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Weird things happened in the Weird Weird
weird Wow, all right episode. You

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aren't gonna start it, No,
we are. We're gonna start it with

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our best Godzilla impression. Oh okay, that's not real. Give me your

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best shot. No that's not that's
all right. Ready, this is my

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God's will impression. Jesus, all
right, Alex go we didn't put a

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disclaimer, No we don't. That
was almost as good as you screaming on

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our album. I was thinking the
same thing. Yeah, I wanted to

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talk about Godzilla today. Oh yeah, dude, it's what day is it

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again? Godzilla Day? Oh it
is? Yeah, Well tomorrow's Godzilla Day.

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Yeah, because Godzilla Minus one comes
out. Okay, so it's Godzilla

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Day, all right. Why would
it be today and on tomorrow because we're

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doing the episode today. Okay,
So this is more important than like one

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of the best theatrical releases of all
time. Well, I haven't seen it

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yet, so I don't know if
it's one of the best whatever you said.

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Okay, Well we'll find out tomorrow. We saw freaking what was that

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movie called Godzilla x Kong The New
Empire? Yes, two months ago,

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and the themes in this movie were
so freaking crazy, and I was like,

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oh my god, we have to
do an episode on this. But

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if you guys recall those of you
who have seen every episode of the show

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many years ago when we first started
this show, in one of the earlier

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episodes, I said that one of
the most esoteric movies I've ever seen of

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all time, ever period, it
was Godzilla versus Can the first one.

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Yeah, I mean not, I
guess not. There's probably old ones,

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but the one that came out a
few years ago. Yes, gotcha,

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there was an old one. There
was like a nineteen sixty five one or

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something that I actually saw when I
was a kid. I had a memory

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of it today when I was watching
through this video. But yeah, I

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just wanted to talk about some of
the esoteric themes in Godzilla. It's a

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freaking awesome movie to geek out about. And it's just there's gotta be like

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fifty there's about thirty. I was
gonna say thirty, but I wanted to

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be more hyperbolic. It's like twenty
five or thirty years. Actually no,

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it's probably more like thirty or forty. I don't know. But Alex,

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you ever seen any of them any
Godzillas. No, really, but I've

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listened to an album by Gojira that
counts as fire, Dude, that counts

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goes heres is lit. Yeah,
I kept. I think it might have

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been the first time I came over
to your house. I don't know,

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but you had the vinyl on the
deck. You were like, took the

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zell and you played it. I
was like, is that go Jira?

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This dude listening to go Jira?
I remember it was. I can't remember

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if it was Nathan, our friend
Nathan shout out Nathan. I can't remember

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if it was him or if it
was his sister. I was in their

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car one time, one of the
two I can't remember if it was m

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Lauren, and they were listening to
go Jira and it was the first time

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I ever heard him, and I
was like, yoh, this is sick.

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Yeah, they go pretty hard.
Dude. That's crazy because I was

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introduced to go Jira. Do you
remember the church that we both went to.

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Uh, there was a guy there
named Nathan. I don't know if

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you remember him, but I like
grew yeah, I do. I grew

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up with that Nathan, like since
we were very very little because they always

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went to the same church as my
grandparents, and he introduced me to go

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Jira, So we both got introduced
to go Jiro through a Nathan. That's

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crazy. They might have been a
sister though I can't remember, but I

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just remember being introduced to them and
I was like, dude, this is

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so cool. They're pretty sick.
Yeah, but German band? Are they

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German? I think maybe something something
European. I can't remember, Swedish or

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something, but anyway, so I
wanted to take it back before we go

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into the esoteric themes of Godzilla,
I wanted to go into the cultural impact,

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the genre that it created worldwide for
film and what it has basically like

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the legacy that it has left without
people even knowing the legacy that it has

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left. Oh yeah, and it
is a specific genre that although I'm not,

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like, you know, I'm not
watching it all the time anymore because

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I'm an adult, But when I
was a child, this stuff was very

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big to me. It was some
of my biggest, most favorite things to

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enjoy. It's called tokusatsu. It's
a very niche genre that's basically kind of

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like if anime were live action.
Tokusatsu. Mm hmm. It means special

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effects and it's the whole, like
giant monsters or giant figures, miniature cities,

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blosions, epic huge larger than life
battles with laser beams and alien invasions

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and monsters and Power Rangers costumes,
superheroes, Ultraman, Ultraman, yeah,

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Godzilla, you know, Super Sentai, all this stuff, getting into these

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giant robot mecazords and fighting you know, aliens and monsters and stuff. I

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just remember as early as I can
remember being obsessed with Power Rangers, and

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it always to me it was always
like kind of iconic because it was created

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the same year that I was born. Power Rangers was in nineteen ninety three.

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Oh I didn't know that. Oh
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he and anyway, so I was
just completely obsessed with Power Rangers as a

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kid. And some of my earliest
memories literally like having a consciousness, was

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pretending to be a Power Ranger.
Oh, you know, always the Red

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Ranger. Always, it's always my
favorite. I like the green slash White

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Ranger. Oh dude, rest in
peace, yeah, oh died the year

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or last year. Yeah. Oh
that's so sad. I always love him

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and the Black Ranger. The Mammoth, Yeah, the Mastodon. Mast See,

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my brother and sister were like always
they I guess they were watching it

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like since it came out, and
so it was just like that was very

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much a staple of my childhood.
Was Power Rangers and Ninja Turtles. Oh

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dude, same, it was.
If I think about this all the time,

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you know, it's like, I
guess you get in these the older

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we get, the more sometimes we
like vibe with nostalgic things, and I'm

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always thinking, like my big three
things as a child were like I mean,

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obviously like everybody else, like Lord
of the Ring, Star Wars,

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all that stuff, all the movies. Right, but right, my big

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three things that I was always obsessed
with was in no particular order except DBZ.

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It was Power Rangers, Dragon Ball
Z, and Ninja Turtles. And

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I thought about it. I was
in the shower tonight and you guys were

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on the way, and I was
like, what are those three things have

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in common? Asian martial arts?
Yeah, oh yeah, straight up Ninjas

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even though one, you know,
two of them are American shows. It's

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like Ninja's power Rangers do karate.
Yeah, Goku does karate. You know,

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it's the inspiration is obvious. There's
a through line between all of those.

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I didn't get into DBZ until I
was maybe like ten or eleven ish,

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so that one was a little bit
later for me. Wow, I

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didn't know that. Oh yeah.
My cousin John came over one day with

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a DBZ shirt on and I was
like, what is that? And he

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put an episode on the TV and
I was like, oh, okay,

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I'm all about that. For me, prior to that, my big three

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were Power Rangers, Ninja Shurtles.
Same to Transformers, right, Transformers,

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it's he same for me. Yeah, I didn't get into that until I

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was older because the live action movie. My uncle Bill uh was like a

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fan of the og Transformers. He
still to this day has generation one before

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the show even came out. Wow, he has them, all of them

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in boxes and my Grandma's attic.
I would love to see pictures of that.

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It's very cool and dude, Transformers
was one of those things like I

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saw it on TV as a kid, like occasionally. I remember being in

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like elementary school, but it was
never the kind of thing where like my

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parents were buying me the toys,
the VHS's, you know what I mean.

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But like Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, they were they were buying me

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the toys and buying me the movies, and you know, I was constantly

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watching them. And anyway, Also, this is gonna sound hilarious, but

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I've thought about this many many times, and I think the reason that I

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am literally so obsessed with metal music
as an adult. Think about it,

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dude, Power Rangers and DBZ,
Oh the American theme song. The American

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theme song of DBZ and Power Rangers
is literally metal. Oh yeah, Like

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the earliest music I was ever exposed
to was freaking rock, hard rock,

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hard bro. Dude, did you
ever on the VHS tapes of Power Rangers,

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like the OG ninety show, the
show? No, yes, I

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had like the was it the movie? The movie? I had that that

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was not the movie. No,
we just watched the show on TV all

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the time, right, So when
you had the VHS, they would have

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like commercials for the next episode or
like behind the scenes. I'll have to

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show you a YouTube video, but
it would play this like different metal kind

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of sounding song. You know,
it was like had this different song than

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the theme song. And it's pretty
cool. But I can't explain it.

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I'll just have to show you.
But anyway, that was a cool little

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nostalgia trip for me thinking about this
episode and reminiscing on all this stuff and

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why it's so important and special to
me. But anyway, when did you

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watch a Godzilla movie for the first
time? Because it was not super young

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for me. Nineteen ninety eight,
damn you remember the year? Yeah,

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because it's when the first American one
ever released. Oh what, Yeah,

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it's just called Godzilla. That was
when I was born. Epic. See,

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I was like five years old at
that point. Yeah, but yeah,

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that's the first one I ever saw. And then Godzilla two thousand that's

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probably the first one I saw.
Godzilla two thousand, that one is crazy.

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I watched the trailer for it today
to show Jenny and it was honestly

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laughable. But I see, when
I was a child, I thought it

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was sick. I thought it was
Yeah. When I first saw the trailer

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for that as a kid, I
was like, that's scary. I don't

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want to watch that. That's real
scary. But then I watched it,

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I think with my brother maybe,
and I loved it. It's the first

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time I ever saw the freaking you
know, the atomic breath or whatever.

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But I was very lucky because I
had older brothers, and then I had

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a lot of older I guess you
could say, like, you know,

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cousins four five years apart, stuff
like that that were like into a lot

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of those things that I would have
been too young to discover on my own,

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so they would like put me on
a lot of these things. Yeah,

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And I remember staying at my cousin
Jacob's house, and I was like

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literally a toddler three years old.
My aunt Tammy had four kids, and

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then my parents had four kids,
and both families were three boys and a

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girl. So I would be staying
at my aunt Tammy's house with me and

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my brothers. So it's literally six
boys in the same house. Oh yeah,

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you know. And I remember being
in diapers, a literal toddler,

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like can't even read or write yet, some of my earliest memories and seeing

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dragon Ball and being like, oh
my god, this this you know whatever

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a toddler would think, like just
falling in love with it and being into

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all this stuff. But anyway,
so Godzilla, so it created this genre,

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It inspired this entire genre. When
this movie came out in nineteen fifty

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four, this whole explosion of cinema
happened. It was post World War two

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Japan, so it's an allegory for
World War two, right. Yeah.

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It's actually like very heavily referenced in
the original movie, which admittedly I've never

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seen until today, I don't know
that I've ever seen it. I watched

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it just for this episode because I
was like, before I do this episode,

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I have to watch the original otherwise
it's like, what's the point,

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you know, right? And it
was honestly better than I thought. Okay,

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it was. It was really cool. It was like obviously black and

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white, obviously you know, it's
guy to suit, little miniatures, all

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that stuffy. I was very shocked
about a few things in the movie,

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though. There were things that I
did know we're like a part of Godzilla

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that we're in the original, like
the atomic breath, the spiritual themes.

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Because in my mind, because you
know, coming fresh off of watching Godzilla

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X Kong Versus Kong, what else
did I watch? Oh, Godzilla,

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King of the Monsters, which I'm
going to talk a lot more about those

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three, and then another one from
nineteen sixty eight or sixty nine called all

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Monsters Attack, which is silly.
They had all these heavy spiritual themes.

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So in my head, I'm like, maybe that was added later, you

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know, And no, sure a
shit, the original movie it's the same

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concept. No way. Yeah,
he's like this ancient god that's revered by

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this Shinto little village on an island, and no way, yep, I

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was thinking the same thing, like, surely that got added way later,

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like in the nineties or something like
that. I figured the original was just

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like big Lizard Attack, you know. No, it's like it's this small

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village. I think it's called like
Odo Island or something like that, and

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it's this tiny, kind of remote
fishing village, and the old folks in

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the village, like literally the old
fishermen that like the kind of kids don't

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really listen to or whatever. They
have this folk tale that there's this ancient

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monster, Godzilla or Gojira, and
they at one point early on in the

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movie, they're having the Shinto ceremony, which is like, you know,

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it's like Japanese religion. They're dancing, they're doing all this like ceremonial stuff

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with their ceremonial dress and whatnot.
And the main character, well, there's

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a few main characters, but the
main character is this young lady whose fiance

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is like this coastguard boat salvage guy. And then her father is like you

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know how in every major Godzilla movie
there's like a professor, Oh yeah,

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like I study Godzilla, you know
what I mean. And it's her dad.

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So they're they're like hearing reports that
there's something weird going on. Like

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it's really cool because like the original
Godzilla movie is like horror. It's more

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like a classical horror. Like for
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don't see Godzilla, but it'll be
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destroys it, and then you kind
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maybe his leg walking past, and
they're like, what is it? What

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is it? It can't be a
monsoon. You know, there's a footprint,

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and it's like just building this like
suspense and whatever. So genius because

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it makes you like it puts you
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right, you don't know what it
is. Yeah, you know, like

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you're only seeing a little bit like
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you're like, what is right.
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literally just saw like a piece of
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the shot where you're looking at a
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this thin alleyway beside him, and
you just like kind of see his leg

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go by really fast. But it's
black and white too, so it's hard

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to see. Yeah, yeah,
and obviously we know what it is.

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and over again. I wish that
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what I know now and like watched
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me and looked at their faces kind
of like you know Space Odyssey, you

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know, like that effect, like
what did they think? Were they mind

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blown? Were they freaked out?
Like how did they react? You know?

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I wish I could have seen that. But so they're at this little

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fishing village, like I said,
they're kind of like her dad's the professor,

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and they're having this shinto ceremony and
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elders of the village is telling them. I wrote down his quote he said

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he's seen as well. I wrote, this was my interpretation. He's seen

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as an ancient legend to be taken
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ceremony, one of the old timers
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terrifying monster. Once it eats all
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ashore and eat people. In the
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we would sacrifice a young girl and
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of the ocean. This dance is
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Wh what. So that made me
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you guys. I was like,
I want to do an esoteric Godzilla episode.

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yeah, but maybe they added that
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was like the American ones because obviously
ex Kong Versus Kong and then the other

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two twenty fourteen and twenty sixteen ones, they were Americans. So I was

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like, maybe that was like American
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was. It was baked into the
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the more esoteric themes of these movies, just a general overview about like,

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for those who've never seen a Godzilla
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I'm sure there's a lot of people
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and that's totally fine. This was
kind of like my hot take interpretation

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of like the overview message of Godzilla. It's usually themes about like the power

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of nature versus the technology of mankind, and most of these movies there's always

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this like kind of super genius scientist
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goes way too far with his experiment, yeah, and create something that can

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like even the playing field between man
and nature. The themes of like man

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trying to play God and reaching to
greater heights with their science and like outpace

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what was naturally created by evolution or
intelligent design or whatever. And then you

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have Godzilla, and then in the
later adaptations there's these more monsters to kind

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of like even the playing field and
kind of subjugate humanity back down to the

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level to remind us like, no, you can't reach higher than God,

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you can't reach higher than nature.
It's a metaphor, right, And also

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I look this up today, I
was like, why is it Godzilla minus

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one called minus one. It's because
the official reason they said is because post

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World War Two, Japan was at
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It was just ravaged economically, politically, their military was disbanded. So

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they're at zero starting from zero.
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Yeah, isn't that cool? Oh
it's such a Japanese title. Yeah,

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no, it's it's really cool.
Did did the original one talk at all

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about like where Godzilla came from?
Yes? And I wanted to go into

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that. And it's also that was
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I always thought, for some stupid
like I never really looked that deep

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into it. It was always like, yeah, cool Godzilla movie. You

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know. I never was this like
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recent ones and I was like,
Okay, there's something really amazing here,

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some sort of thread that that can
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was like born from the nuke,
me too. He's not. He's a

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two million year old, advanced evolved
life form that was awoken by the nuke.

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No shit like Shane Godzilla. Oh
that's so sick. So there's there's

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there's a lot of Uh, there's
a lot of stuff in the newer movies

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that's are homogous to the original,
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how he's this advanced higher life form
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That's it's all the original, dude, Like they go through these because remember

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the girl, the main character,
Emiko, her father is the scientist,

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right, he's like this advanced paleontologist
guy. It's like Japan's you know,

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renowned paleontologist or whatever. And he's
giving this slideshow to the politicians. When

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he discovers Godzilla, he gets a
photo of it. He's going to pitch

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to the government, like, this
is what I've discovered. It's the biggest

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discovery of the century. It's a
two million year old life form. He's

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like, we have a Geiger counter. We measured the radiation and then I

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found a trilobyte fossilized two million year
old life form in his footprint, and

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then analyzed the sand that was on
top of it. And both the trilobite

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and the sand come from strata deep
beneath the earth that's carbondated to be two

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million years old. So they're talking
about did he come from inside the earth.

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Yeah, oh my god, which
is in that's in the newer movies

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too. It's the whole like hollow
earth. Yep, like he comes from

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inside the earth kind of thing.
It doesn't say that, it doesn't say

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like hollow earth, but it's like
they explicitly say that. It's like there

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are sealed off deep sea caverns that
are unknown to mankind that he dwelled in

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for millions of years, which,
like most or at least a lot of

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the kaiju that come from like Japanese
movies and shows and stuff like that,

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often it's the same thing they come
from, like either a hollow earth thing

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or like the deep caverns yeah that
we've never explored, or another dimension right

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right right, that kind of stuff. Yeah. Yeah, And that's another

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point too, because I'm sure a
lot of people like this genre without even

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knowing that they like this genre,
like Pacific rim oh right, oh,

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they call them kaijus and everything.
Well, kaiju movies or any sort of

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movie period that has ever existed in
the history of film, you know,

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which is only about one hundred and
twenty or thirty years. Any movie ever

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that has some sort of like giant
monster fighting with all of these over the

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top special effects and Kaiju's and YadA
YadA YadA. That all comes from Godzilla.

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That that's known as tokusatsu. Right, the genre is tokusatsu. Also,

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I love Kaiju movies. I love
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it's inspired countless creators, countless,
like thousands and thousands. We did

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an episode about Evangelian, the guy
who made Evangelian, which also is the

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same genre. Yes, it's like
giant mechs fighting giant interdimensional monsters. Right.

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That guy made shin Godzilla in twenty
sixteen, which in a lot of

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ways was kind of a return to
form for Godzilla. It was kind of

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a from what I understand, it
was like kind of a more underground Godzilla

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movie. Like I don't think it
even came to American theaters. No,

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it didn't. It was completely in
Japanese, and it's it was for a

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long time hard to find, even
on streaming services. I highly recommend go

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find it. It is a weird
iteration. It's amazing. It was so

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good. It's amazing. I was
actually shocked to discover this too. There's

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only like let me, let me
see one, two, three, four,

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five American Godzilla movies. Ever what
every other one is Japanese and like

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niche to American audiences, and never
you know, came and I guess most

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of those are recent, like like
very recent. Yes, So then Godzilla

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two thousand came out, and then
there must have been just a huge gap.

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thousand was Japanese though it was the

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nineteen ninety eight one where it's like
this mutated iguana with all these like little

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eggs all around the city. That's
the first ever American one. And then

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this saw that one is just called
god just called Godzilla. Yeah, I

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don't think. And then in twenty
fourteen there was the American reboot and it

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was like and then there's been like
four of those. Yeah, right,

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which is mainly what I'm going to
talk about today. But anyway, I

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forgot where I was going with that. But yeah, yeah, yeah,

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the genre is just it's like it's
like I said, it's so niche.

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It's like a tiny little nerdy pocket
of the world that most people don't know

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about that I've that I've always like
been into but didn't know there was like

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a definition to it. You know. I mean I kind of did,

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but like never really you know,
in adult times, it's like anime is

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the thing you know in that realm. It's like, you know, one

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piece and this and that and the
other. But it's fun to look back

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at that old stuff. And then
the other thing that I thought was was

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really cool that doesn't necessarily have anything
to do with Godzilla, but just the

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genre as a whole. What opened
me up to understanding this was like a

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bigger picture here. I forgot to
say this. Power Rangers was actually explicitly

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an American adaptation of a Japanese original
nineteen sixties counterpart or seventies maybe called Super

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Sentai. I did not know it
was that old super I did not know

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Supercentai was that old. Yeah.
I thought it was like an eighties like

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late eighties thing. It could have. It could be, Okay, I

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just know it was. I've never
seen Supercentai way before the Power Rangers.

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I've heard Supercenti is awesome. So
the Power Rangers are literally an adaptation of

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Supercenti, and like the original,
like Mighty Morphine or whatever, it actually

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like closely follows the main point of
it, with the down to like the

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costumes being the same colors. There's
always starting with a fifth and then there's

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one that comes later that's bad and
then becomes good the sixth. Yes,

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and every iteration of Power Rangers ever, it's usually like that, where there's

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like originally five and then there's the
sixth that comes in and it's converted.

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Yeah, he was the bad boy, but then he's like the leader.

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Yeah, you know, but I
had a friend at best Buy. Did

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you ever meet Dion No? Okay, he was super into Supercentai and he

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was like telling me all sorts of
stuff about it, and he told me

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he said, it was like it's
actually a little bit more adult than Wow

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Mighty Morphin. Like you know how
Tommy like leaves at one point, Like

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he comes in and he does his
whole thing, and he's there for a

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while and then he leaves when the
show he dies. Oh yeah, yeah,

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it's like a little bit more adult. But dang, yeah that Super

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Sentai was not like intended for kids. It's not for kids. Well,

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like so is you know, anime
is not necessarily either. That's that's the

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cool thing about Japanese media. Yeah, yes, it's just this. They're

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they're just like yeah, we made
cartoons and they're sick. Yeah, and

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they're for anybody you know, or
action monsters and superheroes and stuff. But

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it's awesome, dude. It's like
it's just so prolific and and and has

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like the fact that the fact that
freaking Power Rangers came to the West and

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adapted Super Sentai, I feel like
cemented this into the psyche of the whole

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world, right with like the phenomenon
that you know, Power Rangers was or

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whatever. And then this is what
I forgot to say. But there were

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some other shows of this genre that
I used to watch back in the nineties

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that nobody ever heard over talked about
ever again. Beatleborgs. Oh yeah,

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I remember that. I was huge
into that as I don't watch a ton

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of it, but I had the
VHS sets. I mean, my mom

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and dad were always I guess my
mom was always like buying me these VHS

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types of these shows that I would
like, you know, and like would

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watch through and you would have like
three or four episodes and you would watch

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them over and over and over and
over, and then the movie and you'd

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watch it over and over. Back
then when we didn't have streaming and all

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that. Oh yeah, it's just
like super you know, nostalgic to me.

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But anyway, so enough about the
Tokusatsu stuff. I wanted to talk

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first about all Monsters attack and tell
that little story. Is that the one

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with Manila? Yeah? Yeah,
I haven't seen it, but at the

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Azalea Fest, Ryan and Emily were
telling me that they watched it and it

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was like really like cheesy and hilarious, but I don't. I don't know

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much about it other than Manila is
in it. Well, okay, So

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the weekend of the Azaliah Fest.
When was that again, y'all April something?

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Right? It was April, sure, April twelfth or something like that.

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It was when we had just started
to work on this house, and

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Emily and Jennifer and I had to
go to Charlotte the weekend of the Azalea

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Fest, which you know we talked
about on the on the Azalea Fest episode,

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because we had a friend's wedding.
We had a mutual friend's wedding,

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right, and Jenny was a bridesmaid. So for Friday and Saturday, there

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were some events that like either me
and Jenny would have to go to,

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you know, like rehearsal dinner or
whatever, or like on Saturday Jenny would

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go to rehearsal or not Saturday.
I'm sorry, we went Thursday through Saturday.

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I was getting the days confused.
And there would be sometimes where with

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Jenny being a bridesmaid, it would
just be me and Emily chilling at the

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hotel for hours and hours and we're
scrolling through HBO and the hotel we're like,

405
00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:37.240
what do we watch? And I
saw this little picture, you know

406
00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:41.400
how it has got the tiles,
you know, like on the app with

407
00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:44.519
the pictures of the movies and whatnot. And HBO has like all the Godzilla

408
00:27:44.599 --> 00:27:48.039
movies. Oh, dude, all
of them, every single while I look

409
00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:52.640
today, dude's got all of them
except minus one. Right, It's got

410
00:27:52.759 --> 00:27:56.480
all of them, the originals.
That's where I watched it. And anyway,

411
00:27:56.519 --> 00:28:00.359
so I was scrolling through HBO and
for whatever reason, the version of

412
00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:03.640
it at the hotel was I don't
know if it was like Roku TV or

413
00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:08.240
you know, every device that has
these streaming services has a different software version.

414
00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:11.640
So like if you're like I use
Apple TV so or if you have

415
00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:15.599
a firestick, maybe it's on the
same level. It's like the most updated

416
00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:18.519
version. But if you're on like
a Roku or something really primitive, it

417
00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:22.680
might be like an older version of
the app. So I'm literally scrolling through

418
00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:26.839
these. No, it's true.
You don't believe me. It was funny

419
00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:29.920
the way you said it. It's
like primitive. I just imagine like cavemen,

420
00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:33.559
like watching Roku TV. Bro,
have you ever held a Roku TV

421
00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:37.319
promote? Yeah? First, but
I'm telling you it is preman the first

422
00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:44.359
day God created Roku. My sister
literally has a Roku TV and I have

423
00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:56.160
an Apple TV. Isn't that the
guy's name from Samurai Jack or is that

424
00:28:56.200 --> 00:29:00.119
Ak? That's right? No,
my sister a Roku and every time I

425
00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:03.200
hold the remote, Dude, it's
like this. It's just like the buttons

426
00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:08.039
on it are weird and and the
interface is weird. It's literally primitive.

427
00:29:08.119 --> 00:29:12.119
Yeah, I'm telling you, man. You know, I'm just telling you

428
00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:17.119
man. It is caveman shit.
It's two million year old shit. And

429
00:29:17.480 --> 00:29:19.720
I'm in the hotel using the two
million year old shit, and I'm looking

430
00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:25.400
at the tiles on the screen and
it doesn't have like descriptions like what you

431
00:29:25.559 --> 00:29:29.359
usually see on streaming surface. It
literally had the picture and the name of

432
00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:32.480
the movie, and it was like
thirty tiles and I'm scrolling through. I'm

433
00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:34.680
like, what are these freaking movies. I've never seen these pictures. I

434
00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:38.440
don't know what any of this is. And I see the picture of Manila.

435
00:29:38.799 --> 00:29:41.799
Alex, you have to look up
Manila from that, dude, it

436
00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:45.640
is so funny. You got anybody
listening right now, go look up Manila

437
00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:49.440
like type in like Godzilla character Manila, M I N I L L A.

438
00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:55.799
And you looked at us. It's
ridiculous, right, It's like some

439
00:29:55.880 --> 00:30:00.119
Land of the Lost shit, just
like some nineteen sixties Godzilla shit. It's

440
00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:03.200
like some Godzilla Manila shit. Yeah. And I see that picture and I

441
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:08.640
look at my sister. I'm like, click, we're watching this. Oh,

442
00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:12.880
you're showing the camera. Yes,
dude, that's Manila. I'm pretty

443
00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:18.799
sure he's like Godzilla's son or he's
but but there's also a Godzilla junior somewhere

444
00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:22.640
in the lore, okay, and
he goes through like you know, a

445
00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:26.839
lot of different renditions and evolutions.
But anyway, so I see the picture

446
00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:29.359
of Manila and I'm like, dude, I don't care what this is.

447
00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:34.599
We're watching this and I click it
and the movie starts and it literally says

448
00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:38.559
it's called All Monsters Attack. It's
rated G. It was like it's like

449
00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:42.559
sixty three or four minutes long.
It's literally an hour. Yeah, and

450
00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:47.759
when it starts, it starts talking
about Godzilla, and I was like,

451
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:52.720
no way, we just literally randomly
clicked the Godzilla movie or you didn't even

452
00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:56.960
know it was a Godzilla movie.
No, that's the point. That's why

453
00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:59.519
it was so funny, you know, Like I just I thought the picture

454
00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:03.519
was funny, and I clicked dude, all Monsters Attack, right, I'm

455
00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:06.519
supposed to know what that is.
And I click it and they start talking

456
00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:10.960
about Godzilla. I was like what. And like in the opening sequence it

457
00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:15.000
had like this little video of Godzilla, and I was like, no way.

458
00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:19.359
So we watch it and it was
profound. It's about this little boy

459
00:31:19.799 --> 00:31:23.640
I can't remember his freaking name,
and he's just this cute little boy.

460
00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:29.119
Oh sorry, I'm banging on the
ed that he's wearing this little hat.

461
00:31:29.720 --> 00:31:33.039
Your your typical little like he looks
like nests with a little ball cap and

462
00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:36.920
the backpack, you know, yeah, yeah, and he's like got the

463
00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:41.160
little school boy outfit and he's going
to school and he's getting bullied and he's

464
00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:44.480
kind of small and they're like bullying
him. His dad works too much.

465
00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:47.480
He's being raised by his mom and
they don't really make a lot of money.

466
00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:49.960
So he's like kind of poor and
just eats rice all the time and

467
00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:53.400
he's just kind of like in a
crappy situation. Yeah, and he like

468
00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:57.759
he like will take a nap,
and he starts dreaming that he's on Monster

469
00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:07.119
Island, which is where Godzilla lives. It reminds me of that Treasure Island

470
00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:09.480
story that you wrote. Oh yeah, yeah, I forgot about that.

471
00:32:12.200 --> 00:32:17.240
He falls asleep and he has this
little nap that he's on Monster Island and

472
00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:21.920
he's a nap about it. And
he falls in a hole and Manila saves

473
00:32:21.960 --> 00:32:23.880
him out of the hole and tosses
him a rope down and pulls him up,

474
00:32:23.880 --> 00:32:28.279
and Manila talks, oh God,
and he's like, you know,

475
00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:30.799
basically like I'll be your buddy kind
of thing, like, you know,

476
00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:32.759
just like being friendly to him.
And he's like there's some really big mean

477
00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:37.759
monsters here, and so he's like
trying to tell him, you know,

478
00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:44.519
there's this scary spider and there's this
scary monster and this dragon in this and

479
00:32:44.559 --> 00:32:46.200
he's they're like hiding from the monsters. And by the way, Manila is

480
00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:54.799
like his size, Oh dude,
he's little child sized god. He speaks,

481
00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:59.960
he speaked. It's all in Japanese, right, yeah, dude,

482
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:04.000
that I need to watch this movie, dude. So the fact that his

483
00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:07.200
G is rated G is funny,
and I'll get to that in a minute.

484
00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:12.759
So he's like, remember, this
is all a dream, and Manila

485
00:33:12.799 --> 00:33:15.720
is walking him through Monster Island and
he's telling them about his you know,

486
00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:19.519
his hero Godzilla, and how he
wishes he was big and strong like Godzilla.

487
00:33:19.559 --> 00:33:22.240
But there's a mean bully on the
island named Gabara. Oh oh oh,

488
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:27.000
he's like this. He looks kind
of like a cross between like a

489
00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:29.839
lion and a dragon, sorta I
don't know how to describe it. And

490
00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:31.599
he's like, Gabar is mean.
He always beats me up and he shoots

491
00:33:31.640 --> 00:33:37.000
like lightning out of his horn or
something and freaking. He wakes up from

492
00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:39.240
the nap and he's like, ah, I wish I could go back to

493
00:33:39.319 --> 00:33:44.160
Monster Island, you know. And
he's like talking about his dream with Manila,

494
00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:47.839
and then there's this plot that gets
introduced where there's these like burglars who

495
00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:52.160
stole like millions of dollars and they're
like heinous criminals that are on the loose

496
00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:54.960
and they're wanted by the cops.
Remember this is a rated G movie.

497
00:33:57.119 --> 00:34:00.559
I'm getting there. And they're like
hiding from the cops. They stashed their

498
00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:06.359
money and they're like, you know, hiding out. And they're at this

499
00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:09.000
abandoned house where the little boy,
the main character, goes to like play.

500
00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:15.840
So the little boy, yes,
why well, they're hiding from the

501
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:19.920
cops. It's an abandoned like warehouse. But the little boy goes and plays

502
00:34:19.960 --> 00:34:23.079
there after school. So it's like
he goes and plays, happens to be

503
00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:25.960
where they hide, and one thing
leads to another, and it's like the

504
00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:30.199
next day after school and he sees
them there, or they see him there,

505
00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:32.800
and they follow him home and they
put a knife to his throat and

506
00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:37.239
they kidnap him and they tie him
up and they take him to their hideout

507
00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:42.679
and they hold him for ransom and
they threaten to kill him. My god,

508
00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:47.119
this is a rated Yes, child
is being kidnapped at knife point,

509
00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:53.559
yes, And at one point they
say g D Son of a Bitch rated

510
00:34:53.639 --> 00:34:59.880
G for Gotta Go with Your Parents
present. Yeah, dude, it's literally

511
00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:06.920
Japanese. It's hard corn man and
so so okay. So just to get

512
00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:08.639
to the end of it here,
So moral of the story is, he

513
00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:14.519
somehow falls asleep again. He goes
back to Manila. Manila grows big like

514
00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:19.480
Godzilla. He goes and he grows
higher. He fights Gabara and then Godzilla

515
00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:22.199
comes in and like helps him whip
Gabar's ass. Manila does like a strange

516
00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:25.880
little atomic breath thing. Remember I
showed you He like he pats his belly

517
00:35:25.880 --> 00:35:31.800
and then he goes, oh,
yeah, I thought Vanilla did that.

518
00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:37.719
Manila. Yeah, it his atomic
breath. Yeah, it's like Barney like.

519
00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:47.039
He kind of looks like or like
Grandma's Yeah yeah, and oh dude,

520
00:35:47.039 --> 00:35:53.360
I have to watch this movie.
So Manila in the dream teaches the

521
00:35:53.440 --> 00:36:00.880
little boy like how to stand up
to bullies and outwit the robbers. So

522
00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:04.880
he does so he outwits the robbers
and he like out maneuvers them, kind

523
00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:07.280
of like Home Alone. Like I
was just about to say, so this

524
00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:09.840
is like Home Alone? Uh huh
with Godzilla. Yeah it is. It's

525
00:36:09.880 --> 00:36:14.159
literally like both wrapped into one and
he doesn't like he doesn't like set up

526
00:36:14.199 --> 00:36:16.199
like elaborate traps. But it's like
he outruns them and like covers a hole

527
00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:19.440
with paper and then one of them
falls. It's like stuff like that,

528
00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:22.880
like he tricks them and because Manila
taught him to be brave. And it

529
00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:27.239
turns out that like everything that happened
in his dream like came true in real

530
00:36:27.320 --> 00:36:30.400
life. So I wanted to go. It's kind of like, uh,

531
00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:34.320
prophet, yeah, like Wizard of
Oz, Like everything that happened in the

532
00:36:34.440 --> 00:36:37.760
dream actually came true. And the
funny thing is like when he's rescued by

533
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:42.000
the police at the end, they're
talking to him and the little boys talking

534
00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:45.639
about Manila. Manila, he saved
me. I was on Monster Island and

535
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:49.679
Manila and my friend Godzilla, they
taught me to be brave and dude,

536
00:36:49.719 --> 00:36:54.119
the end of the movie, they
start to say he is a higher power.

537
00:36:57.039 --> 00:37:00.159
They started to say, Manila is
a higher power from beyond. This

538
00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:04.320
is not a real movie. It's
a real movie. Brod Mint by the

539
00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:09.320
way, Manila, Minnie Zilla.
Yeah, it's like it's so it's this

540
00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:14.480
is a sixties movie. Uh huh, He's a higher power, the high

541
00:37:15.639 --> 00:37:16.840
They literally say that, say,
he's a higher power. He's like some

542
00:37:17.039 --> 00:37:22.679
angelic being from what god from the
dream realm. Yeah, he entered his

543
00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:25.320
dream and he taught him how to
stand up to bullies and and saved his

544
00:37:25.400 --> 00:37:29.199
life. And that was That was
kind of crazy because I had already been

545
00:37:29.239 --> 00:37:31.440
thinking about wanting to do this episode. Did he enter his dream or did

546
00:37:31.679 --> 00:37:37.159
the boy enter Monster Island? Good
question because said everything happened in the real

547
00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:40.440
life, right, So did he
really Manila really win in real life?

548
00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:45.760
Well, the boy won in real
life. Manila wanted the dream. Oh

549
00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:49.079
okay, I'm following. But they
were like intank, like Manila beat the

550
00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:52.280
big bad bully Monster and then the
little boys. Manilla is the boy,

551
00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:54.719
Boy is the higher power. I
was gonna say, it's like a parallel

552
00:37:54.800 --> 00:37:59.320
universe thing, right, where like
Manila is the little boy. Yeah,

553
00:37:59.320 --> 00:38:09.119
imagine access to a higher universe and
you're Manila. There's another movie with Manila.

554
00:38:09.400 --> 00:38:12.519
I saw it on HBO today.
I didn't have time to watch it,

555
00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:15.000
but it was it was it was
like destroy All Monsters or something,

556
00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:19.239
and I was like, oh,
God, is Manila I'm showing to Anyway?

557
00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:22.239
I just thought That was so hilarious
because it was like it was really,

558
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:24.760
you know, kind of a synchronicity
that we stumbled onto this movie when

559
00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:30.960
I had already been saying to you
guys for like weeks at this point that

560
00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:32.719
I wanted to do it. God's
yeah, and I just yeah, after

561
00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:36.519
we watched the Kong one, Yeah
yeah, yeah, I was like,

562
00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:37.519
dude, we gotta do an episode, but I haven't had time too.

563
00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:42.480
It's so funny that they were like, he's a higher power. That's the

564
00:38:43.119 --> 00:38:46.760
that's the like the main takeaway,
like like that's the moral. It's like

565
00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:51.840
the end of the movie. Oh
my god. The adults, like the

566
00:38:51.920 --> 00:39:00.599
authorities are like, he's a higher
power. These movies, these older Godzilla

567
00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:04.960
movies can't get real cheesy. Yeah, real cheesy, real quick. I

568
00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:07.239
know you'll have seen the gift of
Godzilla, like sliding on his tail,

569
00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:10.960
like the attack where sliding on his
tail. Have you seen his dance?

570
00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:15.199
No, Manila did the dance with
him. You haven't seen the Godzilla dance?

571
00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:19.119
No, dude, you got to
see it right now. It's great,

572
00:39:19.119 --> 00:39:21.639
man, I'll show you a gift. Oh God, hold on,

573
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:25.559
everybody, look this up right now. Godzilla Wait, is it from this

574
00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:30.800
movie that you're talking about. I
think it was introduced in like the sixties

575
00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:37.280
and seventies. Look, that's just
a guy in a suit. That's the

576
00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:42.519
head is like flopping around and shit, oh my god. Yeah Godzilla does

577
00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:45.519
a dance. Oh god, that's
so good is it? When he has

578
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:51.280
victory and battle? It's just funny
to think, like as as awesome like

579
00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:54.119
as Godzilla is now, like and
as amazing as it is now. It's

580
00:39:54.239 --> 00:39:59.599
it's like the biggest cultural phenomenon like
that, like seeing where it came from,

581
00:39:59.679 --> 00:40:02.679
like the Goofiest shit. Well,
the original was like, like I

582
00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:06.960
said, like the nineteen fifty four
it was like a horror right, yeah,

583
00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:09.719
it was actually like wow, Like
I imagine this would have been terrifying

584
00:40:09.760 --> 00:40:13.760
if I was watching this in nineteen
fifty four. Think about how funny that

585
00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:17.199
is that the trajectory of Godzilla went
from to Manila. Yeah. Yeah,

586
00:40:17.239 --> 00:40:22.280
Like it's it's insane. It's crazy. It's like it is. It's like

587
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:25.559
if I don't know it or something
became like a children TV show and he

588
00:40:25.719 --> 00:40:29.159
was like being all silly. Yeah
he doesn't eat the kids, but he

589
00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:32.920
like feeds them, you know.
The opposite them. Yeah, yeah,

590
00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:36.000
it's a good one, dude,
that could be a cool episode. Two

591
00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:40.079
they I just saw today. They
just announced a prequel show with the Scars

592
00:40:40.079 --> 00:40:43.920
Guard guy. Right, Yeah,
I'm gonna watch it. Pretty cool.

593
00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:45.719
I wait to watch that. I've
not seen the newer IT movies. I'm

594
00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:51.480
too scared. They are phenomenal and
they are actually scary. Yeah, I'm

595
00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:54.519
too scared of that. They're on
my list of like up there horror films.

596
00:40:54.559 --> 00:40:59.960
They're both really good. Oh yeah, excellent, nice, excellent.

597
00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:01.920
Granted I haven't read the book,
but anyway, Oh I haven't either.

598
00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:06.440
Do It's like a thousand pages long. It's literally it's like a freaking encyclopedia.

599
00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:08.360
Have you seen it? Yes,
it's massive. I've started it before

600
00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:10.880
when I was in the sixth grade, and I don't think I had the

601
00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:15.280
attention span to commit it's huge,
you know, but I'm sure it's I'm

602
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:17.760
sure it's great. Yeah. Also, why did I start that in the

603
00:41:17.800 --> 00:41:22.639
sixth grade? Yeah, good point. Yeah, I didn't even hear about

604
00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:27.679
it so much later. I don't
know, But that's so awesome. Yeah,

605
00:41:27.719 --> 00:41:30.599
so he's a higher power. So
clearly he's a higher it's evident that

606
00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:35.639
since the inception of Godzilla there was
always this theme, and that that was

607
00:41:35.639 --> 00:41:38.440
a question that I have been tackling
in my mind, like is it something

608
00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:42.920
that was added later or was it
originally there, which you know, we

609
00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:45.920
determined it was. And that brings
up another good point that we have talked

610
00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:51.039
about before on episode nineteen, Super
Esoteric Anime, and the point being that

611
00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:53.920
I believe, like just in general
and Japanese media, there's this When I

612
00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:59.880
say media, I mean like movies, comic books, videos, yeah,

613
00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:05.679
video games, anime, whatever.
I feel like there's this higher connection with

614
00:42:05.880 --> 00:42:08.199
the spiritual, like there's not as
much of like a wall between you know,

615
00:42:08.239 --> 00:42:15.079
these spiritual concepts and entertainment and action
and all that stuff. And it's

616
00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:19.320
very cool. So the modern movies, now we're gonna get to one of

617
00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:22.480
the literally most esoteric movies I've ever
seen in my life. And then now,

618
00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:25.199
granted, having said that, in
the beginning of Bledsoe said, so,

619
00:42:25.239 --> 00:42:28.440
I cannot remember what episode, but
it was one of the very original

620
00:42:28.440 --> 00:42:34.679
episodes, saying that Godzilla versus Kong
was one of the most esoteric movies I've

621
00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:37.719
ever seen. Then, just like
a month or two ago, I watched

622
00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:43.079
Godzilla X Kong and it doubled it. Yeah, it was like beginning to

623
00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:46.199
end, like so a cult like
the whole time, but late, and

624
00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:50.519
they were not hiding it. They
were not subtle about it in the slightest.

625
00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:53.119
It was in your face, very
occult. It was just like not

626
00:42:53.360 --> 00:43:00.920
even subliminal at all. I'm I'm
kind of forgetting about the first I mean,

627
00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:02.840
not the one that came out a
few years ago, the Godzilla verses

628
00:43:02.920 --> 00:43:05.960
Calm. I'll catch you up on
that one, and then you help me

629
00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:07.320
out with x com Yeah. Yeah, because we saw that the same night

630
00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:12.599
together. And again, I just
want you guys to understand that. Right

631
00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:16.719
now, we are recording Friday,
May thirty, first tomorrow minus one hit

632
00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:20.199
streaming. We have not seen it
yet. It came out six months ago.

633
00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:22.239
I don't know about you, but
me personally, I have been very

634
00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:24.920
hyped. Everybody around me that has
seen it has told me like it's the

635
00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:29.280
most fucking mind blowing thing ever.
I've been very hyped, Like we are.

636
00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:32.000
I am literally coming over tomorrow to
watch it. Ye who we are

637
00:43:32.039 --> 00:43:36.840
watching that the day it comes out
on streaming. We decided to do this

638
00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:43.159
episode to record it tonight, like
last week. I found out yesterday that

639
00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:46.519
the movie comes out tomorrow. So
I wish that I could have delayed this

640
00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:50.840
episode to watch that one and then
have more to talk about. But it's

641
00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:52.480
okay, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because I mean there's no

642
00:43:52.519 --> 00:43:55.079
guarantees. Who knows. I haven't
seen the movie. I don't know if

643
00:43:55.079 --> 00:43:58.920
it's like spiritual like the other ones, but yeah, and it's you know,

644
00:43:59.559 --> 00:44:01.039
it's just it's just kind of crazy
timing. Yeah, you know,

645
00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:04.440
but anyway, we're excited. We're
gonna watch that tomorrow. We're gonna hang

646
00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:08.519
out, you know. And so
Godzilla versus Kong. Before I get into

647
00:44:08.519 --> 00:44:12.079
that one, because it's fresher on
my mind, I do want to briefly

648
00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:15.119
just talk about Godzilla twenty sixteen The
King of the Monsters, because there's some

649
00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:20.079
very esoteric elements in that one as
well. And then the twenty fourteen one

650
00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:22.199
with Brian Cranston. Yeah, somehow
disappeared from the plot. Maybe he died

651
00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:25.360
or something. I have not seen
that one since you and I saw that

652
00:44:25.400 --> 00:44:29.920
one here and Imax together in twenty
fourteen. I probably haven't either. I've

653
00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:31.760
never seen it again. Yeah,
so I it either and I never even

654
00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:36.400
saw the King of the Monsters one
that's one with like Godora, and like,

655
00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:40.280
isn't Godora in it? That shits
fire? Really, yes, I

656
00:44:40.559 --> 00:44:45.480
watch it, that shit's fire in
it, or yes, okay, I'll

657
00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:49.719
watch it. Yes, major spoilers, but if you like, if you

658
00:44:50.840 --> 00:45:00.719
geek about Godzilla bro King of the
Monsters collapse, that movie is fire.

659
00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:06.039
So I didn't think it was gonna
be that good because I saw Versus an

660
00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:10.079
X before I saw that one.
You know, I didn't think it would

661
00:45:10.119 --> 00:45:15.800
be you know, on that level. Holy shit, dude. So the

662
00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:17.639
movie starts, he's like trapped an
ice or something like that. I can't

663
00:45:17.639 --> 00:45:21.880
remember. He's been dormant for a
while. And it's like, again,

664
00:45:21.960 --> 00:45:24.239
I haven't seen the twenty fourteen movie
in literally ten years, so I can't

665
00:45:24.280 --> 00:45:29.239
remember why it picks up at this
point and how the one before left off.

666
00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:32.039
But there's some characters that overlapped.
I can't remember which one was here,

667
00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:35.639
and blah blah blah. I just
know how they carry over into the

668
00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:39.920
next two. So we start off
with like they you know, we find

669
00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:49.639
out that gosh, the actor who
is Millie Bobby Brown, she's in the

670
00:45:49.719 --> 00:45:52.239
King of the monsters, and then
the versus one. She's the girl whose

671
00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:54.960
dad goes to be like the head
of Monarch, which is like this,

672
00:45:55.519 --> 00:46:01.079
it's like this intelligence agency that's like
deep underground of like black ops research that

673
00:46:01.639 --> 00:46:06.039
you know, controls the monsters,
right, And you find out her mom

674
00:46:06.079 --> 00:46:07.719
is like the scientist that works for
them, and they're like kind of split

675
00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:12.800
up because their son died in the
first movie. I just can't remember which

676
00:46:12.880 --> 00:46:15.320
character was their son, you know, but it's just like very clear that

677
00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:17.440
they're like traumatized by it. So
they split up and the girl is like

678
00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:22.440
kept from her dad. He went
off the deep end and she's living with

679
00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:30.559
her mom, and her mom has
created this device that can like control frequencies

680
00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:37.039
and like mix it can like analyze
the monsters. It's obviously worth mentioning for

681
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:39.159
those who have never seen these movies
that like the difference between this and like

682
00:46:39.239 --> 00:46:44.800
the original Godzilla is like in this
established world, there's like tons of monsters,

683
00:46:45.199 --> 00:46:47.519
and Godzilla is not like evil.
He's not like the destroyer of humanity,

684
00:46:47.519 --> 00:46:52.199
but he's the protector. That's something
we've forgot to mention. And the

685
00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:57.320
original rendition he's this evil, horrific
monster and we totally watched over this too,

686
00:46:57.360 --> 00:47:01.159
but he's he's a metaphor about the
atomic devastation of post World War two

687
00:47:01.199 --> 00:47:05.840
Japan. Yeah, and how yeah, how Japan was completely caught off guard

688
00:47:05.840 --> 00:47:10.159
and devastated and like complete reset like
right, yeah, right. But in

689
00:47:10.239 --> 00:47:15.599
the newer renditions of Godzilla, he's
the protector of humanity. He's the king

690
00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:19.079
of the monsters, and he keeps
nature in balance, so like when the

691
00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:22.400
other monsters come in attack and try
to you know, devastate humanity, Godzilla

692
00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:28.480
protects the right. So they get
this device and they can like analyze all

693
00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:31.280
these other monsters and like match their
frequency and then create like an alpha signal

694
00:47:31.360 --> 00:47:35.920
to like command it and control it, right, and they they like it's

695
00:47:35.960 --> 00:47:42.199
this like kind of experimental like taboo
technology. She nails it uses an a

696
00:47:42.320 --> 00:47:46.760
Mathra awakens Mathra, which is important
because Mathra is like a god and you

697
00:47:46.760 --> 00:47:51.320
know, Godzilla, and we'll get
to that for the next one of the

698
00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:53.400
next movies. So long story short, you find out that they had secretly

699
00:47:53.440 --> 00:47:58.480
been mapping all these monsters and they
have one called Monster zero. So skipping

700
00:47:58.519 --> 00:48:00.719
forward, they go and they awaken
all these frickin monsters that have been dormant

701
00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:06.599
for millions of years with this device, and they kind of like reign over

702
00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:10.320
Earth, Like thousands of these kaiju
like siege the entire planet and it basically

703
00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:15.320
brings like a calamity and mankind is
going extinct, like literally, it's being

704
00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:21.679
extinct in the movie. And what
I want to what I wanted to hit

705
00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:25.039
on in this movie is that you
find out that Guidora is also the King

706
00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:29.760
of the Monsters, but he actually
is an alien, which I never knew,

707
00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:31.360
but that's how he is in the
original as well. He's a He's

708
00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:37.639
an alien life form from another world
that landed and he like comes from another

709
00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:44.199
place, so his like biology and
evolution is different. So like he terraforms

710
00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:50.280
the world to like be be equivalent
to his evolution. Damn. And like

711
00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:52.440
if he, you know, takes
control, it turns the world into like

712
00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:59.639
basically a nuclear wasteland geese. And
the way that like he evolves so sick.

713
00:48:59.679 --> 00:49:01.960
He's a three headed dragon. Oh
dude, He's so sick. And

714
00:49:02.079 --> 00:49:07.559
the thing that I wanted to hit
at specifically was that when Gdora finally awakens

715
00:49:07.599 --> 00:49:12.719
and he's like reigning terror over the
world, I think he's in Brazil at

716
00:49:12.760 --> 00:49:16.960
this point, and there's a shot
in the movie where his three heads are

717
00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:21.519
up in the sky and the frame
has him in front of a cross.

718
00:49:21.800 --> 00:49:28.679
I'll show you they turn the symbolism
up. There's so much symbolism in these

719
00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:31.920
movies. It's the whole like nature
like, it's like a god of Nature

720
00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:39.039
type thing. Wow. Literally,
look that is so cool. They literally

721
00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:43.840
have him in front of a cross
and they're like at this point, He's

722
00:49:43.880 --> 00:49:49.119
like, I think Godzilla had just
cool little flashback here. At this point

723
00:49:49.159 --> 00:49:53.599
in the movie, Godzilla had been
basically killed with an oxygen bomb, which

724
00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:58.320
is how they killed him in the
original movie. They killed him with an

725
00:49:58.320 --> 00:50:00.639
oxygen bomb. He dies in the
first one, Yeah damn. And then

726
00:50:00.639 --> 00:50:05.880
he comes back in Godzilla two,
which came out in nineteen fifty five called

727
00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:10.000
Godzilla Raids Again and it's another life
form that evolves into Godzilla, so it's

728
00:50:10.039 --> 00:50:14.719
like a second Godzilla. And then
eventually he dies, which is kind of

729
00:50:14.719 --> 00:50:19.079
cool because it's like nature like,
it's like a reincarnation like shin Godzilla,

730
00:50:19.159 --> 00:50:22.199
rememberacly like he can evolve, Remember
the like the final shot in the movie

731
00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:25.079
was like it closes up on his
tail, and there were like thousands of

732
00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:29.360
little ones that were remember they freeze
him to the Yeah, but there were

733
00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:32.280
all these little spores that were about
to spread over humanity. Dude, that's

734
00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:36.639
crazy. He's like an avatar.
He's like an avatar for a spirit that's

735
00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:39.079
somewhere else and it like has to
manifest in earth. Like yeah, you

736
00:50:39.079 --> 00:50:43.440
know what I mean. Yeah,
like when one dies, another one takes

737
00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:45.119
its place type thing. Yeah,
every time he dies, he always comes

738
00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:49.360
back, whether it's Godzilla Junior evolves
in him or whatever. Manila, yeah,

739
00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:52.760
or Manilla, Come on, man, my homie, Manila. He's

740
00:50:52.760 --> 00:50:57.000
cool, man, He really is
cool if you give him a chance.

741
00:50:57.119 --> 00:50:59.519
So that that's the main point of
King of the Monsters is you find out

742
00:50:59.519 --> 00:51:01.000
that, like they just have the
symbolism and they go on this whole talk.

743
00:51:01.079 --> 00:51:07.039
There's this there's this plot to like
eradicate humanity, to let the Titans,

744
00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:09.280
uh you know, the monsters whatever
you want to call them to,

745
00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:15.559
to reign and bring about a forced
cataclysm in order to bring out a new

746
00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:20.000
order. So right here in the
movie, they're giving you this religious symbolism

747
00:51:20.079 --> 00:51:23.079
and it was kind of subtle.
And then they're talking about basically a new

748
00:51:23.079 --> 00:51:27.199
world order, right, so we
got this whole Illuminati thing. Then in

749
00:51:27.199 --> 00:51:31.119
God's Ella Verse Kong, they literally
are like, no, it's the Illuminati.

750
00:51:31.239 --> 00:51:35.199
Yeah, don't they say it?
Yes? Yeah in the movie explicitly.

751
00:51:35.440 --> 00:51:37.480
I watched it again just a few
weeks ago. You did, yes

752
00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:43.960
for this episode. Nice. The
main character is like a podcaster, yeah,

753
00:51:45.719 --> 00:51:50.039
and he's like underground. He's like
anonymous on a message board and he's

754
00:51:50.079 --> 00:51:52.719
putting out his podcast. It's like, I think it's like Titan Truther or

755
00:51:52.719 --> 00:51:55.280
something like that. Yeah, and
he's like, it's always this trope that

756
00:51:55.400 --> 00:52:00.440
I love in movies that the crazy
conspiracy theorist is always right. He's right.

757
00:52:00.519 --> 00:52:05.079
Yeah, he's made fun of always, but always right. He's the

758
00:52:05.079 --> 00:52:09.000
one that actually has the info.
They're usually kooky, off kilter. Cabin

759
00:52:09.039 --> 00:52:13.360
in the Woods saw that. It's
a horror movie, but it's a really

760
00:52:13.400 --> 00:52:16.800
good one. It's a satire of
the genre. There's a character who literally

761
00:52:17.159 --> 00:52:22.159
looks, dresses and acts like Shaggy
from Scooby Doo. It's obviously a satire.

762
00:52:22.440 --> 00:52:25.199
You know. He smokes weed the
whole time, which that's the joke,

763
00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:29.679
right, because we're suspicious always the
Shaggy smokes. Oh he does.

764
00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:34.760
In the movie Cabin in the Woods, this character is super scared of everything,

765
00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:38.039
just like Shaggy. He always gets
super high and then he has these

766
00:52:38.159 --> 00:52:42.320
crazy high thoughts. And the funny
thing is you, as the viewer,

767
00:52:42.519 --> 00:52:47.760
can see a higher perspective. His
crazy high thoughts are always right. So

768
00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:52.440
he's like the crazy kind of like
Pineapple Express. Remember how they were like,

769
00:52:52.519 --> 00:52:54.159
oh my god, what it They're
like tracking our phones or just smashing

770
00:52:54.239 --> 00:52:59.280
smack. Yeah, and the whole
way through they were right about everything everything.

771
00:52:59.360 --> 00:53:01.719
Yeah. Yeah, all their high
paranoil was real. Yeah. That's

772
00:53:01.719 --> 00:53:06.039
in Kevin in the Woods too,
just you know. And then the movie

773
00:53:06.039 --> 00:53:08.800
twenty twelve, the disaster calamity film
where it's like, oh my god,

774
00:53:08.840 --> 00:53:12.599
the world's gonna end for some reason. In twenty twelve, yeah, there's

775
00:53:12.639 --> 00:53:16.159
this like crazy conspiracy theorist guy with
a RV and like these satellites and he's

776
00:53:16.159 --> 00:53:19.840
like track and shit and no one
believes him. And then in the end

777
00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:22.320
of the movie the calamity happens and
he's like, oh, I was right,

778
00:53:22.679 --> 00:53:28.880
it always happens. Yeah, it's
not worth your time. So the

779
00:53:28.920 --> 00:53:32.519
main character of Godzilla versus calling is
like that lo and behold, he's right,

780
00:53:32.639 --> 00:53:36.760
and he's like spouting off all these
like conspiracies and I'm telling you,

781
00:53:36.840 --> 00:53:40.280
dude, whoever made these movies was
like give it to them, give it

782
00:53:40.280 --> 00:53:44.400
to him, give them the truth. And like they talk about like the

783
00:53:44.440 --> 00:53:47.639
fluoride and the water making people docile, and how the Nazis would use it

784
00:53:47.679 --> 00:53:53.719
on Jews and the concentration camp as
an experiment, the secret underground base where

785
00:53:53.719 --> 00:54:00.800
they're spoiler alert they're building Meca Godzilla
is sub level thirty three. Oh,

786
00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:06.639
I forgot that he has the symbol
on his jacket which is reminiscent of our

787
00:54:06.639 --> 00:54:09.079
soidron. Might I add it might
also be intentional and it's like the triangle

788
00:54:09.119 --> 00:54:12.480
with the eye in the middle.
Yeah, he has that on his jacket,

789
00:54:12.519 --> 00:54:15.719
the Illuminati symbol, and he literally
is talking about them. He calls

790
00:54:15.760 --> 00:54:19.400
the Illuminati. He's like, you
can call him the Illuminati, or they're

791
00:54:19.440 --> 00:54:24.440
the mega corporations who basically have created
their own paramilitary and government that have a

792
00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:29.840
breakaway civilization with advanced technology far beyond
our comprehension, that can do things that

793
00:54:29.840 --> 00:54:32.360
we can't even fathom. And then
facts turns out he's right, they have

794
00:54:32.440 --> 00:54:37.039
these they have underground tunnels that like
connect the entire world with like these hyper

795
00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:43.199
speed magnetic trains that shoot across the
ocean from like Shanghai to Washington, d

796
00:54:43.320 --> 00:54:46.760
seed everywhere, like literally a breakaway
civilization, which is a real conspiracy.

797
00:54:46.800 --> 00:54:52.559
Oh yeah, you know. It
like overtly tells you all of these real

798
00:54:52.599 --> 00:54:57.719
conspiracies in the movie, you know. And then finally in the end you

799
00:54:57.800 --> 00:55:00.400
find out the friendly billionaire guy who's
just trying to like help humanity with his

800
00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:05.440
technology. Oh I forgot to mention. They also literally discover hollow Earth.

801
00:55:05.880 --> 00:55:08.159
Yeah yeah, yeah, and they
go into hollow Earth. And by the

802
00:55:08.199 --> 00:55:13.719
way, they have like exotic spacecraft
that can traverse space time through a dimensional

803
00:55:13.760 --> 00:55:17.000
portal underneath the ocean to go into
this. Basically, I believe it's an

804
00:55:17.039 --> 00:55:21.440
allegory for the spirit world. Uh
huh. You know, it's all like

805
00:55:21.719 --> 00:55:25.280
lush, beautiful nature and like floating
crystals and like it's that's in the second

806
00:55:25.320 --> 00:55:28.639
one. Oh right, right,
right, right, it's all just so

807
00:55:28.880 --> 00:55:31.639
gorgeous and like it's it's just nature, you know. The nature is in

808
00:55:31.639 --> 00:55:35.800
the first one, but the crystal
thing, right, there's no like built

809
00:55:35.840 --> 00:55:42.280
up technology and like all this stuff. It's just strictly these like majestic amazing

810
00:55:42.440 --> 00:55:46.960
like huge animals and creatures and like
it's it's just like hyper nature. There's

811
00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:51.559
this little girl hyper nature. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. But

812
00:55:51.639 --> 00:55:52.760
dude, it's like if you think
about it out of the box, like

813
00:55:52.840 --> 00:55:57.559
if there are people who green light
these movies with these esoteric concepts to be

814
00:55:57.599 --> 00:56:00.639
in the film, I would think, like when I think of like Godzilla

815
00:56:00.719 --> 00:56:04.480
verses, calling a Godzilla X Kong, maybe it's crazy, maybe it's a

816
00:56:04.519 --> 00:56:06.880
stretch. I don't know, but
I think of it as like allegories of

817
00:56:06.920 --> 00:56:08.880
the phenomenon or just nature or the
spirit world in general. You know,

818
00:56:09.239 --> 00:56:14.280
like the Monsters and the Titans are
like the beings, the spirit world whatever,

819
00:56:14.280 --> 00:56:16.119
the forces of good and evil.
Oh yeah, it's like that's like

820
00:56:16.159 --> 00:56:22.719
the underlying theme. It's like these
big like cosmic energies that are actually present

821
00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:25.360
that are at war for humanity.
Yeah, they're they're battling in ways that

822
00:56:25.400 --> 00:56:29.559
we don't see, like these like
spiritual battles and stuff we don't see.

823
00:56:29.599 --> 00:56:35.800
I look at these movies as like
giving those spirits or those energies like avatars,

824
00:56:35.880 --> 00:56:38.599
like things that we can see like
personification. Yeah, when they fight

825
00:56:39.000 --> 00:56:44.480
in these movies, it feels like
the the spirit of good and evil,

826
00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:47.679
right, fighting each like clashing.
If that's why it feels so epic.

827
00:56:49.199 --> 00:56:52.960
It's like something like everything is at
stake, right, literally the balance of

828
00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:59.920
all of humanity. And it very
explicitly says in the movie that Godzilla represents

829
00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:07.760
nature as a force. Kong is
the protector of humanity and basically like they're

830
00:57:07.800 --> 00:57:10.400
trying to keep humanity imbalance. Yeah, right, which is like what the

831
00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:13.760
spirits do, what the beings told
my dad, you know, it's all

832
00:57:13.800 --> 00:57:16.800
about balance. It's about keeping mankind
and balance. They they're like the guardians,

833
00:57:16.800 --> 00:57:20.119
you know, they guide us and
they watch over us and YadA,

834
00:57:20.199 --> 00:57:22.920
YadA, YadA. But yeah,
so they're like you find out that the

835
00:57:23.400 --> 00:57:29.480
corporate billionaire guy who like Runt,
basically the Illuminati guy who owns this secret

836
00:57:29.599 --> 00:57:35.320
society, mega corporate entity that creates
mega Godzilla, he's trying to play god.

837
00:57:36.280 --> 00:57:38.480
Tower of Babel, Right, it's
the story of the Tower of Babel

838
00:57:38.519 --> 00:57:44.599
from the Bible, where if you
don't know this biblical story, they it's

839
00:57:44.639 --> 00:57:45.559
in the Old Testament. I can't
remember the book off the top of my

840
00:57:45.599 --> 00:57:49.400
head. But they're building this tower
and they're trying to reach the heavens and

841
00:57:49.440 --> 00:57:54.719
be as God is, and then
God like destroys the tower and then confuses

842
00:57:54.760 --> 00:58:00.400
their minds and splits them into different
languages. It's like this myth about at

843
00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:02.199
one point we were all one language
in one world, and we were arrogant,

844
00:58:02.239 --> 00:58:05.280
so we tried to you know,
reach the heavens and then we were

845
00:58:05.360 --> 00:58:08.000
humbled by God and nature. You
know, he's trying to play God by

846
00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:14.199
building Mecca Godzilla, and he's like
building God literally, that's what he thinks

847
00:58:14.199 --> 00:58:20.079
he's doing, you know, Mecca
Gora Godzilla. And it's pretty cool how

848
00:58:20.119 --> 00:58:22.719
they do it too, because they
actually use the skull of Guidora and the

849
00:58:22.760 --> 00:58:28.000
nervous system, and then they get
this guy who like developed it to get

850
00:58:28.039 --> 00:58:35.840
into a psychic trance and telepathically communicate
with basically the soul of Guidora to control

851
00:58:35.920 --> 00:58:38.800
Mecca Godzilla. Forgot about that.
That's so sick. But then like when

852
00:58:39.039 --> 00:58:43.639
something goes wrong, like the the
good guys like Millie Bobby Brown, their

853
00:58:43.719 --> 00:58:46.440
little friend who they constantly riff on
for drinking fluoride water. Because the whole

854
00:58:46.480 --> 00:58:51.280
joke of his character is like he's
always like, what, these conspiracies aren't

855
00:58:51.360 --> 00:58:52.920
real, And then the main character
is like, yeah, keep drinking your

856
00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:58.880
floor ride water stupid. You know. Again, they're always right though,

857
00:58:59.199 --> 00:59:01.360
you know. But the kid is
an idiot and he's like questioning everything.

858
00:59:01.360 --> 00:59:04.840
But it's literally all happening in front
of his eyes. It's just a running

859
00:59:04.920 --> 00:59:07.920
joke. Something happens with them.
And then the guy like his brain fries,

860
00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:12.679
and then like Godora awakens, the
mind of good Goodora awakens into Mega

861
00:59:12.679 --> 00:59:16.440
Godzilla, and then we have this
incredible shot of it breaking out of the

862
00:59:16.440 --> 00:59:22.559
facility and it literally pans the perspective
to where you find out the facility is

863
00:59:22.639 --> 00:59:28.920
this black pyramid and there's an eclipse
over the pyramid and Mecca Godzilla breaks out

864
00:59:28.960 --> 00:59:31.679
of the pyramid and then they fight, whip his ass, and the movie's

865
00:59:31.719 --> 00:59:37.960
over. Yeah, So then we
get to the next one, and we're

866
00:59:37.960 --> 00:59:42.679
gonna we're gonna wrap it up here. The newest one, the newest one.

867
00:59:42.800 --> 00:59:47.480
Yeah, uh, Godzilla x Kong
New Empire. As esoteric as the

868
00:59:47.519 --> 00:59:52.400
first one was, this one was
way more. They doubled down so hard

869
00:59:52.760 --> 00:59:57.440
the whole movie beginning to end is
like, I mean, one of the

870
00:59:57.440 --> 01:00:00.599
main characters is the little girl who
is from this like hyper spiritual tribe that

871
01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:06.400
doesn't even like speak with their mouths. They communicate completely telepathically. They're like

872
01:00:06.440 --> 01:00:10.079
completely in touch with nature. They
like pray to this giant crystal and like

873
01:00:10.559 --> 01:00:15.480
worship this giant crystal. It's it's
yeah, well dude, it's like Atlantis.

874
01:00:15.800 --> 01:00:20.679
Yes, because this like hyper like
advanced technology, but it's through this

875
01:00:21.079 --> 01:00:25.360
spiritual crystal energy type situation. The
first half of the movie is like setting

876
01:00:25.440 --> 01:00:29.440
up. So this is the same
girl from the previous movie, and in

877
01:00:29.599 --> 01:00:32.199
this movie, God's Alex Konga starts
out. She's in school, she's kind

878
01:00:32.199 --> 01:00:37.480
of being rehabilitated into society. She's
from this ancient native tribe called the Ewi,

879
01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:39.960
and they're like lost to you know, to humanity, and she's the

880
01:00:40.039 --> 01:00:44.760
last one alive. And they lived
on like Kong Island or whatever. And

881
01:00:44.800 --> 01:00:47.440
they explained that Kong Island was like
uh, Skull Island. Yes, Skull

882
01:00:47.480 --> 01:00:52.800
Island was like a part of hollow
Earth, like emerging into Earth, you

883
01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:57.800
know. Yeah, so you know
that's kind of relevant for later. But

884
01:00:57.880 --> 01:01:00.719
this little girl grew up there,
so that's you know, you find out

885
01:01:00.760 --> 01:01:05.639
that's why she can communicate with King
Kong or whatever. She's trying to be

886
01:01:05.760 --> 01:01:08.440
rehabilitated into society with all the other
normal little kids. And she starts having

887
01:01:08.480 --> 01:01:14.320
headaches in school. And then what
really caught my eye at the beginning of

888
01:01:14.320 --> 01:01:16.800
the movie, I was like,
Oh, here we go is it shows

889
01:01:16.800 --> 01:01:21.559
her starting to have these headaches,
and then it's pans to the clock and

890
01:01:21.599 --> 01:01:25.480
it says thirteen thirteen, and then
she goes into a trance and she starts

891
01:01:25.519 --> 01:01:29.679
scribbling, and she's like scribbled.
You see this trope in horror films all

892
01:01:29.679 --> 01:01:31.599
the time. They're scribbling shit.
It's like they're automatic writing. The spirits

893
01:01:31.639 --> 01:01:35.079
are communicating through and they're like,
what are the writing? I don't know.

894
01:01:35.119 --> 01:01:37.159
It's like in the sixth sense,
you know, he's drawn pictures of

895
01:01:37.159 --> 01:01:39.719
people killing themselves with screwdrivers and stuff. You know, automatic writing, right,

896
01:01:40.639 --> 01:01:45.880
very fascinating concept. And she draws
this symbol. Come to find out

897
01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:50.719
that she was psychically communicated to as
a distress signal by this you know,

898
01:01:50.760 --> 01:01:54.280
this tribe from beneath the Earth and
another dimension aka the Spirit World aka is.

899
01:01:54.320 --> 01:01:58.679
The movie calls it the Hollow Earth
and they go on this grand journey

900
01:01:58.719 --> 01:02:04.400
to you know, get to to
Hollow Earth or whatever. It's basically like

901
01:02:04.480 --> 01:02:07.599
the whole the whole point of this
movie was I feel like setting you up

902
01:02:07.639 --> 01:02:13.440
for the big Atlantis conspiracy. Oh
yeah, right, Like half of the

903
01:02:13.480 --> 01:02:16.320
movie is this like Indiana Jones Adventure
where they're walking through these ancient temples and

904
01:02:16.360 --> 01:02:20.280
they're pushing rocks and then a booby
trap comes out or like you know,

905
01:02:20.360 --> 01:02:24.199
some mechanism opens and it's like,
you know, you start to see these

906
01:02:24.199 --> 01:02:28.360
crazy crystals that are glowing and then
next thing you know, they start talking

907
01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:35.760
about I always thought that the pyramids
were built using anti gravitation technology, you

908
01:02:35.800 --> 01:02:39.360
know, and it was in the
movie. It was it was the crystal

909
01:02:39.639 --> 01:02:45.199
energy, right, that was causing
Like they obviously gave some weird sciencey explanation

910
01:02:45.239 --> 01:02:47.840
for it, but it like it
changes gravity, right. Yeah. And

911
01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:52.760
she gets to the tribe and then
you know, they start to communicate with

912
01:02:52.760 --> 01:02:55.800
her telepathically and you find out that
she had basically like what I what I

913
01:02:55.800 --> 01:02:59.480
felt in that moment. A Granted, this literally just came out in theaters

914
01:02:59.480 --> 01:03:02.280
a couple months I think it came
into streaming like a couple days ago,

915
01:03:02.440 --> 01:03:06.679
So I'm going off memory from seeing
it in theater. But what I felt

916
01:03:06.719 --> 01:03:10.599
in that moment was that there was
heavy Messiah themes in this film, very

917
01:03:10.639 --> 01:03:15.800
heavy Messiah themes, Like the girl
was the figure, yes, for sure,

918
01:03:15.079 --> 01:03:21.119
It's like they needed her to What
were they trying to do with the

919
01:03:21.119 --> 01:03:23.880
crystal open the portals? They were
trying to awaken author Yeah, some in

920
01:03:23.920 --> 01:03:29.920
Mathra, that's right. That was
like the deity that this tribe worshiped,

921
01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:32.440
right, that was their god,
right, and they were sending out this

922
01:03:32.519 --> 01:03:39.119
psychic distress signal for her to find
her way home, awaken her psychic powers.

923
01:03:39.519 --> 01:03:43.360
Because I think, oh, oh, I forgot. This is why

924
01:03:43.400 --> 01:03:46.239
I got the messianic vibe. Because
as they get to this last civilization in

925
01:03:46.280 --> 01:03:51.679
the Hollow Earth, you start to
see all these monoliths that they have with

926
01:03:51.760 --> 01:03:59.159
these ancient like hieroglyphs detailing an ancient
battle between the villain of the movie,

927
01:03:59.159 --> 01:04:01.360
which was like Skull. I guess
this like King Kong, Scar King Scar

928
01:04:01.519 --> 01:04:04.599
Scar not Skull. I don't know
where I got school from. It's Skull

929
01:04:04.639 --> 01:04:10.320
Island, It's but it's Scar King
Scar, right, is like an orangutan.

930
01:04:10.480 --> 01:04:14.440
Yeah, And they start to show
these like ten thousand or more year

931
01:04:14.480 --> 01:04:19.920
old prophecies of like an ancient battle
between Godzilla and this uh, this scar

932
01:04:20.239 --> 01:04:26.239
And it was like the movie was
really driving you to understand that this was

933
01:04:26.280 --> 01:04:31.239
like an ancient destiny that was kind
of they were being propelled towards for literally

934
01:04:31.280 --> 01:04:35.079
like ten thousand years. It was
a prophecy, and the conditions had to

935
01:04:35.119 --> 01:04:42.519
be very specifically sufficient for Mathra to
awaken, to stop it, for Godzilla

936
01:04:42.559 --> 01:04:45.440
to stop it. You know,
it's just just like XYZ, condition had

937
01:04:45.440 --> 01:04:49.039
to be met for humanity not to
be freaking wiped out by this conquering tribe

938
01:04:49.039 --> 01:04:54.679
of Kong's or whatever. And this
girl fit every piece of the prophecy,

939
01:04:54.800 --> 01:04:57.840
which again I can't remember every piece
of the prophecy because I saw it in

940
01:04:57.880 --> 01:05:00.440
theatre a few months ago. But
it was like she was born of a

941
01:05:00.480 --> 01:05:04.199
foreign tribe, she lived with normal
people, but she had the old native

942
01:05:04.239 --> 01:05:12.840
ways, and she you know,
had the telepathic powers. And then lo

943
01:05:12.920 --> 01:05:17.000
and behold she goes and she awakens
Queen Mathra, which in that moment I

944
01:05:17.079 --> 01:05:20.880
was feeling, okay, the return
of the divine feminine in order to restore

945
01:05:20.960 --> 01:05:26.000
balance to the world of nature,
and mankind. They had to restore this

946
01:05:26.079 --> 01:05:30.760
feminine deity to work in conjunction with
Godzilla because they were the king and the

947
01:05:30.840 --> 01:05:32.719
queen of the monsters. They had
to work together. And then bro it

948
01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:40.039
literally showed just like in the classic
sixties movie, Mathra is like a god,

949
01:05:40.519 --> 01:05:43.280
just like Manila is a higher power. There's always this theme of these

950
01:05:43.280 --> 01:05:46.480
monsters being a god or a higher
power. Mathra is this goddess that these

951
01:05:46.519 --> 01:05:53.079
two little girls flying her back.
There's two little ladies, but in this

952
01:05:53.119 --> 01:05:58.000
newer one, the teenage girl who's
you know, the one that's from the

953
01:05:58.039 --> 01:06:01.480
previous movies. She flies in on
author's back, but she flies in and

954
01:06:02.280 --> 01:06:06.599
I kid you not. Godzilla and
King Kong are fighting at the Pyramids of

955
01:06:06.679 --> 01:06:13.000
Giza, which, right there is
symbolism. And then it shows Mathra flying

956
01:06:13.039 --> 01:06:15.280
in and it's like a beam of
light shines upon them, and then the

957
01:06:15.320 --> 01:06:18.719
girl steps out from the light and
she's awakened as a messiah and she like

958
01:06:19.480 --> 01:06:25.480
brings them together a very symbolic shot, right yeah, yeah, yeah,

959
01:06:25.519 --> 01:06:30.239
of like the the the power behind
that girl, right, the importance behind

960
01:06:30.280 --> 01:06:34.159
that girl. Yeah, And then
and there's probably so much more that I

961
01:06:34.280 --> 01:06:38.159
that I can't even remember. But
then it's like, at the end of

962
01:06:38.199 --> 01:06:40.159
the movie, I thought of Jesus. I thought, I thought of her

963
01:06:40.159 --> 01:06:42.719
being as like a parallel to like
a Christ figure, you know, like

964
01:06:42.920 --> 01:06:46.800
the Messiah. Like, yeah,
she chose to remain among the normal people.

965
01:06:46.880 --> 01:06:49.000
Uh huh. You know, she
came home, and it was like

966
01:06:49.199 --> 01:06:53.159
when Jesus ascended, then he came
back and he lived among the disciples,

967
01:06:53.159 --> 01:06:57.360
but then you know, he descends
again. And I just remember leaving that

968
01:06:57.400 --> 01:07:02.280
theater being we were talking and I
said, like, holy shit, that

969
01:07:02.400 --> 01:07:05.920
was so occult. Yeah, yeah, beginning to end. It absolutely was

970
01:07:06.039 --> 01:07:10.400
like that. They all give you
the vibe, all the Godzilla movies give

971
01:07:10.440 --> 01:07:12.840
you the vibe, but this one
was just all up in your face.

972
01:07:13.679 --> 01:07:15.880
It was fantasmic. It was a
good movie too, yeah, like legitimately

973
01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:19.880
a good movie type it sounds it
might sound silly to some people listening,

974
01:07:20.039 --> 01:07:25.840
but like I'm telling you, when
you watch movies with this lens, like

975
01:07:25.880 --> 01:07:29.920
through this lens, so a lot
of the time, not all the time,

976
01:07:30.159 --> 01:07:32.440
but a lot of the time,
you will pick up on things that

977
01:07:32.480 --> 01:07:39.159
you just didn't expect, like symbology
and like spiritual concepts, occult knowledge,

978
01:07:39.239 --> 01:07:42.679
like it is in so many movies. This is a movie about a giant

979
01:07:42.880 --> 01:07:47.639
monkey and a giant lizard, like
you know, but in reality, it's

980
01:07:48.400 --> 01:07:55.159
it's crazy that you even the very
first Godzilla was like this spiritual, ancient

981
01:07:55.280 --> 01:08:00.639
spiritual, like this ancient deity that
that this like spiritual tribe in Japan worshiped

982
01:08:00.639 --> 01:08:03.840
and made sacrifices too. Like yeah, it's it's just cool to know that

983
01:08:03.880 --> 01:08:09.079
it's always been a thing in this
series and they're still doing it to this

984
01:08:09.199 --> 01:08:12.880
day. So like, yeah,
it might sound silly like Mulkey movie,

985
01:08:13.119 --> 01:08:16.800
like lizard movie, but no,
watch movies through a different lens, even

986
01:08:16.840 --> 01:08:20.680
movies that you've already seen before,
rewatch them. You'll probably pick up on

987
01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:25.880
some stuff. It's hard, and
I feel like with people, especially with

988
01:08:25.960 --> 01:08:30.760
the project that's worth like tens or
hundreds of millions of dollars, you don't

989
01:08:30.760 --> 01:08:34.920
think that, at least sometimes the
minds behind these projects don't have some sort

990
01:08:34.920 --> 01:08:41.239
of intention to the message and the
theme and the symbolism. The lens that

991
01:08:41.279 --> 01:08:45.199
he keeps speaking about and that I
keep speaking about is understanding that if if

992
01:08:45.239 --> 01:08:53.119
there really is some like small priestly
class that that you know, kind of

993
01:08:53.359 --> 01:08:59.239
is in charge of things here on
earth. They would have some sort of

994
01:08:59.359 --> 01:09:04.239
motive or to have this symbolism in
their art or in their media. I

995
01:09:04.239 --> 01:09:06.760
don't know why. I can't tell
you why. I can only interpret it.

996
01:09:06.840 --> 01:09:10.720
But it's like what Manly P.
Hall said. Manley P. Hall

997
01:09:10.840 --> 01:09:16.199
is one of the greatest ever scholars
of esotericism. He was so efficient at

998
01:09:16.239 --> 01:09:21.199
like interpreting the mysteries that he was
before he died of a mysterious death.

999
01:09:21.720 --> 01:09:26.640
He was initiated as an honorary thirty
third degree Freemason. He was never even

1000
01:09:26.680 --> 01:09:30.800
a freemason. He just wrote books
about him and wrote books about all these

1001
01:09:30.840 --> 01:09:33.960
ancient occult mysteries. And you know, he was initiated, and then he

1002
01:09:34.039 --> 01:09:38.920
mysteriously died and his Masonic books were
missing from his library. People speculate maybe

1003
01:09:38.920 --> 01:09:41.720
he was killed, but some people
say maybe his may did it. I

1004
01:09:41.760 --> 01:09:44.760
don't know, but anyway, this
is one of the best quotes I've ever

1005
01:09:44.840 --> 01:09:47.359
read in my whole life. It's
from Manley P. Hall. Symbolism is

1006
01:09:47.399 --> 01:09:53.079
the language of the mysteries. By
symbols, men have ever sought to communicate

1007
01:09:53.159 --> 01:09:59.279
to each other those thoughts which transcend
the limitations of language. I believe that

1008
01:09:59.359 --> 01:10:02.319
if you look at these films or
anime or comic books or whatever, you

1009
01:10:02.319 --> 01:10:06.039
know, popular media you enjoy and
you do understand if you, you know,

1010
01:10:06.079 --> 01:10:09.920
you open your mind outside of the
box and you look at it through

1011
01:10:09.920 --> 01:10:18.399
the lens of is there some sort
of interwoven thread of esoteric symbolism deep beneath

1012
01:10:18.479 --> 01:10:23.239
the first layer of the movie,
which is monkey and lizard fight? Right?

1013
01:10:23.680 --> 01:10:29.000
The second level is what are the
spiritual themes and symbols present? What

1014
01:10:29.079 --> 01:10:31.800
are these things represent? Right?
Yeah, like you're seeing it, but

1015
01:10:31.840 --> 01:10:34.920
what does it mean? There's something
there? Yeah, there absolutely is.

1016
01:10:34.960 --> 01:10:39.279
There's something there, and I think
often it's intentional, and I think just

1017
01:10:39.359 --> 01:10:45.199
as often it comes through unintentionally through
divine inspiration. Yeah, Because like I

1018
01:10:45.319 --> 01:10:49.039
believe that art is like a spirit, Like I think it's a source out

1019
01:10:49.079 --> 01:10:56.159
there somewhere, a muse and it
gets like downloaded to us with you know

1020
01:10:56.680 --> 01:11:00.600
it for whatever reason, it comes
through you and then you might not even

1021
01:11:00.720 --> 01:11:02.399
notice it while it's happening, but
afterwards you look at it and you're like,

1022
01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:06.560
wait a minute, this is this
means something. This means something,

1023
01:11:06.880 --> 01:11:13.159
and you know there are themes that
resonate for whatever reason. I believe it's

1024
01:11:13.159 --> 01:11:18.239
because we know the truth of We
subconsciously know the truth of spirit. These

1025
01:11:18.279 --> 01:11:23.720
themes resonate with humanity for some reason. This like triumph of good over evil

1026
01:11:23.840 --> 01:11:29.720
and collective consciousness. Even like some
theme ascension, even though it's usually depicted

1027
01:11:29.720 --> 01:11:31.960
as a messianic figure, it's the
story that we can ascend to this,

1028
01:11:32.600 --> 01:11:35.560
you know, ye divine level,
Yes, you know, it resonates with

1029
01:11:35.640 --> 01:11:42.560
us even I feel like even the
like agnostic and the atheist and like,

1030
01:11:42.640 --> 01:11:47.439
these themes still resonate superheroes. Oh, absolutely at its core, even though

1031
01:11:47.439 --> 01:11:50.560
it's not like they're God's you know, it's like it's it's it's the premise

1032
01:11:50.680 --> 01:11:59.880
that we inherently resonate with some higher
force fighting benevolently for the protection of mankind.

1033
01:12:00.119 --> 01:12:02.640
Yeah, there's there's a force Spider
Man be swinging around the city,

1034
01:12:02.640 --> 01:12:06.319
But really maybe on a deeper level, it's symbolic that there's some higher power

1035
01:12:06.319 --> 01:12:12.000
that's protecting us and is upholding justice, peace, fighting for what's right.

1036
01:12:12.520 --> 01:12:15.560
I mean, yeah, you Spider
Man, like blatantly or Superman or whatever,

1037
01:12:15.680 --> 01:12:20.920
he's like burdened. Like his literal
like tagline is with great power comes

1038
01:12:20.920 --> 01:12:28.640
great responsibility. He was bestowed this
like this incredible power and he is compelled,

1039
01:12:28.960 --> 01:12:31.640
he doesn't even know why, he
is compelled to do good with it

1040
01:12:31.720 --> 01:12:36.600
and defend people, and like,
you know, it's I think it's divine

1041
01:12:36.640 --> 01:12:44.439
inspiration, Like these themes find their
way into art because our spirit knows that

1042
01:12:44.479 --> 01:12:48.600
they are important. These themes are
important and they need to be like propagated.

1043
01:12:48.920 --> 01:12:51.800
I think it's both too. Yeah. I think it's what you're saying,

1044
01:12:51.840 --> 01:12:55.399
where it's like people are, you
know, picking up on these themes

1045
01:12:55.439 --> 01:12:58.239
like the artist, right, you
know. And and then I think there's

1046
01:12:58.279 --> 01:13:00.479
another layer, which is like,
Okay, you guys are really going on

1047
01:13:00.520 --> 01:13:04.000
about the floor ride in the water
and the Illuminati and the mega corporations having

1048
01:13:04.039 --> 01:13:08.560
breakaway civilization and running the world and
trying to play god and blah blah blah

1049
01:13:08.600 --> 01:13:11.479
blah blah. They're putting that in
there on purpose, Yeah, for sure.

1050
01:13:12.079 --> 01:13:15.439
Yeah, because they want to initiate
people. They want people to know,

1051
01:13:15.640 --> 01:13:19.680
like, you know, not everybody
explicitly knows this information, and so

1052
01:13:19.720 --> 01:13:23.199
that if they they're like, oh, if I package it into a pretty

1053
01:13:23.199 --> 01:13:26.119
movie, that's cool, and people
go see it because they want to see

1054
01:13:26.359 --> 01:13:30.880
big monsters punch each other and then
I teach them a little something subconsciously that's

1055
01:13:31.159 --> 01:13:35.479
you know, valuable to their soul. Win when yeah, yeah, I

1056
01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:43.479
think it happens often both ways,
but it's it's awesome. Let's uh,

1057
01:13:43.600 --> 01:13:50.479
let's do another Godzilla impression. Okay, you first, I'm you gonna go

1058
01:13:50.479 --> 01:13:54.960
Alex. No, I was gonna
say that I aced my first one,

1059
01:13:55.119 --> 01:13:59.520
so I'm not going again. I
can't drop that. Okay, I'm actually

1060
01:13:59.520 --> 01:14:09.920
gonna do an impression of Manila.
I gotta show Alex gift Man. That's

1061
01:14:09.960 --> 01:14:12.319
it's funny, dude. Well that's
all I got. I hope you guys

1062
01:14:12.399 --> 01:14:15.840
enjoyed this episode. It's been a
while since we've done like a more of

1063
01:14:15.920 --> 01:14:17.840
like an esoteric pop culture one,
and I was just really itching to dive

1064
01:14:17.880 --> 01:14:21.279
in with my latest obsession. I
feel like I got that off my belt.

1065
01:14:23.199 --> 01:14:26.039
I've just been I feel like I've
been on a pilgrimage of Godzilla movies

1066
01:14:26.039 --> 01:14:30.039
in the last months. And then
tomorrow we're gonna put that Kareem on the

1067
01:14:30.079 --> 01:14:33.359
cake. Baby. Okay, you
don't put cream on cake. Icing usually

1068
01:14:33.520 --> 01:14:41.199
in the cream, Mine usually rises
to the top. Okay, what cream

1069
01:14:41.279 --> 01:14:44.039
always rises to the top. If
you ain't creamy o cake, do you

1070
01:14:44.079 --> 01:14:48.479
get the fuck? All? Right? Bye, guys. Weird things happened

1071
01:14:48.520 --> 01:15:05.399
in the backyard, so weird coming
closer to us. Players state this straight

1072
01:15:05.600 --> 01:15:15.119
up, like smiring on the inside
of it. No one knows that.

1073
01:15:17.840 --> 01:16:01.640
Wow, it's come for I ever
thought solid chimn