Pol, Kirsten, & Bud talk privacy & consent, Oscars & snubs, greed & streamers.
Bud’s Weekly Geek-out
11:59 – nose cover pose
Coming Soon
24:27 – Jon Stewart to host The Daily Show once a week through presidential election
26:19 – Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix series, February 22)
related: Mike DiMartino talks Avatarverse animated something (also, Jeremy Zuckerman announces A:TLA book 1: water soundtrack)
29:04 – Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (PC/Xbox X/S, later this year)
33:17 – The Bad Batch (D+ Star Wars animated spinoff, third and final season, three-episode premiere February 21) (Zoner Mary)
34:54 – Princess Peach: Showtime! (Nintendo game, March 22)
related: Nintendo will release a set of limited edition pastel pink Joy-Cons when the game drops
36:22 – Constellation (Apple TV+ series, February 21)
38:02 – The New Look (Apple TV+ series, February 14, fashion designer FIGHT!)
38:19 – Hundreds of Beavers (strange indie film, in some theatres February 15)
41:34 – New Jurassic World-era movie in the works
43:43 – Daredevil: Born Again resumes production
50:29 – Anthony Kiedis biopic in the works, based on his memoir
Geek News Proper
52:12 – 96th Academy Award nominations (Sunday, March 10) (graph)
related: Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie snubbed
sidebar: How Greta Gerwig got Ryan Gosling to sing
related: Godzilla Minus One nomination reaction
1:05:01 – Palworld sells 1M copies in 8 hours, 3M copies in 40 hours, 5M in its first three days, 7M in its five days (OG trailer, copyrights, Pokémod, ”Nintendo has come for me”)
1:08:47 – WWE Monday Night Raw is ditching cable for Netflix
1:12:37 – Pitchfork to be absorbed into GQ
1:14:51 – Crave’s ”premium ad-free” package jumping $2/mo
1:18:57 – Ted is surprisingly great, with better VFX than the MCU
1:19:33 – Larry Smoot, Disney Imagineer (extendable lightsaber, non-hostage omnidirectional treadmill)
1:21:02 – Solo Stove and Snoop Dogg: a once lauded partnership now up in smoke (OG post, more)
1:24:37 – Oblivia Coalmine
Listener mailbag (geekout@TheZone.fm)
1:25:27 – Zoner Ewan: DC public domain = Marvel character steal?
1:30:21 – Zoner Scott (FB group): Mjölnir lifting update
Reviews and Recommendayshes
1:32:48 – Bud is 1.5 episodes away from finishing Echo, Pol finished The Bear and The Curse, Kirsten has “Plastino’d” Echo (hasn’t started it)
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