They suggested reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir and said it was really fun and should be read before the movie comes out.
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Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I think it's the guy who wrote that. That's Hail Mary. Project Hail Mary. It's really fun. I won't even tell you what it's about. Don't tell you, you just gotta read it.
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Episode: Is JD Vance the Republican Front-Runner?
They suggested reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir and said it was really fun and should be read before the movie comes out.
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Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I think it's the guy who wrote that. That's Hail Mary. Project Hail Mary. It's really fun. I won't even tell you what it's about. Don't tell you, you just gotta read it.
The hosts repeatedly highlighted the book as a beloved adventure story that had just been adapted into a major motion picture, urging listeners to check out the bestselling audiobook narrated by Ray Porter. They described it as a smart, high‑stakes science thriller about a teacher‑turned‑astronaut who must solve a cosmic crisis to save Earth, emphasizing its blend of scientific mystery, survival, and hopeful connection. Overall, they promoted it enthusiastically as a must‑listen and must‑see for fans of science fiction.
Highly Recommended
Episode: Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians
The hosts described the story as a sciencefiction adventure where a teacherturnedastronaut awakens alone on a distant spaceship and must solve a cosmic mystery to save Earth.
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Hey everybody, there's a new film called Project Hail Mary that you're going to want to see. It follows a science teacher, Rylan Grace, played by Ryan Gosling, who wakes up alone on a spaceship, light years from Earth, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. As his memory slowly returns, he realizes he's actually on a lastditch mission to solve the mystery of a substance that's causing the sun to die.
Episode: Butterflies: Caterpillars with Wings!
The hosts described the novel's plot, noting it follows a science teacher who awakens alone on a spaceship far from Earth and must solve a crisis threatening the sun.
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Hey, everybody. There's a new film called Project Hail Mary that you're going to want to see. It follows a science teacher, Ryland Grace, played by Ryan Gosling, who wakes up alone on a spaceship, light years from Earth, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. As his memory slowly returns, he realizes he's actually on a last-ditch mission to solve the mystery of a substance that's causing the sun to die. So, no pressure. Calling on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas, Rylan has to figure out how to save Earth.
It's a smart, high-stakes story about science, survival, and most importantly, hope and connection in the face of impossible odds. So don't miss it on the big screen. See Project Hail Mary only in theaters and IMAX March 20th. Get your tickets now.
Episode: How Snails Work
The hosts described it as a beloved adventure story and a bestselling audiobook narrated by Ray Porter, blending scientific mystery with an interstellar journey.
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Project Hail Mary, one of the most beloved adventure stories by Andy Weir, is now a major motion picture, so there's never been a better time to immerse yourself in the bestselling audiobook narrated by fan favorite Ray Porter. Part scientific mystery, part dazzling interstellar journey, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival.
Listen now at audible.com slash Hail Mary.
Episode: How Sneezing Works
The hosts described the story as a smart, highstakes science thriller about a teacherturnedastronaut trying to save Earth, noting its blend of science, survival and hope.
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Hey everybody. There's a new film called Project Hail Mary that you're going to want to see. It follows a science teacher, Rylan Grace, played by Ryan Gosling, who wakes up alone on a spaceship, light years from Earth, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. As his memory slowly returns, he realizes he's actually on a lastditched mission to solve the mystery of a substance that's causing the sun to die. It's a smart, highstakes story about science, survival, and most importantly, hope and connection in the face of impossible odds.
Episode: Wetlands! Wetlands! Wetlands!
The hosts described the novel as a beloved adventure story now adapted into a major motion picture and highlighted its bestselling audiobook narrated by Ray Porter.
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Project Hail Mary, one of the most beloved adventure stories by Andy Weir, is now a major motion picture, so there's never been a better time to immerse yourself in the bestselling audiobook narrated by fan favorite Ray Porter.
Episode: Honey: Nature's Wonder Sugar
A film called Project Hail Mary was promoted, referencing the underlying story about a scientist on a spaceship, which originates from the novel of the same name.
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There's a new film called Project Hail Mary that you're going to want to see. It follows a science teacher, Ryland Grace, played by Ryan Gosling, who wakes up alone on a spaceship, light years from Earth, with no memory of who he is or how he got there.
Episode: Selects: The Disappearance of Lars Mittank
The hosts promoted the bestselling audiobook of AndyWeir's adventure novel, noting its recent movie adaptation and highlighting its narration by Ray Porter.
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Project Hail Mary, one of the most beloved adventure stories by Andy Weir, is now a major motion picture, so there's never been a better time to immerse yourself in the bestselling audiobook narrated by fan favorite Ray Porter.
Listen, watch, save the world. Listen now at audible.com slash Hail Mary.
Episode: The Colorado River Compact
The hosts highlighted the novel as a popular adventure story that had been turned into a major motion picture and was also available as a bestselling audiobook narrated by Ray Porter.
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Project Hail Mary, one of the most beloved adventure stories by Andy Weir, is now a major motion picture, so there's never been a better time to immerse yourself in the bestselling audiobook narrated by fanfavorite Ray Porter. The audiobook is available now on Audible, and the movie starring Ryan Gosling is in theaters now too. Project Hail Mary. Listen, watch, save the world. Listen now at audible.com slash Hail Mary.
Episode: How Worker Co-ops Works
The hosts highlighted the bestselling audiobook of AndyWeir's adventure story, noting it was narrated by Ray Porter and tied to the new film adaptation.
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Project Hail Mary, one of the most beloved adventure stories by Andy Weir, is now a major motion picture so there's never been a better time to immerse yourself in the bestselling audiobook narrated by fan favorite Ray Porter.
Episode: The Sewol Ferry Disaster
The hosts promoted the bestselling audiobook version of the novel, noting it was narrated by Ray Porter and encouraging listeners to stream it on Audible.
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Project Hail Mary, one of the most beloved adventure stories by Andy Weir, is now a major motion picture, so there's never been a better time to immerse yourself in the bestselling audiobook narrated by fan favorite Ray Porter.
Listen, watch, save the world. Listen now at audible.com slash Hail Mary.
Episode: Eleanor Roosevelt: Best First Lady
The hosts described it as a massive scifi adventure about survival and science, noting how emotionally affecting it was.
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Hey, everyone. It's Cal Penn. I'm the host of Earsay, the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club. This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Ray Porter, the narrator of Andy Weir's audiobook Project Hail Mary. Massive scifi adventure about survival and science and what happens when you wake up alone very far from Earth.
Hey everyone, it's Cal Penn. I'm the host of Earsay, the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club. This week on the podcast, I'm sitting down with Ray Porter, the narrator of Andy Weir's audiobook Project Hail Mary. Massive scifi adventure about survival and science.
People will say like, oh my God, I cried at the end. It's like, yeah, dude, me too.
Episode: Selects: The First Road Trip
The episode highlighted the audiobook of Andy Weir's sciencefiction novel, noting that Ray Porter was the narrator and describing it as a massive scifi adventure about survival and science.
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I'm sitting down with Ray Porter, the narrator of Andy Weir's audiobook Project Hail Mary. Massive scifi adventure about survival and science and what happens when you wake up alone very far from earth.
The episode highlighted the title as an awe‑inspiring masterpiece, with Bill Simmons praising its storytelling and scientific imagination. He recommended it to listeners as a standout sci‑fi novel. The overall sentiment was strongly positive.
Highly Recommended
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Bill Simmons praised the novel as an aweinspiring masterpiece.
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Audiences have spoken. Project Hail Mary is an aweinspiring masterpiece.
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The host asked if the guest had seen Project Hail Mary, and the guest replied he thought it was a movie, noting it was available on Amazon.
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Did you see Project Hail Mary?
It was the biggest movie of the year? No. No, I'll wait for it to come on cable. It's on Amazon right now.
The hosts referenced the title during a space discussion, noting that having read it had left them emotionally moved. They also mentioned that friends had praised it as a great, uplifting and hopeful story that resonated with listeners. The overall sentiment was positive, treating it as a highly recommended read.
The hosts noted that the novel was praised by their friends, calling the book great, and discussed how its uplifting, hopeful story resonated with listeners.
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I haven't seen it. I don't know what it's about, but it's based on some sort of source material because all my friends have said, oh, the book was great.
Project Hail Mary, I think, tapped into this thing that Ted Lasso did, which is like, man, I didn't know that I needed an uplift. I didn't expect. That's the kind of movie it is? I didn't expect this to be so uplifting and hopeful.
Episode: Hour 2: The Mascot Mafia (feat. David Samson)
The speakers referenced the novel as a possible reason for their emotional reaction to the space discussion, noting they had seen it and it moved them.
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maybe it's because I saw Project Hail Mary and I'm now moved by space discovery.
The Carol hat or the Project Hail Mary hat?
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They said they watched Project Hail Mary and were surprised by how good it was, noting it far exceeded their expectations and received great reviews.
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I watched Project Hail Mary this weekend. They're different. They're not like us. What a movie. I was surprised. I was pretty surprised. It's got great reviews. Everyone loves it. Everyone does. I thought it was going to be some shmarmy, like, feel-good movie.
The book was referenced in a conversation about climate change solutions and the potential for risky geoengineering; the host mentioned the book's scenario involving a potential solution to a global crisis.
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Some of these ideas do have to do with sulfur guns and cooling down the climate and have unintended consequences. You know, even though he was writing about it in a fictional way that has been raised.
— Episode: Adam Neumann's Return, Climate Change Te...
Episode: Adam Neumann's Return, Climate Change Tech, and Mo...
The book was referenced in a conversation about climate change solutions and the potential for risky geoengineering; the host mentioned the book's scenario involving a potential solution to a global crisis.
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Some of these ideas do have to do with sulfur guns and cooling down the climate and have unintended consequences. You know, even though he was writing about it in a fictional way that has been raised.
Mark praised this book for covering many concepts simply and keeping him hooked despite the fake science. Wade mentioned he hadn't read it yet but knew he liked Andy Weir's writing.
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I would say like Project Hail Mary kind of walked the line because it was a very simply written, but it covered a bunch of concepts and a bunch of it was like, you know, fake science shit. But like, i...
— Episode: How Do You Pan?
Episode: How Do You Pan?
Mark praised this book for covering many concepts simply and keeping him hooked despite the fake science. Wade mentioned he hadn't read it yet but knew he liked Andy Weir's writing.
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I would say like Project Hail Mary kind of walked the line because it was a very simply written, but it covered a bunch of concepts and a bunch of it was like, you know, fake science shit. But like, it still was like, OK, I'm trying to keep track of all these terms and science stuff and math stuff. But like, it did a good job of carrying me like I stayed hooked. I love that book. That was a great book.
I actually haven't read Project Hail Mary yet, but I know that I like Andy Weir.
The album 'Hail Mary', released posthumously, included whispers on a track that fueled conspiracy theories regarding Tupac's death.
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So anyway this is the last one. This is the last one. On the record Hail Mary you can hear someone whisper you think I'm dead followed by wait seven years.
— Episode: Episode 300 - Tupac & Biggie: ‘2 Of Amer...
Episode: Episode 300 - Tupac & Biggie: ‘2 Of Amerikaz Most...
The album 'Hail Mary', released posthumously, included whispers on a track that fueled conspiracy theories regarding Tupac's death.
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So anyway this is the last one. This is the last one. On the record Hail Mary you can hear someone whisper you think I'm dead followed by wait seven years.
So again we know if those whisperings are there that it is because they know the Infamy Notoriety conspiracies sex and rebranding sell.
The concept of a tether approach to artificial gravity, as discussed in Andy Weir's 'Hail Mary', was mentioned in the context of a company called Gravity Labs that was attempting to make it a reality.
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there's a group called Gravity Labs that's looking at making real a technology that's described in Hail Mary, Andy Weir's latest book.
— Episode: Cosmic Queries – Building Space Civiliza...
Episode: Cosmic Queries – Building Space Civilizations with...
The concept of a tether approach to artificial gravity, as discussed in Andy Weir's 'Hail Mary', was mentioned in the context of a company called Gravity Labs that was attempting to make it a reality.
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there's a group called Gravity Labs that's looking at making real a technology that's described in Hail Mary, Andy Weir's latest book.
Episode: Alternative Aliens with Andy Weir and David Grinsp...
It was said to be about an extraterrestrial microbe called astrophage, living on the surface of stars and threatening all life on Earth by dimming the sun, making the food chain collapse, and eventually killing everything.
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The title of his book is Project Hail Mary, and it's about an exotic kind of life that's threatening all life on Earth, possibly rendering it extinct.
Basically the main problem that humanity is facing is there's a microbe, an extraterrestrial microbe called astrophage, or at least that's what humans name it.
It's only about, it's about the size of a bacteria. It's about 20 picometers across, and it lives on the surface of stars.
So it's kind of like an algae that lives on stars, and it collects energy through most of its life and then uses that energy, stores it as mass, and then uses that energy to propel itself to a planet so it can get the elements it needs to reproduce because there's really nothing to be found on a star except for hydrogen and helium.
And then the problem is this is breeding out of control in our star, and all the local stars by the way, and it's causing the sun to dim. And once the sun gets dim enough, the food chain on Earth will collapse and everything will die.
Episode: Alternative Aliens with Andy Weir and David Grinsp...
It was discussed in detail, where an extraterrestrial microbe called astrophage is threatening all life on Earth, potentially rendering it extinct by affecting the sun's luminosity.
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The title of his book is Project Hail Mary, and it's about an exotic kind of life that's threatening all life on Earth, possibly rendering it extinct.
Basically the main problem that humanity is facing is there's a microbe, an extraterrestrial microbe called astrophage, or at least that's what humans name it.
It's mentioned in the book that the damage we've done to the climate actually helps make us last longer because the Earth has stored up more heat energy than it normally would have as a result.
And so we actually, although it's not much, it's like a complete different scale when you're starting to mess with the solar luminance.
In the episode, a caller mentioned that they were reading the title and asked for the ending, describing it as a story about space pollution dimming the sun and a mission to save humanity. The hosts briefly recapped the premise, noting that someone is sent into space to solve the problem. The book was referenced only to satisfy the caller’s curiosity, without any endorsement.
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The caller was currently reading this book and needed to know how it ended because it was about saving humanity from the sun dimming due to space pollution.
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Right now, I am reading Project Hail Mary, and I need to know how it ends.
So it's like there's space pollution, and the sun is getting dimmer. Yeah. So they send someone to space to try to solve the problem and save humanity.
The speaker started reading this book upon listener encouragement and found it very engaging, noting that it hooked him from the beginning despite the complex scientific terms.
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Get to work on your book, man. I just read Project Hail Mary and I loved it. I recommend getting the large print version and thank me later. Seriously. I need to talk about this book with someone beca...
— Episode: MOVIE MIKE: Greatest Movies turning 30,...
Episode: MOVIE MIKE: Greatest Movies turning 30, 20 and 10...
The speaker started reading this book upon listener encouragement and found it very engaging, noting that it hooked him from the beginning despite the complex scientific terms.
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Get to work on your book, man. I just read Project Hail Mary and I loved it. I recommend getting the large print version and thank me later. Seriously. I need to talk about this book with someone because I'm the only person I know who has read it and can't talk about it.
I have started reading Project Hail Mary. I am about one fourth of the way through the book now, which is huge for me.
Episode: MOVIE MIKE: Are Big Studio Movies Getting Worse? +...
The other speaker mentioned they were still working on reading this book.
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I'm still working on the Hail Mary project. It's Project Hail Mary. Project Hail Mary, same thing. It's close enough.
The hosts highlighted the title as a standout hard‑science novel, noting its real‑time premise and strict adherence to known physics, which set it apart from typical sci‑fi leaps. One host called it the best fiction he’d ever read, while another praised its fun, Martian‑style storytelling that sparked thoughts about scientific principles. Overall, the book was strongly endorsed.
Highly Recommended
Episode: Holiday Special 2022
The book was highly recommended for its premise, which unfolds in real time as the reader progresses through the story. It was praised for its unique approach to science fiction, staying within the known laws of physics and avoiding the need for any unexplained leaps in technology, such as warp drive.
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I think it's the best fiction I've ever read definitely the best sci-fi I've ever read
I think it's the best fiction I've ever read
The coolest thing about Project Hail Mary is how it is basically all in our universe
There's no big leap like in Star Trek, You have to like take this leap of like, well There's warp drive and you don't really understand how it works and that's fine And now that we accept this black box now we can go to other stuff There's not like an accepted black box in Project Hail Mary, There's just like all the known rules of physics that we know about
Yeah, it's uh, it's hard sci-fi. I think is the term right? Is that what they call it?
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It was described as a good and fun read, similar in style to his previous book, The Martian, and was said to make the listener think about scientific principles.
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Project Hail Mary Andy Weir it's so good really enjoying it so far
It's Andy Weir who wrote The Martian this is his newest novel
The Martian was good
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