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Yongary returns for a much more unfortunate outing, with some truly horrid digital effects covering up what could have been some fun suitmation. Friend of the show Naomi joins Lee and Chris, while Heather takes an unexpected sidequest in this week's discussion of 1999's Yongary remake, Reptilian!Send us Fan Mail

Lee takes everyone down an unwilling Puppet Master and Full Moon Entertainment rabbit hole before delving into the genuine insanity that is 1996's Zarkorr! The Invader!Send us Fan Mail

IT'S FINALLY TIME!Lee, Heather and Chris discuss a film with an infamous history! This film's backstory has everything from international kidnapping schemes to state-sponsored film school gulags! It's finally time to discuss North Korea's most famous (and only notable) kaiju in 1986's Pulgasari!Send us Fan Mail

NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH KING KONGIt's a return to Big Monkey with one of the worst films of all time! Lee, Heather, and Chris are truly at a loss this time around, struggling to comprehend one of the worst films of all time,  the simian nightmare that is A*P*E*!Send us Fan Mail

The gang gets furious!It's a return to the racism and misogyny of old in this truly bizarre ripoff of Gorgo, this time with TWO parents. Lee, Heather, and Chris lose their minds in a bewildered rage trying to figure out the logic of 1967's Gappa!Send us Fan Mail

A welcome return to goofy space adventures!The gang finds spirited debate in the quality of Shochiku's first kaiju foray; one that provides pancake UFOs, inspiration for Ridley Scott, and a brand new verbal-stim for all of our hosts to enjoy: praise be to Guilala! This is 1967's The X from Outer Space!Send us Fan Mail

Lee, Chris, and Heather tackle their first South Korean monster movie! Will it break them? Will the mascot for Korean dino chicken nuggets be a breakout star? Or will they face another madness-inducing ripoff of Showa Era Gamera?Find out in this week's discussion of 1967's Yongary, Monster from the Deep!Send us Fan Mail

Much to the horror of our hosts, the children have returned. But does that automatically make this movie Showa Era Gamera-level slop? Perhaps not! Lee, Heather and Chris have a variety of opinions here, with a film that's, at the very least, different from its predecessors, this is 1966's Wrath of Daimajin!Send us Fan Mail

The gang loses their mind talking about a film that's functionally the same as the first, but with enough differences to make you feel like you're going insane! The bullying of US politicians continues alongside the discussion of more warlords, hot priestesses, and vengeful golems with 1966's Return of Daimajin!Send us Fan Mail

In a shocking twist of fate, Daiei delivered a Showa Era film that all of our hosts loved! It's the first true period piece of the podcast, in a simple but shockingly engrossing tale of warring feudal clans and a vengeful mountain god, this is 1966's Daimajin!Send us Fan Mail

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 hilarious musical number that has our hosts losing what remains of their sanity, this is 1962's Reptilicus!Send us Fan Mail

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 themes of Western materialism with a few unexpected political guests, this is 1963's Matango!Send us Fan Mail

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 The Rocky Horror Picture Show,  this is 1963's Day of the Triffids!Send us Fan Mail

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 in 1961's Gorgo!Send us Fan Mail

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's more TVLand than kaiju flick, 1959's The Giant Gila Monster!Send us Fan Mail

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 British, and for having to have The Giant Behemoth as one of your only bits of monster representation.Send us Fan Mail

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 talking about an American monster classic in 1958's The Blob!Send us Fan Mail

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!Send us Fan Mail

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