The Geek-out Podcast

Pol, Bud, and Art chat robots, comics, aliens, Christmas specials, and karateka. Y’know . . . a normal week. 🤪

Bud’s Weekly Geek-out

18:11 – robot ”kidnapping”

Coming Soon

20:33 – Lilo & Stitch (live-action Disney movie, in theatres May 23, 2025) (Zoner Mary)

23:12 – Watchmen Chapter II (out now, digital, Chapter I $7/10 CAD rent/buy, Chapter II $20 CAD, purchase only)

27:28 – Parthenope (A24, Gary Oldman, February 7)

29:24 – A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter (Netflix special, December 6 at 6:00 pm Pacific)

38:48 – Disney+ has all the Alien movies, including Prometheus

41:17 – Analogue’s 4K Nintendo 64 launches in 2025 for $249 USD (preorders sold out)

Geek News Proper

42:14 – Chuck Woolery, Love Connection host, dead at 83

Reviews and Recommendayshes

46:07 – The Penguin (Art)

56:07 – Glad-II-ator (Pol & Art)

1:10:51 – Cobra Kai part 2 (Art)

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Pol, Kirsten, and Bud talk Wicked, AI, all the live-action movies, and Jar Jar Binks even comes up today!

Preamble

04:36 – Wicked marketing followup

Bud’s Weekly Geek-out

10:52 – Daisy the AI scambaiter

Coming Soon

22:44 – Severance S1 recap (but for real) (Apple TV+ series, S2, January 17)

23:53 – Beatles ’64 (Disney+ documentary, November 29)

29:44 – The Studio (Apple TV+ series, March 26)

30:58 – A Minecraft Movie (in theatres April 4)

35:57 – How To Train Your Dragon (in theaters June 13)

related: HTTYD: first look

40:07 – The Amateur (Rami Malek, in theatres April 11)

45:15 – Secret Level (Prime Video anthology series, December 10)

47:34 – Sophie Turner poised to play Lara Croft in Tomb Raider series on Amazon

48:28 – Lady Gaga joins Wednesday season 2

49:15 – Conan O’Brien tapped to host the 2025 Oscars

53:16 – James Bond: next actor will be in his 30s and ‘whiteness is not a given’

Reviews and Recommendayshes

56:10 – The Substance (Pol & Bud)

1:03:00 – Agatha All Along (Kirsten)

1:06:55 – Dune Prophecy (Pol)

1:08:05 – Heretic (Pol) (bonus Jar Jar Hugh Grant)

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Pol, Bud, & Kirsten talk Tweets, sleepy Marvel movies, interesting Mission: Impossible movies, and not-bad streaming shows. Plus, a special appearance from comedian Jason Lamb!

Preamble

01:19 – Tweets on Twitter, Tweets on Threads, Tweets on Instagram

13:12 – Pol’s big fancy birthday!

Bud’s Weekly Geek-out

18:12 – The Case of The Mysteriously Rebooting iPhones

Coming Soon

23:15 – Captain America: Brave New World (in theatres February 14)

28:10 – Thunderbolts* (in theatres May 2) (Zoner Mary)

31:30 – What If…? (Marvel series, third and final season, December 22 on Disney+) (Zoner Mary)

33:13 – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (in theatres May 23)

36:20 – Miyamoto’s tour of Donkey Kong Country at Super Nintendo World Japan (December 11 in Japan, 2025 in Florida)

40:54 – Coming to Disney+ in 2025 (The Bear S4, Skeleton Crew, Goosebumps: The Vanishing, Alien: Earth S1, Ironheart, Daredevil: Born Again, Andor, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, final season of The Handmaids Tale)

42:42 – Coming to Max in 2025 (Dune: Prophecy, And Just Like That S3, Pee-Wee as Himself 2-part doc, Task w/ Mark Ruffalo, whole-ass article about the 1.48 seconds of Nathan Fielder, Conan O’Brien Must Go S2, Peacemaker S2, IT: Welcome to Derry, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, The Last of Us S2, White Lotus S3)

50:13 – Mary (Netflix historical Christmas movie w/ Anthony Hopkins, December 6)

54:08 – Takashi Yamazaki (Godzilla Minus One) is directing another Godzilla movie

56:35 – Denzel Washington says he’s starring in Black Panther 3 (article)

NOT Coming Soon

59:53 – James Gunn says Joker TV series with Barry Keoghan ‘is not being discussed nor has it even come up at this time’

Coming Soon RUMOURS and HEARSEY from Deadline

1:04:23 – SOURCES SAY Macaulay Culkin joins Fallout S2

1:05:06 – I HEARD Lucasfilm has tapped Simon Kinberg to write & produce a Star Wars trilogy

1:05:59 – SOURCES SAY Anne Hathaway & Zendaya to star in Christopher Nolan’s next film

Geek News Proper

1:07:30 – Warner Bros is selling 10 Tumbler Batmobiles from Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight movies ($2,990,000 USD, unconfirmed ‘fully functional but not street legal’)

1:17:11 – A guide to the many Wicked movie product collabs

related: Mattel pulls thousands of Wicked dolls off shelves after printing adult web address on packaging

Reviews and Recommendayshes

1:30:55 – Agatha All Along E01-E03 (Kirsten)

1:32:08 – Alien: Romulus (Kirsten)

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Need an escape from, y’know, reality? Pol, Kirsten, Bud, and Art talk Squid Game, Stranger Things 5, Martha Stewart, and more, and don’t mention anyone who should not be named.

Bud’s Weekly Geek-out

06:16 – Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete

Coming Soon

17:14 – Squid Game (Netflix series, S2, December 26)

23:08 – Marvel Studios’ look ahead (Zoner Mary)

30:13 – Stranger Things 5 (Netflix series, final season, 2025)

– The Crawl

– The Vanishing of __________

– The Turnbow Trap

– Sorcerer

– Shock Jock

– Escape from Camazotz

– The Bridge

– The Rightside Up (S01E01: The Upside Down)

34:01 – Moana 2 (clip: Big, Bad Matangi, Disney animated sequel, November 27)

36:44 – Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (Disney+ series, December 3)

46:18 – September 5 (strangely, in theatres November 29, based on the Munich Massacre)

49:37 – Oregon Trail action-comedy movie in development at Apple

Reviews and Recommendayshes

54:28 – Trap (Art, Pol, and Kirsten)

1:04:02 – Conclave (Kirsten)

1:10:44 – Shrinking (Art)

1:14:41 – Martha (Pol)

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Pol, Bud, & Kirsten talk Severance, Star Trek, Tegan & Sara, and review a core horror movie from 1980 that Kirsten & Bud somehow never got around to seeing!

Bud’s Weekly Geek-out

08:29 – iHearing

Coming soon (NYCC)

14:36 – Lower Decks clip (final season, Paramount+, two-ep premiere Friday) (Zoner Mary)

related: Strange New Worlds clip (S3, Paramount+ series, 2025) (Zoner Mary)

related: Star Trek: Section 31 to Premiere January 24 (Paramount+ series) (Zoner Mary)

15:53 – Tatiana Maslany guest starring in S2 of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (Paramount+ series, S1 currently in production in Toronto) (Zoner Mary)

17:08 – Daredevil: Born Again release date (Disney+ series, “starts streaming” March 4) (Zoner Mary)

Coming Soon (the usual stuff)

18:18 – Severance (Apple TV+ series, S2, January 17)

25:38 – Goosebumps: The Vanishing (Disney+ anthology series, S2, January 10)

28:50 – The Electric State (Netflix film, March 14) (Zoner Spenny, June)

34:59 – Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara (Hulu documentary, Disney+, out now)

38:58 – Carry-On (starring Taron Edgerton, light happy Netflix holiday film, December 13)

44:36 – Love Hurts (in theatres February 7)

45:25 – The Legend of Ochi (A24, coming soon, Finn Wolfhard doesn’t age)

48:38 – The Monkey (in theatres February 21, wr: Stephen King, pr: James Wan, dir: Osgood Perkins, starring: Theo James from the White Lotus S2!)

51:10 – Juror #2 (in theatres November 1, dir: Clint Eastwood, starring Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons, Kiefer Sutherland?)
52:54 – Companion (in theatres January 10, starring Jack Quaid (Hughie), Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets, is ALSO in Heretic), Harvey Guillén (Guillermo in What We Do in the Shadows), and Rupert Friend (Peter Quinn from Homeland, Grand Inquisitor from Obi-Wan))

55:16 – Dune: Prophecy (HBO series, Max, November 17)

56:34 – DeLorean Labs – Time Capsule

59:02 – Tom Holland confirms Spider-Man 4 begins filming summer 2025 (on The Tonight Show w/ Jimmy Fallon)

Coming soon (not video)

1:03:24 – Tom Holland to star in Christopher Nolan’s latest film . . . about vampires?

1:07:11 – Secret Level voice cast revealed (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kevin Hart, Keanu Reeves, Gabriel Luna, Temuera Morrison, Ariana Greenblatt (young everybody), trailer recap)

1:07:51 – Josh Brolin to play the villain in Edgar Wright’s The Running Man

1:08:07 – Andor S2 has finished filming (Zoner Spenny)

NOT Coming Soon

1:08:21 – Blade has been removed from Marvel’s 2025 release schedule (we get Predator: Badlands instead, November 7, 2025)

Listener mailbag ([email protected])

1:10:52 – Zoner Ewan: If each of the podcast members were Tranformers, what would you each transform into based on your personalities, rather than what you would prefer to turn into. Would Bryan transform into a turntable? Would Art transform into a Zamboni?

Reviews and Recommendayshes

1:20:33 – Friday the 13th? (KJ & Bud)

1:28:57 – Late Night with the Devil (KJ, Bud, & Pol)

1:37:36 – Saturday Night (Pol)

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Pol, Bud, and Art chat alarm clocks in 2024, Mormon girls, and Krypto the Superdog.

Bud’s Weekly Geek-out

10:25 – Alarmo

Coming Soon

19:05 – LEGO Marvel Avengers: Mission Demolition (Disney+ animated film, October 18) (Zoner Mary)

20:44 – Heretic (in theatres November 8)

24:11 – Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (BBC Christmas, Netflix January 3, 2025)

24:46 – Don’t Move (Netflix film, October 25)

26:00 – An Almost Christmas Story (dir: Alfonso Cuaron, starring John C. Reilly, Jim Gaffigan, and more, Disney+ short film, November 16)

26:45 – Kevin Smith finally regains control of Dogma, coming to streaming for 25th anniversary

28:54 – Krypto the Superdog will appear in James Gunn’s Superman: ”He’s a not-so-good-good-boy” (Zoner Ewan)

32:08 – Christopher Nolan sets next movie at Universal in IMAX for summer 2026 with Matt Damon eyed to star

43:08 – Avatar: The Last Airbender RPG game announcement (coming in a LONG TIME, console + PC)

Still NOT Coming Soon

45:16 – Charlie Covell urges fans to ”Please keep talking about Kaos” in first statement since shock cancellation

Geek News Proper

47:47 – Prime Video is adding Apple TV+ as a subscription add-on (Paramount+, Crave, AMC+, Shudder, Crunchyroll (anime), Teletoon+, Sportsnet, TSN, some BBC channels)

54:46 – Jerry Seinfeld ‘regrets’ saying the ‘extreme left’ killed comedy

Reviews and Recommendayshes

59:35 – Disclaimer* (Art)

1:01:51 – Agatha All Along E01–E03 (Art)

1:05:38 – Late Night with the Devil (Pol & Bud, brief)

1:07:20 – Hate to Love: Nickelback (Art)

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Just Pol & Bud today, talking algae, Switch 2 (OH I’M SORRY I MEAN AN ALARM CLOCK FOR SOME REASON), and Joker Fully Ah De Mew starring Joe-Keen Phoenix.

Bud’s Weekly Geek-out

11:59 – Hello Algae

Coming Soon

15:48 – Goosebumps: The Vanishing (starring David Schwimmer, Disney+ series, S2, January 10, 2025) (Zoner Mary)

18:04 – Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo (out today, $130 CAD, NY store/US & CAD NSO availability to start)

NOT Coming Soon

24:14 – That ’90s show cancelled at Netflix

Geek News Proper

28:11 – Joker: Folie à Deux getting roasted

37:03 – The Jim Henson Company says it’s NOT selling its studio lot to the church of scientology

Reviews and Recommendayshes

38:35 – Late Night With The Devil (next week, we probably promise)

41:09 – Broken Lens (Bud)

43:57 – Larry David live (Pol)

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While the Bud's away Art, Kirsten & Pol will play but without time codes or decent cover art or any of the other stuff that Bud does to make this podcast semi-professional on a weekly basis. Lots of fun stuff to talk about though including Megalopolis more like Mega-FLOP-olis, Spirit Halloween haunting SNL Season 50, the Simpsons "Series" "Finale", Dame Maggie Smith and a Dracula named Nosfaratu. 

Pol, Bud, and Art talk Thunderbolts, Squids, Gladiators, Batmen, and Asteriks. Erm, asterisks.

Bud’s Weekly Geek-out

15:27 – BC earthquake alerts

Coming Soon

22:47 – Thunderbolts* (in theatres May 2, 2025) (Zoner Ewan)

related: Kevin Feige says the * mystery will remain intact until 2025

29:01 – Squid Game: Season 2 (Netflix series, December 26)

33:26 – Gladiator II (in theatres November 22) (Zoner Mary)

41:33 – Sublime biopic casts Riverdale’s KJ Apa as Bradley Nowell

44:07 – The Apprentice (in theatres October 11)

related: Sebastian Stan tells all: becoming Donald Trump, gaining 15 pounds and starring in 2024’s most controversial movie

Geek News Proper

59:39 – Cineplex slapped with record $38.9M fine over $1.50 online booking fee

Reviews and Recommendayshes

51:22 – Slow Horses (Art)

55:17 – Industry (Art)

1:00:40 – Transformers One (Zoner Bryce)

1:03:53 – The Penguin (Art)

1:10:51 – Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos (Pol)

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Pol, Kirsten, and Bud fear the robot, save the last dance, recap the Emmys, and go crazy for chimps!

Bud’s Weekly Geek-out

15:03 – NotebookLM

Coming Soon

25:39 – ‘Salem’s Lot (Max film, October 3)

28:01 – Venom: The Last Dance (in theatres October 25)

31:55 – Transformers One (in theatres this Friday)

32:52 – Kevin Smith’s The 4:30 Movie (in theatres September 13)

35:10 – Happy Gilmore 2, it would seem

Geek News Proper

37:49 – Emmy Awards 2024

44:08 – Judd Apatow & Steven Spielberg join Coke Vs. Pepsi film Cola Wars

45:24 – Lionsgate inks deal with AI firm to mine its massive film and tv library

47:16 – almost R&H: Scarlet Witch had a much different role in original Doctor Strange 2 story, says X-Men ’97 writer

RUMOURS and HEARSEY

49:10 – aCcOrDiNg tO iNsIdErS, Constantine 2 is officially on the table (source: Fandom Wire)

Reviews and Recommendayshes

49:55 – Chimp Crazy (Kirsten)

54:19 – Trap (Kirsten)

59:37 – The Rings of Season 2

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