Space marine
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Search complete. 10 mentions across 7 episodes found for "Space marine".
Oct 1, 2026
speaker_1HOST
Which is ...
speaker_1HOST
I mean, that's a remarkably heavy intellectual lift for a story that most people associate with space marines fighting giant alien bugs.
speaker_2HOST
It is.
speaker_2HOST
The novel overtly muses on the tangible benefits of an authoritarian government.
14 MINS LATER
speaker_1HOST
And what does he do?
speaker_2HOST
He adopts a pro-authoritarian, pro-military stance, and in a shocking twist, he actually enlists in the Mobile Infantry as a common soldier.
speaker_1HOST
The wealthy anti-military patriarch gives up his entire corporate empire to become a grunt in the Space Marines.
speaker_2HOST
He does.
Randall JamesHOST
And I'm sitting here.
Randall JamesHOST
It's like, I'm ready to be a space Marine, you know? And then, then the barracks drops and it's actually like, it is an animation of the barracks dropping onto a planet and the space Marines come running out.
Randall JamesHOST
And then you see this kid's face and he's like, he's all ready to fight at first.
Randall JamesHOST
And he starts firing and then slowing down.
Randall JamesHOST
We play a lot of StarCraft in this household.
Randall JamesHOST
One of the kids made a joke essentially about how dark that was.
Randall JamesHOST
I'm like, well, think about how many space Marines you kill when you play.
Randall JamesHOST
And it's like, oh, yeah, I guess.
Randall JamesHOST
And I'm sitting here.
Randall JamesHOST
It's like, I'm ready to be a space Marine, you know? And then, then the barracks drops and it's actually like, it is an animation of the barracks dropping onto a planet and the space Marines come running out.
Randall JamesHOST
And then you see this kid's face and he's like, he's all ready to fight at first.
Randall JamesHOST
And he starts firing and then slowing down.
JohnHOST
Usually I'm Duke Nukem.
JohnHOST
I am Space Marine.
JohnHOST
You're the most
TomHOST
badass.
JeffHOST
But Aliens, the sequel, a lot of people say it's an action movie.
JeffHOST
It's Marines in space.
JeffHOST
Space Marines was the pitch that James Cameron did.
JeffHOST
But it's still scary.
JeffHOST
It's still very scary.
GregHOST
But anyway, the fight.
GregHOST
I do like when he gets the auto gun like the Space Marines use and everything for a second.
GregHOST
It was just cool seeing Predator firing a regular gun.
BrettHOST
Yeah.
Michael BashamHOST
It was pretty much just showing you the same old thing.
Michael BashamHOST
Space Marines versus space bugs.
Michael BashamHOST
And it made me think about how when something is really, really well done, it's almost better to just leave it alone or just maybe give it a polish.
Michael BashamHOST
But Star Wars, for example, never needed to be remade.