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Geek News on the Radio from September 21st, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Is this a sponsored piece? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Cabin Fever, locally owned and operated since 1982, located in
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  Speaker 2: the heart of Trolley Square. It's Cabin Fever, so much
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  Speaker 2: more than a card store.
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  Speaker 1: Great show. Halloween coming up. They got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Halloween stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, let's take a look at what we
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  Speaker 1: got here. Resident Evil. Resident Evil.
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  Speaker 2: At New Movie.
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  Speaker 1: New Movie. Yeah, getting pretty good reviews. It's getting great reviews,
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  Speaker 1: and it is already a record breaker. Oh, it's Krieger. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Zach Kreger. Yeah. According to Variety, Zach Kreger's latest movie
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  Speaker 1: has made $ 103. 8 million, with $ 60 million of it from
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  Speaker 1: North America, along with being way above projections. The domestic
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  Speaker 1: milestone makes for the highest grossing start to these films.
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  Speaker 1: live-action movies, a record previously held by Resident Evil Afterlife
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  Speaker 1: in 2010. It opened to $ 26 million. And that's not all.
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  Speaker 1: This has now beaten his other movie, Weapons. Oh, it
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  Speaker 1: has already? Yeah, as the biggest domestic opening in Kreger's career.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of surprising, too. Yeah. Prior Resident Evil movies
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  Speaker 1: weren't anything to write home about critically. But this new
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  Speaker 1: one has gotten some great reviews.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, the weapons one makes sense because I think that
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  Speaker 2: was a word-of-mouth thing.
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  Speaker 1: It was. So it wasn't opening weekend. The word-of-mouth is
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  Speaker 1: similarly influenced audiences who've been hit with a solid burst
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  Speaker 1: of marketing over the summer from the director of Barbarian
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  Speaker 1: and Weapons. Yeah, there you go. It's a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: incentive to go see a new horror movie. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: hurt that it's also a franchise. It's a known quantity.
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  Speaker 1: Resident Evil had a pretty good run. of games between
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  Speaker 1: remakes of the new installment. But, yeah, it's doing well.
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  Speaker 1: Next up for Zach is the sci-fi horror flick The Flood,
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  Speaker 1: co-writing a weapons prequel as well, and a movie called
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  Speaker 1: Siren Head. Did you say a weapons prequel?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You want to learn more about Aunt Gladys' backstory?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 1: He's been working on that. So, yeah, it's doing extremely well.
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  Speaker 1: I know that Derek and Rebecca, when I talked to
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  Speaker 1: them on Saturday, they couldn't stop going on about how
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  Speaker 1: good it was. And here's another one. Mandalorian and Grogu
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  Speaker 1: just debuted on streaming here about a week ago. How
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  Speaker 1: did it do? Well, September 2nd is when it arrived,
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  Speaker 1: and according to Nielsen, It was viewed for about 727
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  Speaker 1: million minutes during its first week, which was good enough
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  Speaker 1: for second place among all movies on streaming.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: It only lost to The Whisper Man with Robert De
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  Speaker 1: Niro and Adam Scott. You have to give that one,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a leg up because it's on Netflix, and
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  Speaker 1: Netflix has twice as many subscribers as Disney +. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Mandalorian and Grogu, it's... It's a win, regardless
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  Speaker 1: of what you may have thought. It's a win. World
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  Speaker 1: War Z. Love that movie.
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  Speaker 2: 2013.
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  Speaker 1: I liked it, too, and I was surprised that I
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  Speaker 1: did because it was two separate movies almost.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was because they switched director in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: Of the movie. But, you know, people have been wondering
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  Speaker 1: if we're going to get a sequel or not. Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, good.
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  Speaker 1: I really liked it. They finally decided they're going to
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  Speaker 1: do a sequel to World War Z. Pitt is going
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  Speaker 1: to return to the feature. Also has Edward Berger, who
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  Speaker 1: is a German filmmaker behind All Quiet on the Western
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  Speaker 1: Front and Conclave on board to direct. Those were both
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  Speaker 1: excellent movies. I saw both.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Kelly, who won a Tony for writing the book
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  Speaker 1: for Matilda the Musical, has created several British thriller series.
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  Speaker 1: He wrote the script. And the movie is being directed
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  Speaker 1: by Mark Forster. Now, the reason that I think Brad
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  Speaker 1: Pitt is doing this with this guy, because Mark Forster
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  Speaker 1: directed the movie that is currently in post-production, and they
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  Speaker 1: got along.
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  Speaker 2: They want to work together again.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Forster said, I'd like to do a sequel to
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  Speaker 1: World War Z, and Brad Pitt finally said, well, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we could do that.
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  Speaker 2: One of my favorite zombie movies.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of video game adaptations to live action, Jason Momoa
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  Speaker 1: was previously attached to star in the Helldivers video game adaptation.
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  Speaker 1: But do some creative differences. Who knows what that means
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  Speaker 1: at all. Alan Richson is going to be stepping in.
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  Speaker 1: For Jason Momoa. Yeah, creative differences. Nobody's saying what that
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  Speaker 1: was all about, but anyway. Yeah, they're making a movie
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  Speaker 1: about that video game. And finally this. Yes, you think
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  Speaker 1: that you've seen the strangest popcorn buckets ever.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But this one. What?
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  Speaker 2: It can't be worse than Dune, is it?
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  Speaker 1: You wear it on your head. So whoever sits behind
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  Speaker 1: you gets to eat the popcorn off their head?
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  Speaker 2: I guess so.
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  Speaker 1: Street Fighter has the dumbest slash best popcorn bucket ever.
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  Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes, who's a wrestler, he revealed the AMC-exclusive popcorn
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  Speaker 1: bucket for the film. The character he's playing is Guile,
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  Speaker 1: and Guile has hair that stands up straight.
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  Speaker 2: I see.
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  Speaker 1: And so they made the popcorn bucket to look like
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  Speaker 1: Guile's hair. So you have to reach up to your head? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's the thing. It's got a strap on the bottom.
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  Speaker 1: A chin strap, yeah. You're supposed to wear it on
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  Speaker 1: your head.
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  Speaker 2: Will people do that?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's for the people behind you. That's the
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  Speaker 1: only way. I was going to say, do you ask
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  Speaker 1: the person sitting in front of you, could you put
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  Speaker 1: this on your head? Yeah, there you go. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I would do. But kidding aside, the popcorn bucket is
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  Speaker 1: kind of perfect, and it tells us that the team
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  Speaker 1: behind Street Fighter gets it. It's not serious. All right,
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  Speaker 1: the Street Fighter movies and games, they're not serious. Have
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  Speaker 1: a sense of humor. Have a little fun. Yeah, don't
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  Speaker 1: get your panties in a bunch. The movie opens October 16th,
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  Speaker 1: and tickets are on sale, oh, today. So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Get yourself a popcorn bucket to wear on your head.
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  Speaker 1: The Resident Evil one is a body specimen bag, body
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  Speaker 1: parts specimen bag. Oh, that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.