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133. Sadako's Curse is more then just a tape... (The Ring By Koji Suzuki) · The Book-Watchers

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Speaker 2: the Patreon facecot subscribe. I'm just gonna jump right into
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Speaker 2: today's episode. So today's episode, I'm gonna be talking about
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Speaker 2: The Ring, the original og novel, because apparently I haven't
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Speaker 2: done this yet. I guess I was waiting on it
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Speaker 2: till I decided to read the other novels. But I'll
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Speaker 2: just start now because I haven't read the other ones yet.
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Speaker 2: But I know, I probably talked about some of the
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Speaker 2: plot with when it comes to the Ring, But yeah,
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Speaker 2: today I'm gonna go over the original novel by Koji Suzuki,
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Speaker 2: And of course this is the book that started the
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Speaker 2: inspiration or started the whole Ring franchise from the spawned
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Speaker 2: the films, the TV the TV movie first, and then
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Speaker 2: the Japanese horror film, the Korean horror film, and then
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Speaker 2: of course the American one that we know of today.
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Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. You want to see a
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Speaker 2: real fucking weird ass movie. Look up, It's on YouTube, y'all.
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Speaker 2: Look up the Original Ring nineteen ninety five TV Japanese movie.
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Speaker 2: It's like the Yes if I call it the yestification
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Speaker 2: of Sotoka because this girl, the actress, full titties, fulld
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Speaker 2: teddies out like boobs like Mike. Damn girl work the
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Speaker 2: yesification of sodal.
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Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 2: And just so you know, the novel is way different
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Speaker 2: than the movies, and the TV movie is probably the
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Speaker 2: closest adaptation we have to the actual novel because plot twist.
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Speaker 2: Uh in the novel, you don't get the phone call.
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Speaker 2: There is no phone call at the end of the
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Speaker 2: At the end of the curse fade. That's something made
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Speaker 2: up for the movies.
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Speaker 1: For the.
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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure the Japanese one had it. It's been
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Speaker 2: a while since I watching the Japanese film. The American
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Speaker 2: one film has it, and I think the Japanese one
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Speaker 2: Japanese films have it as well.
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Speaker 4: So I'm there was a phone call, it's just that
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Speaker 4: like it wasn't like the whole like seven days. It
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Speaker 4: was just more like you get the phone call, but
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Speaker 4: it's just static.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, But in the book you don't get that.
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Speaker 2: All the video, the the curse tape that you watch
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Speaker 2: tells you you have one week to live, and then
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Speaker 2: it just stops there and you're just like, oh, okay.
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Speaker 4: They had to kind of dance to infer from previous
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Speaker 4: victims that like they have some days to live, because
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Speaker 4: the previous victims all had something in common is that
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Speaker 4: they watched the videotape and then a week later they died.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And in this book, because I'm going over the plot
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Speaker 2: in the summer, I have doesn't have the killings of
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Speaker 2: the first killings that happen. So in the beginning of
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Speaker 2: the book you have several see several depictions of different
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Speaker 2: teenagers three different teenagers die over the course of this time.
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Speaker 2: One of them sticks out to me the most is
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Speaker 2: there's a motorcycle accident where a guy is driving a
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Speaker 2: motorcycle and then he dies, crashes, dies, His face is
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Speaker 2: like frozen, and from his helmet comes out a wad
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Speaker 2: of weird black long hair and it scurries over to
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Speaker 2: a We call it a little rain drain, A rain
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Speaker 2: rain drain, a drain, one of the drains you see
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Speaker 2: on side of the road, like a big water. Hair
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Speaker 2: just scurries over and goes into the sewer. And Yeah,
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Speaker 2: if you've only watched the movies, you're gonna be like,
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Speaker 2: what the fuck? Because I was like, what the fuck?
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Speaker 2: So book it up further ride so this movie or
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Speaker 2: not in this movie? Oh my god, this book. So
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Speaker 2: after finding out three other teenagers died at the same
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Speaker 2: time and the same exact biz armed manner as his
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Speaker 2: as this character's niece Kazuki Ashaikawa before we begin. The
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Speaker 2: book was released back in nineteen ninety one in Japan
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Speaker 2: and two thousand and three in the United States, and.
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Speaker 1: It was released in.
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Speaker 2: By Kada Kato Kawa in Japan and then of course
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Speaker 2: Vertical Inc.
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Speaker 1: In the United States, and this is one of five four.
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Speaker 2: Two four books five books, sorry, five books, and one
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Speaker 2: of them the last one, still is not released in
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Speaker 2: the United States. What are you all doing? Gimme tied anyway. So,
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Speaker 2: after finding out these teenagers die is very similar to
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Speaker 2: his niece. Kazuki Ashakawa, a reporter from the Daily News,
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Speaker 2: starts a personal investigation, and his search leads him to
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Speaker 2: a to Hakoni Pacific Land, a holiday resort where the
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Speaker 2: teenagers were together one week before their deaths. There he
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Speaker 2: happens upon a mysterious, unmarked videotape as per usual, and
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Speaker 2: on this videotape is twenty minutes of a sequence of
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Speaker 2: abstract and real scenes, ending with the text warning that
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Speaker 2: the viewer has one week to live. The next part,
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Speaker 2: was supposedly explains a means of avoiding death and is
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Speaker 2: later referred to as the charm, is overwritten by an advertisement.
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Speaker 2: So so, originally in the novel the book the film
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Speaker 2: will show will tell you have one week to live,
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Speaker 2: but they'll also tell you how to survive death, how
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Speaker 2: to get out survive this, and they call that the term.
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Speaker 2: But for whatever reason, that was over written with an advertisement.
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Speaker 2: On this radio tape. So obviously those teenagers did not
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Speaker 2: ever figure out how to bypass this the death. So
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Speaker 2: the tape terrifies Ashikawa, who was convinced its warning is true,
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Speaker 2: despite the despite his fate or his incoming fate. He
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Speaker 2: takes the videotape and enlists the help of his old
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Speaker 2: high school friend, right Rajugi ryu Yuji hone Yama, now
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Speaker 2: a university professor.
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Speaker 3: Now, this is this guy. This, this is the guy.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 1: Uh huh oh, that's right. You've read this book, haven't you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he has a This guy sucks. This guy sucks.
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Speaker 2: I don't know why the I don't know why the
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Speaker 2: author decided to write this character. I find it weird.
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Speaker 2: But to give you the clean version, y'all, where Yuji
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Speaker 2: is a piece of shit and he has a history
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Speaker 2: of a certain thing of essay, well, I will say,
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Speaker 2: and that makes up. They make a point of that
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Speaker 2: in the book. For some reason, I find that weird.
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Speaker 4: But and I mean the the main character has moments
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Speaker 4: of doubt like should he even be allowed to this
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Speaker 4: guy at his home?
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Speaker 1: Yes?
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Speaker 3: Like should he leave him alone with his wife and daughter?
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Speaker 1: Yes? I would be very concerned about that too.
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Speaker 4: But at the same time, he just like he he
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Speaker 4: kind of just shrugs it off at the same time
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Speaker 4: like okay, well kind of at this point kind of
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Speaker 4: like nothing they can do about it, that he can
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Speaker 4: do about it, but at.
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Speaker 1: The same time like it's a fuck, He's a piece
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Speaker 1: of shit.
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Speaker 2: So he enlists Reyuji and has him watch the tape
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Speaker 2: and asks for a copy to study at home, to
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Speaker 2: which Ashikawa obliges. He gives him a copy of it,
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Speaker 2: and the men began dism basically analyzing the footage to
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Speaker 2: figure out where it was shot in the broadcast. After
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Speaker 2: a fruitless day chasing leads, Asha Kawa goes home only
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Speaker 2: to find that his wife has watched the video and
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Speaker 2: with their infant daughter on her lap out of curiosity.
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Speaker 2: So his wife and child have been exposed to the videotape.
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Speaker 2: While yeah, yeah, so there they got seven days. The
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Speaker 2: next day, Reyuji figures the moment of near blackness appearing
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Speaker 2: during the real during real sequences quote unquote are likely
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Speaker 2: caused by the recording device blinking, so there's like these
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Speaker 2: weird blinking effects that happen. So the two travel to Kamakura,
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Speaker 2: where Uji knows someone who has with a personal archive
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Speaker 2: of paranormal cases from Japan, searching for individuals with psychic
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Speaker 2: photo photographic abilities. Aided by subtal other clues from the footage,
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Speaker 2: they find the record of Sadako Yamamurah, a young woman
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Speaker 2: born in issue sho Ashima Island. So this is where
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Speaker 2: we meet Sadako. Uh, let me guess back, Reiji theorizes
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Speaker 2: the woman's already dead. Of course Sodo is already dead,
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Speaker 2: which I mean she is, and the last part of
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Speaker 2: the tape contains the will she wanted the viewer to fulfill.
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Speaker 2: To figure it out, they travel to the island and
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Speaker 2: the next morning to learn more about Sotaco's past. Stuck
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Speaker 2: on the island because of a heavy storm, the two
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Speaker 2: aren't aren't able to unearth any clues leaden to them
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Speaker 2: solving the mystery. But thanks to Oshimura and Yoshino. Yep, Yoshinino, Yoshinino.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm terrible with damn y'all. Yoshi Yoshino,
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Speaker 2: there you go, colleagues of Oshakawa. They pieced together Sadaos
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Speaker 2: timeline up to thirty years ago, and they have hit
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Speaker 2: and of course by this point they hit a dead
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Speaker 2: end with trying to find out. So apparently she was
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Speaker 2: a sados timeline we get in thirty years ago, so
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Speaker 2: this is she's been dead for quite some time. With
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Speaker 2: their deadline approaching, or the seven days approaching, Ryuji has
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Speaker 2: the idea of retracing the resort lodge's history to find
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Speaker 2: out how and why the tape was there. Yoshino finds
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Speaker 2: out that the resort used to be a.
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Speaker 4: Super tuberculosis Yeah, there was a like during the time
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Speaker 4: when tuberculosis was like was very it was a thing.
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Speaker 3: I mean it still, I think it still is a thing.
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Speaker 4: It's just like back then there was not that meant
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Speaker 4: there was not effective treatments for it. This resort was
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Speaker 4: a was like a retreat for people recovering from tuberculosis,
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Speaker 4: so like one of the like more natural remedies for
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Speaker 4: curing it. Was like open air, like clean fresh air,
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Speaker 4: and like the retreat was meant to be a place
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Speaker 4: for them to relax, for them to recover, you know,
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Speaker 4: get over it. So but then after it was closed down,
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Speaker 4: it was turned into it into this resort.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So from here they find out that Sadako's father lived
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Speaker 2: in his last days here and the only survivor surviving
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Speaker 2: staff member working there during the pioneer of Sadako's disappearance
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Speaker 2: is a GP now go.
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Speaker 1: Now go.
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Speaker 2: Utaro, so of course, when the storm clears, they travel
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Speaker 2: to the doctor's office and recognizes him as the aggressive
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Speaker 2: man in the videotape, so he's in the tape itself,
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Speaker 2: and Brugi presses the doctor for answers, and the doctor
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Speaker 2: omits to being infatuated with Sodaco, and as if guided
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Speaker 2: by something beyond himself, he will say that her in
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Speaker 2: a abandoned cabin deep in the woods and in the
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Speaker 2: process infecting her with smallpox and learning she is intersex.
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Speaker 4: Yeah she So it turns out Staca was like a
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Speaker 4: type of uh so intersex. And the thing is is
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Speaker 4: that she wasn't a like a hermaphrodite so for say,
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Speaker 4: but she was born with uh she's technically genetically male,
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Speaker 4: but she was all so female. And though like she
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Speaker 4: still has you know, the lady parts, but she also
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Speaker 4: has a pair of testicles.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I don't me.
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Speaker 4: Just laugh at that, but still it's like one of
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Speaker 4: those It was like it was shocking, like I was like,
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Speaker 4: oh yeah, oh okay, that's pretty shocking. And the thing
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Speaker 4: is is that like part of like the Curse of
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Speaker 4: Sodoco was like her not only because of her rage
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Speaker 4: and anger for being essayed, but because she was also
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Speaker 4: dealing with like a lifelong bitterness because to her, she
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Speaker 4: was raised as a woman and the fact that she
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Speaker 4: was intersex and that she was also genetically male was
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Speaker 4: like a huge like point of shame for her and
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Speaker 4: like a huge source of her bitterness, like because since
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Speaker 4: she was raised as a woman, she was like she
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Speaker 4: was raised with that expectation that she needed to have children,
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Speaker 4: beare children, and she even had that desire to like
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Speaker 4: want to have children of her own, but because of
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Speaker 4: her intersex condition, she was barren. She could not conceive children.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
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Speaker 2: And then from there with getting smallpox and finding out
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Speaker 2: of the that she's intersects. Driven by the same unexplainable
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Speaker 2: compulsion which the duo later distance as Sadako's mind control,
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Speaker 2: he throws her into a nearby well, and of course
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Speaker 2: this is where she basically dies, which is beneath the
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Speaker 2: lodge at the resort. Believing Staca survived in the well,
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Speaker 2: her rage and psychic powers projected images onto a tape
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Speaker 2: and the two race back to the lodge. Guessing her
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Speaker 2: will is to be freed, they locate the well. Now
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Speaker 2: Chicawa finds Sadaca's remains. Chakawa's seven day deadline passes, convincing
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Speaker 2: them that the curse is broken. They find her remains
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Speaker 2: under in that well, and that's pretty much like the
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Speaker 2: Japanese version of the films is outside the tape, they
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Speaker 2: do keep the fact that she's intersex as a key point,
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Speaker 2: and that's the reason why that's the reason for her
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Speaker 2: death is because of the guy that was trying to
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Speaker 2: there's a different I mean, there's a different character that
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Speaker 2: does that, I think the movie Japanese movies, but basically
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Speaker 2: it's the same. She's intersex, guy freaks out and then
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Speaker 2: kills her. Well, of course I can see why now
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Speaker 2: they don't have that over here in America because the
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Speaker 2: American version, she's a child, just a child that has
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Speaker 2: weird psychic abilities, and her parents or her father thought
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Speaker 2: it'd be smart, just adoptive father thought'd be smart just
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Speaker 2: to kill her.
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Speaker 3: It's like everyone out.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of like, you know, western like the
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Speaker 4: way they wanted to westernize it, americanize it is that
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Speaker 4: they basically turned it into another witch hunt.
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Speaker 3: So like you know, young girl with with.
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Speaker 4: Psychic abilit these that no one understands, they freak out,
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Speaker 4: they basically crucify her. And in her case, her crucifixion
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Speaker 4: or her steak that she's burned at isn't a well yeah,
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Speaker 4: and you know do we see that a lot with
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Speaker 4: these kind of like westernizations, Like instead of like keeping
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Speaker 4: it to the original source material and in some case
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Speaker 4: the original source material, we turn it into our way
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Speaker 4: of westernizing it is turning it into.
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Speaker 3: A into like a witch hunt.
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Speaker 4: And you know, oh, she's a witch burner at the steak,
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Speaker 4: drown her in a well, hang her all right, crucify her? Right?
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Speaker 4: We see this like, I mean, like Stephen like it's
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Speaker 4: to me, it was I was like, okay, So the
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Speaker 4: westernization of it basically turned it into another Stephen King's.
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Speaker 1: Carry kind of yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, except that IFO does die, but in her
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Speaker 4: that even in death, she creates her like will lives
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Speaker 4: on through her through the.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: So in the original but in the original story, it's
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Speaker 4: like the tape is actually her baby, Like this is
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Speaker 4: her way of giving birth to this is her child.
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Speaker 4: It's not her spirit lingering and cursing people and killing
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Speaker 4: people who watch it. No, this is actually her child.
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Speaker 4: So we learned that. We learned that she wants this
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Speaker 4: to be spread like a virus, just like smallpox. So
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Speaker 4: if you don't want to die in seven days, you
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Speaker 4: have to make another tape and share it with somebody else.
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Speaker 4: It was like her way of like inflicting that same
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Speaker 4: kind of pain that was inflicted upon her onto others,
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Speaker 4: Like she wants others to feel that pain. So that's
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Speaker 4: what the purpose of her child is. The videotape is.
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Speaker 4: You watch it, cool, you're infected. Now if you don't
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Speaker 4: want to die in seven days, you need to infect
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Speaker 4: somebody else, right, and the way you do that is
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Speaker 4: by copying the tape and giving it to somebody else
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Speaker 4: to watch.
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Speaker 3: So I think one, I'm sorry, no I was gonna say.
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Speaker 3: I think.
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Speaker 4: I think that like after you do that, you basically
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Speaker 4: become immune. So if you watch the tape again, I
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Speaker 4: guess it doesn't do it won't kill you.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if it ever really addresses that. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you can kind of assume that you'll be immune to
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Speaker 2: it because you've already watched it once.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think in I think.
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Speaker 2: The American third, the Rings movie, the third one in American,
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Speaker 2: the American series. I think they try. I think they
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Speaker 2: try to establish that, but I don't I don't remember.
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Speaker 2: They try to play around with that idea, but I
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Speaker 2: don't remember if they were able to they're immune to it,
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Speaker 2: or if they watch it again they can just pass
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Speaker 2: the virus. They passed the virus from back and forth
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Speaker 2: between them. I have to watch the third American one again.
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Speaker 2: But the American franchise kind of plays around with that
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Speaker 2: idea a little bit.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: The Japanese one, I don't know, because I've only watched
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Speaker 2: Ring one and then Ring two. I have not watched
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Speaker 2: Spiral or any of the other films. There's a lot
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Speaker 2: of Japanese films.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I watched some of the Ring, like the Ring
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Speaker 4: films and the sequels, at least the americanized versions.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And you know, honestly, I remember thinking, like, man, this
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Speaker 4: was supposed to be like back then, it was supposed
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Speaker 4: to be really scary because I didn't watch them when
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Speaker 4: when they first came out, right, I only watched maybe
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Speaker 4: some of the sequels later on and didn't really like
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Speaker 4: think much of them. But then I watched the original
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Speaker 4: movie and then the subsequent sequel, and I was like,
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Speaker 4: that's it, Like this is it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I think, honestly, this is one of the
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Speaker 2: few times that the American remake I think is better
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Speaker 2: than the Japanese film. Yeah, I personally think because the
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Speaker 2: American remake is just the first first one, especially just so.
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Speaker 1: Good, oh good.
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Speaker 4: I would be honest, I prefer like this movie came
20:48
Speaker 4: out around the same time another like the American at
20:51
Speaker 4: least the americanized versions came around at the same time
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Speaker 4: as another Americanized Japanese to American film.
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Speaker 3: And that was The Grudge and love it. I love
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Speaker 3: the Grudge.
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Speaker 4: I think it's way scarier and I love the story
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Speaker 4: a lot better.
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Speaker 3: God.
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Speaker 4: The first one like was like like, oh, that was
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Speaker 4: fucked up.
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Speaker 3: Second one was terrifying.
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Speaker 4: I remember when I watched it in theaters, Like I
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Speaker 4: saw it in theaters and it was terrifying.
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Speaker 3: I was like, ooh, it's so oh oh.
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Speaker 4: I like because it's it does all these time jumps
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Speaker 4: and then like I'm.
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Speaker 2: Like what number two love and they jumped between storylines
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Speaker 2: and they tie it all together at the end. Love.
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Speaker 4: The third one like was probably the worst, but it
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Speaker 4: was also one that like another way, it was fucked
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Speaker 4: up in another way. But first was good, second was
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Speaker 4: the best, third was the worst exactly.
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Speaker 2: And the Japanese ones for the Grudge are just as good, yeah,
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Speaker 2: just as weird. They go more in detail with like
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Speaker 2: the family mother dying and the child dying by the
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Speaker 2: father and the father's rage. It gets it, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: it gets more. But anyway, to finish out the rings.
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Speaker 2: The next day, the two part ways, Nasha Kawa returns
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Speaker 2: Sadako's remains to her parents. Alone in his house. Reuji
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Speaker 2: sincees his death approaching. In his final moments, he deduces
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Speaker 2: the actual charm. He calls his assistant and but he
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Speaker 2: finally realizes that, oh shit, I have to have somebody
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Speaker 2: watch the watch the tape hello, because the only reason
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Speaker 2: that Ashaka would not die because Yuji saw the video,
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Speaker 2: so he had someone else watch the video or Reugi
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Speaker 2: did not. He's like, oh shit, I'm gonna die, so
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Speaker 2: he tries to get his assistant to watch it, but
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Speaker 2: of course he dies. When his assistant answers the phone,
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Speaker 2: all they hear is him screaming without being him be
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Speaker 2: able to say anything while he died and of course,
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Speaker 2: a Chicawa calls Reugi, but his assistant picks up and
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Speaker 2: tells him, yeah, he's dead and she and he's like,
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Speaker 2: oh shit, so panicked. As his wife and child's deadline approaches,
23:16
Speaker 2: Ashikawa tries to figure out why he was spared. Reyugi
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Speaker 2: appears in a vision and guides him to the answer.
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Speaker 2: So psychic powers combined with the smallpox virus creating sup
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Speaker 2: a paranormal virus that demands we were reproduced through copies.
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Speaker 2: So the charm is in copying the tape and showing
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Speaker 2: it to someone else within five hours left, Ashikawa races
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Speaker 2: to his wife's parents home and the tape and with
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Speaker 2: the tape in the VCR and choosing to unleash the
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Speaker 2: apocalyptic evil for the safety of his wife and child.
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Speaker 2: So basically he gets he gets her parents to watch
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Speaker 2: the video so his wife and child could survive. And
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Speaker 2: that's where the book ends, is that you find out
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Speaker 2: that's the charm. And then of course the virus was
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Speaker 2: created from smallpox mixed with Sodaco's powers, and she has
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Speaker 2: a baby. She literally has her child that she's always wanted,
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Speaker 2: and you're like, good for her, good for her, good
24:31
Speaker 2: for her.
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Speaker 1: Babes.
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Speaker 2: Now there are other books in this series. The next
24:36
Speaker 2: one is called Spiral, so yet Spiral Loop Birthday, which
24:43
Speaker 2: is like a prequel, and then s and then of
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Speaker 2: course last one's called Tide. Now Tide is again not
24:51
Speaker 2: released in the States unfortunately, and I wanted to be
24:55
Speaker 2: released in the States. So what are you all doing?
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Speaker 2: Get to it eventually. I will go over the other
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Speaker 2: ones when I get to them. So they give you
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Speaker 2: a little spoiler. The Ring turns into something completely all
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Speaker 2: left field. It turns out that not that like. It
25:20
Speaker 2: deals with simulations technology, Soodoco is not real. It's like
25:26
Speaker 2: a weird She's in a simulation. She's like a weird
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Speaker 2: simulation that it's weird. It gets really bonkers as this
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Speaker 2: as the like Inspiral and Loop, So look forward to
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Speaker 2: that because that will be in the future when I
25:40
Speaker 2: get finally get to these books, because I am on
25:45
Speaker 2: a mission to do so. And of course watch the
25:47
Speaker 2: movies that correlate with them, because there are some Some
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Speaker 2: of the Japanese movies.
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Speaker 1: Do correlate with the novels. Well.
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Speaker 2: The American ones do not really go off of the
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Speaker 2: novels like at all, except for maybe the first except
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Speaker 2: for kind of the first one, but of course the
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Speaker 2: first Japanese movie don't really go off the novel completely either,
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Speaker 2: So yeah, but I will dive more into the Ring
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Speaker 2: series at a later point when I finished those books, so.
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Speaker 1: Stay tuned.
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Speaker 2: I'll probably get through at least one or two of
26:21
Speaker 2: them for the end of the year, then kind of
26:23
Speaker 2: spread them out. But that is today's episode on the
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Speaker 2: Ring by Koji Suzuki, and catch us next time as
26:31
Speaker 2: we start Pride months. I don't know, I don't know
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Speaker 2: if it's the Vices, is gonna before Pride month, if
26:39
Speaker 2: is gonna before Probaly seven thirty one. Whichever way, it's
26:43
Speaker 2: either gonna be Price Project seventy one or Walk on
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Speaker 2: the Pride. So until then, catch us then bye bye,