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Since Phil is on assignment, Tom and Red recorded a short episode analyzing a tentacular genre of Japanese film. There are some slight technical difficulties that are corrected in future episodes of Slime Under Podcast.
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Tom: Hello and welcome to episode one of the Slime Under Podcast.
Tom: I am your host, Tom Towers, and I'm joined by my co-host, Red.
Red: Yes, hello everyone.
Red: I'm very excited to be here with my dear friend Tom.
Tom: You're actually the expert on this show.
Tom: That's why you're here.
Tom: I'm just here for the color.
Red: I can't really say I'm the expert.
Red: Just been exposed to some of them.
Tom: You exposed yourself to some of them, you might say.
Red: Some of them, yes.
Tom: And these things we're referring to, we won't be discussing the types of things that Red has seen the most of, but we will be discussing an outcropping of it, which is live action, adult-orientated, tentacle romance videos, I would call them.
Tom: Is that a fair description?
Red: There's a lot of censorship, but yes, very fair.
Tom: Well, with the censorship, they're pretty family-friendly, aren't they, actually?
Red: Are you sure about that?
Tom: Well, I mean, there's technically less nudity than there is in German or Italian children's films, for example.
Red: Not to say I've watched them, but in the one that I watched with you, that wasn't exactly family-friendly, I'd say.
Tom: So even with the censorship, it wasn't family-friendly.
Red: Technically, did they censor them?
Tom: And it did feature puppets as well, so I think it was clearly aimed at children.
Red: Oh, I digress.
Tom: But what was the title of this modern-day Romeo and Juliet tale that we watched?
Red: It was the first one.
Red: Oh dear, I don't quite remember.
Red: Maybe it's best not to mention the name for specific reasons.
Tom: Well, so we will just describe what we watched then without a title.
Tom: Reference to the...
Red: Should I explain the plot?
Tom: Why don't you describe it?
Tom: Go ahead.
Red: Oh, okay.
Red: Technically the first one we watched was, I would say, interesting.
Red: It started off with an investigator who is investigating a crime scene, since the whole video was in Japanese.
Red: She and her partner found some very gleeful substances that was present at that particular crime scene.
Red: I do not know what happened, actually.
Red: At that moment, I guess someone disappeared or something in that hospital room, I guess.
Tom: It was a bit hard to tell what exactly was going on.
Tom: But given that it was a detective story of sorts, perhaps that is in its favour, that it's hard to tell what's going on, so that it keeps you on the edge of your seat as you wander.
Red: Basically, your protagonist is trying to solve this mystery.
Red: But she did the very smart move of trying to impersonate a doctor and infiltrating the hospital at night.
Red: And if my fellow listeners can't adapt in this, this genre, I would say, is that the protagonist would try to dress herself for the occasion.
Red: So she entered a changing room, and she found herself a doctor's coat, and she proceeded to change.
Red: She proceeded to wear the doctor's coat, thinking that she is having a great disguise for infiltrating a hospital at night.
Red: After changing, she went out, and just by walking on one corridor turning left, she got caught by an actual doctor.
Tom: And as you would expect to happen in a hospital, if a doctor finds someone impersonating a doctor, his immediate reaction was to be in stripping her naked.
Red: Yes, I believe that is what would happen if it happens in real life.
Tom: Which is, understand, all that looking for weapons and other concealed items that might be dangerous.
Red: Yes, he proceeded to take...
Red: Wait, the thing is, I don't think investigators possess guns.
Red: I don't think...
Red: I mean, they're investigators.
Red: I don't think they would have guns.
Tom: It might have been said in America.
Red: I don't think...
Red: They are speaking Japanese.
Tom: So, then everyone would have a gun.
Red: I mean, maybe, no.
Red: Yeah, yeah, maybe, maybe.
Red: So, for some reason, our dear investigator had a gun, and she didn't fight back for some reason when the doctor took the gun out of her hand.
Tom: Very poor training.
Tom: And we can conclude it was definitely not said in America then, or she would have immediately shot him.
Tom: But go on.
Red: Yes.
Red: I believe that scene was to build up tension for the viewers, like the doctor slowly...
Red: The doctor that caught her was not convinced, even though she's taken off her clothes, that she is not convinced that there is no deadly weapon or I don't know what would she be hiding in her underwears.
Tom: I think they were about to go on to a cavity search until a nurse discovered them.
Red: Yes, but technically until that part, I have a lot of questions for that scene too, because when one of the authorities came and chased after the doctor who decided to strip her for some reason, they ran away in such an awkward way.
Red: I couldn't take the video seriously.
Tom: I'm wondering if perhaps, given that the doctors ran away when the nurse appeared, I think it was a nurse, that the doctors ran away.
Red: The nurse was the one who informed the authorities.
Red: The night guard, I guess.
Tom: Yeah, well, when they were interrupted, given that the doctors ran away, I think the twist is that they were also only pretending to be doctors.
Tom: But we're doing something else in the hospital.
Red: Could be, could be.
Red: I mean...
Tom: That's my theory.
Red: Since we don't understand, since we don't understand the language, you know, theories can come from any direction.
Tom: But what were your questions about the same?
Red: Well, of course, the stripping part was very questionable.
Red: She was voluntarily stripping herself, just to prove her innocence.
Tom: Shows how committed she is.
Red: And that is...
Red: Yes, but maybe that's the question that's seen anymore.
Red: The more questioning part is after that.
Tom: So what happens after this scene?
Tom: And we should add that this discussion does feature spoilers.
Red: Yes, it was skipping after that getting chased away scene.
Red: I think there was a time skip after a week or something.
Red: She got contacted from the nurse from the hospital saying that I guess her investigative friend was also arrested.
Red: I have a lot of questions.
Red: She's trying her best to find out what happened during the crime scene at that hospital, but it wasn't really making much sense to the audience.
Tom: Do you think it would have made less or more sense if we could understand Japanese?
Red: I'm pretty sure they would have better contact if we understood the language, but based on just watching it, you can just kind of get the gist of it.
Red: But the plot was just there as extra for you to understand how did our dear investigator ended up in her situation.
Tom: And how would you describe the situation that she ends up in exactly?
Red: Hmm, very, quite sticky, I'd say.
Tom: I think that is a good description of it.
Red: But after skipping all that, for some reason she decided to go back to the hospital.
Red: And she managed to get the information, quote unquote information from one of the laptops in the.
Red: While she was exiting the hospital, she accidentally stepped on something gooey.
Red: Even explaining it now, I can picture all that shit.
Tom: It's got very striking imagery.
Tom: It's very, very powerful.
Red: As normal people do when they see a glowing green light behind a curtain, she went and invited her back.
Red: She opened the curtains, and all of a sudden, something grabbed her ankle, and started pulling her into the room.
Red: And thus, how long was that scene?
Red: Like one and a half hours of very action, very vigorous action began.
Tom: It was quite long, very long.
Tom: I would argue perhaps a little bit too long.
Red: The plot was only for like minutes.
Tom: But after this, she returned home.
Tom: So her first encounter...
Red: Oh yeah, you can do the ending once you're done.
Tom: You did the first half of the plot, I'll cover the second half.
Tom: So after her first encounter with this mystery creature in the hospital, in a room glowing green, which perhaps may have some themes to it that we'll get to at the end of our discussion on it.
Tom: But after this, she returns home in a very disheveled state.
Tom: But as she thinks about her experience with this monster, she begins to grow a little bit of sympathy and feeling for it, I would say.
Tom: Did you get the same impression?
Red: Yes.
Red: It is...
Red: She felt like a...
Red: I feel like after her very intimate action with those creatures, she started growing feelings for those...
Red: I can't really call it things, that would be too rude.
Tom: It's very endearing, very endearing.
Tom: But so, as the story continues, this relationship continues to blossom.
Tom: And the investigation plot does continue, but it's a little hard to tell what exactly she discovers as the story goes along, given that neither of us can speak Japanese.
Tom: But one detail we can discern is that the nurse that was helping her was actually on the side of the mystery creature, because at a later point in the film, we see her interacting with it and in fact helping it.
Tom: So that's an interesting wrinkle in the plot, which unfortunately our lack of Japanese can't make too much sense of, but was an interesting twist.
Tom: But by the end of the film, there's to me a very touching ending, where we return to as we began the film, in a very ring story structure moment, we return to just a standard hospital bed.
Tom: This case, instead of it being a crime scene, the protagonist is lying in bed, very heavily pregnant, and the nurse who introduced her to her new life partner is there as well, and they share a little conversation celebrating the pregnancy of the relationship that she helped set up, and I thought that was very touching and effective.
Tom: And not the direction I expected to go in either, given the whole detective subplot.
Red: Yes, that is my response.
Red: That is my response for the entire segment.
Red: Oh my goodness, I didn't, I wasn't able to get to the end, because due to my very poor connection, and I'm pretty sure the FBI agent is probably watching me.
Tom: Might be the FBI agent in the show that is watching you.
Red: No, that's not a theory we will get to.
Tom: You may be paid a visit by an investigator who will lead you to a glowing green room.
Tom: Do not enter it, whatever you do.
Red: Oh God, if you watch me, if I step on something gooey on the floor, my first instinct is to run.
Red: I ain't gonna investigate that shit.
Red: Yeah, should we get into the theories of what, of this first video that we saw?
Tom: I think it's time we get into a serious and deep thematic analysis.
Tom: Absolutely.
Red: I'm pretty sure you have more theories than me because usually I don't think that much when I watch these.
Tom: Well, let's begin with yours then.
Red: The plot speaks for itself for me because she got pregnant with the creature's child and she lived happily ever after.
Red: What's more is there to say?
Tom: So it's a very sweet ending then.
Red: Yes, it's straightforward and it's sweet.
Red: Even though I never watched it.
Tom: I like it.
Tom: Well, my theory is actually comes from you just emphasizing the green glow in the room.
Tom: That made me think that that may in fact have a important significance to it because this is a Japanese film, of course.
Tom: And I don't know if you've ever watched any Japanese media, but they are still, they still do think, and fair enough, often of the two nuclear bombings that they underwent.
Tom: So I was thinking this may be the entire thing about Japan's reaction to the nuclear bombings and the mutations that occurred there.
Red: So you are touching on a very sensitive topic, don't you know that?
Red: Who knows?
Tom: So I'm thinking that this creature, mystery creature, is in fact a result of radiation exposure and when the characters are first encountering it, they're frightened of it and want to reject it as a part of their past and history.
Tom: But as they think about it more and interact with it more, they see that it is perhaps something to be embraced and something that can become a positive part of their history and sense of themselves in some way.
Tom: So that's my theory on the…
Red: Damn, you thought a lot on this.
Tom: Maybe I'm the expert here after all.
Red: Oh my goodness.
Red: Oh god, well, wait, I'm dead thinking, if that creature is a product of radiation, would it harm the human?
Tom: Well I think that's what they were afraid of at first, but…
Red: It worked out.
Tom: It worked out okay in the end.
Red: Okay, I'll accept that theory, you know, it's fine, it's fine.
Red: But then again, I'm pretty sure that creature was something that the doctors at that hospital was experimenting on, for god knows what reasons.
Tom: That is quite possibly the case, but…
Red: Yeah, and the investigator happens to accidentally stumble upon it, and I believe the creature has probably fell in love at first sight at this very lovely investigator.
Tom: I think that we can come up with commentary on so many different layers of it, just shows you the depth of what we're dealing with.
Red: Despite it having a completely different reason on this, but we have gone into such deep lengths on theories for this.
Red: I mean, we could, you know, talk more about it, but we have another one, actually.
Tom: Before we move on from this one, will we give this a rating?
Red: For me, I'd say like a out of
Tom: So not bad at all.
Tom: Pretty good rating there.
Red: Yeah, not bad, I'd say.
Tom: Well, my rating system actually uses a dice, so I roll the dice.
Tom: It's a ten-sided dice, and whatever number I get is the rating I give.
Tom: So I will now roll the dice of Destiny.
Red: Very well.
Tom: And I give it a out of so a little bit lower than you.
Red: Look, Destiny says it's good, okay?
Tom: But even Random Chance gives it a positive rating, so it did very well.
Red: So shall we go on to the second one?
Tom: And let's indeed move on to the next.
Red: So basically, I asked Tom here to send me the links to our second video, which he actually sent more than one.
Tom: I think I sent four, and we watched two of them.
Tom: So maybe there will be an episode two with the other two.
Tom: If the listeners out there are excited for it, which I'm sure they are.
Red: Well, if it's supply and demand, I think...
Red: Yeah.
Red: So the second one, I...
Red: Oh wait, should we say the name?
Red: Because we have that link.
Red: We have the title of it.
Tom: Let's do it.
Tom: Let's name and shame, or name and glorify, depending on what we think of it.
Red: I hope you're going to glorify this title.
Tom: Also was the first one possibly called Investigated, Buried and Drowning Under Tentacles?
Red: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Red: That's exactly...
Tom: So we do have the name of the first one as well, luckily.
Red: Yeah, mind you, this is not family friendly.
Red: Not exactly family friendly, so please, please have a warning before entering the...
Red: before searching this.
Red: Yeah, and the second one that both of us watched is called Nurse Addicted to Tentacles Sex?
Tom: No, wasn't it?
Tom: I don't think so.
Tom: I think it was...
Red: Oh, wait, wait, wait.
Red: That was the first one.
Red: Oh, god damn it.
Tom: No, the first one was the Investigator.
Tom: That was another one that we haven't watched, I believe.
Tom: The second one...
Red: Was it Alan Under Wiggling Tentacles?
Tom: No, I think it is Busty Wife's Chastity Collapses Under Tentacles.
Red: Oh, I just remembered, I didn't save that.
Red: Yeah, that was my bad.
Red: I did not paint that.
Tom: We got there in the end, though, so that's okay.
Red: Yeah, that's fine.
Red: Well, at least the listeners have two more extras.
Tom: For the next episode, they can watch them in advance and contribute their own thoughts in the comments below.
Red: Oh, that'll be interesting.
Red: All right, you heard it here, folks.
Tom: So what was the story of Busty Wife's Chastity Collapses Under Tentacles?
Red: For this one, I actually understood some of what they said in the story, actually.
Red: And to me, I felt like this one had more plot, but Tom digressed.
Tom: I feel like it has less plot.
Red: I don't know.
Red: There was less action scenes.
Tom: I thought there were more.
Tom: I thought there were more action scenes in total.
Red: I don't know, technically, the time, the duration of the video was sort of the same.
Tom: Yeah, but I think the percentage of action scene time was less in the first one.
Tom: I think your impression may possibly be different of the first because you didn't watch the entirety of it.
Red: Well, basically, the first one was half an hour and a half just them doing it.
Tom: I think this was too, though.
Red: What more plot was there?
Tom: Well, it was a whole complicated story about a detective.
Tom: And then there was the whole love story subplot as well.
Tom: Whereas here, it's more just a pure love story, I would say.
Red: But there was a, I can't think of the word for adultery, I guess.
Red: You know what, I'm not trying to try to...
Tom: It is a love triangle, a love triangle.
Red: Oh.
Red: When you say it like that, okay, yeah.
Tom: A classic love triangle story.
Red: Yes, yes.
Red: Alright, so do you want me to explain the second one?
Tom: Please do.
Red: Alright, alright.
Red: Okay, it started off with a couple moving into a house where they, or where they were Oh, Jesus, I kind of forgot how we kind of started.
Red: Yeah.
Red: Basically, these two, this couple finally moved into their new house.
Red: And the setting was basically with all of their boxes that is in their living room.
Red: They haven't finished unboxing and the wife was having, was it breakfast?
Red: Yeah, yeah.
Red: Like breakfast with his, excuse me, with her husband.
Red: So they were talking about, oh, their life is going to be so great in this new house.
Red: And they were actually also planning on, you know, having a family and the wife was so happy about it.
Red: So the conversation went on for like a few minutes.
Tom: Very, very endearing, I would say.
Red: Yes, so she, after her breakfast, she sent her husband off to work, and she started cleaning her new house, which the cleaning scenes was sensual, I think.
Tom: It has a very interesting camera angles and points of focus.
Red: There were many interesting camera angles, like you said.
Red: I actually didn't tell you, I was watching this with my friend.
Tom: The friend should have joined us, we could have had another...
Red: Yeah, he was as confused as I was, because he never watched these things before.
Tom: So you were introducing a whole new world to her.
Red: Wait, what?
Tom: You were introducing a whole new world to her.
Red: Yes, a world that he never knew existed.
Red: Yeah, so basically both of both me and my friend was basically like in a confused state watching all these new angles.
Red: Just from this wife cleaning the bathroom, mopping the floor, and that was it.
Red: Yeah, so after cleaning, she was walking into the living room where there were plenty of boxes.
Red: But all of a sudden, again, with the iconic grabbing your ankle scene, she got grabbed, and she was pulled down.
Red: And thus the action started.
Red: For how long?
Red: I actually don't know.
Tom: I think the first one was a quite short interaction.
Red: Yeah, yeah, actually, they were quick on it.
Red: They were quick on it.
Red: They started, you know, maybe I want to explain in detail on what happened in that action scene.
Tom: There were a lot of fluids involved.
Red: Oh, yes.
Red: The second one had more fluids than the first.
Red: Oh dear, you actually reminded me of that.
Red: I completely forgotten about that.
Red: Yes, so they went on and they did it until the wife passed out actually.
Tom: I think she may have almost drowned considering the quantity of fluids spraying everywhere.
Red: Yeah, true, but let's just think of it as she passed out because she woke up after that.
Red: It was during the evening when she woke up and she was woken up by her husband who came back from work.
Red: And oddly enough, the husband did not question why her wife was passed out in the middle of the living room, oddly enough not covered in fluids.
Tom: I think they dried up.
Tom: That's my explanation.
Red: The floor was covered with it too.
Tom: Some liquids can dry and disappear pretty well.
Red: Completely.
Red: No stain whatsoever.
Tom: And her clothes were dry as well.
Red: And her clothes was on her as well.
Tom: Well, partly on her.
Tom: She was in a semi-disheveled state, I would say.
Red: But oddly enough, her husband did not question that.
Red: And or why was she passed out in the middle of the living room?
Tom: You would have thought, he might have thought, that she had had a stroke or something, and they probably should have sought medical attention at that stage.
Red: Yeah.
Red: But the husband was not at all worried.
Red: But the wife, of course, tried to, oh dear, the dog passed out fucking.
Tom: I think his reaction is actually the first sign that their relationship may not be as idyllic as it first appeared.
Red: But, you know, the husband, wait, the wife tried to explain her situation.
Red: She tried to explain to her husband, saying that she got assaulted by something, something that she can't explain.
Red: And of course, as normal human beings do, they decided to brush it off and said that, you know, she might have been hallucinating or something.
Tom: Again, a sign that he's not a very good husband, just dismissing his wife like that.
Red: After that scene, they, oh yeah, they had a passionate night together, the husband and wife.
Red: But during their actions, I feel bad, I feel weird for calling it action.
Red: But now, let's just go on with that.
Red: Yeah, while they were doing it, the wife wasn't feeling it as much because she was reminded of a very vigorous, vigorous moment with the mystical creature.
Tom: Vigorous and much moister experience.
Red: Yeah, so she was reminded of that, but she decided to just kind of brush it off.
Red: So after that, she went after their session, after their session, she decided to, she did ask her husband, I remember, she did ask her husband, don't you want to take a bath?
Red: But her husband was like, nah, I'll just do it in the morning or something.
Red: So she was, the question is, she said she wanted to take a bath, but she went down to the kitchen instead for a drink of water.
Red: And that confused me for a moment, but.
Tom: She was getting a drink on the way to the bathroom.
Tom: She was thirsty.
Red: Yeah, maybe.
Red: So she went, but while she was in her kitchen, pantry, I'd say, again, she was met with her beloved mystical creature.
Red: And that was another segment that we will not explain.
Red: Even during that scene, me and my friend was also quite confused, because first she was on the way.
Red: Wait, wait, wait.
Red: She was she was being choked.
Red: She was being choked.
Red: But she wasn't struggling.
Tom: I believe Chokin may have been a kink for her.
Red: Maybe.
Red: But maybe we won't get into that for now.
Red: So basically they had different positions in this segment.
Red: Oddly enough.
Tom: And even more liquid.
Red: Yeah.
Red: But she woke up.
Tom: Wait, I just realized, I just realized, this explains the bath confusion.
Tom: So she went down to, yep, she said she was going to have a bath, and she was indeed bathed by the mystical creature.
Red: Oh, God, that is, that, that's a whole different reason.
Red: That's a whole different context.
Red: You know what, never mind.
Red: Never mind.
Red: She knew she is, she knew what she wants, you know, that she was slowly beginning to develop feelings for this creature.
Red: So we shouldn't judge her.
Tom: I think it was pretty fast.
Tom: I think the relationship developed a lot quicker than in the other film.
Tom: So that pretty much brings us to the end of the first episode of Slime Under.
Tom: We both hope you enjoyed it.
Tom: And in the next episode, I will be returning with Red to discuss yet another episode in what may be a series.
Tom: I hope you enjoyed yourself, Red.
Red: Of course.
Red: It was, I was delayed.
Red: Excuse me.
Red: I was delighted to be here, truly.
Red: Ben, I'm gonna go first.
Red: Sorry, bye.