A Podcast Seeking Entertainment and Enlightenment through Tokusatsu. Hosted by the ”kaiju academic” himself, Nathan Marchand.
Episodes
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Hello, kaiju lovers!
Our “Kong Quest” begins! 
Nathan is joined by his core group of Monster Island Tourists—Nick Hayden & Timothy Deal of the Derailed Trains of Thought podcast and Joe & Joy Metter—to discuss one of the greatest movies ever made: 1933’s King Kong. What’s interesting is none of these Tourists had seen this classic film before coming to the Island, so you’ll hear their fresh reactions, opinions, and analyses to the Eighth Wonder’s first and greatest outing. Listen as each of them compete for best (or worst?) joke of the podcast (“No monkeying around!” says Nick). Along the way Jimmy From NASA gets sassy with the Tourists and has to corral a dog dubbed “Teddy Kong,” who keeps trying to make a cameo during the Toku Talk. The Toku Topic for this episode is the Great Depression since the film was made and released at the height of that period and indirectly mentions it several times.
Be sure to check out the latest episode of Nick and Tim’s podcast, Derailed Trains of Thought, where they visited Monster Island to discuss destruction as a story element with Nathan as a guest host. Their podcast is marvelous, and Nathan has appeared on multiple episodes.
Timestamps
Intro: 0:00-4:42
Entertaining Info Dump: 4:42-12:06
Toku Talk: 12:06-1:21:27
Toku Topic: 1:21:27-1:54:52
Outro: 1:54:52-end
Read Jimmy’s Notes for corrections, riffs, and more info on this episode!
#JimmyFromNASALives
© 2019 Moonlighting Ninjas Media
Bibliography/Further Reading
“Depression, You Say? Check Those Safety Nets” by Charles Duhigg (The New York Times)
King Kong Wiki Articles:
–Wikipedia
–Gojipedia
–Wikizilla
King Kong (1933) Review – Kong-A-Thon Episode 1 (D Man1954)
King Kong: History of a Movie Icon from Fay Wray to Peter Jackson by Ray Morton
Kong Unbound: The Cultural Impact, Pop Mythos, and Scientific Plausibility of a Cinematic Legend (edited by Karen Haber)
Kong Unmade: The Lost Films of Skull Island by John LeMay
“Prostitution – The Great Depression”
Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood Icon in World Culture (2nd edition) by Cynthia Erb
Wikipedia Articles:
–Great Depression
–Gold Standard
–Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
–New Deal
–Reflation
–Roaring Twenties
–Timeline of the Great Depression
“What Sex was Like During the Great Depression” by Melissa Sartone
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Wednesday Sep 25, 2019
Wednesday Sep 25, 2019
Hello, kaiju lovers!
Logo by Tyler SowlesListen as Nathan Marchand, co-creator and season one co-host of the Kaijuvision Radio, regales you with the origin story of his new podcast. It includes a vacation to a resort on the fabled Monster Island (formerly Monsterland), where he met his intrepid producer, Jimmy From NASA (who miraculously survived the infamous War in Space), and got a new job as the curator of the Island’s film vault. Between bantering sessions with his detail-obsessed, fact-checking interrupter of a producer, Nathan explains the podcast’s philosophy of film appreciation and lays the groundwork for the upcoming episodes.
And what will Nathan, Jimmy, and their many guests be discussing first? The filmography of Monster Island’s other most famous resident: KING KONG!
Hold onto your butts!
The Monster Island Film Vault: A podcast seeking entertainment and enlightenment through tokusatsu.
Check out the epic three-hour KVR episode on Shin Godzilla:
Episode 37: Shin Godzilla (2016) (Great East Japan Earthquake/Tsunami/Fukushima Meltdowns)
Check out Jimmy’s Notes, the companion blog series to each episode of The Monster Island Film vault!
#JimmyFromNASALives
© 2019 Nathan Marchand/Moonlighting Ninjas Media
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Thursday Jul 11, 2019
Thursday Jul 11, 2019
Artwork by Tyler Sowles.A podcast seeking entertainment and enlightenment through tokusatsu.
Join host/curator Nathan Marchand and his intrepid producer, Jimmy From NASA (who miraculously survived the infamous War in Space), as they and a rotating roster of Monster Island’s best and brightest Tourists dive deep into the films starring the Island’s most famous kaiju residents!
This is a film appreciation podcast that chronologically and critically examines films from the kaiju and tokusatsu genres. Episodes rotate between round table discussions that feature the film’s production info and an explanation of its historical and cultural contexts; and “mini-sodes” that will include interviews, comedy sketches, and audio essays, among other things. Episodes will drop the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, starting in September 2019. Listeners have a fun and fascinating journey ahead of them.
First up: The Eighth Wonder of the World!
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