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Geek News For February 27th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, take it for granted.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we do have a trailer for you to watch,
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: and this is I've been waiting for this for a while.
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  Speaker 2: This is, in my opinion, some of the best Star
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  Speaker 2: Wars ever. Oh okay, and it's season two of the show.
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: And Or okay named after Cassie and Or the main character.
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: He is the main character in Rogue one.
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  Speaker 1: How does this all fit into.
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  Speaker 3: The the you know, the storyline of war You want
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  Speaker 3: to fight?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you want to win? This is the build up
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  Speaker 1: to the Death.
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  Speaker 2: Star in the first okay, remain it's it's it's really
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  Speaker 2: well acted.
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  Speaker 1: So many good performances and writing in this.
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  Speaker 3: Stars Now.
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  Speaker 2: Because cool people walk toward the camera away from an
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  Speaker 2: explosion and don't flinch. It's a twelve episode season, split
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  Speaker 2: up into four chapters of three episodes each. Now it
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  Speaker 2: it jumps around a year between four B B Y
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  Speaker 2: and O.
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  Speaker 1: B B Y. That's the Battle of Yavon. That's the
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  Speaker 1: Death Star. I'd forgotten that, yeah, of course.
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  Speaker 2: But Cassie in at the Masasi Temple, that's you know,
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  Speaker 2: the last scenes of the original Star Wars took place.
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  Speaker 3: You're here, You're right here, and you're ready to fight.
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  Speaker 3: I like this music.
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  Speaker 1: This won't be in the show.
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  Speaker 2: April twenty second is when that starts, so be ready
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  Speaker 2: for that on your Disney plus quite good stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Have you talked about Kathleen Kennedy at all yet?
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  Speaker 2: Not yet about too John Lithgow? You like John Lithgow right?
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  Speaker 1: Good actor?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, excellent.
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  Speaker 2: He will be playing Dumbledore in HBO's Harry Potter TV series.
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  Speaker 1: So not in any new movie and not in any
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  Speaker 1: new movie.
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  Speaker 2: No, they're doing a TV series. They're going to take
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  Speaker 2: the books and they're not going to rush them. They're
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  Speaker 2: just going to go through the books and make a.
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  Speaker 1: TV hugely success.
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  Speaker 2: He is seventy nine, and he said it's going to
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  Speaker 2: define me for the last chapter of my life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm afraid, but I'm very excited. He says. It came
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  Speaker 1: as a total surprise to me.
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  Speaker 2: I just got the phone call up at the sun
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  Speaker 2: Dance Film Festival and it was not an easy decision
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  Speaker 2: because it's going to define me for the last chapter.
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  Speaker 1: Of my life.
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid, but I'm very excited. Some people are turning
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  Speaker 2: their attention back to Harry Potter. That's why it's been
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  Speaker 2: such a hard decision. I'll be about eighty seven years
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  Speaker 2: old at the rap party.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, but he said yes.
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  Speaker 2: Now what, I don't know if anyone has told jk
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  Speaker 2: Rowling that, you know, John Lithgow played a transgender ex
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  Speaker 2: football player in the world.
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  Speaker 1: According to Garb.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I don't know if they've told jk Rowling not.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they may want to clear it with her.
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  Speaker 3: He's also in this horror movie that's coming out that
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  Speaker 3: I can't think of the name of it now. I
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  Speaker 3: just saw it yesterday. Really creepy. Oh you had more.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, it's just it. It's in a he's
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  Speaker 3: in a nursing home and it's him and the Australian actor.
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  Speaker 3: All right, they played they played the Pirates of the Caribbean.
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  Speaker 1: We'll look at up because I want to see that
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  Speaker 1: trailer now.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Kathleen Kennedy is expected to retire this year. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: those rumors have been swirling, swirling, swirling for the past
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  Speaker 2: ten years that she's going to retire, although it seems
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  Speaker 2: more realistically now. The question is who do they get
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  Speaker 2: to replace her. She wasn't pushed out, Nope, She's been
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  Speaker 2: in there a long time and she's just decided.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's time to step down.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Kathleen Kennedy her career if you look at it, she's
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  Speaker 2: in charge of Lucasfilm right now, which is Disney, which
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  Speaker 2: is Star Wars of course, I mean, but if you
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  Speaker 2: look at her resume, Good Lord, Yeah, Raiders of the
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  Speaker 2: Lost Arc, e t The Extraterrestrial, Gremlins, Color Purple Goonies, Empire,
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  Speaker 2: The Son who Framed Roger Rabbit, Back to the Future.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, all of these.
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  Speaker 2: Films she's been involved in in one way, shape or form.
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  Speaker 2: So the question is who's going to replace her? And
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  Speaker 2: the answer is, we can't think of any buddy. There
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  Speaker 2: are names that come up on the list, but then
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  Speaker 2: immediately you name those names and you go, no, they
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  Speaker 2: won't do it because blank.
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  Speaker 1: I would suggest John Lithgow. Somebody check with JK. Rowling.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, that movie is called The Rule of
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  Speaker 3: Jenny Penn, The Rule of Jenny Penn, and he's John
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  Speaker 3: Litckow and Jeffrey Rush is the other actor.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're I guess it's the algorithms. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: but you don't need to sell me on the Daredevil
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  Speaker 2: TV series, which is coming in a week. I'm all in,
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: I don't need any more of these commercials. But here's
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  Speaker 2: something else that's come along, because John Burenthal will return
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  Speaker 2: as the Punisher in the Daredevil TV series season three
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  Speaker 2: or season one, however you want to put it, March fourth,
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  Speaker 2: and they've also announced that they're going to do alongside
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  Speaker 2: the second season for Daredevil, we'll see Barenthal appearing as
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  Speaker 2: the Punisher in a special for Disney. Plus, never thought
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  Speaker 2: I'd say the Punisher and Disney in the same sentence,
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  Speaker 2: So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: All right, yes, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: M hmmm mm hmmmmmm.