No Gods, No Monsters

Feminist gothic horror meets Nazis meets the bombing of Hiroshima meets a leaping horn monster from underground. Normal movie, normal episode.

Lots of questions this week. Like: What's Ghidorah's deal? Have the Shobijin become class traitors? Is the world ending (and since it is, how come no one will believe us!!?!?)?

In a movie about criminals facing off against a giant, city-smashing space starfish, who are the bad guys? The government. And not Weasel.

NYC Anarchist Black Cross Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War: https://nycabc.wordpress.com/guide/

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

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.

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.

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”?

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.

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

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