Project Hail Mary
Mostly Nitpicking
Mostly Nitpicking
4.6 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 186 minutes
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This week Nando DJ and Diggins get in their little hamster balls and roll on over to watch the one of the rockiest movies of 2026, Project Hail Mary.
They nitpick the ships, the fists, and of course the bumps.
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Nando - Fantastic Four: First Foes (comic), Absolute Wonder Woman (comic), The Flash #31 (comic), Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 (series)
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Logo by Michelle Chapman
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on? |
| 0:07.5 | I am Nanda. |
| 0:09.3 | And I'm DJ. |
| 0:12.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:16.5 | This is most significant a podcast every week. |
| 0:18.6 | We pick a part of a piece of pop culture by looking exclusively at the details. |
| 0:21.8 | Woohoo. |
| 0:22.6 | Woohoo. |
| 0:23.6 | This week, we're talking about a movie that has one normal guy and one piece of, like, |
| 0:31.6 | construction machinery or something. |
| 0:33.6 | Like, if you'd never seen it, that's what it sounds like from the Diggins sound. |
| 0:38.0 | But no, we're talking about the movie of the year, perhaps. |
| 0:42.5 | We'll see. |
| 0:43.8 | I mean, mercy. |
| 0:45.4 | It's a movie of the year. |
| 0:47.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.6 | And sometimes it might get more biased. |
| 0:49.3 | Like, they may get a second life on streaming. |
| 0:51.7 | You never know. |
| 0:53.9 | Like Silent Hill or something. But as of now, one of the movies of the year, we're talking about a movie called Free Guy. No, excuse me. The other one. What's the other one called? Let's do Free Guy. Let's do Free Guy. I like that. All right. Let's do Free Guy. No, Project Hail Mary. Project Hail Mary, everybody. Remember that? Remember that movie? Yeah. It could have been called Free Guy. I like that. All right. Let's do Free Guy. No, Project Hail Mary. Project Hail Mary, everybody. Remember that? Remember that movie? |
| 1:13.9 | Yeah. Could have been called Free Guy. They free guy. |
| 1:17.1 | They free him from Earth, you know? Like, yeah. Yeah. They probably have to change the title of the book because they were like, fuck, I'm going to get a movie called Free Guy. But that's what you got to do. But yeah, we're going to talk about Project Hail Mary this week. The movie, obviously not the book, even though we are a book podcast now sometimes, but mostly not. Only if those books have pictures. Yeah. And this one I hear doesn't have pictures, which is why a lot of people had to draw the thing from it based on what they thought it looked like. And then it was interesting to see. I always like that when you get something described in a book. And then everybody's like, I think this is what it looks like. And then you see it in the movie. You're like, oh, I was way off. You know what I mean? I tried to look like a good example that outside of this. |
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