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Jimmy Notes on Episode 64: Kaiju Weekly vs. ’20 Million Miles to Earth’

To say the episode 64 broadcast on 20 Million Miles to Earth was chaotic would be an understatement. I still get angry e-mails from listeners about how crazy it was. Let’s just say there are reasons we edit stuff out for the podcast editions—and two of them are named Travis Alexander and Michael Hamilton! Listening back on this reminds me why Michael and I used to butt heads: he’s a bit like Commander Hell and thinks he owns any place he walks into. Travis, on the other hand, is an agent of chaos (and I don’t mean the Get Smart kind).

This episode was just a month before the Kaiju Weekly podcast went on an extended hiatus. Despite my issues with Michael, I was sad to see it go. Kaiju Weekly was the first kaiju podcast Nate and I guested on, and we’ve been tight with Travis and Michael ever since. I’ve lived a storied life, but sometimes I feel “nostalgic” for things that happened three years ago. Does that count as “nostalgia”? Michael would know: he’s addicted to it. (Just listen to The Power Trip podcast: he says he “mainlines” it). 😛

Anyway, on to my notes:

  • Michael always wanted to be a Power Ranger, so I figured the hazmat suit would be a good start to a costume. It’s what he gets for denying my existence. 😛
  • Host privileges, Nate? Perhaps you should check some of them at the door.
  • I can vouch for…Travis’s assertion…whatever it was.
  • I met Billy Cranston once. I’d found my way to Aquitar after narrowly escaping a Natarl cruiser. We were the Double Dragons of intellect.
  • I did learn Latin, Marchand. I went to the best schools in New York and Japan!
  • Yes, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad was Harryhausen’s next film after this.
  • He can’t cut me off here: Nate’s weird. Beyond weird, even. You should see what his apartment looks like. I think his decorator is a nerdy teenage boy. (Oh, wait…).
  • Kinko and Sexypus: the latest kaiju porn. And I’m sure Michael watches it daily.
  • I think Michael is jealous I saw Ymirs in their native habitat. And then I fixed their native habitat. You’re welcome, Venusians!
  • Jimmys are from Venus. This one is, anyway…well, sorta.
  • I like space candy. My favorite is Astro-taffy, which is flavored with literal stardust. We call it “Star-Stuff.” We’re all made of it, you know.

Now for Nate’s rather extensive notes. He almost never gets through all of them.

Two in one day! I’m on a roll! Now if only Nate could get caught up on uploading audio. This is what happens when you get promoted to working two jobs.

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Episode 56: The Omni Viewer vs. ‘The Lost World’ (1925)

Hello, Kaiju Lovers! And welcome to season three of The Monster Island Film Vault! We begin 2022 with a brand new series focusing on giant monster films from the U.S.A., “Ameri-kaiju.” To launch this special occasion, Nate is joined by returning guest/YouTuber/author Ryan “The Omni Viewer” Collins (and his kaiju-muppet-thing sidekick, Snazzy, who butts heads with Nate’s sidekick, the intrepid producer Jimmy From NASA) to discuss the prototypical kaiju film, The Lost World (1925). You’re about to hear one of the most MIFV of MIFV episodes: literary analysis, film appreciation, witty banter, hilarious puns, and wild history. What more could you want?

Before the broadcast, Nate meets Dr. Nick Tatopoulos, the leader of H.E.A.T., in the KIJU breakroom (and pronounces the man’s name correctly) while fighting with the coffeemaker. Nick talks about his hostile history with the Island’s new boss, Cameron Winter—and then the crooked tycoon calls them on Nate’s phone!

The Omni Viewer’s YouTube channel.

This episode’s prologue, “Dr. Tatopoulos, I Presume,” was written by Nathan Marchand.

Read Jimmy’s Notes on this episode.

Guest stars:

  • J.R. Villers as Nick Tatopoulos
  • Jack “GMan” Hudgens as Cameron Winter

Additional music:

  • “Stomp the World” by Jim Latham
  • “Pacific Rim” by Niall Stenson

Sound effects sourced from Freesound.org.

Check out Nathan’s spinoff podcasts, The Henshin Men and The Power Trip.

We’d like to give a shout-out to our MIFV MAX patrons Travis Alexander and Michael Hamilton (co-hosts of Kaiju Weekly); Danny DiManna (author/creator of the Godzilla Novelization Project); Eli Harris (elizilla13); Chris Cooke (host of One Cross Radio); Bex from Redeemed Otaku; Damon Noyes, The Cel Cast, TofuFury, Eric Anderson of Nerd Chapel, and Ted Williams! Thanks for your support!

You, too, can join MIFV MAX on Patreon to get this and other perks starting at only $3 a month!

Buy official MIFV merch on TeePublic!

Timestamps:

  • Prologue: 0:00-6:21
  • Intro: 6:21-16:19
  • Entertaining Info Dump: 16:19-24:53
  • Toku Talk: 24:53-1:40:30
  • Promo: 1:40:30-1:41:56
  • Toku Topic: 1:41:56-2:13:06
  • Housekeeping & Outro: 2:13:06-end

This episode is approved by Cameron Winter and the Monster Island Board of Directors.

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