The “the Ring” Podcast

In this episode of… what was it? The 'The Curse' Podcast or something? We talk about the epic battle between Sadako vs. Kayako… on the baseball field! And who knows, maybe they will end up in a sort of Yuri situation? Links: The original Sadako basesball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_pVBKCNSAQ Another promotional pitch for Sadako 3D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih5vNd4mzBQ Promotion for Sadako 3D 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWJ2XP7Rlh8 Promotion for Sadako vs. Kayako: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZo1MhI1R7U Promotion for Sadako 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqIcF2HaQLM Taiwanese promotional baseball pitch for Sadako 3D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRhu5VJqpvI Taiwanese promotion for Sadako vs. Kayako: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D7t6PJ6LNM The Chart: https://oakreef.ie/ring/2025-04-15-sadako-vs-kayako/ring-028-chart.png The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

In this episode of The THE GRUDGE Podcast Jen and Caoimhe go back over the story of Ju-On: The Curse, Ju-On: The Curse 2 and Ju-On: The Grudge in this novelisation by Kei Ohishi. We also finally cover Haunted House Simulator which we had been excited to get to but it turns out to not even be bad in a way that is interesting. (This is an April Fool’s episode) Links: The promotional Flash game for The Grudge 2: https://web.archive.org/web/20060707165812/http://www.grudge-two.com/game/grudgegame.swf LGR Oddware - Novint Falcon Haptic Controller from 2007 on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhGeq_yQYyg The Chart: https://oakreef.ie/ring/2025-04-01-ju-on-novel/grudge-chart.png The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

We finally get some answers about Aihara’s obviously evil boss and also shit-talk Saturday Night Live. Links: The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

This episode is a mess but so is the movie so it’s fine probably. Links: An article about the Tuam mother and baby home: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2023/06/04/every-little-bone-the-difficult-exhumation-ahead-at-tuams-former-mother-and-baby-home/ The Chart: https://oakreef.ie/ring/2025-03-01-the-ring-two/ring-025-chart.png The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

Caoimhe and Jen discuss the Ring trans lesbian polycule, how Samara has influenced Sadako, a short film that is Caoimhe’s favourite Ring sequel and in the main topic of the episode the Spiral show goes off on a tangent for two episodes. Links: Cover art by Pictsel: https://twitter.com/pictsel/status/1765562571732779378 The Chart: https://oakreef.ie/ring/2025-02-15-spiral-e4e5/ring-024-chart.png The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

We did it. We have finally covered every official version of Ring. And then have some fun picking our favourite versions of it and all the characters before we regrettably talk about a famous parody. Links: Caoimhe’s chart of the different Dracula translations: https://oakreef.ie/gallery/dracula-international The The Ring Winamp skin: https://oakreef.ie/ring/The_Ring.wal The Flashpoint Archive: https://flashpointarchive.org Crouton.net: https://crouton.net The Chart: https://oakreef.ie/ring/2025-02-01-the-ring/ring-023-chart.png The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

Caoimhe and Jen enjoy some 15Hz blinking and also another radio adaptation that’s actually really good. Links: Check out Caoimhe’s game jam game, Tablet V: https://oakreef.ie/bog/tablet-v Fright Night: Ring on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/koji-suzuki-fright-night-ring The Chart: https://oakreef.ie/ring/2025-01-15-spiral-e2e3/ring-022-chart.png The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

Finally we talk about the famous remake of Ring! Links: Check out Caoimhe’s game jam game: https://oakreef.ie/bog/tablet-v The Chart: https://oakreef.ie/ring/2024-12-15-the-ring-virus/ring-021-chart.png The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

We start into a second television series, which diverges even more from the source material than the first one. Links: Music video of the end credits song, 誰がために鐘は鳴る by Rough Laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEbhv3kH8g8 The Chart: https://oakreef.ie/ring/2024-12-01-spiral-e1/ring-020-chart.png The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

Big roundup of Manga adaptations. The Chart is starting to look like hell. Links: The Chart: https://oakreef.ie/ring/2024-11-15-comics/ring-019-chart.png The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

We close the final chapter on this show and talk about game for the Bandai Wonderswan. Links: The Ring: Infinity playthrough we watched from Tara A. Devlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57_TobJFzEE The Chart: https://oakreef.ie/ring/2024-11-01-final-chapter-e12/2024-11-01-final-chapter-e12-chart.png The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

It’s bedtime for sleepyheads. Links: Don’t Look Up on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWREJKpgzBE The Chart: https://oakreef.ie/ring/2024-10-01-ring-0/2024-10-01-ring-0-chart.png The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

This episode is written in, French. Links: The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

An epilogue to the original Ring trilogy focusing on the women of the series, who the books have always been very normal about. Also, what if Sadako joined the People’s Liberation Army? Links: The People’s Sadako on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSB02cbVAjU The Chart: https://oakreef.ie/ring/2024-09-01-birthday/2024-09-01-birthday-chart.png The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

In which Caoimhe rambles about maths for five minutes. If you want to skip it there should be chapter markers in our episodes now. If those don’t display on your podcast app then jump to 20′38”. And if you want to skip past the emphemera go to 57′06″. Links: The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

Don’t worry we will only be going through this one once. No one has ever wanted to make an adaptation of Loop. Well, except for maybe that Dreamcast game. Links: Comparison of the epilogues of Spiral and Loop: https://oakreef.ie/ring/loop/epilogue Henrietta Lacks: science must right a historical wrong in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02494-z Caoimhe’s Game of Life implementation: https://oakreef.ie/gallery/game-of-life The Chart: https://oakreef.ie/ring/2024-08-01-loop/2024-08-01-loop-chart.png The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

Finally, Sadako will show up tonight! And trap you in her scary tower full of patrolling Metal Gear Solid onis. Links: The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

The Ring movie took a lot of liberties with the source material. Spiral is quite faithful, which makes it a terrible sequel to Ring. The two were released on the same day, making the mismatch even more obvious. It was retconned by Ring 2 within a year. Links: The Ring: Terror’s Realm unused music section on The Cutting Room Floor wiki: https://tcrf.net/The_Ring:_Terror's_Realm#Unused_Music Caoimhe’s Sonic Robo Blast 2 Katamari mod: https://mb.srb2.org/addons/katamari-mode.6909/ The Chart: https://oakreef.ie/ring/2024-07-01-spiral-1998-spiral-1999/2024-07-01-spiral-1998-spiral-1999-chart.png The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

Jen and Caoimhe learn about quasi-legal gambling. Links: Kate Miller-Wilson’s static electricity photos: https://katenearyphotography.zenfolio.com/static--the-anxious-creative-mind Is it the volts or amps that kill? on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGD-oSwJv3E An example of a Ring pachislot video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMyCak4EiIY The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

We spiral into madness. Links: -The RING- Tallest Sadako Scary Prank in Japan on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJXFcGVgzbY Dogs vs Giant Ring Girl Prank! Funny Dogs Maymo & Indie vs Tallest Sadako Prank Ever! on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLODNB-ybeU The Chart: https://oakreef.ie/ring/2024-06-01-spiral-1995/2024-06-01-spiral-1995-chart.png The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

Ryuji performs some CSI magic on the tape and we discover that Miyashita is apparently the only doctor in existence. Links: A webpage talking about the “Horror-ROM” discs from the website of the company that made them (via the Internet Archive): https://web.archive.org/web/20010716192646fw_/http://www.oracion.co.jp/soft_pop/ring/index2.html The Chart: https://oakreef.ie/ring/2024-05-15-final-chapter-e2e3/2024-05-15-final-chapter-e2e3-chart.png The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

The first film adaptation of Ring was a 1995 TV movie, followed by a manga and radio drama in 1996, the latter of which destroys Caoimhe. Links: The broadcast version of the Ring TV movie on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr_8RpY73U8 The home video version of the Ring TV movie on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LWI5Yfe8ew Wagamamalullaby’s scan of the Ring comic on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/J_Horror/comments/106uvp0/ring_1995_manga_scans_and_transcription_the_first/ Oki Nanami’s Nico Nico page with their Ring radio drama animations: https://www.nicovideo.jp/user/3858661/video The English subtitled version on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/ring-1996-koji-suzuki-tbs-radio-drama_202308 One of the original Star Wars Cerveza Crystal ads that blew up much more after we originally recorded this so you have probably heard of them already anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfRjN3txdM The People’s Joker, which it turns out is actually having a limited theatrical release in the United States now, though most of the screenings will be over by the time this episode is released: https://www.thepeoplesjoker.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

Jen finally understands why Caoimhe got obsessed with this series as she is floored by the twist at the end of the first episode of Ring: The Final Chapter, a TV show made in 1999 to cash in on the success of the movie. Links: The Nao Matsuzaki music video for the song 白いよ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7bVuJCcJEY The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

Ring by Koji Suzuki was the start of it all, and it has a lot that was cut out from more famous adaptation. Mostly for good reason. Links: The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

We finally find the ring from The Ring‼ Links: The Cutting Room Floor wiki article on The Ring: Terror’s Realm: https://tcrf.net/The_Ring:_Terror's_Realm The Bad Game Hall of Fame article of The Ring: Terror’s Realm: https://www.badgamehalloffame.com/the-ring-terrors-realm/ The Models Resource page for The Ring: Terror’s Realm: https://www.models-resource.com/dreamcast/theringterrorsrealm/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

The first Ring media released in North America was a Resident Evil clone for the Dreamcast about a woman getting stuck in a VR game on her first day of working for the CDC. It broke Caoimhe’s brain and that’s why this podcast exists now and why she talked about it for more than two hours. Here’s the first part. Links: The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

Ring 2 tried to capture the atmosphere of the first film, but it flounders and starts to go in strange directions. We talk through this sequel that doesn’t quite work. Links: The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social

The Ring was pretty big back in 2002, but it’s based on a Japanese movie of the same name. Or maybe it’s just Ring. Or maybe it’s *sigh* Ringu. Whatever you want to call it it’s a good film and a good place to start a podcast. Links: The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/ The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thetheringpod.bsky.social