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Sorry folks, no clever title this time, and no actual new book/movie review featuring James, Colin and Seth.  Instead, Seth was lucky enough to get Keith Kato of the Heinlein Society on the phone to chat about the Society, R.A.H. himself, his work, rumors of future adaptations, and even some tidbits about Predestination, which the … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #27: Interview with The Heinlein Society’s Keith Kato →

In Episode #26, the Pavement Pounders were delighted to be joined by Nicholas Jensen to talk about Starship Troopers, the Robert Heinlein novel and the Paul Verhoeven film of the same name (if not the same content). This podcast also features a brief segment from a longer discussion with Keith Kato of The Heinlein Society. … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #26: De-bounced (Starship Troopers) →

In Episode #25, the Pavement Pounders discuss the much-maligned 2004 film I, Robot, based (or is it?) on Isaac Asimov’s classic novel/anthology of the same name.  This completes our Robot obligations after previously covering Eando Binder’s short story “I, Robot.” Also under consideration is the alternate universe version of the movie that we unfortunately never … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #25: There Is No Spooner (I, Robot) →

For a special attempt at relevance, the Pavement Pounders discuss Jurassic World, currently chomping through box office records and in no way in need of their endorsement.  Still and all, they discuss in what sense (if any) the movie is adapted from the original Jurassic Park novel, just to give lip service to the whole … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #24: Raptor Bromance (Jurassic World) →

  In Episode #23, the Pavement Pounders are joined by Emily (James’s better half) to discuss Ira Levin’s 1972 novel The Stepford Wives and its two film adaptations, from 1975 and 2004. Big thanks to Emily for suggesting the topic, and to Roger at TheGeekLikes.com for seconding it. Content warning: This podcast contains some frank discussions on sexuality.  Nothing … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #23: Dawn of the Apron (The Stepford Wives) →

In Episode #22, the Pavement Pounders take up Michael Simshauser’s suggestion of the 1975 dystopian sports movie Rollerball, based on the William Harrison short story “Rollerball Murder,” and also give some due condemnation to the 2002 abomination of a remake.  It’s two hours of movie from 70 minutes of material!  With bonus amazing classical music … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #22: No Penalties, No Time Limit, No Award (Rollerball) →

Now that we’ve been doing this about a year, we figured it was high time to put together a supercut of us being idiots.  So if you’ve joined us recently, here’s your chance to see what you’ve missed. Colin insists on adaptational fidelity and disagrees with Seth!  Seth admits or doesn’t admit he’s wrong!  James … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #21: Word Salad With the Pavement Pounders (Supercut!) →

For a special April Fools’ Day episode, the Pavement Pounders change things up and discuss the book adapted from Total Recall, namely the novelization of the film, written by Piers Anthony, who was gracious enough to respond to a query about the process for writing it. Warning: Colin geeks out to within an inch of … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #20: A Lot of Novel Stuff in There (Total Recall Novelization) →

In Episode #19, the Pavement Pounders discuss the Philip K. Dick short story “We Can Remember it For You Wholesale” and the two films (1990 and 2012) titled Total Recall adapted from it. The virtue of blood squibs discussed!  The tri-mammary problem under consideration!  Many too many Ahhnold impressions done!  See you at the paaaahty! Pounder … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #19: False Mammaries, or Sleeping With the Enemy (Total Recall) →

In honor of Leonard Nimoy, the Pavement Pounders briefly discuss two episodes of The Outer Limits, both starring Nimoy, and also discuss the Eando Binder short story I, Robot on which the episodes were based. No, we’re not discussing the Isaac Asimov story collection or the Will Smith movie.  That’ll have to wait for later.  It was … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #18: No Ifs, Ands or Robuts (Leonard Nimoy) →