Cinema_PSYOPS_EP513: Giant Monsters FSU: Godzilla 2000 1999 (Main Feed)

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Welcome to the 513th consecutive week of Cinema PsyOps. I'm your host, Court, the guy that has some rather sad news to unlay on everybody, but I'm going to wait until I introduce my interim co-host, which is... This is my co-host, Darren. Hey, how you been, man? It's been a minute. Yeah, it's been a long, long time, and I'm very, very, very grateful that pretty much at the last minute, like, I messaged you Wednesday, and I'm like, I got a podcast in crisis.

We used to be able to have this thing where we would just be like, yo, I need some help. We need to get something done here. Can I get some help? I was able to call that favor in from you, and I'm very grateful that that happened. The reason that I have some sad news for everybody that I got to kind of lay on it. Matt is absolutely fine. Matt's health, other than his mental health is probably not so great.

Essentially, there is some stuff that's kind of getting in the way and there's going to be a couple of weeks where Matt's going to have to step away from the show. Hey, you know, at least you got another guy from the Midwest. I don't watch football and I'm not an Aaron Rodgers fan. Yeah, but you do live in Ohio, which somehow is going to basically counterbalance that, I guess. Yeah. All right. So, Matt, like I said...

physically and everything is fine. Emotionally, he's probably... pretty wrecked right now because his wife has been diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia and while the prognosis is good she will be in an extended hospital stay and when i say the prognosis is good is there's actually treatments and things

Things that can actually alleviate. It requires the long hospital stay. And life is just busy enough for Matt as is. We already know that capitalism has been crushing him. And this is just one more thing that was just too much. So I said, you know what? Let's not stress about trying.

to figure out how to squeeze in recordings with you during this time. Let's take, I'm giving him three weeks. We're going to take three weeks off. Darren's being nice enough to fill in for week one. And I got another Midwestern guy and I actually think if this works out, I might actually have a whisk.

Consonite gentleman to fill in for another two weeks. And if that works out, that gentleman might actually be the first guest to officially do all of the notes. Now, I did have Nick from the B-Movie cast. who did his version of the movie coverage where we let him synopsize the movie. But this is going to be our first guest actually trying to synopsize the movie in the Cinema PsyOps style. Clips and everything. Synopsize in Cinema PsyOps style? Yeah.

Synopsizing and Cinema PsyOps style. Yeah, that's very Clue, isn't it? The way that I said that. One plus two plus two plus one.

Absolutely. So long story short, too late. Matt's going to be out for about three weeks. We're going to have someone filling in. And there's some little bit of good news on top of that. I didn't want Matt to miss this film that we're covering this week, which is God.

Godzilla 2000 or Godzilla Millennium, depending upon which version of it that you saw the title card for. I didn't want him to miss this one. I didn't want him to miss the next one, which is Megarius next week where Godzilla versus Megarius. And then also there's like this completely insane one that will.

be covering like three weeks from now that i don't want him to miss so when everything is back to relatively normal that he can start doing the show again matt's going to come back and we're going to actually finish up covering whatever it is or if he doesn't make it to the end of the year because we've got eight weeks left

Well, every single one of these Godzilla movies that he missed, whenever he comes back, we're going to do as a commentary and we're going to be partying while we do it. So you'll still get to hear Matt's thoughts. Only this time, whenever he loses his shit during an actual kaiju battle and like starts shouting into the microphone. You'll hear it happen.

Fuck it. We'll do it live. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. So, again, thank you very much to Darren for filling in here and being a co-host while I do the notes for Godzilla 2000 or Godzilla Millennium. I really, really appreciate it. We're going to keep the streak going. We've got eight weeks left.

to do it in if we have to do it through a co-host to make it happen we're going to make it happen because the bulk of the work still happened with Matt so that's all that matters and it's still a goal that I want him to be able to celebrate that we achieved as well even if I got to do all the lifting for it

Yeah, sad for the reasoning, but happy to be here. Yeah, yeah. I really wish that it wasn't for this reason, but it is for this reason. But I am, again, eternally grateful to have you on the show while we do this. And we got all sorts of stuff planned.

Darren's actually going to take over the story time. We already got that planned out and all of it. So I'm excited. I cannot wait. I think we've been beating around the bush enough. I think it's time to actually take the break and get into doing the film. What do you think? I think I'm ready. All right. So we're going to take the break.

here we're gonna play the legion patreon ad and on the pirate radio edit like we've been doing all along for this coverage for so long i can't even remember when we actually started we're gonna have songs that were all popular from the year the film was released godzilla 2000 was actually

released in 1999 i know it's a whole thing but anyway the songs that were released in 1999 just like godzilla 2000 so up first is fastball with out of my head immediately following this on the pirate radio edit this'll keep testing the paradox sustaining devices

that are essential to the function of the Mobius loop of annihilation has proven difficult in the labs of Seven Quartz all in one Edison manufacturing business. The collective were able to verify this through the audio taken from video surveillance footage that survived the explosion.

Okay, we know from the P-U-R-V. Perv? Why would he arrange the words that explain the device's function so the acronym made out something that would sound like Perv? This is the same guy who created security protocol numbers based on... Adolescent anatomical calculator jokes of the 80s. I think he believes it makes him relatable and cool, I guess? The perv showed some new upgrades to the Paradox sustaining device that are essential to the function of the Mobius.

loop of annihilation, and we haven't even replicated the originals since the lab explosion that the unspecified engineer caused by miscalculating the formulas they tried to improve on from what they saw being done. watching the perv. Perv? That just sounds so bad, right? Like, why would you want to recreate things you saw through a perv? It's not very marketable. The Boss's brand is more about looking like a genius while taking credit for some other...

Other people's hard work and ideas. I would venture to say that making it widely known that your main source of innovations is from a device that you created by mistake in an explosion that unspecified engineer caused. that allows you to look into alternate realities would be harmful to that, let's say, deceptive brand. There sure seems to be a lot of social commentary hidden in the things we are saying here. I wonder if our author is super woke now. Imagine that, an author who wants a...

all of his characters as stories to be inclusive and representative of all sorts of sentient beings who treat each other with basic manners and dignity and respect. That is some serious Star Trek bullshit right there. It just sucks that our author seems to be... All right, as is my tradition, whenever I'm playing about a minute or so of the music for our quote-unquote breaks that I put in there, I...

take a little bit of a hit or two, which I was definitely doing. And as Darren can contest, I may have gone a little overboard. So I was coughing a good bit during Fastball's song there and Darren almost had to check up on me. It was close. You spoke up right before I said that.

something i was trying to be good and quiet right well you don't have to do that anymore because the music all gets replaced so don't worry about that everything gets replaced in this show now the recordings that you're used to where it was like oh man you fucked up that take we got to start again

You know, like that, like doing every single thing live and making it come out live exactly how we needed it while everyone was in the room. I don't do that anymore. I'm not that. Yeah. It's been a long time since we sat down and talked about the gate.

Exactly. So let's go ahead and sit down and we'll start talking about Godzilla 2000 and hopefully we'll shake off all the rust and see what happens. Yeah. All right. So the first third of the film starts with the classic Toho production company logo and then.

we see a man working on some kind of broadcast antenna array in what appears to be the twilight hours by the light of his car fog and headlights. The vehicle I mentioned is a mobile command center of some sort. We see a woman is cleaning and

maintaining a large film camera. And then the man hops into the van. There is an overlay telling us that this is apparently the Godzilla prediction unit. I promise you in my notes, if I don't just call it the GPU, which I will call it later on, I'm going to say the words Godzilla protection.

it by mistake it's gonna happen and darren as soon as it does you need to call me out on that for everyone okay prediction all right so the woman maintaining the camera talks that's dialogue and as we all know that's our first clip are you sure he's Hope so. Don't want to disappoint a big-shot reporter like you. I've really got to get some great pictures of him. Io, do you read me? Roger. Loud and clear. Clockwise, 18 degrees. Okay.

What's that on the monitor? Density changes in the plasma are expressed as voltage regulation. What he means is that when a charge fluctuation occurs, the plasma above the Earth's surface is induced to the ground. The plasma and the tremor in the ground... become linked. In short, a seismometer. Plasma? You mean like blood? You really are an imbecile. Imbecile? In imbecile terms, if there is any fluctuation, that means Godzilla's in the area. It's starting, isn't it? Yeah, right. It seems so.

We still can't contact the Ocean Queen. Is it possible something is interfering with their transmissions? Move me. I'll keep trying. Over and out. After this, we see the man looking out at the sea on the main deck of a lighthouse.

as he has a look around at all the various windows in the stormy night out there. We see what appears to be a ship passing beside the lighthouse within the vision of the man. That damaged ship is definitely caught in the jaws of the Big G as they reveal that this is the case. when they zoom into a CGI augmentation of the Godzilla eye that blinks. And that trick worked out really well. The CG and everything that they did to make that happen looked great. If that was...

actually a practical thing that they did to make that happen. It was so smooth that I actually believed that it was CGI because it looked almost animalistic in the way that it moved. The logo of the film title pops up. The lighthouse man exits and runs in fear from Godzilla and And no sooner do I type that bit about biting the ship. And then Big G does just that. Dropping remaining bits of the ship to either side of him as he passes.

Holy fuck, did that just look incredible. I mean, they dropped actual chunks of ship at the guy that did the stunt and everything. It was really cool. Yeah, I was a little cautious because this was one I hadn't seen before. And then that put me a little bit deeper.

into my seat to start watching. I actually ended up backing it up and watching it again because I was taking notes and I felt like I missed something. And I just wanted to see it again anyway, just because I really liked that sequence. Godzilla so rarely bites anything. Like, I mean, he'll bite during attacks.

bite opponents and stuff but you very rarely see him like actually like bite into a building or claw at a building or a lot of the stuff that he does in this one we don't really see as much or as often So like actually having him pick up a ship in his mouth and then bite it on his way to shore was just something that I thought was super badass because you see him like.

damaging other ships or, you know, you'll see the aftermath of him damaging a ship, but actually seeing him picking one up in his teeth and biting down on it is kind of a rare treat and I really dug it. All right, so the dude diving out of the way of the falling debris is also pretty fucking sweet and really well done. Just because I wanted to mention that, I kind of glossed over it, but the effect was really, really cool. But the actual stunt of the guy diving...

out of the way of the ship dropping i mentioned it but i just it's really really fucking cool and then they add like a little bit of extra stunt flourish to it and they do a little like chaplain reference because the ship right after it falls uh godzilla knocks over this broad tower that's right near that lighthouse and that falls towards the guy and that's when that Charlie Chaplin little reference happens because the radio tower lands

perfectly right around the garden the way that he's sitting so as not to harm him in any way. And it just kind of offers us a nice little comic relief after all of that horror that we just watched with Godzilla walking past. I'm glad you said Charlie Chaplin because I thought that was a Buster Keaton thing. Yeah, maybe it's Buster Keaton. Maybe it's Charlie Chaplin. I don't know.

I'm sure they both did it. I don't know who did it first. Yeah, maybe it is Buster Keaton. I'm probably wrong. But again, anytime I'm wrong, call me out on that bullshit because Matt never does and I don't get feedback anymore. So I don't know whenever I'm spitting stuff out there that's pissing people off. I won't say you're wrong. I will say I'm not sure who is right.

That's hilarious. But either way, it was definitely a reference to whoever it was that had done that originally, and they did it almost perfectly. And I know that whoever it is, Jackie Chan's a huge fan, and he likes to recreate that as well as best as he can. It's probably Buster Keaton, because Buster...

Keaton did a lot of stunts like that. But, you know, building off the works of others. They cut from that to a shot of the GPU. That's what the acronym of their initials makes. GPU just does. They cut from the GPU to a small bar. our-like restaurant of some sort, which, as we all know, any dialogue at all, no matter how short, is our next clip. Ah, that damn teriyaki's cold again. Mmm. But as long as the beer is cold, who cares?

You clowns don't like it. There's plenty of other places to eat around here, so shut up or get out. If you're frightened, get down. I'm okay. But aren't you worried about your daughter? No, she worries about me.

Hang on. Big G is on the move and... shatters that restaurant before we see the GPU run out of road after four-wheeling over a rock slide. to get through a tunnel in the mountain, they narrowly miss flying off of the new cliff face where the road ends in damage and the dad tilts the floodlights up to give us a terrific low light reveal and tease of the new Godzilla look.

And man, is this fucking creepy. The way the lights go up, it feels like they're kind of like doing a little Jurassic Park reference, the way that they did the lighting. But those like flood searchlight things that are going up in the air, like just basically doing flashlight searches over Godzilla. looks so fucking cool yeah it was fucking rad it made me forget that I was watching a dubbed Godzilla movie

The reporter tries to flash a quick picture of Godzilla and is stopped because they say they are too close for a flash. Big G leans into the car that is way too close to him and gives it a little sniff as his breath. fogs up

all of the windows instantly when it hits, and it actually shakes the car a little bit too. That was really well done. It's a really nice mix of practical CGI and compositing shots of a man in a suit to make that work, and it looked really cool. It was a nice change. You know, I like the new... I don't want to go too far on a tangent, but I like a lot of the new Godzilla movies, and they're the ones I see a lot more often because I have a 10-year-old kid. But he...

As I said before, and I'll get into later, he's a big Godzilla fan. So we've seen the other ones, and there's something about a guy in a suit. The person in the suit and the practical effects and the explosions happening off of the person in the suit and the danger that happens in there, the fun of that just kind of transpires over. It's something that Matt and I have been talking about the entire time we've been doing this coverage, and you're not wrong.

that it's just so much more dangerous with the dude in the suit. You know what I mean? That's what makes it more fun. It's more punk rock. You feel it. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's much more tangible. It's much more like ephemeral. It's there, you know, like it's not.

There's no pressing the I believe button when you at least can see a practical thing get smashed in front of you. Even if it is kind of tiny, even if you do have to... push an i believe button that it's not just a dude in a suit smashing into a small miniature building it's still much easier to push the i believe button than it is with some of the compositing and cgi problems that we'll have later on a really good model and suit even though it looks like a good

model in suit will automatically trick you way, way, way much more. You're already where you need to be as if you've been watching the suit Godzilla movies all along with me. So you're perfect. You're a perfect villain already. I bought in at the right time. Yeah, exactly. All right. So the reporter triggers the camera flash photography, multiple intensive bursts. I think in her panic, she just squeezes the button.

And can't let go. And that triggers Big G who takes a big swipe at the car as the GPU throws it into reverse and tries to get the living fuck out of there. We see Big G is not giving up on his pursuit. and is now climbing up and over the mountain, including having one of his feet rupturing through the ceiling of the tunnel while they flee. Some really amazing action in this. They do at least two great leg smashing through the tunnel and then... some great pack.

practical stunt driving mixed into this where the car is bouncing off the walls of the tunnel, running in fear. And then the CG augmentation that they're doing in this is also really well done for this era. And it's all really impressive. This sequence works really well. They did it. Excellent job with it.

And it's really terrifying to watch his feet coming through the tunnel as they're trying to flee, too. Yeah. Builds the claustrophobia. They finally make it out of the tunnel, and then Big G overtakes the crest of the mountain. The reporter screams at seeing this and the kid tells the dad to get the GPU the fuck out of there. And so they do. And then they cut to a dude getting out of an elevator. He walks into some sort of a conference room. There's a bunch of people talking about shit.

And that is expository dialogue in our third clip. Not everyone can be head of the CCI at 32. Excuse me sir, it's about the media right. Would you excuse me? They've reached it? Yes, sir. How far down is it? Just under 900 fathoms. Start surfacing procedures immediately. The whole area is fog brown, sir. We'll have to wait till tomorrow morning. The end of the clip starts an amazing city stomping sequence. You just have to see to believe. There are terrific underlighting monster style looks.

For Godzilla, we kind of talked about this earlier with Matt, but they do this sort of light from below that casts sort of shadows up and over whenever features stick out a little bit more. And it just kind of is an unsettling look. They've been using this monster light.

for ages. It goes all the way back to Boris Karloff's Frankenstein's monster and stuff like that with this technique. But they started using it more effectively for the villains to make them look more sinister and eerie and evil in the suit versions of Godzilla in the late 70s.

Uh, particularly like Godzilla versus Gigan is when I really started noticing it, that they did this, but they perfected here because there's some really amazing, like red gel lighting in some of the shots that looks like fire all around and hell just surrounding everywhere.

Godzilla is and just some truly terrifying, gruesome stuff that's included in the absolute destruction and devastation that's left in the wake of Big G in this sequence. So I really dug all of this and it's like classic Kaiju dude in a suit. The way that. You fucking won. It looks great. Yeah, it was definitely making me hearken back to the first Godzilla movies I saw, you know, at people's houses when I was a kid and stuff. That's the best part about it. That's the part of the.

The suit love, I think, really comes from you have to see the suit movies when you're young enough to where you're like, man, I would love to do that. How much fun would this be to make this movie? They cut from this to the GPU following as quickly as they can and pointing an antenna right at Big G. Why we do not know. It's something that they're going to do to take some kind of reading or whatever, but whatever. It sparks dialogue along with a...

windshield wiper joke that's going over top of a completely broken windscreen in our fourth clip. Yo, keep that antenna steady. Does that help any? Touché. So why don't you take some pictures? That's what you came here for, right? Oh, God must be punishing me for being ambitious. All right. You sure you still got film in the camera? Oh, bite me!

At the end of the clip, the squad moved fast enough to get ahead of Big G and give us an even more terrific shot of Big G walking in that red gel hell lighting that we were talking about earlier. And it's in the horizon, so it really shows the scale. of them and they put the man of the gpu and his daughter standing in a composited foreground shot while big g's walking in the background in that hell gel red looking lighting

To really give you this sort of scale as Big G just wrecks a fucking power plant in his glorious tradition of just knocking shit like that over while they watch. It's just fucking glorious stuff. They cut from all of this to a strange sequence of some dudes in a submarine and some expository dialogue in our pith club. Last surfacing unit is in position. Depth 5300. Rife rudder, 10 degrees. Oh, unbelievable. It's like a forest of volcanoes.

What's that? You promised you'd put me on hard news if I shot Godzilla at Nemuro! Now come on! Did you look at these first? These negatives are as blank as your mind. Godzilla's radiation fogged the film. Next time, don't get so close. Now go and try again. I'm not another joyride with those freaks. Quit your bitchin'. They're a pain in the ass. Ah, Kimura, is that you?

Shinoda here. Yeah, go ahead. About this data you just sent me. Amazing, huh? The temperature of the water off Kinkasan is up 38 degrees in the past two hours. That leads to big move. All right. Okay. Sure. Excuse me. I'm looking for the Godzilla Prediction Network. Oh, sure. Yeah. Uh... Down that hallway, take the first left. Right? Okay. Then when you get to the end, turn right. Left, then right. Got it. Who told you to stop working? No one. So you got it? Yeah. First left, then right.

Right. Got it. Great. Thanks. What? If you want to work with us, you have to join. Membership 200,000 yen plus 50,000 a month? What? Is it the imbecile, right? We are like a collective. We share the financial risk upfront. Then we profit from the information we acquire. Look. I'm not interested in joining your little clubhouse, see? I just want to take some more pictures, okay? You want to take pictures? You'll have to become a member. Hey, a little help here. I'm in charge of the business end.

However, we do have an alternative plan. Half off of you agree to share expenses. The meteorite is highly magnetic. The material could be the first step toward finding a new and more efficient source of energy. Excellent. Any reduction in the use of fossil fuels would be a real feather in CCI's cap. Standby to commence lifting. Roger. All ships commence lifting. going up too fast. What the hell's happening? I don't hear that cabbage being chopped! All right. Thanks.

Ah, that'll be Sonora. Hey, I've been analyzing some new tremors. And right now, it looks like he's moving south. Let me give you a hand. Founded him again? Yeah. Give me a push here. There you go. Jeez, you stink. No, your breath. See you tomorrow. Later, baby. Bye. Hello, it's Yuki. You mean, you know where he is? Thank you, sir. Sharing expenses my ass. Well, I sure as hell ain't paying for gas.

We've drilled several holes into the rock, but we keep hitting something solid. So we've stopped for now. Give me a guess on its age. Best estimate so far is 60, 70 million years. What about its buoyancy? Well, possibly it's hollow. And it did surface of its own will somehow. Meaning what? It could be a vessel. from outer space. Mr. Secretary, come in. Karagiri. Yes, of course. I'm on my way. Godzilla? They've just spotted him, moving south near Ibaraki. You stay here for now.

New Godzilla reading. He's moving inward. Toward Tokai. The nuclear plants. I knew it. Afraid so. Oh, that's just lovely. Another Chernobyl. This is Karagiri of Crisis Control. Godzilla is heading for Takai as we speak. Shut down all your reactors immediately. Are you crazy? I don't have an authority! You do now. And as head of the crisis control agency, I'm giving you authorization. Now shut down those reactors! Red alert! Red alert! Shut down all...

The government is holding an emergency cabinet meeting and they're sending the army to the presumed landing spot Don't you think this I need to be as close as possible. If you don't like it, go home and watch it on TV. Deputy Secretary of the Interior, Head of the CCI. Hello, Shinoda. It's been a long time. Not long enough. I'd hope never to see you again. I know.

You and Miyasaka were a fine team. You should have come with him when I established CCI. Not in a thousand years. I could never work for a man like you. Why not? We both had the same goals. Boy, that's a real laugh. Godzilla needs to be studied. He's a goldmine of knowledge. Well, you couldn't care less. You just want to kill him before we fully analyzed him.

And in the meantime, he just levels Tokyo. Of course not. That's why I created the network. He must be contained, I realize that. But it's worth the effort. Tell you what, join the network. You might learn something. Your network's history. I'll send flowers. Shutting down the reactors isn't enough! You have to kill all energy sources! General Takata of the 1st Division. I was told to report to you, sir. Bastard. You really think you can kill Godzilla?

It's moving! With that, the rock in the ocean stands up on its side like a monolith at sunrise, and that triggers a sequence of some slightly off-looking tanks moving around in what I assume is early CGI compositing of them. It just didn't...

quite look right. I don't know if they mapped like something over existing tanks that were moving to make them look nicer and newer or if this was just CGI tanks that they put into place to map over them moving in city streets that they couldn't put them on. what, but you definitely didn't get good. That's what I was thinking. Yeah, it just didn't look right, right? Yeah, yeah. Something was off. It felt like seeing CGI now from a student film. You know what I mean?

Or like seeing Doctor Who effects now, which have not improved from Doctor Who effects of this era for CGI. That's what it looks like. Anyway, then cuts to what I assume is stock footage of actual tanks moving over hills and rough terrain as they look real and are actually there as they're moving. There is a wide shot of the tanks all lining up and then a dude reports in triggering more exposure.

dialogue in our sixth club. Group two in position and ready. Over. Roger. As we know from experience. When Godzilla's attacked, he advances instead of retreats. We can make use of his aggressiveness by luring him to the mouth of the river. And what happens once he gets there?

The underwater mines will do the rest. Mines? What about the safety of the local residents? Ah, yes. Well, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mushed, but I can promise no more than two, three hundred tops. I don't like it. And if the mines fail to stop him, then what? We've developed an... advanced new weapon. A new generation of armor-piercing missile. It's so powerful it can penetrate any known material. I guarantee it'll go through Godzilla like crap through a goose. EO? Yes?

So what now? You and Io go to a safe distance. What about you? I'm waiting for Godzilla. Katagiri is determined to kill him. That sound can mean only one thing. Godzilla. He's coming.

Get going. Godzilla makes landfall. Some rough CGI helicopters move into position and fire at Big G. This sequence is pretty great, excluding one ropey bit where a suit actor walking against green screen is composited. with him walking onto a peninsula that starts with him actually on top of water, just outside of the land, like he's walking on the water like Jesus or something. Again, it's not a huge deal.

Just thought I would point it out since I noticed it this time that he actually starts walking on the water with this green screen shot of him walking into the foreground. Otherwise, it looks fucking great. It's just that they needed to do a little bit of work on the composite. on where they started this feat. I mean, I wondered how they were going to start the second season of Watchmen.

They ended it with the foot going onto the water. Now it's going to be Godzilla walking on water. Some folks that listen to this show may actually believe that I honestly think that Godzilla should be walking on water at this point. because I am such a fan and those people are not wrong.

They're dicks, but they're not wrong. You can be both. Yeah, you can be a not wrong dick. We know that. It's been established. All right. So the tanks start a barrage of mortar fire that frankly feels as dangerous as the old...

school stuff but looks more realistic in the manner the explosions happen now what i mean by that is it's concussive not sparkly like the firework explosions we have seen them use in the past But these tank hits still have no effect on Godzilla and having them looking as believable as they actually do as they explode in front of him. It makes big G even scarier to me because these look like.

actual tank explosions that are really believable. And not only is it not doing shit to Big G, there is a suit actor having these concussive explosive fireballs going off from his suit at him. on like towards the camera and they're just standing there taking it and that's so fucking punk rock and cool

Yeah, I'm sure they were quite bruised at the end. Again, it's way scarier to me. And it's so cool that he's just standing there as all of this ends up happening. But then when you start to think about it, there's a person in there taking that concussive fire. And would you not describe those explosions as concussive fireballs? I would. At this point is when I started saying, oh, are they going to actually do some damage?

to uh to big g yeah well i guess and i i yeah it made me a little bit nervous for a second i forgot who i was watching though because right you forgot whose name's on the marquee so yes damage can be done but he's gonna get back up that's the point Godzilla and Rocky have very similar fighting styles where it doesn't matter how hard you get hit. It's how hard you could get hit while still moving forward. I didn't hear no bell.

All right. So the tanks are called back when Godzilla heads into the water towards them and a set of bigger missile firing vehicles with those mega bunker busting missile things that they were talking about that they showed us earlier. all equipped with all of these things as they roll into position and fire.

this damage being done from these missiles takes us right up to the end of the first third of the film these missiles seem to do some surface damage to big g like i'd like to point out that darren was just concerned about what was going to happen because those explosions were insane but they don't really appear to be

He's penetrating deep like a bullet would to a human. Like, they're not hitting him like a 9mm bullet would to a cloth-covered t-shirt-wearing chest on a human being, right? Like, they're hitting him like a strong pellet gun style would... embed into a human being and then they have like a little explosion burst from that

So it's like a smaller wound, but it's like a little chunk being blown out of the skin. Almost like whenever you nick yourself shaving and like a whole chunk comes out. You know what I mean? That's all they're really doing. So yes, they're doing damage to him. I will admit.

that these rockets that were sold to be these super penetrative, like really damaging rockets, they're doing damage and they're exploding little chunks out of them, but they're just little tiny chunks comparatively. And it's really not that big of a deal. a classic childhood Midwestern apple fight. You know how it goes. I will say this. I don't know Midwestern Apple fights because I was raised on the East Coast. So did you guys do dirt clod fights as kids? Maybe? No.

We didn't. There's too many cars around to throw rocks. Right. But plenty of yards had those... trees that grew the fist size or, you know, handful size apples that nobody ever wanted to eat. Crab apple trees, right? Yeah. Yeah. Something like, yeah. You just go yard to yard and helping each other with apples. Oh, see where I. grew up in the smaller areas of

you know, the, the, the, the hills of Pennsylvania, there was a lot of orchards around, um, you know, like apples and things like that, but like full size, big apples. Right. Right. Not like those just random crab apple trees that you just find out there, you know, and stuff like that. So when you.

said apple fight i'm picturing like you know apples from an actual orchard and i'm like that would really hurt but crab apples makes ball size apples right right exactly okay we were definitely tangenting way off of godzilla at this point so why don't we get back into this

the second act of the film what do you think yeah yeah i'm down all right so the second act starts with a cut from the new missiles hurting big g like we said just those tiny little bits of damage nothing really that big two jets taking off and then cuts back from those jets to these new missiles herding Big G and then back to the scientists studying the big ocean rock thing with more expository dialogue in our seventh clip. I was right.

It's following the sun. If it keeps... Don't you stand there! Move the boat! Got a kitty. It's Miyasaka. The rock's gone. It just flew away. All right, so we see the... rock ship thing flying towards big g who is there getting blasted all to fuck by those missiles we were talking about which still seem to be just doing some minor damage comparatively and he heals really really quick right afterwards so More or less, it's barely an inconvenience.

The rock arrives, does some form of predator scan that goes down to a cellular level and even possibly sub molecular level to find some sort of something or other. That it apparently likes and or wants from Big G.

Now, when I say predator scan, it actually cuts to predator vision. And then you see like the display of the alien language, like up on the screen. And then you see the scan and then it goes into like this CGI thing, showing you the cells and then deeper into like what looks like might even be a sub. molecular level. All done with CGI, all not done super well, but it's all very important story point stuff, and that's why I'm up.

Because like I said, it looks like that something is what it wants from Big G. So there is a super long standoff before some sort of laser blast fires out of that rock. There's like this weird hole up on the one corner. and then sends Big G hurtling backwards through a building. Big G gets back up and heats up his atomic breath, which fires just as the rock thing fires off its blast, while Big G is being sent backwards by the blast.

of the rock laser thing, he also sends the rock spinning through the air away from his atomic breath blast as they both explode. The sort of like... breath blast challenge becomes a draw here because they both get exploded backwards from what they're blasting at each other and i really like that the way they did that were like oh they're equally matched yeah

They cut from this to a train and some people talking. That is more dialogue. And all right. I picked this up for next to nothing. You love it. If she's still speaking to you. Holy crap. Did you see that flying rock go by? It's unbelievable! Therefore... I'm convinced that this vessel comes from another galaxy. A visitor from outer space? My god, it's just too crazy to believe. Right. Like Godzilla's normal.

Anyway, it's my theory that it draws its energy from light. When it landed, it sank in the ocean where sunlight couldn't reach it. Until yesterday, when the research sub beamed its lights on it, and it woke up. What we must know. Is it dangerous to mankind? It's dangerous to Godzilla, that's for sure. I've never seen anything with that kind of power before. But it's been inactive since the sun went down. Maybe, but we can't take chances.

Run a full set of diagnostics. If an alien is still alive in there, I want to know more about it. What about Godzilla? Nothing so far. The Air Force is still sweeping the area. Begin sensor scanning. I wonder what it's up to now. You and me both. I'd love to know what's in there. I'd love to know about its power source. It could be centuries before we came up with something close to this. Hey, Professor, a call for you. Yes, Miyasaka. What? That was Shinoda. He wants to see us.

He wants to use our equipment to examine a Godzilla skin sample. Sir, any comment on the spaceship? Not at the moment. The minute we know something, we'll let you know. Thank you. Any idea when that will be, sir? Oh, so we're on a first-name basis now, are we? Come with me. I have to collect some materials and you can get some photos, okay? Fine, but I'm still not paying for gas.

Hey, that's odd. What? My laptop came on by itself. Sure you didn't just leave it on? Yeah. Well, I wouldn't worry about it. Come on. To be blunt, you're the last man I'd ask for a favor. And you think the sample's that important? I wouldn't have come here otherwise. You can use the CCI equipment on two conditions. You share all the data you found, and you fully abide by our rules. It's a deal. Come on, we're going back to Tokyo. Some data was hacked from my computer.

From the Godzilla file? It doesn't make sense. If the data's been read, the entire network's at risk. No kidding. Better bring the MO disc with you, just in case. I have a ton of summer homework to do. Are you going to help me with it? Of course I will. Okay, see you in half an hour.

These photos are of the Godzilla skin sample I found in Tokai. The first one shows clear signs of scar damage. But the second one is completely clear. Same piece of skin? Yeah, the photos were taken only five hours apart. That's a remarkable healing speed. Look, every layer of skin, every cell, every blood vessel. They're all intact. What a creature. It's invincible. The question is, how can all these cells regenerate? Maybe it has something to do with his radioactive properties.

Let's try the electron microscope. Okay. Look at that. How does he manage to regenerate his cells so quickly? Cell recovery and reformation. Even with the simplest life forms, we've never been able to do that. It's like watching the process of creation. In a way, we're its godparents. You discovered it. You ought to name it. You really think so? Regenerator G1. Regenerator G1. The clouds are clearing, sir. Yes, I know. But that thing's tied down with electromagnetic cables. Even if it wakes up.

It's not going anywhere. If Regenerator G1 is the secret of Godzilla's healing ability, then we're onto something monumental. It could revolutionize modern medicine. If we could find a way to use it for humans. You know, Godzilla could be full of such discoveries. I feel like we're back together at the university. Why did you resign? I couldn't take it anymore. It had gotten too unethical. We were doing the research for all the wrong reasons. Come in. Excuse me, sir.

There's an Io Shinoda here to see you. Did you bring him? During the clip, the flying rock has a small amount of what appears to be an alien ship revealed under all of the rock that was flying around. And the GPU folks were investigating a large Godzilla footprint. We did see them kind of doing that. Also, that generator G1...

stuff is what that alien ship buried in the rock seemed to like about big g that i pointed out earlier so the doctor discovered it or that scientist guy discovered it and we all know what's going to happen with that from this point forward

And at the end of the clip, the ship gets some more sunlight on it, and that has it start to shimmy and shake and terrify the scientists studying it and the reporters filming it alike. It starts to shake loose as this is starting to come. cause some expository dialogue to explain it in our ninth clip. Those things were unbreakable. So yeah, there we go with the expository dialogue again. Those things were supposed to be unbreakable, but however, they were not.

Good thing he told us. They don't describe the cables, but one would assume that when you have that whole sequence that was happening during the clip of the cranes wrapping the wires up to try and hold this thing down and keep it from flying away again.

would assume that you know they're supposed to be this like most unbreakable tension metal wire that you know they possibly could make you know maybe maybe even like it's diamond encrusted in some way with like a lab grown diamond to make it even more you know amazing and impressive or let's call it Sonic Steel or something to make it more impressive.

And yet the ship still breaks the binds. That's how it works. Yeah. In a world with the Godzilla prediction unit and the CCI, you would think that there'd be like this, this beam can stop two and a half Godzillas or, you know, in measurements of strength and sturdiness. Yeah. Like they have like a, well, there is a G force unit in the eighties movies. I don't know how many of those you may or may not see, but we just got through the coverage of those.

And the G-Force unit very much is like that, where they have a guy who just like slaps the side of a Mechagodzilla and is like, this thing could kill three and a half Godzillas at once, you know, like they make those bold statements and shit like that. And there's always like the guy that's like, I can't. way to fucking face Godzilla and stuff like that as well. You do have that a lot with these.

But this is sort of like they're rebooting it and they're kind of coming back in with a new series again and they're trying to start a new storyline and they're going to start a new saga with the Millennium Era. Essentially, they're just trying to revamp Godzilla. at least bring some of that fear into the modern era with this. That's what they're attempting. So there we go.

Makes sense. All right, so after that thing takes off, the film cuts back to the daddy-daughter GPU and our tenth clip. You up to your tricks again? Dad, I couldn't let them destroy our network. But they'll find out soon enough. They're your own disks, right? Do we run? Yeah. Shinoda! The UFO just flew away again! How can it still be alive after so long?

It must have been in suspended animation. I just can't conceive of any life form that could survive for 60 million years. Good lord. I just hope it's friendly.

Great Caesar's ghost! What is that? Let's get out of here! Close off all streets around City Tower. Evacuate everyone in there now. Right away, sir. All aircraft away from the five-mile radius around Shindu. This is now military airspace. Now that we know it's hostile, we must do whatever we can to destroy it quickly. Thank God it's going to be docked soon. That gives us a few hours to plan a course of action. What's tomorrow's forecast?

Sunny and clear. We can't wait till then. We've got to destroy that thing tonight. The CGI ship that flies around is... Pretty poor quality, especially the parts with the helicopters crashing into it. At the end of the clip, the ship lands very heavily onto a newspaper building tower, and then they cut to some CGI of Godzilla swimming along menacingly and kind of glowing with radio. that looks...

Pretty ropey, too. That was not that great. They cut back to the ship, fully landed on top of the tower with people gawking at it and waiting for it to do something since it is inactive at night and powered by sunlight, apparently. Since it can fly and is a... It should...

Probably just, I don't know, leave our atmosphere where there is sun and then head directly into the sunlight without our atmosphere filtering it. And then it will like supercharge, like maybe even way faster. But then the people would be even more bored and saying, come on, do something other than be.

Being a multi-million year old spaceship on top of a newspaper building. Right, just sitting there for no fucking reason that landed there and is doing damage and can fly. And it was a rock under the ocean. But I mean, that's enough stuff that it's already doing that's kind of cool and terrifying.

But also, I don't understand how a sun-powered ship that can fly doesn't just chase the hemisphere with which the sun is constantly in, because that is possible for a thing that can fly. So it's always in the sun. and always charging, right? Just slowly drift with the sun as it moves around the hemisphere and charge. They're anti-woke. They also want to be plugged into the grid at the same time. I guess. I don't...

They do kind of explain later, but right now, I think if the ship just needed to get some energy, why didn't it just leave the atmosphere and supercharge, right? Because whatever it is in sunlight that it needs that it's charging during the day on Earth is going to... be 100% stronger outside of our atmosphere. That's all I'm saying. As intelligent as they appeared to be, you would think they would think of that. Yeah, well...

Again, what do I know about any of this kind of crap? I do know that there is some dialogue about all of this stuff, and I just ended up recording that. So that's our 11th class. When's it going to do something? Yeah, we've been waiting all day! The alien vessel remains motionless atop the city tower. And where is Godzilla? That is the question.

As you can see, all people who can transport facilities to this district are haunted. The area around city tower is completely blocked off. A no-go zone extends across the city tower, still waiting for what we consider to be a classic city. Incredible. It's like a scene from an old sci-fi movie where a giant flying saucer appeared in the sky above Tokyo and is perched atop City Tower, completely immobile, looking down on us as if to challenge mankind for rulership of this planet.

Why does this keep happening?

All computers in the Shinjuku district have gone down, sir. Isolate our main computer. Yes, sir. Sir, the anti-hacking programs crash, too. computer KDO has also gone down. What the hell is this? Miyasaka! Try the infrared filter. Yes, sir. I'm sorry. It's hacking City Tower's supercomputer. It'll soak up every last bit of data. Use the linkage tracer to visualize the access route. Yes, sir!

Mr. Secretary, at this rate, all of Tokyo's data could be gone in a few hours. I can't believe it. This could be the end of our civilization. You really call this civilization? Anything we don't understand, we try to destroy and CCI. Ground Zero for that kind of lunacy. We're all gonna die. And I'm part of the reason. Aren't I?

Engineers have just left, sir. Good. How long do you need to set up the bombs? Half hour, tops. And to pull out? Ten minutes. That ought to be plenty. Shinoda. Well, it's about time I got through. Yuki? Yeah, guess where I am? In a few minutes, I should know what they're after. Now listen, get out of there immediately. You hear me? Katagiri's up to something. Are you...

Are you crazy? No way I'm gonna leave now. We gotta know why they're interested in Godzilla. I'll call you back later. Are you there? Yuki! I'm going to strangle that imbecile. The end of the clip starts a sequence of military dudes using high-powered bolt guns to bolt explosives of some sort to the floor of the tower to explode it and save all of the data to save the world.

Somehow, I fail to see how the world is just going to explode because data is being... harvested like I understand that them getting the data for the aliens is bad because they're trying to formulate a way to destroy us and that's bad but like data being taken in and of itself isn't that destructive it's not going to make it to where people can't grow food in the earth They were trying to warn us about Doge.

Yeah, that explains why it's ropey CGI. Yeah. It's best not to think too hard about all of this after all anyway. So the daddy daughter GPU unit race to save the reporter lady. And that is our 12th clip. I'm sorry! Hey, listen to me! Her mother's in the building, understand? Let us through! You can't go in, Professor. Why not? The whole place is gonna blow in 10 minutes.

What? Cut the giddy's orders. Come on. Come on. We gotta get out. Now. I think I know what the aliens want. There's no more time. The whole building's coming down in ten minutes. Go on. Move. What about you? I can do this faster than you. Go find a guard and ask him to tell Katagiri to postpone the blast. Hurry up! Dad, don't be too long, okay?

I promise, sweetie. All right, here we go. At the end of our 12th clip, the military rolls out to evacuate the blast zone that leads to more dialogue and our 13th clip. Bombs in place. All units pulling out now. Detonation at 2110, precisely. Check. Detonation at 2110. All units. Detonation at 2110. Two people are still inside the tower, sir. Who gave them access? I did, sir. Clear the area immediately. No delays.

There's still a man in the building. Postpone the detonation. Proceed as instructed. It's Shinoda in there, sir. Looks like I'm gonna have to send more flowers. Too late. We gotta go! Follow me! With this, the dad tries to flee the building and the reporter turns the car around to take herself and the daughter back to the building that is about to explode for some inexplicable reason. At least leave the daughter there so she can run further away from...

the explosion and then you go back and get the guy maybe, but whatever. There was a lot of child endangerment in this that made me try to explain to my kid later that it was not an adult, it was a child. And this silliness actually takes us over the two-thirds mark of the film. So let's go back to that discussion. Yeah, there's a couple of things that end up happening in here where I'm like, this parent is terrible. This kid thinks that they're an adult and have every right to risk their life.

lives as much as all of these adults around her do. All because she kind of is the person that's in charge of this Godzilla prediction network, which we kind of had a little bit of minutiae discussion that you'll hear in the outtakes later, but I'll kind of bring it up here too.

So there's a network. It's loosely put together. It's very anarchist the way that it is. They all have a buy-in for this collective, right? Yeah. They explained it in one of the clips earlier that we end up hearing where they all have a buy-in and they spend a certain amount of yen.

And then they have annual dues that they all are responsible for to help fund this collective network. And then they all share in the financial windfalls and earnings of whatever information they draw from studying Godzilla together. And each individual person or group of people that pay their dues have a unit or a prediction unit that they also self-fund all of their equipment and go out and have like seismic equipment and all of this kind of stuff. It's a really cool.

collective and it's very kind of anarchist and leftist and just really fucking neat that they put this into the film that that's like the solution is the scientists all get together and like nah we're all just gonna buy in and do this and then whatever financial windfall that comes out of it we're all gonna share it It's fucking cool. The GPUU, the GPU United or Union. Yeah, well, it's the GPUN, right?

Yeah, there you go. Yeah, yeah. The GPU Godzilla Prediction United Network. And each individual unit is a unit that is united into the network. And they are, you know, hammering, sickling it up. And I think that's fucking sweet. All right. Are we ready to move into the run to the end then? I, yeah, I think so.

All right, well, let's do it then. So the run to the end starts with the main human commander about to blow up the building with our main character dad still in it and the reporter and a child just outside of it because they didn't think things through, I guess. And child safety is not a thing.

that the Japanese are concerned with. The military commander explodes the building just below the ship and there is a smoke pattern that is... comically shaped exactly like the ship was almost cartoon like like the joke of the cartoon where you would see like a smoke outline of a person with a line when they run away or something like that that's exactly what it looked like and then when the smoke finally clears away from the ship

It's revealed to still be just absolutely fine and hovering right there. But the building just below it is all scorched and burnt to a crisp and blackened for a few floors. It just looks nasty. The alien ship decides to show off and literally explodes the whole goddamn building, sending the dad to slide down the elevator cables with his bare hands and causing a terrific model explosion shot or two to be...

mixed in with all of this. I was going to talk about how that sliding down the cable using his bare hands would destroy his hands and he should have used a belt or something like that. But when the daughter and reporter go in, what is left of the building looking for the dad?

He emerges from a floor grate with his hand all wrapped up in like a really bloodied bandage. He's also sufficiently injured enough everywhere else and covered in blood to make this believable enough to where I'm going to let it go. But seriously, if you're going to try and slide down a metal cable like that, you will.

destroy your hands. You will probably lose some fingers to it. Don't do that. And a good portion of the palm of your hand. Yeah, you're going to lose a lot of shit, man. It's going to rip up your body. You need to use a belt or you need to use something else like a chain to wrap around there that you can tighten to control how far fast you slide down to. It's going to be hard to operate that electron microscope. Right.

All right, so the daughter hugs her dad and cries, and we have this wonderful reuniting moment that's very touching, and he proudly displays the laptop to the reporter with a smile, and then they cut from that to our 14th clip. Nice try.

Asshole. See here? They want to change our atmosphere to make it more suitable to their living conditions. They want to build their own empire on Earth. But they need more information. Look at this. Why are they so interested in Godzilla? Give me your pin, Voxy, you. I don't get it. Something without form can take on another one. Regenerator G1?

Godzilla's into the bay! With this, Godzilla stomps his way towards the alien spaceship and is ready to kick some ass and take some names. They are using a lot of green screen compositing for the destruction happening while he's walking through the cityscape and it leaves a bunch of dust and debris moving in.

directions that doesn't look great and it just makes me sad because a model would have looked so much better the lighting on the suit does look fantastic during those shots though so i gotta give them props for when they do it right man that suit looks fucking terrific

That stayed constant through. Yeah, yeah. When Godzilla gets close to the ship, it flies off to the top of another tower, and weird tendril things break through a model of a city street, and it looks terrific for sure because it's an actual model. You see the actual... tendrils breaking through and it looks great.

The tendrils break from underground and completely ensnare Big G, taking him down to the ground before dragging him across the ground and towards the ship in a very violent and fuck your couch kind of way. This obviously pisses off Big G, who stands up, uses his atomic breath to heat up and melt most of those things off of his spines. And then the atomic breath reaches his throat to fire it off, which he does, blasting the tower.

and the ship which takes off to swarm by Big G who catches it with his tail sending it spiraling through the air. The ship stabilizes and then blasts Big G who stands and takes the blast for what seems like forever.

before it takes him to the ground. The ship flies off to the top of a tower above and Big G stands up to try and find where the ship went. We see the ship is above Big G and it hits him with what looks like some kind of gravity wave or... force field that crushes him and pushes him down it then knocks a tower down on top of him with that same wave the humans are terrified and we see the cgi devastation left behind from the building collapse the ship flies above

of the wreckage and the light forms, which prompts more expository dialogue and are 15. What's that? The tendrils again. The tendrils pull out the Godzilla special sauce. And then this stuff from the ship regenerates from that power into what looks like some kind of an Independence Day alien done bad CGI wise that is apparently called the Millennium, I guess.

I don't know. That's what Wikipedia said when I was looking up some facts in the background. This version of the alien that looks kind of like a badly done CGI Independence Day alien. It's called the Millennium. I was getting those vibes and War of the Worlds walkers. Yeah, a little bit more of like an organic version of the War of the Worlds walkers, I'd say. But it also has the head shape, which was probably where, let's face it, the...

independent state aliens were probably influenced a little bit by the aliens from war of the worlds too so there's that yeah yeah but anyway this millennium hovers there in the frame prompting people to talk about him in our 16th club what's going on It's Regenerator G1

He's using it to adapt to our atmosphere. At the end of the clip, Godzilla explodes out of the rubble and fires off some CGI atomic breath right at the alien ship. And that sends off a ton of sparks and explosions while it's hitting. everywhere it hits. The ship explodes into bigger fiery chunks and one of them hurdles towards the humans. Godzilla watches triumphantly as the exploded ship burns and then the mutated form of the Millennium emerges.

from behind the wrecked ship in its next form, which is known as Orga, apparently. And since this looks like a person in a suit, we finally know that we are about to get some Kaiju stomping badassery. So let's fucking...

Get into it. Yes, finally. This battle starts as a slobber knocker sort of tooth and claw affair with a decent amount of slamming and shoving. A rare Godzilla headbutt happens here as well. It's a really nice sequence that shows off. how much bigger the form of Orga actually is than Godzilla that it's been mutating from. And then there is like a claw smash that puts Godzilla on the back foot because the claw is almost as big as Godzilla on this fucking monster.

And then Orgo then fires off that back cannon thing. Apparently like the ship is made out of some of the same DNA that the alien is because it has the same cannon that the ship does. But I totally thought the ship turned into it at first. Yeah, but no, no. it doesn't really turn into it. It's the ship and the alien are like,

like using some of the same biotechnical DNA, I guess. I don't know. It's like the fly. They spliced a little. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. But anyway, it has a back cannon thing and it blasts Godzilla back into the building, sticking him there by the spines and plates. I was really taken aback by that for a second.

I'm amazed that it took them this long to think of trapping Godzilla with his backplates, but that, but that was fucking cool. Watching him have to sort of snap his way out of the building like that. Whenever it got shoved in there, like, you know, he gets dropped to the ground from above.

by Mothra and so many flying opponents. And never until now have they actually had him get stuck on his spines that he has to wiggle his way loose, right? Like, why is it taking them this long to like 1999 to think of that? I mean, the technology had to arrive, I guess.

Maybe. It does look cool, though. I really like watching him snap and break his way out of the building with his spine stuck in it. I thought that was fucking cool. I really dug it. It makes total sense that you know somebody thought about it previously. They just weren't allowed to or couldn't pull.

it off maybe i think it's because the spines before were never really like a lot more rigid so they couldn't make it believable but this is the first god's illicit with some really rigid spines so maybe that's the case too So the ship goes back into the air and Orga then does a tall building and a single bound kind of leap that puts it way out of Godzilla's reach. This giant Superman-esque jump distracts Godzilla.

so the ship can smack into him from the side. Once back up, Big G fires up the atomic breath and the ship seems to sort of sacrifice itself to save the orga creature, which miraculously is very hurt by the atomic breath.

Once the ship fully explodes and it only gets a little bit of the hit, he seems particularly vulnerable is what I'm getting at. The injury on Orga heals really, really quickly as well, though. So the Godzilla... like it heals like godzilla style but like really really quickly but it also causes him to mutate again because whatever parts got burned like then stick out and become weirder and like misshapen

So like it's doing some serious like cellular damage that the Orga creature is not repairing. Right. I'm guessing with a Godzilla's breath. I think that's what they're implying. They don't explain it to us. They just show us. And that's what we're supposed to assume. Watch it. Just enjoy. Big G comes in to do some tail stomping damage as we return to a tooth and claw classic wrestling bout before Orga clamps down onto Godzilla's arm and starts using some CGI created power.

to siphon the good stuff out of big g and gain more power not sure if they're taking the regenerator x here or they're just taking something else but you know what the scientist knows exactly what's happening and he's going to explain it to us in our next list Look at that!

He's trying to become a Godzilla clone. The look on the face of the main military guy during that clip alone made it worth recording. Orga seems to be particularly vulnerable to the atomic breath as one blast rips away a big chunk from the top of his head. But the regeneration...

Regeneration Orga's stole seems to really be out of control as the healing bit on its head mutates and looks like it can't really handle regenerating as well as what Godzilla does. Because again, we talked about it earlier, those weird misshapen sort of like tumor. looking things start growing out of this version of Orga as well.

Godzilla gives him a full-on fireball, huge explosion-inducing amount of atomic breath blasting at Orga. And after the fire finally dies out, it emerges from the fire blast and smoke. fucked up and smoking, making all sorts of like super hurt monster creature noises as it does this. And we see it slowly start to CGI heal yet again, which then accelerates until it is fully healed. And then the mouth and jaw mute. I don't know how to describe it.

but it just looked nasty. Like maybe some like Viper extending portions, but like parts of it also look like a sea anemone the way that it, I can't pronounce that word right, but like it just looked like one of those things like just unfolding to it. It just looked just Lovecraft nightmare. Not right. That's basically what I'm kidding. Yeah, there you go.

The mouth and jaw mutate on the orga and they open up even further. And then for some reason, Godzilla walks right into and is partially swallowed by this new mouth. This leaves everyone perplexed as to why Godzilla did this, including the audience.

And we see Orga drawing more power and that good stuff out of Godzilla and starts to make itself more of a clone. It even starts to grow a... back plate or two until Godzilla slowly turns red in the back plate areas, which then accelerates to all of him glowing really bright red and turning into a flaming Godzilla.

causing the orca to explode into fiery chunks and leveling the buildings surrounding them. It's like a almost like mini meltdown that he does. It explodes everywhere. The smoke from this clears and we see Godzilla there with electrical discharge. and sparks shooting across his back plates there is a shot of the arms and feet of orga emerging from the clearing smoke and godzilla bellows out a huge challenge roar or two before it is revealed that orga falls over dead

and the top half of it is smoldering and blackened and just fucking gone. Big G roars again in triumph with eight minutes of scream time left. They focus in on Orca decaying and collapsing and we get some... miniature expository dialogue in our pent-ultimate clip. Boy, that's ironic. It woke up after 60 million years, and then Godzilla destroyed it the very next day. Hmm. Yeah. Godzilla's coming! I've never seen Godzilla this close before. Leave me!

So what you heard there is Godzilla walking over to the building, staring down the guy that wants to be all tough and brave. Big G puts a claw in the building where the guy is... to show him how insignificant he is. And the man lights up a cigarette and fucks around, as you heard at the end of the clip.

He finds out when Godzilla smashes the fucking building, sending that dude plummeting to his death to be crushed in the falling debris on the way. And really, as much of a prick as that guy was, it's a fitting death. Yeah, I thought, looks like we're going to have to send some more. Exactly. What a fucking prick.

The dad from the PSU unit screams out the dude's name as he falls to his death, and we see Godzilla turn and casually stroll away. And as always, there has to be final human thoughts on Big G, which is our final clip.

We scientists produced this monster, Godzilla. And ever since, we tried to destroy him. But then why? Why does he keep protecting us? Maybe because... Godzilla is inside each one of us. The end of the clip has Godzilla light it up and fire a bunch of atomic breath across a large swath of the city before a huge fiery explosion covers everything in sight and they roll those fucking... Credits. Cinema silence. Ten. Ten years. Ten years. All right.

I freely admit the story is all over the place and it's difficult to follow. More or less, you just have to boil it down to alien spaceship crash land away from sun. Volcanic explosions under the sea hold it and...

trap it in place until man comes to fuck around, finds out what it is. Godzilla saves the day once again and destroys the ship and the creature that it was contained therein, even though this creature was trying to take over the earth and basically inhabit it and make it its own planet.

of the same plot that we've had all along but in this case it's like this weird semi-sentient sort of creature almost like the ship version of this reminded me of flight of the navigator right like where it doesn't have a pilot and it's a ship that just kind of does its own thing

and you have no clue what's going on, and it looks so much like that ship, doesn't it? Yep. Flight of the Navigator plus an oyster out of its shell and a prosthetic nose. Well, yeah, the monster was the oyster out of its shell with a prosthetic nose. yeah and then there was like the millennium or whatever it was version of the alien which

I'm assuming that the alien is the ship. The ship is the alien because it has like the tendals coming off of it and all of that. And the ship projected out the cells of the alien and combined them with the regenerative. properties of the g-cell so the alien was basically dead but the ship is almost like a stasis pod that it travels in that kept it alive and then the stasis pod is what use the tendrils of the space stasis pod to learn about

Godzilla and then harvest the Godzilla cells that it needed to bring its alien back. So it's just a stasis pod doing its job. And if man would have just left it where they found it and not fucked around, we would have never found out any of this.

Yeah. Man fucks around, finds out Godzilla saves the day. Roll credits. Yeah. Yeah. That's basically it. I mean, they try to do a few more things with the way that the alien mutates and they just like, it has multiple forms and because that's just, that's just Japanese entertainment, man.

And your villain's going to have multiple forms and change. And you'll have different types of suits and different attacks on Godzilla. And sometimes it'll be a composite monster that breaks up into a bunch of smaller monsters and then menaces people. Just because it's a way to try and keep your interest and have you... save your budget by having smaller monsters attack people.

Yeah, like they did all sorts of different shit like that with these Godzilla movies. But I really enjoyed this one. And I really want to just state this is my favorite look of Godzilla is the Millennium Godzilla, the 2000 era Godzilla with the giant hardened backplate. that are sort of pinkish. The way that they light up and glow fiery red and you watch the sort of fire build up the back from like the lower midsection of Godzilla.

Like the tail and everything lights up all at once, but then it just kind of builds up his back as the fire reaches up his throat and across the back spines and everything for the atomic breath. He just looks sinister. The sculpt, we talked about this.

But the scales in the sculpt for the Millennium Godzillas are incredible. The detail that they end up putting into the suits on these are just absolutely fantastic. And this one is, like I said, it's my favorite. I absolutely love this look, including the way the scales are sculpted. and everything. I spent a shit ton of money on an action figure for this specific version of Godzilla.

I actually spent a shit ton of money because I did a variant for the colors. It has the original Godzilla colors with all of these crazy backplates, spines, and all of that stuff to it. Nice. Yeah, I absolutely love the look. of this Godzilla. We'll admit, the movie itself, kind of a bit of a mess, kind of hard to follow, not much of a story. Takes way too long for us to get Godzilla fighting another kaiju, but we get amazing sequences of Godzilla destroying stuff when we reintroduce him.

sequence of him biting that ship get to watch him destroy a small power plant uh i really enjoyed the gpu people particularly the guy and his daughter um they're like some of the least annoying humans in any of these films that i've seen so overall the films are really enjoyable for me And when we finally get to the fights, the fights are fucking great.

Yeah. And it's, you know, it's, it's under an hour 45. Yeah. It's like, it's one hour and like, it's short. It's just under an hour and 39 minutes. It's basically like it breaks up into 33 minute chunks for the story.

way that i did it for my thirds and almost perfectly it breaks up into like 33 minutes to 36 minutes give or take so it was great it actually was really easy to cover this way um i actually understood it a lot more than i ever did because i'll be honest with you i never paid attention to any of the dialogue in this before i actually covered it on the show i'm just here for the fights and i

love the way the suit looks and i don't care and there's also the downside of i noticed a lot more than what i normally do like the edges for the compositing and that issue with godzilla walking uh on water for a little bit You know, but it's fine. There's nothing that's going to do. Little tiddly things. Yeah, again. Or piddly things, whatever the word is. Minor little things that'll kind of make me chuckle the next time I'm watching it after I noticed it, but...

Everything overall is terrific, and this is one of the scariest and most horrifying Godzillas that they've made yet at this point. Like, it's really fucking good. He's very terrifying. The only thing I don't like about the Millennium series, which I'll just talk about it now because we might as well acknowledge it,

Almost every single film in the Millennium series is a reboot, and they ignore almost every film that came before them. Like, there's Godzilla 1954, then this movie. Then the next movie is there's Godzilla 1954, then the next movie. Like...

It's like every single one they were trying to reboot a franchise and try again. And it just, it's weird that they just aren't happy with the choices that I made in the previous one. And then they just abandon all hope and then just reset. So we've got a lot of reset buttons happening here.

It's kind of weird that that's also the one where, because there's so many resets that it's almost like this show got reset because of the resets in the movies. The ripple effect is large. Absolutely. You have anything else to say about it before we go into the storytelling?

where you can kind of tell the story about your son being a Godzilla fanatic. Oh, no, I'm good. All right, well, we're going to take a break here. We're going to play, also released in 1999, just like the film Godzilla 2000, the song. last kiss which is a cover that pearl jam did but it was released in 1999 and that's on the pirate radio edit and right after that These concepts we deal with daily is the fucking worst.

This is an unauthorized philosophical conversation and its duration has been deducted from your work hours. What the hell was that? Boris, the boss made some tweaks to the Babs unit designs and did his bad marketing thing to make it his own. Called it the Biological Organism Rescue Inhabitation System. Forest for short. Clearly someone else named it. It's not immaturely perverse or spiteful. That's fair. Back on track though, okay? Testing paradoxicentiation is going to prove a bit tricky.

How so? Well, in order for us to know sustenation is working, we have to knowingly create a paradox. And in order to create a paradox, we have to make a change in time that cannot self-sustain. So like we are trying... grandfather? Maybe Fermi? It's an easy one to create and attempt to sustain. I think the sort of thought exercise ones can be eliminated.

So Darren got away with the thing that Matt never gets away with. He was actually singing in the background. You're not going to hear it in the outtakes, probably because, well, we're talking over copyrighted music, and that defeats the purpose of a pirate radio edit to remove that out of there.

You know, it doesn't fucking matter. What does matter is... Just know that it happened. Yeah, that definitely happened. And I let him get away with it because he's Darren, mostly. And then also he was actually somewhat on key. So, yeah, there we go. Sometimes drummers can sing. Hey, just look at Phil Collins and then give us your story time. Story time.

Dream! All right. So tell us about how he's such a fan of Godzilla now. Yeah. So, um, you know, I don't think I've ever actually talked about this here. I don't know if I ever talked about it on my show or not, but yeah, I know you definitely not told me about it. On this show, because me being the huge Godzilla fanatic that I am, I'm eager to hear about it. Oh, okay. So...

Probably when he was around six or seven, he saw his first Godzilla movie. And yeah, I don't remember how we got around. It's not like, you know, yeah, I think it was just like, okay, I think.

old enough to check these out i you know you like dinosaurs let me show you something that's not a dinosaur but that we like and that you might like and um he and his mom watch a lot of uh sometimes i find out later that they watched one without me it's you know it's kind of like uh oh him and his mom and it's you know it's okay i get it like they like more of the actiony movies and i watch a lot of the sad political movies and stuff that i don't put on

to them. But yeah, he got into Godzilla. He really could, especially the old King Kong, he could not care about old King Kong. But he just got really into Godzilla, started getting Godzilla books. i told him uh that i was going to be doing this with you he went and dug out his god's like encyclopedia of godzilla or something that he has and he was looking it up and when we were um yeah so you know uh i guess

Going back a little further, I don't know how short you want me to make this. I tend to ramble on and on. I got his mom that big book box set of Godzilla movies. The Criterion Collection one with all the modern movies. Yeah, we used that for most of the films from that era that we covered for this show. So he tried to take it as his own. I think she kind of lets him have it.

He does have the only real DVD player in the house anyway in his room. So that's on his bookshelf. He likes to flip through it. He really likes getting the encyclopedias like this and Star Wars. Star Wars and stuff like that. He's just like, okay, do you, you know, he's always trying to test people's knowledge on stuff, but not in a pedantic sort of way. It's just, this is stuff you should know. Fun trivia about the things that he's obsessed with that he wants.

It's just like to make it, you know, like, hey, did you know this? And here's a fun fact. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, it's total fan stuff, like where you want to tell someone something else that they may not have known. I do it all the time still to this day while I'm watching a movie with someone. To the point where my wife's like, yeah, you've told me that like a hundred times, Court. Shut up.

You know, it's just, it's true fandom is what you're describing is like, he's really, really excited about it. He's really, really into it. And he likes to tell people as many facts as he can whenever they're into it too. And that's awesome. That sounds just incredible. Yeah. Really into it. You know, we've, they haven't really had any.

screenings near us of any of the old ones but there is a neighborhood theater that has played all of the ones that have come out since he's been alive and we've gone to see those and then he looked up the kaiju in um you know from this movie and

And I don't know what all he looked at. He has never seen this movie before. And we watched it last night. And he's a little bit of a pre-spoiler guy. You know, if you don't watch it, it'd be like, oh, in two minutes, this is going to happen. Or wait, wait, wait, just here. Look at this. Look at this.

And he knew a lot of the points of what was going to happen in this without, so it must be from one of his books. Yeah. Yeah. You probably got up on it. Yeah. So it was, it was fun and it was, it was, you know, I, I knew that I could. lean on his knowledge because this is a little bit less out of my wheelhouse.

You said he took notes or he had specific notes that he wanted you to tell us, right? Do you have those? So let's see. He said, make sure that I point out about the UFO parked hacking into people's computers. and stealing the information about how to beat Godzilla in the fight and wrote a couple of them down and then at one point he's like I'm not here to do your notes even though he kept telling me notes to write down Ha ha ha ha.

That's funny. Yeah, so he wanted to make sure that everybody understood that the reason that it hacked into all of those computers is it was trying to find information on how to defeat Godzilla. He wanted to make sure that the audience understood that. Yep, he wanted to understand that.

sort of like we talked about in our summary he said sometimes the plot got a little weird but really all he's all you've got i wrote this down really all you gotta know going into a godzilla movie is godzilla's job is to show up reef a city, beat up the kaiju, and then disappear back under the water, leaving people to think about what they did.

Grief a city? Is that like a new kid young term that I'm not familiar with? Yes. I think it's the summary of the destruction that Godzilla causes in causing grief. Right, right. The context makes sense. I just had not heard of that as a term before. I had not either. That's at least a term that your child uses more often. Mass devastation would be griefing a city if you do mass devastation.

station to a city, you grieve the city. Hey, if that's a term that he came up with on his own and other kids aren't saying it, that's still fucking slick. I like that. I might even steal that from him.

I think go for it. He does like to explore different uses of language. Oh, he's such your kid, is he not? Oh, yeah. I mean, we got into talking about the things in movies where... You know, like the bad guy with the giant boutonniere at the beginning of the movie is often wearing a big black trench coat. And the scientist dad was often wearing lighter clothes and they were more open, like his vest and stuff like that. And then we got into the...

The symbolism of the guy wearing the black hat versus the guy wearing the white hat, good and evil. And the racism connotations that come along with that. We went down a rabbit hole about America having a bit nuts. You know, he's like, well, you know, it was Japanese, though. So it's not that it was like, oh, there's racism everywhere. And, you know, you know how it goes in this house. Some of the most egregious.

blackface I've ever seen was in a Japanese film that was made solely for American audiences. Yeah. Is it, I can't remember which order it's supposed to be in, but it's either Frankenstein girl versus vampire girl or vampire girl versus Franken. I think it's vampire girl versus Frankenstein girl. There is some egregiously horrific blackface in that film that is like super offensive.

And they made it for American audiences. So I think they think that's what Americans want, which fair enough. You know, you kind of got us there, I guess. They've got a big enough audience to guess that correctly. All right. Well, I think that's going to wrap up our story time slash bit of a rant, but I'm super impressed with everything that the little one has as far as knowledge when it comes to Godzilla. And hey, if there's other movies that they haven't seen.

hit me up with some titles that they need to see and I'll see if I can. I've got copies of them as long as I haven't deleted them already. If you haven't seen this and any of the ones forward in the Millennium series, now's the time to get them off of me before I delete those copies.

Awesome. Yeah, I will. I'll ask him. And either way, he'll say thanks for offering. Yeah, if he already has them, cool. But if not, any of the titles, if I still have them, I haven't deleted them yet. If I need to re-rip them, I guess I will.

But just let me know. I'll see if I can get him a copy. And yeah, I probably have some extra copies too that I could hand over as well. So there we go. Why don't we go ahead and play the show housekeeping here? We're going to take that break. And then when we come back after the show housekeeping, we're going to play a song.

from the band Citizen King, which was also released in 1999, like the film Godzilla 2000. It's the song Better Days, which you could not escape in 1999. And you'll hear that immediately following this.

If you've decided... I think... The sort of thought exercise ones can be eliminated as easy to reproduce for testing. Let's see, the barber, liar, and newcomers are more of a logical concept, so those are not likely. Also, I think the grandfather...

paradox is going to be a voluntold situation if we try to Sarah Connor our way into testing these bad boys. Good point. Time travel seems to be our best bet for testing, though, so we could try to just go back and remove someone from every... existing but how do we know unless we observe the removable with the 3td maybe and then if we remember it happened it did and then we have a paradox that we're sustaining hey why is court double five three two one

smashing up his lab over there. Twist the nipple on the perv there. Yeah, I heard it. As I said it, he's such a fucking child. I know. Is that device some kind of weird contraption that shoots DMT, endorphins, and serotonin? and the exact amount that is released at the point of death directly into the neurotransmitters of the brain? I would take an educated guess that the device would suspend someone at the point of near-death experience in...

Definitely well connected to it, and they continue to live while that's happening. If this is how Court 55321 comes to invent his version of the Mobius Loop of Annihilation, it stands to reason that a version of the Grandfather Paradox was used. Which, as I am mentioning it right now, the loop is really just self-replicating paradox anyway, that is fueled by the connection to the 3TD, to the near-death settings. No paradox-sustaining devices being used in this case, then.

Why does he not get that? Probably because marketing needs at least a... little empathy to understand others in order to manipulate them that he lacks. So he is terrible at appealing to anyone. I'd feel sad for him if he wasn't such a colossal asshat.

Oh fuck, speak of the devil. Shit, why did they let him watch Undercover Boss? He can't really think he's fooling anyone. Never fail. In 1999, you walk into a convenience store and it was almost like that was the security trigger to say that someone... Someone just walked through the door. That song was playing somewhere. McDonald's, man. Fucking 7-Elevens. Convenience stores of all sorts. Fucking Kmart's like it was goddamn Muzak.

That song was everywhere. It really was. You couldn't escape it in 1999. Am I over-exaggerating, or was this your experience as well? It was everywhere. I don't think I've ever chosen to listen to this song, and I've heard it. heard it 15 times at least.

Well, I'm glad to be the 16th one to play that for you. There's only one other song I can think of that was released in 1999, was popular in 1999, just like Godzilla 2000, you know, the same year that it was released. And that one had to be included. in the Pirate Radio edit to close out the show for this week. 100%, the song that you could not escape from 1999 is from Everlast with the song What It's Like.

On the Pirate Radio Edit. So kick the fuck out of this week and make it your bitch while you enjoy that song. Shit, why did they let him watch Undercover Boss? He can't really think he's fooling anyone when he does this, can he? Look, I'm pulling rank on you. I'm not pretending to not recognize him for the 50th fucking time while he fishes for compliments and ego-boosting. Bullshit.

Okay, very good. Looks like a new recruit has come to our department. So this guy right here. Golly, thanks. This guy is going to show you the ropes today. Jeffon? Oh, it's, uh, Jevin. Jevin? Jevin. Jevin? God. So we're putting the perv into ASMR mode right now. What do you think of Zevin? Isn't he like the coolest? I love having him as a boss. I think he does so many amazing things with the company. What is your favorite thing he has done as your boss? Don't tell anyone this.

but I heard he sometimes comes out to the factory floor or the labs to work in disguise because he became a huge fanatic of undercover boss. If that is true, that would be kind of cool. Oh, really? Like, if I were... Hey, thanks again for doing this, man. I greatly appreciate it. I should warn you, I'm already recording, so I'm going to use everything. Okay, cool. Yeah, it's been a minute since I've been on here. Does it sound like I'm using my microphone and not my computer? It tells me.

i am oh yeah yeah you definitely sound pretty incredible it's like you're in the room using one of my mics with me actually that's pretty nice yeah sweet you'd be so recording in progress there we go i'm like i bought it but now i don't remember what it is Let's see. I believe one of the times you and I recorded before for Gershow in the past after you just got it. We talked about it and you knew what it was then and I'm pretty sure you got that SM7. I've been drooling over those.

Once the consecutive episodes that you're helping keep going alive here on this ends, I am actually going to probably be retiring the old equipment and the old rack because it's getting to be too much of a pain to maintain it for the show every year. Oh, wow.

to just probably go to like a digital, because those digital mics have improved to the point where they made the need for the equipment in the years that I've been doing this show useless now. You know, technology caught up to what I wanted it to. Finally. Yeah. took 10 years of me doing this show for me to accept that it did.

I knew that this was like a edited version of the Japanese release or something like that. Usually. Yeah. They usually do stuff like that. This one is actually one of the ones where it's just, this was a straight Toho to America release. So it's pretty much as it is. And from here,

here on out they don't really re-edit them as much in the millennial series and we can get into that as sort of our our discussion of when we actually bring in our inner patter or pablum or whatever you want to say um that's actually a good place to bring internet so i'm glad that you suggested it um

I'll probably keep you for about an hour and a half-ish, give or take on how long it takes for us to do the show. And if we're having fun and we goof off too much, then it'll be longer, and that's not my fault. Yeah, that's how it goes. Jam sessions go. I'm rolling on.

My main recorder. I already started the backup recording and I think we're ready to go. All right, let me take a hit and then I'll be ready to do the voice. So three, two, one. All right, fix all of that bullshit, Cork. Go back. Jesus fucking Christ. Three, two, one.

combination of not enough caffeine low sleep and still getting high to do the show because it's more fun that way hey man go for it i'm on a calm down gummy because i was at children's hockey this morning As you notice, all dialogue becomes a clip and...

This is about to be a good chunk of the movie because it's 13 minutes and 28 seconds of screen time I got to cut down. Oh. Well, there's a lot of not dialogue in there, too, that gets cut out. But it's 13 minutes of screen time that just gets turned into a clip so I don't have to write about it. That's how lazy I've gotten, Darren. That's how creative you've gotten with your editing. That's fair. I always love your spin. Oh, I got to spin a lot of things.

Three, two, one. Oh, God, I'm pathetic. All right, three, two, one. I think you said GPU instead of GPN. Well, there's the GPU because there is an actual Godzilla protection unit, but they're a part of the Godzilla protection network. So the daddy daughter is a unit of the network. Isn't that cool? They are the unit. Okay, perfect. Yeah. Thank you. Hey, this type of minutiae is what I fucking live for. So thanks for bringing it up, even if it's during an outtake.

GPU, GPN, CCI, UFO. Yeah. And then there's the G-Force. Regenerator G1. Yeah. And then the G-Force. I hope you like acronyms and a lot of weird words that don't really explain what the fuck is going on, because that's what you get in this Godzilla universe. Alright, let me move my clips up.

Every now and then something flashes on my screen and I think I'm losing you because Matt's calls always drop on us. Oh, do they? So I'm always looking up, making sure you're still there. It messes me up for a minute. All right, I think I got everything. And, yep, three, two, one. This is what happens whenever you record a show with unedited clips where the clips need to be cut down, but you didn't cut them down.

That's all the studio magic. Yeah, it's all the court and his spare time spending it making this show happen. for multiple weeks consecutively with the help of his friends who do the show with him, you know. All right, so three, two, one.

Could you imagine? If that undercover boss thing were true and I worked with him, I don't know if I would be able to handle it if I found out after and I said something hurtful or did something to anger him. I would honestly be way more worried if I were the unspecified. engineer that killed a goodly portion of our friends and had to for reasons no one understands at all and back out at the same labs i exploded a few months ago the uh unspecified engineer made an honest mistake

and I frankly admire Zevon for forgiving them and allowing them to stay on. Self-preservation is like that. Sorry, what was that? The resonator is in an ice bath. Uh, good. Okay, what am I doing today as your, uh, new staff member? Unfortunately, you join us... on the day of our most important yet wholly most unfun task imaginable. That's right. It's collating time. Seems a lot of departments do collating time at different times and always when I'm training there.

Call it a coincidence. Best not to overthink that. The song that you could not escape from 1999 is from Everlast with the song What It's Like. On the pirate radio edit. So kick the fuck out of this weekend. Make it your bitch while you enjoy that song. All right, I just kind of closed out on it. It's fine. I'm not going to.

not gonna like you know um play that because it's just it's it's a long ass song we don't we don't need it so there we go all right and i'm going to stop the recording so we can stop this yay recording stopped