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I'm going to put you into the hot seat. Actually, you are a universal executive.

You are looking at the year of 2004, you're planning your schedule ahead of time and you are saying to yourself,

hey, we have this Van Helsing, sorry, Hugh Jackman, Wolverine.

Was this smart choice for Universal?

Does this supposed to be a monster hit for Universal in the summer of 2004?

Yeah, for sure. Hugh Jackman is a great, great 20 out of 10 fantastic castings.

Honestly, if you're going to make this movie today, he's still a great casting choice to play an action hero version of Van Helsing.

But this is him coming at the height of his, of his Wolverine powers.

So yeah, I mean, I think we're going to get into it.

But like Hugh Jackman is one of the best parts of this movie.

Well, I think Wolverine powers is the perfect way to begin our episode.

Hello and welcome to Geek History lesson.

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We take one character construct or almost one year old movie from popular culture and teach you everything you need to know about him in about an hour.

And today we're talking about Van Helsing.

And this is your fault listeners. Yes, that's right.

We did a vampire episodes a couple of months ago and we asked on Twitter,

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