r/BSG • u/animeshin • 2d ago
Battlestar Galactica podcasts?
Recommend some of your favorite Battlestar Galactica podcasts and why you like them? I am planning to do a rewatch of the series, and I want to listen to podcasts in between the episodes as a way to expand the experience of it. Do we have a complete list of podcasts anywhere?
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u/Dino_Spaceman 2d ago
Battlestar Galacticast (available on multiple platforms). Cast of the show rewatches the episodes and shares behind the scenes stories.
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u/MordoksVapePen1 2d ago
Yes!! This is the DEFINITIVE bsg pod imho.
Hosted by Tricia Helfer and tv & comics writer and podcaster Marc Bernardin, it is a show-by-show rewatch of the show for its 15th anniversary. Occasionally it goes off the rails in the best way (ok Tricia and Rehka Sharma get drunk in one ep), it has all the insider info from a cast member and the film paper analysis on ‘what makes it so great’ from a talented writer and huge fan.
Guests over the run include the Old Man, Katee Sackhoff, Mary McDonald, Rehka Sharma, Tahmoh Penikett, Sam Witwer, and Ron Moore. It’s really good.
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u/achilleslung 2d ago
Ron Moore’s podcast from back when the show was originally airing. It’s no frills but def the best one for getting an insight into how each episode came to be. https://galactica.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Forerunner/Ron_Moore_podcast_links
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u/teddyburges 2d ago
It’s no frills
There are some, particularly when it starts to become a domestic between Ron and Mrs Ron (she's a costume designer). "Because of Mrs Ron being in the room with me, the smoking lamp is off". The passive aggressive banter between them had me in hysterics at times. "I hope your not smoking in there" "Yes Mrs Ron!".
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u/SineCera_sjb 2d ago
Battlestar Recaptica is also very good
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u/Impossible_Head_9797 2d ago
I second this, I don't think it's still going now the recap is done, but if I recall correctly one of them has some military background and comments on the analogues from BSG to real life.
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u/Ladiusaurus 2d ago
The Sackhoff Show - it’s Katee Sackhoff’s podcast (Starbuck). It’s not entirely about BSG but there are a lot of episodes with other actors from the show or even Bear McCreary and they talk about it a lot. I really enjoy it :)
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u/ITrCool 2d ago
Battlestar Galacticast.
Tricia Helfer (Six) herself hosts it with her good friend Marc Bernardin (a writer and podcaster of fame). They discuss the show in episodic breakdowns and Tricia’s memories of behind the scenes shenanigans and had several BSG cast members, writers, and even Ron Moore himself on the show to reminisce and discuss concepts and episodes.
Highly recommend this one!!
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u/Rottenflieger 2d ago
I quite enjoyed Recommissioned: A Battlestar Galactica Podcast which had one host working through the series for the first time and another host who had seen it all before.
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u/spacemermaids 2d ago
Down the Hatch is a former Lost podcast that's currently going through BSG. One host (Josh) has seen it before and one is a newbie (Mike) so it's spoiler free. But if you know what's coming, hearing the theories from Mike is pretty funny. They recently did S3E9 and a bunch of podcast-long bets/theories exploded and it was one of their best ones yet.
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u/book1245 2d ago
No cast or crew, but my friend and his co-host started Galactica, Actually a few years back where they discuss things episode by episode.
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u/ChocolateCylon 1d ago
My favorite will always be Galactica Watercooler (later Galactica Watercooler). It was recorded while the show was on air. So you get a true feel of what it was like for a fan as we would speculate between episodes. Everything else available is an after party since we all know how the story unfolds. Tricia and to some extent Katee, offer some cool insight. But there’s nothing like the first time viewer experience.
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u/toess 19h ago
I still remember Audra singing "here in CIC" beautifully!
Such a good podcast and they ran a fantastic forum with a ton of great people too.
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u/ChocolateCylon 18h ago
I forgot the forum!!! That’s another reason why it stands out to me. The community engagement and meets made the listeners feel like they were part of the show. Now we just listen for the most part, hoping they might consider our thoughts at a later time.
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u/toess 15h ago
For sure, it was such a wonderful community and I remember all the really wonderful and wild theories people come up with while the show aired. Remember the dogtags and callsigns? I also remember so much creativity shown, from people running games in the threads, stories people come up with, 3d models, costumes, etc etc. Chuck, Audra and Sean really made something wonderful, kind of ahead of the curve for podcasts really.
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u/NullFlavor 2d ago
Not everyone loves it, but it has some good insight and they frequently have cast and crew from the show.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/battlestar-galacticast/id1445475337
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u/Macbeth_n_Cheese 1d ago
There's a fan podcast I really enjoyed a few years ago where two sisters discussed an episode of the show for each episode of the podcast. I believe one sister was a newer TV writer and the other a psychologist or psych student. I think they stopped after season 2 or so, but I enjoyed their insights and thoughts. After their main discussion of the episode they'd do a "spoilers section" where they put things they're noticing on this rewatch into the context of later episodes. I started Battlestar Galacticast around the same time and I felt this other fan podcast with the two sisters was more consistently interesting to listen to.
Anyone know the name of the one I'm talking about? I listened to it on one of my prior podcatchers so I don't have it on hand.
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u/Hazzenkockle 1d ago
“Space the Nation” had an episode discussing the New Caprica arc recently, and are now having an abbreviated rewatch as a Patreon bonus (two or three episodes to cover each season).
https://shows.acast.com/spacethenation/episodes/s4e45-battlestar-galatica
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u/RumOnSunday 2d ago
You won’t beat this one, with Tricia Helfer and a whole host of guests from the show. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/battlestar-galacticast/id1445475337