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Welcome to Episode 2 of Vicarious! This episode, we talk about some of the story, theme, tone, and cinematic design decisions behind the film (and novel) The Martian. We had a blast discussing it and hope you enjoy listening!

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• Bryn Jackson is @uberbryn
• Joshua Sortino is @sortino
• Marshall Bock is @marshallbock

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###Show Notes

• 1:26 - "Water nap"
• 4:08 - The Martian novel
• 4:11 - Ridley Scott
• 4:42 - Gravity
• 4:53 - Horde mode
• 5:00 - A Series of Unfortunate Events
• 5:06 - All Is Lost
• 5:17 - Editor's Note: Deep Impact and Armageddon are an example of "twin films."
• 5:30 - Life of Pi
• 5:53 - Editor's Note: Here, Marshall is referring to the game Destiny. The Cabal are an alien race who have taken over Mars.
• 6:20 - Donald Glover
• 7:37 - "See you at the party, Richter."
• 8:45 - Kate Mara and Sebastian Stan
• 8:54 - House of Cards
• 9:03 - Captain America: Winter Soldier
• 9:30 - "After the jump"
• 10:38 - Jeff Daniels
• 10:51 - Donald Glover again
• 11:54 - Dwight Shrute from The Office
• 12:23 - Kristin Wiig
• 12:39 - Michael Peña
• 12:45 - Ant Man
• 12:50 - End of Watch
• 17:58 - The Knick
• 18:12 - Saw
• 20:32 - Indoor skydiving
• 21:46 - Chiwetel Ejiofor
• 22:04 - Chiwetel as Baron Mordo
• 23:03 - Postmates
• 23:10 - The Martian poster
• 25:13 - The new Fantastic Four movie
• 25:17 - Editor's Note: Marshall is thinking of the character Hayden, who is a horrible person from American Horror Story, a role which also contributed to his distaste for the characters Kate Mara plays. But he's sure Kate Mara herself is probably super chill.
• 27:54 - Guardians of the Galaxy
• 31:32 - Grid Cipher
• 31:58 - How Stephen Hawking communicates
• 35:08 - Sean Bean
• 35:18 - Sean Bean dies in everything
• 35:29 - The Council of Elrond
• 41:23 - Game of Thrones and Mad Max
• 42:01 - Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeting about The Martian
• 46:03 - Christian Bale's body weight fluctuates
• 47:02 - Jack's obviously fake beard on LOST
• 48:15 - Thighmaster and ShakeWeight