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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 seen
• Vernestra is a our petty Jedi queen
• Up until now, we’ve only scratched the surface on The High Republic: Trials of the Jedi, but now we are entering spoiler territory! Alyce finished the book so let’s dive deeper

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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 time
• Can Soda Stream sponsor us? Someone hook us up with some free gas cylinder refills
• Has 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 lol
• John 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 to collide! And check out this short film of the Star Wars-Coca Cola collab, it’s kinda cute.
• More High Republic in Recap on Tap! We share a few more spoiler-free thoughts (mostly confusion) on Trials of the Jedi throughout our Recap segment, so beware! Plus, a discussion WITH SPOILERS on the Tempest Breaker audio drama, feat. Sexy Tango Marchion. To avoid Tempest Breaker spoilers, skip around 46:30-1:02:00.
• The number of degrees of separation between The High Republic and The Gilded Age is basically zero.
• Tumblr valides Laura’s thoughts on Trials of the Jedi. Yes, THAT Tumblr.
• Yay listener email from our friend Allison!

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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 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 run
• Alyce 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/don’t appear in Trials of the Jedi and how big their roles are.
• Laura read The High Republic: Trials of the Jedi and shares a spoiler-free review. If you want to skip this section, skip 51:20-59:00. (The novel is out today, June 17! Find it wherever you buy books now.)
• We finally get to catch up on Andor season 2! How season 2 compared to season 1, Benjamin Bratt as Bail, why we need to be OK with recasting, Diego Luna: code name Carlos, Laura is confused by some things (this is nothing new), and French is Star Wars now.
• Andor won the streaming ratings game (via SWNN)
• Magnesium, Materialists and Paint by Gemstones in Toast To!

Helpful links referenced in this episode:

• Diego Luna and Tony Gilroy on the Ghorman Massacre (via Variety, Gizmodo)
• Laura returns to The Jedi Way with John Rocha and Kevin Smets to discuss Starfighter casting, romance in Andor and Rogue One, Filoni/Beck potentially taking over for Kathleen Kennedy, and the possibility of re-casting Luke now that Mark Hamill says he’s done with Star Wars.
• The Jedi Way co-host Kevin Smets directed a fan film based on the game Knights of the Old Republic called “KOTOR: Convergence” Find it on YouTube here!

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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 girlbossed too hard, so you know what that means: chaos cubes
• Spotify poll! Tell us how your bougie a-- serves bubbly in your house
• It 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 attack
• Star 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 description
• Gang’s all here! It’s The High Republic’s Luminous Nine in full temple armor for your viewing pleasure. Also, Ember lives!
• Google’s AI killed at least 5 trees trying to do an image search of Jordanna Sparkburn
• Recap on Tap: More non-spoilery thoughts on The High Republic: Into the Light, plus Laura and Alyce may finally be coming around on Andor? Maybe?
• In Toast To, Alyce finally returns to her D&D game and Laura finds out exactly how the Empire STRIPPED Back at Star Wars burlesque.

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• Kevin, John and Laura discussed the first 3 episodes of Andor season 2 on The Jedi Way, and there is some disagreement in the room, to say the least!

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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, something Plagueis theory
• Don’t you love it when we talk about an event that is happening soon but forget to say WHEN and WHERE during our discussion? We never claimed to be pros at this. Fortunately, Gizmodo has the details about the original Star Wars screening.
• Recap on Tap: Alyce shares a brief, spoiler-free review of Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear, then Alyce and Laura share some initial thoughts on The High Republic: Into the Light and its… uh… let’s say, interesting early tone shift.
• Star Wars has a weird obsession with giving women metal mid-sections, and for that we ask… why?
• Interpol may have an APB out on Laura. So if you see her, no you didn’t.

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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 Medal of Yavin, just cuz. Plus, everything you could ever want to know about how to make an offer on a $300,000 movie prop
• Some thoughts on the Andor season 2 trailer
• Like a zombie cockroach that won’t die, someone brought up Star Wars: Underworld so now everyone is talking about it again (via Variety)
• Catching up with Alyce on where she’s at with Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear (no spoilers)
• Highlights from the Star Wars Celebration Japan panel schedule + some general Star Wars Celebration tips and tricks (Hot Tip: don’t skip the Doug Chiang panel)
• It’s not Caravan of Corrections, it’s the… Yacht of Yellowjackets? lol that’s dumb, anyway, spoiler warning for Seasons 1, 2 + episodes 1-7 of season 3 (Not your thing? Skip 45:00-56:34)
• Recap on Tap: Marvel’s The High Republic: Fear of the Jedi issue #2 with spoilers, in which we give a voice to Kelnacca and for some reason he has a Minnesota accent (If you’re not caught up, skip 57:00-1:09:15)

Stay tuned for our special Tax Day episode of Force Toast on April 15 (jk it won’t be about taxes, that would be so boring)

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• John Rocha and Laura discuss the new Andor S2 trailer and the possibility of The Acolyte season 2 on the March 30th episode of The Jedi Way!

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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

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• 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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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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