This time out, the Pavement Pounders tackle a whopper, covering The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, including the original radio play (Primary Phase), book, TV series, and movie. Michael Simshauser was nice enough to give us some audio to drop in, to add his insights about the four media under consideration, as well as the … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #42: The Prevalence of Tea Towels (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – feat. Michael Simshauser) →...
Aug 01, 2016•1 hr 11 min
This time out, the Pavement Pounders discuss one of Seth’s favorite films, Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige and the Christopher Priest novel of the same name on which it’s based. Not everybody agrees about how awesome the movie is, but Seth is clearly right in this case, and also typing these show notes. Pounder Rankings!: Colin: … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #41: Everybody’s a Victim (The Prestige) →...
May 28, 2016•1 hr 7 min
We’re well into our second year here, and if Seth has to listen to each episode multiple times, he should at least be allowed to pull out some of our best bits and chuck them into a supercut. This is a good sampling of our discussions on adaptational considerations, James’s proclivity for dropping in “That’s … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #40: Guilty Underpants (Supercut: Year Two!) →...
May 15, 2016•16 min
This time out, the Pavement Pounders are joined by Ben DeBono of The Sci-Fi Christian to discuss Stanley Kubrick’s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Colin and Seth both disliked the film on first viewing. Will things change after this viewing? What will James think about it the first time out? The movie is (kind of) … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #39: Selfie With the Monolith! #aliens (2001: A Space Odyssey) →...
Apr 09, 2016•1 hr 18 min
Recording right about the time of our second podcast anniversary, this time we discuss Colossus: The Forbin Project, adapted from DF Jones’s novel Colossus. Many thanks to everyone who’s interacted with us in any way since we started doing this. It’s been a lot of fun and we look forward to many more awkward discussions … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #38: Scientists Should Read Frankenstein (Colossus: The Forbin Project) →...
Mar 21, 2016•1 hr 2 min
This time out, the Pavement Pounders were joined by Margo Donohue of the Book Vs. Movie podcast to discuss The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins and its smash hit film adaptation. Huge thanks to Margo for classing up the place by hanging out with us! Pounder Rankings!: Margo: book movie Colin: book movie James (rebel!): … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #37: The Going Exchange Rate on Kisses (The Hunger Games, feat. MargoD of Book vs. Movie) →...
Feb 20, 2016•1 hr 7 min
No clever title this time, because we were fortunate enough to have a chance to sit down (virtually) with Michael A. Burstein and discuss his short story “I Remember the Future” and its recent short film adaptation. It’s not quite our usual format, as for the most part we took a back seat to Michael, … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #36: I Remember the Future, Interview with Michael A. Burstein →...
Jan 30, 2016•1 hr 22 min
For a special Christmas treat, this time the Pavement Pounders discuss Die Hard, adapted from Roderick Thorp’s Nothing Lasts Forever. Is it a Christmas movie? Is it science fiction? These questions and more considered. Sprechen Sie talk? Eh? Pounder Rankings!: Colin/James/Seth: movie book Notes: Honest Action: Die Hard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnHKv2G0wCw Tattoo fail ‘Nothing Last’s Forever’: http://www.buzzfeed.com/adamdavis/examples-proving-we-need-to-be-more-careful-with-grammar#.jlJr...
Dec 25, 2015•48 min
For a special tie-in with the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the Pavement Pounders discuss their Top 3 entries in the dearly-departed Expanded Universe, now called Star Wars: Legends. Pavement Pounder Picks!: Colin: Heir to the Empire, by Timothy Zahn Han Solo: Paradise Snare, by A.C. Crispin Spinter of the Mind’s Eye, by … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #34: Ion Canonization, or an Axe-Whuppin’ (Top 3 Expanded Universe Entries) →...
Dec 18, 2015•48 min
All things being equal, this episode would’ve been released for Halloween 2015. But 20th Century Fox decided to push Victor Frankenstein to Thanksgiving Weekend, so it’s Franksgiving, or Thankenstein from the Pavement Pounders! Under consideration this time are the classic 1818 novel Frankenstein, its equally classic 1931 adaptation, 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein, Mel Brooks’s Young … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #33: Bilateral Kidney Stones (Frankenstein) →...
Dec 09, 2015•1 hr 28 min
And now for something completely different! Eschewing the normal homework-heavy format, the Pavement Pounders discuss their lists of Top 3 Science Fiction books. This is a new thing they’re hoping to do more of, so be sure to get in touch with your suggestions for future lists, and let them know what you thought of … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #32: Practically Illiterate (Top 3 SF Books) →...
Nov 21, 2015•40 min
For a brief Episode #31, the Pavement Pounders discuss Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant, which recently had a Fathom Event re-release. Also under discussion is the book the film is based on, variously titled as The Iron Man and The Iron Giant. Thanks to Roger from The Geek Likes for suggesting the title. Also, be … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #31: Hogarth’s Getting a New Daddy (The Iron Giant) →...
Nov 07, 2015•45 min
For Episode #30, the Pavement Pounders are joined by Matt Anderson of The Sci-Fi Christian to discuss the new film The Martian, adapted from Andy Weir’s best-selling book. Seth totally forgets about the Earth’s magnetic field when discussing the radiation problem. Also, his Windows laptop totally freezes up halfway through. See if you can spot … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #30: Weir Science (The Martian, feat. Matt Anderson) →...
Oct 17, 2015•1 hr 17 min
For Episode 29, the Pavement Pounders discuss Steven Gould’s excellent novel Jumper and its lackluster 2008 film adaptation. Just read the book series! For a podcast on a better Doug Liman film, check out our episode about Edge of Tomorrow (All You Need is Kill). Huge thanks to Steven Gould for replying to our tweet, and … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #29: We Mean No Harm to Your Planet (Jumper) →...
Sep 20, 2015•1 hr
(Ironic Title Translation: Don’t Change Anything. You’ll get it once you’ve read the story.) In honor of what would have been Ray Bradbury’s 95th birthday, the Pavement Pounders discuss his well-known short story A Sound of Thunder with Phil Nichols, Senior Advisor to the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at Indiana University. Also under consideration … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #28: Deaunt Chaynj Ennithnng (A Sound of Thunder, feat. Phil Nichols) →...
Aug 22, 2015•1 hr 24 min
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 →...
Aug 06, 20150
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) →
Aug 01, 2015•1 hr 13 min
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) →...
Jun 27, 2015•1 hr 17 min
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) →...
Jun 16, 20150
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) →...
May 23, 2015•1 hr 4 min
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) →...
Apr 25, 2015•1 hr
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!) →...
Apr 18, 20150
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) →...
Apr 01, 20150
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) →...
Mar 28, 2015•1 hr 4 min
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) →...
Mar 11, 2015•45 min
For Episode #17, fittingly a prime number, the Pavement Pounders discuss Contact, by Carl Sagan, and the 1997 film adapted from it. Big thanks to Rem from The Sci-Fi Movie Podcast for recommending it! Full Spoiler alert! Asterisms discussed! Swedish Radio Astronomy considered! The Drake Equation pondered! And also the crucial question of why, for … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #17: An Awful Waste of Space (Contact) →...
Feb 28, 2015•1 hr 7 min
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 … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #16: Two Out of Three Idiots Can’t Be Wrong (Minority Report) →...
Jan 31, 2015•1 hr 36 min
Ringing in the new year with a brand new film, the Pavement Pounders discuss the new film Predestination, currently in limited theaters and video on demand. The film is adapted from Robert Heinlein’s 1959 short story “-All You Zombies-“. Boys will be boys, and the Pavement Pounders got caught in a temporal underwear discussion loop. It’s not … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #15: A Heinlein Timeline (Predestination) →...
Jan 13, 2015•57 min
Merry Christmas to all! In honor of the holiday, the Pavement Pounders read Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella A Christmas Carol and watched four adaptations: Scrooge (1951, starring Alastair Sim), The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992, starring Michael Caine), A Christmas Carol (1999, starring Patrick Stewart), and Scrooged! (1988, starring Bill Murray). We also discussed other versions we’d seen and gave some … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #14: Double the Marley, Double the Fun! (A Christmas Carol) →...
Dec 25, 2014•1 hr 21 min
This time out, the Pavement Pounders review the 1969 Nebula Award-winning novella A Boy and His Dog, by Harlan Ellison, and the 1975 Hugo-winning film adaptation of the same name. We did it so you don’t have to. This one comes with a content warning: If you’re uncomfortable with a story involving a lot of … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #13: Cheesy Quilla-desa (A Boy and His Dog) →
Nov 29, 2014•55 min
