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Geek News on the Radio from May 4th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: All right. There have been seven previous Resident Evil movies.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize there were that many, base based on
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: the video games. There have been seven of them. But
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: Zach Kraiger, who did Weapons, Weapons and Barbarian, which is
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: my favorite one, he has been given the the domain
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: and says, do something with that, they can make a
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: Resident Evil. So he is he's thrown one together, and
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: he released a sort of a teaser trailer, uh to
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: give you an idea of what his Resident Evil universe
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: looks like. Hello, I had a little bit of a
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: problem on the road. I was why to use your phone?
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: In the log line that says in an All News story,
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  Speaker 1: Resident Evil follows Brian, a medical courier who unwittingly finds
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  Speaker 1: himself in an action packed, NonStop race for survival as
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos. Babe, Look,
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: I'm really sorry that we got disconnected earlier, but some
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: things have happened. I'm in leg a seriously messed up
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: situation right now and looks like there's a chance that
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: we might not get to talk to each other again.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's the creatures. It's it's it's it's
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  Speaker 1: basically in the universe of Resident Evil. So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: It's over the This is what Zach Gregor said. Over
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of decades, I have played an s
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: ton of Resident Evil. The games are naturally cinematic, so
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: if you love the games, you will feel their influence
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: in the movie. So it's September eighteenth is the release day.
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: So there you go. Okay, let's see. Oh well, okay,
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: it's Star Wars Day. So I got some Star Wars news. First,
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: got to have some Star Wars news for you, because
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: Bill said, I was looking around, couldn't find anything. But
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  Speaker 1: I found a couple of things. First of all, ahead
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  Speaker 1: of the release of The Mandalorian and Grogu which is
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: just weeks away, Lucasfilm and Disney or the films opening
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: action sequence for all its worth. Now, they showed it
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  Speaker 1: at CinemaCon last month, and it's a It was twenty minutes,
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: but for Star Wars Day, a trimmed down version of
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  Speaker 1: the twenty minute sequence is now on your Disney Plus,
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  Speaker 1: so you can watch the first part of the movie
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  Speaker 1: give you an idea of what it's all about. That's
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  Speaker 1: on your Disney Plus. Exclusively, so you can look for that.
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  Speaker 1: Also just released over the weekend if you play the
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  Speaker 1: Fortnite new games, characters and worlds are rolling through May,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a watch party featuring ten minutes of the
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  Speaker 1: Mandalorian and Grogu. That's probably this sequence that they're talking about,
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  Speaker 1: and oh, every kid wants this an in game Q
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  Speaker 1: and A with director John Fabreau. Yeah. So, Walt Disney
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  Speaker 1: Company and Epic Games doubling down on Star Wars in Fortnite,
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  Speaker 1: launching a slew of new games and features that will
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  Speaker 1: bring characters and worlds from Star Wars to your video game.
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  Speaker 1: May first, we'll see three games launched from Lucasfilm and
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  Speaker 1: Epic Galactic Siege, which is a ten versus ten battle
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  Speaker 1: across planets, Escape Vader, which is a four player cooperative
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  Speaker 1: game where teams attempt to escape Vader, and Droid Tycoon,
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  Speaker 1: where users can build and customize droids. New games, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: new games are going to be rolling out through the
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  Speaker 1: month of May. The watch party for Mandalorian and Grogu
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  Speaker 1: is on May nineteenth, and on May twenty six is
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  Speaker 1: the Q and A with John Fabreau. Every kid, It's
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  Speaker 1: a dream, yeah, a dream. Yeah. I just saw that
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  Speaker 1: there was The reason that cut my attention is because
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  Speaker 1: you can play as a jah in one of the games.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. I'll do that. Eric Kripke, after
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  Speaker 1: you know, of course, hearing about gen V being canceled,
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  Speaker 1: suggested that the upcoming VO could integrate story ideas from
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: the unproduced third season of gen V. He said, it's
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: very early days because we're focusing on getting bought rising
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  Speaker 1: out into the world. But Amazon has expressed an interest
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  Speaker 1: that they want more potential stories in the world. So
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  Speaker 1: we're internally brainstorming a couple of different ideas. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: which ones get traction, but they all have an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to absorb or at least some of the gen V gang,
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  Speaker 1: and that's very much by design. We're hopeful we can
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: find a way to do it. So unfortunately I can't
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  Speaker 1: share that. She says the idea that Marie is powerful
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  Speaker 1: and that's not the end of her story in gen
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  Speaker 1: B All right, okay, so there's that. And finally, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I know you've been clamoring for this a reboot of
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  Speaker 1: Casper the Friendly Ghost. No, this will be a TV series, apparently,
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  Speaker 1: was Bill Pullman. We're Bill Pullman heavy to Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: it's in development, was terrible on Disney Plus from Steven
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  Speaker 1: Spielberg and Goosebump, showrunner Rob Letterman, and Hillary Winston. No
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  Speaker 1: details yet about the new Casper. The series is described
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  Speaker 1: as a modern update on the classic ghost story, believed
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  Speaker 1: to have a dark edge to it, the way that
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday attacks the Adams family lore. Well. As Bill has
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  Speaker 1: said so often about Casper, Casper must be a dead child.
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  Speaker 1: So that's specifically you, Richie rich Rich Is that who?
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  Speaker 1: He's a dead Richie rich in the same Listen, you
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  Speaker 1: know Casper, the friendly ghost, show me, show me what
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  Speaker 1: you got. Okay, damn it. We better have hot stuff,
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  Speaker 1: the little devil in there, spooky and spooky and Nightmare,
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  Speaker 1: the horse and the Ghostly Trio. Why do I know
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  Speaker 1: so much about because you read Casper comics when you
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  Speaker 1: were a kids. See if you look at the picture
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  Speaker 1: of Casper and Richie rich side by side, Richie rich
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  Speaker 1: is dead and he's Casper. Now, Richie, I agree,