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Geek News on the Radio From November 24th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Got a swing buy there. They used to have vintage
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: candy there again, get some stuff for the tree. Let's see. Well,
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  Speaker 1: people love the Hunger Games. Yes they do. They're hugely popular.
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  Speaker 1: I mean. And the trailer was dropped on.
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  Speaker 2: Friday, a year before the next movie.
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  Speaker 1: I mean. But here's what happened in that first day.
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  Speaker 2: It racked up one hundred and nine million views, and
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  Speaker 2: so it was the second biggest trailer launch for the
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  Speaker 2: studio that made this in its twenty seven year history
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  Speaker 2: for Lionsgate Sunrise on the Reaping.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a couple of years since the last one.
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  Speaker 1: So are people are hungry for some Hunger Games? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: So to speak? Is it?
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  Speaker 2: I thought they had covered all the book These are
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  Speaker 2: prequels and they're they're books that are written by the author.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the same people. So yeah, but we got
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  Speaker 1: one here for you. This is it. I just love
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  Speaker 1: blend Close and her welcome Ben in to the unclosious
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  Speaker 1: rebeing of District twelve.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Joseph Zada leads a star studded cast as a
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  Speaker 2: young Hamich Abernathy. So that's young Woody Herals. So this
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  Speaker 2: takes place twenty four years before the events of the
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  Speaker 2: first Hunger story. The first footage has Zaida's character showing
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  Speaker 2: his fight game as he.
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  Speaker 1: Competes for the second quarter Querel.
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  Speaker 2: And he says, I think these games are going to
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  Speaker 2: be different. It's a huge cast. You got Francis Lawrence
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  Speaker 2: directing a screenplay adaptation for Billy Ray for Sunrise on
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  Speaker 2: the Reaping. The star Studdy cast includes Ralph Fines as
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  Speaker 2: the pen dictator. Indeed Homes speaking.
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  Speaker 1: It looks cool.
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  Speaker 2: You got Glenn Close, Karen Cokin, El Fanning, Billy Porter,
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  Speaker 2: Whitney Peak, I quite like her, Nickenna Grace, Jesse Plemmons.
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  Speaker 1: Jesse Plemmons has to be in every movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Kelvin Harrison, Junior, Mia Hawk, Lily Taylor, Ben Wong.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's huge.
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  Speaker 2: And again this this trailer is out a year before
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  Speaker 2: the movie is released. And that's how popular that just
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  Speaker 2: the trailer went, these games are going to be different.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's what he heard, and that's what he Harrelson,
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  Speaker 1: but it was his character that said it. Yeah. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so there you go.
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  Speaker 2: It's go watch the trailer along with everybody else on
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  Speaker 2: the planet, apparently, and everybody else on the planet was
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  Speaker 2: at the movie theaters this weekend seeing Wicked for good.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently it broke all kinds of records. Yeah, so people
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  Speaker 1: will go to the movies if.
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  Speaker 2: You give them something to go. Yeah, yeah, like this one.
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  Speaker 1: I'm interested in.
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  Speaker 2: This is another trailer teaser for the next Pixar movie
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  Speaker 2: called Hoppers.
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  Speaker 1: Doc. I need your help, Mabel. I'm in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of class, a class that you are enrolled in. Come
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  Speaker 1: with me. The traditional methods to understand animals just weren't working.
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  Speaker 1: But we've done it, Mabel. We created a revolutionary technology
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  Speaker 1: that gives us unprecedented access to the animal world. We
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  Speaker 1: call it Hoppers.
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  Speaker 2: So it's kind of like Avatar in that you can
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  Speaker 2: put your consciousness, your human consciousness into an animal.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and she goes into a.
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  Speaker 2: Little a beaver, And once you're in there, you can
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  Speaker 2: hear the animals speaking, and you can speak to the animals.
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  Speaker 2: Now that just sounds cute, right, Yeah, Well, it takes
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  Speaker 2: kind of a dark turn.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say, that could be very serious.
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  Speaker 1: You bet, I am clear, And the rest of the day,
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  Speaker 1: let's hear the enable everyone. Well, here's where it turns dark.
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  Speaker 2: The idea of humans putting their consciousness in animals was cute,
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  Speaker 2: but apparently one of those humans inspires the animal kingdom
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  Speaker 2: to fight back against humans. Oh and the fact that
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  Speaker 2: the instant human ideology is seated into the animal community,
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  Speaker 2: their thoughts immediately go to war.
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  Speaker 1: There is she seems to have come up Jonah Bark
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  Speaker 1: typeer hole leader. They we do not use hopping technology
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  Speaker 1: towards at the animal warming. She found the button. The
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  Speaker 1: animal Council has been summoned. The shrill beaver is right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: their treachery ends year. Now let's squish, do uman? We
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  Speaker 1: uh squish? They squish us? Why should we squish one
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  Speaker 1: of them? I really don't think we need to go
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  Speaker 1: all the way to squish. Yeah, so kind of a
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  Speaker 1: dark turn there. What is it? This is an animated movie, right, yes, Pixar.
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  Speaker 1: What is it about? The minute the sound came on.
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  Speaker 1: You can tell it's animated by how it sounds. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what it is? That's the way the actors are saying
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  Speaker 1: their voices. Yeah somewhat, I don't know. I mean, Jerry drive. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: this and this, this story is fascinating. Now.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that comic book sold for nine million, that's
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  Speaker 2: a news story right there.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a look at it. It's up here. Now
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  Speaker 1: this is million.
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  Speaker 2: This is not the first appearance of Superman, because that
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  Speaker 2: was Action Comics.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, nine point one million, nine point one million.
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  Speaker 2: This is a copy of Superman number one, the nineteen
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  Speaker 2: thirty nine issue that introduced the Man of Steel in
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  Speaker 2: his first solo title. It was a near pristine condition,
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  Speaker 2: graded at nine point zero, which for a comic book
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  Speaker 2: from nineteen thirty nine is just unheard of.
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  Speaker 1: You can look at it, you can tell it's just beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: Eighty six years old, excellent condition. The Certified Guarantee Company
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  Speaker 2: gave it a nine out of ten rating.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the backstory. It just makes it more and more interesting.
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  Speaker 2: The comic was discovered by three brothers in the attic
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  Speaker 2: of their late mother's house in a box of yellow
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  Speaker 2: newspaper clippings.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting that the three brothers are choosing to remain anonymous.
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  Speaker 2: Their mother bought the comic, along with several others, when
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  Speaker 2: she was nine and living Depression era of San Francisco.
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  Speaker 2: Over the years, the mother occasionally insisted to her sons
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  Speaker 2: that she had rare comics somewhere, but she could never
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  Speaker 2: remember where.
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  Speaker 1: This is, like, this should be a movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the boys just assumed that she was crazy
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  Speaker 2: or it was a legend. Mom died just before the pandemic.
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  Speaker 2: The house sat untouched until the brothers were ready to
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  Speaker 2: go through it earlier this year, and that's when they
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  Speaker 2: found comic book Souls, like under a pile of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It was in a box of paper clips. Paper clip,
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  Speaker 1: It said, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean the story there is interesting enough, let
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  Speaker 2: alone the nine mil for a comic book.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. I wonder who bought it, some tech bro I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure