Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Welcome into the Ringerverse. This is, of course, the Ringer's Nexus podcast feed for all things fandom. We are Steve, the architect, almond, builder, and tinker of things. Jomie, the explainer. Daron, you've got questions, he's got answers. Old man Van, he of the receding resurgent hairline. Coke, baby, Chuck, 24 karat closer. Together we are known as Alpha Midnight Boys.
We'll be right back after this. Follow us on socials, Insta, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok. Jomie's job is saved.
Chapter 2: What are the instant reactions to 'Project Hail Mary'?
Jomie, what's going on on social media?
My job is not saved. It is saved. My job is not saved. It's saved. There's so much game left, okay? There's so much work we have to do. There's so much new stuff that we have to do as a team, as a brotherhood.
With these skyrocketing gas prices, none of us safe. You see what I'm saying? We live here now.
We can't go anywhere else.
Anything is possible right now.
Let's calm down. Nothing is saved yet. Okay, so you just, how about this? Your job is saved, but you need to ascend.
No, no. If I still need to ascend, then my job is saved.
Well, maybe they're fire. Instead of you surviving, can you thrive?
It's the difference between job and career. Right. Yeah. Right. So we got Rock'em Sock'em Robots right here. So listen, here's the thing that I learned. Oh, look, guys, we're back in our new digs.
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Chapter 3: How does the plot of 'Project Hail Mary' unfold?
It's fun that we're back. Hey. Love it here. We already did one show here. This wouldn't be the first show that we've actually done here. That's not the way that that works. That would never happen. Because we got to do it. What?
We're recording the Project El Mary pod early.
It's our first time in here.
We did the Sinners one last week.
I was going to do it just like Charles. But you said you can't do that. Well, you can't do that.
It's fine. You know what? No, let's not do that.
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Chapter 4: What themes are explored in 'Project Hail Mary'?
Let's not do that. Let's not go behind the curtain. You got to do certain episodes first. Technically, this is the first time all the Midnight Boys have been. But you're ruining the illusion for people.
But you know why you're not ruining it, though? Because this episode is going to come out after the other episode, which we're already going to talk about the new studio digs in the other episode. So we're just basically doubling down on it. Because it's great and we love it. You guys are so restrictive. This is a big problem. I want you guys to really work on this. I run a strict program.
How about that? You don't run shit. I run a strict program. That's the problem. How about that? The reality is you guys are lighten up.
Who's we? Who's we? Okay, from the dude who don't like Filipino food.
I don't like Filipino food.
I'm not trying to hear that from you.
I don't like Indian food. Give me other cuisines. You basically like no Asian cuisines. No, that's not true. I like Chinese food.
I like Thai food.
You said Japanese food was a one-trick pony.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of weaponizing astrophage?
It's still there. The stuff that ate the sun, we still using it. We got astrophage on Earth. I hope you guys don't think that the governments of the Earth aren't going to find a way to weaponize the astrophage.
This is my biggest question now because all of these stories – I love it when stories do this because they're like, okay, all of the governments have squashed all beef and now we're like a coalition of the willing and we're going to solve this problem. Now the world is solved. What happens now? Do we just all go back to squabbling and fighting? We have astrophage bombs.
I mean, you saw what was it, a milliliter of astrophage could do?
Can you melt like an entire block of?
Well, no, to the two scientists that got blown up, right? Now imagine if you had like three tons of astrophage, what you could do to a small country if that's what you felt like doing. I don't think we're that woke, even after the death of millions, I assume, during the Ice Age. They'll be like, great, we warmed everything up, we're cool, now how do we turn this into guns and bombs?
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Chapter 6: How do different cultures view space exploration?
Does that cloud your judgment of wanting to save the Earth? It's like, well, what am I saving? I mean, that's not really that. I wouldn't even get that far. It's like, I don't really want to die for y'all. That's part of the struggle. I'm not really trying. The human condition, Steve. That's science fiction, baby. I'm not that woke, I'm sorry.
You want to weaponize the astrophage.
I don't want to weaponize the astrophage. I'm just saying if a strap was like, hey, you're only in person. We need somebody who knows TikTok really well to be on this spaceship.
Honestly?
Chapter 7: What is the significance of Rocky as a character?
Are you going?
I'm like, if you don't get Alex Earl, if you don't get Taylor Crane, leave me alone. Another one of my questions is, What do you think it is about space that like aging white movie stars are just like, bruh, get me in space. Not only get me in space, I need to be alone. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like Brad Pitt was dealing with his daddy issues in space.
Matthew McConaughey.
Matthew McConaughey, Matt Damon, now Ryan Gosling. Like there is something about the aging white movie star where they're like, I got to be alone.
Final Frontier.
Final Therapy Frontier.
I mean, that's really it, right? We don't think about the ocean. as a place of discovery and wonder and magic, right? We're not staring. every day looking down at the ocean, but we look up and we go, look at the stars, look at the moon.
We haven't been there yet.
You know, endless. It's a void of space, right? You can do anything in there. I think that's what it is.
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Chapter 8: How does the discussion of world cuisines unfold?
So here's a movie Van would make. And it would be so plain, but in space. And you would just put every single black actor that is from 28 to 55. Every single one. Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish, all of them. Just put them in a movie. And it would basically be like Star Trek. Are the biracials allowed in space? Are the biracials allowed in space?
I would never make this, what you're talking about. That's actually your movie. I've never made anything like that. Right.
I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. What space movie would you make with black people?
Well, you know, the movie, the one that I'm doing, think about that. Think about the novel that I'm writing. I told you all about it. Oh, my God. So, but no, but no. You know, it's interesting that you said, I don't know. One reason why we don't do this is because I don't think that white audiences buy the brilliance of black people.
I think a lot of these movies that you're talking about, the people mathing their way out of shit. You put Will Smith or one of these people up there, and not to make this serious and weighty, you put Will Smith up there, you put somebody else up there, people are going to start asking questions. It's like, we ain't never seen no niggas get no Nobel Prizes for no shit like this.
And I'm just telling you, you can take Ryan Gosling, and Ryan Gosling, just with the way our brains work, it registers to people that Ryan Gosling could be both kin, and the most brilliant man in the world.
You don't think audiences would take Will Smith and be like... Will Smith... I think you could do Will Smith. You could do Will Smith. Now, would people... This is nothing against Idris Elba, but if you put Idris Elba, are people like...
I'm talking about audiences. I wouldn't have a problem with that. I think what people want to do when they see Will Smith fight aliens is they want to see him shoot at them.
Independence Day. Independence Day. So if he domed Rocky right when he saw him.
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