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Geek News on the Radio From August 7th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't believe how much more in a gift story.
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: Very cool, very cool in there?
• 0:06
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, Robert Battinson's diary continues to fill up.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: It says here.
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: His diary, his diary.
• 0:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know why they said it that way, but
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  Speaker 3: what it is is Warner Brothers Discovery has announced that
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  Speaker 3: matt Reeves follow up to The Batman with Robert Battinson
• 0:28
  Speaker 3: is going to start shooting in the spring.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: And everyone says, why why is this taking so long?
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  Speaker 2: And when was the last one? Couple was about five years?
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  Speaker 2: Five wasn't that long?
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  Speaker 3: And James Gunn came to matt reeves defense. He said,
• 0:45
  Speaker 3: to be fair, a five year gapp or more is
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  Speaker 3: fairly common in sequels. He says, seven years between I
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: didn't know this well, I didn't realize it. Seven years
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: between Alien and Aliens, Incredibles, fourteen years that many, yeah,
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: oh yeah, seven years between the first two Terminators, thirteen
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  Speaker 3: years between Avatars, okay, thirty six years between Top Guns,
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: and six years between Guardians of the Galaxy Volume two
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  Speaker 3: and volume three, So you know, he says, this is
• 1:18
  Speaker 3: this is normal, speaking speaking of Aliens.
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: Doesn't that TV show start next week? I think is
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: it next week? Next week?
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  Speaker 3: Also another well like you can't call it a sequel,
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  Speaker 3: but a continuation of the Star Wars movies. Ryan Gosling
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  Speaker 3: is in Sean Levy's Star Wars Starfighter and they have
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  Speaker 3: cast you know, he's the hero. They're not saying what
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  Speaker 3: it's about, but they have also let you know who
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  Speaker 3: the villain will be.
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  Speaker 2: And does that give you an idea? Not a thing?
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  Speaker 1: No, matt Reeves, who was a doctor? Who who's on.
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  Speaker 3: The Lord of the Is it the Lord of the
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: Rings or Game a throne? Show that matt Reeves doesn't
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  Speaker 3: ring a bell for matt.
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  Speaker 1: Reeves anyway, He's the villain, So look for that.
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: That's on its way.
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  Speaker 3: If you have seen the Spider Man across the Spider Verse,
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  Speaker 3: beyond the Spider Verse.
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  Speaker 2: Movies, the cartoons, I saw one of them, there is
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  Speaker 2: a character who was created originally for the comics again
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  Speaker 2: the second one.
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  Speaker 3: All of those characters are cannon, they come from comics.
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  Speaker 3: And there was a character created by Dan Slott called
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  Speaker 3: Spider Punk and he was voiced by Daniel Kalua. Daniel
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  Speaker 3: loves this character and he has struck a deal with
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  Speaker 3: Sony to co write and reprise his voice role in
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  Speaker 3: a Spider Punk Film animated film.
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  Speaker 1: So look forward to that. Do you have the Hulu app?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not much longer.
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  Speaker 1: Oh why they're phasing it out because it's HBO.
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  Speaker 3: It's just going to be it's going to meld in
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  Speaker 3: with Disney Plus Disney Plus. See right now, in your
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  Speaker 3: Disney Plus you have a Hulu button you can watch
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  Speaker 3: Hulu shows. But they say that they're just going to
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  Speaker 3: do away with the Hulu app and phase it into
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  Speaker 3: Disney Plus.
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  Speaker 2: And how is FX related to that? I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: because FX shows and then they go to Hulu. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how all of that works. But there
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  Speaker 1: you go.
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  Speaker 3: There's a very interesting You remember Star Trek the motion picture, right, yeah?
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  Speaker 1: The first one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, what you may not have known was that
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  Speaker 3: was not meant to be a motion picture. It was
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  Speaker 3: meant to be a new TV series called Star Trek
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  Speaker 3: Phase two.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a documentary now in the Roddenberry archives.
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  Speaker 4: And saw the huge increase in interest and popularity of
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  Speaker 4: the original Star Trek. Many fans know that Paramount and
• 4:02
  Speaker 4: Jeene Roddenberry tried to revive the show as a new
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  Speaker 4: weekly series that we now know as Star Trek Phase two,
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  Speaker 4: and it came very close to production. Scripts were written,
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  Speaker 4: sets were built, but what few fans know is that
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  Speaker 4: the project was basically doomed from the stark behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: It's a documentary.
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  Speaker 3: You have to just go to the Roddenberry Archives and
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  Speaker 3: look for Lost Voyages Phase.
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  Speaker 2: Two and it's online.
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  Speaker 1: It's online.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a documentary about this TV series and what
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  Speaker 3: happened with it and how it became Star Trek the
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  Speaker 3: motion picture instead. It's only like a half hour, so
• 4:40
  Speaker 3: you know you're not working at work, so don't work
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  Speaker 3: at work. Finally, this you know the house from Poltergeist. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the original Poulter guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right with the pool. Would you like to stay there?
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  Speaker 2: No, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 3: Go to Poltergeist House dot com. I think we have
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  Speaker 3: a picture of it. Here. Is it an bean?
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  Speaker 1: It is an Arabian bean.
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  Speaker 2: Where is it located?
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  Speaker 1: It is in Semi Valley, Okay, and I sent up
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  Speaker 1: a picture.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on. They'll get it up
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  Speaker 3: there in a moment. Uh, it's not in quest of
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  Speaker 3: very day. It's in the Semi Valley and it's it's
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  Speaker 3: the house from Poultergeist and it does and it does
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  Speaker 3: have the pool in.
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  Speaker 2: The back with the with the skeletons in it.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, it actually looks kind of nice. But it's
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  Speaker 3: eight hundred dollars at night. But it's got four bedrooms.
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  Speaker 3: So if you split that up with a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: and you can also include custom curated experiences like like
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  Speaker 3: like they'll leave the clown doll in the bed.
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  Speaker 1: The clown doll is there.
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  Speaker 2: The kids.
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  Speaker 1: If you go to the website, you can see it.
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  Speaker 3: The kid's bedrooms are there, the kids Star Wars sheets,
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  Speaker 3: the whole thing, the TV, the TV with the static.
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  Speaker 2: Is there, is there is there a mirror there when
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  Speaker 2: you look into it and then you rip your face off.
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: Oh boy, that would be cool. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, if you want to, if you want to
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  Speaker 3: stay at the Poultergeist House, there people will do this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: go to Poultergeist House dot com. It's it's there for
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  Speaker 3: you if you you know what I mean, why stay
• 6:21
  Speaker 3: at a regular airbnb for your trip to southern California.
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  Speaker 1: I like it there you right,