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Geek News on the Radio from May 18th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: All right, not much happening in the way of trailers
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: right now, although James Gunn has promised me that sometime
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: today he'll be dropping a new green Lantern trailer. Did
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: he text you personally? Sure, as far as far as
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, yeah, So I'll be watching for that
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: to drop at any moment when that will happen. In
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: the meantime, I enjoy this trailer for season three of
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: My Adventures with Superman, which, you know, if you're watching
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: the Boys and it's, you know, depressing you and you
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: want something optimistic, this is certainly the way to go
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: in Metropolis. Challenges come in all shapes and sizes, so
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: you're bringing you suffer. But can Superman keep up when
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: the other guy is just as super as he is,
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: faster than you, longer than you. That's a cyborg Superman.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: She may need a little help. Are you okay? Being Superman?
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: Is it's harder than than it used to be? It's
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: much It's much harder. That's a good thing. Clark's got
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: such helpful friends. Is this no? What do you guys do?
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: What's your favorite movie? Why do you wear glasses? Jimmy?
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: If it's not a present, it really has to way
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: my adventures was Superman. The third season premiere Saturday, June
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: thirteenth at midnight, haunts you on me next day. That's animated.
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: That's animated. Yes, very optimistic, you know, hopeful, whole thing.
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: So if you're wholesome, it's wholesome. I would go as
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: far as to say it's wholes nice. We need more
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: so that I don't want to have anything to do
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: with this June thirteenth, that's wholesome when that premierees. Now,
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: Sean Means asked me this when he was here on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought about it, and I thought I'd do
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: some research. He said, what do I What episodes do
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: I need to watch of The Mandalorian before the movie?
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: And I couldn't come up with any episodes. I still can't,
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: but I do have a sort of a synopsis of
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: what you need to know going in. Ok So, the
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: most significant development from the beginning of The Mandalorian to
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: the start of the movie is the relationship between the
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: Mandalorian himself, din Jaron, Pedro, Pascal, and Grogu. Grogu was
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: initially a target for a bounty hunter, but over the
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: course of three seasons, the pair grew close. At the
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: very end of season three, Mando officially adopted Grogu as
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  Speaker 1: his son. When The Mandalorian started, he was a work
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: for hire, bounty hunter, good bad, whatever. If you just
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: paid him, he'd work for you. However, by the end
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: of season three, things have changed for Mando. He's got
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  Speaker 1: his son, He's seen some crazy stuff, and now he
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: doesn't want to work for just anyone. Okay, so there's that.
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: He wants to work for the good guys. Also, you
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: need to remember, of course, Jab of the Hut was
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  Speaker 1: killed by Princess Leah. We don't call that slave lea
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: outfit anymore. That's hut killer Lea. Right. But he had
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: twins at the time. You didn't know that because you
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: didn't watch the cartoon. He had infant twins, little little
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: little slug huts. But yeah, so one of his twins
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: uh interested in acquiring you know, all that all that stuff.
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: He will be in this show, one of one of
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: one of the twins, all right. The Empire is fractured,
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: but not dead. Mandalorian and Grogus set between the events
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: a Return of the Jedi and the Force Awakened. So
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: the Empire has been defeated but not completely gone, and
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: eventually the First Order will rise, but before that, a
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: new Republic has been born to try to bring stability
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: to the galaxy, and that's where the Mandalorian comes in. Also,
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: Grogu is a Mandalorian apprentice. It's unclear of how much
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: or if this will come up in the movie, but
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  Speaker 1: there is one thing to remember about Grogu though he
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: is the same species as Yoda, very strong with the Force.
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: Grogu made a decision not to train with Luke Skywalker
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: as a Jedi. That was that was in the Mandalorian Luke,
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: a deaged Mark Hamill, came back and played him and
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  Speaker 1: offered to train him, but he said, no, I'm staying
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  Speaker 1: with with Mando. This is my guy. He can't train
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: him in the Force. Well, no, he's not interested in
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: he's just not interested. And he was then given the
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  Speaker 1: name didn't Grogu din Jarren. So he's a part of
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: the family. Ah, let's see, Mandalorian ship was destroyed in
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  Speaker 1: the series. He's going to get a new one that
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: looks just like it. Don't have to go back and watch. No,
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: you don't, you don't. That's really all you need to
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  Speaker 1: know about going in to see the movie. Let's see.
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: Now here's another. Now they've been kicking this project around
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: for a while and it's Sam Raimi has been he's
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: got the rights to this to remaking. Do you remember
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: the movie. It's from seventy eight Ventriloquis dummy horror movie.
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: I don't remember which one. Anthony Hopkins and Margaret Yeah, yeah, Magic, Yeah, Magic. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he's had the rights to it and he's been you know,
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: he's got the script and everything together and he's pretty
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: happy with it, and he's been looking for a director
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: to do it. He's just decided to do it himself.
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: Oh really, So if it's Sam Raimy, it's going to
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: be good. And plus you've got the people behind it,
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: Mark Swift and Damien Shannon who wrote Send Help for Ramie.
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: So that's now. Magic starred Hopkins as Quirky, a magician
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: who reaches fame alongside his Ventrilocus dummy, the obnoxious, wisecracking Fats.
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: Faced with the prospect of signing a network deal for
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  Speaker 1: his own show, but afraid of revealing his fragile mental state,
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: the magician takes off for the Catskills, where he tries
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: to reconnect with the high school love, even as Fats
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: begins to murderously take control of the situation. I remember
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: when we were kids and this trailer would come on.
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: It was creepy as hell. Abrika Gabra, I sit on
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: his knee, Presto change on and now he is me pocus,
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: we take the bed, We're dead. Josephine Levine presents Magic,
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  Speaker 1: a terrifying love story starring Anthony Hopkins and Margaret and
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: Burgess Meredith. It was directed by Richard Attenborough. Yeah, you know, hi, Ron,
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: what's fascinating. I just heard an interview with Anne Margaret.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: She's really She's still alive, and I couldn't listen to that.
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: It was it was kind of sad. She I don't
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: know why he dragged her out for this. She can
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: barely make a sentence. Where did I hear ow? Jesse Thorn?
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: I tried, I thought, I thought the same thing. Oh
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  Speaker 1: Anne Margaret. I'm like, oh oh Anne Margaret, Oh oh honey.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: She sounds like that now. And finally this Warner Brothers
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: pam abdy mm hmm. You know, suddenly they've changed their
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: minds about this whole Looney Tunes thing. Now they're all in. Yeah,
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: now they're all in. I think they saw what, you know,
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: the the the demand to see the coyote versus acme eve,
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: it's just all the old and they've she got up
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: and said, no, we're all in about getting Looney Tunes
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: back on the big screen. We've we've got a lot
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: of animated things that we're working on, but we certainly
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: want to do that. We've got Daffy Season, which is
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: a Looney Tunes theatrical short, bring it back to the
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: big screen. And there is a Speedy Gonzales movie in
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  Speaker 1: the works. Yes, what about slow Polk Rodrigue. I hope
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: he's there. He's the slowest mouse in all of it.
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: But yeah, they've changed their minds quite a few things.
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: Tom and Jerry stuff, you know, suddenly suddenly they're all in. Well, okay,
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: all right,