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Geek News For April 14th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: All right, well, he asked, before I get to the
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  Speaker 1: Minecraft story, just real quick here, HBO has announced the
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  Speaker 1: adult cast of its Harry Potter TV series.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, John Lithgow.
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  Speaker 1: Right, yeah, there's been a lot of rumors and everything.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's admitted that he is going to be
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  Speaker 1: doing it. They finally have announced. Here's your adult cast.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see month of months of rumors. So John Lithgow
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  Speaker 1: as Dumbledore. Oscar nominee Janet McTeer from Ozark will take
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: the role of Minerva McGonagall.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: From Black Mirror, Papa scied, we'll take the role of
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  Speaker 1: several snape. Nick Frost will play uh Hagrid.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that's good.
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  Speaker 1: M h uh. Stage actor Luke Fallon will play You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're giving their titles and I just don't care Queer
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  Speaker 1: Quinnius Quarrel.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Paul Whitehouse of Harry and Paul has been cast as
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  Speaker 1: Argus Filch. Yeah, it's a show. I won't watch because
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  Speaker 1: you know it's not for you, It's not for me,
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  Speaker 1: and to hell with with jk Rowlin, I might watch
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  Speaker 1: it because of John Letcoe. That would be the reason.
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  Speaker 1: You see his take on this see his take on Dumbledore.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, okay, here is the Minecraft story. There has
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  Speaker 1: been situations in the theaters that have caused the police
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  Speaker 1: to be called. Uh, chicken jockey is the term that
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's it's a.
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  Speaker 1: Hard I guess it's rare in the game where you
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  Speaker 1: can get a chicken too. You can ride the chicken
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  Speaker 1: or the chicken rides you. I can't remember what a you? Right,
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  Speaker 1: you ride the chicken, you ride the chicken. My kids
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  Speaker 1: were explaining this, Yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 2: And everybody shouts chicken jockey. It's like a rocky horror. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And they've been throwing popcorn and everything.
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  Speaker 1: But somebody did, in fact bring a live chicken to
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  Speaker 1: one of the screenings in Provo.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the police were called.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Jared has the director Utah Zone, He's okay with this,
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  Speaker 1: bring a chicken, Sure, fine with it. It's been so bananas,
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  Speaker 1: it's been way too fun. It's weird when you're having
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  Speaker 1: too much fun and the cops get called. It's funny
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  Speaker 1: because I think it's just literally cheering and throwing popcorn,
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: which is so funny to me that the cops are
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  Speaker 1: getting called for popcorn Yeah, it's hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen funny video. They're bringing live chickens, Jared. It's
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  Speaker 2: not just popcorn, that's yeah, and all right, chickens like movies.
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  Speaker 2: It's a known thing. It's a known fact. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This this is about twenty years too late for this.
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  Speaker 1: The Oscars are finally going to recognize stunt design.
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  Speaker 2: I saw that finally.
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  Speaker 1: The nominees in the category will be included as part
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  Speaker 1: of the award show broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Even so you're gonna get to see them. Good. This
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  Speaker 2: is the You can'd of have done this for The
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  Speaker 2: Fall Guy.
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  Speaker 1: Well yeah, and I was just going to say The
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  Speaker 1: Fall Guy has a lot of like real, honest to
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  Speaker 1: god stunts.
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  Speaker 2: The actual practical not CGI stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But he was one of the people, the guy who
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  Speaker 1: direct or, the director, producer, David Leach, he was one
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  Speaker 1: of the guys who helped push this. But Tom Cruise
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  Speaker 1: was really the one who said it needs to happen.
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  Speaker 1: So they're finally going to be doing that. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, well, they yours too late?
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  Speaker 2: Will they only recognize practical stunts? Stone and it's not
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  Speaker 2: a stunt if it's not CGI.
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  Speaker 1: I would think that they would probably go with practical.
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  Speaker 1: I would think you would think because you could do
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: you know, anything with a computer. Uh Dune three Dune Messiah.
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: They're putting it together, okay, and they're talking to uh
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  Speaker 1: Robert Pattinson to be the villain in the film Skyte
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  Speaker 1: Skytale from the book.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know anyway, but so there's so there's.
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  Speaker 1: That, you know again pushing pushing back the Batman two
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  Speaker 1: movie Skytale Skytale.
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  Speaker 2: How do you say this s C Y T A
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  Speaker 2: L E. Sy Tale sy Tale? I would say I
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  Speaker 2: would probably say SI.
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  Speaker 1: Rather than I'm sure there's some comic book guy furiously
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  Speaker 1: texting me.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: Before the second season premiered on Sunday nights of Last
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  Speaker 1: of Us, HBO said, we've seen it all, give you
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  Speaker 1: season three?
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  Speaker 2: How about that?
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  Speaker 1: So you're gonna get a season three of Last of
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  Speaker 1: Us we which means that you can let them stack
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  Speaker 1: up in your DVR.
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  Speaker 2: And finally this.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to bid on this because when I
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  Speaker 1: first checked on it, the opening bid was five hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 2: But that was that was okay, five hundred I was good.
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  Speaker 2: I was willing to go six hundred. But what for
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  Speaker 2: C three? Po's foot, his foot.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the foot, just the foot.
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  Speaker 2: Heritage Auctions.
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  Speaker 1: The C three po foot comes from a personal collection
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  Speaker 1: of the art director and production designer Harry Lang, who worked.
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  Speaker 2: On Empire strikes Back.
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  Speaker 1: He also worked on Return of the Jedi two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and one, of Space Odyssey, Moonraker, Great Muppet Caper, Dark Crystal. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: he worked on Empire strikes Back. This, this C three
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  Speaker 1: po foot is the actual foot from the Empire Strikes Back.
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Daniels wore that foot, wore that foot, and these
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  Speaker 2: are just three different views of the same foot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a It was five hundred dollars when
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  Speaker 1: I checked it.
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  Speaker 2: It's up to over one thousand dollars. That's too much.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, I've got notes too far.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you have a limit.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's if it was his head, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: His head, I'd go further, but
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  Speaker 1: All right,