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Geek News on the Radio From September 8th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: Now, I'm trying to think of the most expensive thing
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: that I like, collectible that I bought.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: You've ever heard the most I've paid? Yeah, And.
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: I think it was it was now my shield was
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: my cap shield was essentially free and it's probably one
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty dollars.
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  Speaker 3: I'm surprised. I would have thought you would have spent
• 0:38
  Speaker 3: more than that on something.
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: And that was for the Twilight Zone Napkin Napkin dispenser
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: with the devil Head on it, you know, from the
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  Speaker 2: one which is great episode was shatter on it.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, But an anonymous Star Wars collector, yeah, has paid.
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: For Darth Vader's original lightsaber at props to Auction in
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles, setting a new record for the highest amount
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  Speaker 2: ever paid for a Star Wars prop. This is a
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: screen matched weapon wielded by the late Dave Prows during
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: filming of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi,
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  Speaker 2: including the I Have Your Father scene. You know, it
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  Speaker 2: has visible battle damage on it from production chips and cracks.
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  Speaker 1: Three point six million dollars.
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  Speaker 3: And it's anonymous who got it right?
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  Speaker 2: We don't well when they it's it's probably some silicon
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: Valley Tech bro.
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  Speaker 1: You know, but three point six million.
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  Speaker 3: Dollars that kind of money to spend on that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, like that's after you've bought houses and cars and yachts.
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  Speaker 3: In Pool, pol And. If you've got money, then there's
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  Speaker 3: money left over we.
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  Speaker 1: Spend on something like that.
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  Speaker 3: So why not?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just crazy. You know, there are kids who
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: could use school lunches. You know, you could do that too,
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  Speaker 2: I suppose.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: Let's see.
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: Now I did not know this, but the Adams Family
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  Speaker 2: series Wednesday on Netflix. They just dropped the second half
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: of the season last week and it has been renewed
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: for season three, which was news to me. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: creators of the show said they can expect the third season.
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: They kept it spoiler free, but they told everybody examine
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  Speaker 2: season two's final episode, which lays a nice breadcrumb that
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: leads audiences to wonder what the new adventure for Wednesday
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  Speaker 2: will be in season three. But they say that if
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: you look close and pay attention.
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  Speaker 4: But are we going to have problems with Jenna or
• 2:45
  Speaker 4: Taga not being a teenager anymore? And how do you
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  Speaker 4: keep playing Wednesday when.
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  Speaker 3: You're growing up? Well, you just you have Wednesday grow up.
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  Speaker 1: Why not, Maybe you do. Maybe maybe that's the next movement.
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  Speaker 3: This is why the Simpsons has worked for so long.
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  Speaker 3: They can all be the same.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I've noticed, I've noticed Bart aging.
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  Speaker 2: We're we're all enjoying that. I've got a story about
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  Speaker 2: the Alien Earth show coming up. Uh huh, just real quickly,
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  Speaker 2: here did you see Alien Romulus?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I saw that pretty good?
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  Speaker 2: And this guy Fede Alvarez wrote and directed it, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, blessed by Scott Free Productions and everybody who
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  Speaker 2: runs the franchise.
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  Speaker 1: He did a terrific job.
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  Speaker 2: And for some reason he's not doing the sequel, the
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  Speaker 2: sequels going forward. Maybe he's he says, I'm something else says,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to produce it with Ridley Scott. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to produce it together, but we're going to get a
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  Speaker 2: different filmmaker we which is unfortunate because I quite enjoyed it. Actually,
• 4:03
  Speaker 2: boy that the Alien Earth is it is and it
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  Speaker 2: just keeps getting better. And here's the thing about Noah
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  Speaker 2: Hawley is that some time ago.
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  Speaker 1: He was a showrunner and creator. Yeah, did Fargo, all
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  Speaker 1: those shows.
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  Speaker 2: He you know, was asked by Paramount, what would you
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  Speaker 2: do with Star Trek and he said, I'd love to.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about it. So they sat down. Because you know,
• 4:33
  Speaker 2: we got news that another Star Trek movie is coming,
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  Speaker 2: but it will not be his, he says. When asked
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  Speaker 2: some time ago, he said, we're not doing Kirk, We're
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  Speaker 2: not doing Picard.
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  Speaker 1: We're starting from scratch.
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  Speaker 2: And that allows me to do what we did with
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  Speaker 2: the Fargo show. Completely different, completely different.
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  Speaker 3: But but reminiscent.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's finally he's finally come forward and said here,
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  Speaker 2: you know, here's here's what happened.
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  Speaker 1: He said, it was great.
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: We had sound stages built in Australia, we were on
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  Speaker 2: the runway, we were negotiating with actors. Mostly, what I
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  Speaker 2: can say is that it was a really hard loss
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  Speaker 2: because we got so close. It was an original story
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  Speaker 2: that was not Chris Pine Captain Kirk. I guess the
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  Speaker 2: thing that might stick with people is that there was
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  Speaker 2: an unboxing of data, the idea of the Android, and
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  Speaker 2: that was to become an element in the films, which
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  Speaker 2: I think he has brought over now into Alien Earth.
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  Speaker 3: So all of that went away, that's never happened, that's
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  Speaker 3: not going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: But I think he took that being an android thing
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  Speaker 2: and is putting it in Alien Earth. He also added
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  Speaker 2: it was an adventure because I loved the Wrath of Khan.
• 5:48
  Speaker 2: My favorite moment was when Chatner puts on his reading
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  Speaker 2: glasses and lowers con shields. It costs nothing, but I
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  Speaker 2: love the creative problem solving. They outsmarted their enemies. That
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  Speaker 2: was my favorite kind of story telling. I really wish
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  Speaker 2: they would have let him go forward with whatever it
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  Speaker 2: was that he had planned, because, like I said, Alien
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  Speaker 2: Earth is just terrific.
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  Speaker 3: So good.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see Mark Ruffalo and Ryan Reynolds are denying that
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  Speaker 2: they're in doomsday.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say that they were
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  Speaker 1: in love.
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  Speaker 3: We are not in love.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see Ruffalo.
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, Ruffalo was being asked specifically about the New Spider
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  Speaker 2: Man movie because the story is is that his new
• 6:30
  Speaker 2: adult mentor is going to be Bruce Banner. And here's
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: and Ruffalo is really bad about spilling the beans.
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  Speaker 4: Oh was I supposed to not say exactly?
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  Speaker 2: So I think he's like overcorrecting now because here's what
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: he had to say. This was his He says, if
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing that, which the rumors are that I am,
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  Speaker 2: once I get a script, I'll know it's real.
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  Speaker 1: And that's all he's saying.
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  Speaker 2: I think he got in so much trouble before when
• 6:58
  Speaker 2: he what he was doing Infinity Warning. He says, well
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: then everybody dies. Huh, And don Chie Adel looked at
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  Speaker 2: him like, what are you?
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  Speaker 3: What's wrong?
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  Speaker 2: And now Ryan Reynolds is saying that he's not in
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  Speaker 2: doomsday because he posted an anarchy symbol over the Avengers
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  Speaker 2: a right on his social media and he says, that
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  Speaker 2: thing I posted is just a variant of a flag
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  Speaker 2: that we used in Deadpool and Wolverine.
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  Speaker 1: It was my favorite and for some reason, you watch it, watch.
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  Speaker 2: A movie later that has many aults of all that stuff,
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: and you go, why didn't I choose that one? There
• 7:31
  Speaker 2: were five great jokes for that, and you know, he said,
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: I just put it out there. So Ryan, you're trying
• 7:37
  Speaker 2: to tell me that you just happened to be rewatching
• 7:41
  Speaker 2: Deadpool and Wolverine and went, oh, we ain't buying it.
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: Well, I believe it over correctly, I think again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, and everybody's excited about Lego Star Trek because we've
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: never had proper Legos Star Treks before. We've always had
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  Speaker 2: like blocks or whatever, it was, but never proper legos