Speaker 1: Welcome to Part Time Genius, the production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: I guess what, Mango? What's that? Will? So? I know,
Speaker 1: these days it feels like we can't start any conversation
Speaker 1: without talking about the quarantine and without coronavirus unfortunately. But
Speaker 1: one of the things I've noticed right now in terms
Speaker 1: of how people cope with the quarantine, I find this
Speaker 1: interesting is that they watch a bunch of virus based content,
Speaker 1: like like this is this is a real thing. Like
Speaker 1: tons of people have been watching that new pandemic documentary
Speaker 1: series on Netflix, and Contagion is one of the most
Speaker 1: watched streaming titles right now. Have you noticed this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it is such a strange phenomena to me,
Speaker 1: because that is not my idea of escapism. I turned
Speaker 1: to things like the Muppets movie and times like this.
Speaker 1: But and I know you're not lying about that that's
Speaker 1: actually true. But you know, I guess the virus stuff
Speaker 1: does make sense if you're looking for a way to
Speaker 1: remind yourself that it could be worse. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: guess I get that feeling like it's good to keep
Speaker 1: our discomfort in perspective. But if you're like me, viral
Speaker 1: disaster movies probably hit a little too close to home.
Speaker 1: But thankfully I have come up with a far less
Speaker 1: upsetting option, and that's to just watch a giant monster
Speaker 1: movie instead. Like, throw one of those on and you'll
Speaker 1: be thinking, Sure, things are tough right now, but at
Speaker 1: least there's no Godzilla, you know. So does that does
Speaker 1: that really give you any peace of mind? Oh, it
Speaker 1: totally does. I mean, it's probably the last genuine source
Speaker 1: of comfort that we have left Mango. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think you'll agree a Godzilla attack definitely would not improve
Speaker 1: our situation. And that's not just because of the smashed
Speaker 1: up buildings and rolling blackouts either, Like there would be
Speaker 1: way worse things to consider if Godzilla came to town. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, smashed up buildings sound pretty awful, and so
Speaker 1: to blackouts. But what else do you think about? All right,
Speaker 1: we'll think about it this way. At the end of
Speaker 1: the day. Godzilla is a giant animal, right Like. He
Speaker 1: started out at around a hundred and sixty feet tall
Speaker 1: during his first appearance. This was back in nineteen fifty four,
Speaker 1: and over the years he's been scaled up in order
Speaker 1: to keep pace with the increasing size of skyscrapers. So Nowaday,
Speaker 1: the modern Godzilla is three times as tall as the original,
Speaker 1: almost five hundred feet. So not to be gross, but
Speaker 1: can you imagine how much waste an animal that large
Speaker 1: would produce? Can you imagine this, Mango, stop and think
Speaker 1: about it just for a second. So forget being crushed
Speaker 1: like the city's would be flooded, and get this. I
Speaker 1: looked this up. There's actually some science behind this. So,
Speaker 1: according to a marine researcher named Dr Craig McClain, an
Speaker 1: animal of Godzilla's height and weight would produce a truly
Speaker 1: monstrous amount of eurine nearly thirteen million gallons per day.
Speaker 1: That's like a quarter of an oil tanker raining down
Speaker 1: for every day of Godzilla's rampage. So this, this is
Speaker 1: what I now have to think about, Mango and my quarantine.
Speaker 1: That is so gross, And you're right, things would be
Speaker 1: way worse with Godzilla around, and it's true. I'm glad
Speaker 1: you finally understand this. So it really puts things in perspective.
Speaker 1: And that's just the first of nine godzill effects we've
Speaker 1: got on tap today. So let's dive in. Or Hey there,
Speaker 1: podcast listeners, welcome to part time Genius. I'm Will Pearson,
Speaker 1: and as always, I'm joined by my good friend man
Speaker 1: Guesh Ticketer and on the other side of our zoom
Speaker 1: conference wiping his mouth and punching at the air for
Speaker 1: some reason, that's our good friend and producer Lowell. So
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what all the wiping and punching is about.
Speaker 1: But luckily Gave Luizier is back with us today. He's
Speaker 1: our resident Kaiju or strange creature fans, so hopefully he
Speaker 1: can shed some light on this. And what is little
Speaker 1: doing over there? Does it have anything to do with Godzilla? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's actually a deep cut Godzilla reference, so nicely done, Lola. Uh.
Speaker 1: There was a point in Godzilla's career. I think he
Speaker 1: was about a leaf in movies deep at the time.
Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to keep track. And anyway, at
Speaker 1: some point the powers that be decided that Godzilla should
Speaker 1: have his own signature move, and I guess the idea
Speaker 1: was that, you know, he would taunt his opponents by
Speaker 1: making this like insulting menacing gesture and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: wiping his mouth with his right hand and then jabbing
Speaker 1: at the air. That's what they came up with. It's
Speaker 1: great for video games. I feel like, but why do that, Like,
Speaker 1: is there some cultural significance for it, not that I
Speaker 1: know of. Like my guess is the actor in the
Speaker 1: suit was just like pretty limited mobility wise, so like
Speaker 1: a mouth wipe and a and a punch was the
Speaker 1: best he could muster either way. I mean the move
Speaker 1: they only like stuck with this for a couple of
Speaker 1: movies and then they phased it out, So I mean
Speaker 1: it did leave an impression though, obviously at least and
Speaker 1: Lowell and Uh, there's some fans out there they refer
Speaker 1: to the movies where Godzilla does this as the wipe
Speaker 1: your mouth and punch the air trilogy. You know, it's
Speaker 1: fun as we do these things, learning things about each
Speaker 1: of us that I never knew you and Lowell were
Speaker 1: such big Godzilla fans. That's that's pretty awesome. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean this is kind of a new thing for me.
Speaker 1: Like I had seen a few of the old ones,
Speaker 1: you know, when I was a kid, and I thought
Speaker 1: they were cheesy and you know, good time or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I hadn't watched one in a really long time,
Speaker 1: and and then last year, I guess it was actually
Speaker 1: Godzilla is the sixty fifth anniversary of Godzilla, so he's
Speaker 1: he's technically a senior citizen now. And a bunch of
Speaker 1: movies were coming back to a little independent theaters around here,
Speaker 1: so Aaron and I got a chance to watch a
Speaker 1: few on the big screen, and we just kind of
Speaker 1: fell in love with how silly and over the top
Speaker 1: they were. I mean, it's weird to say, but Godzilla
Speaker 1: is an oddly endearing character if you really watch some
Speaker 1: of his movies, Like, I mean, he wipes his mouth,
Speaker 1: he punches, yeah, he rect stuff, he dances, Like what
Speaker 1: more do you want? You know? But I'm curious. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's just me. What about you guys? Any fond memories
Speaker 1: of the King of the Monsters. It's funny whenever like
Speaker 1: monster movies would come on on like Saturday mornings, that
Speaker 1: was our que to go outside, like like that's when
Speaker 1: I take of them. Like, well, I I don't know
Speaker 1: if you remember this, but we went to toy fair
Speaker 1: like years and years ago, and the company that we
Speaker 1: were doing a board game with was also doing King Kong.
Speaker 1: And this was like in two thousand's and so they
Speaker 1: had the King Kong board game behind this like curtain
Speaker 1: and they were like guards there because they didn't want
Speaker 1: to show anyone what the monster looked like. And I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a part of this company. I can
Speaker 1: like go back and sneak in, and they would not
Speaker 1: let me in. And I remember I wasn't even that insulted.
Speaker 1: I just remember thinking it was like so stupid, because
Speaker 1: how different King King Kong look like you In the end,
Speaker 1: you basically know what he looks like. Well, I don't know, Mega.
Speaker 1: I think maybe in the end they knew like what
Speaker 1: a blabber mouth you were, and they just needed to
Speaker 1: keep you out of there. The rest of them they
Speaker 1: would sort of whisper to us like do you want
Speaker 1: to come see it? But then when you showed up,
Speaker 1: they were like, guys, guys, we can't come back here. So,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, I do not love monster movies, but
Speaker 1: I do have a fondness for facts about monster movies.
Speaker 1: So this is my first one, and it's about the
Speaker 1: guy who helped bring Godzilla to life in the early movies.
Speaker 1: So obviously today's Godzilla's computer generated, but that wasn't always
Speaker 1: the case. And while multiple actors have donned the scalely
Speaker 1: suit over the years, the first to do so was
Speaker 1: this Japanese actor named Ruo Nakajima, and he started the
Speaker 1: original nine movie and then he reprised the role for
Speaker 1: I think like eleven sequels. But when Nakajima first landed
Speaker 1: the role, he didn't know what the character would look like.
Speaker 1: All he knew was that would be some kind of
Speaker 1: ancient sea creature that would be awakened by this underwater
Speaker 1: test of the hydrogen bond. So, you know, with nothing
Speaker 1: else to go on, he actually prepared by spending ten
Speaker 1: days at the zoo, so he watched elephant, he watched gorillas,
Speaker 1: but strangely, it was the bears that really captivated him.
Speaker 1: And this is what he told a reporter at the
Speaker 1: time quote, I used to take two lunches with me.
Speaker 1: One was mine and the rest I'd throw to the bears.
Speaker 1: When one of them snatched it up and shoveled it
Speaker 1: into his mouth, I'd watch the way he did it.
Speaker 1: But no amount of research could have prepared Nakajima for
Speaker 1: the reality of being stuffed inside a lizard suit. Like
Speaker 1: the original costume was notoriously difficult to move, kind of
Speaker 1: like what Gabe said, because it was made from ready
Speaker 1: mixed concrete and reportedly it weighed about two pounds at
Speaker 1: the time, why would they use concrete instead of something
Speaker 1: like rubber. So the later suits were rubber, but it
Speaker 1: was hard to come by in the early post war
Speaker 1: years in Japan, so they went concrete for the first one,
Speaker 1: and that made the suit super super heavy, but it
Speaker 1: also made it suffocating lee hot. In fact, Kajima said
Speaker 1: he sweated so much in the suit that after a
Speaker 1: day of filming, he would wring out the perspiration from
Speaker 1: his undershirt and it would actually fill half a bucket.
Speaker 1: Can't believe he did that. He kept that up for
Speaker 1: twelve movies, Like that is some serious dedication. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess he was a trooper and and he's actually
Speaker 1: kind of a pioneer when you think about it. What
Speaker 1: he did generated this whole new type of acting. All
Speaker 1: these actors were where a giant monster costumes and Greek
Speaker 1: havoc on model cities. You think, like, there are hundreds
Speaker 1: of movies and TV shows all made using that process,
Speaker 1: and Nakajima was actually at the forefront of all of that.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, here's a bit of film history that
Speaker 1: I like. You mentioned that Nakajima wasn't sure what kind
Speaker 1: of creature Godzilla was going to be initially, but he
Speaker 1: wasn't the only one. The producers of the film also
Speaker 1: weren't sure what look they wanted for their ancient sea creature,
Speaker 1: and originally he was just going to be a giant
Speaker 1: mutant octopus, which you know, would have put Nakajima out
Speaker 1: of a job since they could have just set a
Speaker 1: real octopus loose on their miniature cities. Uh. But then
Speaker 1: the creative team decided to take an even weirder approach,
Speaker 1: and it was the second approach that actually gave us
Speaker 1: the characters Japanese name. And you know, remember Godzilla, that's
Speaker 1: just something the marketers came up with for the American release.
Speaker 1: In Japan, he's actually known as Goujira, and that's because
Speaker 1: at one point during development, the plan was for the
Speaker 1: monster to be a cross between a gorilla and a whale.
Speaker 1: And though that idea it sounds weird, right, but I mean,
Speaker 1: even though that idea was eventually scrapped in favor of
Speaker 1: a more dinosaur like design, they did keep the original name,
Speaker 1: which is actually a portmanteau of the Japanese words for
Speaker 1: gorilla and whale. I've always wondered what kind of creature
Speaker 1: Godzilla is supposed to be. I mean, he's obviously some
Speaker 1: kind of reptile or maybe amphibian, I guess, and and
Speaker 1: not a guerrilla whale, that's for sure, But what kind
Speaker 1: of reptile is he? Like? Is he an unknown species
Speaker 1: of dinosaur that secretly survived underwater or is he just
Speaker 1: a regular lizard that got you know, irradiated and grew
Speaker 1: into a giant or something else? Like these are again
Speaker 1: in addition to the things I was thinking about before
Speaker 1: with like Godzilla a waste, I have to think about this.
Speaker 1: Did you figure it out? Well? It turns out it
Speaker 1: kind of depends on who you ask, which maybe isn't
Speaker 1: a huge surprise. So the crew definitely looked at dinosaur
Speaker 1: illustrations for inspiration when designing the costume. But according to
Speaker 1: a scientist character in the original movie, Godzilla is kind
Speaker 1: of this transitional creature. So the quote was somewhere between
Speaker 1: the marine reptiles and the evolving terrestrial animals, so technically
Speaker 1: not a dinosaur, but a close descendant of them. However,
Speaker 1: the waters get a little bit muddier when you know,
Speaker 1: you go a little bit deeper on this So, for instance,
Speaker 1: Godzilla's creator, a producer named Tamayuki Tanaka, has gone on
Speaker 1: record saying that his original intention for Godzilla to be
Speaker 1: a quote dinosaurs sleeping in the Southern Hemisphere that had
Speaker 1: been awakened and transformed into a giant by the atomic bomb.
Speaker 1: So I bet you didn't see that one coming. And
Speaker 1: that offscreen take on the origin was actually made explicit
Speaker 1: it during the nineteen nineties run of Godzilla movies. So
Speaker 1: in one of these characters travel back in time, they
Speaker 1: go back to nineteen forty four, and there they encounter
Speaker 1: this dinosaur living alone on an island. Now was the
Speaker 1: same dinosaur that eventually mutates into Godzilla after being hit
Speaker 1: with an h bomb. But do you actually figure out
Speaker 1: what kind of dinosaur is supposed to be? No, I
Speaker 1: have no idea. I guess I just got tired of
Speaker 1: looking that much more so, the dinosaur in the movie
Speaker 1: was completely fictional, and it kind of looked like this,
Speaker 1: more like a dumpy tarannosaurus, I guess. But it was
Speaker 1: referred to in the movie as a Godzillasaurus, and that
Speaker 1: that makes sense. It's super creative. But all right, but
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Five years later, this was. In nine seven,
Speaker 1: a paleontologist named Ken Carpenter discovered a new genus of
Speaker 1: bipedal dinosaur, and he lovingly dubbed it go Girasaurus. So weirdly,
Speaker 1: Godzilla both is and isn't a real dinosaur. Oh that's
Speaker 1: that's actually pretty great. Does it make so much sense
Speaker 1: that like a paleontology us would be a Godzilla fanatic? Right?
Speaker 1: Like that makes a lot of sense. Here's one I
Speaker 1: definitely didn't know before this week. Did you know that
Speaker 1: Godzilla is the longest running movie franchise of all time?
Speaker 1: This year marks the sixty anniversary of his first appearance
Speaker 1: and the release of his thirty six theatrical film. That
Speaker 1: puts Godzilla eight years and eleven movies ahead of his
Speaker 1: closest competition, which is the James Bond series. What's really interesting, though,
Speaker 1: is how the series has managed to stay relevant for
Speaker 1: that long. If you look at the different periods of
Speaker 1: Godzilla movies, the tone of the series and even the
Speaker 1: characters roll in it are always changing to kind of
Speaker 1: better align with the mood and what the audience of
Speaker 1: the times wanted. The first movie isn't actually something like
Speaker 1: goofy camp be monster movie. It has action, it does
Speaker 1: have cheesy effects, but it's actually the somber and really
Speaker 1: bleak movie, and it treats the disaster super seriously, and
Speaker 1: that isn't by accident. Like the director described Godzilla as
Speaker 1: the embodiment of the quote invisible fear that the nuclear
Speaker 1: bomb could be dropped at any moment, and that really
Speaker 1: resonated with audiences at the time, and many Japanese movie
Speaker 1: goers left the theater and tears after seeing the movie.
Speaker 1: It wasn't until the nineteen sixties, when Japan's postwar economy
Speaker 1: was rebounding, that Godzilla started to loosen up a little
Speaker 1: and and for a while he was portrayed as kind
Speaker 1: of a cranky public menace like this bully you had
Speaker 1: to be chased off by the army or by one
Speaker 1: of the more good natured monsters like Mathra, and then
Speaker 1: he gradually became a more heroic figure who would fight
Speaker 1: off other giant monsters on behalf of Tokyo, even if
Speaker 1: he still did trash most of the city in the process.
Speaker 1: You know, for the record, I feel like that counts
Speaker 1: as a fact and a half there, because there was
Speaker 1: really a lot in there. But it is wild how
Speaker 1: much mileage they've gotten out of that concept that many movies.
Speaker 1: It's incredible. Yeah, it kind of makes me wish they
Speaker 1: would mix things up even more. Like Mego mentioned James Bond, like,
Speaker 1: let's throw him in there. I I mean, I feel
Speaker 1: like that fight would be over very very quickly. But
Speaker 1: we've got four facts left to go, so let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break and then we'll get back to it.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Part time Genius. Now we're talking about Godzilla,
Speaker 1: who is the atomic fire breathing lizard with a heart
Speaker 1: of gold. All right, Gabe, you're up again. You like
Speaker 1: that I write that down. I was just ready to
Speaker 1: ready to come with it. Alright, Gabe, So what's your
Speaker 1: next fact? Mango clude us in on just how long
Speaker 1: the Godzilla series has been around. So now I want
Speaker 1: to talk about how ahead of its time it's been.
Speaker 1: So take the Marvel movies for instance. They kicked off
Speaker 1: this big universe building trend in Hollywood where you know,
Speaker 1: the goal is to crank out as many interconnected movies
Speaker 1: as possible, And the way that plays out for superhero
Speaker 1: movies is you do a bunch of standalone movies, a
Speaker 1: thor movie, an Iron Man movie, etcetera. And then you
Speaker 1: bring all those characters together for a big team up
Speaker 1: movie like The Avengers. It's incredibly lucrative formula and one
Speaker 1: that some studios are falling over themselves to emulate. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing. They may think they're copying from Marvel,
Speaker 1: but they're really cribbing from Godzilla. And that's because way
Speaker 1: back in the early nineteen sixties, the Toho Studio was
Speaker 1: working off the same two stage strategy. Alongside Godzilla movies,
Speaker 1: they were also creating other standalone Kaiju movies like Roodan,
Speaker 1: who was basically a giant terodactyl that lived in a volcano,
Speaker 1: and Mathra, who was kind of the benevolent protector of
Speaker 1: this secret island in the Pacific. So, I I know
Speaker 1: Matra and rood In eventually fought against Godzilla, but you're
Speaker 1: saying they did an Avenger style team up movie too, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Like after debuting in their own movies, the Trio Big
Speaker 1: grudgingly joined forces into and of course, that was to
Speaker 1: protect the Earth from the threat of King Godra, who
Speaker 1: I guess you could call like the Thanos of the
Speaker 1: Godzilla universe. I don't know, he's like a fly gold
Speaker 1: three headed dragon from outer space. So there aren't a
Speaker 1: ton of parallels. But he's definitely Godzilla's arch nemesis. That's
Speaker 1: the point. And uh, the monsters, you know, they've had
Speaker 1: the team up a few times over the years to
Speaker 1: fight him off. That is a good fact. I feel
Speaker 1: like you guys really stepped it up with the facts today.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna to come up with some good ones. But
Speaker 1: all right, well, I feel like I had a couple
Speaker 1: here in mind. But I'm going to take us behind
Speaker 1: the scenes again for my third fact, because I want
Speaker 1: to talk about Godzilla's iconic roar and more specifically, how
Speaker 1: the sound of that roar was made. And if you've
Speaker 1: never heard the roar I'm talking about, we're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna play a few of them here for you. Now,
Speaker 1: little stop, stop putting your fist up in the air
Speaker 1: and play I'm here. It's a strange sound, right, but
Speaker 1: where did it come from? Them? So, in the nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty four original, the sound effects team tried to create
Speaker 1: Godzilla's roar using animal sounds, but none of them seemed
Speaker 1: to be like the right match. They were all too
Speaker 1: familiar and not otherworldly. Enough for the monster that people
Speaker 1: were seeing on the screen. So then the film's composer,
Speaker 1: Akira if Kube, had this great idea, why not use
Speaker 1: a musical instrument to make the roar instead? So this
Speaker 1: is what he did. He donned a pair of leather gloves,
Speaker 1: coated them in pine tar resin, and then he dragged
Speaker 1: the sticky gloves up and down the east ring of
Speaker 1: a broken down double bass. Isn't this so weird when
Speaker 1: they come up with these ideas to do stuff like this,
Speaker 1: It's like, you know what I think I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: with these gloves. But anyway, the sound he got from
Speaker 1: that became the sound of Godzilla and it's been the
Speaker 1: basis of his roar ever since. That is incredible. So
Speaker 1: we've talked about how prolific Godzilla has been at the multiplex,
Speaker 1: but he's also had his share of offs green successes.
Speaker 1: For example, he's one of a handful of fictional characters
Speaker 1: to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Speaker 1: And in Godzilla became the first radioactive lizard monster to
Speaker 1: win the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award. So it was actually
Speaker 1: presented to him by Sir Patrick Stewart, who offered this
Speaker 1: touching tribute, saying, quote, we've all heard about his temper
Speaker 1: and about the people he stepped on on his way
Speaker 1: to the top, But in this world of stars and superstars,
Speaker 1: it would be no exaggeration to say that he is
Speaker 1: the biggest, which is I think very sweet and h
Speaker 1: He is so big, in fact, that his fame is
Speaker 1: even extended to TV roles, which have been equally strange. Um.
Speaker 1: For instance, there was a time in where Godzilla appeared
Speaker 1: in a string of commercials for Dr Pepper, of all things.
Speaker 1: In the ads, he's just doing his thing, wrecking building,
Speaker 1: stopping on cars, and then he comes across a giant
Speaker 1: can of Dr Pepper, just sitting where a water tower
Speaker 1: should be, and uh he takes a big sip and
Speaker 1: the ad ends with him burping. All said spive Am,
Speaker 1: I alone in thinking like that ad was beneath the
Speaker 1: dignity of Godzilla. Yeah, I think you probably are gay, alright,
Speaker 1: fair well, if you think that sounds bad, definitely don't
Speaker 1: watch the Nike commercial where Godzilla faces off with Charles Barkley.
Speaker 1: It ends with Barkley dunking on Godzilla and then consoling
Speaker 1: him by offering him a spot on the Lakers team,
Speaker 1: which the Lakers are having a very rough season. That ye,
Speaker 1: all right, Well, to close this out, I thought I'd
Speaker 1: cover what we all really want to know, which is
Speaker 1: how the military would actually tackle the threat of Godzilla
Speaker 1: in real life. This is important stuff, right, So to
Speaker 1: figure this out. A few years ago, Air and Space
Speaker 1: Magazine reached out to a US Air Force base in Okanhawa, Japan,
Speaker 1: this is real and the response they got from the
Speaker 1: personnel there was a little surprising. They basically said, yeah,
Speaker 1: we could take him, no problem. When they were pressed about,
Speaker 1: you know, how many aircraft they would need to mount
Speaker 1: to cohesive defense, the master sergeant just said seven, which
Speaker 1: seems optimistic at best. I love how you take that
Speaker 1: as such a serious answer me. Do you think maybe
Speaker 1: he wasn't taking the question very seriously, you know, with
Speaker 1: Godzilla not being real and all. Yeah, that did occur
Speaker 1: to me. To be fair, though, the sergeant did acknowledge
Speaker 1: the Godzilla would likely be expecting an aerial attack, which
Speaker 1: shows that he was at least putting some thought into
Speaker 1: what kind of strategy, you know, might work in this situation.
Speaker 1: But again, the answer he came up with was to
Speaker 1: catch Godzilla off guard using quote four thousand segues and slingshots.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he might not have been taking it too seriously.
Speaker 1: I mean, you do hate to see that kind of hubers,
Speaker 1: you know. I feel like he really should have taken
Speaker 1: that more seriously. But anyway, well, yeah, but on the
Speaker 1: bright side, it looks like Japan at least is taking
Speaker 1: the threat seriously. Back in two thousand seven, the country's
Speaker 1: defend minister told reporters that even though Japan has a
Speaker 1: pacifist constitution, the military wouldn't have to wait for Godzilla
Speaker 1: to attack first. According to him, quote, if Godzilla attacked,
Speaker 1: that would be a natural disaster relief operation, making military
Speaker 1: action legally permissible. Yeah. So so I'm I'm glad they
Speaker 1: have that all worked out just in case. It seems
Speaker 1: like they've really thought it through. And and uh, I
Speaker 1: I feel like you really sued some nerves with that
Speaker 1: last fact. Plus you explained what the heck Lowell was
Speaker 1: doing at the top of the show. So I feel
Speaker 1: like you should take today's trophy. I feel like we
Speaker 1: even stomped it flat for you there, Gabe, So just
Speaker 1: like Godzilla would, it feels appropriate all right. Well it
Speaker 1: might be because I haven't left the house in four days,
Speaker 1: but that means a lot, guys, so thank you. All right,
Speaker 1: well that's gonna do it for today's Part Time Genius
Speaker 1: for myself, Mango, Gabe, and Lowell. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for listening. Stay safe, wash your hands. We'll be back
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