Force Toast: A Star Wars Happy Hour
by Alyce and Laura Love Star Wars
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 [email protected]
Episodes
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Ep 161: It Got Burned Off
In Episode 161, hosts Alyce and Laura don’t have* anymore questions about Vader, there is enough Vader content! F**k! In a follow up to the most recent YEAH DUH news about Ahsoka Season 2, we confirmed it will, in fact, only take you an hour-ish to get all the background you need on the Mortis...
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Ep 160: Yappin’ Their Traps
In Episode 160 hosts Alyce and Laura are* Herbert the Pervert and he is us. Not in a pervy way, just in the way of whistling through our teeth when we talk and preferring cozy robes over clothing. Alyce’s Movie Club Update: confusing Marvel movie cash-grab is confusing The new Lucas Museum in Los...
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Ep 159: The Lady Blacksmith
In Episode 159, hosts Alyce and Laura and a vending machine walk* into a bar, get busted and go Wayfinding: A Gen Z Slang Segment may need to be an official segment on this show. We’re just learning so much! To smut or not to smut? Are you old Wayfinding or new Wayfinding, or a secret third way…
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Ep 158: Unc Status
In Episode 158, hosts Alyce and Laura learn* a new Gen Z term, which as it happens, means they are that Gen Z term. Caravan of Corrections: pronunciation, Wales, Notting Hill and more! The Star Wars Gazebo at D23 gives us treats for being good, patient little fans Starfighter deets and that clip…
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Ep 157: Walian Punch
In Episode 157, hosts Alyce and Laura are* worried about Olivia Coleman in the upcoming movie, Wicker. I mean… splinters… There are a lot of corrections. We’re not sorry though, our Caravan of Corrections gives us content during slow news cycles Star Wars Visions: The Ninth Jedi series dropped…
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Ep 156: In a Popeye’s Way
In Episode 156, hosts Alyce and Laura are really sweating* through that Corporate Life this summer! Yay! WHY IS IT SO F---IN HOT??!! This show/episode is STILL NOT sponsored by Cinemark, but it really should be! Related note: Alyce has gone platinum A new experience is brewing for Star Wars fans!...
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Ep 155: Mozzarella Sticks
In Episode 155, hosts Alyce and Laura are SO BACK* living that Force Toast life! Cinemark Movie Club, have we (Alyce) got a half-baked almost-idea for you! Life hack: the cheapest place to order some decent as hell mozzarella sticks What even is this Caravan of Corrections about, anyway? Who...
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Bonus: Maul - Shadow Lord eps 9 & 10
In another All-Maul Recap on Tap bonus episode, hosts Alyce and Laura discuss* the final 2 episodes of Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord Season 1. At the time of recording, Star Wars Celebration tickets had just gone on sale. So we talk a little about that. The keg is tapped in our final Recap on Tap...
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Bonus: Maul - Shadow Lord eps 7 & 8
In the first Force Toast Bonus episode since 2024, hosts Alyce and Laura don’t want to wait until JUNE to talk about the last 4 episodes of Maul, so we’re squeezing out a few recording sessions as we have time! Shout out to our friends at Del Rey/Penguin RH for sending us The Mandalorian and…
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Ep 154: Lacrosse the Stars
YOU ANSWER TO ME B-TCH TITLE CARD HERE In Episode 154, hosts Alyce and Laura have* the Mandalorian and Grogu and Maul. That’s it. That’s the episode. JK there are a few other things: The final trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu! (YouTube) If you don’t want to watch the full 37-min video of Jon...
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Ep 153: Maul About It
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...
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Ep 152: About a Beaver
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...
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Ep 151: Mountain Schlong
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…
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Ep 150: Probably Piett
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…
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Ep 149: Little Oddball Truth Bomber
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...
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Ep 148: Tell Us, Steve
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 years Alyce shares thoughts on the Stranger Things finale. Also...
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Ep 147: Delightful As F*ck
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 Grinch We...
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Ep 146: Aldi Giant D*ck’s
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 rewiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind We never really thought about it, but it turns out The Volume technology isn’t exclusive...
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Ep 145: Caribou Barbie
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 face Ho phase and college days! Alyce had the best group Halloween costume back in the day. Shoutout to…
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Ep 144: Polly Pocket Galaxy
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...
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Ep 143: No Hunkie Junkies
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...
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Ep 142: All About the Tidbits, Baby
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…
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Ep 141: Is It Even a Mullet?
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...
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Ep 140: All Legos, No Eggos
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…
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Ep 139: Phenomena!
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 balls Prop Watch!…
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Ep 138: Watermelon-Sized Set
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...
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Ep 137: Sheevy to the Levy
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…
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Ep 136: Wayseek That, B*tch
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...
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Ep 135: Undeaded Herself
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...
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Ep 134: Did It Get Burned?
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...
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Ep 133: Chalice of Alyce
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…
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Ep 132: I Don’t Buy G-ns on the Internet
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…
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Ep 131: Free Palmin’
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....
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Ep 130: Find Your Bunko
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…
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Ep 129: Unprobable
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!…
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Ep 128: Wicked White Chris
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…
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Ep 127: The Jedi Wobble
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…
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Ep 126: Into the Weird
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...
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Ep 125: Toddlerize
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...
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Ep 124: Too Moneyable
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...
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Ep 123: Not THAT Great Expectations
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...
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Ep 122: TV Guideless
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…
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Ep 121: Face Fingers
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...
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Bonus: The Acolyte Finale: Karaoke Edition
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...
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Ep 120: Vern & the Poof Patrol
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...
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Ep 119: Is it Drugs?
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...
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Ep 118: Attack Me (Dabs)
In Episode 118, hosts Alyce and Laura share* fermentation tips, break down recent Star Wars news and discuss their differing opinions on The Acolyte! A cooking lesson with Laura or: why you should always have your ears plugged around glass jars Why an a gram when you could nag a ram? Who’s…
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Ep 117: Getting Cheugy With It
In Episode 117, hosts Alyce and Laura take* you on a 90-minute journey to get caught on up Phase III of The High Republic! We’re in the endgame of The Acolyte promotion, so we discuss some of the recent promos and clips (Sol vs Mae, Vern’s lightwhip, Lee Jung-jae BTS), this interview with Amandla...
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Ep 116: MURDUR
In Episode 116, hosts Alyce and Laura spend* roughly 40% of the episode laughing at their own dumb jokes and the other 60% discussing actual Star Wars. Alyce shares how her immersive Star Wars event immersed her in Star Wars We are so hyped for The Acolyte! What did you think about the trailer…
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Ep 115: It’s Star Wars, Ya See?
Step aside, Abbott & Costello! In Episode 115, hosts Alyce and Laura turn* their dumb-ss little podcast into a Vaudeville Star Wars Hour! Kinda! Alyce has big, albeit mysterious, May the Fourth plans! Vaudeville accents are attempted but Laura just kind of sounds like Jon Lovitz in A League of...
About this show
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 [email protected]
Hosted by
Alyce and Laura Love Star Wars