07: Not About Star Wars

Vicarious

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!

If you do, we'd appreciate a rating on iTunes. If you'd like to chat, you can find us on Twitter at @vicarious_fm, or you can join our Slack team!

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

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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