Monster Hunters

Who doesn’t like a good monster? We’ll tell you who: monster hunters. That’s why they hunt them. Because they hate them and they want them dead. Whether it’s a werewolf, a Frankenstein-type of deal or a child predator, monster hunters are out there doing the lords work, and Izzy and Cam are here to talk about them.

A thrilling round of “On the Right Day, We’re All Monsters” ends this week's episode.



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Episode Transcript

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In town in time. There's agot to make it true. Who doesn't
like a good monster. I'll tellyou monster hunters they don't. That's why
they hunt them because they hate themand they don't and they want them dead.

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Whether it's a were wolf, aFrankenstein type or a deal or Aid.
Yeah, frank and a child predator, Yeah, kill them all.
Uh. Monster hunters are out theredoing the Lord's work and we are here
to talk about them. So,you know, I always thought we did
an episode on monster Hunters before,but I don't think we've done an official

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one. Maybe we've like Mentionedy versusMonsters. I know that's an episode we
did. Yeah, try to keepit more military centric. This is gonna
be a little more broad in termsof more fantastical. Yeah, not necessarily
the military hunting monsters or encountery monsters, but some of the greatest monster hunters
out there in pop culture, onesthat have kind of been iconic and have
been kind of copied out there,and then just kind of the general idea

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of hunting monsters, what it takes, the skills involved, the mindset,
your organizations mind it's a great youget the warrior mindset, right, the
Tactical Yeah, the monsters. Thereyou go, you gotta do a maybe
you can do a video about that. You got the Tactical Mindset on YouTube.
Yeah, maybe you could do theseones. Yeah, there we go.
So we have Tacticle Mindset Part oneand two, and then we're gonna

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do the Monster Hunter Mindset coming upnext, super super quick and hot and
already up on the at kickot camp. But now I'm actually excited for this
one because you know, there isa lot of these movies that have to
do with like, you know,main protagonists going after a big old group
or maybe one head Honcho when theMonster Candy so and a lot of these

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movies are some of my favorites orat least ones that I enjoy thoroughly.
So obviously the biggest monster Hunter andthe most infamous of all time, would
you say, and would you agreewith? It's probably Van Helsing? You
know, yeah, I agree becausehe is. He's an old figure too,

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right head Dracula, which was madein written what the eighteen hundreds,
late eighteen eighteen ninety seven. Yeah, Von Helsing. He's a Dutch polymath
director with a wide range of interestsand accomplishments. Partly attested by the string
of letters that follows his name,MD, pH, D, D D,
litt, et cetera, indicating awealth of experience, education and expertise.

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He is a doctor, professor,lawyer, philosopher, scientist, and
metaphysicist. The character is best knownthrough the minieapta adaptations of the story as
a vampire slayer, monster hunter andthe arch nemesis of Count Dracula and the
pro prototypical and archetypal parapsychologist in subsequentworks of paranormal fiction. So he's like
the big archetype. I think thisis where we may get the kind of

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standard form of what a monster hunteris, and we've kind of just taken
it from there, and we've gota lot of derivatives or original takes on
the theme, but he is theone I think that maybe it started at
all, I mean the idea ofI mean, we've been hunting things since
the beginning of time, and thenalso humanity, mythological creatures in lore from

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around the globe, from the eastto the west, north and south.
Every country has their own mythological monstersand creatures, and then of course those
that have fought them, whether theybe gods from mythology or just really heroic
people from their my Greek or Nordicmythology or whatever. Yeah. Man,

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if there's something that goes bumping thenight, there's probably someone that's bumping back.
That's a T shirt right there.Yeah we bumped. Yeah, we
bumped those that pump in the nightor something like that. Yeah, we
bump bump in the night. Somesort of hunter double double bump team.
Yeah, bubble bump. Uh.But you know, speaking of Van Helsing,

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he's portrayed dozens of times and popculture. He is the og of
the of the monster Hunters. Andyou know, one of my favorite movies
growing up was the Hugh Jackman PortrayalerFans. I don't know why I was
so obsessed with that movie, butlike, I don't know, it's just
had really cool tech in it,you know, Yeah that it rode the

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line of fantasy. But in thethe era, so like there was weapons
everywhere, a little bit of steampunk type inspiration or yeah, like crossbow
you give me super cool, yeah, gear punk or whatever they call it.
Yeah, yeah, but that portrayalwas really good because it rode that
fine line of like fantasy. Becauseyou had like Dracula, but you also

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had all of the monsters. Itwasn't just you know, him fighting draculas,
also him fighting werewolves, him fightingmister Jackal, Jacqueline Hyde, you
know, doctor Jacqueline Hyde. Soit was like he existed in this realm
where like monsters were truly real,and it just wasn't you know, multiple
universes. He'd like dive into each. No, he was a part of
one that contained them all. Yeah, like it was. I thought it

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was good portrayal universal universal monsters,yeah, universal monster, even Frankenstein was
yeah, all that stuff. Yeah, yeah, So I thought that was
done really well. And to behonest, I was like Van Helsing was
a character created so long ago thatfor some reason I was I wouldn't have

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put it past them if he waslike a real guy. You know,
he's been personified to such an extentthat like, I'm like, this guy
asked to be based off a realperson, But no, he's not.
He's a He's a fictional character orfictional character that came out in the Bramstroker
Dracula, and it was a littledisappointing. Yeah, he wasn't an actual

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figure from history. That was prettysad because like, could you imagine being
related to Van Helsing? Like mygreat great grandfather was Van Helsing. You
know that's pretty bad ass. Thatcast a long shadow. You kind of
have to become a monster hunter.Yeah that's your great great great great great
great grandfather or whatever. Yeah.Do you know how many like TV show
deals you would have on the SciFi Channel that like, you know,
you would go around and just likekind of say, is anybody here with

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us? And then you know,here like a crack and then you piss
yourself and that's great TV. Like, it would have been awesome. Plus,
Van Helsing one hell of a guitarplayer. What's your favorite? So
your favorite your favorite incarnation of VanHelsing is the Hugh Jackman Van Helsing probably
my favorite. My favorite incarnation wouldbe the Bram Stokers Dracula movie Van Helsing

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with Anthony Hopkins. Yeah. He'sa crazy guy, right, crazy.
Yeah, it's kind of a good. Yeah, he's like super off.
He's like the village idiot kind ofin a way. They're like, oh,
it's just that guy. Yeah,yeah, but he's but he knows
this, you know. Yeah,he he helps them out when they need
it in the movie, you know, he's got the lore. That's one
thing I always really appreciate about anyincarnation of any kind of monster hunter is

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the education that they have. Theyknow their foe, they're really experienced,
they know the lore, they knowhow their faux thinks. No matter who
we've got on this list, Ithink just about everybody that all of the
monster Hunters on this list are learnedhunters. They and I just appreciate because
you have to the as the writeror the developer, you have to know

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the monster lor and it all hasto be internally consistent within that world that
you're creating, whether it's Monster Hunteror the Witcher, and I just love
that. I think it adds somuch depth, and then it really makes
you respect the character more because weall know how hard it is to really
become really educated on any kind ofsubject, and to be to know it's

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almost like a uh, what's thesun Zoo Art of war kind of thing
if you know how they thinks andand so yeah, Van Helsing is kind
of the arc type, and theneverything everybody else on this list they know
their stuff, which is super coolbecause the action seams are fine, but
they're they're more exciting if you ifyou know how the character is thinking about

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them and how they're trying to dotheir strategy, and that's been to you.
Yeah. No, I mean alot of these are like I would
say, most of these characters onour list don't have like the training montage,
you know, yeah, discovered,not them being discovered. No,
they're all established, except for maybeone here. But there's also but that's
a kind of a duo where oneof them is extremely experienced and the other

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one isn't. Or they have ateam that's with it, or it's a
team yeah that has strength and weaknesses. Yes, but yeah, Van Helsing
obviously have to start off Monster Huntersby talking about, you know, the
most infamous of all time. Butwhat about what about a monster hunter who's
a monster himself? So let's talkabout Hellboy. Great, but let's talk

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about hell Boy just because I don'tthink there I take that back, I
was gonna say, I don't thinkthere's a bad hell Boy except for the
most recent like re ducts of it. But like the original, let's talk
about the the ones with God Yeah, yeah, the Man, Coon Cat,
Yeah, the Man, the literalman, let's talk about the one

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Ron Perlman. Yeah, so hellBoy great, great, hell Boy one
and two plus obviously the one withDavid Harbor, but we're not going to
talk about that one. But uh, you have you know, a mythical
creature, a creature of lore,a feature of the occult, who is
summoned by Nazi scientists that are tryingObviously the occult you know, is real

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in the Nazi and we've had anentire episode talking about it. So,
you know, they they tap intothe beyond, another dimension where they bring
about hell Boy. You know,he comes through the portal and he's brought
to Earth and he's you know,he's taken in by the Professor and he's
taught how to be moral and taughtto be human and you know, taught

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to fight good even though he isinherently evil. He's destined. Yeah,
he's destined to destroy the world.I think that's his yeah, prophetic testing
or whatever exactly. So, likeI mean, at the end of hell
Boy one, when they like youknow, show his true potential, because
Hellboy's horns have been cut off,he keeps them filed down. He keeps

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him filed down because probably when they'reobviously we find when the horns grow back.
He's a bad dude. Yeah,he's super huge. He's got a
flaming crown that kind of floats abovehis head. Yeah, well he's he
is, like, isn't he likethe devil? Not the devil? But
he has this in the first one, they talk about it more. He
is that's his destiny in the future, to dead Earth. Yeah yeah,

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so oh no, but you knowhe is part of the what is it,
the Paranormal Investigator, part of ParanormalResearch and Defense, the BPR.
Yep, he is one of thebest agents there and he just hunts after
monsters. When things go bumping thenight, hel Boy bumps back. We're
gonna say that with his demonic gun, the six shooter, the big Revolvers,

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Formos Revolver, that no one elsea hand to the hand of Doom
or whatever the hand He's got hisgauntlet and that thing is crazy. I'm
gonna look up a little bit oflower you talk about what do you think
about how Boy? Well, Ilove that he has a team. We
talked about monster hunters being on ateam and having a team, and so
he's got deep Sapien who's the fishMan played by jug Jones. I met
him once. Uh, who isthe He's the smart guy of the He's

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the the researcher, he's the intellectualpart of the team. And then he's
got the pyrokinetic lady that he's inlove with. As they go more into
their relationship in the second one,actually they do in the first one,
and the second one they're more that. You know, she ends up being
pregnant and so they're definitely gonna havea hell Boy kids. But she's really

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great. And then of course theyhave regular agents, human agents that are
with them. And that's what Ilove about having It's like Control, the
video game Control that could be amonster hunter type thing, the Federal Bureau
of Control. I just love theidea of having this federal institution whose sole
purpose it is is to hunt paranormalcreatures or supernatural creatures. That just seems

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like a lot of fun and alsoextremely dangerous if you're just a normal human.
I don't think i'd want to bea part of it if I was
just a regular guy. Because allof the agents in these movies end up
getting taken apart and killed. It'sonly Hellboy and Ame Sapien that really end
up surviving. Yeah, but yeah, what I love is the second one
is my favorite of all of thehell Boys movies that have happened, because

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that was when the first one isGambled del Toro. But he they took
a story James Mangole, I thinktook a story and adapted it from one
of the comic books. But thenthe second one, Gamble Deltur, I
think that was an original story thathe made up. The Golden Army and
oh, of course get the fatherFigure two, the older professor that it
fosters hell Boy and teaches him theway he should go and and unfortunately he

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passes in the first movie. Butin the second one, uh, you
know, they're kind of it's likemore coming of age. He's got to
take charge himself. He's against he'sagainst the elf, the elf prince who
uh and the and their there he'sgot the twin sister and they can feel
one another's uh life forces or whatever. I love that one. That's good.
Hellboy in the Golden Army was oneof It's one of my favorite sife

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or like fantasy sci fi movies becauseit's just all Gamble del toy. He
just gets to go totally loose withhis imagination the troll market and the giant
plant god that he has to fight. Uh yeah, really really a lot
of fun. So I like thewhole team Massac. I like when there's
a team, it's the classic kindof ODA style or whatever, where everybody's
got their specialty and they all contributesomething classic rpg D and D type stuff

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where everybody's got a specialty. Sothat's a lot of fun. Yeah,
I think we failed to mention that, like hell Boy was a very successful
comic book series, but yeah,absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So obviously there's more to hell Boythan just the film. So if you,
you know, are a fan ofthe films and you want to know
more, look into a little bitmore. There's always the comic books that

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you can check out. Mike,Mike mcgol's yeah, Mike Mcnolah, and
I got a little backstory here.So yeah, he was so he was
resputant. I think that character youknow, was the one that semoned him
yep, yeah, in the firstone and wasn't resputant, actual real person.
He was a real person. Yeah, And so in the comic books,
he's kind of an immortal kind ofguy. Yeah, And the thing

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about Resputant is in real life hewas into like he was kind of a
Russian, like back before kind ofthe Prussian was Prussian was the days of
the Czars, and he had alot of political power and too much,
which is why people like stab shotpoisoned, you know. Yeah, and
he never died, right, Yeah, he he didn't. Yeah, he
didn't die. He eventually did die, but they had to do all that

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stuff to kill There was like somemore around resputing that he was actually like
he had powers and everything. Sothat I feel like when you combine uh
you know, fact with fiction,or at least like nonfiction with fiction,
I always think that's a cool littletwists. Yeah, but yeah, So
basically the details of hell Boys pastwere revealed in in the comic where he

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was born in Hell to a humanmother. His true name is angun Rama,
and his destiny was to serve asthe heartbringer of the apocalypse. So
pretty much he's the Harbinger. Okay, Yeah, that's cool. Yeah,
was super cool. But yeah,hell Boy, you know I love that.
Just like you said, the secondone is one of my favorites.

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It's just I think it does areally good job of introducing that that fantasy
world because you think it's just paranormal, but like when you hear the word
paranormal, all you really think aboutis like ghosts, you know, you
know, you don't really think aboutelves and you know, mystical creatures within
the paranormal. So I think itbridges that gap and really finishes it off.

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Plus there's some great action sequences andthe FX, you know, the
the elves and when they go intothat world and they see that old lady
who they were, the goggles tosee her true identity and the shift tying
glasses. Yeah yeah, yeah,and she's afraid of cats. Yeah.
Like it's it's just great. It'sjust really good writing and the effects is

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awesome. So hell Boy definitely deservesa spot on this list. Yeah.
Absolutely. If we're talking about charactersthat have kind of they're they're kind of
a dual nature, or they kindof they're a part of the darkness that
they fight against. We got totalk about Blade a little bit because the
Blade movies were pretty awesome. TheirBlade movies came around before comic book movies

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were super popular. It was oneof those kind of experimental days, you
know, the the Tim Burton batmankind of days. But Blade, with
of course his name, leaves meimmediately. But martial artists got trouble for
tax evasion, I think. Butanyway, the character Blade comes, Yeah,

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are you talking about Wesley Snipes.Wesley Snipe, there you go,
there you go. But yeah,Wesley Snipe's great action actor. I think
this was probably his most iconic rolein everything that he's done. But part
vampire, right. He had anhuman mother who was attacked by a vampire,
didn't die. The vampire blood gotinto him. He was born half

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vampire, half human. So he'sgot whistler, his his his right hand
man who makes all of his gear. And also they have a serum that
he takes that can stave off hisvampiric urges, and so they call him
the day Walker. He can goaround the daytime and in the nighttime he
hunts hunts vampires. You know,He's got all sorts of cool weapons and

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and Blade was awesome. Man.Blade two's my favorite. Blaye three is
a steaming pile of garbage in myopinion, but Blade Blade two also Giramel
del Toro back when he was youknow, he'll he'll do like studio films,
and then he'll go off and dohis own thing. I think he
does his own thing exclusively now becausehe's had lots of success. But Blade
two amazing as well, great action, and then Blade the character has kind

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of this there's this darkness within himwhere he has to he's of two worlds
and he has to fight off hisvampiric or just while killing the very vampires.
Yeah, his own kind in away. So I like that,
you know, Yeah, I likeit. I like it a lot.
You know, I like it alot. We just were talking about Ron
Pearlman and Ron. I feel likeRon Peerlman is one of those actors who

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probably if there's a movie about momHunters, he's in it. Yeah,
because because Ron Perlman's in Blade two. Yeah, Well, Ron Berlman and
Gamble del Toro are really good friends, so he has him in his you
know, they is he can fithim into a movie. It's kind of
like Doug Jones too. I thinkthat they're all really good friends. So
if they can fit him into amovie, he tries to do that.

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I think, no, absolutely,because I'm just going through his IMDb really
quick, because you know, RonPerlman is the type of actor that's like,
hey, it's kind of like aB film and there's a big name
actor and Ron Perlman just shows upand you're like, oh, yeah,
it's it's cat guy. Yeah.But uh but yeah he's in. So
so he's in. Obviously he's inall. He plays hell Boy. He

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is also Monster Hunters specific rim they'reliterally fighting monsters. Yeah. Yeah,
he's also Blade two season of TheWitch, which is literally about hunting witches.
Yeah. That movie is that movie. I actual campaign for people to
avoid that movie. That movie isso bad. It's so bad, dude,
it's pretty bad. I watched it. That was from the Nick Cage
Dark period where he was just doinganything to keep his cast. Yeah.

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Yeah, he's in Conan. Yeahyeah, he played Conan's father. Apparently
he's in the Hobbit. I didn'tknow that, but he's in the Hobbit.
Yeah, he says the Hobbit UnexpectedJourney. But then you look at
the cast and they all have theirnames and he is like, on Ronda
Meelman just shows up, but itjust says Ron Perlman. So I don't

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know he was in Uh, hewas in a show called Beauty and the
Beast back in the eighties with LindaHamilton. Akah, he played the beast.
Yeah, he was the beast.He was a man coon. He
played basically a lion person. Yeah, and he had a love you know,
he was in love with Linda Hamiltonfrom Terminator movies and Uh. Anyway,

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so he's he's been fighting and beingthe monsters. He's one of those
working actors. You look on hisIMDb and he has twelve projects in a
year and it's all maybe a weekhere, two weeks there, and then
he'll be in a highbrow he'll bein a great movie like Dry, like
Driver with Ryan Gosling, and thenhe'll be in some obscure monster movie that

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came out like Monster. Yeah,likes Hunter. Oh god, speaking of
Monster Hunters. Like that movie,right. I mean, you can be
a fan of the video games,but that man, that movie was hot.
Garb. Yeah, talk about adisappointment. Like, I'm sorry if
anybody's involved in that project. Andlisten to this podcast and like respect us.
Yeah, Paul W. S Andersonis listening to this right now.

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He's like, I can't believe theyhated my movie. Yeah, yeah,
no, it was just you know, some you know, video game remakes,
they just they just don't hit youknow. I mean, in all
fairness, I've never played the MonsterHunter video games, but like Monster Hunter,
don't hit no no. And it'sand it's one of those if we're
gonna go off on a tantruent onMonster Hunter, which we can because it's

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literally the name of the episode.I mean, it's just all about it's
all about how do you adapt?Like we talked, we've talked about adaptations
on the show before, and it'sit's what aspects of the video game,
what aspects of the intellectual property doyou take? What do you keep?
What makes the video what makes itin a little sectual property successful? And

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then how do you and can youactually adapt it successfully? Because a lot
of times, I think with MonsterHunter especially, they took kind of the
most it looks like they took themost superficial aspects of the game, and
they say, well, we'll justtake those and then we'll tell just whatever
story we want. Right, itdoesn't really matter. We're not gonna you
know, I don't know. Youguys can tell me if I'm wrong.

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Listening to this, Maybe write usan email, PCFM podcast at gmail dot
com, or send us a DMor get a hold of me on my
twitch stream. I really want toknow what you thought of Monster Hunter the
movie, because it's I think I'ma little passionate about this because there is
a larger conversation in today's pop cultureabout adaptation. Right. We've talked about
Halo the TV series. We've talkedabout Lord of the Rings, the Rings

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of Power, we talked about everything, all these different shows that have been
adapted from video games, movies,books, and what the showrunners want to
take and want to keep and whatthey want to leave out. And so
I think it's a it's discussing,it's a discussion worth having, worth having,
because like the culture that we consumematters, and and what what stories

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we want to tell in culture andwhat we don't want to tell, and
then why we would take an intellectualproperty and adapt it for our own reasons
or for you know, to bringsomething out that the original author intended or
not. You know. So anyway, anyway, Monster Hunter World, Uh,
not a very good film. Fulldisclosure, I have not seen it.

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I always want to. That's somethingthat I will be really faithful to
from now on, Cameron is.If I haven't seen something, I try
not to talk about it too much, except maybe in a very broadway,
because the only way you're really gonnaknow about any piece of pop cultures if
you experienced it yourself. Sure,there you go. I feel like you
just got your bias, just bias, bias. I'm totally wrong. I

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have no authority to speak on anythingthat I haven't seen. It's okay,
that's fine, man. I meanwe don't have to go into uh,
we do not need to go intoMonster Hunter. We'll just leave it at
that. Let's go with your thoughts. Let folks, if you liked Monster
Hunter, you're you've played the videogame? What your thoughts? Piece of
podcast at gmail dot com. Yeah, and if you watch this on YouTube,
yeah, comment section please absolutely.So let's move on. Let's talk

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about something maybe you have seen,like The Witcher. I have seen the
first and half of the second seasonof The Witcher, and so I can
speak to that. Okay, draftof rivera the river, the river Gerald
of Riviera, Yeah, Riviera,big big cruise guy. Yeah. His

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Rivia is such a great character.If we want to talk about somebody who's
knowledgeable, that knows the lore ofeverything. And and also I think this
is one of those kind of Halotype situations where he was what kidnapped as
a kid and genetically altered, kindof like the Spartans. I think that's
the part of the Lord. Thoseof you that have read the books and

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watched the whole series and play thevideo games, especially the video game is
what we I would be most interestedin playing or or watching or doing next.
But yeah, I think they havekind of his backstories that he was
he was messed with as a kidand trained up to be this witcher.
That's why they're kind of genetic freaks. That's why they're out Part of the
reason why they're outcasts is they cantake on these abilities and have all these

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potions and these spells that they canwork with which people are afraid of,
like and yet they're the ones thatthey are called that, they're the ones
that they call when there's a monsteraround. They're the police. Yeah,
yeah, they're the supernatural police,right and hate them until they need their
help. Please say yeah, butGirault Gerald, I don't know, how

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do you pronounce his name? Gary? With a girl. Yeah, good
with a good not a okay.Garylt was born as the son of the
sorceress of Visenna and presumably the warriorCorinne. Shortly after his birth with his
mother his his birth, his motherleft him with the School of the wolf
As at the Stronghold of care More. Hen there, Garrault was made and

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trained to become a witcher. Asa child, he was subjected to the
trial of the Grasses. So yeah, he was, you know, kind
of left little little boy and he'slike trained him, subject him to all
your torment and then boom girl toRIVERA plus I mean, talk about a
good cast. You know, wewe've expressed our love for uh little hc

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there Yeah, and uh yeah,we expressed our love for Hendrick caval We
cannot wait. And I think Icould to speak for the both of us.
To see the war Hammer. Yes, to see the Warhammer, because
you know, when actors that knowthe lore and actors that are obsessed with
the story and the actual piece ofmaterial are involved in it, I feel
like it just makes it much better. Yeah, there's a good chance it's

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not a Garan's a good chance.Paul W. S Anderson is I'm sure
a big fan of Monster Hunter.That doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to
get a good a good game ora good adaptation or whatever. But Henry
Cavill I think has shown himself tobe very knowledgeable, and so if he
surrounds himself with a good team,yeah, I think. I think it's
Warhammer forty K is gonna be awesome. Okay, yeah, fingers crossed.

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But yeah, h she was agreat, great character cast for this just
because you know, physicality wise,he looks like a monster, you know
himself. He's a pretty big freakingguy. Anybody that can play Superman and
like make the suit look good,no, homo, but uh, you
know, it is good to playthese types of characters. Yeah. I
do think the hair is a littleridiculous though, because like the hair does

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not look like it is. Yeah, it's very medieval times, you know,
it is super It's like, Okay, let's I gotta go down to
the nine nine cent Halloween store andjust put this gray wig on. Like
it doesn't it just doesn't look likeit's his hair. That's the silliest part
the entire season, Like the entirefirst couple of seasons. I just kept

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watching it and going, it's nothis hair. It's like, it's not
his hair at all. It doesnot look believable. But that was my
only complaint. But uh, youknow, I I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I think he's, you know,one of the on our list here,
one of the most knowledgeable monster hunters. Yes, because in his universe,
you know, there isn't just likeone type of monster, like you have

(28:45):
a plethora of ones to deal with, and that each of them have their
own strengths and weaknesses. And everymonster he come across, or he has
come across, he knows their weakness. It's not like he doesn't he hasn't
come across something that he's never heardof, at least in my you know,
experience, which is like the firsttwo or three seasons of it.

(29:06):
But but yeah, no, Iyou know, he's I've never played the
game. Have you played the game? No? You know, it's funny,
it's one of those. To myshame, I actually own Witch Are
three Wild Hunt and I have notplayed it. That's just sitting on a
desk on a desk somewhere, andI need to pop it into my PlayStation
to play it. But no,you got to take away my nerd card
later. Well for shame on you? Is he me? I mean I

(29:30):
can get away with saying no,I haven't played that game, so but
yeah, no, I enjoyed theshow. I heard the drama of the
recast, which I don't know what'syour opinion on that. I mean,
it's it's hard to know the truestory. I tried to get a little
bit from both sides as much asI could. The popular opinion is that

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Henry Cavill very excited about the show, showrunners not so interested in honoring the
source material, kind of wanted todo other stuff with You can see that
as the seasons go on, it'sless about garylt of Rivia and more about
the female characters. Yeah yeah,and then Jennifer Yeah so yeah and I

(30:15):
so you can see that in theshow that it's not necessarily about garyl Ta
Rivia, even though the show iscalled The Witcher. And then Henry Cavill
has dropped little hints about how it'show he loves this, you know,
the original source material, and howthat would be his desire if he had
more creative control than he would doit this way kind of thing. So
My opinion is that as is thekind of the standard practice in Hollywood these

(30:38):
days. It's more about taking thesource material and then telling your own story
with kind of the most superficial aspectsof the source material, kind of like
I've said before, hollowing it outand then making it say what you want
them to say. So I thinkthat's probably why he left, because it

(30:59):
could be another reason, could havebeen something else. Maybe he's not I
I saw a video where oh,maybe he's not the best guy to get
along with on set or whatever.So who knows the validity. I just
kind of want to give give voiceto both sides, or more than one
side of it. But I tendto believe all my bias here. I
tend to believe that he was Hewanted them to be more honoring to the
source material. He did his bestwith what they gave him. They decided

(31:22):
to go in a different direction moreand more, and he's like, I'm
out. You know, I gotWarhammer forty K. I'm excited about this.
I want to have creating control ofthat property and do what I want
with you guys can have what isit, Liam Hensworth? It's taken over
and the brother, not Lee.Is it Liam's the brother you have Chris?
Yeah. Liam Hemsworth. Yeah,Liam Hemsworth. Yeah, he uh

(31:47):
he did. Was he in theuh Hunger Games? Was that his thing?
Uh? Yeah, I guess theHunger Games. He was in Land
of Bad Oh, that movie thatjust came out. Land. We should
review of that, Cameron, Weshould watch that and then do a review
of it with Russell Croworth. Yeah. He's in Expendables. Yeah yeah,
I mean he's no slouch. Obviously, he's one of the Worths, not

(32:10):
the lowest Hens. Because there's likeanother Hensworth that was in uh oh no,
the HBO. He was in uhWest World, and I'm like,
that's a Hemsworth. It's just like, hey, bro, uh let me
do you Luke Hemsworth. Luke Kemsworth. Oh yeah, poor guy. Actually

(32:30):
he was in He's got kind ofa list here, west Worth. He's
in thor Ragnarok. Oh yeah,that's a pity cast. Yeah. Well,
he was on He was one ofthe actors on stage playing like the
the dramatized version of whatever story theywere they were. Oh, I totally
thought that was Matt Damon. MattWell, he was on that. He

(32:52):
was there too, but I thinkhe played somebody else, a different character
on stage, but Matt Damon wasthere. That was kind of a joke.
Is there a fourth the fourth?Yeah, he's in He's in Ragnarok,
He's in Love and Thunder. Ifeel like that's a pity cast.
Sorry, Luke, I don't wantto, you know, make you sound
hey you know yeah, yeah,you're like, I got a brother who'd
be you know, throuble boat.He's looking for work, you know,

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Yeah, so let's just give him. He was in hiccock. Uh.
And then he was also in Landof Bad. Apparently that's funny. That's
probably another like, hey, Igot a brother, he's not doing it.
Yeah, I got a brother thatwould you know, Like, we
got this veteran guy. You know, he'd probably be really good for the
role of Sergeant Abel, Like mybrother. I got a brother, you
know, he needs the money.Yeah, yeah, you're that veteran guy.

(33:43):
Yeah. I feel like that's howit went because yeah, I mean
interesting, because yeah, it's Ilooked at the casting for Land of Bad
and you know how like kind ofputs their faces in order of precedence,
like how important they are, andyou know, Luke's face is right next
to Russell Crowe and then it's LeahHey, all right, Luke Luke coming

(34:05):
up in the world. Man,it's gonna be the greater. He's gonna
It's like Game of Thrones, butwith the Hemsworth they're all vying for political
and pop culture power. Yeah.Well, didn't Chris Hemsworth. He said
he's kind of taking a break,right, Yeah, he is. I
think I think, well, Ithink what I heard was there was that
show he did Limitless right where itwas exploring the limits of human potential.

(34:28):
Ye put himself to the test,and through that, I think either through
that or maybe peripheral to that,he found out that he has some genetic
predispositions to like Alzheimer's or whatever,dementia, and that really got him worried.
And so I think he was like, Hey, I want to spend
time with my family, I wantto work on my health. I'm gonna
take a break for a little while. And so I mean he has the
money to do it, yeah,yeah, and why not have more power

(34:51):
to him? I think that issuper important. You got to take care
of yourself, and if you knowthat you have some predispositions to stuff.
I don't think that all is lost. You should take some time and really
work on yourself, or at leastbe aware of it, you know,
pick steps. Yeah, yeah,yeah, because man, Yeah, let
Luke, Let lou have Let Lukehave his day in the sun like hashtag

(35:12):
let Luke. Okay, yeah,hashtag let Luke. Let's make let's get
that viral. Yeah, let's keepit, let's keep it going. Man.
Sorry, Liam, I heard you'rea bad guy in terms of relationships,
so I'm not not a big fan. All right, Liam, you
gotta hey, there's who there's hopefor you. Liam. You're not genetically

(35:32):
predisposed predisposed of being a bad guy, so we believe in you too.
Hashtag let Liam. No, I'mnot Luke, all right? Hashtag all
right? Yeah, all right,Well let's get on track because I have
no idea where we are. Ihave no idea where we are. We
were talking about Galt and then wewere like, what are you talking to?

(35:53):
Think about recast and then boot that'sokay, It's that's okay. That's
what people want to hear. Theywant to They don't want to hear us
keep on track. They want usto go into little little cul de sacs
and sidetracks and stuff we love couldsacks. Well, if you want to
pick it up, let's uh,let's talk about Constantine. Man. Yeah,
I love my favorite actors. Yeah, good old keanurees Man, the

(36:15):
Internet's boyfriend. Yeah, the Internet'sboyfriend, super loyal, great, you
know, awesome communicator. But themost exciting thing is, like, okay,
it's been a while since Constantine hascome out, you know, we
have and that was that was agreat movie for what it was, you
know, one of one of myfavorite Keanu movies ever. Behind like John

(36:37):
Wick because you know, we're dealingwith the man who you know, has
dedicated his life to combating the forcesof evil based on the comic book character.
Yep, is that a Marvel comicbook character, a star course or
something like that. Maybe let melook that up real quick. Deficuok character

(36:58):
Hell Blazer comic book series d C. It is d C, d C
okay, d C. So yeah, John Constein's character. You know,
besides the movie, the Keanu reevesit is based off of a comic book.
But the most exciting news is wehave a second edition, hopefully in
the near future that has been announced. Hey really with Keanu Reeves. Yeah,
with Keanu is coming back? Allright. This is another example of

(37:22):
a man who you know, iscombating the forces of evil, that is
an expert in his craft. Thereis no like train up, there's no
montage like when you're introduced to KeanuReeves. He is you know, he's
fighting and you're like, what thehell is going on? There's all this
like weird voodoo going on and boom, wow, he's just out there kicking
ass. Wow. Yeah. Andwhat I love is they is again the

(37:44):
lore. Uh it's I feel likeit's surrounded by a lot of Catholic lore
too. A lot of the yeahhe has are very Christian, very Catholic.
I mean that was the same withVan Halen, you know, like,
I'm sorry, not Van Halen,Ben Hell's. That was the joke
I made earlier when he said he'sreally good at the guitar. Oh I

(38:05):
missed that. Okay, Okay,you laughed. I thought you picked it
up. That's what I just yourself. Okay, sorry man Van Helsing.
I mean that was the same Likein the Hugh Jackman portrayal, he's a
part of the he's a part ofthe Catholic religion. Like he goes over
to Italy, They're like fund himand get his R and D. He's
got. He's like the paranormal uh, kind of the department of the Why

(38:30):
am I blanking on? What arethese dudes called the what are the Catholic
the priests, pope, the pope? What are they called the papistry or
whatever? The pape No, liketheir whole the whole thing, Like the
Catholic Church is the the the Idon't know the church. It's the Catholic
Church, the monks, I don'tknow what you're talking about, the the

(38:54):
what did they say, papestry?I forgot. Yeah, I don't know.
Somebody helped me out. Send meleadership, like the leadership of it
or whatever. Yeah, yeah,yeah, like the leadership like they're the
bann you know in Italy. Okay, you know what I'm talking about.
Hope is part of it, Likeit's the main church in Italy and it's

(39:16):
the Oh I'm heaving, what isit? Well? Hey? All the
all that to say John Constantine andthen Van Helsing obviously in the movie,
Yeah, he is funded by theCatholic Church in Rome. By what are
you talking about the city? Whatis it the Vatican? The Vatican?

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Okay, all right, yeah,the Vatican, okay, because that's yeah,
you can go to the Vatican.That's like their HQ is the Vatican.
Yeah, yeah, and it's that'swhat technically its own city or whatever,
like legally, yeah, it's likeits own little district and stuff.
But the Vatican would give Van Helsinglike his missions, like he was basically
the weapon of the Vatvatican. Sothat's who that's kind of like what you

(40:02):
know, obviously not kind of,but he's he kind of operates independently John
Constantine alongside the Vatican, like he'snot part of it because I don't think
they agree with his methods, correct, But he is like somebody that he's
like the guy they call when likethey can't do it. Yeah. Yeah.
And there's and not to be outdone. I know that there's I'm trying

(40:24):
to look. I don't know ifit's as popular, but there's like Warrior
Nun. There have been Warrior Nunincarnation throughout pop culture. I know there
was a comic book and there's aNetflix cerys called Warrior Nun. I don't
know if it's the same Catholic thing. But uh, you know, warrior
nuns Man, you got to givehim credit where credit is due. But
yeah, absolutely, I totally believethe Catholic Church has secret assassin Like they

(40:49):
must have a military wing, amilitary branch of the Vatican and the Roman
Catholic Church because they're so powerful andbig. H you know, I would
love to see I would love seea movie about that. There's assassins,
but quick google search. Constantine's thingis he is trying to save his soul

(41:10):
from hell because when he was akid, he committed suicide and then was
brought back and so for that,in Catholicism, suicide, if you kill
yourself, that's a mortal sin andyou go to Hell for that. But
so that's kind of the main thingin the in the movie with Rachel Weiss
is every every soul or every demonthat he puts away, he thinks,

(41:31):
oh, he's trying to buy hisway back into into Heaven's good grace into
Heaven. Yeah yeah, yeah,so very very Catholic in its in its
theology. I'm very looking forward tothis to see, you know, because
the first one, I hope SylaBuff's in it. I think that would
be real good. He became.There's an alternate ending to the Constantine movie

(41:52):
where you see because Sharyla Buff's charactergets killed, and then the alternate ending
when he's on the rooftop, yousee Shilah Buff as an angel. He's
been created, He's been made intoan angel after he dies, and so
maybe he could be out there.Man, really Buff, Yeah, really
Buff, really fit angel Shyla buffersout. Yeah, you will not divide

(42:14):
us, okay. I want togive a special shout out to Ash from
the Evil Dead series. The EvilDead movies and series. Ash is a
great iconic character played by Bruce Campbell. Starting off of the Evil Dead.
He's kind of like the Final Girl. He kind of you don't. He's
not the main character in the firstEvil Dead movie, which came out a

(42:36):
long time ago in the olden daysin the early eighties, late seventies,
but the Necronomicon Book of the Deadspawned a whole slew of movies that just
keeps going, which I'm I'm okaywith. I like the last one that
came out where with the Ladies inthe Apartment Building. But Ash is the
original. He is an official monsterHunter, specifically fighting against the dead Heites,

(42:57):
which are the manifestations the d demonsthat are called forth by the Necronomicon
when it's activated. And then hesteps more and more into his role from
Evil Dead two especially, which isI think probably my favorite out of all
of them. But I saw Armyof Darkness first. I didn't even know
that it was a movie series.But then there have been multiple video games,
none of which I've played. Butthen the series was really fun.

(43:20):
I think there was a couple ofseasons of Ash versus Evil Dead, which
was a lot of fun. Iwatched most of the first season. But
his iconic weapon is, of coursethe chainsaw arm. He cuts off his
own arm, his own hand rather, and then he replaces it with a
chainsaw. He creates this little contraptionwhere he's got a pull cord on his
chest. He rips it out andstarts it up, and then he can

(43:43):
fight Evil that way. And thenof course his boomstick is double barrel shotgun.
So Ash deserves special mention. He'sgot a hard life because he is
not he doesn't have any superpowers.He's a middle American dude. He works
at Smart in the sporting goods section, right, and so he gets special

(44:04):
mention because you know, he doesn'thave any superpowers. He's just got pure
grit and insanity to fuel him inhis fight against the deadites that come from
the Book of the Dead, whichI actually hear there's I guess in lore,
there's technically three Books of the Dead. There's the original with Ash,
there's the remake they did in latetwenty tens, I think, and then

(44:27):
there's the most recent one with theladies in the apartment building, and they
all look slightly different. And soI think I read somewhere that there's actually
three separate ecronomicons that all have theirown journeys throughout time, causing chaos and
havoc. But Ash William's evil dead, great monster hunter. Nice dude,
good honorable mention. I guess myhonorable mention before we move on is just

(44:49):
Perseus from Clash of Titans. God. Yeah, And I mean that entire
movie is about fighting monsters, andyou know it's just epic film Greek mythology,
right, Yeah, it's based offGreek mythology, which I've always been
a big proponent of and a bigfan of growing up. One of the
only uh like school topics that Ireally found myself like reading and doing homework

(45:14):
for. So yeah, No,Greek mythology is just full of awesome characters,
awesome epic tales fighting monsters, andwe have the you know, the
Hollywood portrayal of it. There's theoriginal, which was I think one of
my first pair of boobies I've everseen in my life. Yeah, big
time, big yeah. I remembergoing to Blockbuster and like seeing Clash of

(45:37):
Titans and like the opening scene ofClash of Titans is just a rack in
your face. Oh really, it'soh yeah, because it was made in
like the seventies or we right,Okay, when she has her son Perseus,
she's like right there, Yeah,she's like holding her son Perseus and
like her tits are just out.Uh so like that, and then the
second I saw that, my momturned it off. So like, I

(45:59):
think that was one of the boobiesI've ever seen. Would you ever get
to watch the whole the whole seriesor the whole movie the original? Yeah,
later in life, I think,Okay, but I was probably like
seven years old, so like youknow, no, not like you where
you could watch anything. Actually,no, you said, you can watch
anything as long as he didn't haveboobies in it, right, Yeah,
but you know, it's funny aboutthat particular one. I saw that when

(46:21):
I was a kid, but Imaybe I saw it on TV because I
don't remember that there were any boobsin it. Okay, Yeah, No,
the main the one I got fromBlockbuster definitely had Ariola. Uh so
so yeah, no I remember that. But the remake with the guy that
you know was huge for one pointand then just disappear. Jake Sully.
Yeah, yeah, Jake Sully literallyfilms from the Avatar. Yeah, whatever

(46:43):
happened to that guy? I mean, he's he He's Jake Sully. He
was waiting for to be Jake Sullyagain for the Avatar films. But yeah,
what's his name? Jake Sully actorplayed by Sam Worthington, Sam Worthington,
there you go. Yeah, hewas huge for like the Avatar,

(47:04):
like he was in Hacksaw Ridge.He was a clash of titans, you
know, man a ledge horizon likehis IMDb is huge, and then he
just kind of had a kind ofjust had a break. Yeah. I
think I think when Avatar came outand became literally the biggest movie of all
time. He probably got picked upby a big agency like W M ME
or whatever and they're like, Okay, we're gonna put you in everything now.

(47:28):
And he had I mean, hewas in freaking so many movies.
Let's see how many movies between whendid When did? When did Avatar?
Come out? Two thousand and eleven, twenty eleven. But a lot of
stuff, A lot of stuff TheGreat Ridge or two thousand and nine,
two thousand and nine, yeah,Avatar. He was in some stuff before

(47:49):
that, I guess. Yeah,he was The Ridge. Yeah, and
then he was in Clash of theTitans, the debt last night called Duty
Black Ops. Oh, Mason,he was Mason, that's all. He
was Mason. Yeah, he wasAlex Mason. But you know, I
think probably just coasted on the sheerstar power from Avatar for a long time
and he's established now, he's he'sa known entity, but I don't think

(48:14):
he's known for too much else besidesat the Avatar movies. And I think
the next one, the next oneof three, yeah, I think that's
the last one where he's gonna havea major role. I think it's gonna
transition to more his son telling thestory. Yeah, his kids telling the
story. Because obviously, if there'sgonna be what seventeen more Avatar movies,
you gotta keep the gotta keep thelegacy going. I don't know. But

(48:37):
they're on the run each one,right, well, I mean they were
in this last Yeah, so likethey ended by leaving the Water tribe,
and now they're gonna go to thenext tribe. But they're always I guaranteed
they're gonna get followed. Yeah,they're gonna go to Drive. Yeah,
they're gonna they're gonna have to masterthere. It'll be like Last Air It's

(48:58):
like Avatar the Last Airbender. They'rejust gonna be like the Way of Air,
the Way of Fire, the Wayof Earth exactly. So they're gonna
find the next I guarantee they're gonnago to the next tribe. It's gonna
be it's gonna be hard to fitin. But then they're gonna, you
know, they're gonna learn their secrets, they're gonna become one with them.
But then they're gonna get chased bythe marines, and yeah, they're gonna

(49:20):
have to run again. And thenall three of the tribes will come together
and then they will have one bigwar. The Way of Earth or the
way of the Way of Planet,the Way of Pandora will be called,
and they will learn the Earth isgood and should be should be kind.
We should be kind to the tothe planet. But we're humans that were
bad and so we can get Theworld completely dies and they take the seed

(49:44):
of the of whatever her name is. What's the Big God, big life
tree or whatever? Yeah, thelife Tree or just the one way hot
what's her name? Like, everythingleads to, yeah, the the Big
God. Everything's a part of yeah, you know, connect everything. Yeah,
So what if they find this giantseed here, I'm writing the movie

(50:06):
for them. They find the giantseed, but they kill the planet in
the process of trying to track theseguys down. So what they do is
they take that seed and they goback to Earth and plant it on Earth
and they live together. That wouldbe cool, man, that I would
actually be interested in them riding thatseries, But I don't. I don't
think. I don't see that happeningbecause James Cameron's very I mean, hey,
to his credit, he's very proearth. He's very pro nature,

(50:29):
right, pro ocean, and sothat's kind of the theme is that humans
are bad. We just shrow theplanet, but there's these really cool blue
people that live in harmony and weshould be like that. Okay, well
I just have to say one hellof an honorable mention here, but yeah,
that's that'll do. We have afan question that we must move to.
And this is anonymous. So andI'm assuming because it says anonymous as

(50:51):
we're talking about the infamous Hacker group, So thank you for your interest in
the pc PCFM podcast. And theywould like to know if you could be
a monster hunter any where in theworld. Which world would that be?
In? Any world? Any world? Any any of these we've talked about
are ones that we haven't spoken about. Yeah, probably, let's see.

(51:12):
That's a good question, great question. It's tough, man, because it's
like, okay, like I wouldn'twant to live in like the Witcher because
like it's medieval, there's no showers, Like everyone's stinky, right, that's
just rough living. But then it'slike if I'm in John Constantine's world,

(51:34):
it's pretty normal, you know.Yeah, it's really just La and A,
but you don't notice them anyway,you know. Yeah, But it's
like, Okay, well, that'sjust like ghosts and stuff and demons,
like they already do that the Vatican. So it's like that would be normal
life. But then there's hell Boy, which is like there's a lot to
do and it's in normal I wouldprobably say hell Boy. Then we never

(51:57):
talked about the Men in Black wewere gonna to talk about Yeah, yep,
yep, that's another one I wouldI would definitely want to be in
the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense. I don't want to be in the
hell I like all the Lord andstuff like that. Now we're talking about
actually if we're actually being in there, that's freaking dangerous, and I would
not want to be a job.If I'm choosing to be in this world,

(52:20):
I'm choosing to also be like somesort of supernatural being, because you
get taken out pretty quick if you'rea human. Yeah, if you're just
a regular guy. We've seen thefirst one they send in those dudes and
they just get absolutely massacred by thosedogs. Yep, yeah, with the
tooth fairies, right, and theybasically, yeah, you like, that's
dangerous. But what about like Iwould consider like transformers technically they are monsters,

(52:45):
like they're robot monsters, and theyhave that entire task force that is
assigned to taking them out and huntingthem, especially in the third one.
Yes, that's a dangerous job.Your weapons do nothing, like they are
just wasting time. Yeah. Ifyou don't have an autobot on your side,
you're just a human on like anATV or whatever with a machine.

(53:06):
Yeah, and you're just you havea timer. If I I'll probably say
it, yeah, if I wantto, I want to give a period
answer as well, because the modernday stuff is obviously hygiene and things like
that. But I would love tobe in the monster hunter world. I
only know about it just a littlebit, but it seems like a fun
place to be in. Like youhave amazing powers. You can you know,

(53:30):
you can go back to the villageand hang out. Looks like a
fun kind of tribal community. Andyour whole life is dedicated to hunting monsters,
these giant monsters with your friends,right with your friends, either that
or held with friendship, Yeah thatare held ever Yeah, or hell divers.
That's a good one too. Yeah. You got a spread democracy all
about spread so done so quick,like done five seconds after dropping You're dead.

(53:53):
Yeah, boom dead. Well Ithink that answers anonymous question. I
hope you enjoy it all right,But we're coming to the end of this
episode, and with that comes agame, and I have the game for
you, Israel. Since monsters andwhatnot are nerdy, and you're probably the
biggest nerd that I know, thisgame is for you, and it's called

(54:16):
on the Right Day. We're allmonsters, pretty jep. Chris, whoa.
I'm going to give you the nameof a movie, TV show or
book and you tell me the nameof the main monster. These will get
progressively harder. I hope so,Chris, because you know what a massive
nerd I am. So I'm expectingthese to get really obscure. We're talking
pre nineteen twenties books and movies.Okay, well, I'm reading some of

(54:40):
these and this will be a goodone. But are you ready? Yeah,
let's do it. Okay, Sowe have about eight of them with
a warm up. So let's dothe warm up really quick. Dracula.
Wait, who's the monster in Dracula? Yeah, I mean It'stracula. Okay,
that's correct, Okay, warmed up, thanks Chris. Oh god,

(55:01):
if the inverse of the difficulty istrue. If it holds and it keeps
getting more difficult, I'm gonna gettotally slammed. I don't know if kind
of the next one's kind of Ohno, Chris just threw you some like
giveaway, like oh, okay,right, like skyrockets. Okay, but
no, I think you'll do You'lldo good on a lot of these.
This isn't a hard game for youif I know you well enough. Next

(55:23):
one, Frankenstein. Okay, sothe monster is Frankenstein's monster, right,
because Frankenstein is the name of thedoctor who creates the monster. The monster
of Frankenstein's Monster is the actual monster. I feel like that was a trick
question. Yeah, trick question ifyou don't know, really the monster for

(55:44):
creating that. Yeah, there yougo. We are the monsters. Yeah
it's true, we are. Butyeah, you got that, Frankenstein.
It is Frankenstein's monster. Moving onit. That would be penny Wise.
Penny Wise the clown. Obviously he'sactually some alien entities, some like giants,
but he's more of the mythic being. Oh, mythic being. Okay,

(56:06):
yeah, but penny Wise would beIt's been around since like the Dawn
of time. Yeah, there yougo, and we're all a bunch of
where all the earth is floating ontop of a giant turtle in space or
something like that. I heard thoselines something that. Yeah, I don't
even want to go there anyways.Next one, hell Eraser, hell raiser
would be I mean, the cenobitesis I think what they're called. But

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Pinhead is the main cinnobite. He'sthe leader, and he you know,
is always after the box because thebox can either imprison or free him.
But Pinhead is his name, andI I forget if he has a name,
but he's the lead cinebite or thehead cinnabite. Yeah eight c I
see head cinnabite in charge or alot of charge. Yeah yeah, okay

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cool. Yeah, these are gettinga little harder now, but I feel
like you've seen all of these soexcept for the last one. But we'll
find out all right. Moving onSilent Hill two. Silent Hill two,
I mean, that's kind of toughto say because the town itself is cursed
a lot of monsters in this one, but what's the main one? The

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main one? I mean, pyramidHead is like a really iconic figure in
that series. I forget if he'sin two or not. He's definitely in
one. Man. I feel likethis is kind of one of those trick
questions where it's like it's him thewhole time, the main character or whatever
I'm gonna say. I'm gonna sayPyramidhead, I'm gonna say, you're right,
Yes it is the executioner or pyramidHead. Good guess. But yeah,

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that one was. I feel likethat one was a little bit of
a curveball because like there was somany monsters in Silent Hill, it's like
hard to pick. But yes,no way to stick with your gut because
you got that one right and youwere doing exceptionally well. Moving on,
three questions left, Let's see ifyou can pick them up. X File
season two, episode two, TheHost TV what Season two, episode two,

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what's it called the Host? TheHost? Okay, it's good thing
that me and the wife were literallyin season two right now, because the
host is it's he's like a poopcreature. He came from the sewers,
and he was like a it wasan evolution. There's like a little like
tapeworm type thing born out of likethe crud and the grime or the radioactivity

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of maybe like uh, it waslike Russian. But he's he's basically,
uh, he thrives in in dirtyenvironments, right, and he's got like
sucker teeth, you know. Andso he's he's kind of like, I
don't know how you describe him,but he's basically like a you know,
uh, you know, hookworm monster. He's a humanoid, but he's also
kind of a parasite. So andand that he hides inside a porta potty

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and then gets sucked up into theporta potty tank and gets gets away.
Okay, do you know his name? Oh god, he has a name
allegedly, uh, hookworm poopy face. Uh. I didn't know he had
a name, but uh, II don't know. I can't. I

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don't know the name of it.Okay, Well, I'm gonna give you
half credit because I'm thoroughly impressed becauseyour description is spot on. You knew
exactly what I'm talking about. Okay, his name is Flukeman. Flukeman.
He has a name called Flukeman.Yeah. I literally googled everything you're describing
to see if you were spot on, because this is very specific. This

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is like season two, episode two, one episode and then you're like,
oh, yeah, I'm watching that. It's this guy and it's to a
t what you describe. Yeah,so I'm giving you half credit. Yeah,
I'll give that. That's very impressive, Okay. Living on Pan's Labyrinth.
Pan's Labyrinth, well, I meanthere's a couple monsters in it.

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There's the Thin Man. He's themost iconic one. I think he's got
the eyeballs in his hands, playedby Doug Jones. And then there's Pan,
who is the the one who sendsthe little girls on the quest.
And then if you want to getreally technical, it's the freaking uh Spanish

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officer who is evil. You know. So, uh, if I had
to say, let's see, there'sthin Man, there's Pan, there's uh,
what's the other one that she hasto put the thing underneath, I'm
gonna go like hardcore. I'm gonnaI think Cameron kissed trying to be all
twisty turning on me plot twist Like, I'm gonna say, it's the Spanish

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officer. I forget his name,but he tortures people. He is like
a really bad dude. He's afreaking comedy and he gets his shot the
face at the end. But yeah, he gets his coming come up and
come up and come upp and comeup and cumummins. What does what if
you say you comeuppins? Yeah,he getsfs. Okay, oh that is

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not correct. And it's not thethin man. It is the pale the
pale man, the tale man knownfor his pale complexion. That's right,
you get that. Although he isquite thin in the legs. He is.
All right, well, hey,I'll take the hit on that one
because even though I think, ifyou want to get technical, the real
monster is that guy. So okay, all right, all right man,

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one more to finish this off here, Let's see if you can get this
a double on the name. Thisis called the Host. It is a
Korean movie. Yeah, I've seenthis movie. Oh yeah, okay.
This is the same guy who's done. He did snow Piercer, he did
Parasite, he done. So it'sbasically it's like a giant, like a

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lizard thing. It's got a tailthat can grab things. It kind of
lives in the sewer underneath, andthe Korean family has to band together to
go and rescue the daughter who's beenkidnapped by the by the monster. So
it's like I forget. I don'tknow what is what it's name is,
but it's a giant sewer lizard monsterthing that kidnaps the dawn at the beginning.

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Okay, well you knew. Imean, you've seen it. I
googled it. You described it toa t and you just didn't know the
name. So I'll give you ahalf credit on that. And his name
is whom moole gwomle or something likethat, guomlee m u l. I
didn't know it how to name.Okay, I'll take it credit for that.
Yeah, I'll give you half credit. So in all and all,

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you missed one then all right,yeah, combining the math? All right,
combined the math. Yeah, sogood job, buddy, you killed
this episode. I thought this wasgoing to be a brainbuster. Yeah,
you did very well. Good foryou. Chris doing his doing his job
to validate all of those wasted hoursfrom my childhood or my young life watching
movie. Honestly, I mean morecredit to Chris than to help you.

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Right, he knows me so well, you know, well, good job
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