Marvel’s Leakiest Christmas Yet and Why Steve Rogers’ Baby Changes Everything (Ep. 7)

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🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Jim Hill and Dan Graney ring in the holidays with a Marvel conversation that somehow involves hacked PayPal accounts, cardboard Star Wars memories, and one of the strangest trailer rollouts in studio history. As Marvel’s Doomsday marketing quietly unravels through shaky theater footage and strategically ignored leaks, the guys dig into what’s really going on behind the scenes - and why this controlled chaos may actually be the plan. Along the way, they unpack the emotional and narrative risks of bringing Steve Rogers back into the MCU, especially now that he’s apparently a dad. NEWS • Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday teaser rollout goes sideways as multiple theater-only trailers leak online • Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers quietly returns - with a baby - raising major Endgame continuity questions • Marvel reportedly plans a rotating, four-week Doomsday teaser strategy tied to Avatar: Fire and Ash • Sony clamps down fast on a leaked Spider-Man: Brand New Day teaser while Marvel lets its leaks breathe FEATURE • Why revisiting Steve Rogers’ Endgame ending is both risky and emotionally loaded • How kids, legacy, and family may define the stakes of Doomsday and Secret Wars • A wild theory: Is Steve Rogers immune to Doctor Strange’s Spider-Man memory spell? • When leaks stop being accidents and start becoming the marketing strategy HOSTS • Jim Hill - IG: @JimHillMedia | X: @JimHillMedia | Website: JimHillMedia.com • Dan Graney - YouTube: The Hubbubbery | Website: thehubbubbery.com FOLLOW • Facebook: JimHillMediaNews • Instagram: JimHillMedia • TikTok: JimHillMedia SUPPORT Support the show and access bonus episodes and additional content at Patreon.com/JimHillMedia. PRODUCTION CREDITS Edited by Dave Grey Produced by Eric Hersey - Strong Minded Agency SPONSOR This episode is brought to you by Unlocked Magic, where you can score real discounts on Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando tickets - sometimes up to 12 percent off. Run by the same team behind the DVC Rental Store and DVC Resale Market, Unlocked Magic makes planning your next trip to Central Florida easier and more affordable. Tell them Jim and Dan sent you. If you would like to sponsor a show on the Jim Hill Media Podcast Network, reach out today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Marvelous Disney, the podcast where Dan Grainy and I talk about Marvel, Disney, theme parks, movies, and apparently this week, whatever Marvel accidentally left under the tree.
0:13.3	This is entertainment writer Jim Hill, and I'm joined, as always, by Dan Grainy, And again, this episode will post on Christmas Eve.
0:25.7	And Dan, I'm going to tell you right now, I'm praying for a Christmas miracle because on Sunday, December 21st, I'm literally, I'm sitting at my laptop.
0:37.5	I'm working on the show that you and I are going to be doing tonight.
0:41.4	And I notice in my email a message comes in from PayPal that I just, you know, thank you for ordering $2,900 worth of material from Boats, which was kind of a surprise to me because I hadn't actually done that.
0:55.6	And then inside of the next 31 minutes, I ordered three other piles of material from bows,
1:04.8	all of them for, what is it, $2,980 worth of material, and 77 cents, by the way.
1:13.8	All right.
1:14.4	And so, you know, in the middle of it, Nancy, I realized, oh, my God, we've been hacked.
1:19.6	And so, you know, we get in, we do, you know, we do what PayPal tells us to do.
1:23.7	We change our password.
1:25.2	We file an investigation.
1:31.3	And within five hours, they got back to us and said, well, not our problem. Yet it was like, what? You know, it's like they hacked into our
1:38.2	account, but from PayPal side, they couldn't see any evidence of a third party.
1:46.4	And I was like, wait a minute, we literally reach out to you to tell you in real time this was going on.
1:52.3	More to the point, who orders four items for, again, $2,980.77, back to back, four of them.
2:02.7	But it was just PayPal was, you know,
2:05.3	you're right.
2:06.9	You know, it looks fishy, but we're not helping.
2:10.7	And, you know, and so now,
2:13.6	totally burying the needle in the other direction.
2:17.7	Bose, the lovely Bose Corporation, you know, first of all, they're closed for the weekend here in the States, but there was somebody in the UK working their call center or their support line, and I reached out, and they were like,
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