Podcasts that mention 📚 The Martian by Andy Weir, R.C. Bray

um by the guy who did the martian who wrote the martian mm-hmm you know matt damon no the book

Lex asks about the author of 'The Martian' in the context of the short story 'The Egg'.

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so i'm i think exotic life will be very kind of exotic but not completely outrageous i don't know if you know the book by andy weir the the hail mary

The speaker mentions Andy Weir's book 'The Hail Mary' (likely 'Project Hail Mary') when discussing exotic alien life forms.

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So that was like for a— Did you watch the movie The Martian? We did not watch The Martian, but I had read the book already! And one person read the book while we were in!

The podcast host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, asks if the guest watched the movie, 'The Martian', during their Mars simulation. The guest responds that they did not watch the movie but that she had previously read the book, and someone else read the book during the mission. The book is mentioned in the context of discussing entertainment during the simulated Mars mission.

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So that was like for a— Did you watch the movie The Martian? We did not watch The Martian, but I had read the book already! And one person read the book while we were in!

During the discussion about movies watched during the simulation, the guest mentions having read the book 'The Martian'. This reference eventually leads to a conversation about the author, Andy Weir.

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I'm just saying we've had Andy Weir as a guest on Star Talk, and he would want you to call him Mark Watney! Mark Watney!

The host mentions that they had Andy Weir, the author of the book *The Martian*, as a guest on the show. He suggests that the guest should refer to the character from the book, Mark Watney, instead of using the actor's name.

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So okay, whatever the soil is, as of now it probably isn't very fertile; you know, because it doesn't have organics from the book and movie, The Martian.

Neil discusses the challenges of growing plants on Mars and references 'The Martian' to highlight concerns about soil fertility, emphasizing the lack of organic material in Martian soil.

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He's the author of the martian

Neil Tyson introduces Andy Weir and mentions he is the author of 'The Martian'.

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and in fact you might need those to beam signals back to earth the way uh matt damon mark watney yeah his name mark watney yeah yeah yeah so you need those

Neil Tyson references the character Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) from the story "The Martian" in the context of using old equipment on Mars.

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and then I'll recommend a fiction book which is the Martian which is a wonderful page Turner probably many of your audience have already read it in particular because it inspired a line in the film uh version of it which is I'm going to need to science the out of it

The guest recommends this fiction book as the third of three recommendations.

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you know that movie is really pretty good good movie yeah yeah there was a I met the author the guy that wrote anyway the guy that wrote the book and I told him that I really didn't like his book [Laughter] yeah he's like why was it because like there's not really enough dynamic pressure in a Martian windstorm to knock the antenna off the roof like now it's fine with that said it was because we don't have enough redundancy in the comm system and that's not really realistic I'm like that no because well why didn't you like it I'm like well listen I have a long day of work at SpaceX I come home I open up the book before I go to bed and I'm reading this like okay I got 62 Souls and I got to cover 3000 kilometres and I've got 52 moles of nitrogen hydroxide blah blah blah and I'm like it's like I'm still at work like I wanted some escapism I want to like go home really have romance now or something

The guest, Garrett Reisman, mentions meeting the author of the book that the movie 'The Martian' was based on and tells the story of how he told the author he didn't like the book because it felt too much like work due to the technical details.

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