{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Middle of Culture","title":"Two Total Recalls, Only One Verhoeven","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3933,"description":"A flooded basement, Rebecca Black's new album, a detour into real 70s Japanese jazz, and a ten-volume manga binge open the show before Eden's report on Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma and the new Resident Evil. Peter brings the Iliad, new Sigh and Igorrr, two solo cellists, and Anthrax's first album in a decade. Then it's the second round of Arnold vs. the remake: Paul Verhoeven's Total Recall (1990) against Len Wiseman's Total Recall (2012) — Verhoeven wins on social satire, Sharon Stone, and Michael Ironside, while the remake loses on accents, the physics of the Fall, and a cop-out ending.\nEpisode Notes\nEden lost a long day to a flooded basement — roughly 200 gallons, shop-vac'd out in five-gallon batches. Now pricing a second sump pump.\nEden on Rebecca Black's Age of the Exhibitionist: the only thing on repeat for weeks, with \"Hot Wet Delirious\" as the standout.\nA YouTube \"70s Japanese jazz\" playlist turned out to be AI-generated slop, which sent Eden toward the real thing: Chiyo Okumura and Jun Mayuzumi.\nReading: Citrus — ten volumes in a day and a half — plus the sequel series Citrus+.\nSexiled: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out, So I Teamed Up With a Mythical Sorceress!, a light novel inspired by the Tokyo Medical University admissions-scoring scandal.\nEden on Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma: not a farming game with combat, a city-manager game that happens to have combat — and the spring goddess is the romance pick.\nPeter is still chipping away at the Fagles translation of the Iliad and is tempted by the Emily Wilson translation next.\nPeter put three and a half hours into Fields of Mistria and then set the Steam Deck down, exactly as feared.\nEden saw the new Resident Evil and calls it the best video-game movie yet — mainly because the hero is a panicking first-time player, not a trained operative.\nSigh released Goh-Ka, and the Hangman's Hymn remaster is the gateway drug.\nIgorrr's Amen blends breakcore, opera, and metal — Peter's pick over Spirituality...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3-7NX9uIL8RD1xA_7xTb80V-108Lf3xuEMQhLzvEbRA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lZGY0/NzA4M2FmM2Q3Yjg4/NDczMzkzMTA2NTJk/NmQ1ZS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}