A Desire for More Cows: Arrival with Justin Jaeger

Podcast: Make Me A Nerd with Mandy Kaplan · TruStory FM

Opublikowano: 2026-07-27

The instant a movie is pitched to Mandy as "aliens come to Earth," she has already changed the channel, mentally relocated to a spa, and started a calmer life. So naturally, this week she sat down with Arrival, a film she spent years confusing with The Martian (fair), which she also assumed was basically the plot of Project Hail Mary (it is not), a book that gave her an actual, physiological anxiety response somewhere around page 100. This is a person who cannot watch a character face death without briefly leaving her own body. We handed her two hours of grief...