‘The Martian’ Revisited, With Amanda Dobbins

House of R

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🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Mal and Jo are joined by Amanda Dobbins to continue Space Month! This time, they’re revisiting ‘The Martian’ in preparation for ‘Project Hail Mary.’ They discuss their overall thoughts on the movie, whether they could survive alone on Mars, who the least believable NASA employee is, and more!(00:00) Intro(04:07) Opening Snapshot(22:58) Tier 1: A mostly responsible discussion(01:21:59) Tier 2: Rapid-fire Martian morality/survival test(01:45:26) Tier 3: Bonus unhinged space roundHosts: Joanna Robinson and Mallory RubinGuest: Amanda DobbinsProducer: Carlos ChiribogaStudio Production: Jacob Cornett and Chris WohlersSocial: Jomi AdeniranAdditional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome back to House of R. I'm Joanna Robinson. That's Mallory Rubin. And joining
0:09.2	us today, it's Amanda Dobbin. I'm so honored to be here. Domob in the house. What a treat. What a thrill.
0:15.9	We are so thrilled that you're here. I can't even tell you. We are, we've been watching a bunch of space movies leading up to Project Hail Mary. All three of us have seen Project Hill Mary. We're not going to talk about it in detail yet. Of course, we'll talk about it on our respective shows when the time comes, but we watch The Martian. That's right. Sure did. And is this conversation going to get a little weird about The Martian? Guess what? It is. But we have Amanda here and we're thrilled and we're excited for things to get weird. Are you excited? I'm incredibly excited. I also, I feel like it's my responsibility to make things as weird as possible. So I did, I watched The Martian. I've seen Project Hel Mary. I've got a lot of thoughts about space movies, my relationship to
0:54.3	space movies, space, other things. But like, if you don't think that I'm going to just try to
1:00.6	drive this off the rails every chance I get. Is that not my job? We support that endeavor and that
1:06.3	pursuit. That's the premise of the show today. But I do think we should be honest with ourselves
1:10.0	and with the bad babies. At the top of a Martian rewatch pod, if we all say out loud into the microphones, we're going to make things as weird as possible. People are going to expect to see us farming in our own shit before the pod ends. And we'll be doing that right after this.
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