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Geek News For May 1st, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: How about to be good That Woodbine is a really
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: cool place. All right.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, now the movie is called Weapons, and we
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  Speaker 2: don't know why, really do We don't quite yet. I'm
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  Speaker 2: guessing that somehow the kids are weapons.
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  Speaker 1: That was kind of my guess too.
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  Speaker 2: But now the guy who made this movie just made
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  Speaker 2: this the movie Barbarian tell us about You saw it,
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  Speaker 2: oh man, so disturbing. You rent an airbnb, yeah, and
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: you find out that there's a creepy old person living.
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  Speaker 1: In the basement, okay, and I will never rent.
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  Speaker 2: An Airbnb again, and that there are tunnels under the airbnb.
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  Speaker 1: Huh, oh man, I'll tell.
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  Speaker 2: You it scared the hell out of movie.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the chances are only like fifty to fifty
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  Speaker 1: that that would happen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, But the guy, the guy who made that, when
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  Speaker 2: that movie was a hit, they came to him and said, here,
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  Speaker 2: make movies, please, And here he is, so that he's
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  Speaker 2: got the first one. It's called Weapons. Now this explains
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  Speaker 2: the plot, okay of the movie, and it's scary as hell.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, this is a true story that happened in my town.
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  Speaker 3: So this one Wednesday is like a normal day for
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  Speaker 3: the whole school but today was different. Every other class
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  Speaker 3: had all their kids, but Missus Gandy's room was totally empty.
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  Speaker 3: And do you know why Why Because the night before,
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  Speaker 3: at two seventeen in the morning, every kid woke up,
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  Speaker 3: got out of bed, walked downstairs and into the dark
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  Speaker 3: and they never came.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, based on a true story. Why just hurt classroom?
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  Speaker 2: Why only hurts.
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  Speaker 4: Are children?
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  Speaker 3: We have a lot of emotional parents here.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's best if you keep some test that's
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  Speaker 1: from this place.
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  Speaker 2: That's Missus Gandy. Julia Garner, the Silver Surfer from the
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic Four movie. And yeah, there's these creepy shots of kids,
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  Speaker 2: you know, running down the street in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the night with their arms out like they're like they're flying,
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  Speaker 2: you know, but they.
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  Speaker 4: Look like shadows or yeah, but they're shadowy and and
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  Speaker 4: nobody really knows what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: Where did you go?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is where the story really starts.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this will this will be interesting. Was going
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  Speaker 2: to be theaters August in theaters. Yes, it's it's I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if I can see it. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: you should watch Barbarian. If you can make it through Barbarian,
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  Speaker 2: you might make it through this one all right. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so this whole Minecraft movie mayhem situation in the theaters,
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  Speaker 2: crazy amount of money, yes, I mean the movie has
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  Speaker 2: made a lot of money. Yeah, But then of course
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  Speaker 2: there's the audience participation aspect.
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  Speaker 1: Of the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Well, Warner Brothers is trying to figure out how
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  Speaker 2: to you know, put a face on that that's acceptable,
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  Speaker 2: reasonably acceptable, and they can't. They're just secretly liking all
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  Speaker 2: of the money that they're getting, so they've decided to cash.
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  Speaker 1: In on it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Warner Brothers is announcing block Party Edition screenings of
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  Speaker 2: the Minecraft Movie. So basically on May second, tomorrow, check
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  Speaker 2: your theaters, okay, because the and look for block Party
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  Speaker 2: Edition because that's the one where you're encouraged to sing along, encouraged.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like a it really is like it rock
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  Speaker 2: really is. They're they're like, they're encouraging you go to
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  Speaker 2: these screenings if you want to partici So this is.
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  Speaker 5: A smart thing to do. Then then kid people can
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  Speaker 5: go and do that if they want.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, although I've seen some of the mess in some
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  Speaker 1: of the some of the mess in the theaters.
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  Speaker 2: Well, see, I used to feel bad for the for
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  Speaker 2: the poor people who had to clean up after all
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  Speaker 2: all of our Rocky Horror Picture shows. Speaking of Rocky Horror,
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  Speaker 2: Disney which now owns, isn't that strange to say? Disney
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  Speaker 2: now owns the Rocky Horror Picture Show. They oversaw a
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  Speaker 2: ten month process to clean up the print and give
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  Speaker 2: it a four K remaster on Blu Ray. Now, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure do you want to see that movie?
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Clearly, I'm not. I'm quite sure you want to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see, and remember I told you about the Sergeant
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  Speaker 2: Rock movie. It's a DC character who's who's you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's he's just a soldiers.
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  Speaker 1: No powers.
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  Speaker 2: And they were talking to let's see, it was Scottish actor,
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  Speaker 2: good looking.
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  Speaker 1: Penguin, good looking penguin.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the penguin Colin fer We're talking to Colin Farrell
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  Speaker 2: about playing him.
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  Speaker 1: I believe he's Welsh, Welsh, thank.
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  Speaker 2: You, but he I guess he said no, or they said, well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe this isn't working out so well, so they're shelving
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  Speaker 2: it all. So you're not going to get the Sergeant
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  Speaker 2: Rock movie. You are, however, getting another Miami Wevice movie.
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  Speaker 5: But when you say they're shelving that, that That's why
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  Speaker 5: Carrie never jumps on anything until it's actually happening, because
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  Speaker 5: a lot of things get talked about that don't.
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  Speaker 2: They were ready to go forward on this, but apparently
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  Speaker 2: there's some scheduling situations with a bunch of other stuff,
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  Speaker 2: and James Gunn doesn't want to do Sergeant Rock quite yet,
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  Speaker 2: so that's probably part of it. But you are going
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  Speaker 2: to get another Miami Vice movie. But the good news
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  Speaker 2: is that you've got Joseph Kaczinski is going to direct it.
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  Speaker 2: He's the John Wick guy, so it might be interested,
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  Speaker 2: might be interesting. And Nightmaker or night Crawler filmmaker Danny
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  Speaker 2: Gilroy is penning the script from an earlier draft by
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  Speaker 2: Top Gun Maverick scribe Eric Warren Singer. All right, so
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  Speaker 2: you are getting a Miami Vice thing and finally this.
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  Speaker 2: John Lithgow was surprised by the backlash over joining the
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  Speaker 2: Harry Potter series.
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  Speaker 4: My guess is.
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  Speaker 5: John doesn't spend a lot of time on social media.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he knew, because I really think.
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  Speaker 2: He genuinely was not aware of Here's what he said.
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  Speaker 2: He received a text from a friend who had sent
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  Speaker 2: him a link to an article titled an open Letter
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  Speaker 2: to John Lithgow, please walk away from Harry Potter. Before
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  Speaker 2: he had signed on for the role, he received another
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  Speaker 2: text from another very good friend who is the mother
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  Speaker 2: of a trans child, and said, please don't do Harry Potter.
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  Speaker 1: This is because JK Rowlings.
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  Speaker 2: Reason is so vehement. Ask if he expected the criticism,
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  Speaker 2: Lithga replied, no, absolutely not. Of course, it was a
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  Speaker 2: big decision because it's probably the last major role I'll
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  Speaker 2: ever play. It's an eight star commitment. So I was
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  Speaker 2: just thinking about mortality and that was very good winding
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  Speaker 2: down role. I mean, no one was upset when I
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  Speaker 2: played role Doll. That's how out of touch the poor
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  Speaker 2: guy is. So yeah, he couldn't figure out why people
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  Speaker 2: might be upset.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and he played a trans person himself in world.
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  Speaker 1: According to that, that's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think JK knows that, otherwise she may not
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  Speaker 2: have let him be Dumbledore in this new thing. All right,
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  Speaker 2: there you go. It's Irish, not Scott.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you're saying about.
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  Speaker 4: Colin Farrell's Yeah, it's an interesting observation in the text.
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  Speaker 4: If Disney owns Rocky Horror, that may mean Frank Conforter
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  Speaker 4: is a Disney Princess. Yes, I think it might.
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  Speaker 2: I think you need to ask. Frank, I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to even guess