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if you were on a baking contest like great british

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baking show or something and you had to recreate

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a scene from any monster movie using gingerbread

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what would it be Hello, and welcome to Camp Kaiju

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Monster Movie Podcast. We're your hosts, Vincent

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Annam. And Matt Levine. And we're talking about

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all our favorite monster movies. The good, the

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bad, and even the downright campy. And asking

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if they stand the test of time. Traditional Kaiju,

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creature features, space invaders, the supernatural,

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and everything in between. All strange beasts

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welcome here. Hey, everybody. Welcome. We're

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all kind of trickling in here. I see lots of

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friendly faces. I see familiar faces. I see a

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new familiar face. Don the Superfan. Hello. Welcome.

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Hi, guys. Hey, Don. Hello. Thank you for joining

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us. Don is a supporter and new Patreon member.

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Oh, that's awesome. Glad to be here. Some of

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the best questions that we've gotten from any

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fans. I feel like they've all been from Don,

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so thank you very much. Yeah, good to see both

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of you as well, Sean, as always. Hey, oh yeah.

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The feeling's likewise. I'm hoping everybody's

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having a nice holiday. I know things are chaotic

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in this country right now, but I hope that each

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of you... At least have a moment to give yourself

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some peace or peace of mind. Thank you, Sean.

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That's very important to say. Yeah. I mean, you

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said it perfectly, kind of dark times. I had

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an Uber ride with a driver today who was like,

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let me tell you about AI and how we're all screwed

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and how, like, two years from now, nobody will

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have a job anymore. The, like, AI overlords will

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rise up over humanity like it will be a wasteland

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in, like, two or three years. And I was like,

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man, this is not what I need to hear right now.

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No. No, not at all. Sean, what you just said

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is more. Wasn't the reason the AI is around?

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Haley Joel Osment? Yeah, I think you're right

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about that. Yeah. If Steven Spielberg is right.

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And Kubrick, I guess. Yeah. I love those kind

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of Uber rides, though. You just, when you get

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your driver who just, he's got a floor. I sort

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of liked it, but I was also taking an Uber because

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my car was in the shop and I had to spend a lot

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of money to get it back. So I was not really

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in the mood for like a very stressful conversation,

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but you know, that's all right. You know you

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should have, well, yeah, I mean, his job is probably

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most at stake among jobs, right? You mean like

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Uber drivers? Yeah, like driverless cars and

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things. Oh, true. He did say that he also does

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coding. That's like his second job. And he was

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like, coding is also going to be an obsolete

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job. He needs to, I don't know. He needs a nap.

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Yeah, or a therapist maybe. I forgot what I was

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going to say, but... And let me just say that

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I was not trying to bring the conversation down.

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I was trying to say, Sean, thank you so much

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for what you said, because that's the energy

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that we need going into the holidays. You're

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welcome. I'm just waiting to see you jump in

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front of your camera. That's all I'm waiting

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on. He's back there somewhere. He'll probably

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join us at some point. As he often does. I have...

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An icebreaker question for everybody. If, and

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we can repeat this if more people show up, but

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if you were on a baking contest, like Great British

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Baking Show or something, and you had to recreate

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a scene from any monster movie using gingerbread,

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what would it be? For example, a gingerbread

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King Kong climbing a gingerbread skyscraper.

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Wow. Hi, Beth. Hi, guys. Happy holidays. Good

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to see you. We'll do introductions in a little

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bit, but we have a fun icebreaker question. If

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you were on a baking show and you were tasked

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with recreating any scene from a monster movie

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using gingerbread, gingerbread houses, gingerbread

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people, what have you, gingerbread monsters,

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What would it be? Probably the scene where Hedera

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is like a blob because I can't cook. So making

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something in a blob gingerbread dough shape would

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probably be the most accurate. A toxic sludge.

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There we go. The blob or the thing. Yeah. I like

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that you approached it from the mindset of, like,

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what will my excuse be when I am not able to

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make anything? Like, what will be a valid backup

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reason for that? It's not for execution. It's

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abstract. There's a difference. Yeah. Totally.

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I would love to do a stop motion scene of the

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moment from Godzilla X -Kong. where Kong is going

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up against all those other apes. Then he has

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little Kong there. And then he picks up the little

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Kong and swings him at the other ones. So I want

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to see that done gingerbread style. Wow. Oh,

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goodness. I can picture it so vividly. The last

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time I tried to make a gingerbread house, it

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kind of fell apart. So I just let it, if it fell

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apart, I'd just stick Godzilla's foot in the

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middle of it. That's perfection. Yeah. Olsen,

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what about you? I'm thinking of the... What's

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the Godzilla movie from the mid -80s? Return

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of Godzilla? There's the scene where he's kind

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of collapsed against the skyscraper. I feel like

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that would be a good gingerbread house scene.

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Like a sleeping Godzilla. Yeah, I don't think

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I could pull it off. So I'm not thinking practically

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like Beth was and stuff. But I think it would

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be a cool gingerbread scene. If you build at

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least two gingerbread load -bearing walls, I

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think you got it, homie. I don't think I could

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do that. That sounds difficult. All of our baking

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skills are on display here because not one of

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us is trying MechaGodzilla. Not one of us. We're

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all like, nope. MechaGingerbreadzilla. No comment.

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Nope. Nope. I'm just going to make a gingerbread,

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blackula, and a coffin. Amazing. I'm going to

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go with... The scene in Jaws where Quint is being

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eaten and bitten in half. I'm thinking I could

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use like raspberry effects for the gore and gingerbread

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boat, gingerbread shark. Wow. Or a remake of

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Ginger Dead Man. I've never seen that. Me neither.

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Me neither. That's something we should probably

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highlight. All right, I'm going to cross off

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one of the titles on my list for next season

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and add that on there. It's a good reminder.

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Is that the one with Gary Busey? Yes, it is.

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Yes. Okay. I think I saw that a really long time

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ago. I feel like you could probably guess that

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Gary Busey's in that movie, even if you didn't

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know the cast. It just seems like the kind of

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thing that he would be in. All right, Matt, you're

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up. Yeah, I've been thinking about it a lot.

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You know, because I kind of recapped the previous

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season earlier today, I thought of the scene

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in 20 Million Miles to Earth where Ymir, the

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monster, is up on top of the Coliseum and throwing

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boulders down at all the scientists and Italian

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police and military and stuff. So I think that's

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what I would do. I would build a gingerbread

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Coliseum, and you could have little gingerbread

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balls that the beast could throw down at everybody

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else. It would be interactive, you know? That's

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what I'm going to go with. That's ambitious,

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though, and I could not pull that off. So it's

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only hypothetical. I believe in you. Everybody,

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I just have to attend to my child who just woke

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up for like a quick minute. But while I'm doing

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that, Matt, you can lead. We can go and just

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do a formal introduction. Matt has some guidelines

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for what you can mention in that introduction.

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Yeah. All right. Let me pull up this document

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here real quick. All right. It seems weird to

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only look at Vincent's blank screen right now,

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which is what I'm looking at. Seems kind of desolate,

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but I'll just ignore that for the moment. So

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here we are at the Camp Kaiju holiday party slash

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season six preview episode. Thanks to everybody

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here on the episode for joining us. It's so wonderful

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to see everybody, all the guest stars that we

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had over the past season. So what Vincent wrote

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on this document is, for a little intro here,

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everybody can introduce themselves, their past

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appearances on Camp Kaiju. We did already answer

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the gingerbread baking contest, so we don't need

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to do that right now. So yeah, maybe just if

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you can all introduce yourselves and the episodes

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that you've been on in Camp Kaiju, that would

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be great. And I'll kind of just go down the list

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on my Zoom screen here. So Frank Olson, do you

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want to go first? Sure. Yeah, I think as of this

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recording anyway, I think I'm on the most recent

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one, which is The Addiction, the Abel Ferreira

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vampire movie. And also earlier this year, I

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was on the one about the island of Dr. Moreau,

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the notorious mid -90s one that was a huge disaster.

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And I've been on some others in the past, too.

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I know we did Shin Godzilla. The Testament of

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Dr. Mabuso, which is not really a monster movie

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per se, but... What else have I been on? Porco

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Rosso, we did a long time ago. Which one? Sorry.

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Porco Rosso. Yeah, amazing. Troll 2, we did.

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I forgot about some of those. Yeah, I feel like

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I'm forgetting some of the older ones, but yeah,

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I've been on a number of times. Yeah, I feel

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like Island of Dr. Moreau has the record so far

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for the longest Google doc, just because the

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production backstory was like 20 pages on that,

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basically. Yeah, that was the one where if we

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had just read the Wikipedia article verbatim,

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it would have been a fine episode. Yeah, yeah.

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Fascinating, troubled movie in production, for

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sure. And yeah, Porco Rosso, I forgot about that.

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I would say that's actually my favorite Hayao

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Miyazaki movie. Maybe a minority opinion, but

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I was blown away by that movie. Yeah, that's

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up there for me too. I'm not sure what I'd say

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my favorite by him is. My favorite Studio Ghibli

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movie is Han Poco, actually, which he did not

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direct. But as far as Miyazaki, yeah, Porco Rosso

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might be my favorite as well. Yeah, it's a good

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one. Flying pigs, you can't go wrong. Yeah, you've

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been on a lot of great episodes. Thank you so

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much, Frank. Yeah, so I would actually say that

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there is one more recent episode that we recorded

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after the addiction. So maybe on that note, I

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will ask Sean Childers to introduce himself and

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the episodes that he's been on recently. I am

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glad I didn't dig in for any more popcorn just

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yet. Uh, yes. So hello, my name is Sean. Uh,

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I have been on three episodes so far. First one

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being Tusk with, uh, also guest host Naomi Osborne.

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Um, I was on Robot Jocks with our fellow other

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Sean here, Sean Pryor. And then lastly, I was

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just recently on Pacific Rim. I had to think

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for a second because I just recorded another

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thing this weekend. But yeah, uh, I'm a big Mecha

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guy, also known. Has big mecca, but not huge.

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The name of your other podcast. Yep. Awesome.

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Yeah, Pacific Rim was fun. I feel like I was

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in the minority because I know you and Vincent

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love that movie, and I am somewhere more in the

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middle, but great conversation. I loved talking

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to you guys about that one. And Robot Jocks.

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Those two go together perfectly. Just beware.

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There's a box of bees coming your way. Yeah.

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I'm terrified every time I open my mailbox. I

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know they're coming for me. Well, thank you,

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Sean. Maybe on that note, we should ask the other

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Sean who's on that Robot Jocks episode, Sean

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Pryor. Are you able to introduce yourself? Yes,

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indeed. My name is Sean Pryor. I'm an author.

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I write books of all kinds, comics, graphic novels,

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prose, storybooks, books about movies. As a matter

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of fact, one of those books was talked about

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on Camp Kaiju, Kaiju Unleashed. And that was

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the first time I had ever met Vincent and Matthew.

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And we had a fantastic time. They let me ramble

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for almost two hours. And so I had a wonderful

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time there. And then I came back with Sean Childers

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and we did the Robot Jocks episode, a movie that

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I didn't realize how much I loved until I saw

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it in HD on Tubi, of all places. And I absolutely

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adore it. I would get up, but my office is such

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a mess because I haven't straightened it out

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yet. I've been here for a year. But I bought

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the four -pack with Robot Jocks because it was

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on sale a couple of months ago. And I'm so excited

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this holiday season to sit down and watch it

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multiple times. I'm so happy for you. End to

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your year. Thank you. Thank you. I was also blown

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away by Robot Jocks, which I would describe as

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a mix of Thunderbirds, Starship Troopers and

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Pacific Rim, which is such a bizarre like I would

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imagine there's no other movie like that in cinema

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history. It's totally one of a kind. Oh, yeah,

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definitely. And like it's just like like when

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we talked about like all the trials and tribulations

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in getting that movie finished. And if it would

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have came out when it was originally supposed

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to, we may have gotten two or three legitimate

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sequels. So, man, it breaks my heart with what

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could have been. I really think about that a

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lot, what could have been. But that was a really

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fun episode. Also, Sean did a very hilarious

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Russian accent. You will not get another one

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at this time! Always on cue. Love it. Man of

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a thousand voices. Well, on that note, perhaps

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Beth Bredlaw, you joined us for an episode earlier

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this season. Are you able to talk a little bit

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about that episode and your background? Okay,

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let me see if I remember. I think that was, was

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that the post -GFest? I think that was in the

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Jun Fukuda continuing episode. Were we talking

00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:57.570
about Eberra on that episode, I think? Yeah.

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Yeah. My man. Yeah. You know, I think I kind

00:16:02.889 --> 00:16:05.049
of came on the scene because I've organized a

00:16:05.049 --> 00:16:07.110
Godzilla Fest here in my town of Bloomington,

00:16:07.149 --> 00:16:09.190
Indiana. And then I got the mayor to declare

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Godzilla Day. It was like a whole thing. And

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then I'm pretty much working towards my PhD right

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now in Godzilla. And I'm about to actually write

00:16:18.110 --> 00:16:22.169
my master's right now. So that'll be on Godzilla.

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And then I did a whole bunch of speaking appearances.

00:16:25.929 --> 00:16:29.409
I spoke twice at G -Fest 2025. So we're still

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waiting to hear about it. And I got Godzilla

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Fest 2026 up and planning in Bloomington, Indiana.

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It's going to be bigger and better this year.

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So and yeah, just continuing to work. I have

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about two or three speaking academic conferences,

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conventions. So it is my mission to make casual

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the academic subject. And I'm going to do it.

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So we're making waves, guys. We're going to.

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We're going to be serious. I'm going to pave

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the way even if I have to do it. You don't have

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to do it alone. It's so great what you're doing

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and what everyone is doing. There are more introductions

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to be made. I don't want to segue yet. Don the

00:17:14.809 --> 00:17:17.950
super fan also should introduce himself. Sorry

00:17:17.950 --> 00:17:20.569
to jump in there. No, please, please go for it.

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If you're comfortable with that, Don. Yeah. Obviously

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haven't been on any episodes, but I've listened

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to a good chunk of them. I started listening,

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I think, right now I can't remember which of

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the first one I listened to. I think I came across

00:17:40.569 --> 00:17:43.549
you guys first on, like you posted something

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on Instagram and it happened to come into my

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feed. Like, oh, a Godzilla podcast. I gotta check

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this out. And there was some other, another one

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that I've listened to from time to time too but

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I don't know what else to tell you I work in

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healthcare I you know I've been a long time movie

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and music fan of all kinds of different genres

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so I've gotten more and more into the monster

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movies I kind of always like them very cool that's

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awesome Thank you so much for joining us tonight.

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And I kind of mentioned this before, you know,

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before we officially started the episode or whatever,

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but you still always have, like, the best comments

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and questions on, like, our YouTube page. And

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I think it's mostly YouTube. I don't know if

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it's on Instagram or not. But just thank you

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again for that. I always look forward to reading

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your comments on there. Oh, very welcome. Yeah.

00:18:38.630 --> 00:18:41.930
All -star lineup here. Thank you all for being

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here. It's so cool to just see and hear about

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all the different interests we all have, and

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we've converged in this virtual space called

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a podcast, which is so science fiction when you

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think about it, and it's amazing. There are others

00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:05.539
who, for whatever reason, haven't been able to

00:19:05.539 --> 00:19:08.839
join us tonight. I'm going to run down just quickly

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the movies we featured. On our fifth season this

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past year in 2025. And give a shout out to. Those

00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:22.180
other guest hosts. So way back when. In January

00:19:22.180 --> 00:19:25.099
of last year. We started with. The Beast from

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20 ,000 Fathoms. We went into. Invasion of Astro

00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:33.740
Monster. And then. Something very different.

00:19:34.779 --> 00:19:38.819
Kevin Smith's Tusk. And Sean Childers. And Naomi

00:19:38.819 --> 00:19:43.950
Osborne was on that. Naomi came back. She wasn't

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done with us yet. We talked about Dracula's Daughter,

00:19:46.789 --> 00:19:51.170
the Universal movie from the 1930s. Then me and

00:19:51.170 --> 00:19:54.490
Matt winged it solo with Godzilla vs. Mothra

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from 1992. Then Island of Dr. Moreau. Then Invaders

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from Mars, some 1950s sci -fi. That's the 1953

00:20:07.329 --> 00:20:12.859
version of that film. Aliens, again, of a different

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sort. The 1995 movie Species, which is just something

00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:24.279
you just have to see to believe. Back to traditional

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kaiju with Gamera the Giant Monster, that other

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big G. And then Swamp Thing from 1982, something

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a little different. Matt, that was your pick.

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That was my first time watching that movie. I

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just love Swamp Thing. Yeah. Me and Beth, you

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and I talked at like 7 o 'clock in the morning

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one day to talk about Godzilla Day. That's when

00:20:52.059 --> 00:20:54.680
we met, and you plugged your events with that.

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And then it was the Big Robot Jocks episode with

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Sean Pryor and Sean Childers. Naomi was back

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again for the hat trick with the Company of Wolves

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from 1984. We continued our lycanthropy four

00:21:12.740 --> 00:21:17.700
-legged theme with the Shaggy Dog, which was

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part of our ongoing Magic and Monsters special

00:21:20.339 --> 00:21:25.160
with guest host Patrick Kozicki. We dished on

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the 1959 Disney movie. Beth, you came back, and

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then we discussed Eberra, Horror of the Deep,

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a little bit. Matt, you finally introduced me

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to Congo from 1995. We had talking gorillas.

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It was bananas. After that, where do we go? Yeah,

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Matt, I gave you a treat. I gave you a little

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something to chew on. Jaws 2 from 1978. Then

00:22:01.309 --> 00:22:03.730
we went back to traditional kaiju with space

00:22:03.730 --> 00:22:08.609
amoeba. From 1970. That was a fun episode and

00:22:08.609 --> 00:22:12.130
made me rethink that film a little bit. King

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Kong Lives, we followed with Ben Cook Feltz,

00:22:16.609 --> 00:22:20.089
who provides Armenia's mailbox theme music, but

00:22:20.089 --> 00:22:24.569
he joined us as a full -blown guest host on King

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Kong Lives. Back to Weird Movie Land with 1979's

00:22:30.630 --> 00:22:34.730
Prophecy. In parentheses, the monster movie about

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a giant mutant bear. And then Magic and Monsters

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again with The Watcher in the Woods, a supernatural

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ghost story with Patrick Kozicki. New guest host

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Paul McGuire Grimes joined us to talk about The

00:22:53.250 --> 00:22:56.829
Phantom of the Opera celebrating its 100th anniversary.

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The Lon Chaney feature doesn't look a day over.

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75. But, you know, happy birthday to the Phantom.

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Oh, Naomi was back. Just lurking in the wings

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with 20 million miles to Earth. We had Gappa,

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the Trifibian monster, doing its best to follow

00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:22.140
up the huge shadow of Harryhausen's 20 million

00:23:22.140 --> 00:23:25.240
miles to Earth. Spoiler alert, Gappa did not

00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:28.119
live up to the hype. But, hey, maybe to some

00:23:28.119 --> 00:23:31.799
Gappa fans out there. No shame, no blame. Then

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we had a really fun, random episode about the

00:23:35.500 --> 00:23:39.559
giant spider invasion from 1975 featuring the

00:23:39.559 --> 00:23:42.140
director and producer of that film, Bill Rubain.

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That episode was a journey of wills and hope

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and despair. But listen to it yourself and let

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us know what you think of that movie. Frank,

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you were back. You were with us with Island of

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Dr. Moreau. You escaped the island, found yourself

00:24:02.380 --> 00:24:04.599
in New York with a blood -sucking Christopher

00:24:04.599 --> 00:24:07.660
Walken, and decided to talk to us about the addiction.

00:24:08.460 --> 00:24:15.019
And then bringing up the rear, supporting the

00:24:15.019 --> 00:24:18.400
flanks, I don't know, leading the vanguard with

00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:22.900
Pacific Rim Sean Childers closing us out strong.

00:24:23.339 --> 00:24:29.359
So that was our rundown. Like upwards of 26 episodes,

00:24:29.740 --> 00:24:34.119
25 movies, something like that. But it was a

00:24:34.119 --> 00:24:38.799
good episode. Good season. Varied. A lot of great

00:24:38.799 --> 00:24:42.880
voices. And I can't wait to talk about what's

00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:48.619
coming up next. Same. This is my favorite recording

00:24:48.619 --> 00:24:51.039
every year, by the way. Our preview and holiday

00:24:51.039 --> 00:24:52.579
episode. I love it. I always look forward to

00:24:52.579 --> 00:24:58.460
it. Before we get to that, that announcing of

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Season 6 for the first six months of the year,

00:25:02.740 --> 00:25:06.420
we have some games. We have some trivia games,

00:25:06.579 --> 00:25:10.019
and you might not win more than bragging rights,

00:25:10.279 --> 00:25:14.160
but we're all here to have fun. The points don't

00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:19.880
matter. I have some of my favorite trivia about

00:25:19.880 --> 00:25:23.869
the podcast. It's like podcast trivia. That pulls

00:25:23.869 --> 00:25:27.049
in some of the movies we've talked about. You

00:25:27.049 --> 00:25:31.170
all ready? One thing. When you were going to

00:25:31.170 --> 00:25:33.470
do Prophecy, I was not aware that it wasn't the

00:25:33.470 --> 00:25:35.369
Christopher Walken movie until after I started

00:25:35.369 --> 00:25:40.750
listening to it. Yeah, I've never seen The Prophecy.

00:25:40.769 --> 00:25:42.490
I'm interested in that movie, though. Is it good?

00:25:42.730 --> 00:25:43.730
Have you seen The Prophecy? I've never seen it.

00:25:43.829 --> 00:25:45.910
I own the DVD and I haven't done anything with

00:25:45.910 --> 00:25:56.079
it. Yo, I would say that no. but is it better

00:25:56.079 --> 00:26:02.480
than prophecy the monster movie i would say once

00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:07.579
again no like there's there's two christopher

00:26:07.579 --> 00:26:10.220
walken movies that like like that are in this

00:26:10.220 --> 00:26:13.859
like realm of very weird but like not really

00:26:13.859 --> 00:26:16.779
good and one of them is is the prophecy but then

00:26:16.779 --> 00:26:19.420
there's another one where he meets aliens supposedly

00:26:20.379 --> 00:26:21.599
And I forget what it's called. Are you talking

00:26:21.599 --> 00:26:24.519
about Communion? With the Whitley Schreber movie?

00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:27.460
Yeah. And see, that's why I'm going to fight

00:26:27.460 --> 00:26:30.400
you because that movie is amazing. That is Christopher

00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:36.460
Walken. Weirdness. Well, no, I'm glad you appreciate

00:26:36.460 --> 00:26:39.720
it. Lord knows I tried. I tried. I really did.

00:26:39.960 --> 00:26:41.640
And I was just like, I can't do this no more.

00:26:45.549 --> 00:26:48.109
I'm, I'm so fascinated by like nineties, like

00:26:48.109 --> 00:26:50.609
kind of like trashy sci -fi horror thrillers.

00:26:50.609 --> 00:26:53.130
Cause like, you know, I was like in my teens

00:26:53.130 --> 00:26:55.410
or like younger in the nineties and like, I just

00:26:55.410 --> 00:26:56.789
kind of didn't catch a lot of those when they

00:26:56.789 --> 00:26:59.089
first came out. And like, usually I love revisiting

00:26:59.089 --> 00:27:01.890
those. So I believe you that the prophecy is

00:27:01.890 --> 00:27:03.970
really bad, Sean. And yet I still am very excited

00:27:03.970 --> 00:27:08.289
to watch it someday and communion also. Well,

00:27:08.369 --> 00:27:14.130
Godspeed. Thank you. Welcome. I can't wait to

00:27:14.130 --> 00:27:19.250
see what Matt throws at us. I feel like it might

00:27:19.250 --> 00:27:20.849
be disappointing, but maybe not. Hopefully not.

00:27:20.970 --> 00:27:26.809
Never. All right. So I'll ask. Here's my first

00:27:26.809 --> 00:27:32.750
question. This is around the kill count. So which

00:27:32.750 --> 00:27:35.269
of these three movies featured on Camp Kaiju

00:27:35.269 --> 00:27:40.890
Season 5 had the most confirmed on -screen kills?

00:27:42.569 --> 00:27:46.910
And you can all say your answer out loud. I'll

00:27:46.910 --> 00:27:49.549
just tally. Everyone will get a point if you

00:27:49.549 --> 00:27:53.849
got the right answer. Actually, let me get some

00:27:53.849 --> 00:27:58.690
paper and a pen. I'll try to keep score as well.

00:28:00.769 --> 00:28:06.349
Okay. So our three movies. Which movie had the

00:28:06.349 --> 00:28:13.339
most kills? Was it Jaws 2? featuring Rochette

00:28:13.339 --> 00:28:21.619
the shark? Was it Species featuring Syl the alien

00:28:21.619 --> 00:28:26.440
woman hybrid? Or was it The Company of Wolves

00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:32.960
featuring just a bunch of hungry doggies? The

00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:39.279
pedigree. I'm going to guess Species. Who said

00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:42.549
that? I did. Wild guess, but I'm going to say

00:28:42.549 --> 00:28:47.890
species. I concur. You concur? Is that a dog

00:28:47.890 --> 00:28:54.589
pun? I didn't think of that, but yes. Your pun,

00:28:54.750 --> 00:28:57.930
Vincent, wow. I'll also say species as well.

00:29:00.730 --> 00:29:03.990
I'm going to say Jaws 2. I'm going to be the

00:29:03.990 --> 00:29:05.849
odd woman out. I don't know the answer, by the

00:29:05.849 --> 00:29:06.609
way. I'm going to say Company of Werewolves.

00:29:08.470 --> 00:29:17.529
Okay. Keep going. Anyone else out there? I didn't

00:29:17.529 --> 00:29:21.190
think there was a lot of deaths in the Company

00:29:21.190 --> 00:29:27.809
of Wolves. But I'm going to say Species. Okay.

00:29:28.109 --> 00:29:32.309
Don says Species. Beth says the Company of Wolves.

00:29:33.450 --> 00:29:41.750
Sean Pryor says Species. Sean Childers says species.

00:29:41.910 --> 00:29:53.369
Yep. And Frank says species. Species. Wow. You

00:29:53.369 --> 00:29:56.750
give it up for our sleazy 90s monster movies.

00:29:56.829 --> 00:30:00.509
You all who said species was correct. That was

00:30:00.509 --> 00:30:06.420
the answer. By the way, I did watch Species 2,

00:30:06.519 --> 00:30:08.759
hoping that it would be even trashier and more

00:30:08.759 --> 00:30:11.180
fun than the first one. It is trashier, but it

00:30:11.180 --> 00:30:13.559
is not more fun. It's significantly worse, I

00:30:13.559 --> 00:30:17.359
would say. Sadly. But maybe the other Species

00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:19.319
sequels are great. Who knows? I probably will

00:30:19.319 --> 00:30:22.359
not watch them. No, no, the other sequels are

00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:28.390
not. No, no, never. I am a sincerely positive

00:30:28.390 --> 00:30:31.329
person, but there's also this thing of, I really

00:30:31.329 --> 00:30:33.609
want you to be able to enjoy the time you have.

00:30:33.849 --> 00:30:37.690
So don't watch those, please. Life is too short,

00:30:37.829 --> 00:30:42.170
Matt. Nice. I mean, that's good advice. I'll

00:30:42.170 --> 00:30:44.109
take that to heart. Before you said the thing

00:30:44.109 --> 00:30:45.869
about being a positive person, I was like, man,

00:30:45.930 --> 00:30:48.369
Sean Pryor's been through some trauma, it seems

00:30:48.369 --> 00:30:57.309
like. I really have. For the love of the craft.

00:30:58.710 --> 00:31:02.650
So if you're curious out there, Species had nine

00:31:02.650 --> 00:31:07.589
on -screen kills. Syl just goes to town, goes

00:31:07.589 --> 00:31:13.009
through people like no tomorrow. Bruchette the

00:31:13.009 --> 00:31:16.690
shark from Jaws 2 killed seven people. Oh, pretty

00:31:16.690 --> 00:31:19.829
close. Yeah, it was close. And then there were

00:31:19.829 --> 00:31:24.549
five kills in the company of wolves. Various

00:31:24.549 --> 00:31:31.660
wolf attacks. Gnarly ones. Yeah. All right. So

00:31:31.660 --> 00:31:36.119
if you said species, you have one point. If you

00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:39.240
didn't, you don't have any yet. But your time

00:31:39.240 --> 00:31:44.029
has come. Your time is coming. Two more questions

00:31:44.029 --> 00:31:48.829
for me. Matt, do you have a question? Like a

00:31:48.829 --> 00:31:51.769
multiple choice question? Yeah, for sure. First

00:31:51.769 --> 00:31:54.009
of all, I want to apologize because last night

00:31:54.009 --> 00:31:55.410
you texted me and you were like, please come

00:31:55.410 --> 00:31:57.230
up with some multiple choice questions for tonight.

00:31:57.349 --> 00:31:58.509
And I was like, oh, I'm on it. Thank you for

00:31:58.509 --> 00:32:00.349
the reminder. I'll do it. I came up with some

00:32:00.349 --> 00:32:02.490
trivia questions. They were not multiple choice.

00:32:02.670 --> 00:32:04.829
I just completely missed that part of your instruction.

00:32:05.150 --> 00:32:07.250
So I'm kind of frantically making multiple choice

00:32:07.250 --> 00:32:09.750
questions right now. That's my bad. But I do

00:32:09.750 --> 00:32:13.309
already have some ready to go. Where should we

00:32:13.309 --> 00:32:17.789
start here? We are always very prepared when

00:32:17.789 --> 00:32:24.269
it comes time to record an episode. Let's see

00:32:24.269 --> 00:32:27.410
here. Let's go back to Congo because that was

00:32:27.410 --> 00:32:30.089
the first one that I brought to the podcast in

00:32:30.089 --> 00:32:34.730
this season. All right, here's my multiple choice

00:32:34.730 --> 00:32:38.130
question. The suits and animatronics for the

00:32:38.130 --> 00:32:41.059
gray gorillas, Amy the Good Gorilla. and the

00:32:41.059 --> 00:32:43.819
attacking hippopotamus were designed by what

00:32:43.819 --> 00:32:46.220
legendary makeup and special effects designer?

00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:52.640
Was it A. Rick Baker, B. Rob Botten, C. Stan

00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:59.660
Winston, or D. Phil Tippett? Stan Winston. Yeah,

00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:05.039
I agree. Oh, hold on. I'm writing this down.

00:33:05.140 --> 00:33:14.619
I swear. A. Strong. Okay. You guys can keep talking.

00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:20.859
I'll catch up. I'm trying to make up my mind

00:33:20.859 --> 00:33:23.559
between Stan Winston and Phil Tippett. Because

00:33:23.559 --> 00:33:26.480
Phil Tippett was still in the midst of things

00:33:26.480 --> 00:33:31.279
in the 90s. But Stan Winston, that was the dude.

00:33:33.319 --> 00:33:36.279
You know what? I'm going to say Phil Tippett.

00:33:37.779 --> 00:33:41.420
Thanks. I like the originality. I'm going to

00:33:41.420 --> 00:33:50.660
say Stan Winston. Okay. I'm going to go completely

00:33:50.660 --> 00:33:52.819
off everybody else. I'm going to say Rick Baker,

00:33:52.900 --> 00:33:56.299
just in case he, I know he was involved in a

00:33:56.299 --> 00:34:01.319
lot of big productions and hype movies and actually

00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:04.700
heard an interview with him recently. So he was

00:34:04.700 --> 00:34:11.500
on another podcast. He was on a podcast with

00:34:12.650 --> 00:34:16.389
Cary Byron and Tori Bileci from, you know, remember

00:34:16.389 --> 00:34:21.849
the Mythbusters? Yeah. Yeah. He worked with some

00:34:21.849 --> 00:34:25.670
of them in films and stuff and got close friends

00:34:25.670 --> 00:34:28.329
with them now. And he was on there talking about

00:34:28.329 --> 00:34:31.789
Halloween stuff. Oh, yeah. And I think he did

00:34:31.789 --> 00:34:33.510
an American Werewolf in London, if I remember

00:34:33.510 --> 00:34:35.250
right, too, which is probably his best known

00:34:35.250 --> 00:34:38.650
work. Yeah. That's awesome. Amazing work in that.

00:34:38.909 --> 00:34:41.789
Yeah. I could listen to Rick Baker talk all day

00:34:41.789 --> 00:34:45.579
long. Um, just his like love of, um, film history

00:34:45.579 --> 00:34:49.920
and, and Hollywood makeup effects. And yeah.

00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:54.840
Yeah. Awesome. I, I don't, I truly don't know.

00:34:54.940 --> 00:34:57.760
I, I'm going to say Stan Winston, but that almost

00:34:57.760 --> 00:35:01.659
seems too obvious to me. I would say Rob Bottin,

00:35:01.699 --> 00:35:03.619
but I don't, I don't think that was it either.

00:35:03.699 --> 00:35:06.659
You know, I'm going to say Rob Bottin. Nice.

00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:08.500
I'm glad you said that because I love Rob Bodden.

00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:10.380
He did The Thing, and I think he did The Howling,

00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:12.579
the Joe Dante movie, which I really love. So

00:35:12.579 --> 00:35:14.239
Rob Bodden is one of my personal favorites. I

00:35:14.239 --> 00:35:15.940
think he did The Fly, the Cronenberg movie as

00:35:15.940 --> 00:35:18.579
well. So yeah, Rob Bodden is up there for me.

00:35:19.539 --> 00:35:23.079
Did everybody guess already? I think so. Okay.

00:35:24.059 --> 00:35:25.460
Well, that question might have been a little

00:35:25.460 --> 00:35:27.280
bit too obvious because it was Stan Winston,

00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:32.539
indeed. All right. The next one will be harder.

00:35:32.659 --> 00:35:35.840
That was just a warm -up. Just you wait. I think

00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:40.179
we got time for two more. Okay. So let me tally

00:35:40.179 --> 00:35:48.519
things up here. Okay. Well, you're tallying that

00:35:48.519 --> 00:35:50.500
up. I'll just say I knew that answer because

00:35:50.500 --> 00:35:53.699
I remember like even as an 11 year old or however

00:35:53.699 --> 00:35:56.920
old I was when Congo came out, I was like enough

00:35:56.920 --> 00:36:00.019
of a dork that I knew that Stan Winston had done

00:36:00.019 --> 00:36:03.349
the effects on. Jurassic Park and Terminator

00:36:03.349 --> 00:36:05.369
2, so I was like, oh, Congo's gonna be awesome.

00:36:06.110 --> 00:36:08.650
And then it was not as good as those movies.

00:36:09.309 --> 00:36:12.809
Not quite awesome. You were wearing a Rick Baker

00:36:12.809 --> 00:36:15.030
t -shirt while standing in line at 11 years old.

00:36:15.429 --> 00:36:20.929
Yeah, Stan Winston. Alright, I believe everyone

00:36:20.929 --> 00:36:27.469
is on the board. On top of the leaderboard with

00:36:27.469 --> 00:36:34.960
two points each. Frank Olson, and Sean Pryor.

00:36:38.019 --> 00:36:41.920
Nice. You sure about that? Yeah, I should only

00:36:41.920 --> 00:36:44.780
have one point. I said Phil Tippett for question

00:36:44.780 --> 00:36:48.559
two, and then the answer was Stan Wilson. Sean

00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:52.820
Childers should have two points. Yes. I would

00:36:52.820 --> 00:36:56.139
like to give half a point to Sean Pryor for stepping

00:36:56.139 --> 00:36:59.699
in on that. Look, man, I can't be out here cheating,

00:36:59.820 --> 00:37:04.519
man. Times is hard in the boulevard. Your integrity

00:37:04.519 --> 00:37:11.659
is an inspiration. Thank you. Okay. All right.

00:37:12.679 --> 00:37:17.539
Frank Olson and Sean Childers. All right. My

00:37:17.539 --> 00:37:22.599
next question is a Godzilla question. So this

00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:26.920
is it, everybody. Which of these featured on

00:37:26.920 --> 00:37:33.199
season five of Camp Kaiju does not feature Godzilla

00:37:33.199 --> 00:37:38.139
in the movie? So I'm going to say three titles.

00:37:38.199 --> 00:37:43.519
Two of them have Godzilla in the film. One of

00:37:43.519 --> 00:37:47.559
these movies does not. This is so easy. No pressure.

00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:56.110
Invasion of Astro Monster. Eber a Horror of the

00:37:56.110 --> 00:38:05.130
Deep or Gappa the Trifibian Monster? I'll give

00:38:05.130 --> 00:38:07.989
you a harder one next time. I feel like it should

00:38:07.989 --> 00:38:09.869
be super easy, but now I'm kind of doubting myself.

00:38:10.550 --> 00:38:15.530
What was that last one again? Gappa the Trifibian

00:38:15.530 --> 00:38:21.550
Monster. Yo, I'm gonna say Gaffa Gaffa. Gaffa

00:38:21.550 --> 00:38:25.809
Gaffa. Okay, great. Everyone gets a free point.

00:38:26.050 --> 00:38:31.170
I'm too nice. I haven't watched any of those.

00:38:34.909 --> 00:38:39.710
That was also just a warm up. All right, Matt,

00:38:39.849 --> 00:38:42.250
though, you're going to give us a hard one. Okay.

00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:49.440
All right, I feel like this is a little bit harder,

00:38:49.539 --> 00:38:53.719
and it also pays homage to Ray Harryhausen, one

00:38:53.719 --> 00:38:56.500
of the legends of visual effects. I guess that's

00:38:56.500 --> 00:38:59.139
my theme that I'm running with tonight. But my

00:38:59.139 --> 00:39:01.440
question is about 20 million miles to Earth,

00:39:01.619 --> 00:39:04.039
but it also refers to other Harryhausen movies

00:39:04.039 --> 00:39:07.360
as well. The question is, what was the name of

00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:10.760
the cinematographic process that Ray Harryhausen

00:39:10.760 --> 00:39:13.360
invented that revolutionized the interaction

00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:17.179
of background, foreground, and live actors when

00:39:17.179 --> 00:39:21.460
using stop -motion animation? Is it A, Animatrix,

00:39:21.739 --> 00:39:28.579
B, Projectivision, C, Clayvistamax, or D, Dynamation?

00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:34.659
Can you say all those slower and in a lower voice,

00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:40.500
please? Whoa, I'll try. Tricks. I sort of have

00:39:40.500 --> 00:39:42.260
a scratchy throat, so I don't know if I can,

00:39:42.440 --> 00:39:44.980
or you would think I'd be able to, but okay.

00:39:47.429 --> 00:39:55.789
A. Animatrix. B. Projectivision. C. Clayvistamax.

00:39:56.769 --> 00:40:04.530
D. Dynamation. I feel like Dynamation sounds

00:40:04.530 --> 00:40:07.409
the least made up. So that's going to be my answer.

00:40:07.670 --> 00:40:09.570
I don't know the answer, but that's going to

00:40:09.570 --> 00:40:17.230
be my guess. Dynamation. I want to go Animatrix

00:40:17.230 --> 00:40:20.650
just because I love that series of films, but

00:40:20.650 --> 00:40:23.510
it's going to be Dynomation. What were the other

00:40:23.510 --> 00:40:26.289
options again? I already forgot. There's Dynomation.

00:40:26.349 --> 00:40:31.090
What were they? There's Animatrix, Projective

00:40:31.090 --> 00:40:34.190
Vision, Dynomation, and there's one other one.

00:40:34.369 --> 00:40:38.150
Clay Vistamax is the other one. Thank you for

00:40:38.150 --> 00:40:40.030
remembering those, Sean. I'm impressed. Oh, no,

00:40:40.130 --> 00:40:44.679
no. I wrote it down. I wrote it down. This can

00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:47.360
barely hold anything anymore. So I wrote it down.

00:40:49.699 --> 00:40:52.519
I'm like, I'm, I'm, I'm like trying to decide

00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:56.340
between project division or dynamation. Project

00:40:56.340 --> 00:40:58.699
division sounds a little too generic. That sounds

00:40:58.699 --> 00:41:00.460
like something Magnavox would have used in the

00:41:00.460 --> 00:41:02.639
seventies. So I'm going to go with dynamotion

00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:06.719
too. Yeah. I'm just going to follow suit just

00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:08.340
because I haven't really even heard of anything

00:41:08.340 --> 00:41:12.030
else. We would have heard about these other things

00:41:12.030 --> 00:41:19.369
at some point. That makes sense. Yeah. I think

00:41:19.369 --> 00:41:21.170
everybody guessed, right? Was that everybody?

00:41:22.869 --> 00:41:24.849
Once again, pretty much everybody gets it right.

00:41:24.929 --> 00:41:26.949
I think everybody does. The problem is, Matt,

00:41:27.090 --> 00:41:31.449
we have a room full of kaiju experts here. Yeah.

00:41:32.449 --> 00:41:37.050
Yeah. I mean, I'm fine. I accept your challenge,

00:41:37.269 --> 00:41:43.590
Fred. I have two questions. The last two that

00:41:43.590 --> 00:41:49.650
are related to the actual show with some of our

00:41:49.650 --> 00:41:51.929
data, if you will. But it's still around the

00:41:51.929 --> 00:41:56.750
titles and things. So my question is, which decade

00:41:56.750 --> 00:42:01.840
was most represented? Meaning we chose X number

00:42:01.840 --> 00:42:04.780
of movies from the 1980s, X number of movies

00:42:04.780 --> 00:42:11.000
from the 1950s. Which decade? I don't think that's

00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:15.480
a good spot. On Camp Kaiju Season 5. Why don't

00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:17.719
you lay this way? Come on. Lay back this way.

00:42:20.619 --> 00:42:24.539
What? I'm going to say... I'm sorry. Go ahead,

00:42:24.559 --> 00:42:26.599
Miss Joders. The floor is yours, sir. The floor

00:42:26.599 --> 00:42:28.760
is yours. I was going to say, I'm going to jump

00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:33.519
in and do the 70s. Damn it. You took my answer.

00:42:34.179 --> 00:42:37.659
Share it with me. I will share it with you. Yes,

00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:40.460
I will share it with you. I, too, select the

00:42:40.460 --> 00:42:45.260
70s. Okay. Afros and bell bottoms and monsters,

00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:49.880
baby. Let's go. I really don't know, but I'm

00:42:49.880 --> 00:42:57.289
going to guess the 90s. That's a good guess.

00:42:59.489 --> 00:43:02.250
I'm just thinking like robot jacks, the addiction

00:43:02.250 --> 00:43:06.309
species. See, I was pulling 90s at first, but

00:43:06.309 --> 00:43:07.630
then I'm like, you know what? No, that sounds

00:43:07.630 --> 00:43:10.789
too easy. It's got to be 70s. Yeah, it might

00:43:10.789 --> 00:43:16.570
be. I really don't know. I feel like I should

00:43:16.570 --> 00:43:18.250
know, but I don't. So I'm still going to guess

00:43:18.250 --> 00:43:20.599
if that's all right. I would say the 50s, because

00:43:20.599 --> 00:43:22.559
I was thinking like Invaders from Mars, Beast

00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:25.519
from 20 ,000 Fathoms, 20 Million Miles to Earth,

00:43:25.619 --> 00:43:27.780
and a couple of the Kaiju movies. So I'm going

00:43:27.780 --> 00:43:34.480
to throw out the 1950s. Okay. I was thinking

00:43:34.480 --> 00:43:36.860
along the same lines as Matt. I think we just

00:43:36.860 --> 00:43:41.880
barely, there might be more from the 50s. It's

00:43:41.880 --> 00:43:47.630
close. Yeah. Okay. Beth? It was only on the episodes

00:43:47.630 --> 00:43:50.190
in the 60s. So I want to say the 60s, but no,

00:43:50.269 --> 00:43:52.230
I'm going to say the 90s. I'm going to say you

00:43:52.230 --> 00:44:00.750
did more in the 90s. Oh, wow. All right. I loved

00:44:00.750 --> 00:44:06.369
everyone's thought processes. But we actually

00:44:06.369 --> 00:44:12.710
had two decades tied at five apiece. The 1980s.

00:44:13.449 --> 00:44:21.260
Nobody guessed. And the 1990s. Yes. I'm just

00:44:21.260 --> 00:44:22.780
having a hard time breathing. It has nothing

00:44:22.780 --> 00:44:30.159
to do with me being in shock. There were four

00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:35.860
movies featured from both the 1970s and the 1960s.

00:44:36.340 --> 00:44:41.460
Big kaiju decades. The 60s especially. So fair

00:44:41.460 --> 00:44:46.059
share there. The 1950s also we had four movies

00:44:46.059 --> 00:44:51.239
from as well. So not a bad guess for our 50s

00:44:51.239 --> 00:44:55.900
guests here. And we had one movie from the 2010s,

00:44:55.900 --> 00:44:58.860
one movie from the 1930s, one movie from the

00:44:58.860 --> 00:45:04.440
1920s. And that's it. I can't think of any 80s

00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:06.579
movies we talked about. Company of Wolves, because

00:45:06.579 --> 00:45:11.039
that was like 89, right? 84. Okay. Robot Jocks.

00:45:11.610 --> 00:45:15.050
It's technically a 1989 release. It had its premiere

00:45:15.050 --> 00:45:18.909
in 89, but it was like released, released the

00:45:18.909 --> 00:45:23.409
next year. I counted it in the 1980s. That's

00:45:23.409 --> 00:45:27.190
fair. I'll have to look into the other ones on

00:45:27.190 --> 00:45:29.650
my own because I have a bad memory. They're not

00:45:29.650 --> 00:45:30.809
coming to me. But that's all right. That's a

00:45:30.809 --> 00:45:34.309
different topic. Yeah. All right. Last one I

00:45:34.309 --> 00:45:37.650
got for you. Folks, which of the following films?

00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:41.559
has the highest average rating on Letterboxd?

00:45:41.699 --> 00:45:54.960
Ooh. Was it Space Amoeba, King Kong Lives, or

00:45:54.960 --> 00:46:01.260
Tusk? My God. I'm going to jump in on that one

00:46:01.260 --> 00:46:04.079
just because I was part of that, but I think

00:46:04.079 --> 00:46:06.199
Tusk has had a resurgence ever since it became

00:46:06.199 --> 00:46:09.579
available widely. I'm going to second that. I'm

00:46:09.579 --> 00:46:14.000
going to say Tusk just by like soul, like soul

00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:16.360
engagement and popularity. I just don't think

00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:18.340
anyone has seen the other two. Like, I mean,

00:46:18.360 --> 00:46:20.519
unless they're like in our community, more people

00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:26.780
have seen Tusk. Okay. I too will say Tusk because

00:46:26.780 --> 00:46:29.679
for as much as I want the whole world to watch

00:46:29.679 --> 00:46:33.880
Space Amoeba at least once, that is yet to happen.

00:46:34.559 --> 00:46:37.380
We have not come together as a collective. And

00:46:37.380 --> 00:46:40.820
watched it as a whole. But that's okay. One day

00:46:40.820 --> 00:46:43.860
it will happen. But until then. Tusk. Because

00:46:43.860 --> 00:46:48.219
that's a weird ass movie. Yeah I feel like. I'm

00:46:48.219 --> 00:46:50.920
also going to say Tusk. Just because that's the

00:46:50.920 --> 00:46:53.599
one of those three. That really has a cult following.

00:46:54.019 --> 00:46:56.659
Whereas the others I don't think really do. So

00:46:56.659 --> 00:46:59.900
yeah I'll say Tusk. You say cult following. And

00:46:59.900 --> 00:47:01.719
I've got a bunch of walrus shirts right now.

00:47:01.860 --> 00:47:07.260
So just saying. Alright. I was terrified. What

00:47:07.260 --> 00:47:09.699
do you think, Don? I think I'm going to have

00:47:09.699 --> 00:47:12.059
to go with the Tusk as well, just because it's

00:47:12.059 --> 00:47:16.079
the most recent. Like I said, it's got a lot

00:47:16.079 --> 00:47:19.880
of word of mouth, a lot of people talking about

00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:25.360
it, and the people who are involved. Yeah, I

00:47:25.360 --> 00:47:30.590
think being newest and... people talking about

00:47:30.590 --> 00:47:32.510
it, I'd have to go with that one. And who doesn't

00:47:32.510 --> 00:47:35.449
like watching Justin Long get abused? It has

00:47:35.449 --> 00:47:37.409
just become a thing that we're all enjoying.

00:47:37.650 --> 00:47:39.650
Every Justin Long film, we're like, alright,

00:47:39.909 --> 00:47:44.949
let's go beat him up. Barbarian. Matt, do you

00:47:44.949 --> 00:47:47.210
have a thought? Do you know? If you know, don't

00:47:47.210 --> 00:47:50.650
take a guess. I don't know for sure. I do think

00:47:50.650 --> 00:47:54.079
Tusk is probably the right answer. But... I'm

00:47:54.079 --> 00:47:55.639
just going to shout out my own favorite of those

00:47:55.639 --> 00:47:57.559
three and say Space Amoeba because I love that

00:47:57.559 --> 00:47:59.440
movie and I love that title. I think I'm wrong,

00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:02.280
but I'm still going to say it. Well, everybody,

00:48:02.659 --> 00:48:09.760
your super easygoing host, Vincent Hannum, has

00:48:09.760 --> 00:48:15.699
hobbled you all. Tusk is wrong. We're all wrong.

00:48:17.659 --> 00:48:23.630
I can see why. Space Amoeba has the average highest

00:48:23.630 --> 00:48:29.710
rating. Three out of five. Absolutely shocking.

00:48:29.750 --> 00:48:32.670
I guess more people have watched it. Good for

00:48:32.670 --> 00:48:37.110
them. Or those who have seen it, just like consistently

00:48:37.110 --> 00:48:41.050
rated a three. Because I'll tell you, Tusk, its

00:48:41.050 --> 00:48:45.269
average rating is 2 .4. That makes sense. But

00:48:45.269 --> 00:48:48.849
if you look at the graph... It's all over the

00:48:48.849 --> 00:48:52.210
place. There's a bunch at like, I gave it four

00:48:52.210 --> 00:48:54.670
stars. Matt, you gave it two stars. So like,

00:48:54.690 --> 00:48:56.969
that's what we're talking about with Tusk. Yeah.

00:48:58.829 --> 00:49:01.409
And also with Space Amoeba, I did create like

00:49:01.409 --> 00:49:03.670
a hundred fake Letterboxd accounts and give that

00:49:03.670 --> 00:49:05.989
movie five stars over and over again. So that

00:49:05.989 --> 00:49:09.730
might be why. I confess. That's playing the long

00:49:09.730 --> 00:49:14.869
game. Yep. That's what I spend my time on. And

00:49:14.869 --> 00:49:19.590
King Kong Lives has a 2 .2. So that's the lowest

00:49:19.590 --> 00:49:23.150
of the three. Yeah, there you go. Very interesting.

00:49:24.230 --> 00:49:27.010
If I do say so myself. And yes, we're here to

00:49:27.010 --> 00:49:31.670
champion Space Amoeba. Among other movies, of

00:49:31.670 --> 00:49:35.590
course. All right. Well, let me tally those up.

00:49:35.630 --> 00:49:37.750
Talk amongst yourselves. And then in a minute,

00:49:37.869 --> 00:49:42.250
me and Matt will talk about the next season.

00:49:42.860 --> 00:49:45.739
Have either of you, anybody in here seen the

00:49:45.739 --> 00:49:50.880
Halloween VHS movie recently? No, it's not this

00:49:50.880 --> 00:49:53.639
last one, but the one before. Justin Long actually

00:49:53.639 --> 00:49:57.119
did his own version of Tusk for that particular

00:49:57.119 --> 00:49:59.539
movie. And it's just like people being turned

00:49:59.539 --> 00:50:07.199
into pets. It's wild. Ain't gonna happen. Not

00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:10.739
in this house. Yeah, he made an appearance in

00:50:10.739 --> 00:50:13.320
Weapons, and I was like, oh, what's gonna happen?

00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:15.139
Are we gonna watch him? But he makes it through

00:50:15.139 --> 00:50:21.199
Weapons unscathed. Unscathed. Mm -hmm. Hey. Oh,

00:50:21.239 --> 00:50:22.980
is he one of the... He's one of, like, the parents

00:50:22.980 --> 00:50:24.920
of the school children in Weapons, right? I forgot

00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:27.280
about that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's in it

00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:29.599
just very briefly. That's right. I totally forgot

00:50:29.599 --> 00:50:30.599
about that, too. Well, yeah, we forgot, because

00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:32.500
he wasn't, like, murdered and ripped apart. Yep.

00:50:34.589 --> 00:50:36.929
Yeah, it's when Josh Brolin is going around to

00:50:36.929 --> 00:50:39.070
the different houses. Yeah, I do remember that

00:50:39.070 --> 00:50:41.190
now. The one movie where Justin Long doesn't

00:50:41.190 --> 00:50:46.190
die. Yeah. I also love, well, I don't want to

00:50:46.190 --> 00:50:48.690
give away any spoilers, but Drag Me to Hell is

00:50:48.690 --> 00:50:51.750
a good movie. It's a very campy, fun movie. And

00:50:51.750 --> 00:50:53.309
Justin Long's a lot of fun in that one, too.

00:50:53.369 --> 00:50:55.110
Check it out if you haven't seen that. I love

00:50:55.110 --> 00:50:56.730
that movie, especially with the talking goat

00:50:56.730 --> 00:51:00.489
head. Yeah, yeah. That whole seance scene is

00:51:00.489 --> 00:51:03.960
really amazing. I've only seen it. the once when

00:51:03.960 --> 00:51:07.559
it came out and it's one of those that I've always

00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:10.719
remembered loving. I had such a great time at

00:51:10.719 --> 00:51:13.619
the theater. Sam Raimi doing his Evil Dead bit

00:51:13.619 --> 00:51:18.539
just in a slightly different format. Yeah. Really

00:51:18.539 --> 00:51:22.119
great ending to that movie too. Have you guys

00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:24.400
ever done the Evil Dead movies on the podcast?

00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:28.300
I don't think we have. It's a bit of a blind

00:51:28.300 --> 00:51:31.039
spot. What we did do, Matt, we did do an episode

00:51:31.039 --> 00:51:36.559
on the most recent one. Yeah. Evil Dead. I don't

00:51:36.559 --> 00:51:39.539
even remember the name of it. Yeah, that was

00:51:39.539 --> 00:51:43.460
it. Yeah. Yeah. Which was all right. It had its

00:51:43.460 --> 00:51:46.639
moments. Yeah. Not as good as the original trilogy,

00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:48.599
though. I really love, especially the first two

00:51:48.599 --> 00:51:52.019
Evil Dead movies. Yeah. Hopefully we'll talk

00:51:52.019 --> 00:51:55.510
about those someday. You got to at some point.

00:51:55.630 --> 00:51:58.710
I just feel like... And Army of Darkness, does

00:51:58.710 --> 00:52:02.349
that stand the test of time? We love it, but

00:52:02.349 --> 00:52:06.010
it's the type of movie I'd love to dig into a

00:52:06.010 --> 00:52:09.230
little bit more critically. Yeah, I need to rewatch

00:52:09.230 --> 00:52:10.469
them. I almost feel like these movies at this

00:52:10.469 --> 00:52:13.150
point are canon. You know what I mean? They've

00:52:13.150 --> 00:52:16.650
been around long enough. Regardless, they're

00:52:16.650 --> 00:52:19.989
just now canon within film history. So, yeah.

00:52:21.710 --> 00:52:27.199
Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, you're all dying to know.

00:52:27.420 --> 00:52:32.639
Frank, you won the game. Congratulations. Hooray.

00:52:33.599 --> 00:52:40.800
With five points. Sean Childers and Beth, you

00:52:40.800 --> 00:52:45.460
had four points each. And then Sean Pryor and

00:52:45.460 --> 00:52:48.500
Don, you had three points each. A pretty good

00:52:48.500 --> 00:52:52.349
showing by all. yeah i just want to say the only

00:52:52.349 --> 00:52:54.250
answer i knew for sure was that stan winston

00:52:54.250 --> 00:53:01.510
congo one good guesser i guess your uh boyhood

00:53:01.510 --> 00:53:05.349
love for congo uh came through after all that's

00:53:05.349 --> 00:53:07.250
that's the first movie i ever saw in theaters

00:53:07.250 --> 00:53:10.969
like without my maybe not without my parents

00:53:10.969 --> 00:53:14.849
but without like an adult so even though it's

00:53:14.849 --> 00:53:18.650
not a good movie like I don't know. I guess that's

00:53:18.650 --> 00:53:22.730
sort of an important place in my life. Nostalgia

00:53:22.730 --> 00:53:26.650
value. Yeah. Milestone. Yeah. You remember those

00:53:26.650 --> 00:53:29.090
movies? Yeah. I would put that in the guilty

00:53:29.090 --> 00:53:31.110
pleasure category, by the way, Congo. There are

00:53:31.110 --> 00:53:33.530
some things I like about that one. Just want

00:53:33.530 --> 00:53:36.170
to say. Herkimer Homolka, what a great character

00:53:36.170 --> 00:53:39.849
name. Best character name of all time. All right,

00:53:39.869 --> 00:53:42.329
Matt, you got any other guilty pleasures coming

00:53:42.329 --> 00:53:46.260
up in 2026? Are you ready to... I mean, I can

00:53:46.260 --> 00:53:49.719
go first, but are you ready to reveal these to

00:53:49.719 --> 00:53:52.139
our listeners? I'm ready. I have a list of about

00:53:52.139 --> 00:53:54.420
10, so I have some backups just in case you take

00:53:54.420 --> 00:53:57.500
any of mine. Okay, well, I hope you don't take

00:53:57.500 --> 00:54:00.320
any of mine. All right. Listeners out there,

00:54:00.340 --> 00:54:02.099
me and Matt have not discussed these at all.

00:54:02.239 --> 00:54:08.380
This is a delightful surprise. Okay, so kicking

00:54:08.380 --> 00:54:18.130
us off in January 2026 is... Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

00:54:18.130 --> 00:54:25.309
2 from 1993. Yep, Heisei era that Matt and I

00:54:25.309 --> 00:54:29.050
have been steadily working our way through over

00:54:29.050 --> 00:54:34.010
the course of this podcast. We ended up committing

00:54:34.010 --> 00:54:37.949
to going through that era sequentially, which

00:54:37.949 --> 00:54:40.929
I think it makes a lot of sense to do that. So

00:54:40.929 --> 00:54:44.019
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 2. Baby Godzilla,

00:54:44.219 --> 00:54:48.679
Godzilla Jr. is in it. Rodan is in it. It's a

00:54:48.679 --> 00:54:53.579
fun action sci -fi fantasy movie, really. Very

00:54:53.579 --> 00:54:57.840
excited. I'm also very excited. The third title

00:54:57.840 --> 00:55:00.500
on my list was Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 2.

00:55:00.659 --> 00:55:02.659
So right off the bat, you took one of mine. That's

00:55:02.659 --> 00:55:05.199
great. I love it. Very excited to talk about

00:55:05.199 --> 00:55:07.179
it. Like you said, I like everything that we've

00:55:07.179 --> 00:55:09.679
watched from the Heisei era so far. So hopefully

00:55:09.679 --> 00:55:13.739
we can keep that going. All right, maybe my first

00:55:13.739 --> 00:55:19.039
choice then. Not a Godzilla movie, but also a

00:55:19.039 --> 00:55:22.940
certain kind of classic studio monster movie.

00:55:23.199 --> 00:55:26.119
I'm going to say The Abominable Snowman of the

00:55:26.119 --> 00:55:29.179
Himalayas from 1957. This is a Hammer Horror

00:55:29.179 --> 00:55:33.250
movie. Classic British studio. I've never seen

00:55:33.250 --> 00:55:34.530
this movie, but it's supposed to be one of their

00:55:34.530 --> 00:55:37.250
best. I've read that it's very underrated. It

00:55:37.250 --> 00:55:40.269
stars Peter Cushing, directed by Val Guest, who's

00:55:40.269 --> 00:55:44.170
kind of an underrated horror director. Yeah,

00:55:44.210 --> 00:55:46.530
excited to watch it. Peter Cushing, that's all

00:55:46.530 --> 00:55:49.309
you had to say. That's all you had to say. Legend,

00:55:49.510 --> 00:55:52.409
yep. Yeah, he's awesome. And that's going to

00:55:52.409 --> 00:55:59.759
be our first Hammer feature on the podcast. Yeah,

00:55:59.759 --> 00:56:02.079
we've been meaning to bring a Hammer film here

00:56:02.079 --> 00:56:04.880
for a while. And, you know, the Hammer stuff

00:56:04.880 --> 00:56:06.380
that I've seen is kind of hit or miss, I would

00:56:06.380 --> 00:56:08.239
say, so far. But, like, the good stuff is really

00:56:08.239 --> 00:56:10.579
good and a lot of fun. So looking forward to

00:56:10.579 --> 00:56:13.360
this one. The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas.

00:56:14.659 --> 00:56:16.360
Honestly, I've never even heard of it. I thought

00:56:16.360 --> 00:56:18.559
you'd go with Frankenstein or Dracula or something,

00:56:18.659 --> 00:56:21.900
but heck yeah. Trying to pick an under -the -radar

00:56:21.900 --> 00:56:24.179
one. And it's, like, pretty easy to find streaming.

00:56:24.440 --> 00:56:27.440
So, you know. Awesome. I think it came into play

00:56:27.440 --> 00:56:32.659
as well. All right. Well, in February, we are

00:56:32.659 --> 00:56:36.219
going to get our Dracula on, our Blackula on

00:56:36.219 --> 00:56:43.039
from 1972. Blackula, Blaxploitation. And this

00:56:43.039 --> 00:56:49.639
actually wasn't really my pick. I came to this

00:56:49.639 --> 00:56:54.280
with the help of Sean Pryor. Sean, if you want

00:56:54.280 --> 00:56:57.650
to, do you want to talk about... why you chose

00:56:57.650 --> 00:57:02.849
this movie i i chose this movie um because like

00:57:02.849 --> 00:57:05.150
it's you know it takes place during the blaxploitation

00:57:05.150 --> 00:57:07.750
era and like you know the blaxploitation era

00:57:07.750 --> 00:57:10.150
has its good films it's bad films it's positive

00:57:10.150 --> 00:57:14.449
qualities as well as it's negative however blackula

00:57:14.449 --> 00:57:19.090
fascinates me because it's a film that has no

00:57:19.090 --> 00:57:22.409
right to be as good as it is Um, and like, and

00:57:22.409 --> 00:57:25.690
a lot of that is due to, um, the actor who played

00:57:25.690 --> 00:57:28.949
Blackula, his name, um, his name is slipping

00:57:28.949 --> 00:57:31.090
my mind right now, but he also played the king

00:57:31.090 --> 00:57:35.429
of cartoons in a Peewee's playhouse. Okay. And

00:57:35.429 --> 00:57:37.849
so, um, but like, he took like, you know, he

00:57:37.849 --> 00:57:39.949
went to the director and was like, look, we need

00:57:39.949 --> 00:57:42.389
to change some things about the character is,

00:57:42.449 --> 00:57:44.690
you know, Blackula's origin and all these other

00:57:44.690 --> 00:57:48.230
things. And there's so many like really cool

00:57:48.230 --> 00:57:50.690
things that I personally feel like. With me,

00:57:50.710 --> 00:57:53.010
I always think about what could have been, because

00:57:53.010 --> 00:57:55.789
like you see like a young Denise Nicholas, who

00:57:55.789 --> 00:57:58.769
honestly should have been like, you know, a primetime

00:57:58.769 --> 00:58:01.809
player. She's still like, even if she wasn't

00:58:01.809 --> 00:58:04.369
a primetime player, she still could have been

00:58:04.369 --> 00:58:07.840
a scream queen if she wanted that. And so, like,

00:58:07.900 --> 00:58:10.639
you know, what she does is great. There's another

00:58:10.639 --> 00:58:14.519
actor, like, Thalmas Rosala, I believe his name

00:58:14.519 --> 00:58:17.579
is. Like, he could have had his own series of,

00:58:17.599 --> 00:58:21.699
like, Black Van Helsing -style movies chasing

00:58:21.699 --> 00:58:24.760
down, you know, monsters and vampires and stuff.

00:58:24.920 --> 00:58:27.099
Like, there are really cool things. And, yes,

00:58:27.239 --> 00:58:30.639
there's moments and there's lulls. But, like,

00:58:30.800 --> 00:58:33.960
they did a lot for me personally. They did a

00:58:33.960 --> 00:58:37.960
lot with little to nothing. And so it's just

00:58:37.960 --> 00:58:39.659
a movie that I like to share with everybody.

00:58:39.980 --> 00:58:42.159
There's a couple of places where it gets a little

00:58:42.159 --> 00:58:44.820
problematic because it's the 70s. We're still

00:58:44.820 --> 00:58:47.039
learning certain languages. We're still saying

00:58:47.039 --> 00:58:50.420
things we shouldn't say. But like but on a whole,

00:58:50.639 --> 00:58:54.940
I simply love that movie. I've loved it since

00:58:54.940 --> 00:58:57.219
I was a child. And and I don't watch a lot of

00:58:57.219 --> 00:59:01.179
horror. Like I get scared very easily. But like

00:59:01.179 --> 00:59:03.719
I watched that as a kid with my mother when I

00:59:03.719 --> 00:59:07.849
was six. On just regular television. And I was

00:59:07.849 --> 00:59:12.389
just captivated by it. So yeah. Those are my

00:59:12.389 --> 00:59:16.769
reasons. That's so great Sean. And I've always

00:59:16.769 --> 00:59:19.949
heard of Blackula. I've never seen it. So I'm

00:59:19.949 --> 00:59:24.230
very eager. And thrilled to dig into it. Yes

00:59:24.230 --> 00:59:27.250
and remember. The tagline for that film is. His

00:59:27.250 --> 00:59:35.440
bite was out of sight. Perfect. Amazing. I'm

00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:36.820
embarrassed to say I've never seen that movie.

00:59:36.920 --> 00:59:38.719
So thank you, Sean and Vincent, for bringing

00:59:38.719 --> 00:59:44.199
that. I'm very excited to watch that. I like

00:59:44.199 --> 00:59:45.619
it when you go first, Vincent, because I can

00:59:45.619 --> 00:59:47.320
make kind of like double features a little bit

00:59:47.320 --> 00:59:49.340
in my mind, you know, when I say the other follow

00:59:49.340 --> 00:59:52.480
-up title. So one of the movies on my list is

00:59:52.480 --> 00:59:55.889
called Alucarda. It's a Mexican horror film from

00:59:55.889 --> 00:59:59.190
1977. Also, like, it's basically a Mexican version

00:59:59.190 --> 01:00:02.110
of Dracula. Directed by who is supposed to be

01:00:02.110 --> 01:00:04.150
one of the best Mexican horror directors of all

01:00:04.150 --> 01:00:08.610
time, Juan Lopez Moctezuma. Yeah, I've never

01:00:08.610 --> 01:00:10.969
seen it before. Like, from the stills that I've

01:00:10.969 --> 01:00:14.969
seen, it looks beautiful and fantastic. And,

01:00:15.070 --> 01:00:16.630
yeah, I feel like it would pair well, hopefully,

01:00:16.670 --> 01:00:19.750
with Blackula. So Alucarda is my pick for February.

01:00:21.289 --> 01:00:25.789
Alucarda. Yeah. Spanish language, I'm assuming.

01:00:26.469 --> 01:00:29.250
Yes. Yeah. But also like, you know, you can find

01:00:29.250 --> 01:00:31.610
it streaming. I made sure that you can like locate

01:00:31.610 --> 01:00:34.269
it somehow. So yeah, but it's kind of an under

01:00:34.269 --> 01:00:35.949
the radar title. And I was like, I want to choose

01:00:35.949 --> 01:00:38.349
a Mexican horror movie. And this was like on

01:00:38.349 --> 01:00:40.730
the list of the most underrated. So we'll see.

01:00:40.769 --> 01:00:46.550
Right on. Yeah. That's a good, that it's again,

01:00:46.630 --> 01:00:50.469
1970s fascinating double feature. I will have

01:00:50.469 --> 01:00:53.190
to watch those back to back. Oh, yeah. But then

01:00:53.190 --> 01:00:57.710
what a great segue, because following that, I'm

01:00:57.710 --> 01:01:02.110
bringing... It's a newer kaiju movie from 2011.

01:01:03.230 --> 01:01:06.309
Can anyone take a guess? And it's in Norwegian.

01:01:06.369 --> 01:01:10.050
It's a Norwegian film. Beth, do you know it?

01:01:10.650 --> 01:01:14.949
What is it, like Troll or Troll Hunter? Troll

01:01:14.949 --> 01:01:20.369
Hunter. Yeah. I saw it once when it came out,

01:01:20.389 --> 01:01:23.679
and... I haven't seen it since, so I'm eager

01:01:23.679 --> 01:01:25.239
to get back to it. I remember the special effects

01:01:25.239 --> 01:01:29.300
being really good, surprisingly good, for this

01:01:29.300 --> 01:01:32.739
foreign Norwegian movie about a giant troll and

01:01:32.739 --> 01:01:36.199
troll hunters. And it's contemporary modern setting

01:01:36.199 --> 01:01:40.519
as they travel around Scandinavia searching for

01:01:40.519 --> 01:01:43.699
trolls. I've always wanted to watch that because

01:01:43.699 --> 01:01:45.659
I ended up running a movie called Headhunter,

01:01:45.760 --> 01:01:49.139
completely different. But yeah, definitely wanted

01:01:49.139 --> 01:01:52.690
to watch that one. Yeah, I've always wanted to

01:01:52.690 --> 01:01:57.449
see Troll Hunter 2. Thank you, Vincent. I feel

01:01:57.449 --> 01:01:59.690
like we're kind of doing a little global tour

01:01:59.690 --> 01:02:01.909
here. I don't know if that was unintentional

01:02:01.909 --> 01:02:05.570
or not. So I chose an English movie and then

01:02:05.570 --> 01:02:07.789
a Mexican movie. And then I think to go along

01:02:07.789 --> 01:02:11.130
with Troll Hunter, I'll choose another foreign

01:02:11.130 --> 01:02:14.869
movie. At Midnight, I'll Take Your Soul. which

01:02:14.869 --> 01:02:17.869
is a Brazilian movie from 1964. We actually talked

01:02:17.869 --> 01:02:20.190
about this recently because this was on our list

01:02:20.190 --> 01:02:22.190
of, like, horror movies made around this time

01:02:22.190 --> 01:02:23.949
in horror history, and I had seen this a long

01:02:23.949 --> 01:02:25.829
time ago back in college and really loved it.

01:02:25.909 --> 01:02:28.730
It's about this character named Coffin Joe, who

01:02:28.730 --> 01:02:30.730
sort of became this, like, legendary sort of

01:02:30.730 --> 01:02:32.909
folktale horror character in Brazilian cinema.

01:02:33.369 --> 01:02:36.489
And At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul was the first

01:02:36.489 --> 01:02:39.690
appearance of Coffin Joe, and he plays an undertaker

01:02:39.690 --> 01:02:42.670
on a quest to achieve immortality. obviously

01:02:42.670 --> 01:02:47.369
in very gruesome and monstrous ways. All right.

01:02:50.070 --> 01:02:53.389
I'm laughing just because I'm... I get so, you

01:02:53.389 --> 01:02:55.809
know, the anticipation already. I'm immediately

01:02:55.809 --> 01:02:57.809
making a list, seeing where I can watch these

01:02:57.809 --> 01:03:02.130
movies. It gets me through the years sometimes

01:03:02.130 --> 01:03:05.130
when I'm like, when I've got a list to go to.

01:03:06.429 --> 01:03:10.539
Okay, man, I'm actually... And I'm doing... This

01:03:10.539 --> 01:03:12.199
is a good reminder to listeners out there. Our

01:03:12.199 --> 01:03:14.500
lists can change at any point in the year, depending

01:03:14.500 --> 01:03:17.539
on circumstances that come up, but I'm going

01:03:17.539 --> 01:03:23.099
to pick a movie. Another giant monster movie,

01:03:23.260 --> 01:03:28.880
maybe in the kaiju genre, but it is from 1957,

01:03:29.000 --> 01:03:36.199
and it is called The Black Scorpion, which features...

01:03:36.199 --> 01:03:38.139
It's actually set in Mexico, coincidentally.

01:03:38.889 --> 01:03:41.929
but it features stop motion effects by Willis

01:03:41.929 --> 01:03:46.050
O 'Brien. So late career Willis O 'Brien, the

01:03:46.050 --> 01:03:51.730
creator of King Kong, the mentor of Ray Harryhausen.

01:03:52.210 --> 01:03:55.829
So I think this movie has a lot of good, bad,

01:03:55.849 --> 01:04:00.389
and campy in it. But Matt, you're scared of spiders.

01:04:00.570 --> 01:04:02.349
Are you scared of scorpions? How do you feel

01:04:02.349 --> 01:04:05.829
about them? Scorpions don't really bother me

01:04:05.829 --> 01:04:08.340
too much, although I feel like... A giant one

01:04:08.340 --> 01:04:10.260
might be kind of a different story, so we'll

01:04:10.260 --> 01:04:12.199
see how that goes. They're pretty gross in this

01:04:12.199 --> 01:04:15.420
movie. It's like Willis O 'Brien went for it.

01:04:15.659 --> 01:04:17.579
Oh, man, he's trying to give little kids nightmares.

01:04:18.360 --> 01:04:20.420
A little bit. There's a little kid in it, too.

01:04:20.539 --> 01:04:23.440
So we have another kaiju movie with a little

01:04:23.440 --> 01:04:27.659
kid protagonist, but it's like 20 million miles

01:04:27.659 --> 01:04:31.420
to Earth -esque. Cool. Not too cutesy, but there's

01:04:31.420 --> 01:04:36.139
a kid in it. Nice. All right. Well, again, I

01:04:36.139 --> 01:04:38.260
feel like there's a great natural double feature

01:04:38.260 --> 01:04:41.159
that we can do. The first title on my list, I

01:04:41.159 --> 01:04:43.159
didn't want to say right away because I was worried

01:04:43.159 --> 01:04:45.579
that it might be on your list as well. And ideally,

01:04:45.599 --> 01:04:47.199
maybe we would have talked about it this past

01:04:47.199 --> 01:04:50.579
year in 2025, but it'll be a little bit belated.

01:04:50.679 --> 01:04:53.500
I'm going to choose The Lost World, also with

01:04:53.500 --> 01:04:58.239
effects by Willis O 'Brien from 1925. So it was

01:04:58.239 --> 01:05:01.239
the centennial of that movie this past year.

01:05:02.099 --> 01:05:04.599
You know, kind of the granddaddy of all dinosaur

01:05:04.599 --> 01:05:07.260
monster movies, pioneering stop motion animation.

01:05:07.559 --> 01:05:11.360
So we'll do Willis O 'Brien month. Amazing. I

01:05:11.360 --> 01:05:14.900
love that. And you know what? I just pulled the

01:05:14.900 --> 01:05:19.840
black scorpion out of my pocket. I read it the

01:05:19.840 --> 01:05:23.420
last second. Really? I was going to go with it

01:05:23.420 --> 01:05:28.460
came from outer space from 1953. I do love near

01:05:28.460 --> 01:05:30.820
and dear, but. But in the last second, something

01:05:30.820 --> 01:05:34.780
about giant scorpions was calling to me. I love

01:05:34.780 --> 01:05:36.300
that. So it's great. Willis O 'Brien. It was

01:05:36.300 --> 01:05:39.500
the ghost of Willis O 'Brien calling to me. Yeah.

01:05:40.019 --> 01:05:43.920
It's a sign. Willis O 'Brien month. All right.

01:05:45.219 --> 01:05:47.699
Well, after that, we're going to get back to

01:05:47.699 --> 01:05:52.320
some Japanese kaiju. God, a movie that I have

01:05:52.320 --> 01:05:56.139
wanted to bring for so long. It's not a Godzilla

01:05:56.139 --> 01:05:59.960
movie, but it's in a Shiro Honda film. The War

01:05:59.960 --> 01:06:05.619
of the Gargantuas. Dun, dun, dun. From 1966.

01:06:07.039 --> 01:06:09.320
Technically the sequel to Frankenstein Conquers

01:06:09.320 --> 01:06:11.280
the World, though you wouldn't know it. Yep.

01:06:11.400 --> 01:06:14.360
If only Nick Adams had been in it, but I'll save

01:06:14.360 --> 01:06:19.239
it for the podcast. There will be some impersonations,

01:06:19.239 --> 01:06:23.480
I know. The War of the Gargantuas. If you haven't

01:06:23.480 --> 01:06:27.079
seen it, you're in for a treat. I've heard you

01:06:27.079 --> 01:06:28.699
talk about it often. I'm very excited to watch

01:06:28.699 --> 01:06:31.199
that. I love Ishiro Honda. He can do no wrong

01:06:31.199 --> 01:06:34.130
by me. So I love that. I unfortunately don't

01:06:34.130 --> 01:06:36.030
really have any other Japanese kaiju movies on

01:06:36.030 --> 01:06:38.469
my list. Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 2 was the

01:06:38.469 --> 01:06:40.250
only one I had on my list, which probably should

01:06:40.250 --> 01:06:43.829
have had some backups. But I think I know what

01:06:43.829 --> 01:06:46.429
I'm going to choose for this month. We can have

01:06:46.429 --> 01:06:49.949
a War of the... theme, because I'm going to choose

01:06:49.949 --> 01:06:53.110
the original War of the Worlds from 1953. All

01:06:53.110 --> 01:06:55.849
right. The original film version of the H .G.

01:06:55.849 --> 01:06:58.889
Wells classic. All the clips and images that

01:06:58.889 --> 01:07:00.550
I've seen from that always look really beautiful

01:07:00.550 --> 01:07:02.789
and stylish and cool, old -fashioned. special

01:07:02.789 --> 01:07:05.190
effects, but I've never seen it all the way through,

01:07:05.329 --> 01:07:08.250
so excited to give that a chance. I was just

01:07:08.250 --> 01:07:11.849
thinking about that movie. That's fantastic coincidence,

01:07:12.369 --> 01:07:17.610
and I'm glad you didn't say the 2025 Ice Cube

01:07:17.610 --> 01:07:23.769
War of the Worlds. I am morbidly curious about

01:07:23.769 --> 01:07:26.329
that. Has anybody else seen it? No, no. Listen,

01:07:26.550 --> 01:07:31.230
listen. Listen to Sean. As a fellow black man.

01:07:31.690 --> 01:07:35.750
Let me tell you something that is without a shadow

01:07:35.750 --> 01:07:40.650
of a doubt. One of the worst like screen movies

01:07:40.650 --> 01:07:43.750
I have ever witnessed in my entire life. Okay.

01:07:43.789 --> 01:07:47.369
Because like that whole film is part of a certain

01:07:47.369 --> 01:07:50.469
genre where basically everything takes place

01:07:50.469 --> 01:07:54.289
on one screen. Okay. Or one area. All right.

01:07:54.369 --> 01:07:56.989
And so you just got ice cubes sitting in this

01:07:56.989 --> 01:07:59.659
room. you know, a special secret government room

01:07:59.659 --> 01:08:02.360
because he works for the government, you know,

01:08:02.360 --> 01:08:03.960
which I already automatically have a conflict

01:08:03.960 --> 01:08:05.800
with because I know the Ice Cube we have now

01:08:05.800 --> 01:08:07.619
is like the Ice Cube from the 1980s. That's the

01:08:07.619 --> 01:08:09.780
one I grew up on, you know, and I'm just like,

01:08:09.820 --> 01:08:12.820
you working for the government? Come on, Q. This

01:08:12.820 --> 01:08:15.519
don't work. No, but he knows everything about

01:08:15.519 --> 01:08:18.359
computers. He can even hack his daughter's refrigerator

01:08:18.359 --> 01:08:21.119
to find out what she's been eating and not eating

01:08:21.119 --> 01:08:23.880
because she's pregnant. Anyway, anytime something

01:08:23.880 --> 01:08:26.859
happens, there's an explosion or something. Ice

01:08:26.859 --> 01:08:29.220
Cube's making weird faces at the screen and he's

01:08:29.220 --> 01:08:31.359
always yelling. And I will not do my Ice Cube

01:08:31.359 --> 01:08:33.840
imitation on this podcast, but he's always yelling.

01:08:33.840 --> 01:08:36.760
But the funniest part. And if you ever watch

01:08:36.760 --> 01:08:38.399
it, if you just watch like the last like 10 or

01:08:38.399 --> 01:08:41.199
15 minutes. Like, they have to basically, I'm

01:08:41.199 --> 01:08:44.880
doing a spoiler, I'm spoiling this. No human

01:08:44.880 --> 01:08:47.140
being should watch this film. No human being

01:08:47.140 --> 01:08:49.779
should watch this film. Anywho, what happens

01:08:49.779 --> 01:08:52.779
is that he has to upload a virus to, like, make

01:08:52.779 --> 01:08:56.020
the aliens die or whatever. And he is running

01:08:56.020 --> 01:08:59.460
down the hallway. Like he, and it's, he's just

01:08:59.460 --> 01:09:01.199
screaming. I forget what he's screaming, but

01:09:01.199 --> 01:09:04.100
he's screaming it repeatedly. And like, I just,

01:09:04.180 --> 01:09:06.239
all I could do was laugh. I was like, I, this

01:09:06.239 --> 01:09:08.439
is the most unserious film I've watched in a

01:09:08.439 --> 01:09:11.479
while. And I've watched a lot of unserious. Um,

01:09:11.600 --> 01:09:14.060
it is literally an app. It's also an Amazon.

01:09:14.260 --> 01:09:16.880
Um, it's basically an average Amazon advertisement

01:09:16.880 --> 01:09:20.659
film fall within that COVID period. So it has

01:09:20.659 --> 01:09:23.479
that nice, like, yes. Like you talk about like,

01:09:23.600 --> 01:09:27.380
like, like I hope in like, 20 years, we can look

01:09:27.380 --> 01:09:31.039
back and put this as like the COVID film, the

01:09:31.039 --> 01:09:33.659
way like, you know, he doesn't interact and it's

01:09:33.659 --> 01:09:37.899
on screen. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Like it was filmed

01:09:37.899 --> 01:09:40.560
during COVID and they just didn't, but like,

01:09:40.579 --> 01:09:44.439
it was so bad. They just didn't release it until

01:09:44.439 --> 01:09:50.100
this year. And so, yeah, like, no, no, no, no,

01:09:50.100 --> 01:09:52.600
no, no, no. I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't

01:09:52.600 --> 01:09:55.180
suggest that film to my, to like my worst enemy.

01:09:57.289 --> 01:10:00.850
Okay. I have to admit, some of that sounds kind

01:10:00.850 --> 01:10:02.710
of funny. I still kind of want to see it, but

01:10:02.710 --> 01:10:05.970
there's a running theme of you telling me not

01:10:05.970 --> 01:10:08.770
to waste valuable time. You will laugh. Seriously,

01:10:09.109 --> 01:10:11.449
you will laugh because every time you hear Cube

01:10:11.449 --> 01:10:14.149
yell, get out of there! Every time you hear him

01:10:14.149 --> 01:10:19.909
yell that, you just start laughing. All right.

01:10:19.909 --> 01:10:22.470
Well, we won't bring it to the podcast this season,

01:10:22.550 --> 01:10:26.350
but maybe sometime in the future. Or maybe it's

01:10:26.350 --> 01:10:31.930
my next pick. My next pick is something that

01:10:31.930 --> 01:10:38.270
also has a pretty rotten critical consensus,

01:10:38.449 --> 01:10:41.970
although I think the popular consensus is a little

01:10:41.970 --> 01:10:44.289
bit more generous than Ice Cube's War of the

01:10:44.289 --> 01:10:49.510
Worlds. 1986, Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive.

01:10:49.909 --> 01:10:59.449
Wow. Oh, my. Oh, the reactions. Never seen it.

01:10:59.510 --> 01:11:04.609
I've always wanted to. Great soundtrack. I was

01:11:04.609 --> 01:11:08.689
first aware of the movie first through the soundtrack.

01:11:09.289 --> 01:11:12.409
And then I finally got around to watching it

01:11:12.409 --> 01:11:16.229
last year or so. And I went, oh, my goodness

01:11:16.229 --> 01:11:19.750
gracious. This is begging for the Camp Kaiju

01:11:19.750 --> 01:11:24.119
treatment. Yeah, maximum overdrive. Killer cars

01:11:24.119 --> 01:11:29.260
and trucks and other sorts of machines. I think

01:11:29.260 --> 01:11:35.380
an alien being infests the machines of the world.

01:11:35.539 --> 01:11:39.220
And Emilio Estevez is there to save the day.

01:11:39.460 --> 01:11:43.859
And the greatest Stephen King cameo. I don't

01:11:43.859 --> 01:11:47.100
even recall. I know he directed it. He's got

01:11:47.100 --> 01:11:51.000
a very short cameo. It's hilarious. It's near

01:11:51.000 --> 01:11:56.000
the beginning. Wow. I can't wait. That was like

01:11:56.000 --> 01:11:57.819
Stephen King at the height of his cocaine era,

01:11:57.899 --> 01:12:01.520
I think. Well, that's what I... The backstory

01:12:01.520 --> 01:12:04.739
of this movie, he was directing it and apparently

01:12:04.739 --> 01:12:08.000
doesn't remember directing it. Which could explain

01:12:08.000 --> 01:12:11.399
a lot of what you see on screen. Absolutely.

01:12:13.340 --> 01:12:15.840
Yeah, I'm excited. Please tell me that you're

01:12:15.840 --> 01:12:20.170
following up with the happening. Oh, man. I just

01:12:20.170 --> 01:12:21.890
rewatched The Happening recently, and that's

01:12:21.890 --> 01:12:24.689
a pretty funny movie, but it has a limited replay

01:12:24.689 --> 01:12:28.229
value, perhaps. I'll just say that. Maximum Overdrive,

01:12:28.329 --> 01:12:30.970
sorry about my cat, by the way. Maximum Overdrive

01:12:30.970 --> 01:12:32.989
does kind of remind me of Killdozer, which is

01:12:32.989 --> 01:12:35.369
among my least favorite movies we've talked about

01:12:35.369 --> 01:12:37.630
on Camp Kaiju so far, but I think Maximum Overdrive

01:12:37.630 --> 01:12:39.949
will be more entertaining than Killdozer, hopefully.

01:12:41.770 --> 01:12:43.989
But... I love that you chose that because I have

01:12:43.989 --> 01:12:47.489
another Stephen King related movie on my list.

01:12:47.710 --> 01:12:52.930
Children of the Corn from 1984. Outlander. What?

01:12:54.130 --> 01:12:57.829
Outlander. Is that from that movie? I have no

01:12:57.829 --> 01:13:01.529
idea. I've never seen it. I've seen it too many

01:13:01.529 --> 01:13:05.609
times. Okay. I can't tell if you're glad that

01:13:05.609 --> 01:13:08.109
I'm bringing it to the podcast. Okay. I'm glad.

01:13:08.590 --> 01:13:11.340
All right. I've heard it's bad as a movie. I

01:13:11.340 --> 01:13:14.039
mean, I will not be surprised if it is. But,

01:13:14.060 --> 01:13:16.920
you know, bad Stephen King. That'll be the theme

01:13:16.920 --> 01:13:19.640
of the month. 80s Stephen King. Cocaine era Stephen

01:13:19.640 --> 01:13:24.260
King. Yeah. We should make posters for that.

01:13:24.539 --> 01:13:28.479
That'd be amazing. Call it the Snowmobile. Oh,

01:13:28.520 --> 01:13:32.300
perfect. Hey, listen. Listen, like, if Taylor

01:13:32.300 --> 01:13:35.199
Swift can have her own era, you know, so can

01:13:35.199 --> 01:13:38.319
Stephen King. There you go. You know? Oh, by

01:13:38.319 --> 01:13:41.560
the way. Looks like Zach Linder is also on the

01:13:41.560 --> 01:13:43.680
call now, if you don't see him on your screen.

01:13:44.020 --> 01:13:49.260
He is here on the show. I did. I did. Thank you.

01:13:49.279 --> 01:13:52.279
Hello, Zach. We were just wrapping up. We're

01:13:52.279 --> 01:13:54.840
glad you could pop in. Would you care to introduce

01:13:54.840 --> 01:13:58.619
yourself briefly? Oh, yeah. I'm Zach Linder.

01:13:58.739 --> 01:14:01.500
I run the Zach Pack, I guess. I helped sponsor

01:14:01.500 --> 01:14:04.039
it. Love Vincent. Grew up with him. Went to high

01:14:04.039 --> 01:14:06.000
school together. Big fan of what you guys do.

01:14:07.500 --> 01:14:11.039
I don't really have much in the terms of production

01:14:11.039 --> 01:14:12.680
or anything like that, but I love that you guys

01:14:12.680 --> 01:14:14.180
are producing the show. I hope you keep growing.

01:14:14.380 --> 01:14:16.020
Let me know what you guys need. I'll help you

01:14:16.020 --> 01:14:19.739
however I can. Thank you, Zach. I'm eternally

01:14:19.739 --> 01:14:22.180
grateful. I definitely want to talk to you more

01:14:22.180 --> 01:14:23.720
about Thor here in the near future, but that

01:14:23.720 --> 01:14:28.560
can be a sidebar separate from this. Yeah. All

01:14:28.560 --> 01:14:29.920
right. Stick around, though, if you want to.

01:14:29.939 --> 01:14:32.079
We're just wrapping up, like I said, but you're

01:14:32.079 --> 01:14:34.359
pretty happy to stick around. For sure. Okay.

01:14:35.949 --> 01:14:39.369
That brings us to July, friends. July will be

01:14:39.369 --> 01:14:43.810
KaiJuly. We don't have those titles yet. Maybe

01:14:43.810 --> 01:14:48.829
we would be open to our guest hosts pitching

01:14:48.829 --> 01:14:52.310
us some ideas. Our listeners, if you want to

01:14:52.310 --> 01:14:56.989
chime in for July. But I think what we have to

01:14:56.989 --> 01:15:02.869
start with is pretty monstrous. I see what you

01:15:02.869 --> 01:15:09.989
did there. I had to. I had to. Good stuff, Matt.

01:15:10.510 --> 01:15:14.470
I'm excited. Yeah, likewise. Me too. Hopefully

01:15:14.470 --> 01:15:16.869
everybody else is excited as well, and hopefully

01:15:16.869 --> 01:15:18.649
we'll have some guest stars this season. I'm

01:15:18.649 --> 01:15:21.149
sure we will, but yeah, some good stuff for sure.

01:15:21.250 --> 01:15:23.109
And I do like the kind of international vibe

01:15:23.109 --> 01:15:25.710
that we at least start off with and then go back

01:15:25.710 --> 01:15:28.829
to some campy stuff. That'll be fun. I love your

01:15:28.829 --> 01:15:35.380
idea of themed pairs and double features. So,

01:15:35.380 --> 01:15:39.680
yeah, Willis O 'Brien, Stephen King, international

01:15:39.680 --> 01:15:44.140
pictures. It's got to be like a smorgasbord.

01:15:44.560 --> 01:15:47.439
Yeah. Which I think we always try to do, you

01:15:47.439 --> 01:15:49.020
know, that's always one of the pleasures of Cam

01:15:49.020 --> 01:15:51.439
Kaiju. It's strange beasts, the supernatural

01:15:51.439 --> 01:15:54.560
and everything in between. Yeah. Or when we got

01:15:54.560 --> 01:15:57.579
War of the Gargantuan in there, too. Godzilla.

01:15:57.960 --> 01:16:03.659
So awesome. Yeah. All right. Guests. Let us know

01:16:03.659 --> 01:16:07.239
if you want to be a guest on any of those episodes.

01:16:08.159 --> 01:16:13.420
Happy to have you back. This show grew a lot

01:16:13.420 --> 01:16:16.239
the past year. I don't have hard numbers, but

01:16:16.239 --> 01:16:19.239
I have, like, my mind numbers. I do look at my

01:16:19.239 --> 01:16:25.819
data every hour, but... Working on that for my

01:16:25.819 --> 01:16:30.880
own self, but... At the start of the year, I

01:16:30.880 --> 01:16:34.159
think within a week, episodes were averaging

01:16:34.159 --> 01:16:38.600
70. No, within two weeks, it was like 70 downloads.

01:16:40.359 --> 01:16:45.920
Now, within two weeks, it's 100 plus. Nice. Yeah,

01:16:46.100 --> 01:16:51.819
and our episodes that do really well, they reach

01:16:51.819 --> 01:16:54.899
those numbers within two weeks, which is really

01:16:54.899 --> 01:16:59.300
great for a podcast. This is our sixth year doing

01:16:59.300 --> 01:17:04.119
it, so it does take a lot of time, but it's made

01:17:04.119 --> 01:17:07.600
so much more easier and worthwhile with people

01:17:07.600 --> 01:17:10.680
like you helping out and supporting in all the

01:17:10.680 --> 01:17:15.279
ways you do. Thank you. It's a good feeling.

01:17:16.779 --> 01:17:20.250
Yes. Thank you. Yeah, it's always fun having

01:17:20.250 --> 01:17:23.109
guest stars. Of course, you know, just chatting

01:17:23.109 --> 01:17:25.670
with Vincent is always fun, too. But, like, it's

01:17:25.670 --> 01:17:27.210
always a little extra special when we have guest

01:17:27.210 --> 01:17:28.930
stars and, like, reading comments from people

01:17:28.930 --> 01:17:31.510
out there and everything. So that's what makes

01:17:31.510 --> 01:17:37.890
it especially fun. Yeah. All right. Well, keep

01:17:37.890 --> 01:17:43.449
in touch. Happy holidays. And have a happy New

01:17:43.449 --> 01:17:51.829
Year, you filthy animals. Wow. Nice. Hey, Don's

01:17:51.829 --> 01:17:54.550
got it. Is Peter Lorre coming back next year?

01:17:55.409 --> 01:18:02.890
Peter will be back. He declined my invite. How

01:18:02.890 --> 01:18:07.470
rude. No, he's on a honeymoon of sorts right

01:18:07.470 --> 01:18:12.770
now with his Raven lady friend. It's a thing

01:18:12.770 --> 01:18:16.449
that will be revealed in the Pacific Rim episode.

01:18:17.260 --> 01:18:20.220
But he needs some time away for a little bit.

01:18:21.020 --> 01:18:23.859
He's gone through some things. But he'll be back.

01:18:24.319 --> 01:18:26.720
I have to say, a few months back, I was listening

01:18:26.720 --> 01:18:31.600
to the Tusk episode way after you guys put it

01:18:31.600 --> 01:18:34.079
out and everything. I watched the movie and then

01:18:34.079 --> 01:18:37.479
listened to it. And the Peter Lorre part on that

01:18:37.479 --> 01:18:39.800
one, there's a part where he refers to Pierre

01:18:39.800 --> 01:18:42.460
as his bosom buddy. And I was listening to that

01:18:42.460 --> 01:18:47.220
on AirPods in the... the break room at my work.

01:18:47.340 --> 01:18:49.760
And I just like, I like could not stop laughing.

01:18:49.779 --> 01:18:52.159
And I probably looked like an insane person just

01:18:52.159 --> 01:18:55.760
laughing at what seemed like nothing to anybody

01:18:55.760 --> 01:18:57.880
who couldn't hear inside my AirPods. But, uh,

01:18:57.899 --> 01:19:00.300
that, that phrase made me laugh really hard.

01:19:01.020 --> 01:19:04.539
Peter has had many strange bedfellows in the

01:19:04.539 --> 01:19:09.279
past year. Uh, again, he needs a break, but he'll

01:19:09.279 --> 01:19:12.789
be back in January. All I can say is, and I've

01:19:12.789 --> 01:19:15.810
listened to this episode multiple times, it's

01:19:15.810 --> 01:19:22.770
when after Peter Lorre escapes from the plant

01:19:22.770 --> 01:19:25.770
that tried to eat him. And leaves such a mess.

01:19:25.909 --> 01:19:28.090
And, like, Peter's so mad at Matthew for not

01:19:28.090 --> 01:19:30.229
helping clean up. And he was like, I can't even

01:19:30.229 --> 01:19:32.409
get any help. And he starts to imitate Matthew.

01:19:32.470 --> 01:19:34.189
He's like, you know, maybe you could use a spade

01:19:34.189 --> 01:19:37.869
and a shovel, Peter. And, like, man, I just lose

01:19:37.869 --> 01:19:40.050
it every single time. Perhaps I can lend you

01:19:40.050 --> 01:19:42.069
a hand, Peter. Would you like a spade and shovel,

01:19:42.229 --> 01:19:45.350
Peter? And he's like, curse you, curse you. And

01:19:45.350 --> 01:19:50.229
it just makes me laugh so much. Those segments

01:19:50.229 --> 01:19:55.010
bring so much joy. The Minions mailbox music,

01:19:55.229 --> 01:20:02.109
I freaking love it. It makes you happy. One of

01:20:02.109 --> 01:20:04.630
the most annoying characters in the history of

01:20:04.630 --> 01:20:08.689
Godzilla has the greatest mailbox music of all

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time. Y 'all do some really great things. All

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of us that have been on the show support the

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show. Like, it's an amazing thing what y 'all

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are doing. We're very thankful for that. I don't

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mean to hog up all the space, but you are appreciated.

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All of you are appreciated. And I appreciate

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y 'all allowing me to be a part of this community

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as well. Yeah. Right back at you, Sean. Thank

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you, Sean. And thank you, Vincent, for everything

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you do. Hasta luego. Bye, La Ventana. Happy holidays.

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Thank you.