The Tallest Kaiju Podcast

Godzilla vs. Megalon with Kevin Northman

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SPEAKER_01

In today's episode, I'm joined by Kevin Northman. Kevin Northman is a voiceover actor doing things such as commercials, e-learning videos, animated shows and movies, video games. He has amassed an incredible resume of work over the years, and he is an incredible voice actor as well. Please tune in to the end of the episode when he plugs all of the things that he needs to plug, but also look into the description of this video and please follow the links that I have presented so you could follow Kevin on social media and his projects and other projects as well. Please welcome Kevin in today's episode as we discuss Godzilla versus Megalon. All right. First things first, what was your introduction to Kaiju cinema and how has it affected your trajectory as an artist?

SPEAKER_00

So uh I think my my my real first introduction to Kaiju was would probably be the original Kong versus Godzilla. Um pretty much like I I would think most other guys my age. Um then it it it kind of went on from there with obviously like the Power Rangers. Uh like how could if you're a kid in the 90s, like how do you not watch Power Rangers, you know? Um so it it just sort of really it affected me in in in a way of just like I mean I you know you never you never realized it at the time because you're just a kid, you know. But you know, I I'd be sitting there watching TV and whether it's a commercial or a cartoon and I'd be like mimicking it and making fun of it and just like doing voices and stuff like that. And so um I don't know, I just one day was like, I think that that would be like a cool thing to do, you know, and and and I don't know how old I was back then, but like what 30 something years later, as a 42-year-old man, I'm like getting into voice acting and doing all this fun stuff. So uh yeah, it just kind of it just really fed my nerdom. And on top of it, going to conventions and and meeting all my friends who I know now, you, you know, and like yeah, just help it really helped create like the the community that I'm in.

SPEAKER_01

So yeah, and I think that um something that I just thought about when it comes to even Power Rangers and you know, the older Godzilla movies, you know, a lot of those things, like especially the Godzilla stuff, you know, they're dubbed. And I think as a voice actor, I feel like when you're watching like an American dub of something, there's something that I'm sure like I could see how that maybe planted some seeds in your head for later to like follow this path, right? And even with um Power Rangers, like a lot of it, I'm sure is ADR with their communicating when they're in the suits. Oh no, I don't know, just something like this, right? Um so I I I definitely love that through line there, you know.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah, and that's it's funny too, because um, well, one um Brian Cranston of all people uh voiced one of the villains in one episode. Um then um, but the uh second Black Ranger uh to come onto the show was uh Johnny Young Bosch, who's a prolific voice actor in anime. You would know him as like Vash the Stampede, Ichigo from Bleach, and literally hundreds and hundreds of other major characters. Uh so he he first started um as the Black Ranger. That was his first gig. And during an ADR session where they had their helmets on, he was doing the voiceover for it. And this woman was like, Hey, like you have a really good voice for this. Do you want to audition for this thing? And he's like, Oh, I don't know, I'm just doing this Power Ranger thing. And they're like, She's like, No, no, no, no, but like just do this. And he auditioned and he got the job, and that's what led him to get Bash the Stampede. So yeah, it's just it's just sort of sort of like this thing of like, it's kind of fun, it's kind of whatever. I'm gonna see where it takes me, you know, where it could take me, and you never know where it could take you, you know. So yeah, I just I I loved it without even knowing I loved it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, no, that's that's amazing. And if you were able to choose like an an anime currently happening or um wrapped up in the past, what would be like the perfect show for you to be a part of?

SPEAKER_00

Uh man. I mean, I would probab I would probably go with like I would probably go with Dragon Ball Z or like any like all the Dragon Ball stuff, just because it's still going, and that means I still have work.

SPEAKER_01

Right. Yeah, you still have a job. Yeah. No, that's awesome. Yeah. Um speaking of anime, I've been wanting to uh get into One Piece because the live action Netflix is going on, but like, man, that's a lot of content.

SPEAKER_00

It is a lot, yeah. So I I myself have never watched One Piece. I started reading it because it is actually way faster to get through. Um and but I did watch the first season of the show and I started the second season already. And um, I mean, even from one of my coworkers is a really big uh One Piece fan, and he's happy with it. I feel like a lot of the One Piece community, most of them are pretty, pretty happy with it. Like they did a really good job of like condensing a lot of material into a few episodes, which I think they are actually doing that where like with Dragon Ball Z, they did Dragon Ball Kai, where they just took all the episodes of Z and cut them down so they were like more palatable. And I think that they're doing that with um One Piece right now.

SPEAKER_01

Yep, yep, they are. I don't know when it's releasing, but I think um I think like 25 episodes or something. I don't I don't remember what the number was, but it was a lot less than what you got in like that first anime season. Because wasn't it like a hundred episodes or something in the first anime or something? I don't know. I just know it's a lot. I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it's a lot, it's always a lot.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, but I did read the manga for the East Blue arc because I did I I had that same mentality that you did because I was like, okay, much faster to read them on uh much faster to read the manga, I think. Um so if I ever did jump back into it, especially after watching the live action show, because that's really like um getting me interested again. It would I would try the manga first or watch the anime at like times three speed, which at that point you're not really grasping anything happening, right?

SPEAKER_00

Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

But super awesome. Um, so why don't you go ahead and introduce us to what the topic of today's episode is?

SPEAKER_00

All right, we are talking about Godzilla versus Megalon, also featuring Jet Jaguar and and uh Geigen. Um, yeah, so what I'm um the synopsis of this movie. Yeah. So I mean, yeah, it's probably be a long synopsis. I took some notes here real quick. So basically, in the beginning, they're talking about uh how in um in 1971 they're blowing up nukes underground, and that ends up causing a bunch of earthquakes. And there is an underground society of people called the Cetopians who want to get revenge on the uh surface uh dwellers um for for like destroying a third or maybe even two-thirds of their population or something like that. Um, so that's where that's the whole kind of gist of it. Um, but then we meet our heroes, uh Rokoro, uh, who's like a little boy, and he's on this like giant fish toy. Do you remember that? It's like a he's he's like in a pond, and he's like it's like a giant colorful fish with these other two smaller fish as like its paddles. And then these two strange adult men like having a picnic on the hill, uh is Jinkawa and Goro, who are like the two main heroes. Um, and they're like the and then so they're they're hanging out, and then an earthquake happens, and then the water's going, and they're like, oh my god, we gotta like save, we gotta get Rokoro like out of the water. So they pull this like stick, it's like Daredevil's weapon, like out of this bag, and they launch it all the way out to Rokoro, and he ties it around, and then they like pull him into safety. And I just like thought it was really weird. I was like, I don't know what that thing was, but anyway, so they they they they're all safe. They drive back to their um laboratory, and um this also this is also a weird thing that I saw was um or I I heard in the movie, was uh they get to their laboratory and the the I think the bad guys are there already or something, and they're trying to like steal Jet Jaguar, and they get into a scuffle and they they knock them out, they they knock out the good guys. But Rokoro calls Goro dad. But they but then when I looked up, when I was like looking at IMDB, like their characters don't have the same like last name. So I was like, it was like a really weird little blip. And I was like, I did watch it, I did watch the dub version, obviously, because it's like always doing homework, even if it's super old dubbing, like it it's still useful in some aspect, right? Um but yeah, I was just like that was kind of weird, and then he never calls him dad again. Uh and the the I was just maybe there was like for American audiences or something, I don't know. Um so they get into the office, and uh the other guy on Jinkawa, he's like an action hero race car driver guy, he chases the bad guys off. So then Goro and uh Rokoro go into the laboratory and they find this like red sand on the ground. And Goro being a scientist, he turns it into a crystal, and that's what he uses to power up jet jaguar. And that's I don't know, that's the explanation for that, I guess. Um so then after Jinkawa comes back from chasing down the the the bad guys, he he chases them off, they go away, whatever. So he's like, Well, I'm just gonna go back to the to the laboratory. He pulls up and he sees uh the little boy Rokoro working on a motorbike, like a little mini-bike. And this is a voice acting thing that I wanted to kind of bring up because I just thought it was old, old school, old fashioned, like dubbing language, acting, whatever. Uh he he pulls up and the little boy's like, oh, like uh Jin Kawa, like, how's it going? And then Jinkawa's like, Oh, I see you're working on a uh motorbike. And then the little boy says something like, Oh, well, yeah, but I don't know as much as you because you know you're you're uh you're a race car driver. And then he's like, Oh yeah, I mean, I'm only an amateur. But instead of saying an amateur, he says, but I'm only an amateur. And he's he's like, he says amateur, like really old, you know, like it's it's that like 19 amateur, you know, something like that. Yeah, like you know, I don't know. I just thought it was kind of funny, so I just like noted that. Um so then the bad guys, uh, they they break back in, they gas the heroes, they steal Jet Jaguar, they uh use him to guide Megalon, I think. Um eventually when Megalon shows up, they need him, they need them them to guide Megalon to where they want to like destroy. Um so then we finally meet the Cetopians, uh, which are is really weird. Uh they're like dancing, they're doing some sort of tribal dance, and then the main, the king or whatever is like, we're waging war against earthlings for destroying a third or two-thirds or whatever it was of our our um population. And then then he summons Megalon literally just by looking at this fissure in the rocks, being like, Megalon, I summon you, Megalon, and then like gas and stuff is coming out. Um, and then we cut to uh Goro and the kid are tied up in a shipping container. They they were kidnapped by the the the two henchmen. And um the so the deli the you see these delivery drivers, they're driving the truck, but they don't know what's in the container, they don't know there's the heroes are in the container. One of the henchmen is in the car with a gun, being like, drive this truck, we're gonna dump this container into the water.

SPEAKER_02

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_00

But like while they're while they're doing that, there's like there's like booby pics behind them. There's like nudie, like nudie photos. And I was like, this is like a Godzilla movie. And and I I just thought it was like for kids, right? So I it just kind of like took me a second to like realize that and be like, I don't know, I don't know whose audience what the audience is now. You know, is it for kids or is it not for kids or what? Um so then they uh uh oh yeah, so then they come back to the laboratory, and the other henchman who has uh Goro, the the scientist tied up, he's like he decides to um monologue. Or not Goro, he's got Jin Kawa tied up. So he decides to monologue about why they're doing everything and whatever. And he goes on to brag about how the Cetopians are so far advanced and they how they built their own sun and they have their own they built their own oxygen supply. And then Jinkawa is like, okay, well then like and why why do you need Jet Jaguar? And he's like, because we need robots, because you destroyed most of our civilization, and we need these robots. And he's like, Well then why don't you just if you're so smart and you could build your own sun, why can't you just build a fucking robot? Right, and then the guy's like, shut up, it doesn't matter, and then they just ignore that. Um, so then Jinkawa, he he slips out of his uh ropes and he fights the dude and he escapes. And he's like, Where are my friends? Talking about Goro and the kid in the crate, and he's like, Oh, they're in they're in a truck, and then he finds the truck. So I don't know how he found I can't remember how he found the truck because the guy was just like he they're in a truck. There's a lot of trucks out there, man. So good good a good eye on on spotting the one truck that they were in. Um so then uh that's when we finally see oh actually, no, he runs to go, he runs to go chase uh or he I'm sorry. He goes to find the truck and he gets chased by the bad guy. He the bad guy gets back up and gets in the car to chase him down, and then a motorcycle, a motorcycle guy shows up out of nowhere, and they're the he's helping him chase him down. The the bad guy crashes, the motorcycle guy crashes, and when the motorcycle guy crashes, there's like a rope, and he goes to like grab the rope to hoist himself up, and just like white paint comes out and just like gets all over him, and he's just like, Oh, what the hell? You know, and I just again just like some weird little thing that I just thought was funny. Then finally we see Megalon for the first time. He's at the dam, the truck is leaning, the crate's slipping out of the truck, Megalon's there, whatever. Um, and then the uh the the truck drivers are like, oh my god, there's this giant monster, what the hell? And then Jinkawa shows up and he's like, lower the truck, lower the truck, my friends are in there or something. And they're like, No, screw you. And they steal Jinkawa's car and they drive away in the car. So then Jinkawa's trying to figure out how to lower the truck, but then Megalon smacks the truck, the crate goes flying over a hilltop and it breaks open, and our heroes Goro and Rakoro are set free. Jinkawa runs up the staircase up the hill to then meet up with them. And uh that's when um Jij Jaguar flies in, and but he's under control of the Cetopians. So then Goro has this transmitter that he made from extra crystal sand stuff, and he's like, you know, J Jaguar, stop, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he doesn't listen um because he's like not in close enough range. And then the army shows up, it starts trying to kill Megalon. That the that never works. Human weapons don't ever work. Never. Um, yeah, they're just there for cannon fodder. Yep. Um, and they get into a helicopter, which the number on a helicopter is 69. Thank you very much. Nice. Um, nice. And uh I had I I'm sorry, I'm like a fifth grade has a sense of humor here.

SPEAKER_01

Um then you're gonna tell me another one said six seven, and then oh my god.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, no, if it was six seven, I would not mention that. Yeah, exactly. But now we're talking about six seven, so it's too late. I hope everyone's hands are going up and down right now. Yeah, six seven, six, seven. Yeah, anyway. All right, so so then um, yeah, so then they get they go up in the helicopter and they're about to have a head-on collision with Jet Jaguar, and then he uses a thing, and he's like, Jet Jaguar, stop, and he stops, avoiding collision, saving the day, and um the and then the Cetopians called for aid from I'm assuming the aliens that are the ones that have control of uh Geigen. Yeah, they just get on the phone and they're like, Hey, you know, can we borrow like your weapons of mass destruction for like just like a day, and then we'll like return it, whatever. And the aliens are like, Yeah, that's cool. And that that's how that went. So Gygen shows up and um Ja Jaguar. This was also really funny. Jed Jaguar like grows big for no reason, and then Goro's explanation, like Jinkawa goes to Goro. He's like, How did he do that? And he's like, I don't know. He must have programmed himself in some way to uh increase his own size. That's the explanation for that. I don't know, he just must have done it himself somehow. Yeah, but I will say, I will give him this though, to help out a little bit. Maybe it was like some Cetopian magic, sand. It's like when you turn the sand into a crystal, it has some sort of magic energy, and that's what it you know, Jet Jaguar used to grow big. Right. Um, so I I'll I'll just pretend that that's what it is for for my sake, so that I I can sleep at night.

SPEAKER_01

Right.

SPEAKER_00

Um so then uh Geigen and Megalon team up on a Jet Jaguar, and then Godzilla finally shows up and he's just strutting in, like, hey everybody, I'm here finally, with 10 minutes left in the movie. I'm here to, you know, save the day. And then he just starts beating the hell out of these guys. Like, and he's not even doing anything special, he's literally like boxing them with his fists. He's it's like literally, I like I was like, is he gonna throw a tail or a kick or a body slam? No, for the first like two two minutes when he shows up, he's just like punching them in the mouth, and I was like, that's actually kind of cool. Um so then uh then that gives Jit Jaguar some time to get back up, and uh they're fighting, the fight goes on, and then one of them, I can't remember who it is, I it might be um it might be Megalon, he like makes a ring of fire around them and they're like stuck. But I'm like, first off, like Jit Jaguar, you're made out of metal, like you could just walk out of there. And and then also Godzilla, like, you're you're made of gamma radiation, whatever. Like you could just walk over the fire, whatever.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it should not bother him.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, Jet Jaguar grabs Godzilla and pretends, acts like his like jet pack. He's like, click, I'll be your safety belt, and then like flies like upward into the sky, and then they just like land, I don't know, like 10 feet on the outside of the fire circle. And um they have like uh Gygan and Megal, uh Gygan and Megalon have this look on their face. They look at each other like like freaking home improvement. What the hell just happened? Right. I can't believe they can fly. What that and that that just made me laugh because just like the the way they looked. Um then you know they they do some more fly uh fighting and blah blah blah blah blah. Then finally, Godzilla does his flying tail kick. Is he on his tail? It's like when he does that, does he like is he putting his weight on his tail?

SPEAKER_01

I think so. I I think it maybe. I think like I don't, I mean, you're not gonna be able to physically explain how, you know, if we're if we're assuming like realistic physics, you know. Um but yeah, I think it's like the on the tail.

SPEAKER_00

You're talking like his yeah, he's got he's like sitting on his tail, and then he's like his feet are forward. He does that like three times right to the chest of of Megalon. And then um, and then I and then oh, and then before that, uh uh Jet Jaguar had Gigen like it was holding him back by his arms. Godzilla gives him this look, and he's just like, yeah. Do it. And then Jet Jaguar is just like, got it, boss. Literally, just like takes one of his arms and knees his elbow and like snaps Geigen's arm in half, like just breaks his arm. And then then then then Godzilla goes on and does the the flying kicks to Megalon. And then they both run off. Um and they're like, you know, like Geigen is just like, I'm not getting paid for this. Like, this is not what I signed up for. Yeah. So he he flies back to space. Megalon burrows back down into the ground, and the Cetopians are like, Well, I guess that's it. That's we tried game over. And then um Jet Jaguar shrinks back down, Godzilla walks back to the sea, and the heroes um and and and uh Jet Jaguar, the four of them walk home happily ever after, and that was the end of the movie. So it is one of my favorite ones, just because the I it takes forever, but the fight is really awesome.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, no, definitely I think that that's like the the best thing about it for sure. And the charm of like the ridiculous stuff too, like Godzilla and his tail, I think is is something that um is gonna be forever, whether um in a positive or negative way, it's gonna live on forever with um Godzilla. Every everybody is familiar with like that move. There's gifts of it all over the place. Um, I love that. And it's so interesting that like the end of it, both of the villains escape, right? Or not escape, but they just run away, tail between their legs. Um, interestingly enough, Gygan ended up dying in um zone fighter. Like I don't know how long later, but um Megalon and Ibera from Ibera Horrors of the Deep, those are the only two to like walk away from Godzilla still alive. And I think that that's that's so fascinating to me.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I I did not know that um until like I was kind of like look looking up a bit, you know, for this episode when I was taking my notes and stuff, and I had saw that mentioned online, and I was like, now now I gotta watch that. Because honestly, like after watching this movie again, like I know um you asked me before who my favorite was, and I was like angris, and I was like, I don't know, man, like like Megalon's kind of dope, and Gygan's kind of dope, and I mean obviously I love Godzilla, right? But uh aside from him, and people keep saying like Megalon is like a beetle or something, but and I I can see it, I definitely get, but he's underground, and he when he comes up, he has he sort of has this like cicada sound to him. So to me, I don't know. For me, I was like, all right, like is he like a half cicada, half beetle? I don't know. I'm just making it up, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I I um the interesting thing about that is like the I know the inspiration for Megalon, um, the look of him is like supposed to be like a Japanese rhinoceros beetle, but the the inspi like the inspiration for the character itself was from what's called a gibbarra, um, a giant mole cricket. Um, a giant mole cricket uh kaiju that was conceptualized as the villain for all monsters attack. So it was originally gonna be in that as like this giant mole cricket, but it eventually, you know, from there evolved to you know what we got as Megalon. So I wonder like a mole cricket, if that's where that like sound comes from. A little bit more of that aesthetic. I don't know if a mole cricket is a real thing. I'm not too I'm not too tuned into like what what insects and and bugs are out there and all that, but um that definitely I would think that you know it being a cricket, maybe that's where that noise comes from instead. Because like you said, it it it doesn't really give you beetle vibes that much, right? Right, right. Um yeah, I always thought that was fascinating.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that's just like a Google, a Google search away. Because now I'm now I gotta look at like a mole cricket. Yeah, because that just sounds like a hybrid of an insect and like a mole as we know it, like a little underground mammal, you know, like yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Like what if it was it was uh just that kaiju, they just called it a mole cricket because, like you said, it's a cricket coming from underground like Megalon does in this, and there's not even such a thing as a mole cricket. What if it's just a cricket that we're thinking about as inspiration, you know? Yeah, um, so fascinating.

SPEAKER_00

Love that. But uh yeah, so yeah, with Jet Jaguar, you had said something to me about like a kid's contest or something.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, so Jet uh Jet Jaguar was created by an elementary um elementary uh elementary school kid, I don't know why I couldn't say that, uh, during a Toho contest. And this kid, um, very obviously takes uh direct inspiration from Ultraman. Um and then Mazinger Z, which I've never heard of until I came across this information. But um I I like knowing that because I think the number one thing people see with Jet Jaguar is knockoff teemu version of Ultraman, right? Like, yeah, um, but yeah, I I don't know the context of that contest, but you know, I think it's pretty cool for um when companies do that because I've seen it in other media, but they do these contests and you know, just imagine being this kid and creating this thing for a Godzilla film, and they actually put it out there. I think that's pretty amazing.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah. There there was one that it it when you brought that up to me um before this episode, uh I it reminded me of this contest that I saw, I think it was in a game informer years ago when they were still making like the old Ratchet and Clank games. And the contest was to um draw your own um weapon, new weapon that Ratchet and Clank would use, and then like mail it into this you know, P.O. box and and then the winner gets their weapon put into the game. And so I drew this because I draw a lot, so I just like I drew this um I think it was like a cement mixer. So it was like a little, it was like a a gun, like the size of like a a rifle or whatever, but it had this like mini cement mixer drum on the top, and then at the front of it was uh I want to say it was like electricity, so that when you could like you could either like shoot the enemy and cover them in concrete, and then they like harden up for five seconds, and so you could like attack them more when they're frozen, or the secondary gun, like the secondary shot from it would be like uh cement bullets where the electricity or the fire, whatever was in the front of it, would like instantly harden the concrete and or like the the cement in the concrete and you'd be like shooting at them, whatever. It was a weird, it was a weird contest that I drew for a kid, and that's the Jet Jaguar story made me think of that.

SPEAKER_01

Now I'm just like Yeah, but it you you didn't I'm guessing your gun didn't make it into the game because that gun sounds dope.

SPEAKER_00

Like yeah, no, it did not make it in the game.

SPEAKER_01

That sounds like I'm sure that's more unique than what actually won. No offense to whoever won it, but it's just like I don't know, imagine like just being you know a kid and thinking of that. That's I don't know, I think that that's such like a unique idea. Um especially because even the visual of like that kind of gun, I could see that being in a a ratchet and clank game, you know what I mean? Because like they have that kind of the the whimsical kind of looking guns too.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it was like big and bright and yellow, and then the drum was yellow, but it had the black um you know stripes on it, like a construction zone or whatever. Yeah, so yeah, it I appreciate that. Yeah, it it seems like it would be a gun in there, but I don't know. I I don't I don't even know what which one ended up in there. I never looked it up.

SPEAKER_01

And do you know which ratchet and clink it was for? It was either two or three. Yeah, I'm gonna look it up after this episode because I'm now I'm interested.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, now I'm curious. I like I haven't I haven't thought about that in years, and then when I when you brought up the Judge Jaguire thing, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

What if they used years and they just didn't tell you they just stole your idea? That would be that would be great, but um because I never I never played Ratchet and Clank too much. I played the newest one for PS5, which was dope. Really like that a lot, but yeah, that'd be funny as hell if like well not that funny, but they just stole your idea. They're like, oh, some kid drew this, they're not gonna do anything about it.

SPEAKER_00

Right. I mean, I don't know. Like I never played any of them. I was I played Jack and Daxter. That was like those were my games, dude.

SPEAKER_01

That was yeah, me too. Yeah, I love Jack.

SPEAKER_00

I I still have I was I just like a few months ago, I 100% Jack One or J Jack and Daxter, and now I'm on Jack Two, trying to 100% that get all the achievements and all that. Yeah, and onto the third one.

SPEAKER_01

I remember when Jack Two dropped, and it's it's completely okay to go off on this tangent, by the way. But um uh Jack Two, me and my brother thought was so cool because we're kids and we were into Grand Theft Auto, and the thing that struck us right away is how Grand Theft Auto like it was, just how you could steal other people's hover cars and stuff like that. Yeah, it was it was so cool.

SPEAKER_00

Um, yeah, I like and I like that you could like do it right in front of one of the security guards and they don't care. It's only if you if you accidentally bump into one of them that they actually care, right? So you could like yeah, you could hijack a car and the security guards are like, Yeah, I don't know, whatever.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, but like keep keep going, you're good, you're good. Um, but uh I I want those games to get like remakes, proper remakes with like current gen um, you know, uh software and everything. Because I definitely think um that they're they're definitely they're ready for it. I think that it wouldn't be too hard to remaster, I'm sure. Yeah um and then throw in uh the Daxter spin-off too, right? Yeah, for PSP. Yeah, like if they if they had it on if they had these games in a collection for like PS5, you could add in like a console version of that PSP game, you know.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, for sure. Um yeah, easily, easily.

SPEAKER_01

Which I never played it. Um I played the you know one through three, but I never played the Daxter spin off, so it would be a good excuse to to get into that one.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I um my brother got me the Daxter spin-off and a PSP because he does a lot of thrifting and stuff, and he got me the Star Wars, it was a white PSP with on the back was Vader, like a black thing of like sticker, not I don't want to call it sticker, but whatever decal. And it was like limited edition, whatever. It was cool. And I started playing the Daxter game on there, and then I put it down, and a few months later I was like, Oh, I'm gonna go finish that game. And then I pick up the PSP and the battery like melted out, you know, so it was like all corroded, and I was like, Well, there goes that. Yeah, and it wasn't like it was anywhere like in the heat, it was in my bedroom in my dresser drawer, so I don't know what the hell happened, but the battery got fried on that thing.

SPEAKER_01

Oh wow, yeah. I I definitely want to know if there's concern for that because um I recently got a GameCube and I've been into hell yeah, um, and we've got a PS2 here, so I've been like slowly just kind of getting, you know, playing games that I used to play back in the day. I have an N64 as well, but I've been thinking about a PSP because me and my brother had a PSP, but either a cousin or a friend stole it from us, so we only got like a limited time with it, and I would love to like go back to it. So if there's something wrong with those batteries, I uh I want to make sure I don't screw myself over if I do get one, you know.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I'm sure you can find them for cheap on uh there's uh an app I use called Mercari. Mercari. Um yeah, they there's a lot of stuff on there, like like if you ever have like figurines to sell anime figures or anything else like that, Godzilla stuff that you're like, I don't want this anymore. Sell it on there. People buy that stuff fast, like super fast on there. Good to know. Yeah, and it and and they sell things on there very reasonably priced. It's a lot easier to use than eBay and other and other sites like that. So yeah, no, I'll send you, I'll send you the link later.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Um because other than that, it's disc replay. Um, I've got yeah, I've got um a few disc replays around me. Since I'm I'm somewhat closer to the Indiana border, there's a disc replay in Highland, Indiana that is awesome. Um, but there's a few that you know, a lot of them they sell a whole bunch of consoles, um including handheld. So yeah. Maybe after our conversation, it's gonna inspire me to play a PSP, you know, jump back into it, get Daxter, you know, finally play that one. Um but yeah, um, switching gears back to Megalon, um, something that I found that was interesting was that the box office for it in Japan was like super weak. It wasn't well received, it was it was on the lower side of things, but in America, in the United States, it it was pretty much a hit, even critically, which I find is crazy nowadays when you know most people don't consider this much of a critical darling when you know you consider all the Godzilla movies. But I read that some people were attributing this one to like the West's idea of Godzilla being like goofy fights in rubber suits, you know. Um, and I think the reason that if this this movie really did give that perception, I think it's because of Jet Jaguar. Because like when you see just like the monsters, people in suits, you're able to like separate a little bit, but when you see the dude doing the Ultraman thing, I think that kind of like anybody who watches that for their first Godzilla movie, they're just gonna assume like that's the standard for any Godzilla movie, you know? Yeah, yeah. And I think Kevin Jet Jaguar, um, this is just my assumption, but I think that having Jet Jaguar is what really uh convinced people of that notion.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah, I can definitely see that happening, especially with like his like kind of brighter color scheme. You know, he's not this like gross looking bug who's like brown and and green and like you know, like just this like walking turd, you know. He's like it looks like he could be a superhero from the Marvel universe or the DC universe that Americans um grew up with, right? Yeah, so yeah, you you see, and he in and yeah, he's in the shape of a man, not a lizard or a bug or anything else. It's like a guy. So they're like, Oh yeah, this is more palatable, which is I don't know, a little disappointing in American. You know, it's like, come on, man. Like, even it's like just watch the other stuff. It's all it's all good, it's all fun, you know?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

We're not they're not trying to win Oscars, you know. Like, I mean, I know zero one, didn't zero one won an Oscar.

SPEAKER_01

Um minus zero or minus one, minus one, minus one. Minus one, my sorry uh two two years ago now. But two years that I was so happy because I adore minus one. Um, I actually still have it here next to me. All right, this is the booklet from it, but um, before it was released on 4K in America, I went on a Japanese website and I bought the 4K that they have over there. Um, which it's not subtitled in English, but I was like, I don't care. I want to just see like yeah, you know, the the the beautiful 4K of this film on physical media. Um because I definitely love that one.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it it I actually just re-watched it two days ago, and yeah, man. I mean it's really good. And I I love that like at the ending, I mean, whoever's listening to this, if you have not seen this movie yet, um go first off, go watch, like pause it right now, go watch, and then come back to the rest of this podcast. It's really good and I'm about to spoil some stuff. Spoiler alert. Yeah, so I just like the fact that at the end of the movie the main character survives, right? And it it just it felt so good because I feel like with so many other movies, especially American movies, that it's like he's gotta die in order for it to be a good movie. No, it doesn't. Like, why can't you feel good at the end of this movie? Especially with this guy who's living with this pain and this guilt of uh not only getting those soldiers killed on the island in the beginning when it was like babyzilla, yeah, but like also because he didn't do that, it ended up being thousands more when Godzilla destroys the cities. Like imagine being that guy. That that's you like who the hell could take that, right? Right, and uh and then so he he survives and and then he they they become the family at the end, and like it just felt really good. And then to see the guy who uh helped rebuild the plane, uh they do that quick little flashback of he's like you know, right when you're about to hit, pull this letter, you know, yeah, it's gonna work. And it's like I love that guy, you know, like thank you. And so it's just like it even even with the happy ending, uh, most people are like, Oh, it was I don't know, the ending was like too mushy for me, it was too too picture perfect for me. It's like what do you want? Like, just go watch the news then. Just go watch the news, you know? So anyway, that's just me ranting a little bit about that how everyone like just enjoy the movie, you know. It won an Oscar, it's a great movie, go watch it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, no, absolutely, and I think that um, you know, outside of the monster verse, I think that Godzilla minus one was the most effective at making you feel for those characters. Because the one thing that everybody complains about, including myself, about like all the legendary pictures Godzilla movies, is you tend to just you know not give a shit about all the humans. You're like, just show me the monster fights. But Godzilla minus one was like, we're gonna make you scared when Godzilla shows up because how much you like these characters, where you're like, oh shit, I actually don't want to see Godzilla fuck stuff up. Like, I you know, because if Godzilla shows up, then that means these characters that I like, they're in danger. You know, I thought that that was such a great way to go about it.

SPEAKER_00

Um, yeah, yeah, that like watching like Monarch and stuff. Um, I just started watching Monarch the first season, so I'm I'm only like four episodes in. And I just don't care because uh of the character about the characters yet, at least, because they're just very like everyone's an asshole to each other. No one's no one's a good person. Everyone is like out for themselves, they're doing everyone's holding in secrets, and and I'm just like, I don't know, man. Yeah, they're just they're not they're not relatable, they're not, they don't make you care. Yeah, and so when when these monsters show up half the time, I'm like, I want them. I'm like, please get rid of this guy and that guy and hate them, you know.

SPEAKER_01

But yeah, yeah, no, and uh oh, sorry. Um, I was gonna say it's funny you bring that up because the last episode I did um it was about the monarch show, and um my guest, uh this guy Goji guy on YouTube, um, he had a similar thing about the characters. He was just like didn't care at all about uh these main characters. Um, and I I feel that way too, but I'll always watch Kurt Russell and even Wyatt Russell, they yeah, they're pretty great in everything they do.

SPEAKER_00

And then I do I do really like what they did with them, how he's playing the younger version of his dad. Like that's so cool.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah. Um, and then the the main character girl Kate, played by Anna Sawai. I think um she's usually pretty great. She was really good in Shogun. Um in Monarch, it's hit or miss. I think season two, there's only been a few episodes, but um, I think season two is an improvement, but you'll have to see once you finish season one. Um just so you know, Godzilla's only got four minutes of screen time in season one.

SPEAKER_00

So uh yeah, well, and I've I've seen about one minute already. Yeah, it's like shot directly in the face by the by the nuke or whatever. Yep, yeah. So it was like crazy. Like that's that scene was cool as hell.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um but definitely, yeah, nothing, nothing in comparison to what minus one did with their uh human characters.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah. And then with like with Shin Godzilla, I just rewatched that one too, and I honestly don't really watched it and I'm like, I don't even really remember too much from it other than it was probably because I was just distracted by that version of Godzilla.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And I'm like, as much as like the new Godzilla, the monster verse Godzilla is uh awesome and like his abilities that they gave him and all this, and then even in in minus one, like watching his his fins like you know activate and he's like charging up his his char you know his laser. Um man, when Shin Godzilla lets that laser light show out of his back and just like cuts all those buildings in half. I'm like, I can't imagine if it was like a free-for-all with all the versions of Godzilla ever, that like Shin Godzilla's not walking away with the win. Like Shin Godzilla to to me, just watching that laser light show part, I'm like nothing surviving that. That's that's that's insane.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. And Shin Godzilla is in my top three of all time for Godzilla. Um and I saw it when it came through in theaters again just last year, I think. And On one hand, I love that like the human characters, it's all just like a satire on how like the government um you know responded to Fukushima um back back in the day um in 2011, I think. Um, but just the fact that it's like the the government's together and they're like, all right, we need to figure this out. Oh, we have to talk with uh uh this group of people and we have to go to this conference. It's like okay, we go there. It's just all these different things. And while this is happening, you have Godzilla who's now on land and he's evolving and getting bigger and destroying more things. But the evolution of him was so fucking dope. And um Hideyaki Ano, I want him to come back and do a sequel because I love that when they freeze him at the end. I guess spoilers for Shin Godzilla too, if no one's ever seen it. Um but the fact that like there were these mini humanoid Godzillas coming out of his tail at the end, that's just so dope, man. And maybe it'll it'll remove the mysticism if we get another Shin Godzilla and we see more of those evolutions, but I don't care. I want to see those in practice, like I want to see what they do with that. Was it so sick?

SPEAKER_00

At the at the end of Shin, I can't remember. Was it like at the end of minus one where there was that heartbeat?

SPEAKER_01

No, at the end of Shin, it was just like Godzilla froze from the inside, and it was just showing like some standard shots of Godzilla frozen, but when it showed his tail, you saw if you look close, you see that there were like humanoid figures kind of like sprouting from the tail.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, no, I I mean like I remember that, but I just didn't I didn't know if there was like uh to be continued at the end.

SPEAKER_01

Oh no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00

I don't think so. Yeah, it was just it was just like he he got frozen and died.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

But then yeah, you you see all like the human like limbs and stuff. Reminds which was great because I've been I'm on my second playthrough of the remake of Dead Space.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my god. Game of the Year when that uh remake came out, by the way, which was that 2024? Yeah, I think so, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so yeah, I yeah, I I'm I played the the the the original three uh so many times, and then the remake came out, I bought it, and then I played like 30% of it, and then I got distracted and didn't pick it up for like a year. And then um just recently I was like, I gotta finish that game. And I finished it, and now I'm on my second playthrough. So uh, but yeah, it just reminds me of all like the necromorphs and how they're all like you know, weird and gross and whatever.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, the the more we could get some sort of like cosmic entity in Godzilla movies, like the better. And even Shin Godzilla uh itself, I think, is like a cosmic entity of sorts. Um, and I think that it's just so dope how like it's just always it's like perpetually in pain, and it's almost like it's like a tragedy of like its existence is just like a tragedy.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it's so it's almost it reminds me a little bit of like Godzilla vs. Destroyer.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

When like Godzilla is like going going radioactive, like he just can't hold it in anymore, and then he just like you know, yeah, tries obliterating.

SPEAKER_01

That's like um in uh the 2019 King of the Monsters when Godzilla goes uh I forgot what that mode is called, but remember when he's like orange, that's how he defeats King Ghidorah in that monster verse one, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I yeah, and Destroya, I wonder if we're ever gonna get him in the monster verse, because that's like a big bad right there.

SPEAKER_00

Um but yeah, having having like yeah, having Destroyer in there, man, that I don't know. Like that's I feel like that he's like the only one you can get to really rival uh King Ghidorah. Like as far as like, you know, because it's like you gotta you gotta up the ante with like every movie, you know, like when you watch like Lord of the Rings, right? The final fight scene in the in the Fellowship of the Ring is like you know, it's like a little battle on the hill with some orcs and they get away and whatever. And then you have the two towers, and then you have Return of the King, and it's like bigger and bigger, stakes are higher. So, I mean, after King Ghidorah, like you you gotta go destroy her, right?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah, because I because after that we got you know, we got Mecha Godzilla, um which worked because Mecha Godzilla was able to like you know fuck up Godzilla in that one, and then in New Empire, you got Scar King and Shimu, which Scar King was weak sauce, but Shimu was like a bigger ice version of Godzilla, so it was formidable, but Shimu wasn't wasn't much of a bad guy. Shimu was just you know being forced to to do the bidding of Scar King. But with Supernova, I'm hoping Space Godzilla comes in. And sorry, what were you gonna say?

SPEAKER_00

Which is why No, no, you're good. You're good, like yeah, because Supernova's coming in. And with the title Supernova, you gotta think that it's something from outer space. Yeah, right. So um uh what I'm sorry, what's what's the what's the the snow lizard name? What's her name? Shimu.

SPEAKER_01

Shimu.

SPEAKER_00

Shimu.

SPEAKER_01

Shimu. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So Shimu's a girl, lizard, and then Godzilla's a boy, and she's not really bad. They rescued her in a way. So I'm like, are you are you gonna tell me that the monster verse is gonna create a brand new kaiju for us and she's gonna lay an egg, and it's gonna be a hybrid of Godzilla and Shimu. And we're gonna call it son of Godzilla, and then it's gonna like save the world from this cosmic radiation rave by freezing it with its ice breath or something. Like, I I don't know. I just feel like that's the way they're going. I don't know. It I mean, it's very predictable if that's the way they go with it. So I hope I just hope they don't do that.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, no, that'll be that'll be interesting because then it like just it's just like okay, like now everybody has the image of Godzilla mating in their heads. And I don't know if you want your your fandom to think about that, you know.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, obviously there's always a small rule rule 34 section of fandoms that are already thinking about it, but I know like they're gonna be drawing it'll be like uh that meme of the guy with his girlfriend looking over his shoulder at the other girl, and it'd be like Godzilla with Mothra looking over his shoulder at uh Shimu and Shimu.

SPEAKER_01

You know, yeah, I guess it's it's more realistic for uh Godzilla and Shimu to mate than it would be for Godzilla and Mothra. I don't think it'd be possible for Git Godzilla and Mothra, but you never know.

SPEAKER_00

Um I mean it's possible, but I don't think anything's gonna be born out of it, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01

Oh yeah, true. Yeah, I don't think I don't think it's gonna be both.

SPEAKER_00

They could do the practicing part, but right, right.

SPEAKER_01

Um but I mean I hope out of uh the predictable stuff, I hope that what what is true is that we get Space Godzilla. Um I would love to see him. We already have the crystals in Hollow Earth. And every time we talk about the I talk about the monster verse with somebody and we talk about supernova, I say the same thing. Like we've already got the crystals, we have um portals or even coming from space, but even through Monarch, you'll see later that there's like um like a portal point that I think like um you know interacts with dimensions or whatever. So they've got the recipe there to just give us like space Godzilla. Um so we'll see what they do with it. Yeah, but it would be cool to get us Megalon in the monster verse. I think that would look scary too, right?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I would love to see his redesign. Yeah, I even like I mean it's not Godzilla related, but I watched um both well, I watched both the um Godzilla uh singular point anime. Oh yeah, and and I watched the uh Gamera anime that I think is Gamera Gamera Rebirth.

SPEAKER_01

I started that one um and singular point. I started both of them, but I didn't finish them.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, Singular Point is very confusing, uh like word-wise, like they use a lot of jargon, and it I just think that that loses like a lot of its audience because it's just like dude, just say what you're trying to say.

SPEAKER_02

Right.

SPEAKER_00

Um but but then with with the gamma anime, uh is really good because well, uh not really good, it's good, but it's confusing because they they have you know, gameras like for kids, like they're he's always saving kids, and the kids are always like, We love gamera. Um the they there's a lot of swearing in there. Really? Like, yeah, there's there's a lot of swearing. There's like one of the scientist guys, he's like, oh fuck this and shit, whatever. And then um, but but then it's like the artwork and the art style and the bright colors, it's like it looks like a a kid's show, like a kid's animation. So I'm like, you need to like pick a lane, right? Either go dark, go dark or go for kids. Because the moment a little kid is watching that, and then their parent hair hears all this like swearing, they're gonna be shutting it off, and that's it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So but I mean, other than that, I loved I guess my point of the show bringing up the show is the gamer's uh redesign is really, really good. Um he doesn't just fly by having the fire come out of his armpits and leg pits. He he just he can like spread his arms out sort of like a sea turtle, and then the some of the fire comes out from underneath his arm, and uh, you know, it's just it just oh, he can like individually shoot pieces of his shell out and stuff like that. It's just a really cool redesign.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that's pretty dope. Um, Gamera is definitely a series that I recently got into. I got the 90s trilogy, and then I also watched uh Gemera the Brave, which I thought was like another, you know, great, charming little Gemera movie. Um I've not seen that one yet.

SPEAKER_00

That's like the one that I've I still need to see. Yeah, the other nineties ones are really good.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, no, they I would say they rival like the best Godzilla movies, honestly. I think that Gemera is a a series that deserves a little more respect, but I think it doesn't get it because it's not as well known.

SPEAKER_00

Um yeah, I I I just think it doesn't, you know, also because of the involvement of like he his relationship to children, and it's like as like a lot of adults just don't can't, you know, they can't get into that, or it's like, yeah, I don't know, but yeah, like the main person, the main human is like these kids, and it's like, well, yeah, but you watch Stranger Things, like right, you know, right? I don't know. Yeah, but I but in the 90s movies and the in the gamma 90s movies, it's not really like a like a child, child, it's like a teenager, yeah, right? It's like that girl that's like I don't know, 15 or something, so it's a little bit more, you know, what it what you know, watchable if you want to call it that. Right. But I mean, I love I love all of them anyway, so it doesn't matter. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And then going back to singular point, did they didn't Megalon show up? Because I know that that was Rodan in the beginning, that like pterodactyl thing. Was that supposed to be like a a redesign of Rodan?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so Rodan is like the size of a regular sort of pterodactyl. Yeah, like it's it's just like a whole swath of them. There's they're just like there's a bunch of them. Um then Jet Jaguar is in there too. His redesign, I I don't like. And it's he's he's not a giant, at least yet. I haven't seen the I haven't watched the whole thing yet.

SPEAKER_01

Oh gotcha.

SPEAKER_00

But he's just he's sort of like this uh like short mech that's like the size of a forklift.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, interesting.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so because they they they they built they were building them, and then the Rodan showed up showed up, and he's he's fighting all these Rodan. And then you said did Megalan.

SPEAKER_01

Megalon, yeah, is Megalon.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I guess if you haven't finished it, but there's one there's one that showed up recently, but it was not I can't remember what what no, it wasn't it wasn't Megalon. I don't think it was Megalon. But he might show up later. I don't know. I haven't even seen Godzilla yet. So I'm like I'm like I'm like seven episodes in. So like that's the other thing is like I'm waiting to see Godzilla, and he's like just he's still not there. Which is, I guess, they're sticking with the movies where it's like the last 10 minutes and he finally shows up.

SPEAKER_01

Right. They wait. Um yeah, that I I need to I need to consume more of those shows. Um, even um Pacific Rim the Black, I think it's called. Um, that's another series that's on Netflix that um is way better than the second Pacific Rim movie, um, because I did not like that one that much at all. But anything kaiju related, I'm here for it. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. I've I've watched the Pacific Rim movies once each. Haven't watched the anime yet, but I do have it on my list. Yeah. I'll probably go back and watch the movies first again, just to kind of, you know, you know, whatever. Right. Um, my thing is though, is like I like kaiju. I like monsters, I like meat and bone and muscle and blood. Right. I don't I don't like giant robots because it's just the way my brain works, even as a kid growing up, like my dad was a mechanic and he used he he used to work on any type of machinery, really. But um, we'd always have cars at the house, he'd be working on those. And so I know that if two cars going at like even 100 miles an hour hit headfirst, that's it. They're not moving anywhere. They're they're both out of out of order. So when you have space robots like in Gundam and stuff punching each other at like 500 miles an hour, and they just keep going for a while and they don't immediately just like shut down. I I it's like even though it's giant robots fighting and giant monsters fighting, just that aspect of it takes me out of the story.

SPEAKER_01

That's when you get into like the type of steel that is used and like all this tech that makes them durable, right?

SPEAKER_00

But it's not even about the steel, it's about the the hydraulic hoses, yeah, and the the little like you know uh solenoids that are in there. You know, it's like any of those cracks, a few a fuse breaks that then that when that fuse pops, that what that that pinky finger ain't working anymore.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you know, which I love that thinking because I do up I do appreciate seeing more stuff like that in that type of sci-fi when like you have some big fantastical things like that, and then an issue comes up, like there's a hydraulic leak, so they can't use it to it's like ability, right?

SPEAKER_00

Um that and but that's what I do appreciate about Pacific Rim, because I feel like Pacific Rim, that was that was the case. Yeah, they would they would punch each other a couple times and they're like, Well, I hit the guy in the mouth, but now my arm's broken.

SPEAKER_01

Yep.

SPEAKER_00

So it's like that that's why that that's one aspect of it that I liked.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah, no, that's that's great. Um uh switching gears back to the the OG Megalon. Um, I just had a couple more points, and then we could we could uh switch to uh you getting to plug some of your stuff here. But um something that I I love finding out about these movies, uh, which I didn't realize until looking up stuff when I was doing a podcast about them, but they very much like to use stock footage from other movies that they've made. And with Megalon versus Godzilla, uh, the first thing I noticed was uh the ray beam is animated in the same way as King Ghidorah's gravity beams. And they they made that this was made to ensure that the stock footage from Ghidorah's movies could easily be interspaced between shots of Megalon firing his beam. I love that because like I said, they they reuse shit all the time, which I think is like uh super efficient in a way. Um, and then even the destruction of the buildings uh which begin at 50 minutes in the film is a reuse of um film from Godzilla versus Gygan, which I'm sure that was easier to intersplace too, because who shows up in this one? Gygan shows up again. Right.

SPEAKER_00

So I I love that he's not in any of those reuse scenes though, it's just the buildings, right? Right, right, right. Right, I think so. That would have been a good excuse for them to use Gygan old footage of Gygan himself, too.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, but I you know I think the design was different actually now that I think about it. They unless they use the same suit here, and then for Zone Fighter, they changed it. I I'd have to look that up, but um I mean, yeah, regardless, so um props to Toho for you know being you know fiscally responsible by cutting corners where they can.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, which it's kind of funny too, because like so in the beginning, uh when when um when Megalon shows up for the first time, he comes out from underground and he's by this uh dam and there's like all the all the water and stuff, and the army's coming out to shoot at him. There's like scenes where it's like literal army army tanks and you know, jeeps and army jeeps, and with real people driving them like in the dirt road and all this, and then it'll cut to another scene from a different angle of them driving, but then it's like the toys, like the little mouths, and they and I'm like, Well, well, you you like you afford maybe they can only afford it for like one day or something, right? But then the whole the whole bridge scene just turns into you know tiny scale model stuff, yeah, which is great because when um I think Megalon like falls down or maybe he's just walking and he's like he breaks the dam and and trips and falls or something. Yeah, that's it's something like that. He trips and falls, and that's what when before I was mentioning how the crate with the two characters being held in it launches over the hill. I think it was like the water from that from him falling launches them over. But um when that dam breaks, and it's they they have this close-up shot of all the water rushing out and like the bricks and like the all the debris, and I'm like, that's like a little scale model, but it looks so good, like real. Like the the way they copied it was just like really like it's not just like some dude pouring a cup of water, and you could tell that some guy's like pouring a cup of water, like it just it looks like a real avalanche mudslide, whatever. And for it to be on such a small scale, I'm like, dude, that's really good. Like they they do a really good job.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, the talent, the artistry on display with miniatures and even the the suit machine, it it was just it was so creative at the time, and you could see where like even visual effects artists that are inspired by that today, like it just I don't know. There's like this authenticity to it that I've always adored with these movies. And um, in the most recent Fantastic Four movie when Galactus is like walking through the city, there's some shots where like I don't think they were actual miniatures, but it looks like miniatures, and I love that because I'm like, hell yeah, let's go back to that aesthetic because that aesthetic is dope, you know. Um yeah, and and and it looks so good. Um but here at the end, we're we're getting to the end here, so um just I don't know, give me give me a little summary about what you do in in some projects you've got on the on the horizon that you're able to talk about and um your socials that you could plug.

SPEAKER_00

Oh yeah, yeah. Um, so first off, I'm sorry if my my voice is hoarse because my booth is in my garage and it's cold. So I have my shrew. I my I have my space heater on, so I'm like super dried out. So if my voice is really raspy and annoying, I apologize. Um is something that I always think about because of what I do. Right, right. Um so anyway, um I do I okay, I do have a couple I have three plugs, if it's okay for other people. Um I'm not gonna get too deep into them, I'm just gonna kind of rattle them off. And if anyone listening right now wants to pull out their notepad on their phone or a piece of paper and a pencil to write this down and support friends, it would be great. Okay, so my brother's in a band, and it's his band's name is Sihaya, S-I-H-A-Y-A, which is a a term used in the movie or in the the movie, in the series Dune. Um he's a he's a huge Dune fan. My nephew's name is Duncan after Duncan, Idaho. Um, and the song I would recommend you listen to uh is Death's Defeat. It's about our dad. And uh if you like that song, then you'll probably like the rest of it. Um so there's my brother's band. Then our friends, they own their own bloody merry mix uh company called Vine Cult. And their whole thing is pretty cool. It kind of goes into kaiju a little bit, not really like monsters, I should say. Um, because all of their bloody merry mix is named after uh a cryptid. So it's like the mix is yeah, the the mix is like, oh, it's like the uh blood of the chupacabra or blood of the bigfoot or whatever, right? So and they're always making new things. You could order on their website, follow them on socials, Vine Cult. Um, and then these other guys, which this is actually a project I did work on. So it's for you know, I'm promoting them, but it's also it was something I helped with uh sound for a couple episodes, or not a couple episodes, uh a few scenes, I should say. Um, so friends of mine. Have a uh uh a I think it's four episode uh series, TV series on YouTube for free that you could go watch right now. It's called Common Gulls. And it's about uh a writer and a musician who are roommates and they're down on their luck. And it's like a dark comedy and it's really funny. And it they're you know, they're all Chicago-based guys, Chicago actors, all this stuff. Um, I helped them out a couple days just, you know, holding a boom mic and anything else that they might need. Uh, I just wanted to be on set and around it just to kind of see how it all works. Cause normally I'm just in my booth by myself recording stuff. So I just was like, I want to be a part of a show, you know, and they're like, Yeah, come on over and help us out and whatever. So common goals. Uh go check them out on YouTube. Okay, so that's that. And then uh, so for me, uh if you want to follow me on my socials, it's Kevin Northman VO on Instagram, TikTok, and that's pretty much it. I don't use X. Facebook is just like family friends stuff, like no one uses that anymore. Um, so yeah, just mainly just Instagram and TikTok. Um, as far as new projects coming out, um, there's a video game. You could go watch the trailer on um IGN's um YouTube channel, or you could find these guys on their own uh channel. But the game is called Agefield High Rock the School. It's sort of like the new version of bully. Um, Rockstar doesn't want to make a bully game because they're afraid of the backlash because of school shootings and school violence. But this is a German company and they don't care. So they are like, we're gonna make a game where you it takes place in 2002, pop punk aesthetic, and you plays this kid Sam, and you ride your bike around town doing missions, and you're trying to get this girl that you like to go to prom with you, and hilarity ensues, and whatever. Um, another one that's out now that you could go watch on YouTube for free. It's called Nova Stars AC. Um, I'm in episode two. My character's name is Frost. Um, he's the king of the ice planet. And you should go support them because if you are into uh voice acting and you like anime, there's a bunch of big anime voice actors in this, including the original voice actor for Frieza, um, Chris Sabbat, who is the voice of Vegeta Piccolo, uh pretty much like more than half of the Dragon Ball universe. Um and Bryce Pappenbrook is also in it, which his character is my son. So in episode two, in the very beginning, the first two minutes of it, him and I are in a scene together, and I didn't know that until after I recorded my part. And then when I found out, I like went nuts. I was like, oh my God, this is insane that I'm acting with Bryce Pappenbrook. And if you don't know who Bryce Pappenbrook is, he is the voice of Inosuke from Demon Slayer. He is the voice of Aaron Jaeger from Attack on Titan. He is Kat Noir from uh Miraculous Miss Ladybug and uh Meliotis from Seven Deadly Sins and many, many, many, many, many more. Um I'm also in a podcast, uh season five, episodes one and two of Grim Grimmer Grimmist, and I play The Oldest Son, and it's a storytelling podcast for kids, and they tell stories from the brothers Grim, but they have voice actors come in to portray the characters. So uh there's that. And another one that you could wish list now on Steam is called Project Rays, R-A-Z-E. Um, it's a first-person shooter, and it's about this girl whose consciousness gets put into a robot body, and she's trying to break out in of the facility and then kill the mastermind uh AI robot hive mind thing. And it looks really awesome. I voice a mini boss in the game, and that's I don't know when the release date is on that, but you know, you could just keep an eye on it. It's Project Rays R-A-Z-E. And um, yeah, I think that's pretty much it. I mean, as far as like the H Field High game, I this is the third game I've worked on with this company. Uh, you could check out Grey Hill Incident and Vacance Mine. Grey Hill is on Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam, Vacance Mine is on Steam. And yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Um, love all that. Um, I might ask you to just email me a link to everything that you mentioned. And then I could I could include it in the description, which will be great. Um, but um perfect, man. I I really appreciate you coming on. Um love the work that you do, and you know, I'll I'll continue to be a supporter. Um can't wait, can't wait to see what's coming. And and yeah, it was it was great having you on here, man.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, man. Anytime, anytime.