Go, Go Con-zilla

This week on The Con Men Show, we go full kaiju mode—digging into Godzilla, the wild world of niche conventions, and the kind of fandom rabbit holes that start innocent and end with you pricing flights to Chicago for G-Fest. From classic rubber-suit chaos to modern takes like Shin Godzilla and Minus One, we unpack what makes the King of the Monsters stick around for 70 years—and why sometimes all you really want is a flying dropkick and a guy in a suit smashing cardboard buildings.  Along the way, we zoom out and take a bigger look at convention culture itself—how massive comic cons became the “big tent” events, and why these smaller, hyper-focused shows might actually be where the real magic is happening now. Whether it’s kaiju fans, trading card diehards, or something way more niche, there’s something oddly compelling about a room full of people who are all exactly into the same weird thing you are.  And because this is The Con Men Show, we absolutely take a few left turns—detouring through South Park nostalgia, old-school toys, and the kind of pop culture tangents that somehow still loop back around (eventually). It’s part kaiju deep dive, part con culture breakdown, and part “how did we get here?”