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Avengers: Doomsday Podcast Episode

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I had heart issues last year—AFib that sent me to the emergency room. But I'm back now, and this episode is for our Leia who we lost.

Zero Dark Nerdy comes back after a long break. The episode starts by laying out why the mic went quiet. The AFib emergency room visit is named plainly. High blood pressure gets folded into the same health reset. The return feels personal from the first minute. The show thanks his daughter, wife, family, and friends for reaching out. That gratitude sits right next to the update on short-term disability and FMLA, along with the effort to get healthier and back to work. Then the conversation shifts into Marvel's recent run. Disney's focus on quantity over quality gets called out directly. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania takes a beating. The Bill Murray cameo is still treated like a wasted opportunity. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 gets the most praise and comes through as the emotional high point of the phase. The conversation keeps circling back to Rocket as the trilogy's real center. Secret Invasion gets a more forgiving pass than most people gave it. Loki season two lands as pretty good. What If...? season two, Echo, Deadpool and Wolverine, and Agatha All Along stay in the mix as part of the wider Marvel check-in. Captain America: Brave New World is judged as okay, with the previews making it seem bigger than it turned out to be. The whole thing plays like a loose fandom catch-up, part life update and part postmortem on where Marvel has been heading.

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A comeback episode that turns Marvel fatigue into a personal, watchable conversation.

Zero Dark Nerdy opens with a plainspoken health update and a long break, then gets back to what the hosts know best: talking through Marvel with a mix of memory, opinion, and a little frustration.

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A candid comeback and a blunt Marvel phase-five reset.

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