Once We Had A Nice Fist Fight | Episode 29

Once We Were Spacemen

Nathan Fillion & Alan Tudyk

Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Performing Arts

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Alan just moved into a new place that may already be occupied. He's fine with some light haunting, as long as the ghost mostly stays out of his way. Nathan, however, thinks Alan should go full Ghostbuster. Speaking of things hiding in plain sight… a soap opera veteran once gave Nathan a piece of advice that he's been slipping into his performances ever since. If you've watched The Rookie, you've seen it. Follow Once We Were Spacemen wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to extended episodes a whole week early by joining our Patreon. Once We Were Spacemen is a Collision33 production.

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0:00.0	You need to do the three phases of the soap opera take.
0:02.9	I said, what?
0:03.9	He said, any scene you do when it ends on your face on that slow push, you do these three phases.
0:11.3	Phase one, did I leave the stove on?
0:13.8	Phase two, I did leave the stove on.
0:16.1	Phase three, no, I turned the stove off.
0:19.0	And he said, it worked for any scene, try it out.
0:21.2	And that was, listen, I took that one to the bank.
0:25.3	I used it to this day.
0:30.2	Once we were spacemen.
0:37.3	I tend to play weird people, usually aliens and robots and things that don't have romance.
0:44.5	I once didn't get a job where they were looking for a Nathan Philean type.
0:51.0	Once we were spacemen.
0:53.3	Once we were spacemen.. Once we were Spaceman.
0:55.1	What did we go?
0:57.8	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode.
1:03.9	Once we were Spaceman.
1:08.2	And a spaceship.
1:09.5	And that ship flew through space.
1:13.1	And we were inside that spaceship.
1:16.3	We were controlling it, directing it to go into more deep space.
1:22.5	There was never a time when we worked in space because even when we were on planets, we were on space, planets.
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