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Geek News On The Radio From July 28, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well and Fantastic four First Steps global opening of two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and eighteen million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Why is it called First Steps.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's the first movie. I don't know. There will
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  Speaker 1: clearly be other movies. Nothing specific, nothing specific other than
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  Speaker 1: there's a baby in it.
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  Speaker 2: Could be.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred eighteen million domestically, over one hundred million overseas.
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  Speaker 3: Good start talk a little bit about the performances. All good,
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  Speaker 3: all very good.
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  Speaker 1: Again, this entire cast, they're just terrific, terrific.
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  Speaker 3: So Ebon Bacarak whatever his name is, he plays the Thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, is he good? Is the Thing?
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  Speaker 1: He's very good as the Thing is he does he
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  Speaker 1: always look like the Thing?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, he looks like himself a lot of times.
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  Speaker 1: He looks like himself for parts, okay, but mostly he's
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  Speaker 1: the Thing. The movie starts four years into the Fantastic
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  Speaker 1: Fource Celebrity and on this earth. This is not the
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  Speaker 1: regular Marvel universe. This this is a different universe. On
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  Speaker 1: this earth, they are the most famous people on the planet.
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  Speaker 1: They're like the Beatles, and it's because they have helped
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  Speaker 1: save the world several times. So there's the Thing, read Richard,
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  Speaker 1: and he's the stretchy he's mister stretchy guy, also the
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  Speaker 1: smartest man on the planet. And then the young woman
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  Speaker 1: is is his life Storm Storm. Yeah, but she is
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  Speaker 1: the brother too, Johnny Storm is the human Torch's. She's
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  Speaker 1: actually one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel universe.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, she really is.
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  Speaker 1: She has the ability to go invisible and also make
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  Speaker 1: force fields. And you know, she could kill you instantly
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  Speaker 1: by creating a force field around you so that you
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  Speaker 1: would you would just be able to breathe, yeah, or
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  Speaker 1: crush you, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But and Herbie the robot, it's the Fantastic five.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it's it's just it was.
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  Speaker 2: Just so much fun.
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  Speaker 1: And that the the retro future tomorrow Landy kind of
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  Speaker 1: look that they've created for this alternate New York City
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  Speaker 1: is just amazing. Uh. I want to move there. It's
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  Speaker 1: they live in some special building or the Baxter Building
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  Speaker 1: is they're headquarters. It's where all the you know, science
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  Speaker 1: and everything that they do.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I again, I've always said I was never into comics
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  Speaker 3: a lot, but I read I read amount of those.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's interesting because the the first part of the movie,
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  Speaker 1: you don't get an origin story. It's it's it's done
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  Speaker 1: like a TV special. Yeah you remember four years ago. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, it's that old style and sort of thing,
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  Speaker 1: but very very charming and I quite enjoyed it. So
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  Speaker 1: we've had two very comic bookie, comic book movies. That
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  Speaker 1: Superman was again just like picking up a comic book
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  Speaker 1: and reading it. The same with Fantastic Four, the way
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  Speaker 1: that they should be, and they really embraced the comic
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  Speaker 1: bookiness of the Fantastic Four. It's just it's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Feige, of course, out doing press for the movie,
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  Speaker 1: was talking about Kevin Figi's the head of Marvel Studios,
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  Speaker 1: of course, and of course he was asked about Blade
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  Speaker 1: because we are now on the six year anniversary of
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  Speaker 1: maherschela Ali being announced for the role and they haven't
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  Speaker 1: done it, and they haven't done it. Fige said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there have been four separate takes on the character in
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  Speaker 1: the development process so far, two in the past, two
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  Speaker 1: in modern day. One would have been set in Prohibition
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  Speaker 1: era and that's where the costumes for Sinners came from. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the version now being developed has landed on modern day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see Mahrshaw, Marshalla Allie do more than just put
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  Speaker 1: on a leather outfit and start killing vampires. There's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a story probably. He said that Ryan Kugler is
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  Speaker 1: not involved in the project because he's working on Black
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  Speaker 1: Panther three. He also said that Marvel's current roadmap stretches
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  Speaker 1: to twenty thirty two, so I can't die. That's the thing,
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  Speaker 1: the only thing. Naturally, The X Men are part of
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  Speaker 1: those plans, he said, and they will be recast for
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  Speaker 1: their MCU debut, which will be directed by Jake Schreyer,
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  Speaker 1: who did Thunderbolts. So not just some of them, they'll
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  Speaker 1: recast the whole thing. Now, if you're a fan of
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  Speaker 1: the original Fox actors, they will reprise their roles in Avengers,
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  Speaker 1: Doomsday and Secret Wars, but the new X Men will
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  Speaker 1: also prepare audiences for a bigger MCU characters, like a
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  Speaker 1: recasting of Tony Stark and Steve Rodgers. Really, yeah, they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen. I don't know how. Here's here's what he
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  Speaker 1: has to say. Secret Wars will reset the MCU. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: with the X Men and the Fantastic for in the
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  Speaker 1: same universe as the current crop of MCU heroes. He says,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't a reboot. He's I don't like that word.
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  Speaker 1: It means a lot of things to a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: This is a reset. Secret Wars sets us up for
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  Speaker 1: the future. I just our DJ is so much a
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  Speaker 1: part of Iron Man, it's gonna have to be something
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  Speaker 1: completely diffferent. Well, he'll be doctor Doom, now.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the whole Iron Man character will have to
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  Speaker 1: be completely different. I wouldn't want to be the actor
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  Speaker 1: that steps into that role. Yeah, that's a lot. That's
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  Speaker 1: some big shoes to fill. Let's see. So other things
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  Speaker 1: that we got to look at is the new Predator
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  Speaker 1: bad Lands trailer and uh it's it's the latest from
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  Speaker 1: Dan Trachtenberg. Elf Fanning is in it, and she plays
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  Speaker 1: a robot, and they shot the movie under the code
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  Speaker 1: named Backpack because apparently el Fanning spends most of the
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  Speaker 1: movie chopped in half and hunt well, she's a robot, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and being carried around by a predator.
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  Speaker 2: The most dangerous planet, trying to.
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  Speaker 1: Prove himself to his father that he's worthy. Well, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot going on in the trailer. So I always
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  Speaker 1: encourage you to go and take a look at it.
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  Speaker 1: This movie opens in November seventh. That's all. Yeah, Elle
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  Speaker 1: Fanning riding on the back of a predator through and
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  Speaker 1: the director said, I was inspired by the scene in
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  Speaker 1: Empire Strikes Back Marchwi is carrying three po on his
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  Speaker 1: back the whole time. Well, that would be a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: Do that with a predator in the ribbit. Well, good
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  Speaker 1: luck with your journey. Also, well, we'll speaking of predator.
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  Speaker 1: Killer of Killers is an animated film that's on Netflix
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  Speaker 1: right now, and they've added footage to the end. They've
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  Speaker 1: added some extra stuff there, so go and watch it. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'll just go ahead and tell you. People who defeat
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  Speaker 1: the predator get captured and are frozen. So the camera
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  Speaker 1: pans along all of these containers of people in them,
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  Speaker 1: and there's the girl from Prey.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Now that was in the original version of this book.
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  Speaker 1: They've added some people to it. They've added Arnold Schwarzenegger
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  Speaker 1: and Danny Glover.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so you can see that.
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  Speaker 1: Are they frozen like Hansolo or are they like.
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  Speaker 2: This it's very cold.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting too old for the cold.
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  Speaker 2: They should have Jesse Ventura and he.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't defeat the predator. It's only if you defeat there.
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  Speaker 1: That's the whole plot of Killer of Killers Doctor is
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  Speaker 1: people who defeated the Predator. At San Diego Coma Kong,
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  Speaker 1: we got to look at the new Star Trek series
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  Speaker 1: called Starfleet Academy, which features Paul Giamatti as an alien
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  Speaker 1: bad guy. That makes sense again. I'm Captain Nalaka, Chancellor
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  Speaker 1: of Starfleet Academy. It is Holly Hunter. She's clash to
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  Speaker 1: return to our campus in San Francisco after more than
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty years. Some of you are here
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  Speaker 1: for your families. Well, this series takes place in the
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  Speaker 1: thirty second century after the events of Star Trek Discovery,
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  Speaker 1: where they're rebuilding the Federation and so now they got
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  Speaker 1: to rebuild the stream Starfleet Academy. Well that's what that
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  Speaker 1: is now. The regulars will be Holly Hunt. She's starring
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  Speaker 1: in this tig Nataro reprising her role from Discovery. There's
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  Speaker 1: j jet Reno as the name of Admiral Vance oded
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  Speaker 1: Ferrer from also from Discovery. He'll be there. And the
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  Speaker 1: funny story about how Giamatti got involved this morning is
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  Speaker 1: his agent called him up and said, boy, you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: believe it. I got all these crazy offers for you.
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  Speaker 1: They offered you to do that Planet of the Apes movie,
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  Speaker 1: and he goes You called him back and tell him
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  Speaker 1: I want to do it, So he did it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is I just turned down Star Trek for you.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry about that. He's like, no, I've always wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be on Star Trek. Have you called him back?
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  Speaker 1: My great honor to welcome you all to Starfleet Academy.
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  Speaker 1: We also got announced Rick and Morty is getting a
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  Speaker 1: spin off. It's the President's President Curtis, who was a
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  Speaker 1: regular character on Rick and Morty. He's getting his own show.
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  Speaker 1: Futurama Season thirteen begins very soon September fifteenth.
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  Speaker 2: Who has that Hulu?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not even going to talk about this, it's
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  Speaker 1: just what Well, it's a comic book movie based on
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  Speaker 1: Garth Ennis's comic book Crossed, a comic book so disturbing
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  Speaker 1: even I had to stop reading. Oh and they're making
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  Speaker 1: it into a series.
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  Speaker 2: Why did you? Well?
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  Speaker 1: Imagine, okay, zombies, but instead of you being the living dead,
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  Speaker 1: you're still human, but the disease causes you to act
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  Speaker 1: on your worst nature. I think you've told me this before.
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  Speaker 2: Their off the air. I don't remember it.
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  Speaker 1: It was just I had to stop reading it. But
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  Speaker 1: how you know that you have the diseases? A cross
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  Speaker 1: appears on your face like a like a Lemish. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and this is just gonna be animated or this is
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  Speaker 1: live action. They've cast it and they're moving forward with production.
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  Speaker 1: And I just there's a character in here, character in
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  Speaker 1: here that I can't say his name. He's the villain.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just let you fill in the blank. His name
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  Speaker 1: is horse blank. All right, I got it, yep, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's no
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  Speaker 2: Horse manure