Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2400 - Katee Sackhoff
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2400 - Katee Sackhoff' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-10-25. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2400 - Katee Sackhoff

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Especially in Hollywood, right?
You always have a little bounce with those guys standing there with the big...
You always need someone like wandering around in front of you,
especially when you get to a certain age.
You're like, can we just put Vaseline on the camera?
Oh, like a filter?
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, my wife actually likes it when her lens on her camera phone is blurry.
A little dirty?
She's like, gives you a little filter.
Yeah, I'm sure they offer that filter.
Slightly dirty lens.
Yeah, smudgy lens.
So, really nice to meet you.
It's nice to meet you.
You were a part of, I think, the most underappreciated sci-fi show ever.
I think at the time, absolutely.
I mean, even now, I don't think people talk about it enough.
It was a fucking great show.
And I was so skeptical about Battlestar Galactica,
because when I was a kid, I watched the original series.
And then there was a new one coming out.
And I was like, oh, come on.
And then somebody told me, I forget, one of my friends,
one of my comedian friends, like, dude, you got to watch this show.
It's fucking great.
Like, it's not what you expect.
Like, you'd think it would be like the old Battlestar Galactica,
which is kind of sort of corny a little bit.
But it was a really fucking good show.
When did you watch it?
When it was on or after?
No, when it was on.
Okay, so originally.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was, um, God.
Like, when I first got the script, it was, like, 2001.
And I was a 21-year-old kid.
And at that point, I'd been playing, like, stereotypical blonde roles.
You know, I was in a movie where you were like, please die.
You know, like, I was that girl, you know.
And so I knew that if I could change my career, I needed to change it.
And I saw this script.
That's hilarious that you're thinking, I need to change my career at 21.
At 21.
That's how crazy the hourglass is in Hollywood.
I was like, this is, I got seven years left.
So crazy.
That's a fucking sketchy job.
I know.
And so I was like, what am I going to do, right?
And I saw this script, and Ron Moore had put a, like, an entry page on the
front of the miniseries.
It was, like, a Bible that he called it.
And it was him saying what he wanted to create and what he wanted it to look
like and what his intention was behind the show.
And that one page was so moving that it could have been, I don't, it didn't
even matter what it was on the inside.
I was like, if this guy is in charge, it's going to be amazing.
And as soon as I got introduced to Starbuck, like, reading that script, I was
like, this is it.
Like, this is, this is the character that, if I can book this character, like,
it will change the way that people see me in this business.
And granted, I was 21.
People were not talking about me.
Right.
You know, I'd been working for five years at that point, and pretty steadily.
Like, I had a good career going.
But, like, I was not someone that, like, people called home about yet.
I was, I was on the list, you know.
Right.
But that show changed everything.
Well, it was also a risky thing because you were playing a role that was played
by a man.
Mm-hmm.
So that was a thing where there's, like, a little bit of, oh, there's a girl
playing Starbuck now.
Yeah.
I know.
It was really strange.
So I, I was, like, almost had booked the part, or was, maybe I'd booked the
part.
I don't quite remember.
And I called my dad, who's a huge science fiction fan, and raised me on, like,
sci-fi.
And I was, like, I'm, I booked this job.
And he was, like, that's amazing.
What is it?
And I said, Battlestar Galactica.
And he went, oh, my God, that's great.
I watched it when I was, you know, younger.
And he was, like, Hugh, you're playing?
And I said, Starbuck.
And he was, like, oh, fuck.
You need to go watch this.
And I was, like, okay, all right.
So I, like, tromps on down to, you know, Blockbuster Video, and I rent the VHS,
maybe?
The DVDs.
I don't remember what it was.
Yeah, probably.
And I'm sitting on the couch with a girlfriend, and we, like, opened a bottle
of wine, and we're, like, watching this to, like, be, like, okay, what's my dad
talking about?
And at some point, she looked at me, and they were, like, talking about Starbuck,
and I was, like, that's so weird.
We must have missed her.
Where is she?
Oh, that's funny.
And we rewound it a little bit, and I was, like, oh, crap.
It's a guy.
And then I turned it off, and I never watched it again.
Because I knew that in that moment, it wasn't the same character.
It's not the same show.
It's not the same show.
It's kind of crazy that they did that, because they made a way better show
about a show that was just kind of nostalgic.
It was.
I mean, it really only existed for a year, I think, and then they had, like, a
movie or two afterwards.
But it was a very short-lived show, and I always find it absolutely amazing.
Ron Moore is a genius, by the way.
Like, he's absolutely, to be a fly on the wall of that brain would probably
just explode in my head.
But he, the fact that he saw what he saw and led the charge on that show and
brought the people on board that he did that had the same vision, if not, you
know, hire people that are better than you.
You know, and so he hired people that added to the vision that he wanted to
create.
And he, man, the fact that he saw that from the original was pretty amazing.
Yeah, kind of crazy.
Yeah.
Because the original show was basically a ripoff of Star Wars.
It was.
They were just trying to make a Star Wars TV show.
I think so.
I mean, I think that, you know, Starbuck was Han Solo.
Right.
Right.
Right.
And the Cylons were kind of like stormtroopers.
They were.
Like robot stormtroopers.
It was pretty.
Yeah, exactly.
I don't know who Daggett the dog was.
No, no, no, no.
I mean, what they did was, you know, they took like a, they said, like, I see
what you're trying to do, but I, this could be a real show.
Yeah.
I mean, and it came out in a time where science fiction was allowed to be
incredibly topical and it was always dismissed as, oh, that's just science
fiction.
It's not real.
So Battlestar was allowed to talk about controversial things that were
happening currently in the environment and in our country and abroad.
And it was allowed to do so because everybody just dismissed it as sci-fi.
And so it's incredibly moving, the show, and people identify with it.
The thing that I hear the most about the show, I mean, maybe not the most, but
one of the things is when I go to sci-fi conventions, someone will inevitably
come up with a DVD box that is just beat to shit.
It's dirty.
It's like they don't even know if the DVDs play anymore.
And they're like, you know, this came with me when I was, you know, stationed
in Afghanistan or Iraq or, and it passed through the entire barracks and it got
us through.
Thank you.
And that to me is really amazing that a fictional show about people searching
for earth can be so important and relevant to people that are in the military,
which is, it says something for the writing.
Well, people need an escape and that's one of the things like entertainment is
dismissed, especially like fantasy entertainment, like sci-fi.
It's dismissed as being nonsense, but escape is not nonsense.
It's actually like brain medicine.
Like you need it.
You need a little escape.
Of course you do.
And especially if like it's an escape that's also inspirational and interesting
and fascinating, it occupies your mind and it frees you up.
If you're in the middle of a fucking war zone and you can take some
entertainment value out of a television show that's about robots that are
trying to kill everybody.
Yeah.
It's like very valuable.
Some of the hardest moments in my life, current and in the past, have been,
have been able, I've been able to get through them because of television and
film.
Not because like I'm in it.
Yes.
The fantasy of going to work and being somebody else absolutely takes you out
of your own skin for a second.
But like, you know, going through the health struggles with our daughter,
watching TV with her completely transports you to a different place.
Right.
You know, I mean, we can all do that.
We can all relate to that.
So.
I mean, you can get too much of it in your life where you're just wasting your
life away.
But as a supplement.
Oh, yeah.
Of course.
I think that entertainment is very important.
It is.
And it's also that I think we get something very value about out of viewing
other people's creations.
I think there's something to that.
When a group of people put together something really cool and when it's over,
you're like, wow, that was fucking awesome.
Art is really important.
Yeah.
I think that, you know, creating just art in any medium is really important
because it transports people.
It makes them feel something.
Whether it makes you feel, whatever it makes you feel.
Yeah.
It's incredibly important.
One of my favorite things is to go to a concert and experience live music with
a crowd.
It is absolutely amazing.
Yeah.
It's amazing.
Yeah.
It's a different thing.
It really is.
Because you're, there's some sort of a mind meld with the entire audience.
Yeah.
Where you feel this energy of everybody enjoying the same thing together.
It's like the shared happiness.
It's the same with a comedy show.
Sure.
I mean, it's that, it's when an audience is with you when you're, I mean, it's
got to feel like the same thing.
You can tell instantaneously if the audience is going to be good if you've won
them over, I would imagine.
Yeah.
There's that.
But there's, you know, there's also just the thing of, there's the thing of,
you're kind of, when you're a comedian, you're kind of almost like a passenger
at a certain point.
And you're really just, you're just, you know what to do.
And you sort of like leave yourself out the door and just go into it and then
perform it.
And then it becomes alive.
And then you're riding it.
And then the audience rides it with you.
That's when it's at, like, at the best.
But it's like a, it's a mass hypnosis is what it is.
It's like everybody is on the same mind page.
And that's the same with a great concert.
You know, when a great song comes on and your body literally changes, like,
fuck, yeah.
Like, there's a feeling, like a drug that comes over you because you hear a
great song.
I'm literally laughing because, like, I don't, I don't know if you've got, your
kids are, like, in the right age of this.
But, like, so K-pop Demon Hunter is, like, taking over the world right now on
Netflix.
Our daughter is four.
And we were, like, a little reluctant.
But I was, like, everyone's talking about this thing.
And, like, she'd already heard some of the music.
So I was, like, let's try it out.
And there were a couple moments that were, like, a bit, we were, my husband was
a bit uncomfortable with some of, like, the sexualization aspects of it.
Just the girls wearing more adult clothes.
She's three and a half.
Is this an anime show?
It's anime out of Korea.
K-pop Demon Hunter.
There it is.
Oh, hot anime ladies.
It is.
The music from this thing is absolutely phenomenal.
What is going on with their bodies?
The message.
Well, the animation is really interesting, actually.
It's really interesting.
But it's the message behind it, fighting your own demons, believing in yourself,
owning who you are, not hiding an aspect of yourself that you're ashamed of,
but making it part of who you are and being proud of it.
It's, like, a very good message, like, even for, like, a four-year-old.
But the music is taking over the world.
And we didn't realize how crazy this was.
I mean, the final straw where I was, like, fine, we'll let her watch the damn
thing, she was at music class and one kid started singing this song from K-pop
Demon Hunter.
And within, I shit you not, like, 20 seconds, every single kid was singing
these songs.
And these are not easy songs to sing.
They're half R&B, like, half rap.