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Geek News for March 10th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: They have cards there. It's so much more of the
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  Speaker 1: card store bill. Okay, all right, got a couple of
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  Speaker 1: things here for you.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, they dropped another trailer for the Last
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  Speaker 2: of Us. Oh yeah, season two, and yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 2: it's a laugh riot.
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  Speaker 1: Sometime in April. Here, I'll get it for you.
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  Speaker 2: Set years after the first season.
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  Speaker 1: She's grown up quite a bit, hasn't.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to play her still the kind of the
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  Speaker 2: same age, but Joel and Ellie are in a community
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  Speaker 2: full of survivors over in Wyoming, trying their best to
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  Speaker 2: live out normal lives. But it's easier said than done.
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  Speaker 2: Not only are the infected still very much in the picture,
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  Speaker 2: Joel's not entirely at peace with his choice to save
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  Speaker 2: out Ellie and murder the fireflies at the end of
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  Speaker 2: season one, and Elie she's just being a regular teenage girl,
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  Speaker 2: but haunted by the belief that she didn't really have
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  Speaker 2: a part to play in finding the cure.
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  Speaker 1: Of finding a cure after all. Now again, they're.
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  Speaker 2: Sticking to the storyline of the game pretty closely because
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  Speaker 2: the showmakers and the game people are working together on us.
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  Speaker 2: So if you know the game, you know things are
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  Speaker 2: going to get brutal, and it was very divisive. The
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  Speaker 2: part two of the game and how much of it
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be covered this season.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know.
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  Speaker 2: There's a very good chance he would be dead, but
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  Speaker 2: the trailer shows a look at you know, some of
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  Speaker 2: the scenes from the game have just been recreated for
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  Speaker 2: the show. But this will be April thirteenth. Yeah, anyway,
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, again, it's a it's a laugh riot, that's
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  Speaker 2: a Nirvana that they're using.
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  Speaker 1: There is that, right?
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're right, Oh, I did not know that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's what I'm hearing people are saying, and.
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  Speaker 2: People are saying, all right, that's good enough for me.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see.
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  Speaker 2: Now. Amy Donaldson was here earlier. She talked about being
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  Speaker 2: at south By Southwest, right, and there were quite a
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  Speaker 2: few things that were you know, revealed at south By Southwest,
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  Speaker 2: including from Disney. They were talking about their parks while
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  Speaker 2: they were down there, and they announced that it's upcoming
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  Speaker 2: theme park ride focus. Okay, right now, there's a ride
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  Speaker 2: at Disneyland that's the Millennium Falcon Ride.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Smuggler's.
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  Speaker 2: Run and it's one of those with a you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's it's a movie.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a screen in the seats moved.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an emotion capture kind of thing. But they're
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  Speaker 2: going to change the game. Well, it is a game.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to change the movie. It is a game
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  Speaker 2: really as you play it, because each one of you
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  Speaker 2: has a part to play, a part to play, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was the engineer.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see.
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  Speaker 2: But they're going to focus it on the release of
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  Speaker 2: the new Star Wars movie, Mandalorian and Grogu and they're
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  Speaker 2: going to refit the game the same day that the
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  Speaker 2: movie is released, twenty twenty six. So yeah, it's you're
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  Speaker 2: going to have you know. The concept features the Razor
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  Speaker 2: Cress that's his ship Millennium Falcon headed toward Cloud City,
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  Speaker 2: Tattoine sand Crawler death Star remnants floating in space.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's going to be.
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  Speaker 2: A a best of but Mandalorian and Grogu will be
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  Speaker 2: riding with you. Also, they have these new autonomous droids
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  Speaker 2: shut those before, haven't they They finally got him perfected.
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  Speaker 2: They said, they said, we're gonna let him loose in
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  Speaker 2: the park.
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  Speaker 1: You mean they just walk around the park. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: they're little bed x droids.
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  Speaker 2: They're they're just they're like two feet tall.
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  Speaker 1: Aren't they afraid somebody will steal them?
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  Speaker 2: I would, But they walk and they look at you
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  Speaker 2: and they react, and apparently they're they're going to release
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  Speaker 2: them into the park at the same time, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Know if I'm comfortable with that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, my friend Lee has nightmares about terminators, so he's
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  Speaker 2: not happy it is coming.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Also, speaking of John Favreau, because he's behind Mandalorian and Grogu,
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  Speaker 2: he is here to remind you he's so much more
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  Speaker 2: than Star Wars.
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  Speaker 1: What else he Yeah, well, of course he is. He
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  Speaker 1: is working on.
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  Speaker 2: A live action slash animated TV series, so it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: feature both live action and animation based on Oswald the
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  Speaker 2: Lucky Rabbit. Oh now, if you take a look at Oswald,
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  Speaker 2: he looks familiar because well he's Mickey Mouse.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What it is is Disney created back in nineteen twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven Oswald the Lucky Rabbit twenty seven animated shorts. Universal
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  Speaker 2: took control of the character in nineteen twenty eight, but
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  Speaker 2: Disney created a new character as its replacement, Mickey Mouse.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I worked out betterform.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, if you take a look at Oswald, You'll go,
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  Speaker 2: that's Mickey Mouse, but he's a rabbit. Now they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: do this series with live action people and Oswald the
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  Speaker 2: lucky Rabbit in it. And then somebody told me, and
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  Speaker 2: this turns out to be true, that in order to
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  Speaker 2: get the rights back for Oswald some year, a couple
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  Speaker 2: of years ago, about three years ago, Disney made a
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  Speaker 2: trade with NBC. They said, give us, give us Oswald back,
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  Speaker 2: and you can have al Michaels, like.
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  Speaker 1: The real life the sports Guy, the sports Guy. And
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  Speaker 1: apparently that's true. That's the trade that was made.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was a rumor, but apparently it's true.
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  Speaker 2: They said, we'll give you al Michaels if you give
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  Speaker 2: us back oswaldt So, how does al Michaels feel about that?
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  Speaker 1: I wonder does he get anything out of the deal.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's pretty cool. Well, he's he's well, very
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  Speaker 1: well respected him. I'm sure he's fine. He's got a
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  Speaker 1: good job anyway, all right,