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Weekly Ramblecast 144: Godzilla 358/2 Days
🕑 Added 2024-03-12 17:16:10 +0000 UTCPatrick Klepek joins in to ramble this week, hitting topics like prominent Academy Award figures John Cena and Godzilla, life after Vice Media, self-promotion on a failing social media platform, and that one repair shop out by the airport.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:38) Patrick Klepek is incredibly dependable
(00:04:07) Vice Media, not so much
(00:08:57) Whiskey and football, good for what ails you
(00:16:28) Blowing your own horn, not always easy
(00:21:51) Scoops & the Wolf, the reunion tour!
(00:28:47) John Cena, Oscar presenter, serious actor
(00:34:41) Toddlers, R-rated movies, probably fine
(00:42:06) Godzilla now has an Academy Award
(00:47:59) Mod chips (and paper clips) will never go away
(00:52:50) Maybe Shogun means a return of the miniseries
(00:57:20) Subtitles, just a way of life now
(01:01:25) Patrick's Oscar recommendations
Comments
Dan Mitchell
You're correct on the paper clip trick, Brad. It was basically a swap disk mod chip that was plugged into the serial port. You'd put a valid Playstation Disk in with the paper clip holding the analog button down in the system that basically said the lid was closed (It was literally just a peg molded to the system disk cover that would hold it down), turn the system on, then the swap disk would stop the disk from spinning after boot so you could put your import or burned disk in and resume.
Robert Denby
Oh my god I am so happy Alex brought up Dead Heat. Its mostly the people who were behind the camera on Aliens that made it, including some of the makeup and visual effects people. The behind the scenes stuff on the Vinegar Syndrome release is great, and the guy who did the effects in that butcher shop scene talks about how he became a vegetarian afterwards because they were molding off of -and sometimes just using- butcher shop parts for that sequence.
