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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 misogynist lead.  This episode also features the debut of a special guest appearance on the show, offering advice on how to deal with the big bird at the center of the flick.This is 1957's The Giant Claw!Send us Fan Mail

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? Either way, join in for this week's particularly ludicrous discussion of 1957's The Deadly Mantis!Send us Fan Mail

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 surprisingly entertaining The Black Scorpion!Send us Fan Mail

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 inexplicably mutated people in 1955's Tarantula!Send us Fan Mail

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!Send us Fan Mail

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!Send us Fan Mail

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 Harryhausen monster classic in 1953's The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms!Send us Fan Mail

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)New regular episodes return next week! Send us Fan Mail

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-show Troy James aka TwistyTroy! Our first ever real movie monster on the monster podcast!Send us Fan Mail

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 his newest comic, Godzilla vs Kansas City, in stores now! Note: Apologies for the audio on my end, I'm still getting things adjusted in my new setup. -LeeSend us Fan Mail

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 deep-dive into the found footage kaiju film with an ARG at its center, 2008's Cloverfield and its extensive viral marketing campaign. Send us Fan Mail

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 predecessors? Will our hosts enjoy the final Gamera film? Find out in this week's discussion of 2006's Gamera the Brave!Send us Fan Mail

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, incredibly Evangelion-coded finale of the Kaneko's Gamera series, 1999's Gamera 3: Revenge of IrisSend us Fan Mail

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 at stake at the hands of space bugs, in 1996's Gamera 2: Attack of LegionSend us Fan Mail

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? Find out in this week's discussion of Gamera: Guardian of the Universe!Send us Fan Mail

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 of Mothra III ! Send us Fan Mail

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 furby at the center of it all in 1997's Rebirth of Mothra II!Send us Fan Mail

REBIRTH OF MOTHRA! RETURN TO FREEDOM!The gang is finally free from the torturous arc of Gamera's Showa Era, and entering a rejuvenating new stretch of the podcast, being reborn themselves, alongside Mothra in the first of the Queen's solo trilogy, 1996's Rebirth of Mothra!Send us Fan Mail

Well, it's another end of an era, as the gang finishes out the Gamera Showa era with a bang, discussing the Final Wars of Gamera films, the worst (best?) of the bunch, 1980's low-budget effort to revive the franchise in Gamera Super Monster!Send us Fan Mail

It's the home stretch of the Gamera Showa era, and our hosts are feeling it! How much more can they suffer through? Will the inclusion of Kamogawa Sea World shows be enough to save Lee, Chris and Heather from utter boredom? Find out in this week's coverage of 1971's Gamera vs Zigra!Send us Fan Mail

A question for the listeners: Who would win? One Jiger-sized vacuum? Or 850,000 vacuum-sized Jigers? This is the question at the front of our hosts' minds this week as they talk about the debut of Daiei's first female kaiju and advertisements for Expo 70 in 1970's Gamera vs Jiger!Send us Fan Mail

This week, Gamera heads to space!!Lee, Chris, and Heather discuss the important messages about outer space at the core of this film, with a plot centered on brain-eating space women and their knife-headed kaiju pet. Parental neglect is once again at the forefront of the narrative, but perhaps we can all learn something from 1969's Gamera vs Guiron!Send us Fan Mail

Squids! Boy Scouts! Bankruptcy! It's Gamera vs the aliens, and your hosts vs stock footage in the film that went on to define Gamera as the friend of all children,  despite Daiei's financial struggles kneecapping it all the while. This is the film that's roughly 30% stock footage, 1968's Gamera vs Viras!Send us Fan Mail

Things get positively deranged in this episode of Radio Free Godzilla! The gang talks about psychic pyromaniac children and the debut of Gamera's piss-fetishist nemesis, Gyaos, in 1967's Gamera vs Gyaos!Send us Fan Mail

In a shocking turnaround from last week, Lee, Chris and Heather all have heaps of praise for Gamera's second outing, this time facing his first monster foe in the icy lizard Barugon (not to be confused with Baragon), who has rolled in on a rainbow just in time for Pride Month! This is 1966's Gamera vs Barugon! Send us Fan Mail

The gang loses their minds as they struggle to make it through their discussion of  the debut of everyone's beloved giant turtle in 1965's Gamera, the Giant Monster.Send us Fan Mail

Apologies to our Australian listeners: It's the end of the Toho Showa Era once again, and it's ending with a bang. In the silliest bit of antics yet, Lee, Chris and Heather discuss ridiculous accents, ridiculous impressions, ridiculous kaiju, and ridiculous human drama in Ishiro Honda's final contracted film for Toho, the sci-fi epic, 1970's Space Amoeba!Send us Fan Mail

This week, the villainous Dr Who (no relation) unveils his dastardly schemes to mine Element X with the help of Mechani-Kong! Join Lee, Heather and Chris as they desperately attempt to understand the schemes of this film's villain, as well as the mindset of everyone involved in the utter lunacy that is 1967's King Kong Escapes!Send us Fan Mail

Heather demonstrates her incredible ability of octopus mimicry as the gang loses their minds discussing Frankenstein's sequel! Lee, Chris, and Heather all have some rather distinctive thoughts on this week's film, which not only features two giant bigfoot-esque men, but also a surprise starring appearance from Russ Tamblyn in this episode's discussion of The War of the Gargantuas!Send us Fan Mail

In a very special 50th episode, the gang is talking about some truly wild stuff - namely the kaijufication of Frankenstein via H-Bomb radiation. Join Lee, Heather and Chris as they express pure bewilderment at 1965's Frankenstein Conquers the WorldSend us Fan Mail

Diamond thieves! Space monsters! People who live in coal refineries! This episode has it all as Lee, Heather and Chris struggle to explain the pure lunacy of a kaiju film where the kaiju is second-fiddle to a gang of diamond thieves. Join the gang as they get particularly unhinged discussing Ishiro Honda's 1964 film Dogora!Send us Fan Mail

This week, Lee, Heather and Chris try to decipher the meaning behind the title Atragon, in a film that's tragically lacking in Don Frye despite its fascinating thematic depth. Join the crew as they tackle the extremely strange sci-fi self-criticism of 1963, Ishiro Honda's Atragon.Send us Fan Mail

Lee gets mad at his cohosts for watching the kaiju-less version of this week's film. The gang talks about impending planetary destruction in a sci-fi epic, 1962's Gorath!Send us Fan Mail

This week, the crew takes on a fan favorite in her feature film debut! Join Lee, Heather, and Chris as they tackle a familiar plot with some familiar (and unfamiliar) faces in the debut of everyone's favorite divine bug, 1961's Mothra!Send us Fan Mail

The gang takes on the movie of all time, talking about everyone's favorite (?) flying lizard, Varan, in his first and only solo feature film, originally made for TV. Join Lee, Chris and Heather as they make their arduous journey through 1958's VaranSend us Fan Mail

It's the show's first ever "kaiju-lite" episode! This season we'll be talking about a few films that have kaiju cameos with a larger focus, and this particular focus is on the colorful spacesuit wearing Mysterians, on a quest for Earth women!  Join Lee, Heather, and Chris in their most unhinged episode yet, discussing 1957's The Mysterians!Send us Fan Mail

The grand return to the Showa Era is here, and the gang is talking everyone's favorite big bird in his debut film, featuring a much more serious tone, giant bugs, and some genuinely solid human drama, this is 1956's Rodan.Send us Fan Mail

We've returned with all new content and all new kaiju to talk about! But first we're going back to the very beginning and talking about the big monkey that started it all in our discussion of 1933's King Kong, and its 2005 remake, King Kong.Send us Fan Mail

In this very special bonus episode, Lee takes his fellow hosts down a rabbit hole of the litany of scrapped or lost Godzilla content out there, and brings Chris and Heather on a journey through the evolution of the Godzilla films we all know and love. Send us Fan Mail

GET READY TO CRUMBLEYour hosts have made it to the end of the Godzilla franchise, and as a result, present a very special episode looking back on all the content they've discussed over the past 39 films.Send us Fan Mail

THE END IS HERE!It's the final film in the Godzilla franchise, but your hosts are ending their coverage of the series with a bang, tackling the film that won the G-man his very first Oscar. This is the film that brought Godzilla hype to the worldwide high that it's currently seeing, and one that perhaps elicits the most tears in any Godzilla film, this is Godzilla: Minus OneSend us Fan Mail

Diverging from the chronology in order to end on a high note, the gang is talking the recent hijinks of the final Monsterverse movie to-date, a film with more monkeys than you can count, and one that left our hosts feeling a bit conflicted. This is Radio Free Godzilla's coverage of 2024's Godzilla x Kong: The New EmpireSend us Fan Mail

THE REMATCH OF THE CENTURYThe gang is talking about the Monsterverse once again with a rematch 60 years in the making! Godzilla and Kong are back to share the screen once again, and Lee, Chris and Heather have some rather varying thoughts on the experience watching 2021's Godzilla vs KongSend us Fan Mail

The episode Lee has been waiting for. The gang tackles the extremely grand-in-scale kaiju throwdown featuring the American debuts of Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah! There's some mixed feelings, some redacted content, and a whole lot of monster action to discuss in this week's discussion of 2019's Godzilla: King of the MonstersSend us Fan Mail

The end of the anime trilogy is here, and it's ending with a bang, with a film that's finally appreciated by all three hosts! This is the anime debut of the Lovecraftian Horror that is Void Ghidorah, in the bleakest closing chapter of this series, 2018's Godzilla: The Planet Eater.Send us Fan Mail

The divisive anime discussion continues! This week, the gang is discussing the Netflix anime's rendition of Mechagodzilla, with no Mechagodzilla in sight. Join Lee, Heather and Chris as they start losing more and more of the plot in Fight Night, Round 2, discussing 2018's Godzilla: City on the Edge of BattleSend us Fan Mail

In a rather discourse-heavy episode, the gang talks about Godzilla's first foray into a new medium, with the Netflix trilogy that brought the Big G to anime. Is it better than it gets credit for? Or is it not fully taking advantage of its art-form and delivering the least interesting version of that? This is Godzilla: Planet of the MonstersSend us Fan Mail

In this show's first massive shakeup, the Godzilla team is tackling their first film without Godzilla! Heather, Lee and Chris talk about the Monsterverse debut of Kong, Godzilla's titular ally of the later films, in 2017's star-studded Vietnam era prequel, Kong: Skull Island!Send us Fan Mail

The episode Heather has been anticipating!Join the team as they delve into the most political Godzilla film since 1954. Lee, Heather and Chris are bringing all their love of Neon Genesis Evangelion to the table to discuss Hideaki Anno's adventurous entry into the world of Godzilla with 2016's Shin Godzilla.Send us Fan Mail

The long journey to the Monsterverse ends here!Join Lee, Heather, and Chris as they revisit the now decade-old revival of the Godzilla franchise in the states, with the film that started an ongoing cinematic universe featuring two of the most iconic movie monsters known to man, this is 2014's Godzilla!Send us Fan Mail