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127. This is worse then the unit...(Island 731 (Nemesis Saga)) · The Book-Watchers

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  Speaker 1: You knows how's suns? Hello, welcome to book watchers, or
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  Speaker 1: the rules are made up in the roles don't matter,
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  Speaker 1: you'll have to divantage. Wait oh wait, that's.
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  Speaker 2: Wow w I am your pale demon ginger spawn with em?
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  Speaker 1: Thank god? Or not?
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  Speaker 2: Thank god. I put a halt on the recording because
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  Speaker 2: I just look I look like I have a black eye.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you have a blood?
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  Speaker 2: I don't have a I don't have a block.
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  Speaker 1: Ship hold on, Oh my god, why do you want
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  Speaker 1: a black guy? I don't. It's not black eyes. It's
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  Speaker 1: my one. Do I need to call someone? Are you okay?
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  Speaker 2: It's not a black eye. It's the way the camera
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  Speaker 2: quality is. It makes it look like a black eye.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, it's not. I sware. I just had
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  Speaker 2: dry skin.
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  Speaker 1: Like bestie, Do I need to call the police to
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  Speaker 1: come stop me from coming over there too? I'll pull up.
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  Speaker 1: You would pull up for me, mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: But this, this webcam makes me look like I do
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  Speaker 2: have a black euy And I'm like.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't. My skin. My skin's just pale and dry.
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  Speaker 2: Struggles of a pale person. M Oh my god, struggles
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  Speaker 2: of a pale person. That's gonna be that's a reality series,
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  Speaker 2: right there. Struggles of a pale person.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god. He's struggling so like people,
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  Speaker 1: we are struggling with our bodies today, he's struggling with
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  Speaker 1: his skin. I'm struggling with my stomach. So yeah, because
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  Speaker 1: I have like.
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  Speaker 2: Or it looks like hiat kind of looks like.
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  Speaker 1: You're probably allergic to something.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, it's it's not spreading anywhere else,
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  Speaker 2: so that's why I'm thinking it's ezema. I mean this
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  Speaker 2: looks like exzema, and same with like this and of
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  Speaker 2: course this, but like it's not spreading anywhere else. Really,
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  Speaker 2: it's keeping to their spots. I'm just like, whatever happened,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta freak my skin freaked out and it just
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  Speaker 2: hasn't it. It gets better and then it gets and
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  Speaker 2: then gets worse, and then gets better and then gets worse.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and John, if you have ezema, sweat is your
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  Speaker 2: worst enemy. And guess what. I sweat a lot. He
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  Speaker 2: does sometimes not even doing anything. My body is just
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  Speaker 2: like it's too hot. It's it's it's too hot.
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  Speaker 1: We can't He's made for them. The Highlands of Scotland.
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  Speaker 1: His body made for the highlands of Scotland where it's cold,
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  Speaker 1: exactly this Texas heat.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not okay if it's a little humid, trust me,
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: My bodies are sweating.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: And about and about.
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  Speaker 1: Our gross bodies. We're human, we're gross. What's up?
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  Speaker 2: You're fat, Jacob, your fag with egma and your other
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  Speaker 2: gay with stomach issues. A gay with stomach issues and
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  Speaker 2: a gay with skin issues.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, and we're both bottoms and we're.
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  Speaker 2: Both bottoms even worse worse for you, worse for you
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  Speaker 2: than me.
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  Speaker 1: But it is worse for me. Like my body is like, no, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: Mine is just annoying. Yours is just like I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to ruin your whole day. M I just look look
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  Speaker 2: a little weird and crusty. But that's it really is.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, that's gross. Anyway, we're gross, We're gay, We're gross.
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  Speaker 1: We have weird bodies. But at this at this day
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  Speaker 1: and age, who doesn't. Who doesn't, honestly, who doesn't someone
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  Speaker 1: like out there, we all have weird things that are
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  Speaker 1: about our bodies that like we can't control. But yeah, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: but we're not here to talk about our bodies. We're
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  Speaker 1: here to talk about books.
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  Speaker 2: the other podcast in beyond Family productions of podcasts, as
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  Speaker 2: well as the Patreon And apparently we've been having a
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  Speaker 2: lot of listeners. And let me pull it up. Vietnam, Pakistan, Iraq,
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  Speaker 2: we been getting like this past week we've gotten or
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  Speaker 2: past month, there's one thou fifteen one, five hundred and
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  Speaker 1: Huh Iraq, Iraq, Iraq.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty five downloads from Iraq, thirty downloads from Bangladesh, and
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and ninety from Vietnam.
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  Speaker 1: Remind me where is where is Bangladesh?
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  Speaker 2: Bangladesh is in Asia. It's right under. It's okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: it's right under.
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  Speaker 1: Like no, I know that Bangladesh exists. I'm not a
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  Speaker 1: dumb American. I just don't know where in Asia it is.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's right between. Oh, it's right near India.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's like off top right hand corner of Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, oh yeah. Well it's Hi Bangladesh, Hi English listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Hi and Hi Vietnam.
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm, you know, pleasantly surprised. I wasn't, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Like whenever we get like listeners from different parts of
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  Speaker 1: the world, it's like, uh, it's exciting, but at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, in some places it's surprising, like oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: Like like Iraq is surprising, Like we must have listeners
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  Speaker 2: listen to some fagots.
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  Speaker 1: so we are going to be continuing our little uh
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  Speaker 1: dive into the rabbit hole that is the Nensis saga
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  Speaker 1: by Jeremy Jeremy Robinson for a for a hot minute
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  Speaker 1: that like pre pre COVID, there was a there was
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  Speaker 1: a good period of time where I was obsessed with
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy Robinson. He was at the time my favorite indie author.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, he was pretty self he was mostly
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  Speaker 1: self published. He's still pretty much like he's still for
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  Speaker 1: the most part self published, and he posts. He publishes
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  Speaker 1: a lot of his books in ebook format, and he
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  Speaker 1: rarely will actually like publish a physical copy of a book,
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  Speaker 1: preferring to just publish online. And one of the first,
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  Speaker 1: the very first book I read by him was Project Nemesis,
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  Speaker 1: which is which we reviewed last week. And after Project Nemesis,
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  Speaker 1: I realized there's more, Like, oh my god, there's more.
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  Speaker 1: And there was a time there was a good minute
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  Speaker 1: where like Project Nemesis was the only book in the series,
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  Speaker 1: and then he started writing the other books, like my
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  Speaker 1: Project the book, the second book Project Maigo. He released
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  Speaker 1: Island seven thirty one, which is like a prequel, and
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  Speaker 1: then he he released the rest so like Project seven
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  Speaker 1: thirty one, Project Hyperion, and the and then the finale,
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  Speaker 1: Project Legion, And he had all these other books within
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  Speaker 1: his own multiverse, his own little Robinson verse at would
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  Speaker 1: tie that would later come to tie into the Nemesis saga.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're actually gonna be talking about the prequel of
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  Speaker 1: the series. We're talking about Island seven thirty one. So
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy Robinson loves to take inspiration from weird cryptids, urban
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  Speaker 1: legends and like legends and myths and history, and he
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  Speaker 1: likes to give them an He likes to put take
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  Speaker 1: these inspirations and give them a nice twist right like
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  Speaker 1: kind of expand from there like and one of these
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  Speaker 1: the main inspiration for the story of Island seven thirty
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  Speaker 1: one was a was a unit in the Japanese military
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  Speaker 1: during World War Two called Unit seven thirty one. If
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  Speaker 1: you're history buff, you know all about them. But for
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  Speaker 1: those of you who don't know, and for those of
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  Speaker 1: you who may not know, a lot of who may
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  Speaker 1: not know fainly don't know, Unit seven was a Biochemical
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  Speaker 1: Research division within the Japanese military. They during World War Two,
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  Speaker 1: they conducted horrific experiments on captured prisoners like POW Chinese civilians,
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  Speaker 1: Like they had a choke hold on a good chunk
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  Speaker 1: of Southeast Asia, like China, South Korea, Vietnam. They were everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: They had like a huge choke hold on everything. And
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  Speaker 1: Unit seven thirty one would take prisoners from the from
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  Speaker 1: the captured territory and POW's and they would conduct chemical experiments,
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  Speaker 1: biological experiments. Just they were like the SS. They were
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  Speaker 1: the Japanese equivalent of the SS. This shit they did,
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  Speaker 1: like it's part of the reason why the Geneva Convention exists.
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  Speaker 3: Uh huh uh like, And some of the experiments included
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  Speaker 3: testing like chemical weapons like like mustard gas and other
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  Speaker 3: forms of like chemical gases and sprays to like try
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  Speaker 3: to like develop new, like new more horrendous weapons.
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  Speaker 1: They experimented with different biological factors like diseases, malaria, all
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  Speaker 1: these kinds of things that they would they would test
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  Speaker 1: to see like how effective they would be they would
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  Speaker 1: be if used on like a populace and.
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  Speaker 2: One most well known ones that still fucks me up
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  Speaker 2: because I watched I discovered about seven thirty one during
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  Speaker 2: finding a Japanese horror film on it and basically they
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember the name of it. I have to
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  Speaker 2: go find it because I've been trying to find it forever.
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  Speaker 2: But I went through a whole Asian horror phase during college,
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  Speaker 2: which I still love. But like, I would watch these
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  Speaker 2: random ones on this website and that was one of them.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, and they'd like to experiment with people in
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  Speaker 2: the cold.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: For example, they would take people, have them chuckle them
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  Speaker 2: outside overnight to free They're like they they have their
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  Speaker 2: limbs freeze, and then afterward they would shove their limbs
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  Speaker 2: into boiling hot water, pull it up and then they'd
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  Speaker 2: be able. And then they would well, when your body
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  Speaker 2: is nothing but ice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the movie is the movie just called seven thirty one,
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  Speaker 1: because there is a movie called night it.
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  Speaker 2: Might be just it might be just seven three one
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  Speaker 2: some thirty ones. There was a new one that came
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  Speaker 2: out I think the Chinese did that was a couple
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  Speaker 2: of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: That's called there's one here called seven thirty one and
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  Speaker 1: it's uh, it looks like it is a Chinese thrillert
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  Speaker 1: home let me see And northeast China an ordinary managed
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  Speaker 1: thrust into the Turbula Fae against the backdrop of the
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  Speaker 1: inhumane bacterial experiments conducted by the Japanese Imperial Army notorious
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  Speaker 1: Unit thirty seven thirty one. And then there's another one here.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's called Evil Unbound.
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  Speaker 2: It might be that one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh oh, that's what it's called. So the it's the
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  Speaker 1: same movie. So he was called Evil Unbound. But China
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  Speaker 1: and China they they uh, they released it as seven
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  Speaker 1: thirty one. Yeah, yeah, so okay, so I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: about that, so let's go. I'll look it up later.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the it's it's fucked up, y'all. I'm granted
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  Speaker 2: most of our we wouldn't have the medical advancements today
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  Speaker 2: if it wasn't for seven thirty one, fun fact and
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  Speaker 2: the Nazis, because we took all that, We took all
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  Speaker 2: their research, and that's why we have what we have
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  Speaker 2: for the medical world today is a lot of it
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  Speaker 2: is because of the experiments of the Nazis and seven
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  Speaker 2: thirty one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah did yeah, it's picked the pay per clip program
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  Speaker 1: project paper. We accepted a lot of these scientists and
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  Speaker 1: we took there, we gave we gave them pardons in
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  Speaker 1: exchange for them sharing their research and basically continuing it,
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  Speaker 1: but from an ethical standpoint instead of like the unregulated
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  Speaker 1: bullshit that they got up to and like at the
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  Speaker 1: height of World War two. But one of the one
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  Speaker 1: of the like it's not really verifiable or confirmed if
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  Speaker 1: it's true that, but one of the types of experiments
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  Speaker 1: that that Unit seven thirty one was rumored to have
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  Speaker 1: done was experiments with biological chimera. So chimera so like
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  Speaker 1: from a mythical standpoint, the chimera is a mythical creature
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  Speaker 1: that has the head of a lion, a goat, a
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  Speaker 1: tail of a snake, a body of a lion, and
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  Speaker 1: had all these like mismatch features of like multiple different
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  Speaker 1: animals and some legends they have wings and others like
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  Speaker 1: they don't. But it's consistent that it's like a mixed
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  Speaker 1: mash of animals into like one entity. Chimeras actually do
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  Speaker 1: exist in nature, but it's more of it's not so
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  Speaker 1: much as like an evolutionary thing. It's more of a
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  Speaker 1: like it's more of a like kind of like a
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  Speaker 1: hiccup something like because like the way I understand like,
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  Speaker 1: so like chimeras are basically an organism where you have
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  Speaker 1: two different like DNA structures working together to create this
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  Speaker 1: one living organism. And it's different from a hybrid because
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  Speaker 1: a hybrid is just where it's it has just one
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  Speaker 1: genetic structure, but it's a pure it's a combination of
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  Speaker 1: two different species, right, Yeah, So that's why, like an
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  Speaker 1: example of a hybrid would be like a liger. A
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  Speaker 1: line of a liger is a hybrid of a tiger
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  Speaker 1: and a lion. I don't have any good examples of
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  Speaker 1: a chimera. I think the closest thing would be like
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  Speaker 1: something like if you had a vestigital twin, because you
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  Speaker 1: have two different genetic structures working together. Because there's cases
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  Speaker 1: of where people like find out like, oh, their child
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  Speaker 1: is not genetically theirs, even though they gave birth to
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  Speaker 1: them or conceive them, and it turns out like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: the father is actually he is technic the father, but
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  Speaker 1: he had a twin in year to row that he absorbed,
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  Speaker 1: and because he absorbed his twin, his twins DNA is
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  Speaker 1: what's produced in his firm instead of his own. So
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  Speaker 1: technically that's a form of chrimera. I might be wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Medical experts don't come after me. I'm not a medical expert.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you might also come down to like if
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  Speaker 2: the like if the person has sex, like two different
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  Speaker 2: people and they have again kind of the same concept. There
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  Speaker 2: are cases where I mean, they're I mean again, don't
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  Speaker 2: quote me on this, but I remember hearing about cases
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  Speaker 2: where a woman was pregnant with twins. They're related, but
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  Speaker 2: two different fathers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then of course that's not really kinme era,
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  Speaker 1: that's just more of like just I.
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  Speaker 2: Would assume, like what you were talking about when they
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  Speaker 2: absorbed the DNA, that would if they assorb the DNA
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  Speaker 2: of the other twin.
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  Speaker 1: Something like that. I think it's more common, and it's
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  Speaker 1: actually more common in fraternal twins because if you are
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  Speaker 1: a if you're an identical twin, your DNA's is also
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  Speaker 1: like almost completely identical to your twins. So like you,
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  Speaker 1: if you have twins and you're in those two, if
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  Speaker 1: you have twin boys, and those twin boys marry like
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  Speaker 1: a pair of twin girls, and they all and all
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  Speaker 1: four of them have kids, right well, and the couple
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  Speaker 1: pairs have have kids together, their kids are genetically siblings,
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  Speaker 1: not cousins.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So a biological camera is a single organism pis
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  Speaker 2: of cells from two different to two or more distinct
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  Speaker 2: individuals different DNA. Common examples include human cases, feudal twinning
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  Speaker 2: organ transplants, so organ chances. If you got an organ
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  Speaker 2: chance plant, technically you would be a camera.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So yeah, it's a circle by to the to
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  Speaker 1: the to Island seven thirty one. Jerry Robinson based the
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  Speaker 1: story off of like the more in the like unsubstantiated
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  Speaker 1: rumors that that Unit seven thirty one was conducting experiments
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  Speaker 1: into chimerasm, so the and the reason why the rumors,
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  Speaker 1: and they were never able to verify this because after
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  Speaker 1: units after the Japanese the Imperial Japanese Army was defeated
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  Speaker 1: and they were forced to withdraw from their Asian holdouts,
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  Speaker 1: their Southeast Asian holdouts, the military found old testing sites
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  Speaker 1: for the for units seven thirty ones, and they found
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  Speaker 1: mass graves filled with previous experiments and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: them had grotesques, like had grotesque deformities. So many of
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  Speaker 1: them were missing limbs. In other cases they had too
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  Speaker 1: many limbs. They found corpses with extra limbs grafted onto them,
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  Speaker 1: like men and women with extra pairs of arms and legs.
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  Speaker 1: Some cases genitals were swapped and like it was horrendous,
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  Speaker 1: so they so Jeremy Robinson he wrote he took this
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  Speaker 1: and wrote a story because there was and that story
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  Speaker 1: became Island seven thirty one. So the story also takes
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  Speaker 1: inspiration from another from another book that was actually written
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  Speaker 1: written by HG. Wells, called The Island of Doctor Moreau.
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  Speaker 1: So in it's much similar. So Island seven thirty one
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  Speaker 1: is heavily inspired by the Island of Doctor Monroe, but
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  Speaker 1: also the inspirt, but the main plot is instead of
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  Speaker 1: that just being a mad scientist working on his own
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  Speaker 1: to create human hybrid like human animal hybrids or chimera,
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  Speaker 1: in this case, it's something totally different, and instead of
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  Speaker 1: it just being a mad scientist who works alone, it's
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  Speaker 1: actually really a like it's actually remnants of Unit seven
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  Speaker 1: thirty one. So the story, the story itself follows a
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  Speaker 1: the story still follows the main character, Mark Hotton Mark Hawkins.
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  Speaker 1: He's a former nature park ranger and expert tracker. He
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  Speaker 1: is brought on a special oceanic survey and mission to
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  Speaker 1: study the effects of the Transpacific garbage packs garbage patch.
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  Speaker 1: So in the Pacific Ocean. We all know there is
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  Speaker 1: a there's a massive like just patch of garbage, so
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  Speaker 1: like garbage that gets dumped into the into the Pacific Ocean.
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  Speaker 1: There's the patch itself is in like an area where
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  Speaker 1: like multiple different ocean currents like intersects creating like this
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  Speaker 1: sort of like not really a whirlpool, but like this
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  Speaker 1: area where all this garbage just ends up getting pushed together,
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  Speaker 1: creating this massive, like hundreds of miles wide patch of
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  Speaker 1: just pure garbage. And Mark Hawkins and an oceanic research
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  Speaker 1: team goes out to study the effects of this garbage
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  Speaker 1: patch on the environment mainly, and it makes references to
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  Speaker 1: multiple different like real world discoveries from the garbage patch,
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  Speaker 1: like certain animals that got trapped in like things like
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: like soda, like soda can those soda can what are
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  Speaker 1: those things called? They're like these plastic ties, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: like when you buy like a six pack of soda
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  Speaker 1: and they're like all held together by this like these
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  Speaker 1: plastic loops. Well, there was one story of a turtle
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  Speaker 1: that got caught in one of those loops and as
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  Speaker 1: it grew, the loops prevented it from being able to
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  Speaker 1: grow properly, so it caused the turtle's body to become
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  Speaker 1: like warped, and as it grew and grew, it's body
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  Speaker 1: became like this this like this hourglass shapes where this
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  Speaker 1: that little tie was just cert was just still circled
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  Speaker 1: around the center of its body. So it makes references
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  Speaker 1: to that. During the during the expedition, the ship and
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  Speaker 1: it's the the research vessel gets hijacked. It's technically it's
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  Speaker 1: systems and navigation systems get hijacked by some sort of
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: glitch that causes it to completely veer off course. They're
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: not able to navigate properly and uh, and they get
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  Speaker 1: caught in a Pacific storm and it and a tropical storm,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: that storm that comes out of nowhere. When storm is over,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: most of the crew is missing and presume in some
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: cases presumed dead, and they find themselves. They find themselves
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  Speaker 1: now stuck within a protective cove of a mysterious island.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: So so Hawkins and the remaining members of the crew
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  Speaker 1: who decide to explore the island and possibly find possibly
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  Speaker 1: see if maybe there is some sort of settlement on
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  Speaker 1: the island so they can radio for help. As they're exploring,
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  Speaker 1: the island, they first discover some interesting they've just start.
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  Speaker 1: They start seeing some really interesting and terrifying things on
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  Speaker 1: the island. Interesting, let's start with the interesting things. The
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: interesting things is they discover that there are World War
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  Speaker 1: two dugouts like structures, so like military structures, so like
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  Speaker 1: the Japanese would commonly make these dugouts, where like there
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: were just these concrete structures with like split like these
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  Speaker 1: narrow slits in them where they were able to like
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  Speaker 1: shoot their guns through. And when they explore one of them,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: they see that there's some Japanese like kanji like printed
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  Speaker 1: on the walls, very faded. But in one of them,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: they noticed that it has like a specific identifier. And
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  Speaker 1: one of the crew members who actually does rea Chinese,
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  Speaker 1: who actually, excuse me, not Chinese, Japanese who actually reads Japanese.
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  Speaker 1: A few of them, so a few of them knew
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  Speaker 1: who and what the Japanese Unit seven thirty one was
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  Speaker 1: and from the experiment they conducted. And the funny thing
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  Speaker 1: is is that they are they discovered these dugouts after
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  Speaker 1: they encountered something very terrifying. They went almost immediately after
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: making landfall on the islands, they encounter a swarm of lizards,
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  Speaker 1: these colorful iguana like lizards. But yeah, I know what
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: you're thinking, what's so bad about lizards? Well, these lizards
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: had snake fangs. They hissed like a snake, and when
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: they open their mouths, you can clearly see two like
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  Speaker 1: sickle fangs coming out of a pair of fangs in
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: their mouth. And oh yeah, they have bat wings.
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  Speaker 2: Iguanas have bat wings. That's not a thing that's not
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  Speaker 2: supposed to happen.
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  Speaker 1: That's not supposed to happen. They had to run because
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  Speaker 1: the bats were venomous, and they were highly venomous. They
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  Speaker 1: avoid They managed to avoid the iguana bats, and that's
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: not long after that they discovered the dugout for Unit
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  Speaker 1: seven thirty one, and they put the two together and
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: they and some of them knew the history of Unit
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: seven thirty one and were like, you know, this makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: This makes sense. The iguana bats, their Chimera thirty one
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  Speaker 1: was rumored to experimented with chimera. Their unit should have
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  Speaker 1: been totally dismantled, But it looks like this island. Either
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: they continued the experiments on the island or these are
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: just the leftovers like Caimara are not really supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be able to breed at least like once at least
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: as far as they know, like artificially made camera would
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: not have been able to breed. But it looks like
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: these animals have breeding. And as they go deeper into
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: the island, they discover they encounter more chimera. They encounter
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: like more docile chimera which are like the sheep, like
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  Speaker 1: these sheep pig things they encounter. Uh. The worst one,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: one of the worst ones they encounter was a a
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  Speaker 1: octopus yep camera of a crocodile and an octopus. What
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: does that even look like? It had like the front
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: part of its body was the crocodile, on the back
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: part of it was the like octopus, so it had
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: the octopus legs, but like its front part was a crocodile. Uh.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: They encounter some other terrifying creatures and they make and
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: as they're making their way further inland, they discover a
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  Speaker 1: modern complex, like modern buildings, like they could clearly see
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: like you know, communication uplinks. They find a small little
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: homestead where like where it's clear that the uh that
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  Speaker 1: the base gets most of their supply from, like goats
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  Speaker 1: and goats and cattle, But the most terrifying thing they
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  Speaker 1: encounter on the island is a even more grotesque looking
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and more unrecognizably look unrecognizable looking creature. So this creature
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: looks more humanoid, but it's large, it's hunched. It has
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: a long prehensile tail. It has like something like something
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: that looks some like similar to a spider monkey tail,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: but it's bigger. It has the it it has a
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: shelled plate on its chest. It's kind of similar to
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: like a cross between a crocodiles, uh, like a crocodile's
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: armor and a turtle shell. And uh, it has these.
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  Speaker 1: It has like this cat like, more cat looking catlike
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  Speaker 1: body with you know, like you know, cat like paws
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  Speaker 1: on its rear paws, human like hands but on but
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: one of its hands is actually not a human hand,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: but more a hand that looks more similar to an
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: II hand. So if you want, if you must know,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: go to Google look up what is an II and
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: II is like a kind of like something like a
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: lemur or a monkey. But they have these their their
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: hands have these very long middle finger so like these
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: middle fingers are made like they're they have this really
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  Speaker 1: long finger digit that they mainly use for scraping like
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: bugs and other things out of like like tree bark
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  Speaker 1: and things like that, so that helps them reach like
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: the goodly parts that they like to eat. Well, that's
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: what this creature had, and at certain points it seemed
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: like this creature had some level of human intelligent because
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: they would hear it grunts and even like mumble a
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: few words before running off. It does have to killing
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  Speaker 1: several of the crew men of the crew men before
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: they finally make it make it to the facility. When
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  Speaker 1: they get to the facility, they find that it's mostly abandoned,
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  Speaker 1: and they learned that several of the people that was
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: a part of the expedition actually came from this island.
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  Speaker 1: One of them was a young man who was of
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  Speaker 1: Japanese descent. They were trying to find him because he
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  Speaker 1: had disappeared on the island. And the other one was
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: just a normal boy, was just a normal guy. He
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: was a younger guy at the same age as the
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: as the Japanese young man, and it turns out both
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: of them were from the island. But the other guy,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the Japanese guy, was actually he was he himself was
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: a Chimera though his chimerasm was more subtle and easier
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: to hide because he actually had fish gills, but the
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: gills were hidden like like for the kind of gills
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: that were like along like underneath his rib cage, so
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  Speaker 1: he didn't need so he was able to easily hide
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  Speaker 1: his gills and live a more or less normal life.
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  Speaker 1: While the other young man he was actually the son
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  Speaker 1: of some of the scientists on the island that can
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: continue to conduct experiments on the island. This young man
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: revealed that he had taken over operations of the islands
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  Speaker 1: and basically killed and had basically killed every like the
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  Speaker 1: remaining staff on the island and even used some of
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  Speaker 1: them for his experiments. She had the thing is he
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  Speaker 1: had taken his father was like one of the head
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  Speaker 1: honcho scientists that his father, well, it was his father
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: and also the father of the Japanese man. They were
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: both like head researchers of this island continued and they
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: continued the experiments on creating chimera, and one of the
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: first camera that was created was that humanoid chimera that
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: had been killing most of their crew, most of the
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: expertition's crew, and they actually and the head Japanese scientists
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: from he was one of the original Unit seven thirty
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  Speaker 1: one scientists. He called it Kaiju, so he called the
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: creature Kaiju after from a myth from a Japanese word
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: meaning strange beasts. So it turns out that Kaiju is female,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: and she actually gave birth to multiple children, including that
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: young including the Japanese young man. So the Japanese so
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the original Japanese scientists had actually used his sperm to
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: impregnate her artificially, thank God, and she had given birth.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: She'd given birth to the young man first, so he's
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: the oldest of her children. But it turns out she
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: was also Kaiju was also able to reproduce asexually, so
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: she later ended up giving birth to more children, but
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: her their children were more they had more fit like
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: obvious physical chimerorism. Like throughout throughout the story, here and there,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: the main character Mark would run into this little girl
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: that actually that looked like a panther, so she was
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: like a black She was a black panther. She looked
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: just like she had the body of the little girl,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: but she had her body was her whole body was
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: covered in black fur, and she had retractable claws in
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: her fingers and her feet, and then she had a
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: long cat like tail. M cat she was a cat girl.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: M hmm.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Literally, uh so this girl actually so she was. She
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: was one of Kaigi's daughters. Kaiju also had like about
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: four other children. Uh. I don't really remember what uh like.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: I don't really remember what kind of animals, like animal
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: traits that they had. For the most part, they were
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: kind of like her. They had like different they had
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: like something like I think one kid had like more
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: dog like features. Another one looked like a reptile, like
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: something like a reptile, And I think I can't remember
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: what the other one was because they didn't They only
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: made like one appearance and you only asue him from
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: like afar. But they don't survive because the thing is
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: is that the so the one young the one guy
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: that that non the one, that other guy that was
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: from the islands. He's not a camera but he was
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the son of one of the scientists, and he took
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: over the islands, ended up experimenting on everybody, killing everybody,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: got bored, went to the mainland, joined this expedition for
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: the sole purpose of learning these people there so we
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: can have more test subjects for his camera, and he
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: was able to control Kaiju by using like a special
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: sound frequency so very Pavlo Pavlovian like. He would use this.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: He would use like a device to admit a sound
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: way that uh, that Kaiju would respond to and would
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: follow his directions. And at one point he calls Kaiju
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: together with all of his with all of Kaiju's more
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: animalistic children, and he and he forces Kaiju to kill
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: all of her children. So she ends up killing the
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: other Chaimer kids and the only one that survives was
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the the Panther girl, and she manages to escape during
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: the like during this whole scuffle, the fish boy, the Japanese,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: the Japanese young man. I I should look up I
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: should probably look up their names, but I don't have
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: time to look up their names. I really don't. I
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: don't want to fend like mit five minutes trying to
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: figure out all their names. That's fair. Uh, not gonna
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: worry about their names. Uh. So the thing is is
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: that the new bat. The thing is is that evil
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: scientist kid uh ended up killing his quote unquote brother
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: best friend you know, ends up killing his ends up
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: killing the other the other guy from the island, and
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: the thing is that guy was also Kaiji's son, and
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: he orders k He ends up ordering Kaiju to kill
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: uh Mark Hawkins and the rest and the survive and
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: the other surviving members of the expedition. And before she
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: kills Hawkins, before she goes up to kill Hawkins, she
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: noticed she had enough intelligence to notice that her son
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: was no longer around, and she leans down just before
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: striking him. She leans down and in a very broken
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: like English, she says, where his son? Where his son?
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: And he's like, are you talking about this guy? And
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: she's like where, and she's kind of gets she kind
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: of affirms, like yes, my like where his son is?
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: That he's dead, that guy killed him and Kaiju ends
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: up going rampant and attacks him and attacks her master U.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: He manages to drive her off because the sound the
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: sound the sounds that he uses to control her are
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: more of a Pavlo. It's more of like a Pavlon
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: in conditioning. So she hears the sound, she expects pain
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: and like other triggers, so she can't really like attack him,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: but she's able to like push through and try to
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: get and tries to get at him, but he manages
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: to escape. The thing is is that when he escapes,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: he escapes back into the lab, and when they follow
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: him into the lab, he reveals that he was actually
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: working on a new form of chimera and one that
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: was like he called his great experiment, and he injects
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: the camera embryo and a human test subject and within
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: minutes a trigger warning people. Because the camera that bursts
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: out of the of the human test subject is is
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: a cross between a snapping turtle and a scorpion and
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: a spider. Hawkins ends up calling the creature a BFS
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: a big fucking spider. So the thing about the bfs
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: is is that one they are extremely aggressive and two
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: they are extremely invasive and prolific, meaning that from the
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: moment that they hatch from their eggs or from they
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: developed from an from a larva, they quickly consume the
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: host that they've been in, that they've been injected in.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Because the thing is is that bfs is also have
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: like genes from a desert wasp desert wasps they went.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: The way they reproduce is they sting a host like
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: a like either a grub or some other bug. And
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: when they sting them, they inject their They inject their
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: larva directly into the into the bug or the animal
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: and the larva or like something like a botfly. Bot
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: flies do this too, but it's more k into a
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: desert wasp. So when they inject the larva into the
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: into the host, the larva grows and eats the host
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: from the inside out before maturing and coming out of
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: the host and then developing into their later developing into
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: their adult form. The BFS is reproduced in most of
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: the same way, so they'll give you a good idea
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: of what they look like. The BFS has it. They
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: have their main body. They have like one circular body
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: and that's of something similar to a snapping turtle. And
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: they have these bugs spider like faces, and they have
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: eight legs like a spider. And they have these large
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: barbed tails that like kind of like something similar to
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: a across between a scorpion and a desert wasp. Yeah,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: so it's like a long pranci preancile tail like a scorpion,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: but the stinger is more instead of it being like
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: a hooked barb, it's more of like a straight like
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: stinger jabber barb. And whenever a BFS theme thing about
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: BFS is is that they don't when they attack you,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: they don't eat you or try to eat you. First
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: thing they do as soon as they jump on you,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: they steam you three times. Yeah yeah yeah, and then
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: they and they hop off and run away, and then
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: within minutes a new new BFS is gonna pop out.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: That's how fast they proliferate. So as soon as this
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: guy unleashes the BFS, says, they immediately start swarming the island.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Like one. It starts off with just one the embryo
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: that he injected into the human test subject. But as
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: soon as it as soon as this one pops out,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: immediately jumps on the next victim, stings him three times,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: and then within minutes three more BFS has come out.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: They grow. Their growth rate is exponential, so they quickly
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: each you from the inside out, pop out, immediately search
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: out for a new host to uh to inject their
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: young end. Like as soon as they pop out, they
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: are fully ready to They're completely ready to inject their
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: young brow. Yeah. Uh hold on, I'm gonna look up
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: a picture for you, which I'm sure because so for
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: island seven thirty one and for the rest of the
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Nemesis Sauga. Jeremy Robinson actually partnered with a an artist
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: that's actually local to the San Antonio, Austin area. His
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: name is Matt Frank, and Matt Frank had designed the
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: bfs's and the original design he created for bfs's were
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: pretty cool, like, let me see if I can find
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: one and I'll send it to you, Devin. But like, okay,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: well there's Kaiju, but where's the bfs's. I'm not sure
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: if like some of the e books that he has,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: some of the e books, especially if you buy him
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: on iTunes, they do come with art and but I
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: don't know if they put it in. If they put
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: the bfs's artwork in seven thirty ones book, yeah, it's
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: probably It's most likely in Islands Project seven thirty one,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: so can pull up there. But yeah, so Hawkins and
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: the remaining survivors of the from the expedition have to
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: have to quickly make an escape. The thing is is
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: that Mad Sciences Boy had already sent out a dist
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: distress call using his own using his resources, so a
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: helicopter was on the way, so they had to make
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: it to the extraction point, all the while being completely
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: being chased down by the bfs's mind yep, and they
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: managed to make it to They managed to make it
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: to the extraction. The mad Sciences boy ends up getting
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: killed by Kaiju, but not before he ends up using
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: like a kill switch to kill her, so they ended
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: up killing themselves each other. They end up killing each other,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Kaiju dies and Hawkins realizing that there's still one other
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: person that they need to rescue, he quickly searches and
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: finds the panther girl m okay and and ends up
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: taking her and ends up taking her on the hell
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: on the chopper out of the island. The island as
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: are as they're flying away, they see is completely overrun
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: by the bfs is. All the other chimera on the
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: island end up getting getting killed by the by the
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: b f s is and used to proliferate. So the
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: b f s is proliferate to such a degree that
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: the island is overtaken within the day. But they're but
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: as they're flying away, they see that the bfs is
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: are are not able to cross water, they can't swim okay,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: so they're stuck on the island and thankfully and they're
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: all They leave thinking Okay, cool, we should be safe,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: right right, they're not they're not, uh for the for
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: at this point, this is the end of the book
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: and it ends with Hawkins returning to his home he
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: had Actually he actually owns some land and it's very
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: it's deep in the wilderness. It's you know, it's very remote,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: so there's not a lot of people. And he essentially
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: adopts the panther girl and gives her more or less
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: normal life or a place for her to be able
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: to live free from scrutiny, and doesn't allow her to
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: and you know, and keeps her hidden. While they're exploring
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: the property, he notices that she is there's a point
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: where she goes quiet, and when he tries looking for her,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: she calls out to him in a kind of way
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: that seems like she's her And when he runs to her,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: he finds her and it looks like she's like she's
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: somewhat covered in blood, and she's standing over some like
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: she's you can see her standing over something. And when
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: he approaches it, he sees that there were three eggs,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: so her chimera DNA is will more outwardly. She looks
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: like like a across between a human and a panther,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: a black panther. But there's still other DNA that's that
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: she has that's been spliced into hers. So aside from
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: that she has chimera, she has a chameleon DNA. Now,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: thinking about chameleon DNA is that it doesn't let her
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: like it doesn't let her like change colors or like
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: blend into her environment. But she does have a chameleon's
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: long tongue, So there are several times where she's straight
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: up will like if she's falling, she'll straight up use
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: her tongue to like catch, like to latch onto a
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: ledge and pull herself up. But she really uses it,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: and every time she does, she's like super embarrassed. And
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: also she has like some sort of ability to reproduce
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: a sexually, uh, And she ends up giving birth to
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: these three eggs, and when they hatch out pops these
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: like large like these more medium sized panthers, so their
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: panthers more or less looking, but they are considered a
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: form of chimera. And Mark doesn't bother really going much
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: like looking into it much deeper because he's afraid that
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: if he tries to like get these animals analyzed he's
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: afraid that, like the the the nature of their DNA
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: would draw on unwarranted scrutiny. So and so essentially, Lily
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: the I think that's her name. Hang on, I know exactly.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: I don't work for her name. Also, before before I
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: do that, hold on, I want to.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: That's they look like face hugger spider things.
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they have like they have more the snapping turtle shell.
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: They have a long prints will tell that's like a scorpions.
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: And then of course they have the spider features like the.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Face and the legs. Gross. I have to keep this
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: from Alex.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll freak out.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. My partner, ladies and gentlemen, is he has a rachnophobia.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: So I have to hide. And anytime I have anything
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: spider related, I have to hide it from him. Like
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: I have several books with spider covers on them. You
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: cannot see them, No, you cannot. But hold on, let
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: me fine. I actually know where I can find the
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: name of the character because she pops up and yeah,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: her name is Lily. There it is Lily. Yeah, so
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: the panther girl's name is Lily and she ends up
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: uh so Mark ends up adopting her and raises her
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: on his property deep in a royal area, and she
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: ends up giving birth to She ends up laying well, rather,
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: I should say, laying eggs three eggs at hatch into
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: these panther chimera. They look like regular panthers, but so
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: far no one really knows what they are. The thing
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: is is that So this is pretty much the end
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: of the book. They the story ends here with a
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: bit of a happily ever after. Lily gets to live
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: without being full, like without being exposed to the public.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: But we do see Lily and Mark Hawkins again. We'll
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: see we'll actually need see them again in Project Mago book,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: which is book two of the Project Nemesis series. So
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Lily ends up playing a major role. We'll end up
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: playing a major role in in Project Mago, and she'll
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: actually have a pretty She'll also have a major role
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: in the remaining books of the series. She ends up becoming.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: She and Hawkins end up becoming good friends with uh
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: with John Hudson, the main character of Project Nemesis, and
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: later on there's some other characters that get in that
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: will be introduced, and she became and she she ends
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: up forming close relationships with with many of them, so
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: literally we'll have a big role to play in the future.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: So this is like, so yeah, Island thirty one, it's
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: definitely more of its own standalone It's definitely more of
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: its own standalone novel, but it will later play a
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: role in the upcoming Project Nemesis series. The bfs Is
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: we'll make a return. We won't actually see the bfs
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: Is again on Soil Projects seven thirty one, so we're
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: still two books away from seeing them again. But still
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: when we see them, they're gonna be a little bit
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: a lot more.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: Monstrous, I would assume, so, I would assume so.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: So until then, thank you guys for listening. In that
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: was That was Island seven thirty one. I almost aid Project
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: seven thirty one Island seven thirty one, and it was
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: very interesting. We didn't go into a lot of different
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: a lot of details, and I think there may have
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: been a few came era I didn't mentioned, and there
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: might have been a few features in about Kaiju herself
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: that I may not have mentioned. But it's definitely it's
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: it's definitely like a good setup for what's to come
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: in the in the in the Project Nemesis saga, I
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: do want to mention that there, like, there are other
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: books like Island seven thirty one that actually really build
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: on the lore for Project Nemesis. So Island seven thirty
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: one sets up the plot for both, helps to set
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: up the plot for both Project Mago and Project seven
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: thirty one. But later on we're going to start seeing, uh,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: We're gonna see the story start to delve more deeply,
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: more deeply into the origin of Nemesis herself. Nemesis is
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: an alien kaiju. She was actually created by an alien race,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: and within in the next upcoming books, we will be
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: seeing more and more of like the dislike of what
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: her origins were, and if you want to, like, like,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: if you want to learn more about the aliens that
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: created her. Robinson actually wrote another book, this one introduces
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: those alien races. That book is called Raising the Past,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: So that book is not it doesn't technically take place
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: in the same universe as Project Nemesis, but the aliens
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: are the same. Because the thing about these aliens as
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: while they are an interstellar race, they're also an inter
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: dimensional race too, So they don't just expand and fight
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: across different planets and within the universe. They they are
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: their fight, encompasses their conflicts, encompasses multi in like a
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: vast swath of the multiverse. Oh wow. Yeah. And the
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: thing about Nemesis is that her species is used as
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: a biological weapon of course, so she's so you know,
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: you got nuclear warfare, you got biological war for chemical warfare. Well,
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: these aliens use kaiju warfare. So yeah, so the so
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: Raising the Past is another good book that helps set
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: up the plot for the later novels to come. There
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: is another one called Second World. So Second World is
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: like basically the second coming of the Nazi of the
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Nazi Party Nazis, Like, now I'm like that one is
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: also like sets up the plot, helps sets up the
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: plot for like the fourth and the fourth and fifth
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: books of the series, Project Hyperion and Project Legion, because
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: they're not only characters, but there's also alien technology that
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: is found, and that alien technology is what helps like
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: connect the multiverse together. And there's some other like minor
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: stand little novels that where characters will eventually come to play,
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: like come in and have a role to play within
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: the uh within the Project Nemesis saga, so like books
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: like Uprising Mirror World. There's another one about a time
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: travel time traveler, uh, but I did not read that one.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: And then there is also one called Antarctos Rising because
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: there's a character in that one in that series that
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: uh ends up having a role to play within the
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Nemes Saga. But that's not until Project Beam Legion, the
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: very last book in the series. So yeah, I like
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: completely went down a rabbit hole with with Jeremy Robinson,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: with a lot of Jeremy Robinson's books. Like there's also like,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: aside from the Nemesis Saga, Like there was Antarctos Rising,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: which is part of The Last Hunter, uh, which is
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: part of like the Antarctos Saga. So it's around like
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: an entire like a completely different storyline about Antarctica and uh,
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: you know, characters and like how the environment changes things
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: like that. There's uh, there's one called the Jack Siegler
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: the Jack Siegler Saga or Jack Siegler Thriller thriller series.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: Jack Siegler is kind of like Jeremy Robinson's own take
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: on characters like Jack Ryan or what's that other guy
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: like Alan Richardson placed him in on that Amazon Prime
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: show anyway, But anyway, Uh, the Jack Siegler Saga does come.
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: It does have somewhat of a role to play in
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: the Nemesis Saga too, because several characters from that series
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: does come into the Nemesis Saga as well. Uh So,
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: like when I was reading Nemesissauga and I saw these
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: references to these other books and these other characters, I
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: was like, well, now I got to read these stories, right,
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: So that's what I ended up real you know, I
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: read Antarctos Rising, the and the rest of the Antarctos Saga.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: I read the Jack Siegler sagas, and I ended up
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: reading the like Island seven thirty one, second Second World,
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: and Second World had a sequel called Nazi Hunter Atlantis,
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: so that one was shorter and also kind of kind
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: of like pure camp. Honestly, it was pretty comedic. There's
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: one called Mirror World. Mirror World was I thought was
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: pretty cool. But I definitely but I definitely preferred more
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: like I definitely prefer the Nemesis Saga. And aside from
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: like those books that all ended up tying together, there
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: were several other books by Jeremy Robinson that I ended
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: up reading that didn't tie into Project Nemesis at all,
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: so that I included books like Forbidden Island, which was
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: like Jeremy Robinson's take on North Sentinel Island. So like,
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: for those of you who don't know, North Centinel Island
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: is an island off the coast of India and it
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: is home to one of the very last uncontacted tribes
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: in the world. So this there's an indigenous tribe on
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: that island that has lived in isolation for like hundreds,
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: if not thousands of years, and they're very hostile people.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: So anytime anyone tries to approach them, they end up
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: attacking and they drive anyone away. A few years ago,
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: a missionary guy tried to make contact with the island,
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: but they ended up killing him.
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they sure did.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: So Forbidden Island was was a take on that, and
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: also like a kind of like almost like a satirical
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: take on like The Garden of Eden something like that.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: Robinson also ended up rewriting Project Nemesis, like the first
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: book into it's like its own standalone novel just called
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: just labeled Nemesis, so same characters, same like some of
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: the same characters were still there. And Nemesis, of course
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: was part of the story, but it's like a completely
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: different take and like it's more of like a well
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: what if situation? Yeah what I said. And there was
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: two other books that I really enjoyed by Jeremy Robinson.
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: One was called Unity, which Unity was more like Pacific Rim,
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: like his own version of Pacific Rim. So it was
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: definitely inspired by Pacific Rim. There's these giant robot monsters,
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: but it's it was hella campy. It was definitely more
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: something like Fizz to Pacific Rim. Mixed it with Power
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: Rangers and UH and Ultraman and you got Unity, yeah,
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: and then you also have And then there was another
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: one which, honestly, this was probably my favorite of all,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: like my all time favorite of Jeremy Robinson's, and that
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: was Apocalypse Machine, which is like it's a story about
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: a massive creature that it like, this thing is so large,
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: it's the size of a small island, and it is
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: also so large that when it walks, its footsteps caused
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: like six point five magnitude earthquakes, and it it's so
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: tall that as it's walking, you can't really tell it's
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: there because it's often surrounded by like a bunch of
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: cloud cover, like it's so tall that its upper body
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: actually can hide itself in the clouds and all you
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: see are its massive pillar like legs. And this thing
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: is like taller than mountains, Like it was so big
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: that this thing was so big that it can actually
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: stomp and flattened mountains, entire mountain ranges. Yeah. So yeah,
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: So it was an interesting that one was definitely like
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite stories aside, like one of my
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: favorite books aside from Nemesis from the Net, from the Nemesisaga,
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: because it was like giant monster, this is yes, I'm
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: here for it. Yeah a juice all right.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah you giant monster free.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm yeah, definitely. But that is that is it
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: for Island seven thirty one. The next book we're going
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: to review, and the Nemesis Saga is going to be
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: book two, Project Mago. Project Mago, I will say Project
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: Mago is kind of like that calm, like I would
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: say it's more of a calumn before the storm, because
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: we are to see more Kaiju besides like more Nemesis
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: style Kaiju besides Nemesis herself, and but we're also going
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: to be learning, like getting more like we're gonna see
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: more into Nemesis' background, like a little bit more of
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: her history. We're also going to see more of General Gordon,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: the guy that created that clone Nemesis and how he
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: and he's basically going to be trying to take over
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: like take over the world using other kaiju. Sounds about
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: right yep. So until then, thank you guys for tuning in.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: This is just next time.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: This was fun. Bite me