The 2026 Fall Hype Meter Live from Oriole Park at Camden Yards

House of R

House of R hosts the Fall Hype Meter live at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, celebrating a seasonal tradition with audience partic

Key takeaways

• The Hype Meter is not about predicting success but embracing the moment of possibility before something becomes definitively bad.
• Resident Evil is a surprising pick for Joanna despite her aversion to horror films, marking a personal milestone at age 40.

Main topics

• Fall Hype Meter live event
• Resident Evil (2026)

Notable quotes

The city moves fast, but your vibe, that's different. Sharper, smoother, more alive.

I'm going to pivot to horror. And I just feel like I'm missing the Zack Prager.

Conclusion

The live Fall Hype Meter at Oriole Park celebrated community, spontaneity,

Transcript preview

Speaker 3 (0:20) The Speaker 1 (0:21) city moves fast, but your vibe, that's different. Sharper, smoother, more alive. Speaker 2 (0:32) The new Speaker 1 (0:36) Honda City isn't just made to drive, it's made to feel. The new Honda City, all new vibe. Speaker 6 (0:44) What's up, Bad Babies? Hello! Speaker 5 (0:48) Wow. Welcome. We saw how many empty chairs there were, but it's still overwhelming how many of you are here. There's a lot of people. Thank you for coming. Oh my Speaker 6 (0:57) gosh. Welcome to House of R Live. Yeah. At Oriole Park at Camden Yards. This is my church. This is the most important place in the world to me. Absolutely. Speaker 5 (1:12) Thank Speaker 6 (1:12) you for being here. That's Mallory Rubin. That's Joanna Robinson. Speaker 6 (1:19) Looks like she was born to wear an Orioles jersey. Sports show. Speaker 5 (1:24) It's an absolute crime that I have an Orioles jersey with my name on it, but I'll take it. Thank you so much. We Speaker 6 (1:32) have decided today. Oh, yeah, we haven't previously announced it. It's a secret. No, just us. To do a sacred, cherished, seasonal tradition live in person. It's the Fall Hype Meter. Speaker 6 (1:47) Let's go. Let's go. Speaker 5 (1:54) Just for you. You won't get to know before anyone else what we're excited about. You Speaker 6 (1:59) will. And after the game, of course, we will see you all out at the Pure Wager Pavilion, our special section. TBD if there's going to be a rain delay. So far, no. I heard there was a tornado warning. Speaker 6 (2:16) Welcome Speaker 5 (2:16) to Baltimore, me. Speaker 6 (2:18) Yeah, any quick takes you want to share on the mid-Atlantic humidity before we dive in? Are you ready to show your bug bites? Oh, yeah. Check this out. You guys see these? Yeah. I grew up here, but I guess my body has forgotten what the local venom is like. So having an incredible allergic reaction to the local mosquitoes, that's exciting. Let's refresh everybody on the rules. Here's how the hype meter works. If you don't know, we count down 10 to 1. What we're most excited for, you know, you're nodding, you know. Speaker 6 (2:53) We don't know the other person's list. It's a surprise. Usually Joanna can guess somewhere between 90 and 100 % of my picks. And she is a complicated mystery to me. And I never know what she's going to surprise me with. If we have a shared pick, we will wait till the higher of the two spots to hit it. That might be a little tough live. We'll feel it out in real time. We'll see how it goes. Genre picks. That means if it is a topic that could be covered on House of R. If it makes sense in our universe in any way, which increasingly, like we're doing a live show at Camp Dead Yards today. We talked about Survivor a few months ago. We do whatever we want. But we're going to try to adhere to the spirit of the exercise and to the rules. Speaker 5 (3:32) Did you not? Speaker 6 (3:34) We'll see. A mystery. You didn't look at the Google Doc I sent at 1 a.m.? No. Did you send the Google Doc? No, I did not. Speaker 6 (3:45) I asked if you Speaker 5 (3:46) wanted to make a notes doc and you said no. I did Speaker 6 (3:48) it anyway. Any type of media is eligible. TV show, film, comic book, novel, video game. Do you have Grand Theft Auto 6 and number one? Of course. I don't want to spoil your list. Okay. Time frame. All right. We're doing something a little weird today. We honestly just want to be able to talk about lanterns because it rules. And so... Even though the summer hype meter ran through August and we both picked lanterns for the summer hype meter, we are starting the fall hype meter on August 16th and running it through November 30th so that lanterns is eligible to be included again today. What is time? We have never once. We've been doing the hype meters three to four times a year. Sometimes we skip a season. We realized later we skipped a season for half a decade now, nearly half a decade. Never once match the season with the actual calendar. Not once. Not once. Honorable mentions. If we have time. Time permitting. We're going to do some honorable mentions at the end. We might have a special guest sharing a couple hype picks. We'll see. Again, nobody knows when the game is going to start. So we'll find out. Rain delay permitting. In real time. Any other rules that we need to refresh on? So you can't have like slow horses, for example. on your hype meter today, even though Jackson Lamb is a patron saint of this podcast. Even though Jack Lottin might be James Bond. Speaker 5 (5:13) Pick it. Speaker 6 (5:14) Even though Speaker 5 (5:14) House of the Dragons star Olivia Cooke is returning for this season. Speaker 6 (5:20) Damn. Speaker 5 (5:21) Spoiler. Speaker 6 (5:21) It's Speaker 5 (5:22) not Speaker 6 (5:22) a spoiler. It's in the trailer. All right. Should we get to the top 10? Let's do it. You want to start with your number 10? Can you start? Are you still deciding on your list? Are you locking it in real Speaker 5 (5:35) time? First of all, she saw Speaker 6 (5:36) me redoing Speaker 5 (5:37) it in Speaker 6 (5:37) real time just 20 minutes ago. Hype moves with the moment. And that's another thing we should say. The hype meter, we always slightly disagree on this. It's not about predicting what is going to be good. It's about living in the moment of possibility until something is decidedly, definitively bad. And we can't pretend anymore that we're excited about it. That's how the hype meter works. I think I'm Speaker 5 (6:00) increasingly coming to your side of this. Fantastic. All Speaker 6 (6:04) right, I'll start. My number 10. Oh, wait. Are there any kids here? Oh, yeah. No, that will be something to ask, but not until number nine. And again at number five. Can you Speaker 5 (6:21) woo if you have a child with Speaker 6 (6:22) you? Speaker 5 (6:26) Okay. Ed. They're Speaker 6 (6:27) ready. Hello, Ed. Okay. Family-friendly event. We'll see how that part goes. Number 10, I have selected Resident Evil. Speaker 6 (6:41) I also have Speaker 5 (6:42) Resident Evil number 10. At number Speaker 6 (6:44) 10? Yeah. Amazing. Incredible. We're so in sync. It's almost like we spend 18 hours a week together. It's a twofer Speaker 5 (6:52) for me. Speaker 6 (6:53) Okay, what else do you have? This is Speaker 5 (6:54) where my stock in Austin Avens is going to pay off. Austin Avens, who's the star of Resident Evil and also a film called Whalefall. Hell yeah. Let's go. Speaker 6 (7:07) I texted my best friend this morning. Speaker 5 (7:10) Weird. I don't recall getting a text from you about whale fall in Resident Evil. That's odd. Because she read the book Whale Fall and I said, all right. And I was like, would we call that genre? It's about a guy inside of a whale. He's trying to get out of the whale. And she said, much like Andy Weir with Project Hail Mary, they tried to make it scientifically plausible. But it's still a guy surviving in a whale probably longer than someone would survive in a whale. So I think that's genre. So it's my Austin Abrams twofer at number 10. I love it. Speaker 6 (7:47) I thought you would be surprised that I selected this because this is an overt abject. horror film and I can't handle horror. I'm a coward and a baby. But this movie... That's my mom. Hi, Mom. Speaker 5 (8:06) Honestly... Took her longer than I thought to weigh Speaker 6 (8:09) in. This movie, Resident Evil, comes out September 18th. So this will be the first movie potentially that I see as a 40-year-old. And I've decided I can do it. I can handle horror at that point in my life. The big 4 Speaker 5 (8:25) -0 is when you get on board with new horror. I'm Speaker 6 (8:28) going to pivot to horror. And I just feel like I'm missing the Zack Prager. Because Speaker 5 (8:33) you haven't seen weapons. I've not seen weapons. Okay. And you haven't seen barbarians. No. Speaker 5 (8:40) I think you could handle weapons. It's a lot of witch stuff. It's Speaker 6 (8:44) really fun. Adam is giving me a eh. Barbarian, Speaker 5 (8:48) absolutely not. Never. Not even in the brightest day. No, no, Speaker 6 (8:53) no. I'm not a fan of horror movies. I'm not a fan of the Resident Evil games. Not that I dislike them, just haven't played them. Don't really like the prior Resident Evil movies, but I thought these trailers looked amazing. Speaker 5 (9:03) Wow, Shaw Fires and Mila Jovovich? Speaker 6 (9:07) Tough. Speaker 5 (9:11) 2026. Speaker 6 (9:13) I'm so sorry. Okay, number nine. What do you have? Speaker 5 (9:17) Okay, this is where I'm putting Godzilla minus zero, November 6th. Fantastic. Speaker 6 (9:24) I was counting on you to have this. This was what Resident Evil knocked off my top ten, so it's my first honorable mention. Speaker 5 (9:30) Okay. This is most of the cast. Who here saw Godzilla minus one? Speaker 5 (9:38) I was late to this. We talked about this at the beginning of the year with Rob and Sean. We were talking about the hype draft and I had yet to see Godzilla minus one, but I've since seen it. I've gone to church. It is incredible. I'm really excited for this movie. Speaker 6 (9:56) Mahoney took this in the fifth and final round of the House of R hype draft. I took Blade Runner 2099 right before that. Let's put a pin in that. We'll come back to that later. Discuss whether that was a wise decision. Okay, no children here. Like, are you sure? Also, do you have maybe a delicate disposition? They came to a house of our live show. They know what they're going to get. Shine on. You know it's a family-friendly event. We'll keep it in our pants. My number nine. Your entire family is here. They don't care. They're used to it. They're used to it. They were at the rewatchables live show for farce. They're good. Speaker 5 (10:47) It almost doesn't matter what movie you finished that Speaker 6 (10:52) sentence with. Could have been anything. Romanticismuggle. It's a two for here. Someone say yum. Exciting. I just saw this Spike shirt and it's very Speaker 5 (11:06) important to me. A Speaker 6 (11:07) Splintered Harmony. Oh, Spike. Nice. Court of Splintered Harmony. Title, hot off the presses. This was just announced this week. This is the sixth. Akatar. Akatar. Always feels so weird to say that. And I'm pairing it with Threshing Day. The. Speaker 6 (11:26) Rebecca Yarrow's 3.5 in the Empyrean series, which, if you're a fan of the court books, you know that any kind of, like, here's a novella to tide you over can go wrong, actually, right? The fourth installment in the court books is not loved by all. But Threshing Day, here's the premise. This comes out September 29th. It is... Yeah, Speaker 5 (11:50) what's being thresh? Speaker 6 (11:52) It's... So... 13 stories about Threshing Day, about the Riders and their dragons. Great stuff. Will there be an opportunity to fill Threshing Day with sex scenes if it's about the Riders and their dragons? And how? Speaker 5 (12:07) I would say before they get on the dragons, after they get on the dragons, while they're on the dragons. Yeah. Speaker 6 (12:15) The dragons, of course, also share the mating bond. While they're walking in the Speaker 5 (12:19) parapet, you know, like any of those. I'm Speaker 6 (12:22) thrilled. On the court front, Splintered Harmony. So the seventh book, which comes out just a few months after in January, Court of Forgotten Melody. I love that. Interesting. I think it's exciting. Great. These are part of a new. trilogy inside of this universe called the Valkyrie cycle. So it's like kind of a TBD reveal how present will Reese and Farrah and our beloved faves be? I don't know, but I can't wait to find out. I miss those knee tats that Reese has always described in great detail in key moments. I just heard a Speaker 5 (12:54) sound. I just heard a sound I've never heard before from right around there. Speaker 2 (13:02) A Speaker 6 (13:02) sort of Speaker 5 (13:03) grunting acknowledgement of the tattoos. Speaker 6 (13:07) TBD if we cover those in real time this fall, but we will, of course, check in during the V-Day Quickie next year. Speaker 5 (13:12) Yeah, absolutely. No matter what. But we have been trying to make some plans with perhaps another pick on your list. We sure have. We sure have. Speaker 6 (13:20) I'll just notice, unless you, do you have any, do you have a book pick coming up? Then I'll save this. Okay. What do you have as your number eight? It's Witch Stuff Go Time. Speaker 5 (13:30) Isn't it always? Speaker 5 (13:32) September 11th, nothing else is going on on that day, I think. That's when Practical Magic 2 is coming out. Speaker 5 (13:41) Nice. Yeah. I mean, Nicole's here. Sandy's here. All of their plastic surgery decisions are here. You know, Maisie Williams is in this. So, Speaker 6 (13:55) yeah, it's a bunch of witch stuff. And, like, Lee Pace. I know. I should be more embarrassed by this than I am, but saw the trailer for this the other day in the theater, seeing Oak Street. And this very like female forward Speaker 5 (14:07) story about sisterhood. It's just about women and friendship. And empowerment. Speaker 6 (14:11) I was like, Lee Pace looks dynamite. You're like, Speaker 5 (14:14) what percentage of this movie is naked Lee Pace? The tattoos Speaker 6 (14:18) on the torso, just delightful. Okay. Great pick. So you've been excited for this for some time. I Speaker 5 (14:23) would say it has gone down my list based on some things I've heard, but it's still here. Speaker 6 (14:30) I'm still excited. They couldn't kick it out of the top 10. Still here. My number eight is season three of Percy Jackson. Speaker 5 (14:37) Similarly, Speaker 6 (14:40) they can't talk me out of being Speaker 5 (14:42) eight. Speaker 6 (14:44) Not the level of conversation and buzz around season two that I'm going to try to do a better job of turning this way. Hello, everyone. Look at that. Speaker 5 (14:52) There we go. Speaker 6 (14:53) Bad babies. Oh, my God. Look at