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63. We Love Godzilla here! (Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again) · The Book-Watchers

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On its sounds all right, Well, welcome back to book watchers, where
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the plot is made up and the booty thickens. The movie was better than
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the book anyway. Did you say welcome to buy your house? Did you
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say the booty thickens? Yep? I mean from what we're talking about today,
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I guess it. I guess it checks out because you have a weird
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thing with Godzilla, so it checks out. It checks out. Oh my
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god, Oh my god. Anyway, you groupie, anyway, I put
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that as a joke, and you guys actually take it serious, like I'm
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not one of you brave little freaks like you Tentacles and ship mister over here,
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Leave the Tentacles out of this, Leave leave the good boy out of
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this. Don't even get me started. You know you don't. No,
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you don't get me started. Okay, you fucking psychedelic horror freak, cosmic
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corr hm. I know. Good ship anyway. Hi, it's it's Eye,
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the Treasure, the Joy, People's Lives, Devin, and there's mm
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hmmm, the Lulu incarnate Jacob. I don't say anything. Oh, I
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didn't say anything. I didn't say anything in your Yeah, you're talking about
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the treasure enjoy people and the treasure of joy, the people's lives who your
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life, your life, and the treasure enjoy of your life. You wake
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up every morning like God, I'm so happy, Demon's my best friend.
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Fucking better being better, be so anyway and so anyway, now moving on
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we hi, hello, welcome back. Today we are going to be discussing
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something a little bit different. It's a little different because yeah, it kind
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of is, because this isn't really Uh, we're not talking about a book
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that had a at a movie adaptation. We're talking about something that's kind of
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It's the reverse. It's the reverse because today we were talking about the original
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novelization. Stop blurring it out, you piece of ship. Well you have
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your background bla Well I don't. Well I'm not unblurring it. So I
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know we are talking. Let me finish, damn it. So today we
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are talking about Godzilla. Mm hmmm. We're talking about the original novelization of
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telescopes Godzilla or go Jira if you want to be, if you want to
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be a gatekeeper like that, and Godzilla raids again. Yeah yeah not before
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sorry continue sorry, go ahead, face your thought. Finish what you're saying
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about the book. So this is a very gorgeous print. You can find
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it on Amazon. Yeah, my Besty over here got it for my birthday
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because it came out last October. Yeah. Yeah, he came last October
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and he got us both copies. Well, I got myself the digital copy
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I want to get. I'm gonna get the physical copy for myself at some
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point, but I just seed need the money. But mm hmm, before
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we get in, before you get into the book, just you know,
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page it in. These little Godzilla's, okay, these little adorable little creatures,
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creatures. This one is. It's a it's a little it's a little
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metal cast Godzilla that they released. Yeah. Yeah, and if you and
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if you'd be nice to me, if I go to Fight below and might
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find one and buy you it so you can have it for your collection,
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for your obsession, a little collection of Godzilla's on top of your bed.
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Uh, hey, don't judge my collection, you you motherfucker. I did
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this is this. This was my Christmas gift, along with another book,
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but this was this. This is the black Light Mathra. Yeah. So
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I'm feeling that obsession. I'm feeding that obsession. I almost kept that for
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myself almost. Well you didn't and I didn't. Yeah. Uh. But
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before we get into it, so you look in the description below or on
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podcast notes or whatever, you'll see that there is a link tree that I'll
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take you to all the stuff that you ever need to know about Neon Andvoid
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productions, all the other podcasts, the twitters, we have a tech talk
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now. Uh, there's YouTube, all that fun ship. All that's down
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there in the notes. If you want to go take a gander. Anyway,
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we'll go on nerd. Okay, I'm the nerd to the back word
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walls. Uh mm hmmm. And it's not even showing the Marvel wall I
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have on the side of here covered and posters and my scarlet wage and doctor
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Strange shelf with all my figures and stuff on it. It's just gorgeous.
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Anyway, hot kettle, pot yeah, pot kettle. Yeah, you're right,
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you're right, And I'm Matt uh huh yeah. So anyway, today's
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episode is going to be slightly different from the norm because we're not we're not
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reviewing a book that was adapted into a movie. We're reviewing a movie that
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was adapted into a book. So this book is just really the novelization of
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the movies. So Gojira or Godzilla or if you watch this very shitty American
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edit, God's the Loo King of the Monsters. I can say that because
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I I I've done my research by now I should have a PhD in this
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t trip. But you know, yeah, so anyway, uh so these
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books, So this book is actually just like a direct transcript of the movie
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itself. So if you watch the movie and then you read this, you'll
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realize, oh, this is literally just it's like you're just really just watch
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you were just reading what you just watched. It's it's written by the same
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guy who read the who wrote the original scripts for the for those two movies.
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Yeah, m hmm. Yeah. And so everything that happens in this
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book happened happens exactly the way you see it in the movies. There's no
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little extra hidden snippet of information. There's not any little piece of information that
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was added or like subtracted, kind of like what you see from like books
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to like books to movies or TV shows. Uh So this is gonna be
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a fun episode because I don't have to talk about like the differences, just
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really just a plot. So if you haven't really seen. Uh, if
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you haven't been exposed to Godzilla before, where have you been? By now?
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If you where have you been? Yeah? Where have you been?
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Also, like you've been listening to our podcast for a while now, I'm
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assuming I'm gonna make assumptions and say you did. Uh. And you've probably
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at one point or another heard me talk about Godzilla at some point. All
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right, because I love because he's I love it big. I'm a huge
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fan, Sam, all right, And uh, I've been pretty much have
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been immersed in Godzilla's and like Godzilla fandom since I was a little kid.
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My mom was a big fan of it, but you know, she wasn't
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as avid as I was. And for me, it was just that thing
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that like, oh, like she knew I liked it, so she always
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got me like the movies, the collect the bulls, little toys, things
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like that. So I've always so yeah, I've always been a part of
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it. And as I got older and I started realizing, like, you
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know, there's so much more to it, and started like doing my own
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research. I realized, like this movie slash novel, the Japanese edit,
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the original Japanese version is the better version. Because if you're as old as
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me or close to my age, and you grew up in the Age of
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the Dinosaurs that we call vhs ah there. Godzilla was originally released under the
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name Godzilla, King of the Monsters, and there was two versions of it.
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There was one released in Japan and then there's the americanized version god which
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is called God's the Looking of the Monsters, not to speak confused with the
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one with legendary pictures Godzilla, King of the Monsters. I mean that's why
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they named it, like the referencing the old one. Anyway, Yeah,
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it was kind of it was like a mild reference to that, but at
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the same time, like so when Godzilla first came out, the original Godzilli
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first came out, it was a huge success in Japan. It really captured
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the horror and the terror that the Japanese people felt in the wake of World
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War Two, especially with the fire bombing of Tokyo and much of in the
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greater part of Japan, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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So Godzilla was originally was meant to be this living incarnation of nuclear power,
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because in the following decade after the initial bombing of those cities. A people
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were people were scared because the American because the American military begun its tests in
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the Pacific at the Bikini Atole with the hydrogen bomb tests, and there were
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dozens of tests being conducted all across the Pacific Ocean. It's ranging from just
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like regular just regular atomic tests to even underground tests, and it was all
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done in those areas. So and then also you had the rise of nuclear
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power and form of like fusion reactors. I'm sorry, nuclear fission reactors if
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you want to be technical. So nuclear power it was. It was.
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It was this new concept and people were terrified, all right, and Godzilla
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was meant to be this this symbol that represented that. So the story straightforward.
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It originally it starts off with just some fishing fisher boats begin to go
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fishing boats begin to go missing, not far from a small island chain off
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the coast of Japan, and some they do. The Japanese Coast Guard does
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get does receive like SOS signals that boats are being attacked, and they do
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send out rescue ships to try to locate these boats and any survivors. But
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every time they do, more boats keep getting destroyed, and more people are
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going missing. Fishing boats keep disappearing, and even though they send the coast
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guard to mountain rescue, those ships are also going missing. Eventually, they
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get word that a survivor from one of the fishing boats had washed up on
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an island not too far from where the disappearances were happening. So uh,
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the government, the Japanese government decides to dispatch a research team because they have
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reason, They had reason to believe that the disappearances are being caused by a
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massive creature. Oh no, they want to know, really who could be?
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Who knows? I mean, I don't know man anything at this point.
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Yeah, so uh, they do send. They send a research vessel
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to the island. They do find the survivor as well as and they speak
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to the locals, and the locals tell them a wild story about something from
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straight out of their folk tales. This was a This is reference to their
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local traditions and beliefs that the island is haunted by a creature they called Gojira.
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So Gojeta is like it's not so much of a deity or a guardian
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animal. It's just more of like, like, what's the best way to
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describe it like a common occurrence or a natural occurrence. It's just part of
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their life. But at this point, but the thing is, at this
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point the creature is never been seen before. They believe that whenever go Jeta
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surfaces, he brings up fish from deep part of deeper part of the sea,
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so like deeper deep sea fish end up getting pulled up with him.
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And the locals even point out that when the disappearances happened, they notice that
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there's a bunch of deep sea fish coming up. But more recently, with
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the attacks, they also notice that they're fishing has completely stopped. Like there's
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no they're not finding any new fish, they're not able to bring anything in.
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Researchers continue to question them. Okay, I'm sorry, let's backtrack a
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bit. So, so the government does receive word that survivors from UH these
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from the disappearing vessels were found. In fact, they were washed up on
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a near one of the Near island, an island nearby called Otto Island.
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They conveyed they convene to decide what they're going to do. In the meanwhile,
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the survivor, who also happened to be a native of Auto Island,
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UH tells begins telling the people, the local people, that he thought it
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was a submarine, but it may have been something else. That's when some
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of the older some of the elder villagers start talking about it's probably gojira and
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but most people dismiss it because it's just really a folk telle at this point.
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But they can't deny that fishing has pretty much dried up around the island,
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so they're not catching any fish or anything like that while they're on While
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they're on the island, something happens. Strange winds begin to blowing off of
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the ocean, and the villagers take shelter. While they're taking shelter the shelter,
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the survivor realizes that this wind was exactly the same as what he experienced
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when his ship got destroyed. So he runs outside. Yeah, he runs
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outside because you know, reasons thinking because he thinks it's a He doesn't believe
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it was a living creature, and he thinks, Okay, well, you
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know, I'm gonna go fuck this bitch up. So he grabs a knife
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and runs outside. His brother. Yeah, his brother and his mother try
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to stop him, but all they hear from him outside is like this just
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screams, and uh, pretty much when the chapter ends, the house gets
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torn down, and uh, that's pretty much where the chapter ends. Doesn't
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really go further into that. The research vessel does later appear on the islands
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and they find it half of it in ruins. They has been completely ruined.
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Uh, Lenny. The houses were reduced to rubble. Several people were
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killed, and when asking the survivor the surviving villagers, they say that,
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they start saying the same thing. It was go Jita. And the researchers
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are baffled because they did receive reports that it could have been a live like
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a like a live animal, but they weren't sure because at first their estimates
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were suggesting that the animal wasn't as big as a thought. So then they
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find a footprint. I mean, the truth is in the footprint. Yeah,
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so honestly, like they've they that whole footprint scene has been used so
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many times throughout the franchise, like Matthew Brojerck's movie Get Uh. They find
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a big ass footprint from left by Godzilla, and and he's just standing there.
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He's just standing there, Like what am I supposed to be looking for?
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Like, where's the where's the evidence. He said there was a sample,
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there was a sample here, where is it? And the generals and
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the colonel is just like, you're standing in it. It's just big ass
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Godzilla foot pretty the same thing. Uh. While they're conducting their investigation of
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the islands, the villagers begin sounding an alarm and they're saying that Godzilla has
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been spot out on the other side of the island, and they all began
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running towards, like because the island is kind of like flit in half by
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like a small mountain, So they begin running up a path to try to
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see get a look on the other side of the island. And as they're
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getting towards, the researchers end up going with the villagers to try to get
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a peak at what is causing the commotion. And before any of them can
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reach the peak of the of this hill, they see Godzilla's head just kind
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of like, oh god he's getting he's making a demonstration. They just see
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Godzilla's head come up like but that's pretty much exactly what happens. People freak
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out, they go running for their lives. Godzilla doesn't come over the hill,
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in fact, he just goes he turns around and walks back down the
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other way. After they compose themselves, they run back up to the hill,
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and while they don't see him enter the going to the sea, they
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can see his trail of footprints leading down into the ocean. At this point
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they more ships begin to go missing, and they start the government starts noticing
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that the missing ships are following a path. So it's slowly getting closer to
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Tokyo. So, or rather not Tokyo. It's like, uh, let's
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see here, where does Godzilla first step? All right, so to doo
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okay this is so they have reason to believe that Godzilla is going to make
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landfall in an area uh in this in that one bay area of Tokyo and
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so uh they begin issuing evacuation orders for uh Minato, Shinagawa, and Ota
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and other coastal wards. Eventually, Godzilla does make landfall and he attacks one
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of the wards before going back into the ocean. Military defenses didn't really do
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shit to him. They had tanks, they had tanks, they shot missiles.
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Nothing affected him, and if anything, all it did was all Godzilla
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did was in response was to shoot out his atomic breath and the boy.
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The book describes as atomic breath isn't really like a breath attack or more like
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or anything like like shooting fire from his mouth. The way it's just his
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atomic breath is described in the book. Is his spines light up and then
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there's a flash of light and everything is just bathe and then everything just bursts
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into flames. That's actually, yeah, yeah, it really is. It
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really was terrifying. Godzilla goes back into the ocean for a bit, and
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the Japanese Defense Force rethinks their strategy for handling them for handling him, and
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they instead set up a sort of net around the coastal region. It's just
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basically like power lines. They think that maybe instead of just shooting Godzilla full
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of lead, they could try to electrocute him or at least repel him using
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like high voltage wires. Doesn't work. He comes back on He comes back
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onto land, and he barrels right through the electrified fence and he goes on
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another rampage, this time through the Greater region of Tokyo, and the devastation
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was insane. He destroys like a good chunk of the city. He burns
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everything to the ground, and he's destroying buildings a lot of people die,
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and there's this one scene in the original movie, like when I first watched
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God's The Looking of the Monsters. They cut out a lot of scenes and
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they changed a lot of things around so it was less shocking and more appealing
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to the American audience. And also they edited in an American character. It's
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like a news reporter. And when I found that out, I was like,
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Oh, this is that's a bullshit right here. I want to see
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what it's like in the original. So I found the original they on DVD,
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watched it and I'm like, oh, this is so much better.
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Story makes so much sense. Now. Yeah, watched its American one,
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but I've watched the Japanese. Can only imagine. Yeah, because I told
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you to watch the Japanese version, don't worry about the American version. So
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uh, but yeah, there was one really after that. After this attack,
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there was a really shocking scene where you could just see like, of
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course you can see all the demolished buildings, but there was a hospital of
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survivors, many people suffering from radiation burns and just like a wide range of
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injuries. There was one scene where there was this woman who unfortunately passed away
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from her injuries, and she had a little girl, and the little girl
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started crying and I'm just like, oh my god. No. Yeah.
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So there's a lot of other human asp like, there's a lot of human
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aspects in the movie Slash Book, and I'm not gonna get into everything.
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There's one professor. There's one professor. So there was one character whose name
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is Professor Giamane, and he believes Godzilla is a wonder of nature and he
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thinks that instead of trying to kill him, they should try to study him.
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But the thing is is that Godzilla is too dangerous. They can't.
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He is what would be described godzillas, what would be described as an extremophile,
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so he has a life form that can survive in the most brutal and
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extreme conditions. An example of an extremophile would be a form of like would
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be forms of archebacteria which grow around volcanoes, which are as you as you
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can imagine, are very hot. There's even a species of volcanic snails that
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live that are there deep sea snails, and they they live. They you
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can find them mostly in the deep in like the deep sea, and they
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mostly you can also you mostly find them around hydro thermal vents, which are
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just like these events that are constantly spewing out minerals so much as like a
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it's not a volcanic a volcano, but they are considered a form of volcanic
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activity. Is it? Like temperatures around hydrothermal events are pretty like are pretty
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high, so these snails have adapted to live and not to live in those
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extremely hot conditions. And also there's there's shells they've adapted because they're able to
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get such a high amount of iron from the high hydro thermal events, they've
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adapted uh that iron into their shells, so they literally grow metal shells and
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armor plates around them. So it's kind of like those are examples of extremo
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files, and Godzilla is like the extremists of extremo files because you know,
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because missiles, tanks, dimensional weaponry, nothing to hurt them health. Hell,
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he's they they've already theorized at this point that Godzilla was a result of
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the atomic testing in the Bikini Atoll. Gee would give them that idea,
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mmmm, Phil, because really what gave him that idea was in their initial
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investigation of Otto Island, they had Geiger readers with them and as they were
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scanning the landscape, they discovered that there was there was radioactive contamination on the
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island, even though like there shouldn't be. Yeah, so they know Godzilla
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is radio act. Godzilla gives off a form of some form of radioactive mace.
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And of course the running theory is that he was he was some sort
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of deep sea creature that was exposed to the radiation from the atomic tests and
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it mutated him into this into what we have now. And although Professor Yamani
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wants to keep him alive, the rest of them wants to preserve him and
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study him. The rest of the government think no, they yeah. Yamani
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happens to be a very close into another researcher, I know, sarahza that's
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his name. So he was close friends to another researcher named doctor Sarazawa.
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Now sarah Zawa is a bit of a recluse. He spends most of his
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time in his home where his laboratory is set up and he and he's doing
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a form of confidential research that he uses to share with anybody, at least
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with a very select few people. At one point he does show doctor Yamani's
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daughter what he was working on, and he forced her to swear not to
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tell anybody about his research because, for one thing, his research is intended
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as a form I believe it was supposed to be intended as a form of
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like alternative energy or like something else, entirely as a way to break down
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radioactive contamination. But the thing is is that he also recognize that the that
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his research also has can also be used in the form of weapon and application,
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and he's terrified of anybody figuring out about it and start using it as
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a terrible weapon, because we already got the atomic weapons, this can what
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he's working on is way worse. Yeah, most definitely. But after witnessing
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the destruction caused by Godzilla, Sarazawa's I'm sorry, doctor Yamane's daughter decides it's
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time to tell his secret because she knows that if anything can kill Godzilla,
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it would be doctor Sarazawa's research what he's working on, And so she tells
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the authorities what he's working on, and it's revealed that what he's working on
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is something called an oxygen destroyer. Its intended purpose is like a said to
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break down radioactive waste. But the thing is is that it breaks down the
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I believe the way he says what he described it is as and this is
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movie science guy, This is movie science guys. So it's not actually real.
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So you know, you don't got nothing to worry about. Don't come
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for me, saying like, oh, that's not factually correct, Like I
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know that and I don't really care, so don't come for me. Uh
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So, the oxygen destroyer works by breaking down them in lecular bonds of oxygen
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atoms, and when it does that, it causes rapid automization of living organisms.
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So if a life form is exposed to the oxygen destroyer, because most
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things like living things, like living things in otherwise actually use oxygen and it's
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everyday function, including even in saying in things that we wouldn't expect like bond
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ding like molecular bonds. You never would have guessed that oxygen is also can
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be used as like an as a bond. Hell, like, if oxygen
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was to suddenly disappear from the Earth, most buildings around the world will immediately
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collapse because of the because of how like some like steel and concrete uses oxygen
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as a bonding agent. It was just I didn't know that, Yeah,
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interesting. Yeah, it's a it's a random fact that I saw from one
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of those digitale pages on like social media. Like I need to like look
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it up if I'm factually incorrect. Like I said, I don't care.
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It's a movie. It's movie logic. So uh so when he actually did
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a Demons showed, gave a demonstration to her, she uh, sarah Zawa
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drop this little bead containing the uh, the oxygen destroyer, and when the
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bead he put this bead in a fish tank and when it went off,
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all the fish immediately disintegrated. Yeah, and just a that's just like a
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marble Yeah, that's just a marble sized oxygen destroyer. If it was something
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bigger, it could wipe out an entire city or more, it could wipe
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out it could wipe out life on the planet. But she, as well
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as several of her friends, go to Sarazawa and they convince him to use
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his oxygen destroyer as weapon to kill Godzilla. He's not happy about it at
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first, and initially he refuses staunchly, and it does like lead into like
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a small fight between them, but he does. He doesn't eventually agree,
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but he ends up destroying his research notes and all the paperwork that he had
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on the subject, so that way no one can replicate his work. I
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mean eventually someone will, but it I mean, yeah, now they're gonna
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have to start from scratch. They're not gonna be able to figure out from
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from what he like his using his logic, so using his research, I'm
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sorry. And he builds a bigger oxygen destroyers, like a basketball sized metal
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ball contained within like a cylinder, and Godzilla had retreated to a deeper part
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of the bay area outside off the coast of Japan. They lead a team
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and sarah Zawa, alongside another scuba diver, go down and they find Godzilla.
33:47
Sarah Zawa, however, didn't tell anybody that he was planning on not
33:52
coming back, because even if his notes were golf, even if he destroyed
33:57
all his work, eventually the people are gonna start pressuring him into continuing his
34:01
work with the oxygen Destroyer, and while and he just doesn't want that now
34:07
that people know it can be used as a weapon, he doesn't want to
34:09
be a part of that. So he just wants to make sure that the
34:13
Oxygen Destroyer never again. Yeah, So he on their way down, he
34:21
damages his the other scuba divers equipment, forcing him to return to the surface,
34:28
and he goes down he finds Godzilla and he sets off the oxygen destroyer
34:32
and it completely kills Godzilla. Like Godzilla at first, like his regenitive abilities
34:37
try to like stave off the process of disintegration, and towards the end you
34:44
see Godzilla kind of just like rise up out of the ocean and he's ripping
34:49
in pain, he's screaming, and finally he just sinks back down into the
34:52
ocean and all that's left is his bones, completely stripped of all flesh yep.
34:59
So, so that's pretty much where that ends. Like, there's there's
35:02
a lot more the human element that I didn't really talk about, honestly,
35:07
Like a lot of the given the element is just really talking about the who's
35:12
and the whys and the philosophies of whether or not it's right to kill Godzilla
35:16
or to attack them or hell like why Like it's the who's and the why
35:22
why is Godzilla? That's where that's really like a lot uh in That's really
35:28
what a lot of the old Godzilla films were about, at least the more
35:30
serious ones. It's like why is Godzilla. Oh because humans are dumb.
35:36
Yeah, usually answer, because humans are dumb. They did they fucked around
35:40
with and they found out. Like, yeah, they fucked around and found
35:45
out. I mean, that's really what scientific research is. It's just fucking
35:46
around and finding out what Godzilla are. They really found out. Oh yeah,
35:53
they really found out. And so that's radish where Godzilla ends. There's
35:59
a lot more that I didn't talk about, but that's because this actually has
36:02
two books in it, so we're gonna go over both of them in this.
36:07
See it's not even that big. Yeah, it's like I read like
36:09
honestly, I read like I read Godzilla. I finished that within like a
36:15
week, and but it took me longer to finish Godzilla Raids Again because I'll
36:22
be honest, Godzilla Raids Again was not my favorite. Like, in fact,
36:27
it is probably my least favorite I had the entire franchise, which is
36:30
saying something because Matthew Brodericks Godzilla is the worst in my opinion. The origin
36:40
the original American Eyes Got American Godzilla that came out in nineteen ninety eight.
36:45
Do you leave Zella alone? Zella tries her best? Okay, no,
36:51
she doesn't. No, you like the TV series. See the TV series
36:58
had its own redemption, actually fixed some ship that was wrong with the movie.
37:01
Okay, the movie was trash, all right. The so called atomic
37:05
breath scene that we were supposed to get was just like a little puff of
37:07
fire. That was it. And then she gets nerved by a bunch of
37:15
missiles like Godzilla like and there's no a single monster. There's not a single
37:23
Godzilla film where Godzilla gets nerved by a couple of missiles, like, not
37:30
one. I see you trying to think of it. But no, look,
37:36
hey, hey, look at me, Look at me, Devin,
37:37
look at me, look at me. No, yeah, yeah, because
37:43
I see you trying to think like, oh, there was there was probably
37:45
a movie where Godzilla gets taken down by a missile. No, no,
37:50
the thing you think you think there are several There were several films where,
37:53
like you know, he does get overwhelmed with by some missiles. But whoa
38:00
whoa whoa whoa whoa wo whoa spoiler alert, no spoiler alert for anyone who
38:07
has not seen God's all this one. Didn't they take him out? No,
38:13
it was a plan. It was even worse. I was a plane
38:15
that took him out, wasn't it. It was a planet, yes,
38:20
but yes, but after everything they already Look, let me tell you something.
38:23
This guy's little was not the strongest. All right, don't go there,
38:30
don't go there. You could take it out by a plane. There
38:32
worse than a messig, at least the other one. He got taken out,
38:36
He got his face got blown off by a mind because he it was
38:40
in his mouth, but his face grew back. The reason why I did
38:44
it this time was because they had already done a lot of other things.
38:47
Hey, hey, look at me, look at me. No, okay,
38:52
pick and choose now. Granted again spoilers. He did die, but
39:00
there's something else happening with the remains of that Godzilla, which will hopefully say
39:05
he's not really. So he's not really. We don't know. We don't
39:07
know to what extent, if he's actually growing back, or if this is
39:09
like the origin of all the other kayjus, So we don't exactly know what
39:14
his remains are happening there and the mark on her neck and that character's and
39:19
if you watch it, you know you know, but like we don't know
39:22
what's gonna happen with those body parts. We already know this. I already
39:27
know there's gonna be a sequel. They can't at this point, God's Willa
39:34
minus one, they can't not make a sequel, Holy holy ship. All
39:42
I saw was like a blurt out like thing moving around in the background.
39:45
What is that? That's my dog? That's my dog, Shelley. I
39:50
forgot she was in here. Yeah, I saw her hip pop up and
39:53
I was like, who the fuck is that? Oh, it's a dog,
39:57
It's Shelley. Yeah. So okay, point in case, there is
40:06
gonna be a sequel. They haven't announced one yet, but I'm pretty sure
40:08
there's gonna because at this point, God'silla minus one is the most successful foreign
40:14
film in America. But don't say, oh no, Zilla is the only
40:19
one that got taken out by a missile. One minus one got taken out
40:22
by a plane and a mine sling case and point thinking. He literally recovered
40:34
from the mind and he returned planes because he was frozen after they dropped his
40:38
ass down into the depths and rose him back up rapidly. Okay, that
40:44
wasn't more stream form of punishment, then it wasn't an extreme form of damage
40:50
being done to him. Okay, more than anything than a regular set of
40:53
missiles and a bunch of lead being shot at him. Okay, it looks
41:00
at me, No, Future Devin, look at me, Look at me,
41:04
No Devin. If you can make it, If you can make a
41:07
tally board, put one point for Devon, put zero for Jacob. Think
41:12
down, Uh, Devin, Future Devon put uh one point for Devon and
41:16
one hundred points for Jacob, because I've already made a hundred points well over
41:21
you many times in the past. You got one, You got one.
41:24
Okay, that's all you got. Oh wow, all right. Anyway,
41:29
so moving on, we got the other half of the book. Yeah,
41:31
Godzilla raids again. So, as I was saying before I was really interrupted,
41:37
okay, raise again. Was my uh was one of my least favorites,
41:42
just because it was. I just it's never really when I watched it,
41:47
it just never really captured my attention the way that God's Alla did.
41:54
It never really like it came off to me as something silly and light hearted,
42:00
whereas like Godzilla was more serious. Now I don't know if they did
42:05
that because they wanted to try to like appeal to different audiences, make gods
42:10
a little more friendly and appealing. No, Like, what makee Godzilla is
42:15
so successful was the fact that he was brutal and he was like destructive and
42:21
dangerous and he was scary because Gonzilla is is is a horror monster. It's
42:25
a uh socially moving again and again. But no, yeah, the original
42:37
ones more like if you especially if you watch the movie. The book is
42:39
kind of the same way too, but if you watch the movie, it's
42:43
a lot more. It's ooky, spooky, like the black and white utilize.
42:49
Yeah, it's a horror film. They utilize the black and white of
42:51
their advantage, and he looks terrifying in the original. But then Raids Again
42:57
comes out and it's a there's only two movies that were in black and white,
43:00
and that was Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again. Those are the only two
43:04
movies that were Raids Again came out a few Both movies came out in the
43:08
fifties, and then after that all that, all the other movies that came
43:13
out after that were from the sixties and seventies, and those movies were much
43:17
we're all in color. Yeah, and while they weren't as silly, well,
43:22
most of them weren't as silly as Raids again, they had a more
43:28
serious tone. Also, like if you watched Raids again in the black and
43:32
white lighting, it was a lot more brighter, so you you could see
43:37
how ridiculous Godzilla looked in that lighting, because you know, this was back
43:42
when they were still using robber suits, when Godzilla had a more toad like
43:45
face. Oh god, I remember that. I remember that one there because
43:52
there was because Godzilla had many different his appearance change like changes throughout the entire
44:00
franchise. Like the original Godzilla was definitely more serious, and they they promas
44:06
used the same suit from the second and the second movie, but it was,
44:09
you know, Sillier, I just thought it was silly because immediately,
44:14
like so the story starts off, it's pretty said, it's you can kind
44:21
of see a theme. It's like fishermen, uh, because this time there's
44:25
like several commercial vessels fishing fishing vessels, and they utilize a seaplane to fly
44:34
up and spot out schools of fish so that way the boats could come in
44:37
and quickly net them up and things and something like that. Right, well,
44:43
he gets a the seaplane gets a uh. One of the seaplanes gets
44:46
to discress, just stress call from the one of the other ones flying in
44:51
the area that it had gotten that it had gone down, so he mounts
44:54
a rescue ends up going to an U acting that ship down to a nearby
45:00
island. He lands to sea plane to go find the pilot who's survived,
45:06
and while when he finds him, they also he also finds that Godzilla is
45:09
on the island and or another Godzilla is on the island, because remember this
45:15
this one is a direct sequel to Godzilla, so this is another Godzilla the
45:20
other one had They they do reference that the other one was killed. Was
45:22
this one like a like a child or some shit, or just another one?
45:29
It was just another one, Okay, there was another fully grown Godzilla,
45:34
and and what was shocking to them was that Godzilla was fighting another colossal
45:39
creature technically like this creature becomes known as Angeris in later films, but in
45:47
this film and slash book, he's just called an ankulosaurus because his appearance more
45:54
directly looks like a like an ankylosaurus. Those who don't who who strangely enough,
46:01
don't know what an angula source looks like. They look like a giant
46:04
armadillo, but with spikes coming out of their back. That's pretty much what
46:08
he An image will show up on the screen if you're watching the video,
46:12
the video portion of the pod, I'll show up on the screen to show
46:15
you what what he looks like. But yeah, he does look like that
46:19
type of dinosaur basically. Anyway, Now, Godzilla was it is believed to
46:29
be directly related to like certain dinosaur species, like there is they actually do
46:35
relate into a dinosaur called a Godzilla saurus, and he's just like a irradiated
46:42
mutated cousin. Yeah. But so, yeah, they find Godzilla and Angeiris.
46:49
I'm gonna I'm just gonna refer to him as Angeuris because that's the name
46:51
I've always known that monster by. Uh. They're fighting, they're duking it
46:55
out, and if you watch the movie, it is kind of it looks
46:58
kind of silly, just the way rolling around like fighting each other, and
47:02
eventually their fight uh if the fight nearly kills the two pilots, but they
47:07
managed to escape and return to Japan to warn the country that hey, there's
47:10
not just one, but there's two monsters now and the other and one of
47:14
them is Godzilla is another woo. So they're trying to figure out why ways
47:22
to defend the country from the two monsters. Eventually, the two monsters do
47:28
come to shore and they fight on land before being chased off before Godzilla chases
47:36
and gears back out into the ocean, just like UH. Just like his
47:39
first Just like his cousins first landing a few years earlier, UH leaves widespread
47:45
devastation. This time it was uh in Osaka, hm and uh Osaka.
47:52
It is Osaka because Osaka is the city with that big castle, right,
47:58
It's like a big towering castle. I think so, yeah, I think
48:01
so. I mean, hold on, future, Devin edit that back,
48:06
so future the part out baby once I see it. Don't know what it
48:16
is, Yep, it is because like, well, hand on, let
48:22
me let me post it on the chat post on the chat post in the
48:25
video so people can get a look. So the funny thing about this castle,
48:31
hold on, what is it called? This is the uh I think
48:37
I think it's just called Osaka Castle. Mm hmm. Yeah. It's one
48:46
of Japan's most famous landmarks and ship like that, And that castle becomes iconic
48:52
throughout the entire franchise because that's one of the buildings that gets to Dedroid the
49:00
most in this fight between these two colossal monsters. Yeah, in this fight
49:09
between the two there you go. They end up fighting. Like their fight
49:21
pushes him towards his castle and they end up destroying it and it ends up
49:27
being destroyed. I don't know how many more times throughout the franchise, Helen
49:30
even in shin Godzilla, you see it again, but he doesn't destroy it.
49:34
Yeah, but anyway, Godzilla does eventually uh chase. He does eventually
49:44
chase and gearis down to another another, another island, and they fight once
49:49
again, and this time Godzilla kills Angiris, so he's dead. Deceased.
49:54
Now, the Japanese Self Defense Force has to figure out what are they gonna
50:00
do about Godzilla because he's moving steadily north along the coast and eventually reaches an
50:07
island that is covered in ice and snow, and the Self Defense Force gets
50:13
this idea, why not try trapping Godzilla in ice? Yeah, this island
50:19
works, well, it does. They lead, they mountain its back on
50:24
Godzilla and they managed to trap him in this gorge valley area. They shoot
50:31
missiles at the surrounding ice and rock and it causes an avalanche that buries Godzilla
50:37
and that's pretty much how the book ends, like Godzilla is defeated quote unquote,
50:45
and now he's frozen and buried under all that ice. He doesn't come
50:49
out, And I think it's like it works because the intense cold makes it
50:54
hard for Godzilla to maintain his natural body heat even though he's radioactive. I
50:59
guess ice helps counteract that radioactive heat and it just slows him down. But
51:07
that's pretty much it. There's a lot more in the story. Honestly,
51:10
Like I skimmed through this book and I just can't really like get into it.
51:15
That's why it's one of my least hevorite because it just doesn't keep my
51:19
attention. And yeah, I will say I'm sorry that I didn't really pay
51:28
much attention to the story. I mean, yeah, it's like it's the
51:30
second movie, it's the second installation of the entire franchise. That's pretty much
51:37
now the story goes. There's somewhat of a human element, like faster.
51:43
Yamani does make an appearance in this book again and he offers his advice and
51:47
still he's this time he's more amicable to like dealing with Godzilla. He does
51:53
see him more of a threat now. But whether or not. He still
51:58
thinks they should preserve and study Godzilla is never really it's not a topic that's
52:01
approached, but really it the human element is centered around that that that seaplane
52:10
pilot and his friends. So and that's another thing that happens is that in
52:15
this movie, in like Godzilla franchise, is that he focuses on characters that
52:21
don't really have much influence or direct connection to like the story as a whole.
52:30
It is just more like that human aspect. And they do a lot
52:34
of the who's, whys and hows of Godzilla, and sometimes you just don't
52:39
Yeah, sometimes you just don't need the whos and whys. Mm hmm,
52:45
Well, yeah, you just need people who actually know what they're doing and
52:47
who are actually gonna make a difference. I mean, the sea the seaplane
52:51
pilot. He does take part in the final fight with Godzilla because he's a
52:58
seaplane to Lord Godzilla to that area where he gets buried and all that ice
53:02
and snow. Mm hmm. But that my ship. If you guys want
53:09
to check out, of course, check this stuff out. Of course.
53:13
This book is on sale in Amazon. I'm not sure if they have any
53:15
more copies left because it did sell out pretty quickly. It did, But
53:19
if they have more did it sold out for a bit? It might have
53:24
more now because I know because it was the This is the first time that
53:30
these novels have been translated and released in the United States, so it kind
53:35
of was a big deal originally. Yeah. Yeah, they still have copies,
53:42
that's gucci. Yeah, they still copies. Yeah. If not,
53:44
then if you can't find a physical copy, they also have it for digital
53:47
as well, because I have it digitally currently. But no, yeah,
53:52
they still have digital copies. But yeah, if you want, if you
53:55
want to read the original, if you want to read the original atation of
54:01
novelization. Sorry, that's the proper wording novelization of the Godzilla film to first
54:07
of Godzilla films right there for you. Yep. You can find it on
54:10
Amazon for kindle and physical copy. Of course, you can also watch the
54:15
movies. Stay. I believe Godzilla is streamable on either Max or Amazon.
54:22
Let me double check. It might be two be because some of them are
54:27
on to B as well. Some of them are about all of them god
54:35
Zilla Night okay, two B so fifty four so that yeah, it sounds
54:43
toob but it's also on Prime Video and on tax Just make sure to watch
54:47
the original Japanese version. The American version is trash, all right, It
54:53
makes no sense. It just makes no sense because it's mostly just narration from
54:59
this American journalists. There's no real art need to be there. Yeah.
55:07
When I found that out and I watched the original Japanese version, I realized,
55:12
God, this is so much better. Hell, I don't even watch
55:15
the Japanese movies in English dub anymore because if you watch them in English dub,
55:19
especially like the older movies, you'll like miss out on They'll they'll change
55:23
a lot like that. They changed a lot in the American dubs, even
55:27
if they didn't edit it to like include American characters and stuff, like what
55:30
they did with the first movie. They changed the dubbing the translation around because
55:37
they thought, Okay, it'll make more sense if we changed the the lines
55:42
to this. Yeah, right, because they think yeah, But no,
55:47
they didn't. If anything, they cut out a lot of information like that
55:52
was important to the story, like uh so in later in one of the
55:58
later movies, Godzilliver's Mathra, Mathra laid an egg that hatched into two caterpillars
56:08
and late in one of the movies after that. I think it was,
56:14
Uh, it was either Destroyal Monsters or I think which movie it was,
56:23
because there was another movie where you see Mathra again, but it was so
56:28
like Mathra. The adult Mathra dies in Gouzilla versus Mathra and her two caterpillars
56:34
survive and they go back to Infant Island. Probably was No. I think
56:43
it was either Godzilla. It was either a Godor or the Three Headed Monster
56:45
because Mathra shows up again but as a caterpillar or Destroying No, it was
56:53
the Three Headed Monster because uh so like there, like initially they were,
57:01
there were three monsters that had their own standalone films. It was Godzilla,
57:08
Rodan, and Mathra. They all had their own movies and then eventually they
57:13
all get their own they all get a crossover with Godzilla, like Rodan didn't
57:21
get it. Rodin did not get like his own standalone like Godzilla like crossover
57:25
with Godzilla, or he it's just him and Godzilla fighting like how it was
57:29
with Mathra. I think like the first time Rodan crosses over is in godor
57:34
the Three Headed Monster, because it takes Godzilla, Mathern and Godzilla, Mathra
57:38
and Rodan to all fight against King Yidora. And when Mathra was called into
57:43
action because like Mathra has these little like foot foot tall fairies who act as
57:52
priestesses from Athro because they they worship her as a goddess and they're able to
57:57
call Mathra to come help them. And when the Japanese government asks them to
58:04
call Mathra to help them fight King Gidoro, they do, but they also
58:07
ask her like they well, they were talking to them because they would regularly
58:10
come back to Japan to like improve relations between Infant Island and the Japanese government.
58:16
Because if you watch the original mathraa movie, But what what caused Mathra
58:21
to go on a rampage was because some uh entrepreneurs kidnapped the fairies and they
58:30
call Mathra and she comes and she destroys Tokyo trying to rescue them. I
58:35
mean, don't take her girl. So yeah and so, and then later
58:40
on, of course the egg like the whole thing with Godzil Godzilliver versus Mathra
58:45
happened and then Godora comes in and it was in that movie like they the
58:52
fairies came to Japan as part of like an outreach program, and while they
58:57
were talking to them. Someone asked them because like, if you the point
59:00
I was trying to get to, and I went on a huge segway was
59:02
that in the English dubs they often exclude or change what's being said, like
59:08
the information. And for the longest time, because I'd only watched the English
59:13
stubs of these movies, I was like, wait a second. There was
59:16
two. There was two Larva guzz in Guzli versus month, there was two.
59:21
There was two caterpillars, but in this, next, in this,
59:24
in this movie after that, there was only one. What happened to the
59:28
other one? And they never and they never said it in the English dub,
59:30
like what happened to the other one? Right? And I finally I
59:34
thought, I wonder if it's like what do they say in Japanese? So
59:36
I just listened to it in Japanese and in the Japanese sub and in the
59:40
Japanese version they literally say what happened to it? They're like, oh,
59:45
hey, like what happened to the other one? Like someone asked them,
59:46
like, so, what happened to the other caterpillar? And the fairs were
59:50
like, oh, it died, And they could just put out one line
59:54
in there uh huh, I guess because well, because they in America,
59:59
they of these these films were often catered to kids. So they yeah,
1:00:05
and you know how American American media they're very like picky and touch you and
1:00:14
like what you put in your movies, especially if kids will if there's a
1:00:19
chance that kids will see it. Yeah, and so they probably changed it
1:00:22
up because I didn't want to acknowledge the fact that, oh there's av pillar
1:00:27
died. Oh no, oh no, caterpillar died. Oh no. So
1:00:35
yeah, so I highly recommend watching the original Japanese Godzilla of the nine fifty
1:00:40
four Godzilla and at this point just lit'ten Just watch it in Japanese with English
1:00:45
subtitles because you'll learn a lot more from the story that way. And the
1:00:50
same with Godzilla Ries Again even if you don't like it. I didn't really
1:00:53
like it because it just didn't capture my attention like the other movies did.
1:00:57
I mean, hey, Raise Again wasn't the only movie that was that was
1:01:00
silly that I didn't really care about. If you watch like movies like Godzilla
1:01:06
versus Megalon, Godzlivers's Guy Again and pretty much god Delivers hetera like the movies,
1:01:12
like there was a string of movies that came out in the early seventies.
1:01:15
Yeah, those movies were Those movies were not only stupid, but they
1:01:20
were also like they were kind of tripped. They were there were a trip
1:01:22
I think like some of the producers were on something, you know, the
1:01:27
seventies because if you watch Godzilla versus I think it was either Megal, Yeah,
1:01:36
it was Megal Megalon there's a they introduced a character named Jet Jaguar and
1:01:44
it's basically ultraman except he's a robot. And gods Oliver, god Oliver,
1:01:53
et cetera was the trippiest out of them all because they really did a lot
1:01:58
of the you know, like there was you know, like the seventies had
1:02:00
this deal with psychedelics and stuff like that, like psychedelic imagery. There was
1:02:07
like a whole scene in Goudziliver, etcetera. Where they're in a club and
1:02:10
I guess, like this dude got high or something and he was tripping balls.
1:02:15
So yeah, so Raids again wasn't the only like week movie in the
1:02:22
franchise, but it was just want to Yeah, Gotsilla definitely. I'll definitely
1:02:28
give Godzilla five out of five raids. Again, I'm just gonna give it
1:02:32
a three out of five. It was still good, but it wasn't as
1:02:37
good as the original. But anyway, that's all we have. I can
1:02:46
go all, we can go on all day talking about Godzilla, but of
1:02:51
course you can't. You can't. You can't watch any of you honestly can't
1:02:55
get into the newer films without watching the old films. If you don't want
1:02:59
to watch them all, Okay, that's fine. Uh, at least watched
1:03:02
the original one because you know this one right here coming to you from the
1:03:08
did you groupie your himself? Yeah? Yeah, I tell that to anybody
1:03:16
who gets into Godzilla because hell hell, I told this to random strangers when
1:03:22
I went to go see shin Godzilla for the first time. This was back
1:03:24
in twenty fifteen and I was living in Orlando at the time. I was
1:03:29
in college, and I skipped the lap just go see it. I mean
1:03:32
I would have too, but granted I didn't see Shen Godzilla until like twenty
1:03:37
what, twenty nineteen? When first, ye, I told you about it?
1:03:42
Yeah, And I was like yeah, Like we were talking about the
1:03:45
new we were talking about legendary pictures, Godzilla's and King of the Monsters just
1:03:51
came out or it was about to come out, and you I don't remember
1:03:55
a conversation exactly, but I think you mentioned like how you wish they come
1:04:01
out with new stuff. Yeah, and I'm like, and I asked you
1:04:04
have you seen shin Godzilla? And you're like, is that? And I
1:04:09
was like, oh, well, I think I mentioned something along the lines
1:04:13
of I wish they made like a Godzilla that was more like ooky spooky,
1:04:17
and of course I'm always on a cosmic horror kick. And you're like,
1:04:21
oh, you should watch shin Godzilla. They did because it was directed by
1:04:29
the dude who made Evan Gillian. If you've watched Evan Gillian, it's very
1:04:33
like, it's very like cosmic horror spooky, yeah kind of, and you're
1:04:39
just like, fibe. I was like, okay, And then you watched
1:04:42
it and you're all like and you were just like, oh, it's eltrich
1:04:45
like it's very getting very and then there's a whole episode on it on spook
1:04:53
because you did a whole Kaijumuth last year last year, and girl is it's
1:05:00
it's full on cosmic horror. And I was not disappointing. I watched the
1:05:04
dub of it first, but I did watch the sub after and the dub.
1:05:10
The duve that I guess it was fundation that fundimationd wasn't too bad,
1:05:13
but because I was like, because I think you went on on your one
1:05:15
of your little rants about the dub versus the sub as or as the Godzilla
1:05:19
films, and I'm like, Okay, I'll go back and watch the Shin
1:05:24
Godzilla subbed and I'm like, oh, okay, it didn't change much of
1:05:30
anything in this one anyway. So I don't know the other newer ones newer
1:05:33
h Granted, this Shin Godzilla is the latest one since like what two thousand,
1:05:39
two thousand, two thousand and four or something that was last one before
1:05:42
that, Shin guds Ala. Like, so it was the first film since
1:05:46
God's all the Final Wars. Yeah, so the ones that the Japanese made
1:05:51
is the Japanese Godzilla came out, Yeah, Gareth Edwards. Godzilla just came
1:05:57
out the year before, and the Japanese were all like, if this was
1:06:00
actually really good, they did a good job, you know, Hey,
1:06:03
hey we can't let that, yeah we Hey, hold up a second,
1:06:09
We're the ones who made this ship in the first place. We got to
1:06:11
show them how it's done. And then they made Shin Godzilla. And the
1:06:15
thing is Shin Gonzilla was popular and it was actually one of their more more
1:06:18
successful films. It's just that it just wasn't meeting their expect It didn't really
1:06:25
meet their expectations. But the whole thing that they had planned for Shin Godzilla,
1:06:31
they scrapped it and I upset, but they wanted to come back to
1:06:39
it because they were like, well, wait, we have like let's just
1:06:41
like see where what legendary is gonna do, because you know, the first
1:06:46
Godzilla came out and it was it was really popular, got a lot of
1:06:53
people interested. I mean, there was only two complaints about that movie that
1:06:57
I had, and that was really Godzilla's atomic breath. His atomic breath was
1:07:02
like definitely more Gareth Edwards was more faithful to the show a series. It
1:07:10
was just like the movies like from fifty four to mid seventies, so it
1:07:15
actually looked like a stream of fire. And his feet that was the other
1:07:20
thing. He's a thick Yeah, these little stubby feet, the little he's
1:07:28
still cute. They were tree stumps they weren't stubby little feats that were just
1:07:34
stumps. Anyway. Yeah, I thought about it and I wrote, and
1:07:43
you know, whole physiology thing, like physiology mutation thing makes the animal No
1:07:51
huh when you really look at it. I've wanted again, don't look into
1:07:56
the signs of Godzilla. The American or the Japanese makes no sense because I
1:07:59
watched the whole big on someone dissecting. Would Godzilla and the legendary Godzilla make
1:08:02
sense with the with Earth's gravity and how the have gravity and the Earth is
1:08:09
Would Godzilla make sense with his body biologically? Would it? Could that thing
1:08:14
exist? No? No, it could not. None of the titans technically
1:08:17
an animal, and an animal could technically get to his size, but only
1:08:23
in the ocean because in the ocean there's no limit to how big an animal
1:08:28
can grow. Well, the way his body is, he cave in on
1:08:30
itself under his own body weight. Yeah he was, Yeah if he was
1:08:36
a land animal. But it's a movie. Who cares, don't look too
1:08:41
far into it, don't hurt yourself. Yeah, but whatever, I got
1:08:44
over it. His like, even though I still look at his stubby feet
1:08:47
and I'm like, he's not getting stubby feet anymore. He evolved, Well
1:08:51
he's skinny. He is skinady. They're not stubby, they're more difined.
1:08:58
Now he's he got skinny, Okay, I mean I mean the pink one.
1:09:05
Yeah, he's more limber this new evolution, and the whole pink vibe
1:09:13
is that is the light spectrum. So that's why they change the color to
1:09:16
like a magenta or a pink. It's because it's the next line in like
1:09:20
the like. There's a whole science approach of why they changed his color scheme
1:09:25
to more of a magenta pink than the blue. Yeah, there's a whole
1:09:30
science behind it. It's fun. Look it up. It's great. There
1:09:33
might be a link in the description. I might get spicy and put a
1:09:35
ligan the description distory so everyone can catch up on that. Because by the
1:09:41
time this gets really actually, when this gets released, it'll be like the
1:09:45
week after Godzilla versus Kong New Empire comes out. Oh okay, because this
1:09:51
episode won't get released on the on April fourth. Yes, I know,
1:09:56
I'm hoping to get free tickets for my birthday. Hopefully you better get me.
1:10:02
Yes, who do you think huh? Who do you think? I'm
1:10:08
gonna have go with me. I want to do it on the twenty ninth
1:10:12
and have with me. Yeah, which he's gonna go too. But so
1:10:15
are you the fuck? Okay, do you really think I'm not gonna take
1:10:19
you with me? What? How dare you? How dare you? Of
1:10:29
course you're gonna get a free ticket? Okay, you better. Yeah,
1:10:36
it's your birthday. Oh my god, it's my special day. Well not
1:10:44
really my special days on a Thursday, but still, but that's what I
1:10:46
want to do for my birthdays. Godzilla the new Godzilla film. So yes,
1:10:49
of course you're gonna go. You're gonna get a free ticket. If
1:10:53
I have to fight somebody, you're gonna get a free ticket. The fuck.
1:10:57
You better fight dirty too, dirty. I only fight dirty, never
1:11:02
fight fair. Do you think Godzilla fight's fair? No? Mm hmmm mm
1:11:10
hmmm mm hmmm. On that note, yeah, anyway, uh So,
1:11:17
if you want to get really into watching it, like there are over thirty
1:11:21
films in the entire franchise, including American movies, Yeah you want to.
1:11:28
If you want to like go chronologically like with the Japanese ones, definitely start
1:11:31
out with Godzilla and then go from there. If you if you go on
1:11:35
Amazon right now. They have this huge collector set of the of the show
1:11:40
A series. I have it, his boyfriend has it. It's it's great.
1:11:45
It's this big, it's this big old booklet. I have it on
1:11:46
my shelf over here. I'm not gonna grab those. Yeah, and you
1:11:53
can watch most of them on either Prime Video to be MAXX. Honest,
1:12:00
I think it's it's a pain in the ass trying to find all the movies
1:12:02
on like streaming services because they're not all on there. Yeah, But like
1:12:08
the Japanese movies are like divided into like uh well four era different series eras.
1:12:15
Like there's the show the Shawa era, which is the series of movies
1:12:19
from nineteen fifty four to like the mid seventies. There's the Heysay Area era,
1:12:26
which is my personal favorite because it came out in the eighties and nineties.
1:12:30
That's where Godzilla is more like he's a big boy and he's like he's
1:12:34
not portrayed as as this anti hero, but he's he's viewed as like this
1:12:39
existential threat and I love him all right. That's where like in that series
1:12:45
introduced like his like some of his most powerful enemies, like King Gidora was
1:12:50
a rich what came out in the show a series originally, but that he
1:12:56
was like the only Okay, so it was King Gidora, Rodan Mathra,
1:13:00
and Mega Godzilla. Those four are the ones that survived every era including them
1:13:05
that have shown up in every era, include including the American version. In
1:13:10
the American ones, they're the most well known ones. Yeah, they're the
1:13:15
most well known, and they're the most popular. That's why. That's pretty
1:13:19
much why King of the Monsters was made legendary pictures. King of the Monsters
1:13:24
was made because they had gotten the rights, uh for those three, for
1:13:28
those four monsters. Well, but you know, of course from author Getora
1:13:31
and Rodan came out King of the Monsters. But and then Godzilvers is calling,
1:13:36
we got Meca Godzilla, and I was just like when when they when
1:13:39
I realized it was Meca Godzilla, was like, it's fucking Mecha Godzilla.
1:13:42
They got Meca Godzilla, all right, I want Biolante Space Godzilla and or
1:13:50
Destroyer because they already used the oxygen Destroyer. Destroyer comes from that, so
1:13:57
it's like, give us Destroyer. Oh yeah, it's I think he's gonna
1:14:01
be the final boss Honestly, I don't know about that, but uh,
1:14:09
if they do, it's probably not gonna be until later. Yeah, if
1:14:13
they're gonna make destroy they're gonna have to get the rights for Destroyer from Telescope.
1:14:17
They have. I'm sure they have the rights and majority of the monsters
1:14:20
already, they just not at this point. It's pretty much just like it's
1:14:29
pretty much just Scudzil at this point in Mathra I think is apparently Mathers gonna
1:14:32
come out in the next movie. I know some things. I can't say
1:14:40
anything because I'm not gonna give you any spoilers. I know things, I
1:14:45
know things. M hmm. But no, I'm sure they have the rights
1:14:50
and majority of the monsters that they want, but they have a story they
1:14:54
want to tell with a particular set of monsters, even though I'm like,
1:14:57
girl, give us by all Lante please, because by alone is I just
1:15:03
want them to do something that they haven't done since the Show A series.
1:15:06
I mean they in the Millennium series, which the Millennium Series was the the
1:15:13
third was Third Era. But that's space monsters, alien monsters like the Show
1:15:18
A series like he had monsters like King Gidora, Mega Godzilla was technically a
1:15:24
space monster because he was made by aliens. He was originally made by aliens.
1:15:30
And then there was Guy Gan, there was Megalon. Doesn't really count
1:15:34
because he came from underground, but yeah, kind of counting. Yeah.
1:15:39
But and then of course Space Godzilla from the Heyse series and mean King Gidora
1:15:45
wasn't a space monster anymore. He was he was created on Earth like by
1:15:51
people from the future. And was there another space monster, No, it
1:15:58
was just it's just Space Godzilla. And then the Millennium series. Uh,
1:16:03
they kind of did something with space monsters, but that was just in Final
1:16:09
Wars because we got monsters and Kaiser Godora. Yeah, but that was it
1:16:15
everything. All the other monsters were completely terrestrial. They came from this world.
1:16:20
And then of course we got then of course we got the current era
1:16:25
of Godzilla and Japan. That's the what do they call it? What's the
1:16:30
name of the era currently for Godzilla Japan? Yeah, I think it's just
1:16:34
called Japanese verse. I don't know. I think it's called the it's like
1:16:40
R E I W A something. I'm not let me look it up.
1:16:45
Yes, yeah, that's the one with Yeah, that's the one with like
1:16:49
godzill Planet, the animated monsters Godzilla, or the anime Godzilla. Yes,
1:16:57
I forgot about the I forgot the animated movies Planet Godzilla, singular Point Godzilla,
1:17:01
which I'm like I could with shitt Godzilla. The fact they didn't do
1:17:08
the Earth Earth Godzilla, the fact that they didn't do the whole cosmic ooh,
1:17:13
he's a being from another dimension or or it's like some otherworldly Eldridge horror.
1:17:18
They kind of use that plot for a lot of other stuff, not
1:17:21
necessarily for like the Earth Godzilla, the plant Monster, but more so for
1:17:27
like the singular point Godzilla, because dimentional being creature thing something like that.
1:17:36
He was like a he was like supposed to be a living singularity from like
1:17:43
yeah, the form he saw was only like it's like basically a toenail of
1:17:47
the actual creature. So I'm like, y'all took those ideas and you repurposed
1:17:54
it. I see. Singular point was if you take it as it is,
1:18:00
it was okay. It was a good. It was good. It
1:18:01
was entertaining. That was weird in a good way. Yeah it was.
1:18:05
But like for me, I'm just like it was like they took all his
1:18:09
original the monsters he's fought before, mainly from the show A series, and
1:18:15
they mixed them together into like like monsters like with other monsters. So you
1:18:19
had like these because there's a giant, there's a praying man, this monster
1:18:25
from the show A series, and then there's Megalon, who's this who's basically
1:18:30
a drill beetle. Yeah, and it mixed those two together created a bunch
1:18:33
of like, yeah, they made like a bunch of like Chimaro type mixed
1:18:38
match of pieces of monsters. Well it's like yeah, like you were saying,
1:18:42
like different monsters from different eras of kind of mixing together. Yeah.
1:18:45
And then there was uh, like Manda, there was this a giant sea
1:18:50
serpent. God's all technically never fought Manda one on one at least, like
1:18:55
if you watch the Trial Monsters, Manda was in that. One man got
1:19:00
his own standalone film, but he wasn't really the center point of the film.
1:19:05
If you want to watch it, it's called The Atragon. It's actually
1:19:09
really it's a it's a really cool movie. It's like this flying It's like
1:19:13
the Atragon is this flying ship. It's a warship that can fly. It
1:19:17
has a big drill in the front so it can drill underground, and it's
1:19:20
also a submarine, so it's like an all terrain ship. It's actually pretty
1:19:26
cool. But like they were fate, they were like dealing had it.
1:19:30
They had to deal with this under It's kind of like this Atlantis like civilization,
1:19:34
but it was like called the Mu Empire, and a Manda was like
1:19:40
a guardian spirit beast. Yeah, and they that's where Amanda originally appeared in.
1:19:47
But he never actually had any role in the Godzilla verse, any of
1:19:51
the Godzilla verses. So but they gave him a bigger role in Singer of
1:19:58
a Point. And then of course Godzilla and his three and it's like three
1:20:01
different forms. He started off as basically Titanosaurus because that sea monster version of
1:20:06
himself was just Titanosaurus, but more of like a sea monster instead of like
1:20:11
a dinosaur. And then you got uh Gorosaurus, which is another like Tyrannosaurus
1:20:19
type monster that never actually appeared in any of the Godzilla movies except for Destroyal
1:20:27
Monsters. And then of course Godzilla himself. Yeah, but I liked when
1:20:32
he was in his like the when he was in his second form, which
1:20:35
was the Gorosaurus form. His atomic breath was those rings, which was which
1:20:42
was what? Which was what? Milla Manila or Godzilla Jr. Got I
1:20:48
hate his I hate his name. It's like it's either Milla Manila or just
1:20:54
Godzilla Jr. I'm first calling him Godzilla Junior because it's easier, because it's
1:20:58
easier than saying those another fucking name. Yeah, but it's just because he
1:21:01
used to so Gotzilla Junior. When he would shoot his atomic breath, it
1:21:04
wasn't like a stream of fire. It was just this little ring, like
1:21:08
a little ring. Yeah, didn't do shit, No, sure as hell
1:21:14
did not. But I mean, in singular point, it was that it
1:21:17
was dangerous. But then of course he evolved into his final form and then
1:21:20
that was where he got his stream. But yeah, So the ray Wa
1:21:25
series is the new series which includes his animated films and the Does it include
1:21:31
the Monster verse or no? No, it does not. Monster versus the
1:21:35
Toll is a totally different thing outside of Japan because then it includes the animated
1:21:41
stuff as well as Shin and Minus one. It's thrown in that too.
1:21:45
Currently from what I can from what I've read one, what I hope they
1:21:56
make another collector set, just like the show on one that I bought,
1:21:59
or just all of the hate it's all the Haysey series on Blu Ray and
1:22:02
this big old booklet. I mean, there's not that many. There's not
1:22:05
as many movies in the Heysei series as there was in the show A series.
1:22:11
But that would be great, That would be great. Yeah, give
1:22:16
us more, Give us more. Godzilla Minus one was so good. It's
1:22:20
like the most popular Godzilla movie in the history of Godzilla movies, or at
1:22:24
least from the Japanese, from the Japanese Japanese movies. If if anyone from
1:22:30
the Japanese Godzilla team for Godzilla mis wins listening, if you don't fall through,
1:22:36
you're weird, like hinting at the next sequel of like the whole mark
1:22:44
that people start popping up on at least the one person that you assume other
1:22:47
people have it too, and then the flesh melding into other things. If
1:22:51
you don't fall through with that, because let me tell you something, well,
1:22:56
look right in the camera at this. If you don't fall through on
1:22:58
the ouki spooky not necessarily cosmic word like the Eldridge weird, the weirdness because
1:23:03
elevator is another word for weird. It doesn't necessarily have to be in cosmic
1:23:08
core, but even though it's associated with that, the weirdness of it all,
1:23:11
and make it really fucking weirdness, lean into it. I don't want
1:23:14
it. You put don't puss out, don't puts it on the eldridge and
1:23:16
the weird of it all, because that's weird and I and that's what intrigued.
1:23:21
I mean, I love my one, but at the end, I
1:23:24
was like, oh, okay, I'm here, I'm fully here now I
1:23:27
was already here, but now I'm now. I'm here here like because sh
1:23:31
it was weird, I want no more. So don't put that on me.
1:23:35
Lean into the weird, please, I don't get my shin Godzilla sequels.
1:23:42
I want the weird to completely contradict what he's just saying. I don't
1:23:46
care what you do. Just give me more. I want more. I
1:23:49
mean as all as good, but like I want the weird if you make
1:23:56
more animation, like animated stuff, like, let's let's do it. Yeah.
1:24:02
Anyway, my favorite, my favorite, he we fevere, he feverite.
1:24:15
Anyway, enough of me with my little with my little Godzilla action figures
1:24:19
and then like long and anyway, Yeah, the Big Eight. Anyway,
1:24:28
So that was go and Godzilla raise again. Yeah, thank y'all for listening
1:24:36
in. Yeah, and tune in next week. Wait, what did you
1:24:40
want to do next week? I don't know. I have to figure it
1:24:42
out. I don't know what I want to do next week. We'll decide
1:24:46
figure it out. Fuck it, No decided. Right now, we're doing
1:24:50
book one of this one fantasy series that I've been reading. Just fuck it.
1:24:59
We're gonna go ahead and just reviewing them. I have not finished the
1:25:01
series yet because there's a lot, but we're gonna ahead and do book one
1:25:04
because it has already been adapted into a TV show by now, am I
1:25:09
gonna watch it? Now? I gotta watch that. You better watch it.
1:25:12
It's only there's only eight episodes. You can do it. Okay,
1:25:14
I can watch it. I can watch it. Yeah. Anyway, we're
1:25:18
gonna be reviewing book one and season one of The Wheel of Time, yeah,
1:25:26
by Robert Jordan. Now, they don't since it's a TV show,
1:25:30
they don't give you the actual name of the of They don't give a specific
1:25:34
name for each book. But it's not just Wheel of Time. Book one,
1:25:38
two, and three, one of the Wheel of Time is called The
1:25:41
Eye of the World. Yeah, okay, now I will have to watch
1:25:48
that show because I am going to be I'm not reading those books. I'm
1:25:54
just not. I can't not no, not right now. On average,
1:25:58
the books, okay, for like for those like really advanced readers, it's
1:26:00
not like a very long book. But if you're like in just an average
1:26:04
reader like me, the average page length is a thousand pages. And so
1:26:13
far I'm on book six out of fourteen. Yeah, out of fourteen books.
1:26:18
How is book six? You Are you halfway through yet? No,
1:26:24
I'm about forty of the way through, between thirty five and of the way
1:26:29
through, so I'm getting there. I just started reading it, Like when
1:26:34
did I start reading it? Sometime last week last week something like that,
1:26:39
Monday, Tuesday. Yeah, so far, Book five was my favorite,
1:26:44
just mainly because one of the one of the bad guys, like, yeah,
1:26:47
she got taken she got taken out, but she went down kicking and
1:26:50
screaming and she made a scene and it was hilarious. Yeah. So yeah,
1:26:57
we'll do that next week for the Wheel of Time. Yay, so
1:27:01
catch us then until then, bye bye.