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Geek News on the Radio for January 16th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I'd go as far as to say the only cryptocurrency
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  Speaker 1: that matters is Superman's dog.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's see this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very very excited about because I didn't realize that
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  Speaker 1: Daredevil was my favorite Marvel character until about five years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't it because of the time, because of the TV show,
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  Speaker 1: but because somebody kept asking me, I'm thinking about getting
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  Speaker 1: back into comics, where should I start? And my response
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  Speaker 1: was usually well, anywhere really. But you know, any time
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  Speaker 1: I've ever read an episode of an episode an issue
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  Speaker 1: of Daredevil, I've come away satisfied, and I realized that
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  Speaker 1: Daredevil had been in my comic book hold for as
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  Speaker 1: long as I can remember.
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  Speaker 3: But what makes it, what makes it, what makes you
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  Speaker 3: respond to it so much?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Is it the storylines?
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  Speaker 1: It's the characters, the storylines, the fact that he's not
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  Speaker 1: superhuman and he can die.
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  Speaker 3: He's a blind attorney, blind attorney puts on a costume.
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  Speaker 4: He's devoutly Catholic.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's so many dichotomies going on in his life.
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  Speaker 1: She's a lawyer that believes injustice, but at the same
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  Speaker 1: time is a vigilante that takes out his own justice.
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  Speaker 1: There's just so many, you know, dichotomies going on. But
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  Speaker 1: I realized that Daredevil is my favorite Marvel character some
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  Speaker 1: years ago, and then the TV series started Charlie Cox,
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  Speaker 1: and that really cemented it. I went, ah, that's why,
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  Speaker 1: that's why it's my favorite. Well, Daredevil is back, and
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  Speaker 1: we got to Daredevil Born Again March forth. Disney Plus,
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  Speaker 1: this is our first official look at the series that
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  Speaker 1: is coming.
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  Speaker 4: Your wife, thank you for fine a time.
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  Speaker 5: I will admit it's not entirely unpleasant seeing you again.
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  Speaker 2: Where's Vincent diafri?
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  Speaker 5: The king was passed by the look of it. You've
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  Speaker 5: come up in the world. I could say the same
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  Speaker 5: about you. The mayor serves his city. I can see
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  Speaker 5: you're not entirely convinced. Can you blame me? I can't
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  Speaker 5: shape the feeling that you're gaming the system? Why did
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  Speaker 5: you stop being a bitul empty? The line was crossed.
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  Speaker 5: It's hard to come to terms with their violent nature,
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  Speaker 5: hating the power it has over us. The city can't
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  Speaker 5: go un checked. Sometimes peace needs to be broken, the
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  Speaker 5: chaos must rand.
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  Speaker 2: So this is extremely violent for Disney Plus.
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  Speaker 4: Oh okay, let me let me, let me understand it.
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  Speaker 3: So Vincent and Opero's Kingtin has become the mayor.
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  Speaker 4: Of He's running for mayor.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he's running for mayor Okay, And this follows a
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  Speaker 3: comic book storyline raised but is still kind of in
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  Speaker 3: effect right now? Is this that like the fifth season?
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  Speaker 2: Technically the fourth fourth years? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Four, Yeah, it's violent, it is. It is not for kids, folks.
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  Speaker 4: Keep that in mind, even though it's on your Disney Plus.
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  Speaker 4: Not for kids.
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  Speaker 1: Born Again finds Matt Murdoch back in Red being a
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  Speaker 1: lawyer hanging out with Karen and Foggy Wilson Fisk the Kingpin.
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  Speaker 1: Last time we saw Fisk, he had been partially healed
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  Speaker 1: of his childhood trauma by his optive daughter Echo, the
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  Speaker 1: childhood trauma being he killed his father with a hammer.
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  Speaker 2: Well again, this is not forget his father.
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  Speaker 1: Deserved it, but it left him more pissed off, and
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  Speaker 1: now he's looking to run for mayor of New York.
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  Speaker 2: There are also a couple of other comic book accurate
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  Speaker 2: characters in here.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the Punisher returns, but we also get a
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  Speaker 1: character named Muse and another vigilante White Tiger. Also, Bullseye
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  Speaker 1: is showing back up. Bullseye is kind of like Daredevil's
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  Speaker 1: Joker to Batman kind of ratio.
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  Speaker 4: Was Bullseye Colin.
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  Speaker 2: He was calling Farrell into the movie remember stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, let's let's all stop her just a moment and
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  Speaker 3: acknowledge Gina remembers.
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  Speaker 1: You remember stuffs. So March fourth on Disney Plus. Very
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  Speaker 1: looking very much forward to it. And yes, I agree,
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  Speaker 1: King Pitt is probably.
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  Speaker 4: One of the great to Marvel villains.
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  Speaker 3: So John Burnhal is in it, right, he is the Punisher, Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 3: and he's yeah all right, And he's got.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of two seasons of a series on Netflix,
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  Speaker 1: The Punisher, let's see, And he is not the hero.
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  Speaker 4: Remember that when you watch the show.
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  Speaker 1: Also, speaking of the MCU, there's a character from the
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  Speaker 1: original Iron Man movie, the first one from fifteen sixteen
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  Speaker 1: years ago, who is going to return for the Disney
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  Speaker 1: Plus series Vision Quest with Paul Betany. Yes, it is
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  Speaker 1: Farran ta Here and he played one of the leaders
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  Speaker 1: of the.
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  Speaker 4: Ten Rings of the original movie.
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  Speaker 1: So he's coming back playing the same character in Vision
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  Speaker 1: Quest for Disney.
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  Speaker 2: Also, all this this is just for Gina.
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  Speaker 1: I saw this story this morning and I immediately said,
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  Speaker 1: Gina needs to know about.
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  Speaker 2: Two beloved eighties movies.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, being revived.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I saw this Warner Brothers currently in development because
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  Speaker 1: you know, original idea is don't seem to be working out.
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  Speaker 4: For Warner Brothers.
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  Speaker 1: So they go back to the well a third Gremlins
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  Speaker 1: movie and a Goonies reboot.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, okay with that, I don't know. I don't think
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  Speaker 4: you can do it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't think you can do a Goonies rebound because
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  Speaker 1: they're doing a Gremlins cartoon right now.
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  Speaker 3: It seems to be working pretty well unless you wanted
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  Speaker 3: to make the Goonies a good movie. So maybe, so
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  Speaker 3: maybe you could take it.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to make people mad, well, I mean think
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  Speaker 1: about it. You could bring back the people who are
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  Speaker 1: still alive, and it could be their kids, little Goonies,
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  Speaker 1: little Goony Gooney babies, Steven Spielberg's Goony Goony's babies. If
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  Speaker 1: you have a hold at a comic book store, get
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  Speaker 1: a hold of them. Because one of comics biggest distributors
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  Speaker 1: has filed for bankruptcy, Diamond Comics Publishers. So uh got
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  Speaker 1: a hold of Gregg black Cat and he says, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I've been I've been working on this for a month.
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  Speaker 1: I saw this coming. Months now he's he's he's got
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  Speaker 1: himself covered, he's all right, and oh that's good enough.
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  Speaker 2: I'd say that's plenty of I geek loose for you win.
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  Speaker 5: M hm h