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Geek News on the Radio From September 11th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: So they have other things, things other than cards.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but they do have cards, but they have much more. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get you one of them kitty cat clocks.
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  Speaker 3: They used to have a lot of vintage candy in there,
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  Speaker 3: all things that you don't see anymore, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Those clocks with the cat's eyes back and forth and
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  Speaker 1: the tail wags. Yeah, alright, let's see.
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  Speaker 2: It was Star Trek Day last week, September eighth. That's
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  Speaker 2: the celebration of the premiere of Star Trek back in
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  Speaker 2: sixty six. So it is the sixtieth anniversary, and so
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  Speaker 2: Paramount has been making announcements ever since then. Their latest
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  Speaker 2: Star Trek projects. Right, of course, the Lego collaboration. It's
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  Speaker 2: very exciting because high time, because we've never had Star
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  Speaker 2: Trek legos. We've you know, Paramounts tried to do it
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  Speaker 2: with other toy companies, blocks and things like that, but
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  Speaker 2: it's just not been the same.
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  Speaker 3: So you're not talking about a move the Lego movie
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  Speaker 3: about plays okay place, Uh, let's see, and that's that's
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  Speaker 3: that's very exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the other.
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  Speaker 2: Announcements made were this, As I've told you before, my
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  Speaker 2: inside sources say that the trouble they're having with Star
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  Speaker 2: Trek at Paramount is not getting the young people to
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  Speaker 2: join in.
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  Speaker 1: How do we get the young people? Well, you got it.
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  Speaker 2: They started, let's go young, so we got the Starfleet
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  Speaker 2: Academy TV series animated coming out. No, this is this
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  Speaker 2: live action having. But then they went, let's go let's
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  Speaker 2: go even younger. I heard this, let's go to the
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  Speaker 2: eight year olds, shall we? All right? Scouts? It's Asterroid
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  Speaker 2: Blast said.
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  Speaker 1: Let's come out, and.
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  Speaker 2: The Asteroid we on it like a comment j R.
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  Speaker 3: That didn't work.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome. It's a time from planning kronos y ten seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Ten pa, no time to wear second. This is developed
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  Speaker 2: by Nicolo Nickelodeon Digital Studios's.
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  Speaker 1: Animated. It's animated.
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  Speaker 2: You can ask your parents to subscribe to the Blaze
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  Speaker 2: and the Monster Machines YouTube channel for new Star Trek
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  Speaker 2: Scouts videos and find more of your favorite shows on Nickelodeon. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: ask your parents to subscribe.
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  Speaker 1: You know it. It it sounds terrible.
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  Speaker 2: That's not for you, not for you. It's not eight
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  Speaker 2: years old. It's it's about three eight year old friends Jr.
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  Speaker 2: Sprocket and Rue as they train to become future Starfleet
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  Speaker 2: Explorers and again it's on YouTube and Nickelodeon.
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  Speaker 1: There's only one episode right now.
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  Speaker 2: More are coming.
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  Speaker 3: I just hate that that voice that they like, the announcer.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you gotta talk down to the kids. You
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  Speaker 3: gotta get your parented.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, you can watch a couple of those that
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  Speaker 2: are online right now. Star Trek is also going to
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  Speaker 2: get a float at the Rose Parade.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's good in Pasadena this year.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know what it is, but it will probably
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  Speaker 2: feature Starfleet Academy.
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  Speaker 1: I should have had that a long time ago.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, Well, they had to wait for the sixty Now
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  Speaker 2: whole the original cast is dead pretty much except for Free.
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  Speaker 1: So who's the way who's left?
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  Speaker 3: Well Shattner, yeah, k and check Off.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Okay, they're.
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  Speaker 2: Still hanging around, still still lurking about.
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  Speaker 1: They put creatures in our bodies.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see. Of course, Strange New Worlds is currently wrapping
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  Speaker 2: up its third season this week.
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  Speaker 1: I show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, seasons four and five are still to come. Five
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  Speaker 2: will be a truncated season. There is a podcast called
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  Speaker 2: Star Trek Khan, which is a prequel to the events
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  Speaker 2: of Wrath of con What this is? This is Navin
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  Speaker 2: Andrew who's voicing Khan, and they dig up Tim Russ
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  Speaker 2: for to be Ensign tu Vak and George de Kay
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  Speaker 2: as Captain Zulu.
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  Speaker 1: They dig him up.
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  Speaker 2: And that's this is this is the events that take
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  Speaker 2: place after Kirk dropped kan off on that planet. And
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  Speaker 2: remember and then when he manages to get.
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  Speaker 3: Off the planet, and then how did how does that
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  Speaker 3: relate to Data con Noonian singing?
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  Speaker 1: Is that the same.
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  Speaker 3: As Data as he has assign as Commander Data?
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  Speaker 1: He was created so different?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, all right, another thing that is that is
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  Speaker 2: going on now we're moving from Star Trek to something else. Now,
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  Speaker 2: when I was a kid and we got we got HBO,
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  Speaker 2: much to the chagrin of my father.
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  Speaker 1: My mother wanted us to have it.
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  Speaker 2: There was a time when HBO was just movies and
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  Speaker 2: there were like fifteen of them on and they'm over
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  Speaker 2: over and they.
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  Speaker 1: Would play them over and over again.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is one of them, one of the movies
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  Speaker 2: that they would play over and over again. This is
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  Speaker 2: young Anthony Hopkins with a ventriloquous dumb Oh yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: remember this one. Okay, So here's the trailer for that movie.
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  Speaker 1: Ab Gabra I sit on his knee. Presto Chango and
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  Speaker 1: now he is me pocus Pocus, the Bad.
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  Speaker 2: We're Dead. Josephine Levine presents Magic, a terrifying love story
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  Speaker 2: starring Anthony Hopkins and Margaret and Burgess Meredith.
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  Speaker 1: Kitting with a whip.
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  Speaker 2: It's magic with a k right, It's just magic magic.
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  Speaker 2: But so Sam Raimi and Roy Lee are going to
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  Speaker 2: remake Magic for Lionsgate.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, sure it was a pretty bad movie. It was
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  Speaker 1: not great. No.
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  Speaker 2: Hopkins story starred as Kirky, a magician who reaches fame
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  Speaker 2: alongside his ventriloquist dummy Fats. Faced with the prospect of
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  Speaker 2: signing a network deal for his own show, but afraid
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  Speaker 2: of revealing his fragile mental state, he takes off to
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  Speaker 2: the Catskills, where he tries to reconnect with a high
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  Speaker 2: school love that always ends well, even as Fats begin
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  Speaker 2: to murderously take control of the situation. And yes that
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  Speaker 2: was Ann Margaret, So yes, Sam Ramy wants to remake that. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: well so that he could do that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see.
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  Speaker 2: You ever wonder what Stephen King's favorite movies are. I
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  Speaker 2: saw this, you saw the list.
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  Speaker 1: I won't spoil yeah, go ahead. I think I saw
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  Speaker 1: it too, he said.
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  Speaker 2: And what he said was take away all of movies
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  Speaker 2: that have been made for my books.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, he doesn't like a lot of the ones
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  Speaker 1: that have been made for me.
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  Speaker 2: He names four, he says, excluding Misery, Shawshank, Green Mile,
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  Speaker 2: and stand By Me. Those seem to be the ones
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  Speaker 2: that he'll like. But here are his top ten favorite movies. Sorcerer,
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  Speaker 2: Godfather Too, The Getaway, Groundhog Day, Casablanca, Treasurer of the
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  Speaker 2: Sierra Madre, Jaws, Mean Streets, Double Indemnity, and Close Encounters
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  Speaker 2: of the Third Kind.
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  Speaker 1: We're all pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty good, And I'm sure Sean means we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about it tomorrow. The Walk is a Stephen King.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a Stephen. It was like one of the
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  Speaker 1: first things he ever wrote. Apparently it was Richard Bachman. Then.
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  Speaker 1: And I watched Alien Earth episode six last night. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: oh good, that's sheep. That's sheep.
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  Speaker 2: Oh just stares at you and that's all it takes.
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  Speaker 1: So you have to be watching show it is.
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  Speaker 2: And so they asked Sigourney Weaver, what do you think
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  Speaker 2: he's a She says, I'm really enjoying it.
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  Speaker 1: What I admire is.
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  Speaker 2: The scope is so much more profound than just the
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  Speaker 2: alien movie. It's about our world, what's dominating the world
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  Speaker 2: in one hundred years, And to me, it's right on.
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  Speaker 2: She appreciates the new hybrid creatures and the androids based
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  Speaker 2: on children. All these things are so remarkable, and they're
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  Speaker 2: just building and building and building. The monsters that he's
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  Speaker 2: bringing in are terrifying. It's like, we don't have enough
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  Speaker 2: problems with the alien, We need fifty more. I can't
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  Speaker 2: believe I'm watching this on TV.
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  Speaker 1: She's not wrong,