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Geek News For February 24th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Go see Dave and Kevin Fever so much more than.
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  Speaker 2: A card store.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, all right. Now, there's one thing that I know
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  Speaker 1: about Utah.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I only there's a bunch of stuff. But
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  Speaker 3: the people of Utah love Halloween, Yes, and they love haunts,
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  Speaker 3: you know, haunted houses things they do, and so Universal
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  Speaker 3: Studios down in southern California. That's another thing that Utah's
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  Speaker 3: like a big deal. They have this Halloween Horror Nights.
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  Speaker 1: That they do every year. Well, if you just can't.
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  Speaker 3: Wait for the month of October, They've got an answer
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  Speaker 3: for you. And it's in another place that I know
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  Speaker 3: Utah's love, Oh, Las Vegas. Tickets are now on sale
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  Speaker 3: for a Universal Horror Unleashed opening this summer in Las
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  Speaker 3: Vegas near that area fifteen place where the what's it
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  Speaker 3: called Meowolf Okay situation?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I think the one in Las Vegas is an
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  Speaker 2: Omega Mark. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The Universal Destinations and Experiences satellite interactive station that sounds
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  Speaker 3: so fun, brings Halloween horror nites to a year round
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  Speaker 3: venue just off the strip with monsters in tow August fourteenth,
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  Speaker 3: hot off the heels of of course, Epic Universes opening,
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  Speaker 3: which is another thing that's in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you about that later.
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  Speaker 3: But to this attraction, it's going to be a giant
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  Speaker 3: haunt and the first round will be featuring the Universal Monsters.
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  Speaker 3: That's your Frankenstein Wolfman, Creature from the Black Lagoon, things
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  Speaker 3: like that Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the Exorcist Believer, and a
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  Speaker 3: Halloween horrorites fave in Scarecrow, the Reaping Kabe.
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  Speaker 1: This is all for you, This is perfect for you.
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  Speaker 3: You can get those Summer Ween plans started to kick
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  Speaker 3: off the season summerwe because just like Christmas, Halloween is
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  Speaker 3: creeping further and further.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in other directions, Summer Ween.
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  Speaker 3: So you can go off the season in Vegas with
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  Speaker 3: leather Face, Universal Monsters and Friends, Jack the Clown, Spooky Dining.
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  Speaker 1: But it's right there next to Meowolf's Omegamart, So that's
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  Speaker 1: a whole thing. That is a whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: And the tickets start at sixty nine dollars, they go
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  Speaker 3: up to one hundred linard access, So yeah, go online
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  Speaker 3: look for it.
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  Speaker 2: Might be fun if you're into that guy. I can't
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  Speaker 2: believe I still haven't been to any of those meow
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  Speaker 2: Wolf things.
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  Speaker 1: I hear good things. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Like I've said before, my old friend Scott's
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  Speaker 2: son is one of the original maow Wolf founders, and
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  Speaker 2: I never you.
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  Speaker 1: Go, you really should give him a call. Maybe he can,
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  Speaker 1: well he can, he could. Yeah, let's see.
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  Speaker 3: Now, a lot of people are very concerned about this
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  Speaker 3: whole James Bond situation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, who's the who's owning it? Yeah, that's the thing. Amazon.
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  Speaker 3: Amazon has taken creative control over right. You know, you
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  Speaker 3: throw enough money at anybody, no matter what their principles.
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  Speaker 1: Are, they'll sell out. Apparently except for us.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, guess nobody's ever bothered to throw any money
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  Speaker 2: at it.
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  Speaker 1: Please throw money at it. We'll sell out. Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, Amazon, MGM Studios and Michael G.
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  Speaker 3: Wilson and Barbara Broccoli forming a new joint venture to
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  Speaker 3: house the movie property's intellectual property rights. Yeah. Barbara Broccoli
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  Speaker 3: has been holding out and holding out, and finally her
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  Speaker 3: partner Michael G. Wilson caved and said, look, I just
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  Speaker 3: want to retire.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So this means that Jeff Bezos, so is he
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  Speaker 1: going to ruin it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's already tweeted, who do you think should be
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  Speaker 3: the new James Bond. And I'm like, that's not how
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  Speaker 3: this is done.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but but here's here's the bigger problem is
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  Speaker 3: usually when you look at a Bond villain, Jeff Bezos,
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  Speaker 3: it's a rich guy who wants to blot out the sun.
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  Speaker 1: That's a Bond villain. Do you think that's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: the new Bond villains anymore?
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  Speaker 3: They also worry that it's gonna, you know, water it down. Well,
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  Speaker 3: they're worried they're gonna like do it as a like
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  Speaker 3: a series. Yeah, do a series, and it's twelve episodes
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  Speaker 3: of the Bond.
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  Speaker 1: You know, That's what they're worried about. But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see, come on, show me what you got, what
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  Speaker 1: you got?
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  Speaker 2: What you got?
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Here's what I'm I'm kind of excited about is, after
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  Speaker 3: several months of searching Clayface, the movie has a director.
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  Speaker 3: Speak No Evil director James Watkins has been chosen to
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  Speaker 3: direct the feature based on the Batman villain, which is
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  Speaker 3: scripted by Mike Flanagan, who is very good at the horror.
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  Speaker 2: So is Clay Face?
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  Speaker 1: Does he really have the ability to like just grab
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  Speaker 1: his face and rearrangeed bill for your question.
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  Speaker 3: Clayface was first introduced in nineteen forty, known for his
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  Speaker 3: ability to shape shift. Sources say the film is budgeted
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  Speaker 3: at forty million dollars and it's centering on a B
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  Speaker 3: movie actor who injects himself with a substance to keep
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  Speaker 3: himself relevant, only to find out that he can reshape
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  Speaker 3: his face and his form, becoming essentially a walking piece
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  Speaker 3: of clay.
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  Speaker 1: I hope he does it with like his own hands.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: This is kind of like the substance.
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  Speaker 3: It's sort of well, yeah, But nineteen forty is when
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  Speaker 3: this all star now Clayface in the Harley Quinn series.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I want because it's voiced by Alan tudic
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  Speaker 3: Okay and he is an actor, but he considers himself
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  Speaker 3: the greatest actor.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I want.
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  Speaker 3: But I doubt we'll get that because she got that
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  Speaker 3: deadly serious Mike Flanagan fella in charge. But no casting
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  Speaker 3: of the film yet, but we do have a director.
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  Speaker 3: So the clay Face movie is headed your way, whether
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  Speaker 3: you like it or not. There's also a show called
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  Speaker 3: murder Bot that's coming to Apple TV. It's based on
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  Speaker 3: a series of books called the murder Bot Diaries, which
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  Speaker 3: apparently are very popular.
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  Speaker 1: And it's got a Scars Guard in there. You get
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  Speaker 1: yourself as guard.
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  Speaker 3: You got yourself an Alexander scars Guard is the star.
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  Speaker 3: It's a comedic thriller. Scarsguard plays the title character murder Bot,
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  Speaker 3: a self hacking security construct who is horrified by human
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  Speaker 3: emotion yet drawn to its vulnerable clients. Murder Bot must
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  Speaker 3: hide its free will and complete a dangerous assignment. Assignment
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  Speaker 3: when it all really wants to do is be left
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  Speaker 3: alone and watch soap operas and figure out his place
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  Speaker 3: in the universe. Why not, so murder Bot is on
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  Speaker 3: its way ten episodes total. May sixteenth, murder Bot is
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  Speaker 3: coming your way, and finally, the Masters of the Universe
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  Speaker 3: Live action movie. If you were wondering, Yes, ram Man
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  Speaker 3: will be in it, but Nottstoisto.
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  Speaker 1: Not fist Fisto is going to be in there, so
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  Speaker 1: is ram Man.
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  Speaker 2: What is ram Man?
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  Speaker 1: He's like a battering ram guy. Google image.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see it's it's it's just ridiculous. This thing is
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  Speaker 3: getting more and more ridiculous every time I turn around.
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  Speaker 3: But until you have Stink or the evil Master of
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  Speaker 3: Odors in there count me out. I insist on stink,
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  Speaker 3: that might be my sign of Well, the chat room
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  Speaker 3: found a gift of of ram Men.
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  Speaker 1: For you, Bill, really stupid looking.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's so ridiculous. I hope they embraced the
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  Speaker 3: silliness that is. He man fills over there chuckling looking
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  Speaker 3: at ram Men.
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  Speaker 2: With the red tunic and the silver Yeah. Boy, he's
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  Speaker 2: a battering ram He's a living I can see that.
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  Speaker 2: Really stupid, unlike stink Or, who was a giant skunk.
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  Speaker 1: I love evil, Master of voter, Evil, Master of voters