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Join us as three levels of Godzilla fans (one diehard, one casual enjoyer, and one newbie) travel down the rabbit-hole weekly, watching, recapping, and discussing every Godzilla film to-date, and beyond!
Episodes
87 episodes
Episode 87: Reptilicus (1962)
BIG SNAKES! DENMARK! MULTIPLE POLITICAL GUEST APPEARANCES!Lee, Heather, and Chris tackle Denmark's only kaiju in a film that's part tourism brochure! The gang descends into politically charged lunacy with a notoriously awful film with a ...
Episode 86: Matango (1963)
From the UK back to Japan! From killer plants to killer fungus! The gang returns to talk about an old familiar friend in Ishiro Honda, in a film that falls outside his usual kaiju-fare. Lee, Heather and Chris are talking killer mushrooms and th...
Episode 85: Day of the Triffids (1963)
In a change of pace for this podcast, the gang talks about a movie that doesn't feature any giant monsters, but still features abnormally large plants and lots of Brits, in the second film to be featured in the introductory song for Th...
Episode 84: Gorgo (1961)
In what is perhaps the most politically charged episode to-date, Lee, Heather and Chris discuss the politics of the UK, the history of Ireland, and go positively off the rails in this week's discussion of Europe's most iconic giant monster pair...
Episode 83: The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
Given that this week's film is barely a monster movie, Lee, Heather and Chris spend a lot of time dissecting the Godzilla Minus Zero trailer, and go down several other tangents in their efforts to avoid talking about the film that...
Episode 82: The Giant Behemoth (1959)
Another Eugene Lourie effort, which means Lee, Heather, and Chris are doing The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms again, but this time British and with a longer neck. Apologies to any listeners from the UK, both for the jokes about the Br...
Episode 81: The Blob (1958)
Space Jelly! Rebellious youth! Teenagers that look 40 years old!This week our team tackles the forbidden jelly from space, and the first monster to have a theme song since Gamera! Lee, Chris and Heather get particularly unhinged while ta...
Episode 80: Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
Misogyny! Divorce scams! Macrophilia!This episode has it all, but does the movie? That's the question Lee, Heather, and Chris are going to find out in this week's discussion of 1958's B-movie classic, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman...
Episode 79: The Giant Claw (1957)
This week, the gang tackles a mythically infamous B-Movie of battleship-sized proportions! That's right, we're talking about the Giant Condor's inbred puppet-cousin, in an episode dedicated mostly to Heather's vendetta against Mitch, the film's...
Episode 78: The Deadly Mantis (1957)
It's the final installment of the Big Bug Trilogy, and this is perhaps the most unhinged discussion yet. Do you agree with Chris? Is this an allegory for Communism? Or are you on the side of Lee, believing it to just be about a Big Bug?
Episode 77: The Black Scorpion (1957)
The Bug-a-Thon continues! The gang tackles another spectacle of Willis O'Brien stop-motion, this time featuring enormous scorpions that emerge from deep within the earth to feast on mankind! Join Lee, Heather and Chris as they discuss 1957's su...
Episode 76: Tarantula! (1955)
The Big Bug Arc begins here!Lee, Chris and Heather begin their journey down a series of unrelated films that share one commonality. All of them feature a giant bug of some kind! This week they're tackling an enormous tarantula and a few ...
Episode 75: It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)
It wouldn't be a new season of Radio Free Godzilla without the gang losing their minds over a subpar movie. Turns out not even a Harryhausen sixtopus can save Lee, Heather and Chris from suffering through 1955's It Came from Beneath the Sea...
Episode 74: Them! (1954)
ANTS!The next entry in our Atomic Era Arc is the first of many to feature Big Bugs™️ and unnecessary exclamation points! Join Lee, Chris and Heather for their first foray into a world of big ants and flamethrowers for 1954's Them!
Episode 73: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
We're finally back for season...2? 3? You decide, but either way, welcome to the Atomic Era Arc of the show! Lee, Chris and Heather are going back to the 1950s, to a time before Godzilla, back to the film that helped to inspire it, with a Ray H...
72: Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1967) with Trevor Henderson!
Lee, Heather and Chris revisit an underrated classic, once again tackling the Horror of the Deep alongside one of the internet's most prolific monster creators, horror artist Trevor Henderson (Scarewaves, Mayfair Watchers Society
71: Shin Godzilla (2016) with Troy James!
Merry Christmas one and all! We're back with another very special guest and very special episode. This week, the gang is revisiting a local favorite in Shin Godzilla, alongside prolific contortionist and creature actor, friend-of-the-s...
70: Invasion of Astro Monster (1966) with Freddie Williams!
In a change of pace, the gang brings on comic book artist Freddie Williams (He-Man/Thundercats, Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Godzilla vs Power Rangers) to revisit discussion on Invasion of Astro Monster and talk about ...
Episode 69: Cloverfield (2008) - Season Finale feat. Dylan Sindelar
Our crew has made it through the Gamera gambit, and have decided to celebrate with a modern kaiju epic handled in a much different fashion than we're accustomed to. Lee, Chris, Heather, and friend-of-the-show Dylan Sindelar take an extremely de...
Episode 68: Gamera the Brave (2006)
The gang is back for one final go at Gamera in his 40th anniversary, and his final on-screen film appearance. This is the film that brings Gamera back to his child friendly roots, but does it do so in a more satisfying way than its Showa era pr...
Episode 67: Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)
The crew has finally arrived at the end of the Heisei Gamera trilogy, and Shusuke Kaneko ends this series with a bang -- one that left all 3 of our hosts incredibly impressed. Lee, Heather and Chris discuss the incredibly bleak, incredibly deep...
Episode 66: Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996)
Gamera finds religion! Your hosts talk about a film that changes their perspective on Gamera, perhaps in a similar way that religion changes one's perspective on life. This is Gamera's toughest battle yet, with the fate of the world...
Episode 65: Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995)
The gang has finally arrived at the long fabled Gamera Heisei era! Does it live up to the hype? Will Lee, Chris and Heather finally change their tune on the friend of the children? Will Shusuke Kaneko finally find a way to make Gamera cool? Fin...
Episode 64: Rebirth of Mothra III (1998)
Incredibly, the third movie in this trilogy is the best by far, and our entire crew has nothing but praises to sing about Mothra Leo's final outing, and Mothra's final solo film to-date, battling another familiar foe in 1998's Rebirth ...
Episode 63: Rebirth of Mothra II (1997)
It's the ep-piss-ode you've all been waiting for! The gang is tackling the second outing of Mothra Leo in a magical journey to the underwater city of Nilai-Kanai, in order to uncover its treasure with the help of Ghogo, the magical pissing furb...