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Geek News From August 28th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: I was perusing geek social media.
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: Oh and I kept seeing references to John Williams.
• 0:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, like that makes you worried that he is And
• 0:19
  Speaker 3: so I.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Was worried that he was not fine. But he is fine.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: He's just fine.
• 0:23
  Speaker 3: He's eighty something.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's up there ninety three. Yeah, what will says.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: That's what Google says. He's on my deadpool. Now.
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: This is John Williams, legendary composer, Star Wars, Superman, Indiana Jones. Well,
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: John Williams. The reason that he's all over geek social
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: media right now is he thinks that film music is
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  Speaker 2: mid fifty four Oscar nominations, five Academy Awards for what
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: he does, and he doesn't think too highly of film music.
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: It was an interview in The Guard. He says, I
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: never liked film music very much. Film music, however good
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: it can be, and it usually isn't other than maybe
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: an eight minute stretch here and there. I think the
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: music isn't there that we all think of as this
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  Speaker 2: precious gift film music is.
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  Speaker 1: We're remembering it in some kind of nostalgic way.
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  Speaker 2: Just the idea that film music has the same place
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  Speaker 2: in the concert hall as the best music in the
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: cannon is a mistaken notion.
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's full of it.
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  Speaker 2: He says, a lot of film music is apherimal. It's
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: certainly a fragmentary and until somebody reconstructs it, it isn't
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  Speaker 2: anything that we can even consider as a concert piece.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: Kind of get it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you're not throwing on Indiana Jones theme music
• 1:48
  Speaker 4: just on your regular playlist, are you?
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: Bernard Hermann, how about that? Or Danny Elfman, how about that?
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: I'm not a.
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: Hard they would both say, John William the King. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Actually Danny Elfman took his cues from Bernard Herman.
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  Speaker 3: He loved Bernard Herman.
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  Speaker 1: But he went on to say that.
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  Speaker 2: Even his high profile projects, at the end of the
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: day are just a job.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: The only music I've thrown on that is a part
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  Speaker 4: of the movie is the soundtrack for both the latest
• 2:23
  Speaker 4: and forthcoming Tron movies. Okay, yeah, Daft Punk did the
• 2:27
  Speaker 4: last one and Nine Inch Nails is doing the new one.
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  Speaker 4: But that's still more music than actual.
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: Well then maybe that's what he means, so that we
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: need to reinvent it, and maybe maybe not.
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  Speaker 4: Now has a sad version of some song You've heard
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  Speaker 4: a thousand times.
• 2:44
  Speaker 5: Bernard Herman did the soundtrack for Citizen Kane The Day
• 2:48
  Speaker 5: the Earth Stood Still north By Northwest Taxi driver. He
• 2:54
  Speaker 5: you know, his stuff really stands up. Not according to
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  Speaker 5: John Williams.
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  Speaker 4: I thought when you started that out that he used
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  Speaker 4: the phrase mid which was the most surprising part for me.
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  Speaker 1: No, it was the person who wrote the story.
• 3:08
  Speaker 2: The new Toxic Avenger is hitting theaters this week after
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  Speaker 2: a few years of delay, and my friend Rebecca saw
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  Speaker 2: it and said that it was great. Yeah, hilariously gross
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  Speaker 2: tale of mutation and redemption, and it also is going
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  Speaker 2: to tackle some serious themes. There's a big moment that
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: comes early on. This isn't a spoiler where Peter Dinklage's
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: character Winston Goose before he becomes toxyop Avenger gooz.
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  Speaker 1: It's like ooze, Yeah.
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: He learns his expensive health insurance won't cover his life
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: or death medical treatment. Well, now the film is applying
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: some real world activism to that relatable crisis. The website
• 3:51
  Speaker 2: Bloody Disgusting, which is mostly reports on horror films and
• 3:54
  Speaker 2: things like that, in their blog, says that the Bloody
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  Speaker 2: Disgusting and the Toxic Avenger film. They're all teaming up
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: with a company called Cineverse, which is distributing the Toxic
• 4:06
  Speaker 2: Avenger to boost the nonprofit undue medical debt. The group
• 4:11
  Speaker 2: states on its own site that its mission is to
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: strengthen communities by erasing financially burden some medical debt. Cinevers
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  Speaker 2: is releaving at least five million dollars in medical debt
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  Speaker 2: across the country where it's needed most with our own donation,
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  Speaker 2: with the ticket sales leading to unlimited additional donations. So
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: if you buy a ticket to the Toxic Avengers, some
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  Speaker 2: of that money Cineverse is going to give to people
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: who are in the situation where they can't afford their medical.
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  Speaker 3: DEVI and did I hear you?
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  Speaker 5: Was it you that said it or did I read
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  Speaker 5: it somewhere that this version of the Toxic Avenger has
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  Speaker 5: a real grindhouse kind of field.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's the look that they're going for.
• 4:52
  Speaker 2: Let's see, we talked about this briefly yesterday, but I
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  Speaker 2: did some more digging on it. The people who created
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: Cobra Kai are remade King Knight writer.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna and they're gonna do it in a movie. Are
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: you familiar with Night Writer?
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  Speaker 2: Of course yet to make sure these these guys apparently
• 5:12
  Speaker 2: do this all the time. They are also the ones
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  Speaker 2: who wrote a spin off for Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Now,
• 5:21
  Speaker 2: the project would not have centered on Ferris. The project
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  Speaker 2: would have told the story of two valets who joy
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  Speaker 2: ride the Ferrari when they parked in Chicago. The valets
• 5:34
  Speaker 2: went joy writing, do we need that so that that
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  Speaker 2: that was the script that they wrote.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've seen that literally as a fan theory by
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  Speaker 4: people for years.
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  Speaker 3: But whenever I don't, I don't know why they don't
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  Speaker 3: do it.
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  Speaker 5: Redo Ferris Bueller's Day Off and make it so that
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  Speaker 5: Ferris Bueller isn't such a dick.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he is the villain of the story.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the Night Writer could be something fun if they
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  Speaker 4: adapt it into something gritty if they do it right.
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  Speaker 1: And it could be find a hassle huff, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and substitute.
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  Speaker 3: There is no substitute for the Hall exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see BBC says that doctor who will carry on
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  Speaker 2: with or without Disney? Okay, because Disney has he says,
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  Speaker 2: Disney has been a great partnership. It continues to to
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: be a partner with the War between the Land and
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  Speaker 2: the Sea next year. But going forward with or without Disney,
• 6:23
  Speaker 2: Doctor Who will still be on BBC. So if you
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: were wondering about that partnership, because Disney spent a ton
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: of money on the most recent seasons of Doctor Who
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  Speaker 2: and they weren't very successful. So Disney's thinking of pulling out,
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  Speaker 2: But there you go.