No Gods, No Monsters

Episode 18: Mothra vs Godzilla (1964)

Charlie and Rabbit talk about capitalism, and why it's bad for humans, monsters, giant eggs, and capitalists.

Episode 17: Atragon (1963)

This submarine movie is packed with political themes to explore. Charlie and Rabbit talk shit on patriotism, war, the United Nations, a certain underwater dragon, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

Episode 16: King Kong vs Godzilla (1962)

Corporate bigwigs desperate for that sweet ad money pit life-long friends Charlie and Rabbit against each other in a disgusting bid for ratings. Charlie chills, Rabbit gets lifted pretty high by balloons, and in the end neither knows whether their sprawling scuffle was a brilliant critique of commercialization or just a product of it.

Episode 15: Mothra (1961)

Charlie and Rabbit take a magical journey into the psychedelic world of everyone's favorite altruistic, peace-loving, city-leveling moth monster.

Nuclear fallout, slavery for entertainment, the slaughter of indigenous people by greedy colonizers—this film packs a surprising amount of political critique.

Things get atomic heat ray hot as the hosts argue about who the true hero of the movie is, and they fight like snapping turtles over which one of them Mothra is going to ask out on a date. Will this be the end for the co-hosts--or will they make amends and continue to be known far and wide as “The Peanuts of the kaiju podcast airwaves”?

Episode 14: Underwater (2020)

Charlie and Rabbit dive 36,000 feet--who knows how many leagues--into the ocean to investigate a disturbance that some believe is being caused by earthquakes, but that this duo immediately blames on capitalism.

Rabbit can't stop talking with food in his mouth, Charlie drinks enough for the both of them, and (MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE IF YOU KEEP READING) they mostly just talk about H. P. Lovecraft.

Episode 13: Godzilla Singular Point, Episodes 6-13 (2021)

Charlie and Rabbit don't follow the "rules." Or the "bosses." Or the "plot."

Episode 12: Godzilla Singular Point, Episodes 3-5 (2021)

Charlie and Rabbit grow a bit more intelligent and cease to understand a great many things.

Episode 11: Godzilla Singular Point, Episodes 1 & 2 (2021)

Are Charlie and Rabbit the right kind of nerds to be able to decode the beginning episodes of this physics-heavy, hard sci-fi, kaiju anime? Only time will tell, since, you know, you can't predict the future. OR CAN YOU

Episode 10: Varan (1958)

Varan did nothing wrong

Episode 9: Rodan (1956)

Charlie and Rabbit reflect on Toho's first non-Godzilla kaiju film. With working class protagonists, an environmental message, and huge pteranadon destroying cities with their supersonic speed, can it get any better than Rodan?