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Geek News on the Radio from September 28th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Let me get the theme music up here. All right. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: quite the collection of geeks over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, what were your thoughts? Uh, I, uh, it's
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  Speaker 2: amazing to me. I hadn't been, been to panic for
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  Speaker 2: quite some time. And, uh, I walk through there, and
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  Speaker 2: there are people who have paid just such elaborate attention
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  Speaker 2: to making their costumes. And, like, there'll be families all
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  Speaker 2: costumed together. And I was also interested to note that
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  Speaker 2: I probably didn't know what two-thirds of them were. I
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  Speaker 2: liked them. I mean, they looked great, but I thought, what?
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  Speaker 2: What is that?
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  Speaker 1: What is that from? What is this from?
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  Speaker 2: What is that from? A lot of anime and video
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  Speaker 2: game stuff. Stuff that I don't really associate with much.
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  Speaker 1: I love how they love what they're doing. That's what I.
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  Speaker 2: And then the people who are not in costume, who
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  Speaker 2: are just there to soak it all in and do that.
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  Speaker 2: It's also an interesting group of people. People that I
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  Speaker 2: kind of have a great fondness for. The sort of
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  Speaker 2: the geek, the little bit of a misfit perhaps. You know,
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  Speaker 2: people who've had trouble maybe fitting in in society somehow.
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  Speaker 2: And I have great fondness for those people.
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  Speaker 1: But then there's always one. Uh-oh. Well, a dick. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that just wants to argue.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And that's one of the things that's keeping, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of backing away from my whole con experience.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, let's see. This trailer, it was released about
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  Speaker 1: four days ago. And it's the latest trailer and the
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  Speaker 1: final trailer for Clayface. Remember, Clayface is the Batman villain
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  Speaker 1: who is a guy who is made of clay. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is R-rated. Okay. They just rated it R. And
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  Speaker 1: it's such a body horror movie. And it would be,
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't it, if you think about it? Sure. Because at
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  Speaker 1: first he can't control it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and that's what a lot of this trailer
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  Speaker 1: is about, is, you know, where he can't control what's
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  Speaker 1: happening to his body. He's melting. He's, you know, there's a... Well,
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  Speaker 1: let me just get this for you here.
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  Speaker 3: What do you want, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Higgins? I want my life back. So he, uh... He's
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  Speaker 1: an actor. And he got beat up by a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of mobsters. To the point where he had all this
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  Speaker 1: plastic surgery. And then they reconstructed his face using this
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  Speaker 1: experimental technique.
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  Speaker 3: The procedure is causing troubling physical changes. Are you okay?
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  Speaker 1: And every once in a while he'll look in a
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  Speaker 1: mirror and half of his face is gone. You have
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  Speaker 1: to learn to control it. There's a really freaky part
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  Speaker 1: where he's on an airplane and there's turbulence and the
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  Speaker 1: flight attendants are telling him, get back to your seat.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be hard for you to believe.
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  Speaker 1: But he rubbed his eyes and his eyes have been
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  Speaker 1: glued together. So he goes into the bathroom with these
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  Speaker 1: little scissors. Is that so bad? And has to cut
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  Speaker 1: his eyes open.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, thanks. Yeah, it's... And then there's one part where
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  Speaker 1: he kills somebody by taking their head and putting it
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  Speaker 1: in his stomach. And suffocating him? And suffocating him.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, jeez.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea who you are anymore. And then
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  Speaker 1: it shows that he can change his face. And Batman
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  Speaker 1: isn't in here anymore? Batman is not in this part.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. No.
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  Speaker 1: No. But this will be just in time for Halloween,
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  Speaker 1: October 23rd. Like I said, rated R. It's not for
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  Speaker 1: the kids. I imagine this is going to be a hit.
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  Speaker 1: Is anybody we know in it? Did you say? I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there is. I think the lead guy is
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  Speaker 1: somebody that you've seen before. But, yeah. What's it called again? Clayface.
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  Speaker 1: I've never... You know, any time a movie can make
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  Speaker 1: me care about a comic book character that I never
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  Speaker 1: cared about, that's a win. And this one may have
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  Speaker 1: done it for me. Oh, Eddie Marzen's in it. Eddie Marzen.
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  Speaker 1: That's good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, from Ray Donovan. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Now, another trailer. It's kind of a teaser commercial that
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  Speaker 1: we got. Only a few weeks ago, Vision Quest marketing
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  Speaker 1: really started. That's Paul Bettany's, you know, android from the Avengers.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: His life post-WandaVision. The miniseries has mostly pushed inner demons
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  Speaker 1: like Ultron sticking around in his head. There's external threats
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  Speaker 1: for Vision to go up against. And in the promo
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  Speaker 1: we got this week is a comic book character called Jocasta. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Jocasta was created in 1977 by Jim Shooter and George Perez,
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  Speaker 1: Avengers 162. Like how Vision is his son, Ultron built
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  Speaker 1: Jocasta to be his wife with the Wasp's brain patterns
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  Speaker 1: serving as her template. You remember Ant-Man created Ultron in
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  Speaker 1: the comics using his own brain patterns. Over the decades,
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  Speaker 1: it's flipped from being a villain to an Avenger and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes Alley of Iron Man, Jocasta. But we get our
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  Speaker 1: first look at her. Wanda Maximoff spun an illusion so
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  Speaker 1: convincing that some of it became real. Her witchy bubble
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  Speaker 1: has a consequence.
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  Speaker 3: It is my responsibility to keep us all safe. Vision,
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  Speaker 3: what aren't you telling me? My son, this is a
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  Speaker 3: fight I likely won't win. Vision Quest, streaming October 14th,
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  Speaker 3: only on Disney +.
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  Speaker 1: So Jocasta played by Tania Miller, Jocasta's MCU debut. How
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  Speaker 1: does she exist in either the real world or in
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  Speaker 1: Vision's own mind? We don't know. That's the big question. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, who she'd be based on when the MCU
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  Speaker 1: Ultron is created by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner.
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  Speaker 2: Where it fits in.
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  Speaker 1: That's where it fits in. Seems that we have to
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  Speaker 1: wait until October 14th to find out, because that's when
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  Speaker 1: Vision Quest premieres. Let's see. Another thing. More Marvel stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what was number one at the box office this weekend?
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  Speaker 1: The re-release? Yeah. Avengers Endgame Encore. But there's extra stuff, right?
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  Speaker 1: There's extra footage at the end, but you can go
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  Speaker 1: online and find a summation of it to get you ready.
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  Speaker 1: It does tie directly into Doomsday. I mean, all the
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  Speaker 1: stuff that I've seen anyway. But box office report shows
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  Speaker 1: the re-release took top spot at the global box office
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  Speaker 1: with $ 86 million. And with that extra take, Endgame's total
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  Speaker 1: box office comes to $ 2. 885 billion, sitting comfortably between Avatar
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  Speaker 1: and Spider-Man Brand New Day. $ 26 million domestic. Encore scored
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  Speaker 1: the third best start for a reissue movie after Star
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  Speaker 1: Wars Theatrical Return in 97. So, yeah, people wanted to
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  Speaker 1: go see it on the big screen instead of watching
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  Speaker 1: it on your Disney +. I don't know if I'll go.
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  Speaker 1: And then the other big bit of news that we
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  Speaker 1: got was more casting on The People vs. Gorilla Grodd.
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  Speaker 1: Remind me what this is. This is Superman Adjacent.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: DC Studios' Jimmy Olsen spinoff series. It's a mockumentary. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: But they've added Sarah Gilbert. Oh, there she is. Who's
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  Speaker 1: going to play an important journalist. That's all we know.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be on HBO. It's unclear whether she's
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  Speaker 1: playing an existing character in the DC universe or whether
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  Speaker 1: her character is an original creation for the show. But
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  Speaker 1: it makes sense that she's a journalist because The People vs.
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  Speaker 1: Gorilla Grodd is styled as a true crime mockumentary hosted
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  Speaker 1: by Jimmy Olsen, Skylar Gazzando. A super intelligent ape is
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  Speaker 1: convicted of murdering his father, the king of Gorilla City,
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  Speaker 1: in an eight-part true crime docuseries. Jimmy Olsen reopens the
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  Speaker 1: case investigating whether Gorilla Grodd was wrongly convicted in one
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  Speaker 1: of Metropolis' most famous murder trials. So we'll see when
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  Speaker 1: that is released. He's a super intelligent gorilla who has
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  Speaker 1: the ability to read your mind. I love it. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Gorilla City.
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  Speaker 1: Gorilla City. I want to go to Gorilla City. No,
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  Speaker 1: you don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't?
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  Speaker 1: Trust me.