Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / Geek News From September 29th, 2025
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- 0:09Speaker 1: All right.
- 0:10Speaker 2: I have been asked by people to talk about this
- 0:14Speaker 2: video game situation with Fortnite and Peacemaker. Okay, but I'm
- 0:19Speaker 2: not going to why because it involves a spoiler.
- 0:24Speaker 1: Oh what can you describe what the situation is? I
- 0:28Speaker 1: don't know. No, that would be the spoiling thing about it.
- 0:31Speaker 1: That would be the spoiler.
- 0:33Speaker 2: It's the last episode of Peacemaker, episode eight. Ignorance is
- 0:37Speaker 2: Chris is the name of it. And it's something that
- 0:43Speaker 2: people who read the DC comics have been predicting was
- 0:46Speaker 2: going to be happening, and it happened, and Fortnite reacted.
- 0:55Speaker 1: In a way.
- 0:55Speaker 2: Okay, and if I tell you about it, it will
- 0:58Speaker 2: be a spoiler, So I'm sorry. Okay, all right, I
- 1:00Speaker 2: am not going to do that, okay, So instead I'll
- 1:03Speaker 2: talk about another video game.
- 1:06Speaker 1: Insomniac Games.
- 1:08Speaker 2: They do these games for the PlayStation and the you know,
- 1:11Speaker 2: so they've done exclusive like Spider Man games, Peter Parker
- 1:15Speaker 2: and Miles Morales. They're great games, they're really good games.
- 1:19Speaker 2: But currently, let's see. At the State of Play event,
- 1:22Speaker 2: the studio rolled out its first look at the game Wolverine.
- 1:26Speaker 1: That they're doing. So so they threw out a.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Gameplay longer than I can remember. That's Liam mckin McIntyre
- 1:48Speaker 2: is the voice of Wolverine. There let's players play as Wolverine.
- 1:54Speaker 1: Logan, I'd like to say I'm not a violent man.
- 2:00Speaker 1: The trouble just has.
- 2:01Speaker 2: A way of finding me as he travels the globe,
- 2:07Speaker 2: Canadian wilderness, Tokyo mad.
- 2:09Speaker 1: Rapport doesn't back up where I go. Let me tell
- 2:19Speaker 1: you something, how far I run?
- 2:22Speaker 2: When you watch this trailer on YouTube, you have to
- 2:24Speaker 2: sign in and just say how old you are?
- 2:26Speaker 1: Because this thing is blood that's always waving.
- 2:33Speaker 2: He fights the reavers cross pads for some familiar faces
- 2:39Speaker 2: like Omega, Red and Mystique. Where the Spider Man games
- 2:44Speaker 2: have emphasized those characters' agility, their take on Wolverine is
- 2:49Speaker 2: about well bruit strength, animal instincts and those clause because.
- 2:54Speaker 1: I no hero.
- 3:01Speaker 2: So you can get a look at some gameplay and
- 3:04Speaker 2: what the game's going.
- 3:04Speaker 1: It looks great. Boost the voice, it's uh, let's see
- 3:08Speaker 1: it is U.
- 3:09Speaker 2: Nobody we know Liam McIntyre, I don't know as the
- 3:11Speaker 2: voice of Wolverine. But that's gonna be on PlayStation five
- 3:14Speaker 2: in the fall twenty twenty six. And yes, you do
- 3:18Speaker 2: at one point get to fight a huge Sentinel robot
- 3:23Speaker 2: and that one won't that fight won't be as bloody.
- 3:26Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's a robot, because it's a robot. All right.
- 3:29Speaker 2: Let's see something else for you to watch while you're
- 3:31Speaker 2: at work today, is you know, anime is starting to
- 3:35Speaker 2: really take off and get popular, and Star Wars was
- 3:39Speaker 2: kind of you.
- 3:40Speaker 1: Mean you mean worldwide? I mean it's here in America.
- 3:43Speaker 1: It's always been.
- 3:43Speaker 2: It's always been big worldwide, but here in here in America,
- 3:46Speaker 2: it's just starting to take off. And the Star Wars people,
- 3:49Speaker 2: I guess saw something because they've been doing Star Wars
- 3:53Speaker 2: Visions and this is the third season of Star Wars
- 3:56Speaker 2: Visions Global collaboration.
- 4:03Speaker 1: It seems so bright with possibility.
- 4:07Speaker 2: Nine Japanese anime houses.
- 4:16Speaker 1: You've got.
- 4:18Speaker 2: You can watch it either in Japanese with subtitles or
- 4:21Speaker 2: the American dub.
- 4:24Speaker 1: Even if you can't see them. It's all connected.
- 4:32Speaker 2: You've got the cast, the English speaking cast that is genre.
- 4:36Speaker 2: Darling's Annas so why from Shogun? Oh yeah yeah, I
- 4:39Speaker 2: like her, Freddie Hymore, George de Kay, Harvey Gullen, Jody Turner, Smith, Simon,
- 4:51Speaker 2: Steve Bushemi frost in.
- 4:53Speaker 3: The force, in its energy which binds all living things.
- 5:01Speaker 1: You got that to look at work today. It's really pretty.
- 5:04Speaker 1: It's really pretty.
- 5:05Speaker 2: October twenty ninth on Disney Plus for the trailers. Let's
- 5:10Speaker 2: see what else we got going here. Oh, there's a
- 5:13Speaker 2: new villain in the Spider Man Live Action movie, brand
- 5:16Speaker 2: new day.
- 5:17Speaker 3: Oh.
- 5:17Speaker 2: By the way, Tom Holland's recovering.
- 5:19Speaker 1: He's recovering, just fine, he's resting, but he's sprained his
- 5:22Speaker 1: ankle or something. Concussion. Oh, concussion, yeah, but.
- 5:26Speaker 2: So yeah, that's what you get for doing your own stunts.
- 5:28Speaker 2: But they've added a new villain to that movie. And
- 5:32Speaker 2: it's interesting because this actor who was in Black Lightning
- 5:36Speaker 2: who played Tobias Whale, Marvin Jones the third is his name,
- 5:41Speaker 2: and he's a rapper. Crondon I think was his rap name.
- 5:45Speaker 2: He did the voice of a character called Tombstone in
- 5:48Speaker 2: the Animated Spider Man into the Spider Verse. Well, they
- 5:52Speaker 2: just said, well, just come on over and be Tombstone
- 5:55Speaker 2: in real life.
- 5:56Speaker 1: I don't okay.
- 5:57Speaker 2: Tombstone is usually depicted as an imposing, a black person
- 6:01Speaker 2: with albinism. He has sharp teeth, granite like skin that's
- 6:05Speaker 2: hard to cut. He debuted in I remember getting this
- 6:09Speaker 2: comic book in eighty eight Web of spider Man number
- 6:11Speaker 2: thirty six, and he's been a favorite of Spidery's villains
- 6:16Speaker 2: for quite some time. And finally this, I don't know
- 6:21Speaker 2: if it's good news or bad news. Rick moranis coming
- 6:26Speaker 2: out of retirement.
- 6:27Speaker 1: Oh this is good news.
- 6:28Speaker 2: I heard that for space Balls too good.
- 6:31Speaker 1: I don't know why, because space Balls too Yeah.
- 6:35Speaker 2: Well if you okay, if you don't like space Balls,
- 6:37Speaker 2: then you of course you don't. I was not.
- 6:40Speaker 1: I was not crazy about it. Yeah, it's not. It
- 6:43Speaker 1: is probably my least favorite.
- 6:45Speaker 2: Mel Brooks really Yeah, Robin hood been in Tice.
- 6:49Speaker 3: I mean, well, okay, come on, it's it's it's hard
- 6:52Speaker 3: than that anyway.
- 6:54Speaker 1: Let's see. Uh So, yeah, they're getting together. The whole
- 6:57Speaker 1: cast is back.
- 6:58Speaker 2: Rick moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphanie's an Ega.
- 7:01Speaker 3: I think I think Melbrooks said he wanted to make
- 7:03Speaker 3: it definitely a comedy.
- 7:05Speaker 2: Sean Rivers isn't going to be in it. No, I
- 7:08Speaker 2: don't think swil John Candy mel Brooks will be there, though.
- 7:11Speaker 3: But this is the first time Rick moranis has pretty
- 7:14Speaker 3: much done anything.
- 7:14Speaker 1: Isn't it.
- 7:15Speaker 2: Now he needs to sit down for an interview because
- 7:18Speaker 2: I keep hearing I didn't retire.
- 7:20Speaker 1: People just stopped calling me. I don't believe that. I
- 7:24Speaker 1: don't believe. His wife died and he.
- 7:28Speaker 3: Had to raise his kids Exactly, he felt that he
- 7:30Speaker 3: didn't want to work.
- 7:32Speaker 2: They all got together for a script reading and they're
- 7:36Speaker 2: quite happy with it.
- 7:37Speaker 1: They say, so there you go.
- 7:38Speaker 2: Spaceballs on the way