No Gods, No Monsters

We must destroy all Roombas before we have to worry about their rights. Editor's note: Rabbit now wonders how he ordered at a drive thru without saying the names of any menu items.

If you're too cool for Model U.N., too cool for the Boy Scouts, and too cool for dinner, you've come to the right place.

We dip our toes in psychoanalysis and our entire hands in psychedelics.

We learn about fatherhood, environmental collapse, and what it means to raise an ugly child at the end of the world.

We discuss this scathing critique of civilization and learn why Kongs should be wild and free, swimming from island to island rocking dinos.

We talk about Silvia Federici's book Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation and use the text to gain a new perspective on the 2015 film The Witch. The Witch Hunt is ongoing. Support reproductive justice. Here are some organizations you can support: Buckle Bunnies Fund: An abortion mutual aid collective that offers material support to abortion seekers in Texas. (bucklebu...

When a heartless corporation plans to displace villagers to make room for a new freeway, we all know who the villain is, right? Right?? Right?!?!

Robbing banks, stealing yachts, picking locks and dance dance dancing! Lay back and let the surf rock take you--if you dare... It's Ebirah!

Rob from Tokyo Signals--a spin-off show of Tokyo Lives--had us on for our second appearance, this time to talk about a monster from the third season of The X-Files. Go check out the Tokyo Lives podcast for more great kaiju content! And if you haven't already, go to their feed to listen to their Kong holiday special from December 2021, where we also have a segment.

Society. What is it? Is it real? Are we for or against it? We dive into our first ever non-giant monster movie to find out, with help from guest El Barto! Trans kids in Texas need your support right now. If you aren't sure how to help, here are a few groups that can help get you started: TXtransKids.org has resources for legal help, updates, and how to be an advocate. Equality Texas is the largest...

Gamera, plus rainbows that destroy tanks. What else do you need?

Inspired by the titular Frankenbros, Charlie and Rabbit fight like Gaira and Sanda throughout the episode, calling truce for google breaks of course. Things get pretty deep as Rabbit brings up some theories about the film's political undertones/underclones, and Charlie keeps things classy with some dating advice.

More Dune! This is part two of our mini Dune series, this time talking about Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part 1 and, again, the books. You should probably listen to our episode on David Lynch's Dune before starting this one, because this is a continuation of that conversation. Warning: Spoilers for the books and likely for events that will take place in Dune: Part 2.

It’s the first movie of season 2, baby! This is the first of our two-part Dune series. We focus on the movie but talk about the book(s), too. Warning: This has a few small spoilers for stuff that happens in later books.

We're back! We missed you. In this short intro to our second season, we catch up after so long apart and talk about some of the changes coming to the podcast.

It's the No Gods, No Monsters season one finale! El Barto joins Charlie and Rabbit as they stretch this monster sci-fi spectacle to its limits in search of political themes explicit, implicit, and otherwise. Follow El Barto on twitter: @ElBartoArmy. Listen to him perform black metal as Armed-Jouissance: https://apocalypse-preparation.bandcamp.com/album/split The anti-capitalist kaiju boys are taki...

When the world is caught in the grips of a Cold War, can an anti-industrial, fire-breathing, jet-propelled giant turtle bring the two largest superpowers together? To answer that question, Charlie and Rabbit will have to talk about Judi Bari, MKUltra, and Ted K, for some reason.

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...

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. Love...