BKMAG via

In Episode 152, hosts Alyce and Laura learn* valuable lessons about 90s Nickelodeon theme songs and where the f-ck Tosche Station is! If there is one thing you take away from this podcast, it’s that you are supposed to watch all 39 hours of Daredevil before you watch Born Again.  Will Alyce’s prediction/dream that Taylor Swift be cast as the voice of Grogu ever come true? Here’s an update… (Gizmodo via Variety) Remember in our last episode when we asked, hey whatever happened to that one trilogy? From our lips to Penguin Random House’s ears. Check out this article and the official synopsis for Reign of the Empire: Edge of the Abyss here. What TIME is it? Show time (show time), show time (show time)! Thanks, 2016 Bruno Mars. Speaking of time, they make mid-bougie Mando watches for men and not women. Some poor schmuck had to drill a bar into the deepest depths of the earth for our boy Adam Driver (via SWNN) Usually we regret asking for a man to mansplain something to us, but we kinda needed someone to ex

We open on the Chimera f--kin’. In Episode 151, hosts Alyce and Laura enjoy* one last jaunt to Peridea, complete with TOE Fighters, Rebels Season 1 Ezra and Grand Admiral Cock a Doodle Blue! Let’s catch up with Alyce’s Marvel catch up. Catch up Inception! Speaking of, should we add a Marvel segment to our show when Daredevil comes back? What do we call it? Marvel Manor? Marvel, May I? Marvel Mountain Schlong, perhaps… Happy Belated Rebels Remembered Day to all who celebrated last week! A preview of the forthcoming May issue of Empire Magazine, featuring Mando and the BABAY Today’s lesson in filmmaking no one asked for: the black and white clappy thing used on film sets Prediction: you won’t be able to swing a light saber without hitting someone dressed as Rotta the Hutt at the next Star Wars Celebration Bae? Alyce’s Bae? Obi-Wan? O-Bae-Wan? He’s gonna be in Ahsoka season 2? Maybe? (via Bespin Bulletin) Step aside, Ewan. There’s a new Bae in town! Ryan Gosling has a rule about franchises. His rule is

In Episode 150, hosts Alyce and Laura celebrate* the 7th Avernersary of Force Toast (and The Mandalorian) but mostly Force Toast. Reminiscing on 7 years of watching and reading Star Wars, doing trivs and learning mad skills, like how to do Star Wars Celebration, how to podcast and how to not drink too much when podcasting. Important life lessons! What do Sam Elliott, sh-tty beer and football have in common? Star Wars at the Super Bowl! Mystifying, or just a small (expensive) part of a grander marketing plan? (article referenced) Speaking of Mando - we call him Mandu now - a new MandUlorian & Grogu trailer is here! Let’s discuss!  The article that sparked a million click bait parasites did not actually say what you think it said. Calm down.  We did the math. Jon Favreau isn’t going anywhere. Take that, click bait.  Remember Rogue Squadron? The question of whether it will ever come to fruition remains… a question. (via Parade) RIP Admiral Piett actor Kenneth Colley. Sorry DailyMail and the internet

In Episode 149, hosts Alyce and Laura toast* to the comedic genius of Catherine O’Hara, Nightsisters inventing semaglutides, and daiquiri shacks (shaquiris? Is that anything?)We start by discussing the atrocities taking place in Minneapolis and the U.S. at large, and how our respective areas of the country are reacting. Just in case you have any doubts of where we stand, we supported the January 30 general strike and we’re really f---ing pissed and sad about what’s happening in Minneapolis.Laura shares an update on her other Star Wars show, The Jedi Way.The Caravan of Corrections do be caravaningThe torch has been passed! Kathleen Kennedy steps down from Lucasfilm and it is going to take 2 people to replace her, so yes, haters tell us more about how awful she is at her job *eye roll* (check out Deadline’s exit interview with KK here)Speaking of retirement, we have FIRE plans. Long story short, Laura will open a Shaquiri and record weird noises from a beach, and Alyce will be at Chipotle.Formerly Darth. Now ju

In Episode 148, hosts Alyce and Laura are* impatient for Starfighter, for Ahsoka and for the Mando movie. The theme of the episode is WE’RE SICK OF WAITING!It’s the first episode of the 2,026th year of when humans started counting yearsAlyce shares thoughts on the Stranger Things finale. Also she’s an influencer now. You have been influenced. Who gives a sh-t about Tom Cruise, can we talk about how there’s gonna be lightsabers in Star Wars: Starfighter?! (NYT via Variety)Will Season 2 of Ahsoka drop in 2026 after all? We don’t know sh-t about Marvel anymore. We used to, but now we need someone to brief us on the last 3 years of content.This Mando movie poster came out back in September, but we missed it then, so we’re gonna make fun of it nowThere’s a new image featuring Sassy Din™ from the upcoming film, The Mandalorian and Grogu. But will the movie be worth the wait? We’re bringing our Ahsoka Again segment into 2026 with our rewatch recap of Part 5: Shadow Warrior! Be advised this segment contains spoilers

In Episode 147, hosts Alyce and Laura bid* 2025 adieu, sum up their silly holiday seasons and dive into all the Ahsoka action in a recap of episode 4!Alyce returns to her local avant-garde theater and it was full of chaos! And waffles!Analyzing and reviewing the many iterations of The GrinchWe finally learn what exactly the K-pop Demon Hunters are. They’re on the Netflix. Ahsoka Season 2? We don’t know her. Or her release date. Or anything. (via The Direct)A word-salad, non-update (nupdate?) on the Rey movie (via Collider)Vidya gamez newz and an Old Republic update all in one! Also we learn what a “mood piece” (aka, not a trailer?) is. (via Gamespot)An actual real update on Star Wars: Starfighter!In Recap on Tap, we’re back with more Ahsoka Again! We’ve reached Part 4: Fallen Jedi, and things are really picking up! And by “picking up” of course we’re referring to that scene where Baylan picks up Ahsoka and throws her off a cliff. You know that song from Dirty Dancing, She’s Like the Wind? That’s how we think

In Episode 146, hosts Alyce and Laura find a few Star Wars news breadcrumbs and discuss* all the things they don’t remember about the Ahsoka series (it’s a lot of things).Thanksgiving rewiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiindWe never really thought about it, but it turns out The Volume technology isn’t exclusive to Star WarsHot take: Star Wars: Starfighter will be as well received or better received by general audiences as Attack of the Clones“One of us! One of us!” is what was going through our heads as we read Henry Gilroy’s recent comments about Sabine’s Jedi turn in the Ahsoka series (via SWNN)Likely not news, but it’s news to us: there are 2 new Star Wars books coming out next yearShawn Levy lets us all know that he’s still having fun making his Star War and hasn’t quit the movie (via Vanity Fair)Recap on Tap: Ahsoka Again! We’re back for Part 3: Time to Filler, I mean, Time to Fly! We discuss the highs and lows, what worked and what didn’t, live-action Jacen, Hera losing her cool, squabbles with senators, space walks, sp

In Episode 145, hosts Alyce and Laura take* a look back at Halloweens of yore and bring back their new segment: Ahsoka Again! Please be advised: temporary tattoos should not go on your faceHo phase and college days! Alyce had the best group Halloween costume back in the day.Shoutout to Mandoverse Updates on socials, we love your updates (Follow them on Bluesky)A brief discussion on The Mandalorian and Grogu: budget, Sigorney’s role and more (via Inside the Magic)Shawn Levy REALLY wants you to know one key thing about Starfighter (via EW)If you’re a Matt Smith fan, he gave a really long interview here, where he gave an update on his upcoming role in Star Wars: Starfighter.Pour one out for Star Wars Insider magazine (via starwars.com)In this episode’s Recap on Tap: Ahsoka Again, we revisit Ahsoka Season 1, Part 2: Toil and Trouble. “Dark Jedi” are a thing according to AI, Hera gets messy, human women in Star Wars prove enormously talented at surviving stab wounds, and Sabine is Mary Poppins, y’all!Twitter: @for

In Episode 144, hosts Alyce and Laura are* feeling excited about Star Wars for the first time in a while! TV Talk. Everything is cancelled. The end. Welcome back to The Puddin’ Pod. The podcast about pudding. Update: The Puddin’ Pod has also been cancelled now. Some hints about how much Rotta the Hutt we can expect in “The Mandalorian and Grogu” filmMeg Dowell’s spoiler-free review of Star Wars: The Last Order may convince Laura to start reading again.Tbh the most surprising thing about Adam Driver developing a whole a-- Star Wars movie is that it somehow never leaked. Seriously, how? (Variety via AP)Don’t we all want a soundtrack to our life? Isn’t that a universal desire? Apparently not…Somewhere, maybe from a rocket in outer space, George Lucas is fuming about Disney capitalizing on the Holiday Special.Step aside, Recap on Tap! We’ve got a new segment: Ahsoka Again! In ou visit, recap and review an episode of season one of the Ahsoka series. There will be spoilers for all of Season 1 of Ahsoka in each epis

In Episode 143, hosts Alyce and Laura dig* deep to find Star Wars and Star Wars-adjacent news to discuss… outside of the Mando trailer, clearly we gotta get into that.Did you know Alyce is a low-key profesh cake decorator?They haven't even started making Space Balls 2 yet and they’re already spoofing The Force AwakensIn a shameless effort to distract us from the Jimmy Kimmel firing fiasco (before it all got resolved), Disney dropped a trailer for The Mandalorian & Grogu. Are Star Wars fans reading too deep into this picture from the Ahsoka season 2 set? No way, Star Wars fans have never done that…Filming has officially wrapped on season 2 of the Ahsoka series (via SWNN)Bryce Dallas Howard discusses directing in Star Wars and why she keeps coming back (People via SWNN)  Remember when they canonized snow cones in Star Wars? TV Tangent CornerKiera Knightley is down for more Sabé stories, but the sequel trilogy era may not be the best option… (via Screenrant)Coincidence or conspiracy? Sabé isn’t the only form

In Episode 142, hosts Alyce and Laura find* a possible new career path for Alyce: Star Wars movie prop auction item appraiser… or fortune teller. It’s between those two options.Anyone else loving Foxy Knoxy on Hulu?Prop Watch is over (for now)! One of us guessed almost exactly right and the other one… did notWhy do we keep forgetting that Maul: Shadow Lord is going to be a thing? The people yearn for more Hondo Ohnaka (via The Direct)Oscar Isaac may be on the hunt for a new/another house (via GamesRadar, this Deadline article also mentioned)We probably should have listened to the podcast to get the full context, but this recent interview with a certain SW showrunner is… confusing (via GamesRadar)Today’s segment of Star Wars Capitalism is here to deck the halls of your hopefully-high ceiling household this holiday seasonSebulba lives! A brief overview of the Dug species. Because why not?Alyce learns what a meta quest is! Laura misses The Void VR experience! But maybe this Beyond Victory thing will scratch that

In Episode 141, hosts Alyce and Laura demand* justice for Luke’s cancelled Tosche Station plans. Those power converters aren’t going to pick up themselves!Beware, movie prop auction houses have hidden fees for those buying $2 million lightsabers. Rich people - they’re just like us!If an Allen Wrench is good enough for film-grade lightsabers, it’s good enough for your Ikea bookshelf.I guess we can finally be confident that Star Wars: Starfighter will actually get made (I mean, it has a cast and everything now).Auntie Alyce, The Elder: Mullet ExpertAh yes, the classic villain in Ahsoka season 1: Babylon. Babylon Skull will return in S2. That was definitely his name.Speaking of, should we do an Ahsoka S1 re-watch? We’re thinking we should do an Ahsoka S1 re-watch. Some folks have seen a sneak peak of season 3 of Star Wars Visions and we particularly enjoyed this review of what was shown at Anime NYC.No more streaming series for you! Now it’s just trilogies on trilogies. Thanks to Sal of Rogue Rebels for the Thro

In Episode 140, hosts Alyce and Laura and the set of Attack of the Clones may have* accidently created a new superhero: Super Pipe Cart Man!Matt Smith is joining the Dark Side of the Star Wars universe! Hey, haven’t we heard that story before? (Deadline exclusive)More Lego Star Wars silliness is on the way! Check out the trailer!First came the Mando-verse, now we’re [allegedly] getting a Rey-verse? Some new reveals about the original cut of Rogue One, courtesy of Alan TudykThe internet is just a big game of Telephone, which is essentially why some people thought Obi-Wan was going to show up in Ahsoka… or is he?No, but really. What would actually happen if an actor spilled the spoiler tea about an upcoming project? Ron Howard is not here to start drama (unlike SOME people we know)Imagine being so good at your job, they have to use movie magic to slow you down (via Collider)Laura can’t decide if she’s more embarrassed for Disney or GC with this lawsuit settlement. Fortunately, Alyce has a casting solution.You g

In Episode 139, hosts Alyce and Laura forgot* what happened in Ahsoka, and Keeve Trennis is all up in her feelings.The History of the Mandela Effect and how it relates to Star Wars (via GoodHousekeeping)In a follow up to last week’s episode, more about the award-winning dog ballsProp Watch! Prop auctions are interesting to us. So we’re gonna talk about it. (via Yahoo)Star Wars’ 50th anniversary is coming up… in two years. But Disney wants you to mark your calendar now to make sure you have no conflicts, I guess?Maul looks like Maul and live-action Ezra had a shower (via IGN) Hopefully everyone who attended the publishing panel at SDCC had fun, but it seemed like the news was uh…. slim pickins.Sounds like George Lucas’ museum is gonna be cool as hell (via IGN)Movie rumor roundup! Is the guy from Not Another Teen Movie gonna be in Star Wars? Where are things with the Rey movie? More Hayden in S2 of Ahsoka, or is everyone reaching? If anyone at Hulu asks, Alyce lives in a giant mansion.Everything comes full circ

Listen, b\tch! It’s a podcast! In Episode138, hosts Alyce and Laura enter* neuter territory. No, that’s not a typo. Some dude is making a bunch of money off of fake animal testicles. There’s another Star Wars prop auction coming up. Will this one flop too? SDCC is coming up and you know what that means! New Star Wars action figures and exclusives. Also George Lucas is going to be on a panel at Comic-Con? Ugh, another one (three?) bites the dust. (via Rolling Stone) Andor got a bunch of Emmy nominations! And not to be forgotten if it was kind of just a footnote/afterthought in this article, The Acolyte got one too.This week, Alyce is the one that can’t read good. There must always be one host that can’t read good but can do other things good. Reylo Rising! Shippers, rejoice, your favorite fan fic is becoming a movie!All buff dudes look the same. The new Superman, like the old Superman, is a giant nerd. One of us! One of us!The BD-1 droids at Galaxy’s Edge are the cutest d*mn things we’ve ever seenVernestra is

In Episode 137, hosts Alyce and Laura take* a bite out of Marchion Ro’s neck, then do Marchion impressions. Ultimately, it’s all about Marchion, which is exactly how he would want it. Laura is the warden. Laura the Warden. Laur-den.Pause to appreciate the moment where Alyce delivers the smoothest g-d damn segue of all timeCan Soda Stream sponsor us? Someone hook us up with some free gas cylinder refillsHas the movie rating system (G, PG, etc.) gotten soft?How to pronounce Shawn Levy’s last name confirmed (maybe)Contrary to all the clickbait-y headlines. Calm your t*ts, Gareth Edwards does not hate Star Wars (via Business Insider)Alyce forgot Skeleton Crew happened lolJohn Watts had a good experience making a Star War and we gotta take that as a win (via Screenrant)The Andor cast doesn’t know how to read good…on iPads anyway (via Gizmodo)Imagine trying to explain to someone in another fandom this giant map of the Star Wars universe (via Jason Fry’s substack)Collectors and Coke drinkers, your worlds are about t

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 gossipCasting 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’s Angels. Luminara. Aayla. Rey. Yoda is Charlie. See that one panel in the TROS comic adaptation #5 for cover art. You’re welcome. Absolutely STACKED Recap on Tap. Alyce has read some stuff Laura hasn’t read, and vice versa, but in summary, the end of The High Republic has been sorta meh =/ Alyce briefly shares some spoiler-free thoughts on the end of Marvel’s The High Republic phase 3 comic runAlyce finished The High Republic: Into the Light, so we discuss briefly with spoilers. Skip 40:15-51:15 to avoid spoilers. Be advised this section also includes references to which characters do

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 sadAlyce girlbossed too hard, so you know what that means: chaos cubesSpotify poll! Tell us how your bougie a-- serves bubbly in your houseIt turns out Andor didn’t rework its S2 release schedule to qualify for the Emmys… so it for real is starting to feel like an attackStar Wars Celebration Japan highlights! The Mando movie will have walkers and troopers and Zeb, oh my!Star Wars animation is back, baby! Maul: Shadow Lord was announced at SWCJ as the next animated series, along with more Star Wars Visions and The Ninth Jedi (Visions S1) gets a full series.The High Republic Phase III will wrap up with a comic that has an ominous descriptionGang’s all here! It’s The High Republic’s Luminous Nine in full temple armor for your viewing plea

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 sucks, right? Time is crazy. Credit where credit is due: we have a lot of Star Wars content - including Andor - because of The Mandalorian (via Empire Magazine)Disney went full HBO-mode with the episode lengths for Andor season 2 (via Bespin Bulletin) Sorry, Matt Damon is not going to be in Star Wars. But Not-Matt-Damon is maybe going to be in Star Wars? Publishing is out here giving away their pie with breakfast (is that SNL reference too old?) (via starwars.com)Star Wars is just messing with us now with all these Vader stories. It’s starting to feel like a personal attack. Something, some