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  • Two Running Men, No Clear Winner

    Two Running Men, No Clear Winner
    Oct 18 2026
    We close out the Arnie-and-his-remake experiment with 1987's The Running Man and 2025's The Running Man — the first time we've landed on opposite sides of a ranking, though only barely, since neither is a good movie. Eden spent the week deep in 70s and 80s jazz fusion and even deeper in a Digimon hyperfixation, while Peter worked through a strong week of metal (Insomnium, Shores of Null, Iapetus, Mother of Graves), the Ted Lasso season four finale, and a rogue-like Star Wars racer he paid full price for without regret. Along the way: Tomie, a terrible new Street Fighter, a $12 digivice pedometer, and why the novel's ending was never going to survive 9/11.Show NotesJazz fusion week: Eden went down a Mahavishnu Orchestra hole and revisited Casiopea and Return to Forever's Romantic Warrior, while Peter claims the other fork of the road — Meshuggah.The spooky-season PowerPoint party: Eden skipped the genuinely frightening topics and presented Junji Ito's Tomie using a deliberately hideous slidescarnival.com template.Tomie (1998): one of nine Tomie films watched so far, a "tight 78 minutes that could have been a tight 50," and no regrets.The First Power (1990) for Bad Movie Bros: Lou Diamond Phillips in his prime versus the vengeful spirit of an executed serial killer.Street Fighter (2025): nearly universally panned and seen stone-cold sober after the Mexican place next to the theater couldn't serve liquor; Cody Rhodes as Guile is a highlight, David Dastmalchian's Bison is no Raúl Juliá.Eden's new hyperfixation is Digimon, triggered by Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth and its de-digivolve-and-re-evolve web of planning.Digimon Adventure: a show for babies with surreal, Jackson Pollock-esque backgrounds, which makes it perfect background viewing.The Vital Hero digivice: a $12 step counter that evolves your Digimon as you walk, and the Sunomon-to-Gabumon moment got an actual reaction at the comic shop.Peter's e-ink side quest: the XTE Ink X4 Pro and Eden's hand-me-down X4, plus the face-down pogo-pin charging quirk.New metal: Iapetus's The Mother Void, Mother of Graves's The Light That Keeps Us, Insomnium's Netherworlds — their best since Winter's Gate, now with a third guitarist — and Shores of Null's Homesick.Shores of Null's Beyond the Shores (On Death and Dying) got regular operating-room play in 2020, and its refrain — "life is at war with us" — fit the moment.Ted Lasso season four: the finale mirrors the season one "I forgive you" beat back at Rebecca, which is the whole point of the show — flawed people helping each other get better.Games: Vampire Survivors on iOS, Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional, and Star Wars: Galactic Racer — a rogue-like racer built by former Burnout developers, worth full price.Main topic: The Running Man (1987) vs. The Running Man (2025), the last entry in the Arnie-and-remake experiment.The 1987 film is dragged down by peak Arniness — every line is a one-liner — but its depiction of the studio audience is the sharpest social commentary of the two.Richard Dawson is the best thing in the 1987 version: producer and host in one, and the sleaziest game show host imaginable.The 2025 version hews much closer to Stephen King's novel until the last five minutes, when it abandons the book's ending — for obvious reasons post-9/11 — and can't land the replacement.Josh Brolin's Killian is adequately menacing; Michael Cera's Derry house sequence is the last thing that works before a hostage third act that runs far too long.Final verdict: two six-out-of-tens. Neither is a good movie, and neither is worth a rewatch.
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    1 ora e 11 min
  • Meme-ory Lane

    Meme-ory Lane
    Oct 4 2026
    Peter and Eden take a trip down meme-ory lane, ranking 50 internet memes by staying power, usefulness, and how often they appear unbidden in their brains. Rickrolling remains a family tradition, Hide the Pain Harold feels painfully familiar, and a perfectly good joke can lose points when nobody remembers how to use it. Some entries even require the creation of an F tier.Before the rankings, Peter finds politics and body horror in The Expanse, welcomes Amon Amarth back to form, and hears Tarkovsky in The Ocean's Solaris. Eden brings adventurous pop from Yves, a samurai Western full of himbos, and a game where your cursor fights Windows-era pop-ups. Peter buys Control Resonant to encourage Remedy's weirdness, and both look ahead to their next Arnold remake comparison: The Running Man.Show NotesRemembering Liza. Eden remembers their dog and constant companion after a difficult loss.The Expanse. Peter finishes Leviathan Wakes and The Butcher of Anderson Station, then starts Caliban's War, enjoying the mix of solar-system politics and body horror.Lacrimas Profundere — Lay Me Down O Silent Fear. Peter welcomes a heavier, doomier take on the band's gothic sound.Amon Amarth — The Allfather Awakens. A reinvigorated return to Viking metal after Peter's disappointment with The Great Heathen Army, with acoustic track “Upphaf” providing a surprise.The Ocean — Solaris. Peter loves this sprawling grower and its new vocal interplay. It vividly recalls Tarkovsky's 1972 film, even though he prefers the 2002 adaptation.Yves — NAIL and Soft Error. Eden's electronic-pop discovery, with “Do You Feel It Like I Touch” firmly lodged in their head.Manga adventures. Eden loves the samurai-Western absurdity and himbo fixation of Renjoh Desperado, volume one. Shadow Lady offers goofy, horny magical-thief antics, though its rushed ending disappoints.Farming-game fatigue. Credits roll on Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, taking Eden's motivation for side quests with them. Pioneers of Olive Town doesn't hold their attention either.The Citadel and Beyond Citadel. Stylish, strange retro shooters that Eden finds compelling and brutally difficult.Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional. Eden's surprise favorite pits a cursor against pop-ups with DVD logos and firewalls as weapons. The desktop nostalgia sells Peter on it mid-conversation.Control Resonant. Peter buys it at launch to support Remedy's continued weirdness, before finding time to play it.Ranking 50 memes. Staying power, usefulness, and instant recognition matter more than nostalgia. Eden recalls Rickrolling their sister's wedding; both recognize everyday life in This Is Fine, while misused templates lose points.S tier. Bike Fall; Rickroll; Anakin and Padmé; Confused Math Lady; Evil Kermit; Hide the Pain Harold; Distracted Boyfriend; Picard Facepalm.A tier. Am I Out of Touch?; Clown Makeup; Roll Safe (head-tapping); Running Away Balloon; One Does Not Simply; Conspiracy Charlie / Pepe Silvia; They're the Same Picture; Two Buttons; Side-Eyeing Chloe; Woman Yelling at a Cat; Kombucha Girl; Success Kid.B tier. Overly Attached Girlfriend; Homer Backs into Bushes; Mocking SpongeBob; Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man; Epic Handshake; Disaster Girl; Left Exit 12; Awkward Moment Seal; Drake Hotline Bling; Monkey Puppet; Oprah's You Get a Car; Gru's Plan; Shut Up and Take My Money; Keyboard Cat.C tier. Dramatic Chipmunk; Tuxedo Winnie the Pooh; First World Problems; Bad Luck Brian; Good Guy Greg; Afraid to Ask Andy; All Your Base Are Belong to Us; Scumbag Steve; Leonardo DiCaprio's Gatsby Toast; Socially Awkward Penguin; Philosoraptor.D and F tiers. Change My Mind and Forever Alone get D. Trollface and Doge get F: their associations outweigh the original joke for the hosts.Next time: The Running Man. In two weeks, the Arnold remake trilogy concludes with the 1987 film and Edgar Wright's 2025 adaptation. Both hope for the strongest remake of the three.
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    1 ora e 9 min
  • Two Total Recalls, Only One Verhoeven

    Two Total Recalls, Only One Verhoeven
    Sep 22 2026
    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.Episode NotesEden 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.Eden on Rebecca Black's Age of the Exhibitionist: the only thing on repeat for weeks, with "Hot Wet Delirious" as the standout.A YouTube "70s Japanese jazz" playlist turned out to be AI-generated slop, which sent Eden toward the real thing: Chiyo Okumura and Jun Mayuzumi.Reading: Citrus — ten volumes in a day and a half — plus the sequel series Citrus+.Sexiled: 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.Eden 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.Peter is still chipping away at the Fagles translation of the Iliad and is tempted by the Emily Wilson translation next.Peter put three and a half hours into Fields of Mistria and then set the Steam Deck down, exactly as feared.Eden 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.Sigh released Goh-Ka, and the Hangman's Hymn remaster is the gateway drug.Igorrr's Amen blends breakcore, opera, and metal — Peter's pick over Spirituality and Distortion.Raphael Weinroth-Browne's Empyrean started life as a commission for James Wilton Dance's Bach Reimagined.Brianna Tam is the other solo cellist on rotation — electric cello, loop pedal, one-woman build.Anthrax's Cursum Perficio is their first studio album in ten years, and Peter rates it above For All Kings but below Persistence of Time.Main topic: Total Recall (1990) vs. Total Recall (2012), the second round of Arnold vs. the remake.The 1990 version was received as merely okay and became a classic; Verhoeven's cynicism and Reagan-era satire are why it still works.Our verdict: Sharon Stone's Lori is a better evil fake wife than Kate Beckinsale's, and Michael Ironside's Richter-era scenery-chewing has no modern equivalent.The 2012 version folds both villains into one character, moves the whole story off Mars onto Earth, and comes out with nothing to say.The Fall — 6,000 miles through the planet in seventeen minutes — would require far more than 1G, and people climb around outside it anyway.The 2012 ending undercuts itself: the 1990 film leaves the "is it real?" question open, the remake adds a final shot that cheapens the ambiguity.Jessica Biel earned a Razzie nomination for the 2012 film and, per both hosts, deserved it.Next up in the series: The Running Man (1987) vs. its remake.
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    1 ora e 6 min
  • Six Mt Rushmores, One Foley Catheter

    Six Mt Rushmores, One Foley Catheter
    Sep 6 2026

    We open this week with the promise of an 18-day podcastathon — complete with a urologist's catheter and a rectal trumpet — before getting into what we've actually been consuming. Peter is working through The Iliad and saw Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, which we both agree is a fine three-hour movie saddled with a divisive "wet fart" of an ending. He also brings new albums from Mastodon (Marrow Deep, a grief-soaked triumph) and Russian Circles (Nine), while Eden counters with gloriously bad movies (Dracula 3000), style-over-substance manga, and Marvel's horror-flavored Midnight Universe. The centerpiece is our no-prep game: building Mount Rushmores for six categories and landing on Columbo, Batman, Sherlock Holmes, and Jessica Fletcher for the last one.

    Show Notes

    • The Odyssey (2026): We both saw Christopher Nolan's Homer epic and think it a fine, overlong movie whose invented "wet fart" of an ending undercuts the text.
    • The Iliad / The Aeneid: Peter is on a three-book run through the epics, starting with the one (not The Odyssey) that high school never assigned. The Iliad
    • The Odyssey (1997 miniseries): Eden argues the Armand Assante version is the actually rewatchable take on Homer over Nolan's film.
    • The Great Mental Models: Peter is chipping through Shane Parrish's series on thinking frameworks.
    • Marrow Deep: Peter calls Mastodon's ninth album — recorded after Brent Hinds' death — a grief-processing triumph and their best since Crack the Skye.
    • Nine: We both agree Russian Circles' ninth album cements them among the post-metal greats alongside Cult of Luna, Neurosis, and Isis.
    • Dracula 3000: Eden breaks down the 2004 space-vampire disaster starring Casper Van Dien and Coolio, which ends on a startlingly abrupt sex-bot punchline.
    • Spice and Wolf: Eden's mowing-and-audiobook companion about a traveling merchant and a shrewd wolf harvest goddess.
    • Midnight Universe: Eden read early PDFs of Marvel's horror-themed line — Midnight X-Men, Midnight Fantastic Four, Midnight Spider-Man — ahead of its October 7 launch.
    • Fields of Mistria: Eden is deep in the cozy farming sim and teases a possible second dragon in town.
    • Mount Rushmore of sandwiches: PB&J, the deli Italian, BLT, and Reuben — international sandwiches disqualified.
    • Mount Rushmore of doorstopper fantasy: Lord of the Rings, The Wheel of Time, A Song of Ice and Fire, and Dune (argued as much fantasy as sci-fi).
    • Mount Rushmore of movie musicals: West Side Story, The Music Man, Singin' in the Rain, and Hello, Dolly!.
    • Mount Rushmore of Western RPGs: Baldur's Gate II, Skyrim, Diablo II, and the first Mass Effect — janky and all.
    • Mount Rushmore of pizza toppings: pepperoni, ham & pineapple, supreme, and plain cheese.
    • Mount Rushmore of TV detectives: Columbo, Batman, Sherlock Holmes, and Jessica Fletcher as the Teddy Roosevelt fourth.
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    1 ora e 2 min
  • Conan the Barbarian: The 1982 Masterpiece vs. the 2011 Disaster

    Conan the Barbarian: The 1982 Masterpiece vs. the 2011 Disaster
    Aug 23 2026
    Peter and Eden compare the two Conan the Barbarian movies — the 1982 John Milius original that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star, and the 2011 Jason Momoa remake. Peter, mid-outline on a new novel using Jessica Brody's Save the Cat beat sheet, finds the 1982 film fascinating but slow precisely because it ignores modern story beats in favor of a mythic, Wagnerian hero; the 2011 film follows every rule and lands soulless. They break down why the remake fails on nearly every front, geek out over James Earl Jones' Thulsa Doom and Basil Poledouris' score, and flag two upcoming projects: the Schwarzenegger/Christopher McQuarrie King Conan and the gender-swapped French curio She Is Conann. Before that, they catch up on Peter's 50th in Vegas — the Backstreet Boys at the Sphere and 20 laps in a Ferrari 296 GTB — and Spider-Man: Brand New Day.Show NotesThe catch-up: Eden's intrusive thoughts won and they dyed their beard purple rather than shave it again, a look they're keeping until they get bored.Lis's new gig: Peter's wife is now voice faculty at Idaho State University, teaching voice lessons to music majors and sitting in on juries.Eden — Rebecca Black: New Rebecca Black songs keep dropping ahead of an album due in two weeks, and they think she's one of the most interesting people working in pop music right now.Eden — Roll Over and Die: They caught up to the current volumes of the gory, action-packed light novel series Roll Over and Die, even if they wish they'd drop the bloated subtitle.Eden — The Credits Roll Into the Sea: The manga about a 70-year-old widow who enrolls in a university film program after her husband dies had a quiet tenderness they loved. The Credits Roll into the SeaEden — games: They joined a monthly brothers-in-law co-op night playing Heroes of Hammerwatch, which they think the sequel improves on.Eden — Fields of Mistria: The farming sim Fields of Mistria is out of early access and is one of the better Stardew-likes they've played, on the strength of its character writing.Eden — Bad Movie Bros: Movie night returned with the gloriously bad Gor, a Conan knockoff based on John Norman's sword-and-planet novels, with the sequel already queued.Spider-Man: Brand New Day: The fourth Tom Holland Spider-Man is Peter's favorite of the four and Eden's best yet, both crediting Destin Daniel Cretton's direction.Spider-Man's Punisher: They argued the unusually light Punisher is deliberate — the first person Frank Castle has cared about since his family died, so he drops the grimness around Peter.Peter's 50th in Vegas: The whole family of eight came together in Las Vegas, and Peter correctly guessed the Backstreet Boys' Into the Millennium residency at the Sphere was the Saturday show.Ferrari at SpeedVegas: Lis bought him 20 laps in a Ferrari 296 GTB at SpeedVegas, where he hit about 137 mph on the 2,000-foot straightaway under relentless coaching from his instructor, Nico.Lucky: He's caught up through six episodes of Lucky, an Anya Taylor-Joy con-artist thriller that won't win awards but is a ton of fun.Ted Lasso returns: Season four follows Richmond's new women's team and is unapologetic about the shit women's sports has to put up with.Mortal Kombat: The 2021 Mortal Kombat was so flat Peter skipped the sequel, a midi-chlorian-style explanation for character powers that was completely unnecessary.The Expanse: He's halfway through Leviathan Wakes and enjoying the series so far.Beyond Grace: The UK band's Welcome to the New Dark Ages Part Three completes a heavy, ugly, socially conscious death-metal trilogy he's had on repeat.Death: Returning to Death reminded him what a spectacular discography Chuck Schuldiner left behind, with some eerie prescience on The Sound of Perseverance.Main topic: The episode's feature compares the 1982 and 2011 Conan the Barbarian movies.Why 1982 works: Peter, mid-outline using Save the Cat Writes a Novel's 15 beats, found the Milius film fascinating but slow — a mythic, Wagnerian hero with no B-story and no internal conflict.The 1982 details: Basil Poledouris' score, the Andalusia shoot, and James Earl Jones' scenery-chewing Thulsa Doom carry it, with the riddle-of-steel payoff landing.Why 2011 fails: The remake hits every beat on paper but is soulless — Momoa has no presence, Rose McGowan is the only interesting thing in it, and it's all cheap CGI.2011 plot holes: Breaking a magic mask into eight pieces instead of a million, elephants dragging a boat through a jungle, and instant travel between far-flung citadels.2011's politics: Eden flagged how the orcish peoples read as Native American and African while the white characters don't get the same treatment.Financial disaster: The $90 million remake grossed around $60 million, and Peter argues it deserved worse.Worst movies: It sits near the very bottom of everything they've watched, in the running with Knights of the Zodiac and Black Adam.King Conan: A long-in-development King Conan sequel with ...
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    1 ora e 2 min
  • Serial Killers, Steam Decks, and Seven-String Guitars

    Serial Killers, Steam Decks, and Seven-String Guitars
    Jul 26 2026

    Eden and Peter talk about what they've been consuming lately — Peter is deep on Meshuggah's newly remastered catalog while Eden is watching way too much seasonal anime. The main event is a deep dive into Of the Devil, a stylish cyberpunk visual novel where you play a defense attorney who is also the serial killer. They also wrestle with the state of the games industry, why they're buying indie games over AAA behemoths, and why "shorter games with worse graphics" is a genuine consumer philosophy.

    Show Notes

    • Of the Devil is a cyberpunk visual novel / Ace Attorney-style game where you play Morgan, a defense attorney who may be more than she first appears. Episodes 0, 1, and 2 are out now.
    • Eden finished Long Awaited Feelings, a ~2,600-page web novel from the Feelings series — time loop, yuri romance, creatively titled author.
    • Peter is playing Forza Horizon 4 and 5, catching up on Modern Family and cautiously warming to Community.
    • Meshuggah released 30th and 20th anniversary remasters of Destroy Erase Improve and Catch Thirtythree — the former sounds so ahead of its time that the thin production is the only tell it came out in 1996.
    • Haken released their first music since guitar/bass departures earlier this year — leaner, stripped-down British prog.
    • Psycroptic dropped The Pulse of Annihilation, a tighter, leaner technical death metal follow-up to Divine Council.
    • Protest the Hero released Within — a 30-minute tight blast of chaotic post-hardcore/prog.
    • Science Saru's Ghost in the Shell (2026) adaptation leans into the manga's goofier, flirty tone — first episode looks like a bajillion dollars, episode three already showing budget strain (reminiscent of the Uzumaki adaptation's notorious one-episode budget collapse).
    • Eden is also watching: Chainsmoker Cat (a gross-out comedy about addiction and poverty in Japan wrapped in a big-titty catgirl body), A Witch's Life in Mongol (historical fiction set in 12th-century Central Asia, animated by Science Saru), I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day (dark fantasy about child soldiers who can't die), and original anime Goodbye, Lara (a Little Mermaid reincarnation story by Kinema Citrus).
    • Eden visited Newbury Comics in Providence and was devastated to find it's no longer a real comic shop — four times as many Funko Pops as comics, no back issues, and a still-priced Thundercats Valentine Special from February.
    • East Bay Comics was the opposite problem: all back issues, none of them organized, mostly vintage junk.
    • The conversation on indie vs AAA gaming: Peter and Eden both bought Of the Devil episodes 1 and 2 sight-unseen to support small teams, echoing their broader philosophy that consumers should put money behind the kind of games they want to see made.
    • PowerWash Simulator 2 Star Wars DLC dropped — Eden is currently cleaning an AT-AT on Hoth.
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    52 min
  • The Rest is History, the Movies are not

    The Rest is History, the Movies are not
    Jul 13 2026

    Peter and Eden catch up after the UK trip — The Rest Is History Festival at Hampton Court Palace, Westminster Abbey, Hadestown, and why walking London at night feels safer than any US city. Then the pop culture blitz: Peter power-watched Fast 8–10 and Tron: Ares on the plane (he has Opinions). Eden brings new music (Rebecca Black, Blackpink with Chris Martin), K-pop supergroup collabs, two weird indie games, and a defense of the new Masters of the Universe movie.

    Show Notes

    • Rest is History Festival: Peter attended the inaugural festival at Hampton Court Palace with historians Mary Beard, Tracy Borman, and medieval combat demonstrations.
    • London at night feels safer: Walking a mile from the theater district at 10:30 PM felt natural — dramatically different from any major US city Peter's experienced.
    • America's shallow history: Westminster Abbey (Darwin, Handel, coronation chair used for a millennium) drove home how new the US is. Eden clarifies: referring to the dominant white culture, not the land itself.
    • Renaissance babies are terrifying: Painters used adult proportions shrunk down instead of babies' actual big-head, short-limb proportions.
    • Hadestown and La Bohème: Peter saw Hadestown ("good gut punch of a tragedy") and La Bohème at the Royal Opera House — the Mimi performer had the most stunning voice he's ever heard in person.
    • Warning — Rituals of Shame: First album in 20 years from the British doom band. Classic mournful doom metal.
    • Junius — Sotera: Boston post-metal band's first album in 9 years. "Depeche Mode if they wanted to be a post-metal band." Link
    • Prince of Failure: Daniel Tompkins (TesseracT) and Paul Ortiz (Chimp Spanner) collab via Kscope. Didn't stick past the first listen.
    • Eden's K-pop: Blackpink's "Go" (co-written by Chris Martin, "way better than anything Coldplay ever did"), Meovv's "Hit Em," and a three-group collab (Illit, Le Sserafim, Katseye) on "Iconic by Mistake."
    • How Do We Relationship?: Eden's favorite romance manga is getting a live-action series — filming this fall, cast announced.
    • Fast & Furious 8–10 (plane ranking): F8 best of the three, F9 saved by Roman and Tej going to space in a Pontiac Fiero, Fast X just bad. Shared gripes: too many resurrections, the secret brother, Jason Momoa's inconsistent villain, zero stakes.
    • Tron: Ares: Peter hated it — Jared Leto is a charisma void, Nine Inch Nails soundtrack forgettable, visuals nowhere near Tron: Legacy's light cycle sequence. Eden agrees.
    • Masters of the Universe: Eden defends it — understood the assignment, leaned into the corny sincerity. Jared Leto's Skeletor is "the campy gay bitch we all know he is." Link
    • Supergirl bombs: Eden confirms the needle drop of a lo-fi "The Middle" cover in the climax burned through every ounce of goodwill.
    • Peter's reading: Finished The Color of Magic, reading Willie, Willie, Harry and Stee and Rest is History books.
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    1 ora e 6 min
  • Hot Take Factory

    Hot Take Factory
    Jun 21 2026
    Peter and Eden run through a rapid-fire list of pop culture hot takes covering movies, TV, music, books, and games. The Star Wars watch order debate kicks things off (original trilogy only for Peter, release order for Eden), Eden defends Batman & Robin and F-Boy Island as unironically great, both agree the Beatles are played out, and they end on a shared appreciation for Alpha Centauri as the peak of the Civilization franchise.Show NotesWhat Eden's Been IntoK-pop roundup: LE SSERAFIM's new album, aespa's Lemonade LP, and ITZY's Motto EP (featuring solo tracks from each member)Reading: The web novel Long Awaited Feelings (1,900 pages about a woman who time-travels after her death) and rereading How Do We Relationship? (completed 14-volume yuri romance manga — "the best romance comic I've ever read")Games: Finished PowerWash Simulator (excited for the Star Wars DLC), played Loddlenaut (cute 5-hour pixel-art ocean cleanup game), and the Wuthering Waves x Cyberpunk: Edgerunners crossover eventWhat Peter's Been IntoDiablo 4: Finished the Vessel of Hatred campaign as a Warlock ("killing demons by summoning your own demons is a good time")Reading: 82% through Anji Kills a King by Evan Leikam (BookTuber debut from Tor) — enjoying it but struggling with the prickly protagonistMusic: New Khemmis self-titled album (Denver doom metal), Cult of Luna's new single "In the Shadow of Your Shadow" (album out November), and The Ocean's "Light Pollution" from upcoming Solaris — allaying fears after the post-Holocene lineup changeHot Takes — MoviesStar Wars watch order: Peter says 4, 5, 6 + maybe Rogue One, skip everything else. Eden says release order (4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, Rogue One) to preserve cultural/historical contextEden defends Batman & Robin: "It's the second best Batman movie. George Clooney's a bad Batman, he's got nipples on the Batsuit, he's got the Bat credit card — it's great."Eden declares Saving Private Ryan a bad movie to the horror of everyone at the comic book shopBest Pixar: Eden picks Ratatouille (doesn't like most Pixar). Peter picks The IncrediblesCorrect max runtime: 90 minutes (Eden) vs 120 minutes (Peter) — anything longer needs to earn itSequel that's better: Peter says Captain America: Winter Soldier > First Avenger. Eden says Tokyo Drift is the best Fast & Furious movieCitizen Kane: Eden concedes it's the rare masterpiece that actually earns its reputation — a bunch of first-time filmmakers who didn't know the rulesHot Takes — TVShows that stayed too long: The Simpsons (Peter). Nearly every comedy past season 3 (Eden)Best series finale: M*A*S*H's "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" and Babylon 5 (Eden). Brooklyn 99 (Peter)Worst series finale: Battlestar Galactica (new) — "the most incomprehensible finale you'll ever watch" (Eden). Seinfeld (Peter)Reality TV worth defending: F-Boy Island — 24 guys, half are "nice guys" and half are fuckboys, the women pick, and the fuckboys can steal the $100k at the end. Nice guys get a villa; fuckboys get a literal prison camp on the beachAdult animation vs prestige drama: Eden says Bob's Burgers is the only good adult animation show right now. Prestige TV is in a nadir of expensive Game of Thrones clonesHot Takes — MusicNever need to hear again: The entire Beatles discography (both agree)Best decade by genre: 80s for rock/pop, 90s for alt, aughts for indie, right now for K-pop (Eden). 2010s for metal — the genre found its stride again after a grim 90s (Peter)Bands that should have stopped: Dream Theater after Awake (Eden). Opeth's last 15 years are all misses (Eden). Peter agrees on bothGreatest live album: Rush — Exit...Stage Left (Peter). The Bang on a Can recording of Terry Riley's In C (Eden — "the finest version I've ever seen")Albums > playlists: Both firmly team albums. Eden has a 16-hour "K-pop Brain Rot" playlist for shuffling, but that's the exceptionHot Takes — BooksAudiobooks = reading? Leans yes from both, but acknowledges the research is contradictory (small sample sizes, brain scan studies on both sides)E-readers vs physical: Peter goes digital 9 times out of 10 (lighter, portable, side-lit). Eden does physical for comics, e-books for prose (form factor matters less for text, but hates reading comics on a screen)Hot Takes — GamesFavorite game of all time: Mass Effect 2 (Peter — tighter gameplay than ME1, loyalty missions, assembling the crew). Doom (1993) (Eden — infinitely replayable with new WADs every day, nothing feels as fluid)Best console generation: Xbox 360 / PS3 era (both) — Halo 3 LAN parties, Gears of War couch co-op, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Fallout 3/NV, Viva Piñata, and yes, Sneak KingOpen world vs linear: Both prefer a tight 20-hour experience over a 100-hour open worldFranchise that peaked early: Age of Empires II (Peter — nothing since comes close). And Eden's shitpost answer of the day: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is better than every Civilization game that came...
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    1 ora e 2 min