#296: Link discusses their enjoyment of the new Godzilla movie, the history of the franchise, and how the monster is always a metaphor. Lara and Josué connect the topic to other ‘giants’ including TAGGS, life milestones, and Gundam. SKREEEONK!!

Josué Cardona 0:00
Hello, and welcome to gt radio, on the Geek Therapy network. Here at Geek Therapy, we believe that the best way to understand each other and ourselves is through the media we care about, my name is Josué Cardona. And I’m joined by Lara Taylor.

Lara Taylor 0:19
Hey.

Josué Cardona 0:19
and Link Keller

Link Keller 0:20
Hey,

Josué Cardona 0:22
welcome. Welcome, everyone. It is it is Link’s turn. This week,

Link Keller 0:28
it’s my turn.

Josué Cardona 0:29
What are we talking about Link?

Link Keller 0:30
I want to talk about two things, and I’m gonna need your help making them connect.

Josué Cardona 0:39
Challenge accepted. Let’s do it.

Link Keller 0:40
First. I guess maybe it’s like three things. I want to I want to hear about how your presentation went last week, or the weekend. And I want to talk more about taggs because it is still popping off. And I can’t help but think about it all the time. So why not talk about it. And then also, I saw Godzilla vs. Kong the other day. So I want to talk about Godzilla.

Josué Cardona 1:11
So just Godzilla kaiju in general, other big monsters, like,

Lara Taylor 1:17
Can we talk about how we call our cat Godzuki? Now,

Josué Cardona 1:21
I mean, we want to know now why.

Link Keller 1:22
Absolutely.

Lara Taylor 1:23
Cuz he gets up on his hind legs and like, puts his paws in front of him. And he looks like a kaiju when he eats his treats and food. So we call him godzuki

Josué Cardona 1:32
That’s good. That’s good. What was it about Godzilla vs. Kong that like, like, Oh, I got to talk about this

Link Keller 1:39
fun. It was really fun. I enjoyed it. I had a good time watching it. Um, I had seen the

Josué Cardona 1:48
it’s the fourth in the series.

Link Keller 1:50
It’s the fourth in this set, though. There are over. I want to say 30 to 35 Godzilla movies, and 10 or 12 King Kong movies. But Godzilla is great. I love Godzilla. I like big monster kaiju movies in general. But Godzilla Of course, the king, the king of them all.

Josué Cardona 2:15
King of monsters. Yeah. All the monsters. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. It was it’s it’s also I think it was the first for me. Maybe I’m wrong, correct me if I’m wrong, Lara, because you just correct me. Okay, often so do that.

Lara Taylor 2:37
Now, I know I correct you often. But I have seen one Godzilla movie in my life.

Josué Cardona 2:42
It’s not about that. It’s about the fact that oh, we saw that. We got to see that movie at home. We didn’t have to see it in theaters. I mean, you may have it’s in theaters, too. But I was like, oh, like this is it felt like it felt like a bigger deal than even all the other movies. Just because it’s the type of movie I would have want. Like I can imagine. It’s like a kaiju movie, right? I want to see.

Link Keller 3:07
Yeah. As far as like I want to see in a theater. This is definitely within in that grouping, but it was fun watching it at home.

Josué Cardona 3:15
Yes, yeah. Yeah. No, I loved I loved that. That happened. Right. Like there’s other movies like I just saw Mortal Kombat. Right. Like, it should feel the same way right. Like oh, I kind of I wouldn’t had to see that in theaters. I said I saw it at home. But there’s something about the spectacle of it felt like a blockbuster. Huge movie. Huge kaijus fighting. Yeah, no, I love that. I thought a lot of fun. I love that so much. I really enjoyed it. I hadn’t seen Kong. So I watched Kong first and then I think the two Godzilla movies. And I loved it

Link Keller 3:47
Yeah.

Josué Cardona 3:48
Power of friendship is just you know, doesn’t matter. You know, whenever that pops up. It’s always good.

Link Keller 3:54
everyone loves the Power friendship.

Josué Cardona 3:55
Yeah.

Lara Taylor 3:58
Yeah, now I’m picturing My Little Ponies as kaiju. Friendship is magic

Link Keller 4:03
just make them big. And it works.

Josué Cardona 4:07
Like I mean, technically, King Kong and Godzilla didn’t exist in the same world until, until these movies started, you know, decided to

Lara Taylor 4:14
so you never know. They could make a movie and you could have my little pony

Link Keller 4:17
never existed? They’ve been crossed over since like the 50s!

Josué Cardona 4:21
Is that true?

Lara Taylor 4:22
Yes.

Josué Cardona 4:23
I guess that is. That is true. I used to do Godzilla and Kong. Really? I know Godzilla used to cross over into other stuff. I mean, I believe you, I guess.

Lara Taylor 4:34
like mothra and all that

Josué Cardona 4:36
well those are those monsters like are part of that world. Hmm. I didn’t I didn’t know. But it makes sense.

Link Keller 4:45
King Kong vs Godzilla was distributed by Toho. Who made majority of the Godzilla movies came out in 1962.

Josué Cardona 4:54
what?!

Link Keller 4:56
Yep

Josué Cardona 4:57
Wow. Wow. Hmm, that’s cool. There have been talks about Pacific Rim crossing over into like this. This

Link Keller 5:06
Pacific Rim has always just been like,

Josué Cardona 5:10
let me play. Come on, guys. Come on. Let me in. Let me

Link Keller 5:13
Yeah, it’s just been like, what if you take Godzilla add a little extra little extra sparkly spice?

Josué Cardona 5:23
Yeah, yeah.

Link Keller 5:25
And Charlie Day, and you’re great. It’s good to go. Yeah. Yeah.

Josué Cardona 5:31
I mean, it’s funny that you brought up the training, right? Like, I think I again, I can’t remember I mentioned this in the slack. I don’t remember if I made the Godzilla reference. In the training, I did a three hour Geek Therapy workshop at a convention conference called the expressive therapy summit. It was It was great. Like the group that was that was there was fantastic. It was it was a lot of fun. And I can’t remember if I made this reference there, or if it was that taggs, taggs is recorded. So we’ll definitely be able to see if this is if this is the case. But I, there was, I saw a tech talk where the guy was talking about the the Matthew Broderick version of Godzilla. And he’s saying, like, this is not a good Godzilla movie. But it’s an amazing kaiju design.

Link Keller 6:26
It’s like a really fun Jurassic Park movie.

Josué Cardona 6:30
Because it’s like, going to a restaurant that makes the best, you know, just amazing steak. And ordering that amazing steak. Instead, you get the best chicken you’ve ever had in your life. That’s what this is like. And I just watched that. And it made sense in the training. And it was like, I got it. I was like, I haven’t made a tik tok reference. I got to make a kaiju reference. It was it was good. I don’t remember what I use the metaphor for are they? It was it was just like, it was good.

Lara Taylor 6:58
I was hoping I was waiting for that waiting for that chant. Remember,

Link Keller 7:02
I don’t know what it was. But it was so apt

Josué Cardona 7:05
I think it worked. I think it worked. I don’t remember what I was talking about.

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