Hope Is Always With Us: A Star Wars Podcast

Sophia has a new boyfriend. She wants to get is attention more. Blanche offers to help. Rose gets a letter from St. Olaf. They are having a drought and asking everyone to be celibate until it rain. Blanche advises her not to tell Miles and do what she says. Blanches advice leads to disaster for both.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Blanche has a secret admirer. Two celebrities are fighting over Dorothy. The secret admirer is Blanche's late husband George. The two celebrities are Sonny Bono and Lyle Waggoner. Blanche and George talk and Blanche has mixed emotions. Dorothy picks Sonny. Blanche and George embrace and then she wakes up. It was all a dream.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Sophia has lost a friend, Sister Agnes. She decides to join a convent to replace her. Blanche takes Rose's car without asking and rear ends someone. It's her scam to get dates. Rose gets sued because of Blanche. She decides to seduce the man to prove he's faking.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Now that Stan is rich, he wants Dorothy back. He tries to buy her love. Sophia is not happy. Rose has a new coworker who is driving her nuts. She enlists Sophia's help to try and get some peace.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Dorothy has a struggling student who only cares about playing sports. He's failing her class so he can't play. This causes a number of people to threaten Dorothy so he can play. Rose has a problem with her dentist. He's touched her in a sexual way.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Blanche's mammy comes to town. She breaks the news to Blanche that she and her father had a longstanding affair with each other. Sophia is up to her tricks. She's hired a matchmaker to set Dorothy up with a date.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Dorothy meets Jimmy on Sophia's Meals on Wheels route. He's not left his apartmen tin 22 years. Meanwhile, Rose is trying to fing out Blanche's real birthday to throw her a suprise birthday party.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Rose is having a yard sale. Blanche detests it and buys all her stuff for $50. Turns out there are 50 $1,000 St. Olaf war bonds and Blanche feels like she hit the jackpot. Only cashing out the bonds will bankrupt St. Olaf. Meanhwhile, Stan has created a baked potato opener that is actually a success. He tries to buy everyone's love without much succeess.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Rose meets her natural father (she was adopted by the Lindstroms). We all get to learn Rose's creatation story along with her. Sophia has a hernia and needs surgery. She's been telling everyone that it's because Dorothy made her move a couch (it was wicker) when the reality is she and her friends moved someone's car. She does have the surgery, but she gets lost in the hospital too.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Becky is in town. Blanche's daughter is now very pregnant from IVF and close to her due date. She wants to have the baby there, but Blanche is more worried about what all the men she dates at the hospitals will think. Mother nature decides Becky is having the baby. Blanche comes through in the delivery room as a supportive mom to Becky in the end. Meanwhile, Rose has taken up ice skating to make her parents proud.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

The president is coming to town to open a new senior citizen center just down the block. The girls are in the running to possibly meet the president during this time. A secrect servive agent has come to vet them. They each speak with him one by one and retell some of their best moments in the series so far. Dorothy wants to give him a piece of her mind.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Rose's paintings (and her need to see a live horse to paint one) lead Dorothy back down the dark abyss of gambling addiction. Blanche is humiliated by a coworker who turned down the opportunity to sleep with her.--- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Sophia has another ex. His granddaughter is getting married. They all have to go to the wedding. She wants to tell him about the curse she put on him. Rose doesn't want to go, she gets hot at weddings. --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Dorothy's ex Glenn, the cheater from four years prior, suddenly reappears divorced and single and after Dorothy. But does he love Dorothy or just want someone to take care of all the household stuff in the way he's used to? Blanche and Sophia go to the mall. They find a wallet with a large sum of money in it. They get conned. 

Blanche's sister has written a book. Blanche thinks she wrote about her life. Stan's cousin Magda is visiting. Her country had a revolution and will no longer be a communist country but a free country. This change scares her.--- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Buzz, who happens to be one of Rose's old boyfriends, is back in town to visit. Rose dated Buzz and Charlie at the same time in high school. And now she's seeing Buzz while seeing Miles. It's a whole new love triangle.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Rose gets a letter from a hospital she had gallbladder surgery at. Her blood transfusion may have had HIV antibodies in it. She needs to come in for testing. She has to wait 72 hours for the results. The longest 72 hours of her life.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Blanche finds out that George cheated on her and fathered a child. Sophia guilts Dorothy into the Shady PInes beauty pageant.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Blanche's doctor is worried about her heart beating irregularly. It turns out she needs a pacemaker. She decides after this that she is going to give up sex. But the next few weeks she is not Blanche. Simon finally gives her the courage to be Blanche again.--- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Sophia has forgotten her wedding anniversary. Blanche wants to go to an expensive salon. Rose is working on a project about healthcare for seniors and bribes Blanche with the salon money to help. Does Sophia have alzheimers?--- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Rose is meeting Mile's daughter Caroline for the first time. She's got a nasty surprise for Rose. Blanche is running a new scheme to meet men. Everything goes sideways.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Blanche stops seeing Steven after 6 weeks. She misses him and the girls convince her to see him again. Shortly after he has a heart attack. What does Blanche do? They also join Rose's positive thinking group. Dorothy has the most changes but over time it fades.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

A teenage girl named Mary comes over. The girls have taken care of her in the past. She is pregnant. Blanche has a prison penpal. He gets released early and plans to visit. The girls freak out.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

The girls celebrate Christmas together with a name draw gift exchange. And help serve a Christmas meal to the homeless at Rose's church.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Blanche is the belle of the ball. But her father has also passed away. Meanwhile, Sophia wants a big screen tv. She rents out all the rooms while Blanche and Dorothy are away at the funeral.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Dorothy and Stan's son, Michael, has come to visit Dorothy. His wife kicked him out and he has no job. Meanwhile, Rose is overwhelmed by her job.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Blanche is being audited. Dorothy is trying to relive some old goals. Rose comes across someone who does not want to be her friend and can't handle it.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Blanche's mother in law dies. Her brother in law Jamie comes to viist. Blanche starts thinking Jamie is George and sets herself up for another heartbreak. Meanwhile, Sophia has been stealing their cars. Does she crash one?  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Sophia returns from a funeral with her friend Martha. The woman who passed was very ill. The girls are going to babysit a couple month old baby. He gets an ear infection. Harry is his doctor. Blanche uses it as an opportunity to make another pass at Harry, but he cuts her off by comparing her to his mother. Meanwhile. Sophia's friend Martha decides she wants to end her life by suicide. She asks Sophia to help. What's Sophia to do?  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Rose has a new boyfriend, Miles. She met him at the ballroom. But meeting his friends has made her feel inadequate. Blanche has hit a dry spell.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Dorothy is dating a lawyer. Rose is on a mission to save the dolphons. Sophia worries Dorothy is going to ruin it. Blanche is jealous. Dorothy's laywer turns into a clown, but still saves the day when a dolphin protest the girls are involved in goes south.--- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Rose is notified that Charlie's pension is cut off. She tries to find a new job but has to deal with age discrimination. What is Rose to do?--- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Becky is in town visiting. She surprises Blanche by telling her she is going to get artificically inseminated. Blanche is not happy. .--- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Dorothy's neighbor, Dr. Harry Weston, refers her to a virologist. He determines she has Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She's not crazy like the other doctors have told her she is. --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Dorothy is sick. She is exhausted. She is worse every day. But the doctors still tell her she is fine. What is going on? --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

A man wants to buy Blanche's house. She doesn't know what to do. They take a trip down memory lane with cheesecake. Does she sell or do they stay? --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Friends of Sophia's, the Boscos, come to visit. They bring shocking news. They think Dorothy is their daughter and they want her back. Meanwhile, Blanche gets Rose to go to a dirty dancing class with her. Since it's the same movements as making love, it should be easy for Blanche to do, right? --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Sophia has lost a pound. She now weighs 98 instead of 99 so she goes on an eating spree. The girls have a memorial party and want to look better in their bathing suits. They eat cake while they relive memories.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Blanche gets a sizeable bonus at work and decides to use it for a breast enlargement. Sophia's friend Lillian has gone missing from Shady Pines. When Sophia learns she was moved to Shady Pastures she's very upset as it's the worst rest home in town. Blanche's surprisingly unselfish actions save the day.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Rose's little sister Holly comes to visit. Rose does not like her sister. Her sister butters up her housemates and friends and turns them against Rose. Does the truth about Holly finally come out?  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Rose learns that Sophia knocks some pills of her into the sink and forgot to tell her. Now she is out of them and can't get replacements for several days. It turns out she's been taking them for 30 years and is addicted. Can Rose get the help she needs to get through this?  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Dorothy's best friend and tennis teammate from high school comes to town for a reunion. They play and Trudy dies. Is she dead? Or is this another one of her practical jokes?  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Sophia is supposed to go to the bank and purchase a CD when Rose has to go work. Instead she buys a boxer (a fighter, not a dog) off the street. He's guaranteed to win $10,000 even if he loses. Everyone tries to train him. He disappears. They find him playing a violin. He wants to go to Julliard. Does win the fight? Lose the fight? Or get into school?  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

The girls are running the variety show fundraiser for the hospital. It's not going well. Sophia "owns" the only act that is decent. She aagrees to let them be in the show if her boyfriend can be. Rose tells them she will get Bob Hope to be the MC and that he's her father. She was adopted by the Lindstrums at 8 years old.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Death and mortality are the main theme as more of Sophia's friends die. Dorothy takes Sophia on a trip to Disney World and Sophia finally gets to go on Space Mountain. Rose and Blanche are trying to turn Rose's childhood stories into a children's book.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

It's Valentine's Day, but the girls dates all cancel. We get stories of previous Valentines Day's from Sophia, Blanche, and one that involves the girls. Their dates suprise them and show up with a limo. Sophia goes out with Julio Iglesias.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Dorothy has a date. His name is Eddie. They don't really like each other, but the sex is amazing. Rose and Blanche join the Be A Pal program. However, the girls they get paired with cause them to get arrested.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Rose has a new boyfriend. She likes him but doesn't understand why they haven't been intimate yet. They go away for the weekend and she learns he's impotent. Meanwhile, Sophia gets a feather from Uncle Vito. She has to finish a vendetta. Rose and Ernie continue seeing each other and Rose gets a surprise from him.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Rose is coaching a kids football team. She goes a bit crazy like she usually does with sports. She enlists Dorothy to be her assistant coach. Blanche gets stood up by her date, but meets a new man. She does not realize he is blind. After they've gone on a few dates she doesn't understand what he likes about her. Rose and Dorothy get sick and Sophia coaches the team to a victory while teaching the boys to follow the rules.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

The roof is falling apart and letting lots of water in. Blanche is finally forced to repair it. However, a new roof costs $10,000 and she doesn't have that. They learn an artist is dying and buy one of his paintings at an auction to sell for profit to pay for the new roof after he dies. The problem is he doesn't die, Sophia saves his life. Now, they have a painting and no roof. What do they do?  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc

Sophia becomes gravely ill and winds up in the ICU. Dorothy is not allowed to visit her in the ICU. Stan decides to propose to Katherine, but the girls are not impressed with the cheap ring and help him pick out a decent one. During Sophia's hospital stay Stan helps gets updates on Sophia's condition. The stress causes Dorothy to think she still loves Stan and wants to be with him. After meeting Katherine she graciously stands aside.  --- If you would like to support this podcast by making a donation, please do so with cashapp to $pasta26mc