It’s Good, Except It Sucks: The Fantastic Four: First Steps With Garreth Hirons

Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) - Garreth Hirons joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Reed Richards evaluating the consequences of moving the Earth in both senses of the word in It's Good, Except It Sucks - a movie by movie – and television series by television series – hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks is a movie by movie – and television series by television series – hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hosted by Tim Worthington with a series of superpowered guests.

This time we’re taking a look at The Fantastic Four: First Steps from 2025, and joining Tim for a chat about Reed Richards evaluating the consequences of moving the Earth in both senses of the word is musician Garreth Hirons. What will they find to say about Supermarket Own Brand Marmite hair care tips, what percentage of Matt Smith is rubber and how ‘Weetabixy’ Ben Grimm should be, and what does any of this have to do with Doomlord’s frustrated dreams of rock stardom? Get listening and find out!

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Further Listening

You can also find Garreth on It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Venom here, Venom: Let There Be Carnage here, Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends here, Avengers: Age Of Ultron here and Thor: Ragnarok here, and standing in as host to chat with Tim about The Defenders here and Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings here.

There’s another look at The Fantastic Four: First Steps with Gabby Hutchinson Crouch here. You can also find Garry Abbott on Fantastic Four here and Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer here and Mic Wright on Fant4stic here. Gabby Hutchinson Crouch joined us for a chat about Johnny Storm’s Multiversal appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Deadpool And Wolverine here, while Elly-Mae Gadsby took a look at an alternate Reed Richards in Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness here. You can also find Al Kennedy on the Silver Surfer cartoon here and David Smith on Thunderbolts* here.

Garreth has also appeared on Tim’s nostalgia podcast Looks Unfamiliar talking about The Bigger The God, Food Fighters, Saboteur, The Triangle Of Terror, Sizzlin’ Bacon Monster Munch, and Fun At The Funeral Parlour here, The Yellow Album by The Simpsons, The Frankie Goes To Hollywood Computer Game, Nirvana spinoff band Sweet 75, Linc’s, Transformers Action Masters, The Way Of The Tiger and early eighties soft drink Quatro here, The Ghosts Of Oxford Street here and the Futurama Christmas Specials here. You can also find Garreth on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV talking about Trap Door here.