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

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  Speaker 1: So much more.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you just went there for cards. You would
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  Speaker 2: maybe not would go. But they've got all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: novelty gifts of great place for Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, are you drunk now? You're drunk now, aren't you?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: Gina?
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm enthused. That's drunk. We hope.
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  Speaker 4: We were hoping to have a brand new trailer or
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  Speaker 4: a teaser from the Supergirl movie, but it has not
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  Speaker 4: arrived yet.
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  Speaker 1: It'll arrive sometime today, though, Is that ominous? Is that
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  Speaker 1: a problem?
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  Speaker 4: Is it is a promise from James Gunn. He swears
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  Speaker 4: it'll be sometime this week, more than likely today.
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  Speaker 1: He's being kind of cagy.
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  Speaker 2: Have you heard him talking about Superman and doing all
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  Speaker 2: of that? And and do I remember this right? And
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  Speaker 2: you probably know him trying. He talked about his when
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  Speaker 2: he was growing up and reading Superman. There were lots
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  Speaker 2: of silly elements to Superman, yes, and he wanted to
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  Speaker 2: capture that in his.
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  Speaker 4: Movie there and and if you watch this new Superman movie,
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  Speaker 4: there's quite a few silly elements in there.
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  Speaker 1: But he's he's.
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  Speaker 4: Got it down now. I was flipping around Disney Plus
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  Speaker 4: yesterday like you do, like you do, and seeing what
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  Speaker 4: they had to offer, you know, what's new, what's happening?
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  Speaker 1: And there was h yule log. Now, oh the yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Now, in the in the old days, there there were
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  Speaker 4: there were TV stations who on Christmas Eve would broadcast
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  Speaker 4: like a for hours, a non stop shot of a fireplace.
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  Speaker 1: Like a real fire, crackling and crackling, and play Christmas music.
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  Speaker 1: And there's some cable channel or something called the yule Log.
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  Speaker 4: And I noticed on Disney Plus that they had one
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  Speaker 4: that was based in the Grand Californian Hotel lobby, which
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  Speaker 4: has a giant fireplace that I played there with you.
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  Speaker 1: It's a place I like to go to kind of
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  Speaker 1: relax a bit, you know. I love that hotel. The
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  Speaker 1: part gets to be too much. You can walk right
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  Speaker 1: into the lobby there and there it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's very much like the Yellowstone Watch up and yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But so they have their own version of it. Well,
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  Speaker 4: the TV show fall Out.
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  Speaker 1: Not to be outdone, oh No.
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  Speaker 4: Has their own oh No, And you can tune in
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  Speaker 4: now and watch. Of course it's in that grand tradition
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  Speaker 4: of the game where they play these old songs, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But here's the thing about their Yule Log is that
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  Speaker 4: it's not a wooden log. Well, the ghoule reveals at
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  Speaker 4: the start of this it's a ninety minute video, but
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  Speaker 4: that's not a log tossed on the fire. He said,
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  Speaker 4: this ain't no whovill, but it'll do. I got enough
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  Speaker 4: vials to last me the twelve days of Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: And then he says, see this, it ain't no log.
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  Speaker 4: It's a human arm, specifically a fat man's.
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  Speaker 1: It burns nice, doesn't it? And where where can I
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  Speaker 1: find this? You can find this online on YouTube?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, he keeps a few spare arms on standby throughout
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  Speaker 4: the year. You see dry aging, just because it's so
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  Speaker 4: nice during the winter. Stay armed, stay warm, That's what
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  Speaker 4: I always say.
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  Speaker 1: So let me understand this show a little bit more.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, basically, And you know, I love listening to
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  Speaker 4: these old sides, but not as much as I love
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  Speaker 4: listening to your stories.
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  Speaker 3: I want to hear from you. Here's a little holiday
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  Speaker 3: yarn from slowtus Rex.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's the thing about this bill that you don't.
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  Speaker 3: Know is reminiscent.
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  Speaker 1: You may not or may recognize them.
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  Speaker 3: People might complain about Christmas in the wastelands, but it's
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  Speaker 3: now He's in the games, I still got Christmas.
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  Speaker 4: And he is the host of the radio station that
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  Speaker 4: plays in the games, that plays these old songs like
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  Speaker 4: the Ink Spots and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you recognize the whole time Martin?
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  Speaker 3: That's pretty disappointing.
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  Speaker 4: If I were to say, mister Las vegasne Wayne new.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're both ancient.
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  Speaker 3: And more interesting person than one percent of the Vaultice.
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  Speaker 3: That does make me feel like I've got the era
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  Speaker 3: of Santa. So Santa, if you're listening, bring me the
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  Speaker 3: real kool. We've all seen these giant pea creatures roaming
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  Speaker 3: the wastelands. I'm pretty sure I have, or at least
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  Speaker 3: the dust clouds they kick up. What see us all
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  Speaker 3: listeners band together having a hunting party. Half of us
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  Speaker 3: can be huge holes. Fill it with these kinds of
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  Speaker 3: hot rocks that they have now that never cool off,
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  Speaker 3: and see if we can't get that sucker tasting like
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  Speaker 3: some kola.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, anyway, but it's an hour and a half.
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  Speaker 4: If you're a big fan of Fallout, you will love that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to watch that is the Yule log. Also
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  Speaker 4: there's a Star Wars one of course, the Darth Vader
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  Speaker 4: Yule Log, which is just Vader's body burning the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, there's a lot of them. Let's see really
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  Speaker 1: quickly here.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna skip the Spider Man's story because it's really
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  Speaker 4: not that important.
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  Speaker 1: But here we go. This is for Christmas. This is
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  Speaker 1: for me.
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  Speaker 4: If you want to get me something, you see this.
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  Speaker 4: It's a transformer. Now that's a sound Waves.
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  Speaker 1: An Slash Live.
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  Speaker 4: He's a Decepticon. Here's the thing about this transformer. It
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  Speaker 4: comes from robosends a line of previous transformers. Now what's
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  Speaker 4: great about their transformers is they transform themselves. Oh, this
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  Speaker 4: will this and this does this will transform itself.
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  Speaker 1: Sound Wave they have an Optimist Prime, they have a Bumblebee,
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  Speaker 1: they have a.
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  Speaker 4: Megatron, and they're very expensive. I want to see video
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  Speaker 4: of it. Yeah, well yeah, there's video. But here's the
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  Speaker 4: thing about this one is that sound Wave was a
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  Speaker 4: cassette deck player. This is a functioning cassette deck care
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  Speaker 4: exactly and how much.
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  Speaker 1: Does this and a Bluetooth speaker? How much? So you can,
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  Speaker 1: you know, have it run your iPhone and all that.
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  Speaker 4: But but it's right now, it's one thousand dollars after
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  Speaker 4: January fifth, it's going to be one thousand, four hundred.
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  Speaker 1: That's really cool. But it's a yeah, go find video
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 4: It transforms itself and it works and wow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it says thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's got the voice act saying like the septicon rule
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  Speaker 4: autobots drool, you know, things like that. So