
Radio Free Godzilla
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Join us as three levels of Godzilla fans (one diehard, one casual enjoyer, and one newbie) travel down the rabbit-hole weekly, watching, recapping, and discussing every Godzilla film to-date, and beyond!
Episodes
59 episodes
Episode 59: Gamera vs Jiger (1970)
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 f...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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1:21:25

Episode 58: Gamera vs Guiron (1969)
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 o...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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1:18:52

Episode 57: Gamera vs Viras (1968)
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 whi...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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1:17:27

Episode 56: Gamera vs Gyaos (1967)
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!
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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1:18:39

Episode 55: Gamera vs Barugon (1966)
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 rain...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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1:13:46

Episode 54: Gamera, the Giant Monster (1965)
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.
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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1:07:25

Episode 53: Space Amoeba (1970)
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 impressi...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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1:06:47

Episode 52: King Kong Escapes (1967)
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 t...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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1:08:41

Episode 51: The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
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 gi...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:07:12

Episode 50: Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
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 Conqu...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:07:58

Episode 49: Dogora (1964)
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:04:38

Episode 48: Atragon (1963)
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 s...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:06:20

Episode 47: Gorath (1962)
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!
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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59:35

Episode 46: Mothra (1961)
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!...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:20:50

Episode 45: Varan (1958)
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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59:59

Episode 44: The Mysterians (1957)
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!&n...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:09:25

Episode 43: Rodan (1956)
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.
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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58:49

Episode 42: Big Daddy King Kong Double Feature: King Kong (1933) & King Kong (2005)
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, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:59:50

Episode 41: Scrapped Godzilla Content
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 an...
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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1:10:23

Episode 40: The Godzilla Retrospective Tier List
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.
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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1:23:08

Episode 39: Godzilla Minus One (2023)
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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1:40:52

Episode 38: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
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. Thi...
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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1:36:32

Episode 37: Godzilla vs Kong (2021)
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 though...
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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1:31:59

Episode 36: Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
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 monste...
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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1:40:09

Episode 35: Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018)
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 seri...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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1:16:00
