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Geek News From August 11th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: I've only got one thing for you to seek out
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  Speaker 1: today to look at, to watch, and it's not a trailer. Well, now,
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  Speaker 1: if you've been on geek social media at all over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend, you've been unable to avoid scenes of the
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: new Spider Man movie being shot in public.
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  Speaker 2: I heard about this, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But what they've done is that they put together a
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  Speaker 1: behind the scenes vig yette. It's a better quality of,
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: you know, showing the stunts. Just about the bank robbery.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know exactly what it is. We know that
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  Speaker 1: Spider Man is riding on top of an armored personnel
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  Speaker 1: carrier of some kind, and then there's explosions and all
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  Speaker 1: of that. But John Watts, who directed all the other
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: Spider movies, he told the director, the new director, Daniel
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: Deston Kretton, you know, live swinging stunts are difficult, so
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: maybe you should not do those, And Daniel Creton said, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: make me. I mean, we don't know much about this
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  Speaker 1: movie other than the Hulk, the Scorpion, and the Punisher
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  Speaker 1: are going to appear with Spider Man.
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  Speaker 2: But this is a.
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  Speaker 1: Great little if you look for it, look for Spider
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  Speaker 1: Man brand new Day Day one on set is what
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  Speaker 1: it's called, and it's it's just a video of Tom
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  Speaker 1: Holland arriving on the set. Alrighty, how are you feeling? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for good Man, it's day one, Day one, my fourth
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  Speaker 1: ever day one.
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  Speaker 2: On Spider Man. You know, it's funny putting the suits on.
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  Speaker 1: It feels different this time somehow. So Also the first
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  Speaker 1: time we've ever had fans on set the day one,
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  Speaker 1: so it's really exciting to share this with them. So
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  Speaker 1: people lining the streets, little kids in their Spider Man
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  Speaker 1: car st He's such a cutie.
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  Speaker 2: We've got some familiar faces on set, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I'm just going to do my best,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully get it right.
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  Speaker 2: No pressure. He's rigged up.
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  Speaker 1: There, Yeah, he's rigged up and there is some live swinging.
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  Speaker 2: Really good.
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  Speaker 1: You know you can see Tom Holland as a Spider
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  Speaker 1: Man in the flesh.
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  Speaker 2: Well that wasn't him, though, was it, Because he's got
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  Speaker 2: that accent. That's Spider Man have a British egg. Spider
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  Speaker 2: Man doesn't have a British accent.
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  Speaker 1: That is an official video from Sony and all that,
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  Speaker 1: and it debuted yesterday, which was August tenth, which is
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  Speaker 1: Peter Parker's birthday. Oh, in the MCU, that's the cover
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  Speaker 1: date of Amazing Fantasy fifteen where Spider Man first debut,
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  Speaker 1: So that's officially his birthday.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, But this.
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  Speaker 1: Is Marvel's now at a time where it wants to
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  Speaker 1: show it's movie making, you know, live. I mean, there
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  Speaker 1: was this big video of Florence Pew jumping off of
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  Speaker 1: a skyscraper for Thunderbolts, and now they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: This with the Spider Man, so good for them.
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  Speaker 1: Also, James Marsden is opening up about coming back as Cyclops.
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  Speaker 1: Recently interviewed in Vanity Fair, he spoke about how he
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  Speaker 1: feels to reprise his role as Cyclops in Avengers Doom's Day.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I'm getting a little long in the tooth
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  Speaker 1: to put on the superhero costume. I was excited because
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  Speaker 1: you're part of something gigantic. I've spent twenty years listening
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  Speaker 1: to people say when are you coming back? When are
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  Speaker 1: you coming back? Are you coming back? I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 1: a tough time struggling to get into the costume. If
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  Speaker 1: they waited a couple more years, It's been a blast.
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  Speaker 1: He's just saying I'm in the movie. Yes, as cyclops.
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  Speaker 1: So take that for what you will. Oh remember that movie, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six, Christopher Christopher Lambert as Connor McLeod.
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  Speaker 2: There could be only one. They cut people's heads off
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  Speaker 2: or something. In that movie.
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  Speaker 1: He is the medieval Scottish highlander who discovers he is
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: an immortal warrior with the help of a swordsman named Ramirez,
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  Speaker 1: who was Sean Connery. The titular highlander battles other immortals
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  Speaker 1: across the centuries, culminating in a modern battle in which,
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  Speaker 1: like the classic Land of Dialogue, says there could be
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  Speaker 1: only one. Well, this time around, Harry chested superman Henry
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  Speaker 1: Cavell is playing McLeod. Okay, I'm I'm okay with that.
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  Speaker 1: And they've just cast the Kurgan, who is the barbarian
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  Speaker 1: who has been killing other Highlanders other immortals across the
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  Speaker 1: centuries in order to absorb their essence. Now Clancy Brown
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  Speaker 1: played it originally in the movie. Dave Bautista is now
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  Speaker 1: the Kurgan Final Destination. You just watched. I just watched it.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was a fun little watch. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's not high cinema, but it's just fun because they
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  Speaker 1: keep dropping little clues.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, he dropped a penny. I wonder if that plays
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  Speaker 1: into later. Oh, yes, yes, that that penny is important.
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  Speaker 1: It will cause circumstances to kill people, you know. But
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  Speaker 1: they've already agreed to a new one, Final Destination another
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  Speaker 1: another Final Destination movie. And if that wasn't enough, how
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  Speaker 1: about another Attack of the Killer Tomatoes movie.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we sure need that. You know. My dad
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  Speaker 2: is in Attack of the original original. Yeah, there's a
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  Speaker 2: radio you know, guy driving in a car with the
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  Speaker 2: radio on, and my dad and it's it's Tom. Oh
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  Speaker 2: I didn't it's Tom's voice. Yeah, not the guy. We've
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  Speaker 2: been in a movie that way before. We have.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, well, this one is called Attack of the Killer
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  Speaker 1: Tomatoes Organic Intelligence, and yes, ninety five year old John Aston.
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  Speaker 2: Is back to play.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Nicholas Mortimer, Gang Green, David chol Moimer Gang,
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  Speaker 1: David Keckner is going to be in it, and Eric
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  Speaker 1: Roberts as well. The story is only said to pit
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  Speaker 1: the eternal power of nature against AI's best and brightest.
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  Speaker 2: That's all we know.
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  Speaker 1: So is George Clooney and Return of the Killer Tomato
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  Speaker 1: and one Oh I don't know I need to.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why you going down a Killer Tomatoes hole?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know why I thought that. And finally
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  Speaker 1: this you remember a movie phone? Yeah? He is George
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  Speaker 1: in Return of the Killer Tomatoes.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, yes, movie phone? Hello? Hello? Just call press one.
• 6:59
  Speaker 2: Oh I'm not able to dial h. Well, darn it? Uh, Katie,
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  Speaker 2: can you do this for me? This movie phone back? No?
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  Speaker 1: There there is one eight oh two three seven seven.
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  Speaker 1: Film is the number to call?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Did I hang up on you? Sorry? I should have
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  Speaker 1: tested this before I knew. I knew I could get
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  Speaker 1: a dial tone, but as far as calling you should well,
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  Speaker 1: this is.
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  Speaker 2: A This is a promotion for the Toxic Avenger.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay, the Toxic Avenger movie, which is coming out
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  Speaker 1: with Why can I never.
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  Speaker 2: Remember his name?
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  Speaker 1: He was a Game of Thrones?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Tyrian Lanister.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. We we interviewed Peter Dnklage. Peter Dinklage. He's the
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  Speaker 2: Toxic Avenger. He is.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's one aight oh two three seven seven f
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  Speaker 1: I l M film.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, he'll come. He's quite a quite a bit shorter
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  Speaker 2: Toxic Avenger than he's an actor Bill, he can act taller.
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: We're having trouble with this anyway you call it, and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's him as the toxic Avenger telling you to
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  Speaker 1: go to the movie.
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  Speaker 2: They change the message every now and then, so there
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  Speaker 2: you go. Yes, I am.
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  Speaker 1: I have several phones and I cannot dial out of
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  Speaker 1: the idiots.
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  Speaker 2: Nice. Yes,