‘Project Hail Mary’ Deep Dive. Plus: Andy Weir!

**Mallory Rubin** (0:05)
Greetings, and welcome to House of R.

**Joanna Robinson** (0:08)
Happy Friday.

**Mallory Rubin** (0:09)
Happy Friday. We're not usually here on Fridays.

**Joanna Robinson** (0:12)
True.

**Mallory Rubin** (0:12)
Except when we're doing Talk the Throne. Sometimes we are here on Fridays. We're a Ringerverse podcast on the Ringer Podcast Network. I'm Mallory Rubin. Joining me today to fist my bump.

**Joanna Robinson** (0:26)
It's Joanna Robinson. That's all right. Fist bump, buddy. Fist bump. Project Hail Mary.

**Mallory Rubin** (0:34)
I know. I'm so excited. It is finally Project Hail Mary time.

**Joanna Robinson** (0:37)
It's not just me here today, though, right?

**Mallory Rubin** (0:38)
No. We're going to do a deep dive and chat about this movie that we loved. Spoiler. Chat about this book that we have loved. Spoiler. And then who will we be hearing from at the end of this podcast?

**Joanna Robinson** (0:50)
Andrew. Does he ever go by Andrew? I don't know. One Mr. Andy Weir is here.

**Mallory Rubin** (0:54)
He does now.

**Joanna Robinson** (0:55)
Andy Weir. Will we look different in different clothing and different hair? Don't worry about it. It was definitely filmed today, that interview with Andy Weir.

**Mallory Rubin** (1:03)
We're in different outfits. My hair is, I'd say, the same, which is to say increasingly gray. Your hair might be different though. You like to mix it up. Find out.

**Joanna Robinson** (1:12)
After this.

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**Mallory Rubin** (2:36)
All right, Jo.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:36)
Yes.

**Mallory Rubin** (2:37)
The Andy Weir chat will be at the end of the episode today, so everybody please stay tuned for that. We genuinely had a great time chatting with him about not just this adaptation and his work, but honestly kind of just like space nerd stuff. We talked a little Star Wars, we talked a little Doctor Who.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:51)
Nerd stuff go.

**Mallory Rubin** (2:52)
Nerd stuff go. I mean, always here. Witch stuff go, nerd stuff go. Witches, be gone! No, stay.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:59)
Yeah, be stay.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:01)
Be stay witches. Programming reminders before we get into the deep dive?

**Joanna Robinson** (3:06)
Great question. We've got a bunch of people been asking us to break down the Dune and Spidey trailers, which we will be doing. That's right. Did they drop a little earlier than we expected? Yes.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:15)
They did.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:15)
But we will be getting to that. We will also be checking in on Daredevil.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:19)
That's right.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:19)
That's launching next week. So we've got all that on the horizon. We've got more Chris Nolan movies to get to before the Odyssey is here. We're mere months away.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:29)
I know. Wild stuff.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:29)
Very exciting. And then despite the fact that the reboot is canceled, we will be continuing a pace with our Buffy rewatch. Mallory has watched.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:37)
They can't stop us.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:38)
Most of, not all of, but most of season four. Yeah.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:40)
I only have a couple episodes left.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:42)
So the word stevedore does mean something to you now. So that's exciting. Sure.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:46)
Boy does it. You received some texts from me about that.