07: Not About Star Wars

Welcome to Episode 7 of Vicarious! This episode, we talk about a bunch of things, including Just Cause 3, Under the Dome, Nathan For You, the All-New All-Different Marvel, and a little bit about the original Star Wars films. We had a blast discussing this stuff and hope you enjoy listening!

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

Show Notes

1:11 - Just Cause 3
2:02 - Just Cause 3's highs, lows and rocket-propelled wildlife
2:10 - Just Cause 3 Lunar Lander Car
2:56 - Batman: Arkham Knight, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, Far Cry 4
5:05 - The Last of Us
5:21 - A.I. Artificial Intelligence
6:27 - Spielberg Explains Ending of A.I. Artificial Intelligence
7:16 - Haley Joel Osment
7:28 - Nathan For You
7:36 - Editor's Note: Joshua was harsh on Marshall for watching Survivor a couple episodes ago in 05: The Show About Nothing.
8:05 - "There are dozens of us! Dozens!" from Arrested Development
8:38 - Gordon Ramsay
8:43 - Starbucks responds to Dumb Starbucks in L.A.
9:12 - Restaurant: Impossible and Hotel Hell
12:48 - Editor's Note: The two episodes of Nathan For You that Joshua recommends: Electronics Store and Private Investigator/Taxi Company
12:55 - *Editor's Note: Both Bryn and Marshall are referencing the web series Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?
13:13 - Trials of Osiris in Destiny
13:27 - Sparrow Racing
14:27 - Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser trailer
14:40 - Jar Jarth Vader
14:49 - Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it)
16:56 - Darth Jar Jar is Kylo Ren's boss
17:52 - Lucasfilm invited fans waiting in line to attend Star Wars: The Force Awakens premiere and after party
18:02 - Editor's Note: It looks like The Force Awakens was never planned to be test screened by focus groups, and yes, that's a good thing.
18:45 - Editor's Note: The leaked script that Bryn read seems to have been taken down, but he says this spoileriffic synopsis (if you're curious) is mostly accurate.
19:10 - Editor's Note: We'll put Bryn's list of rad The Force Awakens links in the show notes for next episode :)
19:30 - Editor's Note: The Force Awakens now has a score of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.
20:23 - @Fwiz's tweet about the Star Wars oranges
20:55 - Covergirl Star Wars Limited Edition The Super Sizer Mascara
21:07 - Star Wars-themed traffic warnings appear in 4 states
21:32 - Star Trek Beyond trailer
21:44 - Justin Lin directed The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious, Fast Five, and Fast & Furious 6
21:50 - Simon Pegg
22:43 - Beastie Boys - Sabotage
22:45 - The car over a cliff scene featuring "Sabotage" from the 2009 Star Trek reboot
22:49 - Star Trek (2009) trailer
23:01 - Willam Shatner "Sabataage"
23:24 - Editor's Note: As you can hear in the audio clip above, Shatner's actual reply is "I don't say 'sabotage.' You say 'sabotage.' I say 'sabataage.'"
24:00 - Star Trek Beyond trailer to screen before Star Wars: The Force Awakens
24:07 - Independence Day: Resurgence trailer
24:14 - Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum
24:34 - Editor's Note: Marshall said Bill Paxton, but he meant Bill Pullman. He always confuses the two."
24:40 - Independence Day
25:34 - Editor's Note: Bryn is referencing Pacific Rim.
26:00 - Wild Wild West
26:17 - Kim Kardashian, Kanye West Name Newborn Son Saint West
26:23 - Under the Dome
26:28 - Editor's Note: By "Siracusaing," Bryn is referring to John Siracusa, who usually does a "follow-up" segment at the beginning of each episode of the podcasts he appears on.
26:32 - Amazon Video app
26:58 - Editor's Note: We eventually figure out that it's called X-Ray.
27:59 - Google Photos
28:18 - Shazam
28:41 - Amazon Fire TV Stick
28:45 - Transparent
28:58 - Under the Dome novel
29:43 - Lost
29:45 - Damon Lindelof
29:48 - Editor's Note: Jack Bender did indeed work on both Lost and Under the Dome, and Steven Spielberg was indeed an executive producer on the latter.
30:51 - A Song of Ice and Fire
32:17 - Editor's Note: Under the Dome was indeed on CBS.
32:23 - A Surface tablet with the red keyboard cover
32:31 - The NFL Can't Stop Calling Microsoft Surface an iPad
34:53 - Editor's Note: As far as Marshall is concerned, Column View is the only way to fly.
35:12 - Secret Wars
35:17 - Secret Invasion and Civil War
35:20 - Civil War (2015)
35:45 - All-New All-Different Marvel
35:52 - All-New X-Men (2012-2015)
36:16 - Spider-Gwen (2015-)
36:36 - Editor's Note: Spider-Gwen's first appearance is in Spider-Verse (2015) #1.
36:45 - Scarlet Witch (2015-) and The Ultimates
36:54 - Avengers: Age of Ultron
37:47 - Daredevil (2015-)
37:54 - Doctor Strange (2015-)
38:04 - Doctor Strange: The Oath
38:31 - Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man (2014-2015)
38:37 - Spidey (2015-)
39:01 - Invincible Iron Man (2015-)
39:15 - Guardians of the Galaxy (2015-)
39:22 - J'son (Earth-616)
39:26 - Jason Derulo
39:29 - Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2015-)
39:33 - Devil Dinosaur by Jack Kirby
40:04 - X-23 aka Laura Kinney
41:00 - Editor's Note: By Earth-1738, Marshall is pun-referencing Marvel's Earth-616 and Fetty Wap's squad Remy Boyz 1738.
41:05 - Battleworld
41:32 - Jonathan Hickman
41:40 - Marvel Unlimited
41:45 - Comixology
41:58 - Venom: Space Knight (2015-)
42:02 - Venom
42:05 - Editor's Note: Marshall is kinda right. The primary pronunciation of symbiote is "SIM-bee-ote," but the secondary is "SIM-by-ote."
42:36 - Flash Thompson
42:46 - Lawful Good vs. Chaotic Evil
43:06 - Venom in Space Knight form
43:27 - Agent Venom appears in Venom (2011-2013)
43:57 - All-New Hawkeye (2015-)
44:00 - Matt Fraction's Hawkeye (2012-2015)
44:02 - Angela: Queen of Hel (2015-)
44:13 - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2: Angela
44:50 - Agent Colson
45:54 - New 52
46:13 - Oracle
47:09 - Star Wars (A New Hope) was released on May 25, 1977
47:42 - The Matrix
48:46 - Editor's Note: The script for The Empire Strikes Back was rewritten by Lawrence Kasdan (who also directed it) and Leigh Brackett.
49:14 - Carrie Fisher and Ben Burtt
49:22 - Jabba's Palace Song: Lapti Nek (the original) vs. Jedi Rocks (from the post-1997 remaster
50:11 - Star Wars: Despecialized Edition
50:19 - Jabba's at Tatooine - Original Cut
50:54 - The Sound of Music and Citizen Kane
52:12 - Aftermath, Lost Stars, Moving Target, Smuggler's Run, The Weapon of a Jedi, Shattered Empire, Battlefront
52:46 - The Hunger Games novels
53:30 - "Just because we danced in the forest..."
53:59 - The Star Wars galaxy
55:28 - Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
56:18 - Darth Vader Secret Revealed to 8-Year-Old
56:42 - "No, I am your father."
56:47 - Editor's Note: Based on what Joshua is saying here, we think he means Episode V, not VI.
57:00 - The Machete order
57:18 - Shmi Skywalker Lars
57:23 - Smee from Peter Pan
58:02 - "So wizard"
58:06 - "Yippee"
58:34 - "Not just the men, but the women and the children, too."
59:13 - Editor's Note: It's called "The Machete Order" because the idea was first introduced by a site called Absolutely No Machete Juggling. Makes sense.
59:19 - Machete
1:00:02 - Sword Art Online and Pokémon