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

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  Speaker 1: Boy, you said a mouthful there.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, if you went to the movies this weekend,
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  Speaker 2: I should have, you probably saw Zotopia two along with
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the planet.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently, Yeah, they said it overperformed. It really overperformed.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they knew it would do well because the
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  Speaker 2: first one was very well received and it is a
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  Speaker 2: funny movie.
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  Speaker 1: But this one just wow, just knocked them all down.
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  Speaker 2: According to The Hollywood Reporter, five hundred and fifty six
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  Speaker 2: million worldwide.
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  Speaker 1: Already.
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  Speaker 2: It's broke some records, like being the biggest ever worldwide
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  Speaker 2: start for an animated film, fourth best start for any
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  Speaker 2: Hollywood flick ever made. Four hundred million came from overseas,
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  Speaker 2: largely thanks to China, where two hundred and seventy two
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  Speaker 2: million dollar hall made it the biggest animated opening ever
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  Speaker 2: in the territory wow, and China's second biggest launch since
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  Speaker 2: Avengers Endgame in twenty nineteen. Yeah, it's it's just huge,
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  Speaker 2: and apparently it's it's it's very good, that's what I hear.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'll see it eventually. I enjoyed the first one.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny. Let's see. Speaking of movies, yep, And we
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  Speaker 1: talked about this earlier.
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  Speaker 2: The Whole Bloody Affair and Tarantino The Kill Bill movies
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  Speaker 2: all stuck together with some additional footage and all that.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like Tarantino's not ready to say goodbye to
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  Speaker 2: Kill Bill. I you know, he's got this coming out,
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  Speaker 2: and they were talking to him about it, and he
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  Speaker 2: just did a recent thing called Yuki's Revenge, which was
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  Speaker 2: an animated lost chapter and it'll be on Fortnite soon.
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  Speaker 2: Tarantino talked about wanting to give his villain Bill an
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  Speaker 2: origin store because we didn't get that in the movies. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: the idea sprang to mind back when he was doing
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  Speaker 2: the two movies. But he told the crowd at the
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  Speaker 2: Vista Theater when he was doing a screening at The
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  Speaker 2: Whole Bloody Affair. He says it'd be about how Bill
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  Speaker 2: became Bill, and the three godfathers that made him Esteban
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  Speaker 2: Viejo II May and Hattri Hanzo. We're all in in
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  Speaker 2: the movies. He says, I've got other things to do
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  Speaker 2: right now, but if I do this, it'll probably be animated.
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  Speaker 2: He had fun working on this Yuki's Revenge.
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  Speaker 1: Because in the okay, that's part of this is.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, and it's.
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  Speaker 1: In the this new It's in this new thing.
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  Speaker 2: There's a whole segment of the character Yuki who it's animated,
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  Speaker 2: and he did the voice of Bill apparently for this.
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  Speaker 2: But he said, I had so much fun doing this.
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  Speaker 2: If I do a prequel, it will be animated. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: something to think about, something to look forward to. All right,
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  Speaker 2: Uh now.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, wait wait for this. Don't don't pooh poo it
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  Speaker 1: right away.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Scarlett Johansson, come on in a new
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  Speaker 2: Exorcist movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, wait, okay, wait, wait. Mike Flanagan writing and directing, right, okay,
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  Speaker 1: remind me of Mike Mike Flannagan of course.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. He's done all these horror shows Netflix on Netflix.
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  Speaker 2: He did the House of Usher, he did, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all those. He's very good. He says, this is a fresh,
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  Speaker 2: bold take on the Exorcist. It's not a sequel, it's
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  Speaker 2: not a reimagining. It takes place in the Exorcist universe,
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  Speaker 2: whatever that means. But he said, the Exorcist is one
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  Speaker 2: of the reasons I became a filmmaker, and it's it's
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  Speaker 2: an hoddor to have a chance to try something fresh
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  Speaker 2: and bold and terrority. Yes, I like four or five
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  Speaker 2: Exoris films, and I think they must all be vaguely related,
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  Speaker 2: and so they're all, yeah, connected in some way. But
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  Speaker 2: he says, this is it's it's its own thing. It
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  Speaker 2: just takes place in the same universe.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. I'll show me what you got, yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Eva Green has joined Wednesday for season three. She will
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  Speaker 2: play Antiophelia Good, who is Ortitia Adams's sister and wants
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  Speaker 2: to kill Wednesday apparently. And finally, this December is here
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  Speaker 2: and with it a new Avatar movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Fire and Ash is what it's called.
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  Speaker 2: H James Cameron has asked, if this movie underperforms, what
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  Speaker 2: is your contingency plan, because you know, we keep hearing
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  Speaker 2: about how he has five total and he's filmed them
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  Speaker 2: all and all this, and he he said, quite bluntly,
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  Speaker 2: he said, if if this is where it ends, okay,
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  Speaker 2: He's like, he says, he's not going to fight for
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  Speaker 2: the he's not selling it, then he should be saying.
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  Speaker 1: No, these are wonderful, and they should be.
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  Speaker 2: He says he's not open to completely handing things over
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  Speaker 2: to somebody else. He says, I could produce it. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think there'd be a version where there's another Avatar
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  Speaker 2: movie that I didn't produce closely. But if I need
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  Speaker 2: to tie things up, I'll do it in a book. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: a book, very good, Gina.
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  Speaker 1: A book is not a movie a movie, she said.
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  Speaker 1: So all I'm saying is he said, if you really want.
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  Speaker 2: That Avatar book, don't go see the movie.
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  Speaker 1: I think people that are into the movies don't want to.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want a book. I don't they want a movie.
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  Speaker 1: I think that people are into those movies can't read.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. If you like him, you like him, enjoy
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  Speaker 1: what's it called? Fire and ash fire and ash oh