Explore every episode of the podcast Podcast Hail Mary
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| Trailer - Welcome to Podcast Hail Mary | 26 Jan 2026 | 00:02:24 | |
Podcast Hail Mary is a chapter by chapter podcast exploring Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary in the lead up to the film adaptation. In this trailer episode, hosts Meghan Westelmajer and Matt Watterworth explain the concept, the format, and why this show exists. One host has already read the book. The other is going in completely fresh. First reactions, predictions, confusion, excitement, and wrong guesses are part of the fun. Episodes drop every two days, each covering a single chapter, all building directly toward the movie release. The show is spoiler sensitive, laid back, and focused on smart conversation rather than academic breakdowns or recap slog. If you’re reading Project Hail Mary for the first time, revisiting it, or just want company on the ride to the film, this is the place. GET MORE AT HOSTED BY TECHNICAL PRODUCTION BY PRODUCED BY | |||
| Chapter 1 - Naked in Space | 01 Mar 2026 | 00:31:48 | |
Spoilers ahead! Matt Watterworth and Meghan Westelmajer introduce their new video podcast series about Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary, created as a chapter-by-chapter lead-up to the upcoming movie, and discuss their backgrounds in podcasting and film. Meghan describes co-hosting and producing Albertans in Space with Storyhive funding, praising Telus support for Western Canadian creators and the importance of sharing space-industry stories. Matt shares his decade-plus podcasting experience, his studio, and his plan to pair Meghan’s space-industry knowledge with his audiobook familiarity while Meghan reads the book for the first time. They recap Chapter 1: an amnesiac protagonist wakes in a medical pod, struggles to speak, encounters a computer’s questions, sees other bodies, notices robotic arms, experiences low gravity clues, and has a flashback email about a Venus anomaly called the Petrova Line. 00:00 Awkward Podcast Kickoff Find us at <a href="https://podcasthailmary.com">podcasthailmary.com</a> Connect with Meghan Connect with Matt Connect with Paarth | |||
| Chapter 2 - Death Sun | 08 Mar 2026 | 00:26:27 | |
Spoilers ahead! Matt Watterworth and Megan Westelmajer return for episode two and share sci-fi favourites, including Contact, Arrival, E.T., Metropolis, and Her, plus discussion of the documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune and spoiler-heavy trailers. They recap Project Hail Mary Chapter 2 as the amnesiac protagonist reasons through centrifuge gravity to confirm he’s in space, wears a makeshift toga, and survives on packaged “goo” food while fragmented flashbacks introduce discussions of The Petrova Line dimming the sun, with projections that a 5% loss could be world-ending and setting up bigger mission questions for chapter three. 00:00 Episode Two Kickoff 00:22 Favorite Sci Fi Picks 01:14 Jodorowsky’s Dune Story 02:33 Metropolis and Her 03:29 AI Love and Loneliness 04:24 Podcast Hail Mary Begins 04:33 Chapter Two Space Reveal 05:54 Petrova Line Mystery 07:42 Alien Microbe Clues 09:42 Teacher Memory and Tabs 10:37 Andy Weir Praise 11:18 The Egg Rabbit Hole 12:39 Chapter Two Reactions 15:13 Stakes And Science 16:49 Mission Questions 18:26 Trailer And Spoilers 21:58 X-Ray Spectrometer Basics 24:53 CubeSats And Wrap Up
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