Once We Subverted the System with Felicia Day | Episode 17

Once We Were Spacemen

Nathan Fillion & Alan Tudyk

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

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Felicia Day is a DIY goddess, an internet icon, and no tool to the industry. A homeschooled violin prodigy turned Hollywood self-starter, she was always intent on carving her own path. Fate connected her with Nathan Fillion, but as for Alan… Felicia doesn't even remember the first time they met. Felicia’s new graphic novel, The Lost Daughter of Sparta, comes out March 17... preorder now! Join her newsletter, Felicitations, to be the first to hear about her upcoming Kickstarter! 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	The good thing about the internet is it's like a cheesecloth. You know, there's always going to be a hole where somebody could get through and be like, I'm going to prove you wrong. It's not always precedent. Like the Guild and Dr. Horrible didn't escort tons of independent stories for us. I mean, there were great examples like Broad City and Issa Ra and Awkward Black Girl, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. All of them have sort of internet roots because they were
0:20.8	out of the box and they worked their way around talent-wise. But, you know, it wasn't like the franchise,
0:26.4	the guild ran for 20 seasons on NBC. Or Dr. Horrible got to do a lot more iterations. It could have.
0:31.8	But the good thing is that the precedent is there and the rules can always be broken. And that's
0:37.1	the cool thing because subverting the system is always fun for me.
0:44.7	Once we were spacemen.
0:51.7	I tend to play weird people, usually aliens and robots and things that don't have romance.
0:59.0	I once didn't get a job where they were looking for a Nathan Philean type.
1:05.6	Once we were spacemen.
1:07.8	Once we were spacemen.
1:10.9	Shall we, are we commencing? Shall we commence? I'll be recording.
1:13.8	I thought we were commenced. Okay. Felicia, get ready for this. You ready? Alan, do the thing.
1:20.5	Welcome to Once we were Spaceman. Because at one time, we were spacemen.
1:29.3	And in that moment, that once, it was the time that we were in Spain.
1:39.3	And at the same time, Felicia Day was also spacey.
1:45.4	And so she also now is part of the space world like space mayor.
1:52.8	Thank you.
1:54.2	Yeah, I almost thought it was going to end, and then it kept going, and I was happy.
1:56.7	Yeah.
1:57.6	Wow.
1:59.5	That's...
2:00.7	Wow. Right? That's... Wow.
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