Battlestage Theatrica

Seriously? Ellen is back... and THIS one wasn't called The Tighs That Bind? You're slipping, BSG writers room of 2007... SLIPPING! Sorry to go Biweekly on everyone, but life tends to get in the way. Even now, I'm wrapping up two weeks of work in Houston. Very different from SoCal. I miss my wife... so no time to record another episode... things to be done.

If you're thinking, he stole that pun from The Frak This podcast... no! maybe a little.... I thought the same thing back when this aired. Listening to Jesse and Vera's show only reminded me. Besides, there's so little of Tigh to bind this week. As you've heard from my pre-amble, we'll be moving into a bi weekly format (once episode every two weeks) because schedules are a problem... if only middle school and high school me could see me being so damn popular now, I would tell him enjoy your solitude whilst it lasts! I jest! I love being invited to things, I juts hate balancing.

Happy Frakkin Friday Folks! Thanks for joining us on another episode of this Donner Party through the stars. You know, I've been watching Supernatural again, and their world comes close to ending al the time... but it still makes me laugh... what's up with that? You know what doesn't make me laugh... cancer (unless its Deadpool's cancer). So please, if you have any extra cash despite the horrendous cost of living (that 50% of the country knowingly voted for) then please donate to my friend Courtney's cancer gofundme https://gofund.me/7dec548f9Please and frakkin thank you

Happy Frakkin Friday Folks, we are officially in the home stretch of Battlestar Galactica, and because I'm such a good friend, I didn't make Chester wait over A YEAR to see the conclusion to Crossroads Part 2! Who the hell's idea was that? Anyway, I also need to keep making episodes so I can keep posting about my friend Courtney's cancer tratment Gofundme https://gofund.me/7dec548f9 because I'm sick of being helpless against this frakkin disease. In the last few years, I've lost four people to it. Sadly, I can't actually punch cancer in the throat, so help me and everyone else save as many as we can. Working on the Frak Cancer dogtags as we speak.So Say We All

That's right folks, not only is it Frakkin Friday, but its the last Frakkin Friday of Season Three! Racing towards the finish line... but we're not finishing!Since we learned President Roslin's Cancer has returned, it feels like it never really left, because Frak it, it just wont go away. So, instead of funding our Buy Me A Coffee page, please help my friend Courtney beat the frak out of her cancer https://gofund.me/7dec548f9, together we can kick cancer right in the throat...just like Edward James Olmos did!

Sorry folks, for some reason this didn't upload on Frakkin Friday. Why? who knows? Hopefully your Frakkin Saturday is just as entertained.As mentioned in the episode, an old friend of mine, Courtney, is battling cancer, both physically and financially. So, instead of buying Battlestage a Coffee, please head over to https://gofund.me/39f9a56eb and tell her cancer to frak off. I'm actually working on a BSG themed piece that looks like the dog tags, but out of wood and says FRAK CANCER. if you make a donation on her go fun me, send me the receipt, and I'll send you the piece. SO SAY WE FRAK CANCERP.S. Chester is really close to who the final five are. I think the only one he hasn't guessed at this point is Tori

Happy Frakkin Fourth of July! No matter what your creed or color is, I think we can all agree that our country's Independence from tyranny is something we can all agree on. Now, what we've done with that freedom, such as slide blissfully back into tyranny, is the problem we must currently face. In Battlestar Galactica, our heroes are facing the trials and tribulations of putting a former president on trial for.... well, shit, life really does imitate art doesn't it? Buy Me a Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/battlestagetheatricaTell my friend Courtney that her cancer can frak off! https://gofund.me/39f9a56eb FRAK CANCER

It's okay folks, nothing bad happened... there was no interdimensional wormhole nor did you fall into a 24 hour coma.... Its Thursday! Frakkin Friday will still feature a new episode.Today, however, for your listening pleasure, is a chet I had with a delightful fellow podcaster and Battlestar Galactica fan, Marcy from the Idle Ride Podcast. When you're done listening to this and you enjoy Avatar, the Last of Us, and Fallout, head on over and give it a listen. Stay Tuned for tomorrow, The Son Also Rises

Thats right folks, its Frakkin Friday, and you know what that means! Its Battlestage Theatrica time! Did anyone who's seen the show not know about Edward James Olmos smashing the model ship he wasn't supposed to smash? Wild story, just like Viggo breaking his toe in Two Towers.Great things are coming in the next few weeks, despite my poor planning, we will have Marcy from the Idleride Podcast on next week to retroactively discuss the episode this week. I know its confusing, but flying through a maelstrom will do that too you! Strap in

Happy Frakkin Friday, folks...and Happy Juneteenth. I wish I had calculated this episode airing on this exact day, for I would have put in some forethought. While slavery in the United States was beyond brutal compared to working long hours in a fuel refinery ships; and ending of slavery is a far more substantial victory over getting a second shift established and a union organized, there is come correlation to the powers that be in a bifurcated society being the villains over the working class. As a member of the working class, this one sits with me. Its so well done, I hate Admiral Adama and President Roslin for a hot minute there, and thats a feat.

Happy Frakkin Friday, folk! its been a few few frakkin fridays hasn't it? We all love our mother's, love planned vacations, and occasionally hate our day jobs which just tend to get in the way of fun things like this. Sorry to dissapear... but we're back!

Happy Frakkin Friday, folks. We're discussing The Woman King today. I've heard throughout the years that this isn't many people's favorite episode, nor is it mine... but it's Tahmoh's favorite, and any episode I get to work with my buddy, Chester, is a favorite episode. EnjoyIf you're enjoying it as much as us, feel free to support the show over on Buy Me a Coffee dot com buymeacoffee.com/battlestagetheatrica and keep the fight for humanity's survival alive.

Happy Frakkin Friday, fine folks... Chester was right, Taking a Break from All Your Worries was a "Cheers" reference, specifically to the theme song. Twenty years of watching and I never put that together! I invited our friend, listener, and trivia host, Dave Cooper, to join us for this episode, given his love of both BSG and Cheers. Sadly, he had to go home and spend time with his family. Priorities!No matter, he has expressed interest in joining us for Crossroads, part 1 and 2. So instead of Joe's Bar.,.. he gets Jimi Hendrix. Should be fun... like this episode was originally written to be!Another fan, Mike, pointed out that I have neglected to regularly put the like to our Buy Me a Coffee.com page, seen here -> buymeacoffee.com/battlestagetheatrica so if you like what you hear and you have a few cubits or pieces of algae to spare, we would be more than grateful.

Happy Frakkin Friday folks, this Rapturous episode is filled with action, romance, love quadrangles, pop culture references, and Chief dancing around an altar with porn mags saying "FRAK YOU!' to the gods. As someone who's has snuck into a confessional booth for wild sex after a wedding, I can say the feeling is mutual. Now that mental image has sunk in, enjoy the episode.

Hapy Frakkin Friday folks, we're back. If you're one of the Noble Thirty listening week to week, sorry to flak last week. Life...uh...finds a way... to be overwhelming. In my case... driving two hours to my job sites, only to be down to 5% of my company Ev car, need to charge and hour just to get home, and immediately charge in order to leave by 5a the next day. Trying not to complain because its a fleet vehicle that I pay nothing for and it has Full Self Driving capability... but damn, a jump drive would be pretty clutch for these lengthy traverses to the Inland Empire. Anyway, this week we get into all the Harry Potter audio books I ventured through whilst on the road and how similar the Temple of the Five looks like a naturally formed version of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers command center. Enjoy

Happy Frakkin Friday, folks, this on really tested my editing skills. Frak me, did I have a lot of solicitors, visitors, and fraking ai scam calls while recording this one. I'd like to take the passage into the center of the star cluster where none of these fraks can find me. I'll suffer the radiation! Head on over to the poll section of the episode and cast a vote of when you think Chester will get at least four of the final five right!

Happy Frakkin Friday, folks. No, there isn't an extended Firefly version of this episode, however, the extended version of the New Caprica dance is oddly similar to River's Dance in the Firefly episode, Safe. Honestly, after the recent news, I'm putting as much Firefly into the ether as possible. You should too! Leaving for work? leave Firefly streaming for your pets! Let our purple bellied oppressors know they CANNOT STOP THE SIGNAL!

Happy Frakkin Friday Folks! If you've been paying attention to social media lately, you'll know the cast of Firefly have been ...up...to something. Well, the announcement about the return of Firefly in animated form came after we recorded Hero (and Unfinished Business) so you'll just have to wait to hear our take on it. We've waited twenty five years... what's another fortnight?

Happy Frakkin Friday the 13th, folks! Thank you for your patience, there was a problem this morning with the upload... the problem being I forgot to upload. So instead of you Friday morning commute, here is your Friday evening commute. Or, perhaps, you've waited until Monday, the day everything goes to shite every week and this miserable Donner Party through the the stars brings you.... A measure of slavationYes! Nailed it! if that was worthy of any praise, please head over to buymeacoffee.com/battlestagetheatrica and help keep the lights on around here... or at very least caffeinated.

Happy Frakkin Friday, Folks!Well, It's been a long time coming, especially for those of you who have seen the entire run of the show, but didn't want to spoil things for our dear Chester. The time has come to add a new game to our already loaded schedule (Who is Hamish McCall anyway?) in which, every week, we ask Chester his predictions of...WHO ARE THE FINAL FIVE!?!Its exciting times, folks, we'll be keeping track, maybe even starting a spread sheet on when he gets them all correct. Place your bets over at buymeacoffee.com/battlestagetheatrica which is not really a way to make bets, but a good way to keep the lights on in this old battlestar

Happy Frakkin Friday folks...Battlestage Theatrica is here to bring respite from the real world and the random whims of an unfit President to instead tell tales of... oh... another unfit President conducting shady affairs... Damn, so much for tv being escapism... well, best steer into the Art Imitates Life bit and get this party startedSo Say We All https://buymeacoffee.com/battlestagetheatrica

Happy Frakkin Friday, folks, and welcome to a special episode that takes you back to the days of Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, and LLOYD BRIDGES! what? the funny guy from Airplane? what's he doing here? You'll have to tune in to find out.This episode is available to rent on amazon, but I'm sure it could be found on youtube. In fact i found a remastered bit of it from Robo1971, that you can check out here https://www.reddit.com/r/BSG/comments/2mygsq/battlestar_galactica_the_living_legend_project_id/Other than that, please check out our new page https://studio.buymeacoffee.com/dashboard and support us if you canSo Say We All

A happy Frakkin Friday to you all! Well, with the flick of a mustache trimmer and the body slam of a Pegasus, the first arc of Season 3 is coming to a close, but certainly won't be forgotten (cough Unfinished Business cough). So hold on to all of Lee's ass as well as your own, and lets get New Caprica liberated!In other news, I have started a Battlestage Theatrica discord where folks can meet, chat, talk spoiler free, and spoiler heavy! https://discord.gg/EjzM8X8H Still working out the kinks and rules, but it will be up and running as long folks want to use it. You can't stop the signal..... wait...Secondly, to help keep the lights on around here, I've started a page over on Buy Me A Coffee . com. Any cubits you can spare will greatly help take care of all the little odds and ends that come with running a podcast and will be greatly appreciated. When I get some more BST art done, patrons will be the first to get it! So Say We All! https://buymeacoffee.com/battlestagetheatrica

Happy Frakkin Friday, you fine folks! True, not our first fan interaction, that goes to u/Davendak and their list of Top 3 Battlestar Galactica podcasts. However, this week came with our fist rating and our first bluesky post, so we're just so damn gidddy about this Donner Party through the Stars. Anything that helps bring a little bright spot to all this blood and thunder cascading around us, I will take.So Say We AllFRAK ice

Happy Frakkin Friday, Battlestage Theatrica Fans! I was considering not airing the episode today in solidarity with the ICE OUT protest, which means No work, No school, No shopping. Well, I don't consider this work and no one has to buy anything... one might learn something, but we can let that slide. Instead I invite you to send whatever support or donation set aside for keeping the light on around here at Battlestage Theatrica and donate those funds to whatever charity you see fit. Personally, I like the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Association (link below) which I have supported for the past year along with several other local artists via the Wallflower Market, who encourage us to donate 10% of our market profits. They do fine work there, especially putting a thorn in ice's side. https://www.chirla.org/So Say We AllFrak iceTomorrow, go see SEND HELP instead of the melania movie

How's that for a title... wish I'd thought of it while Chester and I were recording! FRAK!

Happy Frakkin Friday Folks! The shortly awaited sequel is upon you. The sooner you enjoy it, the sooner we can get to Season 3, where the most common phrase uttered on the show is likely to be "Frak ice" So Say We Frak ice

Happy Frakkin Friday folks, and a HAPPY NEW YEAR! Did you miss us? We missed you. Its been a long, tiring few months of side hustling Christmas Light installations all over Los Angeles (actually, as this airs I'll be busy taking them all down!) just to keep the lights on in this hellscape. So, to ease you back into it, we decided to revisit the Battlestar Galactica: Miniseries in a sort of retrospective. Hope you enjoy, we'll be kicking off Season 3 in a couple weeks and its back to business as usual. So Say We All

I know the Ultimate Pen isnt a thing, just frakkin laugh.Thank you for joining us on this journey for the past two seasons! Its a milestone... wish I could say the same thing about Firefly. Gorrammit, now I've upset myself. Anyway, we'll be taking a brief hiatus in between seasons... gotta give Frak This Podcast a chance to catch up :)

Happy Frakkin Finale Friday Folks... Nuff said!

Happy Frakkin Friday, Cousin Sagi, its an absolute pleasure to have you listening all the way from Israel. I don't even think my own family listens and they're mostly in the same state. Meh... what does distance really matter on the internet.This week, we deviate heavily from the Colonial fleet and check in with the Cylons on Occupied Capria. I feel a change in the winds, says I. Looking ahead, in the last ten minutes, Chester and I tangent into the recent assassination that took place in Ohio. If that's not your cup of tea, skip on to the end. For a moment, I considered cutting that clip, but decided against it. We're not here to make content that everyone agrees with, we're here to talk about Battlestar Galactica, art, history, and how art imitates and influences life. Enjoy

This week Battlestage Theatrica gets Chronological! yes, technically it was released as the first episode of season 4... but I saw it in between seasons 2 and 3, so thats pretty much how we're going to do it. Do i hear the spoilers now that I know the ending? Yes. Will you know if you haven't seen it? Probably. Just enjoy it!

The underdog podcast Battlestage Theatrica got Ronald D. Moore to be their guest!?!?! No... no not yet. But Steve did find Ron's Podcast about this episode, The Captain's Hand, to be pretty frakkin funny so he inserted a few clips. Don't sue us Ron, we have no money.

Seriously, Shut up Ellenthis week we talk beers and scotches, Beast Wars, and of course... Battlestar Galactica! And all the reasons Ellen needs to shut up.

"Be Pre-PAAAAAAAIRED!" for another episode of Battlestage Theatrica where Steve takes Chester on his first journey through 2004's reimagined Battlestar Galactica after he's watched it several dozen times. This week the boys are drinking beer out of the Galactica Top Gun Stein itself and reveling in their personal victories. Speaking of personal victories, this Sunday I'll be setting up another booth at an artisan market Wallflowr Market LA, at All Season Brewing in downtown Los Angeles. Once a Firestone Tire shop, it has been converted into a craft brewery and a skeeball joint. Come on out Sunday Aug 31 from 12 to 5 and se what all the fuss is about.

Obviously we couldn't decide between a Leelock Holmes title or a Law and Order: BSG title... so we did both.Happy Frakkin Friday folks, as you'll soon hear, we had to watch Black Market twice. Somehow, our original recording was lost to the ether; maybe a cylon virus wiped it out? Either way, we had to watch the most downtrodden episode twice, its usually one I skip on a rewatch, and you know what.... I had a great frakkin time! So I hope you do to. The proof is in the pudding, given its our longest episode to date because we were having too much damn fun!

Happy Frakkin Friday Folks! Come one, come all, get Dr. Gaius Baltar's Cure For Cancer! But wait, there's more... buy two cures and get the second one free!All joking aside, FRAK CANCER! Personally, I've lost serval family members and a few friends to cancer in the past few years alone, and some friends are still battling through it! So FRAK CANCER! If the Family Guy Conspiracy theory is true that the rich and powerful are sitting on stockpiles of cancer cure... I might lose it. Hopefully that wasn't too frakkin dark, but hey, the show is pretty frakkin dark, yet we still enjoy it and enjoy revisiting it. Thanks for listeningFrak Cancer

Apparently, Chester shouts at people driving a Jeep Rubicon in Italian whenever he sees one. Somehow I don't think that will work out as advertising for Battlestage Theatrica, the podcast that revisits Battlestar Galactica 04.So Stay Tuned We AllIf you're not tired of my voice after an hour, tune into Open Pike Night and here me call in regularly about Star Trek Strange New Worlds... the hosts and other callers also have cool things to say... but we all know why you're listening.

Sorry I'm late to this Frakkin Friday, fine folks, I broke a finger this week and I'm a little delayed. Painkillers won't stop me from publishing my show, juts delay it a while... and make it harder to type.

A very Happy Frakkin Friday to you all! Well, its here! The start to probably my favorite arc of Season 2 (and a front runner for favorite arc of the series)... Pegasus has arrived! No spoilers, just start listening, is too awesome! Wallflower Market this weekend at All Season Brewing (800 S La Brea Ave, Los Angeles) featuring my two side hustles, SineCera and Tee-Cycling, will have a booth! 10% of all our profits are donated to CHIRLA, The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, chirla.org

Flight of the Phoenix... not Flight of the Blackbird... even though The Blackbird takes flight. All the pieces are there.

That's Showbiz! Happy Frakkin Friday folks, and welcome to Battlestage Theatrica. This week we're tackling The Office... No, Access... NO! Final Cut! That's it! Yeah, its one of those, which are usually pretty bad... but we like this one! Enjoy CHIRLA https://www.chirla.org/

This has nothing to do with the episode, but having just celebrated the Fourth of July here in the States... Isn't it ironic that the majority of US Citizens today, who are advocating for the deportation of immigrants of a certain origin, get together and celebrate the victories and sacrifices of an army comprised mostly of immigrants who won their freedom from an oppressive regime and over taxation? Weird. Well, hopefully we can "re-unite the fleet" some day, but right now, as proud as I am to be an American and a Veteran, I think we're losing sight of what that means.

Yeah I said it... Frak ICE! Come and get me. A few years ago those folks were all anti mask... now they're marching into my neighborhood, masked up, and kidnapping people without warrants.What does that have to do with this episode of Battlestar Galactica? It's literally called Home, and my home is under duress, and I'm pissed. Now what can I do about it? Not much, I deliver clean energy by day and artwork by night. Hopefully together they can amount to something. If art is your idea of helping out, come out to the Wallflower Market on Saturday, June 28th, 2025, at 131 N Artsakh Ave. 10% of all proceeds from each artist is donated to CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights). Honestly fraking weird to me that in 2025 immigrants need a special subsection of humane rights... The whole point is we all have them...this shouldn't have to exist... but it does, so please come out and support it and local art.

Yeah... you heard me. This week we get into an episode called The Farm, where Starbuck is shot in the street, abducted from her loved ones who have no idea what happened to her or if she's even alive, taken to an unknown holding facility, and held without her consent because reasons. Oh, I suppose from the Cylon point of view, she's a criminal who invaded their home illegally even though they now occupy it by means of genocide. Wow! Good thing this is fiction, right? Frakking hell.Anyway, and LA listeners that would like to come out and meet us, I'll have a booth for my art and woodworking via ART IN THE ALLEY on Sunday, June 22nd at Enegren Brewing.  444 Zachary St # 120, Moorpark, CA 93021 enegrenbrewing.com⁠ and on June 28th I'll have another booth with the Wallflower Market in Glendale. 10% of all vendor profits from that market go to charity, specifically those effected by ICE.

Happy Frakkin Friday Folks! Are you ready to get your frak on? Because while LA is burning through its own Resistance (Seriously, Frak ICE, deplorable sons of whores), Battlestar Galactica had its own Resistance on multiple fronts. From fighting and frakking toasters, to resisting martial law (Good gods, how is it this episode came out during this time? we recorded this in February! There's no intentional correlation! what the ever loving frak?!?!) **sigh** this week on Battlestage Theatrica, I continue walking Chester through the show I should have made him watch when we were in our formative years. Its okay, we're still young! Though after covid, the strikes, the fires, and now The Bell Riots (yeah, I frakking said it!!) I really am starting too feel old. I shouldn't feel this old!

That's right folks, this Frakkin Friday Chester learns that Starbuck and Bo Katan are in fact played by the same actress, Katte Sackhoff, who ironically is not even this fine episode of television. Unlike Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars is something Chester watched all on his own! So he should have known better.... send your hate mail to [email protected] to express your profound disappointment in him!

Happy Frakkin Friday Folks! Season Two continues in this part 2 of a To Be Continued... Probably didn't need to specify that, but who cares? I'm running on no sleep! This week we tackle Valley Of Darkness which is basically Die Hard in space only the villains have no brilliant dialogue! You hear that Jesse from Open Pike Nite... Die Hard! **mic drop**Any Los Angeles locals listening, tomorrow, 5/30/2025, I will have a booth of all my nerdy woodworking and art set up at the Old Agoura Flea Market in the AM and the 818 Night Market in the (you guessed it) PM! come on by, mention the podcast and I'll award you with a FREE piece of BSG woodworking! just a little thank you for listening and supporting! So Say We All!!!

Happy Frakkin Friday folks! The wait is over! Commander Adama is not dead... but hes not quite back yet either. Lets see how well Colonel Tigh steers the ship and how Chester handles seeing Scatterbrained for the first time! we're back for season 2 and all I can say is Buckle Upfor my local listeners, next weekend May 31, 2025 I'll have a booth with all my woodworking and artsy wares at the Old Agoura Flea Market (in the high school parking lot) so swing by, meet us, and support small business. also, correction, I ended up on the Nemesis episode of Greenshirt, which was still a lot of fun, but instead of singing my praises for Insurrection, I tore Nemesis apart.

"Life here began out there!" This line of dialogue transcends the generations, as it is quoted by two men who portrayed Commander Adama, Edward James Olmos and Lorne Greene. Today, we put a spin on that quote, for our podcast here began back then. While we let Commander Adama recover from Kobol's Last Gleaming, join us on a look back at Battlestar Galactica 1978, with a special twist. Unlike most episodes that Steve has scene a dozen times, this one is just as new since he hasn't seen it since he was a kid!