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Speaker 1: Hello. My name is Jason Concepcion and welcome back to

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Speaker 1: X ray Vision, the podcast where we dive deep into

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Speaker 1: your favorite shows, movies, comics, and pop culture. Coming to

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Speaker 1: you from iHeart Podcast, where we're bringing you to two

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Speaker 1: action packed episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. On this very

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Speaker 1: special episode, I will be interviewing Rosie Knight ever heard

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Speaker 1: of her in comics illu shirtter Oliver Ono about their

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Speaker 1: latest project, Godzilla Monster Island Summer Camp, which is out

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Speaker 1: now wherever you get your comic books. We're delighted to

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Speaker 1: welcome to the program Rosie Knight, who co hosts the

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Speaker 1: program How is Me and her creative collaborate Ali Rono.

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Speaker 2: It is so great to have you here, Oliver, thank

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Speaker 2: you for joining us.

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Speaker 3: Always a pleasure. Thanks so much for having me back on.

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Speaker 3: It's been what two years since the last time.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, unbelievable, But it's now and it feels really

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Speaker 2: wild because we would always be when the book hadn't

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Speaker 2: been announced. Me and Jason would always be like teasing

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Speaker 2: it on the Xtra Vision. We'd be like, Rosie has

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Speaker 2: something but we can't say what it is. But now

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Speaker 2: the book is coming out in like you know, six

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Speaker 2: days or something. So it's really fun to be able

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Speaker 2: to kind of celebrate it with you guys.

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Speaker 1: How did Godzilla Monster Island Summer Camp come to be?

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Speaker 2: Well, I so a while ago, like a couple of

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Speaker 2: years ago. Now, idw and Tohoe with trying to find

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Speaker 2: a way to do like kids Godzilla comics that they

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Speaker 2: a kind of more youth focused graphic novel. So I

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Speaker 2: pitched this idea of Manila's Manila Godzilla's Sun going to

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Speaker 2: summer camp and kind of this adventure, and in my

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Speaker 2: like a little you know, like a little hat, like

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Speaker 2: he's like a camper and he's got a neckerchief on,

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Speaker 2: and that was really like and it's in the book

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Speaker 2: and it's my favorite page and it was the first

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Speaker 2: we're going to do it, and me and Oliver were like, oh, okay, cool,

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Speaker 2: that's sick, And then we started working on it and

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Speaker 2: it was but it was definitely an extension of what

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Speaker 2: we started with Rivals with Battra because we came to

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Speaker 2: find because we've still been doing signings for that book.

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Speaker 2: We've been still speaking to people about that book, and

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Speaker 2: we really found that the audience was a lot younger

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Speaker 2: than some of the other Rivals books, Like kids really

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Speaker 2: I think this is just like an extension of that.

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Speaker 1: Oliver, what was when the story and the idea was

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it definitely came when when Rosie brought it

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Speaker 3: for like Godzilla's Sun goes to like summer camp and

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Speaker 3: That sounds like a nice mix up, and especially with

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Speaker 2: You know, that was the big thing, and all of

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So I mean, of course, like I've come into

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Speaker 1: You mentioned kind of the the cute factor, the warmth

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Speaker 1: How do you make I mean, there's monsters in this book,

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Speaker 1: What is your strategy for doing that? Because I think

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Speaker 3: It's just that our story takes place in kind of

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Speaker 3: I I didn't Other than other than again, I kept

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Speaker 3: But I don't know. I I think I I think

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Speaker 1: Were it back after a short break to talk more

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Speaker 1: the story set it up. We understand that it's a

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Speaker 2: So I was like, where what would be cute? That

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Speaker 2: You know, when the original Godzilla was made, it was

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Speaker 3: Like we would see so many people when we when

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Speaker 1: The book is fantastic and it's been so wonderful to

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Speaker 1: variety of fast moving segments. Today, Oliver, we're gonna do

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Speaker 1: Who's Who, and I'm gonna ask you for your favorite

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Speaker 3: I have one very deep cut okay, funky Boy from

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Speaker 4: Not aware a funky boy, but his name.

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Speaker 3: Pick right there. It's just it's just Godzilla, but with

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Speaker 1: Love that guy, Rosie.

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Speaker 4: What about you?

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna actually, because I mentioned Godzilla and Hell, I

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Speaker 2: a nuclear plant that turns into a giant kaiju and

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Speaker 2: it is like so creepy and fantastic, and it literally

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Speaker 2: like bursts. I remember watching reading the page and it

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Speaker 2: like bursts out of the nuclear reactor. It's just so cool.

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Speaker 2: So definitely that one that's a comic book hit weird

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Speaker 2: I love obviously, Manila is my number one weird kaiju,

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Speaker 2: though I feel like now he is like quite far

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Speaker 2: people love him now like they love that guy. Ibierra

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Speaker 2: used to be another one, because like, who doesn't love

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Speaker 2: that weird guy? But another, probably my second good weird

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Speaker 2: one is in the old Godzilla comics from Marvel, which

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Speaker 2: I've been kind of They're rereleasing a lot of where

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Speaker 2: Jewels from see Greg Quarters saved me, like the sick

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Speaker 2: poster of the first first issue, which they're going to

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Speaker 2: be reprinting I think for the first time in a

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Speaker 2: long time. In the like issue three, he fights this

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Speaker 2: thing that looks like a It kind of looks like

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Speaker 2: a mixture between a snake and a venus fly trap,

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Speaker 2: kind of like a feed me Seymour Vibe, and his

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Speaker 2: name's just like Rheannon. It's like it's like it's like

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Speaker 2: our our h I a r h i a h n.

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, how do you even pronounce that? But

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Speaker 2: it's like his head ends up getting chopped off. But

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Speaker 2: I always think he's got like a flying saucer head,

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Speaker 2: so I'm always kind of thinking of him. I'll join

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Speaker 2: you by doing one like one that I just think

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Speaker 2: is really cool. I love like ky Ruver of Meca

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Speaker 2: Gozilla where he's got like the guns on his shoulders

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Speaker 2: and he's just like, that's my thirteen year old boy.

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Speaker 2: Like definitely, Jason, do you have a favorite weird kaiju?

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Speaker 1: Oh, gosh, mine are gonna be much less deep cut

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Speaker 1: than you. I'm gonna say, Manila, who I originally as Baby.

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Speaker 2: Godzilla, Baby Godzilla, Yeah, that.

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Speaker 4: Was I think.

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Speaker 1: I I think I had. I had a bunch of

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Speaker 1: the like sixties and seventies tojo stuff like on vhs

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Speaker 1: my dad actually, and that one was just labeled baby Godzilla. Next,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna uh and again apologies if these are not

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Speaker 1: the correct name, but the smog Monster from uh oh yeah, Hedora,

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Speaker 1: I called him the smog Monster. And what I really

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Speaker 1: remember that about that movie was like this Austin powers

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Speaker 1: et segments where hetero would like smog g It's like

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Speaker 1: oohs over people, and then there'd be like this people, yeah,

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Speaker 1: go go dancing and stuff. And then finally Jet Jaguar,

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Speaker 1: who is was just like a super cool robot that

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Speaker 1: like fought with and against Godzilla.

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Speaker 4: In a variety of.

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Speaker 1: Funny little end He's a very very cool legend, awesome

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Speaker 1: little suit. This was like pre Voltron and in like

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Speaker 1: my eyes, like when I later saw Vultron, I was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: Jet Jaguar. And again these aren't like super deep cuts,

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Speaker 1: but they are representative of my history with Kaiju's and Godzilla.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love those picks.

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Speaker 1: Rosy and Oliver, thanks so much for talking to me

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Speaker 1: today about Godzilla, Monster Island summer Camp. A reminder comics

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