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136. Back at it again! (Project Hyperion) · The Book-Watchers

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  Speaker 1: Hi, welcome to Book Watchers. Where, am I okay? I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Devin.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to be the title of this episode.
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  Speaker 3: Am I okay?
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  Speaker 1: Am I okay?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm joined with the one, the only, the beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: the stunning, the magnificent, the bitch of.
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  Speaker 1: He's a bitch. Uh, Jacob.
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  Speaker 2: Coming from the bitch.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a bitch. I'm an angel. I'm a saint.
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  Speaker 1: I am the, I am the, uh, I make your
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  Speaker 1: life interesting. I am that little, I'm that little piece
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  Speaker 1: of your life. You're just like, Oh my God, I
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  Speaker 1: love that. He's in my life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He says that. And then I don't message him for
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  Speaker 1: a day or two. And he's like, are you good?
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  Speaker 1: He's like, are you okay?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, for real though, like you, you stopped messaging
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  Speaker 2: me and I'm just like.
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  Speaker 1: No messages, no TikToks, nothing. And you're just like, hello.
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  Speaker 2: Like if you, if you break our TikTok streak.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, never, never.
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  Speaker 1: We're at 700. Never. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 3: Never.
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  Speaker 1: Never. I will kill somebody before that goes out.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there are days where like, I will, I'll
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  Speaker 2: be busy and I won't even be on TikTok at all.
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  Speaker 2: And then like near the end of the day, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just like, oh shit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Just got to like pop on the app and send
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  Speaker 2: them and just send them a video.
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  Speaker 1: Like a video. We have to save this trick. We
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  Speaker 1: put too much work into that. I want to get
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  Speaker 1: to a thousand.
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  Speaker 2: I think what we're, our streak is 700. That's like
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  Speaker 2: two years, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's almost two years. Hold on. Let me look it up.
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  Speaker 1: Let me pull it up right now just for the viewers.
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  Speaker 1: Right now we're at.
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  Speaker 1: Right now we are at 708.
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  Speaker 3: Damn. 708.
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  Speaker 1: Damn.
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  Speaker 3: Damn.
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  Speaker 1: Trust me. I was so mad when TikTok was going
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  Speaker 1: to get shut down that we were going to lose
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  Speaker 1: our streak. I was like, you sons of bitches.
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  Speaker 2: How dare you what's like what's double what's uh what's
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  Speaker 2: 365 doubled that's like.
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  Speaker 1: 365 doubled okay let me pop my calculator because lord
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  Speaker 1: knows i can't do math in my head uh 365
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  Speaker 1: times two that's 7 30 so we're almost at like
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  Speaker 1: a full two years oh my god we're almost at
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  Speaker 1: two years oh We don't have a problem, y'all. We
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  Speaker 1: don't have a problem. Tic Tacs trick is business. It's
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  Speaker 1: real business. One of us breaks it. The other one
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  Speaker 1: has the right to kill them. Period.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like, there would need to be a legitimate reason why
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  Speaker 2: it got broken.
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  Speaker 1: Someone would have to be dying.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: In a hospital, fighting for our lives.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Because if none of those conditions are met, then the
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  Speaker 2: other one's going to pull up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Pull.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to pull up like, like, bitch, what.
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  Speaker 3: Are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Why can't you just go on TikTok for like
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  Speaker 1: two seconds? It's in a video. See, this streak is
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  Speaker 1: keeping us together. This streak is keeping our lives together.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing we look forward to every day. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's not. It's not the one thing I look forward
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  Speaker 1: to every day, but like.
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  Speaker 3: It's not.
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  Speaker 1: I have to, I have to keep that streak.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And it's always like you, like always, I know like the,
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  Speaker 2: the times when you're going to send me like, When
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  Speaker 2: you start sending the videos, it's always like around 5am.
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  Speaker 2: I'll wake up and there's like, Oh, yep. Like one
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  Speaker 2: or like several tech talks from Devin 5am. And then like,
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  Speaker 2: I'll send them a few of my own and then
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  Speaker 2: I'll start working. Uh, if this is during the week
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  Speaker 2: and I go and I start working, I'll, uh, like
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  Speaker 2: I'll be in the middle of work and then I'll
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  Speaker 2: just get like a bunch of notifications from Devin's like, like,
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  Speaker 2: like a range, it ranges between eight 30 and like 10.
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  Speaker 2: That's when like, he'll usually start sending me a bunch.
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  Speaker 2: And then like, I go on my breaks and I
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  Speaker 2: start sending him more. And it's just a continuous, like,
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  Speaker 2: it's just a continuous stream.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of videos. Sometimes I send them shit. That's funny.
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  Speaker 2: Other times I just send them random videos.
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  Speaker 3: Just like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: If they'll like this, but I thought that was funny.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just like, I have it at this point.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a habit. I have to, I have to
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  Speaker 1: send them. And then when I get up at five
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, cause I used to go pee break.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like on the toilet going.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway if you look in the description below you'll see
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  Speaker 1: a link that'll take you to the other podcasts of
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  Speaker 1: the neonic void family a podcast as well as the
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  Speaker 1: patreon please go subscribe all that fun stuff will be
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  Speaker 1: in the description below as per usual so today what
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  Speaker 1: are we talking about today or what are you talking about.
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  Speaker 2: So today we are going to be continuing our journey
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  Speaker 2: down the rabbit hole that was the Project Nemesis saga.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to be doing the third quote-unquote book
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  Speaker 2: of the series. Technically, it's the fourth book, if you
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  Speaker 2: count Island 731. So the book that we are actually
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  Speaker 2: reviewing today is a sequel and the conclusion to that storyline,
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  Speaker 2: as a matter of fact. So we're going to be
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  Speaker 2: reviewing Project 731. by Jeremy Robinson. So, this book is the, officially,
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  Speaker 2: it's the third book in the Nemesis saga. Fourth book,
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  Speaker 2: if you count the prequel, Island 731. Now, this book
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  Speaker 2: is actually going to be exploring more of Nemesis's origins.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So, we've already, we already knew. Nemesis is a bitch.
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  Speaker 1: She is not a bitch. She is the bitch.
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  Speaker 2: Is, she is that bitch.
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  Speaker 1: She is that bitch.
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  Speaker 2: She is the, she's the goddess of vengeance. We all
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  Speaker 2: know that she's the goddess of vengeance. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so basically that means she's the bitch. She's the goddess
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  Speaker 2: of that bitch. And we'll pull up.
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  Speaker 1: Literally.
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  Speaker 2: Like the goddess of bitch. What I'll pull up right now.
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  Speaker 1: Literally. She's already, she's already, she's already pulled up. She's like,
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  Speaker 1: where you at?
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  Speaker 2: If you read, if you read any, if you read
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  Speaker 2: any of the dungeon crawler series.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: There's a, there's a literal spell called bitch.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: And yeah. Yeah. Like, and literally the spell is just, like,
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  Speaker 2: the spell of, like, bitch, I'll pull up.
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  Speaker 3: Period.
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  Speaker 1: She has that on lock, on standby. She has that
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  Speaker 1: spell prepped.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, basically, like, that spell just causes, like, if you
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  Speaker 2: cast it on someone, it causes them to, like, go
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  Speaker 2: ballistic and start attacking everyone around them. And I'm just like, okay, cool. Well, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know what? God is a bitch what?
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  Speaker 1: God is a bitch what?
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. And... Let's see here. Sorry, let me get my
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  Speaker 2: notes together. I was just, I was reviewing this earlier. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so kind of bringing everyone back up to speed. So Nemesis,
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  Speaker 2: at the conclusion of the previous book, Nemesis had barely
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  Speaker 2: managed to escape into the ocean after defeating her offspring.
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  Speaker 2: They're not technically her offspring. They're the offspring of the
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  Speaker 2: original Nemesis, Nemesis Prime. But seeing as this nemesis is,
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  Speaker 2: is like the clone of nemesis prime. It's like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of that weird thing that would happen with twins.
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  Speaker 2: Like if you, if, if you have an identical twin
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  Speaker 2: and you get, and you conceive a child, that child
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  Speaker 2: is technically your twins child too, because genetically you're, the
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  Speaker 2: two of you are so similar that like if your twin,
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  Speaker 2: you and your twin had children, then your children are
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  Speaker 2: technically biological siblings, not just cousins because dads are twins,
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  Speaker 2: moms are twins. So, kind of, well, it's in that
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  Speaker 2: kind of ballpark. Uh, but after, uh, so she took
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  Speaker 2: a lot of damage from, uh, fighting the, from fighting
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  Speaker 2: the other Kaiju and she barely managed to escape back
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  Speaker 2: into the sea because as soon as the, as soon
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  Speaker 2: as Nemesis killed the other Kaiju, the U S government
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  Speaker 2: immediately turned on her and tried to kill her. Um,
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  Speaker 2: And she fled back into the ocean. And when she
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  Speaker 2: fled into the ocean, she had gone through a special
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  Speaker 2: kind of process that allowed her to purge whatever remaining
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  Speaker 2: human DNA is in her body. And whatever remaining human
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  Speaker 2: DNA was in her body. And when she did that,
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  Speaker 2: she ended up releasing a pod, purging it through a
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  Speaker 2: little pod. And that pod actually had a fully matured
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  Speaker 2: version of of the human DNA that she was cloned from,
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  Speaker 2: and that was a girl named Maigo. So that was
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  Speaker 2: the whole premise of Project Maigo, and that was also
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  Speaker 2: what set up the premise of Project Nemesis. But now
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  Speaker 2: Maigo herself has essentially been resurrected. Now, this is not
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  Speaker 2: the original Maigo. This is just a clone of Maigo.
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  Speaker 2: So she is her own person. She does have some
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  Speaker 2: of the memories of her time while merged with Nemesis
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  Speaker 2: and also has some vague memories of when she was
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  Speaker 2: still alive. But nothing is very clear to her. And
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  Speaker 2: now she's living with Hudson and Collins and the whole
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  Speaker 2: Fusion Center P gang. And now Fusion Center P is
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  Speaker 2: also joined by some newcomers, Mark Hawkins from Island 731,
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  Speaker 2: his girlfriend Juliet, juliet and also their adopted child uh
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  Speaker 2: a chimera named lily all right lily and mygo actually
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  Speaker 2: become really good friends not only because they're close like
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  Speaker 2: physically mygo and lily are about the same age uh
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  Speaker 2: so they get along really well and they can relate
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  Speaker 2: to each other because they both are the victims of
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  Speaker 2: horrendous experimentations right they're both uh like Lily's mother was
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  Speaker 2: literally a creature called Kaiju, who was this grotesque chimera
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  Speaker 2: creature created by Unit 731. We actually learn a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: we learn a lot more about the organization that continued
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  Speaker 2: the experiments on Island 731. That organization was called G.O.D.,
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  Speaker 2: Genetic Offense Directive, or G.O.D. G.O.D. G.O.D. And they were
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  Speaker 2: the ones that had continued the experiments on Island 731.
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  Speaker 2: And they were also the ones that orchestrated its destruction
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  Speaker 2: because when Mark Hawkins and other survivors managed to escape
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  Speaker 2: from the island, almost immediately afterwards, the whole island was
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  Speaker 2: carpet bombed. So completely annihilated, not only as a way
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  Speaker 2: to cover up their involvement, but also to destroy the BFSs.
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  Speaker 2: if you remember from our review from Island 731, BFS
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  Speaker 2: stands for big fucking spider.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: And it's an appropriate name. The BFSs were these chimeras
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  Speaker 2: that looked like they had the shell of a snapping turtle.
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  Speaker 2: They had the eight legs of a spider and like
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  Speaker 2: the face and mandibles, like the mandible jaws of a
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  Speaker 2: spider too. And they also had a long like spider,
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  Speaker 2: like a long like scorpion like tail. And instead of
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  Speaker 2: it like a curved, kind of like a, comma-shaped stinger
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  Speaker 2: that normal scorpions have. They have more of a straight barb.
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  Speaker 2: And this barb is more similar to a desert wasp's
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  Speaker 2: stinger because desert wasps, as many of you may or
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  Speaker 2: may not know, they procreate by stinging their victims. And
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  Speaker 2: when they sting their prey, they deposit eggs. And then
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  Speaker 2: their larva will gestate, hatch, and basically eat their prey
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  Speaker 2: from the inside out. That's nasty. Yeah, before maturing and
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  Speaker 2: become another desert wasp. Now, the BFSs do that, do
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  Speaker 2: the exact same thing. Instinctually, every time they sting you,
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  Speaker 2: they sting you three times, depositing an already live larva
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  Speaker 2: inside of you. And the larva explosively like gestates so
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  Speaker 2: when I say explosively like within minutes the larva eats
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  Speaker 2: you from the inside and busts out of you like
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  Speaker 2: full on alien like Ridley Scott alien style and it's
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  Speaker 2: already a fully matured big fucking spider these things proliferated
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  Speaker 2: like it was they were a nightmare they proliferated stupidly
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  Speaker 2: fast and And within a day, they completely overran the island,
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  Speaker 2: forcing God to carpet bomb the whole island.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Who wouldn't? Yeah, who wouldn't, right? In a prologue to
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  Speaker 2: this book, as a matter of fact, we actually see
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  Speaker 2: a G.O.D.
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  Speaker 3: Unit.
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  Speaker 2: They had found a derelict ship coasting off the coast
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  Speaker 2: of the U.S. They... bored the shit because they said
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  Speaker 2: and it's not clear like what exactly they were looking
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  Speaker 2: for but uh it was obvious that uh it it
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  Speaker 2: was kind of it hinted that it was like some
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  Speaker 2: kind of training mission because they had a new recruit
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  Speaker 2: like a like a new recruit on their team and
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  Speaker 2: the new recruit was kind of weirded out because he
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  Speaker 2: heard about this black ops group but he didn't think
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  Speaker 2: he would have qualified because he didn't really have those
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  Speaker 2: kind of like outstanding scores or anything that would have
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  Speaker 2: made him stand out, but he appreciated the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: work with these spec ops. The thing is that as
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  Speaker 2: soon as they board the ship and they go deeper
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  Speaker 2: into the hold, they come across a bunch of these strange,
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  Speaker 2: spiky-looking gourds. They begin to stir and one jumps at him.
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  Speaker 2: One gets up and jumps at him. Before he can react,
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  Speaker 2: he feels three jabs in his chest And then, like,
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  Speaker 2: almost immediately, the other agents in this mission immediately grab him,
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  Speaker 2: sedate him, and they wrap him in a special type of, like,
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  Speaker 2: they wrap him in this special type of, like, gauze
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  Speaker 2: or nylon that immediately begins to, like, freeze him. They have, like,
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  Speaker 2: a chemical on it that starts to freeze him. And
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  Speaker 2: so essentially, uh, what had happened was, is that God
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  Speaker 2: sent this, uh, this task force, uh, to find that
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  Speaker 2: ship and to collect samples of the live BFSs that
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  Speaker 2: were on the, that had managed to survive and, uh, had, uh,
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  Speaker 2: stowed away on this vessel. And because of this, they
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  Speaker 2: got a live sample, but they used a, they used
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  Speaker 2: just some random dude that they pulled out of the military,
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  Speaker 2: of the U.S. military, sacrificing his life. And they sedated him,
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  Speaker 2: preserved him, and carried him back to their testing facilities.
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  Speaker 2: They destroyed the ship to make sure there was no
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  Speaker 2: other BFSs out there. But, like, there's still live BFSs
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  Speaker 2: under G.O.D.
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  Speaker 3: 's control.
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  Speaker 2: Now, going back to the F.C.P., the F.C.P., Hudson is
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  Speaker 2: now trying to like, he's trying to help. Uh, he's
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  Speaker 2: trying to raise my go. She's a teenager now and
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  Speaker 2: help her navigate, uh, like help her navigate life. She
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  Speaker 2: can't really return to a normal life because, you know,
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  Speaker 2: aside from being, uh, aside from now being separated from nemesis,
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  Speaker 2: my girl has her own abilities. She still shares like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: She still shares a strange connection to Nemesis. And she,
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  Speaker 2: while she, on the outside, she remains, she's, she's often
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  Speaker 2: like her first impression of her is like, she's very
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  Speaker 2: quiet and she doesn't really like, she's, she's quiet and
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  Speaker 2: she doesn't really like interact with many people. On the inside,
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  Speaker 2: she is like constantly battling extreme aggression. She's able to
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  Speaker 2: control it, but she describes it as she's always angry.
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  Speaker 2: She can feel this aggression inside of her and just
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  Speaker 2: this rage. And she has to really hold herself back
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  Speaker 2: from lashing out. And also, on top of that, Maiko
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  Speaker 2: has ridiculous amount of strength. So much so that later
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  Speaker 2: on in the book, her home gets raided. by god
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  Speaker 2: and when they attack she actually like kills these guys
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  Speaker 2: like she was at she went out for a walk
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  Speaker 2: and when they attacked her when they attacked her home
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  Speaker 2: like she comes back and she sneaks up on them
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  Speaker 2: and she starts like brutally like throwing them around like
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  Speaker 2: she she tosses one guy in the air and like
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  Speaker 2: no one else noticed that he would had been tossed
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  Speaker 2: until he came so he came back down and landed
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  Speaker 2: on the roof and yeah there was like whole fight
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  Speaker 2: And now they know that, like, now they're more aware
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  Speaker 2: of G.O.D. Mark, like, Mark Hudson himself was, excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: Mark Hawkins.
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  Speaker 3: Not Hudson.
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  Speaker 2: There's too many people in this series with H in
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  Speaker 2: their name. Hudson, Hawkins.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Hawkins remembers G.O.D. from his time on Island 731.
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  Speaker 2: knows that they're that they're up to something so the
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  Speaker 2: team ends up investigating uh the matter further and they
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  Speaker 2: learn that they figure out that uh that god operates
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  Speaker 2: within a special kind of uh like within a special
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  Speaker 2: type of black budget so like uh this is i'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure if this is like really based off of
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  Speaker 2: real uh like something that really happened but a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the like books, a lot of the like references
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  Speaker 2: that Jeremy Robinson writes in his books are often based
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  Speaker 2: off of real life scenarios, things that actually did happen
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  Speaker 2: in life, right? Like there was, there really was a
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  Speaker 2: unit 731, a Japanese unit 731. Like in other cases,
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  Speaker 2: like in the wake of like, in the wake of
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  Speaker 2: the nine 11 terrorist attacks, there was a lot of
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  Speaker 2: reform in the, uh, like in national security and the
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: DHS had like basically gotten a completely new type of budget.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: And there was something supposedly called a black budget where
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: basically it's a huge fund for like different types of
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: like DHS, uh, like different types of DHS projects and
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: security measures.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: And also other forms of like operations and, Essentially, this
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: is like one big blank check where if you had,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: if you like, if there was like a specific need
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: that for like national defense or something like that, just
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: put it on the check and like, no questions will
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: be asked. Right. At least that's like the vibe I
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: got from, well, I got when they were describing that. this, uh,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: when Robinson wrote about it in this, in these books.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: So GOD is like one of these types of operations.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Like they're off the books, but they're still, their funding
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: primarily comes from that black budget, the Pentagon's black budget.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Not sure this is a real thing. Don't come for me.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: All right. This is just this, I just want to
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: just point this out. This is like, fiction all right
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: i don't need the feds knocking down my door why
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: are you like giving out why are you giving out
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: national secrets like hey don't don't come for me bitch
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: go for jeremy robinson he wrote about this shit all
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: right like i i'm pretty sure i'm explaining it wrong
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: and badly but this is like what i remember this
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: is what i know what i remember of the book
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: um but after investigating the uh god further they learned
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: that there is a facility that uh that could be
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: traced back to god so uh this facility was on
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: the west coast so they so what they do is
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: they follow the uh so they follow the breadcrumbs and
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: they find the facility and they find some very interesting
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: things there uh primarily they find that uh they find
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: the corpse of the of nemesis prime is being held
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: there in this facility uh it's like all desiccated old
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: and shit and then and then and then and then
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: there's also Nemesis herself.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: No.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so G.O.D. had somehow managed to find where Nemesis had,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: they found where Nemesis had crawled into the ocean and
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: they managed to sedate her and secure her for transport
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: back to one of their secured facilities. And so basically
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: she was literally right next, they literally had her right
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: next to Nemesis Prime. And they go deeper into the
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: facility and they find, they find all kinds of test subjects, like,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: like horrific types of test subjects. They find more evidence
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: of chimera test subjects. They find a gorilla with its
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: like head cut open to reveal its brain. And it
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: hints that the gorilla has like been given like near
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: human levels of intelligence. And, oh, they also find the
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: containment facility with the BFSs.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Oh my, oh dear.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Yep. And let me see while they're exploring the facility,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: they actually learned a little bit more. They finally learn
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: a little bit more about nemesis is origins. Like of course,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: nemesis is like nemesis prime, especially is a, uh, is
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: an alien. Hmm. but we don't know exactly what like
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: was nemesis. Like, did she come here on her own? Like,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: was she intelligent or was she like a weapon? But we, well,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: now we know they found, they find evidence that the
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: original nemesis prime was a weapon sent to earth by
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: an alien race.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: We learn more and more about nemesis is origins. And
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: this book is actually like going to be the first
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: book that they start referencing. Another one of Jeremy Robinson's
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: books called raising the past is Raising the Past is
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: about two alien races that have been warring with each
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: other for millions of years, right? Untold millennia. So long,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: in fact, that both races, these two distinct alien races,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: actually were at one point the same species. But at
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: one point, there was two forms. separate philosophical groups. One
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: believed that because of their technological superiority, they should be
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: the ones in control and that there is no such
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: thing as free will, but only their will, right? And
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: then there was another group that believed in the concept
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: of free will, that every race, regardless of their technological
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: advancement or evolutionary advancement, every race has a right to
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: free will. Right? Right to choose. And that they, as
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: an advanced civilization, did not have the right to impose
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: their beliefs on others. So this caused a schism between
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: their two factions. They began war. It turned into a
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: one long civil war that, because these two races were
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: interstellarly linked, like they were an interstellar race, because of
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: how widespread they were in the universe, wars like that
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: never ends. And it's almost, and it basically means it's
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: impossible for their, almost impossible for the race to become
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: totally extinct because even if one part of them gets
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: wiped out on one planet, there's still dozens of other
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: worlds where they're still found on.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Right.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: So because of their, uh, because of the split in
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: their factions, the war went on for so long that
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: their races began to evolve differently.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Right. Um, I'm not going to.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Give too much spoilers, but I will tell you what
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: the races are called. So one race, the ones that
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: actually created Nemesis and used other creatures like Nemesis as
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: a form of kaiju warfare, they're called the Eros. And
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: the Eros are... The thing about the Eros is that
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: they are basically these 50-foot-tall, Cthulhu-like-looking motherfuckers.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so they're, you know, 50 feet tall, humanoid, but
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: in their face, like, they have not, like, like, octopus tentacles,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: but more of something similar to, like, starfish arms. So, like,
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: they have, like, four or five, like, flat, like, paddle-looking, like,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: tentacles or, like, starfish arms, like, black eyes, right? They're
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: fiercely intelligent. but they also believe that they should rule everything, right?
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: That all races are lesser than them and that they
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: should control everything. And then there's the other race that
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: they've been at war with for millions of years, which,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: as I said, they were both one and the same
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: at one point. This other race is called the Ferox.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: The Ferox believe that we all have a right to choose, right?
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: And the way their species have evolved is when they're
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: true forms, they look like these... Like, I don't want
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: to say, like, they're quadrupedal. They almost look like these, like,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: cross between a hyena and, like, a saber-toothed tiger, but alien-looking.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess, like, the closest comparison to what
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: they look like is that monster, that demon monster that
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Hellboy fought in the original Guillermo del Toro Hellboy movie.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Samael.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: That's like the closest I would say. You can look
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: the Ferox up because there's artwork by Matt Frank online
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: that you can find. He did the artwork for them.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: The thing about the Ferox is that they're more closer
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: in size to humans, but they are maybe a little
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: bit bigger, but they're also shapeshifters. So in their true form,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: that's what they look like, but they can actually shapeshift
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: to look like anybody. So I guess they evolved to
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: become shapeshifters to better hide from the Eros. But eventually
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: their war comes to Earth and they're trying to keep
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: the aliens, the Eros, from noticing Earth. Unfortunately, the Eros
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: have taken notice of Earth. They've known about Earth for
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: a long, long time because they sent Nemesis here thousands
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: of years ago.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: But.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: But they all but forgot about Earth because there are
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: other factors that I will actually explain later. But I'm
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: not going to explain those until we get to the
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: next book, which is Project Hyperion. That's when we get
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: more into the interplanetary conflict. But it's in this book,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: near the end of the book, that's when we learn
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: more about the Ferox and the Eros. And we also
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: learned that the Ferox have a hand behind G.O.D. and
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: these experiments. So we learn more about that as the
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: book progresses, but the FCP team infiltrate the G.O.D. facility
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: where they find both Nemesis' and they find the other
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Chimera experiments. They also find the BFS' being contained there.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: But when they are confronted by the local security, the
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: containment fails. And a lot of the experiments end up
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: getting out, including the BFSs. And the BFSs end up
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: scuttling away. And most of, like, there was only three
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: of them. And two of them gets killed, but one
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: of them scurries away. And makes its way into the
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: warehouse where both Nemesis' bodies are being kept. And because
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: one is a corpse, it ignores that one. But the
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: other one who's still alive, it ends up, it ends
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: up jumping on it and it ends up jumping on
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: nemesis and stings her three times.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Oh no.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: And because of that three new.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Oh no.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Because of that, like the team ends up catching up
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: to it. They find the one BFS and they kill it,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: but not before three, more ends up bursting out of
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Nemesis's body. And these ones have been mutated. So they're
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: no longer BFSs. Now, BFSs are about the size of
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: a small dog.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Right? Uh-huh.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Well, these new ones are about the size.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Of a bus.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: And they're growing.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: A bus.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: A bus. So the new BFSs are called Suchi, which
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: is based off of a Japanese yokai.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: And the Suchi end up going on a rampage. The
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: thing is, though, when the Suchi ends up chewing their
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: way out of Nemesis's body, this actually wakes up Nemesis.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: And here's the thing about Nemesis, is that because she's purged,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: the human DNA from her body. She's no longer being
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: influenced by my goes memories or emotions. So nemesis is
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: now more similar to the original nemesis, like sadistic, more weapon,
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: like more right. Like built for destroy built for destruction.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: So nemesis ends up tearing her way out of the,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: it ends up tearing her way out of the warehouse
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: goes on a rampage. The Tsuchi actually attack her again
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: and sting her a couple more times. But when the
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: new Tsuchi comes crawling their way out of her body,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: she ends up killing them because this pisses her off
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: a lot. Nemesis ends up killing all but one of
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: the Tsuchi, and that Tsuchi just ends up running away.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Ends up running away, but it also goes on a
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: bit of a feeding frenzy because since it's taken in
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: some of Nemesis's DNA... Nemesis' DNA is forcing it to grow, grow, grow, grow, grow, right? Actually,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: how many of the Tsuchi were there? Let me see here.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Later they mutate further to standing upright and growing claws.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: I think there was more than one of them ends
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: up growing up to like nemesis size. Okay, I think
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: it was just one.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: Did you cut them out?
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Sushi and then there's the Mega Sushi.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so there were several Sushis that survive, but Nemesis
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: ends up killing most of them, all except for one.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: One manages to survive. The thing is that something begins
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: drawing the Tsuchi further inland to Nevada, to a specific
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: place in Nevada.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: No.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: No. I know you're lying. Don't. They go to Area 51.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: They go to Area 51.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Of course they fucking do.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Area 51 is... The Suchi, for some reason, are drawn
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: to Area 51. The one Suchi that ends up growing
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: to full Nemesis heights becomes a Mega Suchi. Because it's
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: still alive, it ends up drawing Nemesis to Area 51.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: And they fight it out. And Nemesis does kill it.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: It does sting her a couple more times, but every
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: time a new Tsuchi comes bursting out of her, she
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: just kills it. Hudson and his team follow the path,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: and they realize, okay, Area 51. They go there, too,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: and that's where the head of G.O.D. meets them. And
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: the head of G.O.D. shows them a few things. He
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: shows them While they're inside Area 51, he shows them
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: that they have preserved corpses. Oh, hey, yeah, Area 51,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: they do have alien bodies there. One is the severed
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: head of an Eros, which is a massive head with
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: the starfish arms coming out of its face. The other
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: one is the body of a Ferox.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: And hold on.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: There's supposed to be artwork in here about it.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Let me see here. Let's see, Suchi.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: Need a little bit more details, because they learn more
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: about the.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Let's see here. Yep, they are. Yep.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Sorry, for a small moment I thought I was giving
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: away details for the next book, but no, this all
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: happens here.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: Gotcha.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: See, they go into the tank. Very Yep, so it's
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: all in this one. So the leader of G.O.D. ends
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: up showing his guy named Cole. He ends up showing
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: them tanks filled with corpses of dead aliens. Of course,
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: one is with the head of an Eros. The other
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: one is the body of a Ferox. And then surprisingly,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: there is a third one. with what looks like a human,
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: a very pale, blonde human man. But it's obviously not
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: a human, because the man himself is very tall, almost
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: 10 feet tall. We're talking biblical giant tall. And this
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: is all very confusing and this is to them. Cause like,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: why are these aliens here? Like what, like these are the,
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: the aliens that they've been hiding.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Uh, Cole points them more about the, uh, this is
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: where Cole like reveals more about the conflict between the
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Ferox and the Eros and some of the, and also
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: reveals some of the events that had happened, uh, uh,
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: in raising the past. Cause raising the past actually did
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: end up happening in this universe, uh, But it was
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: something completely separate. It was something completely separate. And they
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: don't really reference the main characters from that series because
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know exactly what happened to them. But the
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: corpses of these aliens, they were actually all found in the... Actually,
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know where they got the humanoid one from.
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: But the body of the Ferox and the body of,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: and the head of the Eros, those are from raising,
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: those two came from raising the past. So like they,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: they were, there were the two aliens that there were
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: two of the aliens that ended up dying and raising
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: the past. Um, now he does explain, Cole does explain
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: that this, that the humanoid alien is actually an Atlantean
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: and that 10,000 years ago, um, Atlantis was real. But
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: the thing is, is that they were not human. They
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: were an alien race that were similar to humans.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: And also they they list he cites them as the
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: reason for why humans have certain traits, because at one
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: point after Atlantis fell, they ended up interbreeding with humans.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: So that's why you got big, tall Scandinavian people with
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: blonde hair, blue eyes. That's where Robinson cites, at least
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: for the story-wise, where the... where the Aryan race comes from.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: What the fuck?
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: That's trippy. That's weird. Kind of interesting.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: There's a bunch of reveals. This is where a bunch
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: of his other books are beginning to tie in. Of course,
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Island 731 tied in a lot in the first three books. But, like,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Raising the Past starts tying in in this one. Also,
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Second World starts tying in to this one because there's
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: a symbol that they see in the book. It's actually
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: this symbol.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Okay so it's a stick.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: With a circle a large circle over and a circle
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: on top it's like three layers.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Of it's like three consecutive uh concentric circles with a
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: with a line going down to like through them from
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: the central circle yeah uh now this symbol is cited
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: as being like the symbol of atlantis and in fact
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: this is supposed to be how the exact layout of
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: atlantis was supposed to look like so uh and and
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: um Cole explains that Atlantis was actually an outpost for
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: an alliance between the Ferox and the alien race that
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: we would know as the Atlanteans. But the Eros found
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: out about the outpost and sent Nemesis to destroy it.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: And Nemesis did destroy it before being killed by Atlantis' defenses.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: The thing is, the city was so thoroughly destroyed that
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: it didn't survive. That will actually tie into Project Hyperion later.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: We'll actually see a little bit more about that conflict
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: in Project Hyperion, but we will go into that later.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Cole explains more about why GOD does this, because they're
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: trying to prepare humanity for the coming conflict with the
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: heroes because the heroes in, uh, in the, in raising
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: the past, uh, part of like the main plot was
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: trying to stop, um, sympathizers with the heroes from signaling the,
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: like the heroes that earth is being influenced by the Ferrox.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: The heroes found out about that. They're going to come
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: here and destroy humanity because, uh, humanity, they would have
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: considered humanity to be tainted and like, not compatible for
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Eros takeover. Like the Eros would have just taken us
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: over and just controlled us. But because we have the
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: belief of free will and all that shit, right? We
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: believe in the concept of free will. They, they deem
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: that as like, okay, well that means we're just beyond
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: like their intervention.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: So they managed to send this, they managed to actually
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: signal the Eros. So the Eros will eventually return to earth.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: So that's why Cole and his people are trying to,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: they are trying, they are preparing the world. They are
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: doing all these horrendous experiments. In fact, it's hinted that
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Cole had a hand in the revival of Nemesis. Like
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: the program that, the experiments and everything that started with
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: creating the Nemesis, like the Nemesis program, believe that he
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: had a hand in it. possibly as a way to
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: like try to utilize nemesis against the eros when they
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: when they eventually return um and god there this is
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: like this is where like i fully fell into the
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: rabbit hole that is project nemesis because uh like when
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: i realized like oh god there's more to the story
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: like wait a second what's with what's with the whole
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: like aryan race thing here like wait there's another book
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: about that what And then, like, also, like, on 731,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: Raising the Past, like, Eros, like, wait, there's a book
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: just about that? I'm like, okay. Give me. Give me.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: I need to read all these. I fell into a
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: deep rabbit hole, and I read all these books, and
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: it was because of Project 731. That's when I stopped here,
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: and I was like, because when I started reading these books, like,
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: they weren't all published just yet. You know, Project 731
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: came out, Project Hyperion and Project Legion hadn't been published
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: just yet. And I was like, there's all these books.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: I need to read them.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Give me. Come here.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: Give me. Give me. Pull out my credit card.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Yes. Give me all of them.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: So I ended up reading them. So this is where
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: I learned that Second World so the book Second World
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: explains the origins of Atlantis and like also like their
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: tie-ins with the Nazis and then you know Raising the
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Past is about the Eros and the Ferox and I
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: also went back and read Island 731 it wasn't until
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: like after I read Project like Project Hyperion that I
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: learned that there were several other books that are going
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: to be tying in And so I read those other
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: books like Mirror World and I read, and then after
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Project Legion, I read like Uprising. And then there was
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: the Jack Siegler saga and the Antarktos Rising series. So
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: like there's a book called Antarktos Rising and then there's
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: the Antarktos Saga, which is the spinoff of Antarktos Rising.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: So I read all that, got to know these characters
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: that will eventually tie in at, in Project Legion and,
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: but I focused mainly on these, like, from Project 731,
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: I focused mainly on Second World, Island 731, and Raising
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: the Past. And that's where I learned all about these
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: different characters that are going to tie in and the
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: different stories that tie into the Nemesis saga. And then
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: came back when Hyperion came out, read it, went out,
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: read all these other books, came back, and Project Legion
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: was out, and I read that. So, just a lot
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: there was just a lot of information that went into
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: this so i was like like i felt like that
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: dude from always sunny in philadelphia i feel like that
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: right now when i'm explaining it because like just have
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: this board of like this vision board right over here
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: and i'm just like like.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Connected finding all the connections in the all the dots
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: connecting all the.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: Dots connecting all the dots. It feels like, honestly, reading
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: these books makes me feel like a conspiracy theorist because
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: some of these were also based off of conspiracy theories.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: Second World was based around the idea that the Nazis
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: didn't really get dismantled but absorbed and they still exist
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: within our government and within different world entities. And then
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: also different Nazi superweapons, conspiracies about different Nazi superweapons like
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: Die Glock. which was supposedly, like, this... Die Glock was
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: also known as the Bell, which was, like, this bell-shaped weapon,
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: and the concept behind it was supposed to be, like,
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: a study of anti-gravity, of, like, anti-gravity propulsion and all that,
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: but it was also, like, theorized to be, like, a
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: super weapon of some kind. But we don't know much
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: about it. It was just, like, one of those, like,
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: many different, like, outlandish experiments that the Nazis performed, and.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: So going back to like circling back to project seven 31,
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: they get this big reveal. Uh, the SCP team ends up, uh, getting, uh,
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: ends up escaping from, uh, from area 51. And they
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: actually commandeer a, uh, experimental aircraft, uh, called the X 35.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: The X 35 is a, um, is a hypersonic jet
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: that has, uh, excuse me, X 35. I'm sorry.
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah. X 35.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: It, basically it's designed to replace both fighter jets and
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: helicopters because it has repulsor, uh, repulsor technology. So it
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: uses a special, uh, form of repulsion to basically, it's like,
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: it doesn't really explain the science behind it, but it
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: can hover in place. It can move faster than the
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: speed of sound. It could even escape. Uh, it even
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: has enough speed to like reach escape velocity. So it
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: can go into orbit.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: Uh, and also it has experimental stealth technology, but it's
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: not really like, like that kind of like stealth technology
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: you would expect for like when turning itself, like it,
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: like it turns itself invisible, but it's not like, you know,
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: using like, Oh, like Uber cool, like meta science or
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: like quantum physics to like bend light around itself. No,
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: it's just like projecting an image around itself. So like
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: it takes one side of like has cameras on one side,
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: And projectors on the other side. So like basically the
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: projectors project what the cameras see on the other side.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: So it's like that kind of technology. It's still super effective.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: You can, you won't even realize it's there. Super quiet.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: They've managed to commandeer it and they learned that, oh,
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: this thing is actually stupidly easy to fly because all
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: you have to do is just, it flies itself. You
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: just got to punch in like coordinates and like directions
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: and how you want it to fly and it'll just
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: fly itself. Yeah. so they commandeer that for themselves and
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: the X-35 ends up being super useful in later books
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: because that becomes their primary mode of transport. The SCP
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: team actually keeps it hovering over their base of operations,
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: which is just a colonial house in Boston. So it's like, okay, cool.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: You can literally park this thing anywhere. Yeah. Because it
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: just hovers. So they commandeer it and they manage to
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: get out of the way by the time the Megasuchi
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: arrives and begins digging deep into the... I don't know
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: exactly why it was attacking... Let's see. Let me see here.
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: The Mega Tsuchi. Let me see here. Oh, I'm done.
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: All right. Circle, okay.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: I'm dumb. It wasn't actually going to Area 51. They tracked...
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: They tracked.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: G.O.D. to Area 51, but it was actually... When it escaped,
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: it was making... When this Megasuchi escaped Nemesis, it began
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: making its way east, and so it crossed the... It
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: crossed through Nevada and was making... And it eventually ends
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: up hitting... going to Salt Lake City.
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: So it didn't... I'm sorry.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: I got, like, confused there for a second.
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: Devin, cut those parts out.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: I'm done. So anyway, so the Megasuchi, like, while they were...
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: So while the team was, like, dealing with GOD and
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: Area 51, the Megasuchi made its way east and eventually
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: ends up attacking Salt Lake City. Nemesis... being Nemesis, chases
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: the damn thing down, and the two of them begin fighting.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: No surprise, Nemesis wins, but not before... The Megasuchi ends
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: up biting a good chunk out of Nemesis, taking a
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: good chunk out of Nemesis, but they end up.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: It does end up being defeated by Nemesis. There's a
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: point where Nemesis is almost defeated by the Megasuchi, because
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: the Megasuchi had its own self-defense that it developed from
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: mutating through Nemesis' DNA. And one of those is like,
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: it had like a stunning bite. So if it bit you,
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: it could release like an electrical shock. And because it kept,
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: every time it would sting Nemesis, it would like release
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: a larva. But like when Nemesis like kills the larva,
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: Nemesis got smart and actually bit off the tip of
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: its tail. So she could, so now the Megasuchi couldn't
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: sting her, but it was a tough fight. And at
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: one point Nemesis did get downed. um now here's the
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: thing as part of like escaping area 51 and learn
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: and learn and learning all about like god's activities and
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: the origins of nemesis um they re they actually encounter
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: another man uh a former adversary a guy named katsu
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: endo endo was uh had a big had a big
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: role in both uh project nemesis and project maigo uh
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: because he was like the he was like one of
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: the he was the main henchman of General Gordon, guy
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: who got the heart transplant from the Nemesis clone and
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: ends up turning into a monster himself. So the thing is,
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: we learned a little bit more about Endo's motivations because
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: it turns out he's just an even bigger kaiju groupie
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: than I am. The fact that he was there when
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: they discovered Nemesis Prime's corpse, he wanted to be all
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: up in that bitch. He wanted to be a part
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: of every part of it. And so after Gordon was
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: defeated in the last book, Endo ends up disappearing. And
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: he also learned about G.O.D. in his own way and
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: manages to infiltrate G.O.D. And Endo was the reason why
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: they were able to defeat the G.O.D. strike team. And
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: Endo helps them commandeer the X-35 and teaches them how
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: to fly it. But the thing is that they learned
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: something interesting about Nemesis is that they actually got up
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: close and personal to Nemesis at one point. And Lily,
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: who had gotten really close to Nemesis, had noticed that
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: Nemesis had a strange protrusion on the back of her neck.
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: When she got close to it, it had opened and
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: these strange feelers or tentacles came out reaching towards Lily.
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: but she didn't get Mirim. And when Lily describes it,
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: Maigo realizes that that must be how, that must be
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: like some, like a way for Nemesis to bond to
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: like a pilot or like some kind of like controller.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: Cause that's how, that's, she believed that that's how like,
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: that's where she came from. That's how Maigo got like
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: purged from Nemesis's body. So she came up with an
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: idea to maybe try to retake control of Nemesis and
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: by merging with her again. But Endo ends up beating
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: her to it and ends up managing to get close
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: to Nemesis and jumps into Nemesis' hole.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: Not Nemesis' hole. Yeah.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: Not her hole. So when Endo jumps into that little pit,
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: that little protrusion, it immediately grabs him and sucks him
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: inside to Nemesis' body. and the thing about nemesis is
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: that when nemesis is like when nemesis first appeared her
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: eyes had more like human still had like a human-like
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: appearance like they look like big brown human-like eyes but
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: when after when uh nemesis purged mygo from her body
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: that her eyes ended up turning into these bright yellow
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: orbs like flat no like no iris or cornea or
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: anything like that right but then Endo jumps in and, uh, uh,
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: jumps into and merges with Nemesis. And when Nemesis gets
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: back up, her eyes are no longer flat and yellow.
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: They're human-like again.
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: They're brown.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: They're these brown human-like eyes. Uh, so with Endo's health,
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: like Endo, uh, as it turns out, is not able
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: to like fully control Nemesis. Like Nemesis is still like full,
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: like in the driver's seat. Endo's now just basically like,
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: just directing her. So instead of being, like, this wild, like,
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: sadistic creature that just attacks everything, Nemesis has more direction,
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: is now more controlled and directed. And with Endo's help,
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: they're able to kill the Suchi, the Mega Suchi. And afterwards,
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: Endo just directs Nemesis back out towards the ocean and
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: disappears in the wave, into the waves. So after the
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: Mega Suchi is defeated, they... they learn pretty much that
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: their whole world is even more at risk there's going
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: to be there's going to be more monsters in the
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: future they're definitely going to have to deal with the
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: alien threat of the Eros but they don't know when
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: they're going to be there though the cryptic hints and
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: suggestions that they got from Cole is that it's coming
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: soon Coming soon to a theater near you.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: There is a bit of an epilogue. In this epilogue,
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: there's actually a satellite, a black cube-shaped satellite that is
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: orbiting Earth, but no one has noticed that it's there,
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: and it's been watching and transmitting this whole time. And, uh,
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: just as when, uh, nemesis, uh, like as more of
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: like nemesis and the other Kaiju have begun, uh, emerging
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: and began like rampaging on the earth, the satellite itself
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: begins transmitting a new, a new signal. So the signal
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: begins transmitting back to the Eros High Command. And now
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: we're going to be seeing more of the Eros. But
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: just as this cube satellite begins sending a signal, another
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: satellite ends up coming up to it. uh, ends up
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: flying right up to it. This one is a, uh, um,
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: this one is more of a, like, orb-shaped satellite.
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: And the orb-shaped, the orb-shaped satellite, uh, ends up destroying the, uh,
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: the Eros's cube-shaped satellite. And, uh, thing is, the satellite,
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: the Eros satellite and the Ero probe, I should say, destroy, uh,
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: managed to send its signal back to the Eros, uh,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: But not for this other satellite, which is later confirmed
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: being controlled by the Ferox. It manages to destroy it,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: so now the Eros are not getting live updates.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: So, here's the thing.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: While the Eros are now just preparing to come to Earth,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: the Ferox are already here.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: Of course they are. Why would Why wouldn't they be here?
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't they?
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: Of course they are.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: So now we're moving from giant kaiju fights to alien invasions.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: I'm not mad. I wasn't mad about that. I was like, oh,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: this is getting lit. Oh, okay. Okay.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, it sounds about right. Sounds about right.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: Yep. From here, this is where, at this point, I've
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: already fallen into the rabbit hole. I followed and read
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: all of the other books, Raising the Past, Second World,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: Island 731, as I waited for Project Hyperion to come out.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: Project Hyperion is going to be more alien-heavy. We're going
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: to see a bunch of new kaiju appear. It's not
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: going to be a Nemesis book without kaiju. The Eros
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: are going to send more Kaiju to Earth, and the
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: Ferox are going to have their own plans. They're going
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: to be working to... They are going to try to
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: help humanity, but the thing is that the Ferox are
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: very self-motivated, so while they're willing to work with humanity,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: they're not going to be afraid to throw it under
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: the bus if they need to.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: Agreed.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they would.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: The moral of the story is, kids, don't trust aliens.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: Don't trust aliens. Because they will fuck you over before
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: they save their own ass.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: But that is it for Project 731. The next book
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: in the series, of course, is Project Hyperion. And followed
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: by Project Legion. I don't know if I want to
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: read that. Huh?
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: Huh?
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if I'm going to read that because
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: I have a lot of other books I'm planning on reading.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: Don't worry, I'll read it for the both of us
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: because T.J. Fisher, T. King Fisher, love T. King Fisher.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: Love that one.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: I'm planning on after I'm done reading what's currently on
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: my TBR, on my bookshelf right up here, after I'm
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: done with that, I'm planning on either continuing with Red
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: Rising if I like Red Rising or just finally going
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: back around and finishing up the Brandon Sanderson novels that Well,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: not the Brandon Sanderson novels, the Stormlight Archives.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: Because I've read the first book, and the first book
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: was really good, but it's epic fantasy, and you have
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: to be ready. You have to be locked in. You
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: have to be locked in. For me, at least, you
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: have to be locked in to get through an epic fantasy.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: I locked in to The Wheel of Time, and it
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: took nine months of my life to finish that whole series.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: It sure did.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: I was reading that shit every day. I was working,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: and when I was not busy at work, I was
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: just reading, reading, reading. I've always said that that series
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: definitely dragged in certain places. In some books, I believe
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: we could have gone without this. But still, it was
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: epic fantasy. I loved it. 14 books. Shame that Robert
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: Jordan died before he could finish it, but it's good
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: that Brandon Sanderson was able to step in to finish
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: the series because Jesus Christ, the ending was like, it
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: had me on the edge of my seat. The whole
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: time I was reading that book, the ending was just like,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: I was stressed. And then Sanderson, like the thing about
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: the Stormlight Archives is it's ongoing. Because he just released
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: a book, a new book, I think last year or
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: the year before. And it took me like, not almost
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: a month, but a little over two weeks to read
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: the first book. And these books are thick.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: And there was a lot of world building, like a
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: lot of world building. And I just tried to like
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: start reading the second, the second Stormlight book. But as
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: I started reading the, as I started reading it, I'm like, oh,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: this is just as much, there's like the world building
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: doesn't start, doesn't stop. There's so much detail. Like he
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: goes in details about the landscape, about the characters, about the,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: you know, the cultures. Right. I'm just like, there's so much.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: Now for the latter half of the year from July
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: July onward towards the end of July until like the
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: fall I plan on doing more episodes with me because
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: I know I know y'all I've been slacking it's me
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: been slacking I've been working been working on my video
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: editing gig drop job not gig job. And I've been slacking.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: I know. So I have a list of books that
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get through starting late July is when
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: I'm going to start really pumping out episodes on my end.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: As far as books that I'm going to talk about,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: because I have a list of books that I want
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: to get through now before the end of the year,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: I would like to get through my closest thing. I'll
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: probably get to an epic fantasy this year, which probably
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: be the night, the Gideon, the ninth, that series is,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: which I hear it's really difficult. It's really, it's a
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: tough read to get through, but I'm like, I'm going
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: to do it. I got all three books. I'm going
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: to do it.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: I started reading it a bit on Libby and I wasn't,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: it wasn't that hard. I didn't get far, but like,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: cause I was just too busy working, but like, um,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: I was also in the middle of reading another book too.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: I was just like going back and forth.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: Well, you also read Brandon Sanderson. So for fun, I
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: don't really dive into the epic fantasy that often really.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: So this is the, this would probably be the first
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: one that I'm going to tackle because I have all
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: three books. They're sitting there looking pretty. I want to
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: read them.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of Sanderson novels that I keep, that
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: I keep seeing recommendations for mainly like the Mistborn saga.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 3: And I'm like.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: I don't really want to get too deep into Sanderson's
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: novels because he has a lot of novels that, and
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: they're canon to each other. Like it's all part of the,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: like the, the Cosmere. And I'm like, I don't want to,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: I've gone, I've fallen down rabbit holes like that of a,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: of a whole Cosmere before. And I, it's, it's fun,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: but at the same time, it's like, it takes up
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: a huge chunk of your life. And there's already like,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: like Sanderson's Cosmere is huge.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: All right. There's a lot that goes into it. There's
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: over 20 books that go into it. And, Like, you
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: can read the books individually, but it's, like, you'll see
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: references to other, like, worlds, other parts of the Cosmere.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: And already in, like, Stormlight Archives, I think I got
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: a hint of it. But, like, of what the Cosmere
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: is like. But I'm like, I don't want to, I
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: don't want to, like, dive into the Cosmere. I just
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: want to read these books. I just only want to
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: read this one series. Because Stormlight Archives, hear all about
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: it all the time. I've seen these books everywhere. And
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: I need to read them. I want to read them.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: And I read the first book.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: It was good. I liked it.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: I want to go back and read the second book,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: but I'm unlike with the, unlike with the wheel of time,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to go and like read them back
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: to back. Cause right now there's only like four, like
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: five or six books in the series, but they're bigger.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: Each book is individually bigger than any of the wheel
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: of time novels.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Currently more real-time novels in the Stormlight Archives,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: but those novels were not as lengthy. Each one was
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: a good six, seven, ranged anywhere between 700 to 1,000 pages.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: And the Sanderson books are about the same, but a
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: little bit bigger. The two paperbacks that I currently have,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: they're thick. Those are the thickest books I have. Yeah.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: They're currently the thickest books I have.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm trying to work my way up to that, okay?
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: But as far as to give more ideas on what
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: type of books I'm going to be reading, a lot
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: of C... What's it?
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: C.G. Drew's?
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah cg drews so like the dawn of the forest
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: and hazel thorn those are ya gay horror get a
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: lot of those and i got i got fucking the
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: heartless with the heartless hunter and the rebel witch it
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: was like a love story of A Witch and a
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: Witch Hunter. Yeah, I have several. I have a list,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: a stack of books next to my PC that I
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: want to tackle. Expect more of that in the latter
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: half of the year.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: Let me see.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: I have Red Rising right now, and then I have
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: two short novels. They're both horror novels. One is called Below,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: and the other one is called The Monster of.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: Ellen Haven.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: Those are the two books I bought.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: From Ghoulish Books.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: So The Monster of Ellen's Haven. And then Below, which
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: is a Mothman story. And then after that, I have
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: Bored Gay Werewolf to read. Maybe I'll get that done.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: Maybe, who knows?
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: I was thinking of doing this one for Pride. If
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: not Pride, Halloween. I think this would be better for
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: Halloween because I'm not going to have enough time to
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: read this.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, now do it for Halloween because Halloween we will
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: be strictly just for horror and in my case, gay
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: horror and whatever else. And of course, the Asterion book.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: But yeah, no, keep that for Halloween because there's five
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: episodes in, wait, one, two, three, yeah, five episodes in October.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: I definitely will have this done for them. And then
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: I may or may not read that Roku book Alex
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: gave me. I might read that later. Because this was
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: the book that both you and James got him, and
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: he was like, well, I don't really want to return it,
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: but here, you can keep it. And I was like, okay, cool,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: I'll keep it. But I think this was, what, the
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: second book in the series?
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: The Reckoning of Roku?
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: I think so, yeah.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: So if I read this, eventually come around to reading it,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: it's going to be like... I'm actually just going to
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: read it after I read the first one. So I
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: can actually get the whole story.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: And then.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, the Godzilla books, yeah.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this one's the one I got, I originally had,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: and then I found out, oh, it's a part of
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: a book series.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: A four book series.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: Now you have three of them, and you just have
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: to hunt down the last one.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: There were supposed to be five, but the thing is
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: that the fifth one was going to be released around
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: the time that the Matthew Broderick Godzilla film came out.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: But because of how bad that movie did, Toho canceled
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: all of the copyrights and like the licensing, they were like,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: you guys suck. They straight up just like, we're just
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: going to, we're going to go and just like, we're
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: going to take these back. You don't deserve these.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: Now you just need to find the last one that
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: you can have a whole month of Godzilla. There.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: I know where the last one is. Like I can
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: only get it online. Cause they don't, I've been to
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: like multiple bookstores all over San Antonio.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: I've been to all the bookstores in San Antonio.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: Nothing.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: That's a lot. I haven't been to all of them,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: but the thing is that you can only find those
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: in used bookstores because these are from the 90s. These
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: were published in the 90s, so they're over 30 years old. Well,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: they're pushing 30 years old. Because they were published a
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: long ago, and they were also published on a limited release.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: There's not many of them, and the ones that are
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: left are very rare and very expensive. One of the
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: two that I just bought was like $ 99. And I
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: thought it was supposed to come with three of them
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: because the listing on Amazon, it had a picture of
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: all three books, right? That I didn't have. And I thought, oh,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: I'll get all three of them. Like me, not actually
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: reading the, like me, like getting excited and not actually
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: reading the damn, like listing itself.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: Just like, just impulse bought it. And then I got it.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: And then I went back and looked at it and
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: was like, what is, what is actually coming in this?
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: And then I saw the listing was just for Godzilla returns.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: And I was like, I'm a fucking idiot. Oh, well I,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: I got, I'm getting one of them. I already knew
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: they were going to be expensive. And then I went out, I,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: that's when I started like hunting for them in like
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: the local, like used bookstores. Like we have a bookstore
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: here in San Antonio called half price books, or like
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: you can go and sell old books and buy used,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: used and old books. They have a lot of good
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: stuff there. I went there, asked them like, Hey, do
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: you have any books by this author? Cause I didn't
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: want to like straight up ask him, like, do you
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: have these Godzilla books? Yeah. Like a fucking nerd. And
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: she looked him up and she's like, Oh yeah, we
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: actually have two books, but they're at a different store.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, cool, cool, cool. Which, which store
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: is that again? And they said, and they told me
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: the store and I was like, all right, cool. Like
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: just me, just like sprinting to my car and then
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: like zooming, like, The two stores that I was at,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: the one that I was at and asked them, do
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: they have this book? And they were like, no, but
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: this other store has it. The other store was on
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: literally the other side of the city.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: On the other side of the city. Like a good
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: 25-minute drive away.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: It was worth the time.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: San Antonio's big, y'all. One does not go from one
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: half of the city to the other.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 3: It's a drive.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: It's a it's a like a long ass commute just
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: to get from one place to the city to the other.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: And like I was on the north side of San Antonio.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: The bookstore that I was at was on the was
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: on like the north side of San Antonio, which was
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: like not that far, like like right down the street
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: from the San Antonio airport. And the and the location
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: that they said had the book I was looking for
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: was on the far west side of San Antonio. Okay,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: like San Antonio has like three major high, like three,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: like the way San Antonio.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: Is laid out.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: When I get there, they're like, oh, someone else already
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: bought it. Like they literally just bought it before you.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you something that has happened to me
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: so many times in my life that now I feel
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: like anytime I'm looking for something, I have to do
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: it spontaneously. I have to be very spontaneous about it, right?
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: I can't plan it out. I can't say, okay, I'll
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: go later this week to go pick it up, right?
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure it'll still be there. Nope. As soon
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: as I find out it's there, I'm going to get it. Like,
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: and I don't even let them bitches know. I'll just, like,
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: I ask them, like, do they have this at this other,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: they're like, do you have it? And they say, no,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: it's at this other store, though. Like, oh, okay, cool.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: Act like an all-natural out of that. Like, okay, cool.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: All right, well, if I can, I'll go. Like, not even, like,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: hint that I'm going to go. Like, that's exactly where
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go. And then as soon as I'm
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: out of sight, vroom, vroom. managed to get it and
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: i'm glad like where they had it like they had
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: it in a collector's section like a vintage selection and
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: it was in a it was actually in like a
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: clear plastic uh like covering and like i'm glad they
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: put it in the section they did because i could
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: not find it and i had to ask the attendant
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: at the at that store like do you guys have
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: this book and they're like oh yeah it's in this
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: section i was like oh thank god it's hidden there
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: Cause if someone else found it, cause the thing about
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: San Antonio is that San Antonio has a lot of
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: people like me who love Godzilla, even though like, we're
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: still like a small community. Like I'm, I rarely meet
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: other people as obsessed with Godzilla like me, but yet
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: somehow we have a huge community of people here that,
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: or it's just one other guy here who also there's like,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure there's one other like avid Godzilla fan
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: here in the city. At the very least there's one
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: other guy here, just like me, who's like an avid collector.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: Because that bitch has been pulling the rug under me
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: for years. I don't know who this dude is. I
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: don't know who they are. He or she, I don't
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: know who they are. But they always seem to beat
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: me to these collectibles. Anytime I want to look for
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: a specific collector's item, and I know I can afford
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: it and buy it, I go to get it, and
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: it's gone. Because that other bitch got to it before
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: I did. I don't know who they are, but for
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: years it's been a competition. Let's see if I can
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: get it or if this other dude can get it.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: And when I get it, I'm just like, suck it, bitch.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 3: Period.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: But that's what's looking forward to for the latter half
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: of the year. Join us next time as we talk
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: about gay shit. Lots of gay shit.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: Yas.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: So until then, bye.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: Bye.