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Nerd of Mouth

Bonus Episode! A Conversation with Mary McDonnell

Nerd of Mouth

The Last Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7606 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Jake is joined by Mary McDonnell and they discuss her role as President Roslin on Battlestar Galactica, reflecting real life female politicians in Sci-Fi, and the one question she's tired of hearing at cons.  Want even more WizBru? Check out our Patreon page to get weekly bonus content.

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0:00.0

Hey,

0:07.0

Hey everybody, welcome to a special episode of Wizard in the Bruiser podcast.

0:20.0

It's me, your Wiley Wizard Jake.

0:22.4

And we have a very special guest on the line.

0:25.2

You know, we like to have interviews when we can get them.

0:27.9

And by sheer happenstance, I happen to know a person who knows a person who got us to on the line with esteemed actress, accomplished performer of the stage and

0:41.1

screen, and as relevant to our Battlestar Galactica episode, President Rosalind herself,

0:47.1

Mary MacDonald, can you hear me? How are you on the line?

0:50.9

I can hear you, and I'm very pleased to be here.

0:55.1

Thank you so much.

0:56.5

It's nice to talk to you.

0:58.3

It's very rare to have someone as esteemed as you on the show.

1:01.6

You have outpaced a contestant on the Lego reality show and the creator of Ducktails

1:07.2

in our Pantheon.

1:09.8

Oh, that's fantastic.

1:11.7

I don't even know what you're talking about, but I know it's good.

1:16.0

And, you know, our thing, when we did our research on BALSTAR Galactica, especially

1:21.8

the reboot, you know, the ways that it subverted all these sci-fi tropes, the way it literally took what

1:29.2

was a punchline, you know, not to, I understand that fans of the original series have to be

1:35.5

handled with very much a lot of care, you know, a lot of the early development of the show

1:41.3

was about not directly antagonizing the original

1:45.5

fans.

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