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Geek News on the Radio from August 3rd, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean when you say so much more than
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: a card store eats so much.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: But yeah, alright, well, yeah, I don't want to hear
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: anybody say superhero fatigue because ever again, those people clearly.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Care because I won't say that because Spider Man.
• 0:23
  Speaker 3: The New Spider Man movie scored a head spinning three
• 0:27
  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty five million dollars one weekend in one weekend, wow,
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  Speaker 3: from four four hundred and eighty seven North American screens.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: That is the second biggest domestic launch ever. Yeah, so
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: people like it, is what you say.
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  Speaker 3: People are liking it, and they're saying it's probably the
• 0:46
  Speaker 3: best of all the Spider Man movies. It's a photo
• 0:49
  Speaker 3: finish between Spider and Avengers Endgame. That one is The
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: three hundred and fifty seven point one million dollar opening
• 0:58
  Speaker 3: from April twenty nineteen retained its title as the number
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  Speaker 3: one all time domestic opening frame, but brand new days outperforming.
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: They were just they were saying, well, if we make
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  Speaker 3: eighty four million, we'll be Okay, we'll get.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: By, We'll get by.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, everybody that I talked to who has seen
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  Speaker 3: it is saying that it's just phenomenal, phenomenal movie.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: All right, let's see.
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  Speaker 3: We we got a trailer here for you.
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  Speaker 1: The movie is called Wicker. Oh I watched this? Did
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: you watch the trailer?
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  Speaker 3: Weird?
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  Speaker 1: It's weird.
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: It's it's proving that Alexander Scarsguard is hot in any form.
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you caught yourself a lover.
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  Speaker 3: Yet loft seems more burden than a prize.
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: Sorry, there's absolutely no Shae and living out. You're a
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  Speaker 2: man in days alone. I'll mar.
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: What is so? I'm looking at the picture. So here's
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  Speaker 1: here's what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I want you to make me a husband?
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: The chaplain a month? All right? Good?
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, this is basically the I can't play anymore
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  Speaker 3: of the theatory.
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  Speaker 1: It was naughty.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, but a lonely outsider finds love Olivia Coleman.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone who's gotten used to treating her as an object
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  Speaker 3: of ridicule can't handle seeing her happy. What it is is, uh,
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  Speaker 3: he makes her a boyfriend. Peter Klich makes a boyfriend
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  Speaker 3: out of Wicker.
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  Speaker 2: It's it, and it brings it to life, brings life.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's magic. It's based It's based on the short
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  Speaker 3: story The Wicker Husband and Its It says here it's
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  Speaker 3: an audacious comedic fable about sex, marriage and the absurdities
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  Speaker 3: of social convention. Wicker tells the holy original love story
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  Speaker 3: of an ostracized fisher woman, Olivia Coleman, who commissions a
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  Speaker 3: husband to be made by the local basket maker, Peter Dinklich.
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  Speaker 3: When her wicker husband, Alexander Scarsguard, proves more spectacular than
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  Speaker 3: she ever imagined, his soulful spirit and unique prowess awakens
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  Speaker 3: something inside of her, setting off a wave of jealousy, fascination,
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  Speaker 3: and upheaval.
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  Speaker 1: It looks it looks funny, it looks like it's got
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  Speaker 1: a good sense of humor about it. And Alexander Scarsguard
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  Speaker 1: is a wicker Man, all right, So there you go.
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: We've got some good news, bad news. Good news. It
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  Speaker 1: looks like they've cast. They've started casting.
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  Speaker 3: The X Men movie, which is now under the umbrella
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  Speaker 3: of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and they have cast Emma
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  Speaker 3: Frost Samara Weaving, who is terrific in those Ready or
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  Speaker 3: Not movies. She will be playing Emma Frost the see
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  Speaker 3: Deadline rights. After meeting with a number of candidates, director
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  Speaker 3: Jake Schreyer and Marvel Studios president Kevin Fage have landed
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  Speaker 3: on Samara Weaving earlier this week to tackle the role.
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  Speaker 3: So we're moving forward on an X Men movie from
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  Speaker 3: the MCU. We are not moving forward on a couple
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  Speaker 3: of other Marvel projects, though Mrherschela Ali confirms that he
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  Speaker 3: is not doing Marvel's Blade.
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: I've committed to not being in Blade, yeah, he says.
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  Speaker 3: I've been doing this professionally for pushing thirty years now.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing I've learned.
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  Speaker 3: Is is that that what what is for you is
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  Speaker 3: for you, and what is not is not. For whatever reason,
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  Speaker 3: the project is not for me. If they wanted to
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  Speaker 3: do it, we would have done it. Have to move on.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I could see him doing that, but he
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  Speaker 1: would be terrific. He would be terrific, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: for him.
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  Speaker 3: And Kevin Feigey says, I'm feeling like a gigantic loser
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  Speaker 3: and failure that we didn't get it off.
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  Speaker 1: The ground with maherschela Yeah, So there you go.
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  Speaker 3: Also, wonder Man season two, which was announced a month ago,
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  Speaker 3: was going forward not so fast, it says here today
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  Speaker 3: it says that they're just not going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, season two.
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  Speaker 3: So see Variety says, according to an individual with knowledge
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  Speaker 3: of the situation, while wonder Man is not proceeding with
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  Speaker 3: season two, the characters featured in the series could still
• 5:45
  Speaker 3: appear in other Marvel projects in the future. No wonder
• 5:48
  Speaker 3: Man season two. More bad news out of geek World,
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  Speaker 3: and that is the Booster Gold series that they were
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  Speaker 3: planning to make for HBO. Booster Gold is a DC
• 6:03
  Speaker 3: comic won't be moving forward, according to David. Jensen says
• 6:08
  Speaker 3: that his plans for the show have been scrapped, and
• 6:13
  Speaker 3: he says, I can't improve on Maherschel's lovely statement, so
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  Speaker 3: I'll just apply it here as well.
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  Speaker 1: If they wanted to do it, they would have done it.
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  Speaker 3: For whatever reason, the project is not for me, so
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  Speaker 3: you're not going to get a Booster Gold series for now.
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  Speaker 3: But the notoriously hard to please Frank Miller, graphic novelist,
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  Speaker 3: writer artist, says that he actually liked the New Spider
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  Speaker 3: Man movie and again he's very hard to please.
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  Speaker 1: He says, it's the most Ditco movie yet. The Ditko
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  Speaker 1: who is one of the creators of Spider Man, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the most Dickco movie yet. With my hand in it
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  Speaker 1: for all to celebrate that's the hand.
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  Speaker 3: Is the group of ninjas that he created for Daredevil,
• 7:09
  Speaker 3: but they're they're in the Spider Man movie. This fan's
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  Speaker 3: dream come true. Tom Holland is for is my Forever
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  Speaker 3: Spider Man as romantic as he is heroic. Congratulations for
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  Speaker 3: the whole team. So Frank Miller even liked it, so
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  Speaker 3: surely it's got to be good.
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  Speaker 1: Surely must be good, and rumpy old Frank Miller likes it.