No Gods, No Monsters

  We're back and we're done complaining about Shinji. We spy a critique of bureaucracy, more evidence that the Eva is (at least metaphorically) Shinji's mom, and we look to scripture to take a stab at where the Evas and the Angels come from. To listen to the full episode as well as lots of other bonus content, sign up for our Patreon. Just $1 a month gets you everything we do. patreon.com/nogodspo...

What happens when a Godzilla cell falls into a black hole, merges with an organic crystal, and then absorbs the energy of an exploding star? You guessed it: Purple Godzilla. We scour through the wreckage of this special effects powerhouse to find a struggle between overt force and coercive control, an exploration of the queerness hidden beneath the surface of male conflict, and an image of the Oed...

Who decides what is real, and what other powers does that give them? We discuss mental health and how it's treated in the modern world, contradictions as an engine of change, the death of the '60s counterculture, and how the film's unique soundtrack highlights its messages.   We have bonus episodes, behind the scenes notes, and post-recording wrap ups for just $1 a month on Patreon.  Patreon.com/N...

Charlie and Barto are on their own again, this time taking a long and hard look at the least erotic movie ever made about beautiful naked people. We talk dreams, fantasies, the Real, the unconscious, the commodification of sex, Bohemian Grove, and so much more on this deep dive into the misunderstood Kubrick classic. We're releasing this bonus to all listeners in lieu of our regular episode but if...

The Democratic National Convention is coming back to Chicago so we thought it was worth examining a primary source of the events of the 1968 DNC to see where we stand. Part fictional narrative, part documentary, all incredibly meta, Medium Cool looks at filmmaking and journalism as a medium and explores the ethics of the thing. This is the first episode we've done without Rabbit's guiding hand and...

Rabbit and Barto are back on their bullshit, talking chapters 4 through 6 of The Invisible Committee's "To Our Friends." We go back to the campus protests for Palestine, connecting the local to the global, the commune, building power and so much more. We tie the text to our experiences and the situation as it exists today. You don't have to have any familiarity with the text to follow the conversa...

We dive [wink] into this claustrophobic horror film, discussing the cave as a cave, the cave as the unconscious, the cave as a womb, the cave as penises (obviously), and the cave as a soundstage. Plus monster theories, lighting effects, character morality, and connections to the sequel (spoilers for The Descent Part 2 btw!)

  We continue our journey through Evangelion. Friedrich Nietzsche makes an appearance along with your regular helpings of Lacan and Freud. We also talk Beauty and the Beast, climate change, and what happened to Tokyo 2.   To listen to the full episode as well as lots of other bonus content, sign up for our Patreon. Just $1 a month gets you everything we do. patreon.com/nogodspod Follow us on  Twit...

What is a butt brain, and do we all have on? Which G-Crusher is right for you? We get deep talking about this seemingly surface-level Heisei film. Touching on imitation and mimicry, the melodies plants make, human technology capturing nature just to turn it on itself, and of course, the psychosexual journey of a giant lizard castrated by human hubris.   We have bonus episodes, behind the scenes no...

Join our Patreon to hear the full episode! $1 a month gets you everything we make. Patreon.com/nogodspod. Enjoy the cool cool and smooth smooth sound of Charlie's voice as he introduces you to films you didn't even know existed.

We're all taking our first walk through the critically and culturally acclaimed series Neon Genesis Evangelion. We discuss our collective history with anime, and do our best to dissect "Angel Attack." We discuss the beautiful look of the show, the UN, Babylonian myth, angels, Shinji being a big whiny baby, Freud, and so much more.   To listen to the full episode as well as lots of other bonus cont...

Since its release in 2006, Children of Men has begun to look less like a work of dystopian fantasy and more like an image of our incoming future. But is this future inevitable, or is that feeling a result of capitalism's stronghold on our collective imagination? This week we dive into the film and some of the book it's based on. We discuss monstrosity, becoming, fascism, art and more.   We have bo...

We have back returning guest, author, filmmaker, and Goji-twitter shit-stirrer Liam Quane. In episode 83, Liam made some bold predictions about how Godzilla x Kong would play out using his theory of "Mask Off Cinema,"  a movement informed by the political motivations of filmmakers during the Trump Era, of which we are still a part. Is Godzilla x Kong just a project to get Democrats elected? What d...

We travel back to the Middle Ages, to a time when everyone felt like the world was ending, to discuss ideas wholly alien to us in today's political landscape: nihilism, existentialism, fundamentalism, and the nature of knowledge and belief. Will we self-flagellate and preach from the seat of judgement, or joyously mock death for our listener's enjoyment? We have bonus episodes, behind the scenes n...

Rabbit and Barto are back talking chapters 4 and 5 of The Invisible Committee's "To Our Friends." Along the way we cover cybernetics, bridging the dichotomy between pacifism and "radicalism," not thinking like an insurrectionist and not becoming the anarchist the state wants you to be, tact, and the book's relevancy to the ongoing encampments and the situation on the ground in Gaza. We also mentio...

Charlie and Rabbit talk about 19 of David Cronenberg's movies and rank them from least favorite to favorite.  To listen to the full episode as well as lots of other bonus content, sign up for our Patreon. Just $1 a month gets you everything we do. patreon.com/nogodspod

We are going way back to the warm embrace of Ishirō Honda with the special-effects, alien invasion spectacular, The Mysterians. We discuss colonialism, misogyny, and find more than a few parallels to a contemporary struggle.   We have bonus episodes, behind the scenes notes, and post-recording wrap ups for just $1 a month on Patreon.  Patreon.com/NoGodsPod Follow us on Twitter and Bluesky @nogodsp...

We're trying something a little new. Rabbit and Barto talk flows, blockage, smashing and building power as described in the post-marxist, anarchist book, To Our Friends by The Invisible Committee. We cover some Agamben, Lacan, Deleuze, and Nietzsche. We consider Occupy, January 6th, Food Not Bombs and (the at the time we recorded, very new) occupation movement happening on college campuses protest...

The episode that will make your head explode*! We talk control and power; hippies and authoritarians; state and corporate co-opting of mental illness, drug use, and art; and of course, synth and noise music. We're strapped in, so take a seat and watch us squirm, for science. *guaranteed   We have bonus episodes, behind the scenes notes, and post-recording wrap ups for just $1 a month on Patreon. ...

After recording our episode on Transformers (2007) Rabbit decided to watch the rest of the series. Why? No one knows. Listen along with Charlie and Barto as he ranks them all. Join our Patreon to hear the full episode! Only $1 a month gets you everything we do. Patreon.com/nogodspod.

A new Godzilla and Kong movie has arrived!! Is it the perfect dumb-fun popcorn flick or a masterpiece of anti-art? A kaiju-centric depiction of a utopian future where man and nature find a balance or an irredeemable corporate tool built to distract from and further condition us to the ongoing slaughter of all that is worth fighting for? And how do those crystals control gravity? We reference Walte...

We discuss what is essentially a two and a half hour commercial for America, which clunkily yet elegantly entwines support for war, freedom through American-made commodities, the psychosexual exploration of a man and his car, and over the top misogyny.   We have bonus episodes, behind the scenes notes, and post-recording wrap ups for just $1 a month on Patreon.  Patreon.com/NoGodsPod Follow us on...

Join our Patreon to hear the full episode! $1 a month gets you everything we make. Patreon.com/nogodspod. Episode 2! Charlie talks about the latest movies he's watched!

We return to the Heisei Era to talk worms, ancient civilizations, the idea of the limit, ecology, and try to figure out why Godzilla is in this movie. The messages and takeaways are confusing, yet seemingly sincere - but Mothra's in it so we had a good time!   Godzilla vs Mothra is available to stream on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/1992gojirataimosura.720p.ac3.cg   Support the show on...

A few weeks ago, Liam shared his political readings of the MonsterVerse films on Twitter and it seemed to agitate quite a few Godzilla fans. But it piqued our interest, so we invited him on the show to hear him out! We had a lot of fun talking with Liam about Godzilla (2014), Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), Godzilla vs Kong (2021), and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024). Liam argues tha...