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TMTYR Episode #19: False Mammaries, or Sleeping With the Enemy (Total Recall)

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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 Rankings!:

Colin/James/Seth:

1990 film
story
2012 film

Notes:

Thanks to Megan, Lisa, and Malc for contributing to the conversation on Facebook!
“We Can Remember it For You Wholesale” PDF: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Dick_Wholesale.pdf
Audio-drama of the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBOBObhbbqU
10 Amazing Things You Didn’t Know About TOTAL RECALL: http://www.thegeektwins.com/2013/11/10-amazing-things-you-didnt-know-about.html#.VO5vzi5Mcmc
Book and movie(s) compared: https://litreactor.com/columns/book-vs-film-total-recallwe-can-remember-it-for-you-wholesale
Scientists produce false memories in mice: http://www.insidescience.org/content/scientists-produce-false-memories-mice/1278
Guardian article on the Bugs Bunny memory problem: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/dec/04/science.research1
Worst Movie Remakes!: http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/worst-movie-remakes
“Rollerball Murder”: http://instruct.uwo.ca/kinesiology/378/files/essays/roller.pdf

Take Me To Your Reader

TMTYR Episode #16: Two Out of Three Idiots Can't Be Wrong (Minority Report)

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Episode #16 is here and brings with it visions of the future. This time, the Pounders discuss “The Minority Report,” by Philip K. Dick, and the 2002 Tom Cruise film Minority Report adapted from it.

“In gloomy half-darkness, the three idiots sat babbling.” – Philip K. Dick, “The Minority Report”

Was there ever a more apt description of this particular podcast? Will we all agree on which was the better presentation of this material? Or will there be…a Minority Report?

Pounder Rankings!:

Colin: