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PODCAST

The Monster Island Film Vault

Moonlighting Ninjas Media

A Podcast Seeking Entertainment and Enlightenment through Tokusatsu. Hosted by the ”kaiju academic” himself, Nathan Marchand.

tv & film film history

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138:49

Godzilla Day 2025 Special: Ranking the Godzilla...

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2025/11/03

Hello, Kaiju Lovers! To celebrate the end of Big G’s 70th anniversary on Godzilla Day, I’m publishing an episode of the Patreon-exclusive podcast, MIFV MAX, where I ranked all the Godzilla movies and TV series on a tier list. With Godzilla Minus Zero coming soon, it’s a great way to discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly in this incredible franchise. Feel free to leave comments on the YouTube version of this bonus episode or hit MIFV up on the socials to share your agreements and disagreements with

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58:40

The Kaiju Krypt Presents: 'Green Thoughts' by John...

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2025/10/31

Happy Halloween, Monster Children! Your host, Vinnie Kami, returns to introduce another classic monster tale--but not his disgruntled butler, Kappa Joe! No, Joe gave himself the night off and sent his carnivorous Gen Z slang-speaking plant, "Violet," to fill in for him. It's apropos, because this episode's story is "Green Thoughts" by John Collier, which inspired 1960's The Little Shop of Horrors, which led to an off-Broadway musical in the early 1980s, and finally to a 1986 film adaptation of the

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201:01

MIFV 6th Anniversary Livestream | Ft. MIFV Jeopardy...

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2025/10/03

Join Nathan, executive producer Damon Noyes, Drew Dodgen (The Cel Cast), and Jake Hambrick (Henshin Power V3) to celebrate six years of kaiju/tokusatsu podcasting! Stay tuned for giveaways to audience members in the chat, and watch as Nathan's guests compete to prove who's the biggest MIFV fan with MIFV Jeopardy!Watch the original live video: https://youtube.com/live/GaRJBb6EPt4. Featuring “10 Minutes of Hypothermia” by Metal Man. Check out Nathan’s spinoff podcasts, The Henshin Men and The Power

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16:32

Episode 105 Epilogue: “Battle at My Wit’s End”

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2025/10/02

Nate is confronted by his longtime nemesis WHG3—who just wants to treat him to dinner...with his snooty friends. Nate reluctantly agrees. They meet in one of London’s poshest pubs, the Britannia, and Nate quickly finds himself the target of many insults amid a furious debate over what is England’s greatest kaiju movie.Check out Nathan’s spinoff podcasts, The Henshin Men and The Power Trip, and Henshin Power V3! We’d like to give a shout-out to our MIFV MAX patrons Danny DiManna (author/creator of

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124:45

MIFV Interview Series - A Chat with Kurt Carley, the...

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2025/09/30

In the second of the new interviews being released to the podcast feed today, Nathan sits down and, for the first time, interviews a Godzilla suit actor—but not the one you’d expect! Today, he chats with Kurt Carley, for a hot second in the infamous Godzilla (1998), directed by Roland Emmerich, played the divisive “G.I.N.O.” (“Godzilla In Name Only”) as a man in a rubber suit. Not CGI. Not mocap. But the conversation won’t stop there. Nathan will ask Mr. Carley about what got him into acting and his

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108:39

MIFV Interview Series - James Santana, Writer of...

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2025/09/30

In the first of not one but two interviews Nathan has conducted in the last month, he sits down to with James Santana (again), but this time to discuss James's first full-length tokusatsu-inspired comic book, Nebulon: Knight of Justice #1. If you love Power Rangers, Ultraman, and/or Kamen Rider, this comic is for you!Watch the original video interview: https://youtube.com/live/lCaJs6xlTrE. Support Nebulon on Kickstarter:

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ANNOUNCEMENT - MIFV 6th Anniversary Livestream Coming...

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2025/09/25

Join us Saturday, September 27, 2025, at 7pm EST on MIFV’s YouTube channel, Twitch channel, and Facebook page to celebrate the podcast’s 6th anniversary with a special livestream! Guests will include Damon Noyes, Christopher “Sentai Guy” Riner, and Matt Walsh (But Not That Matt Walsh). There will be giveaways and MIFV Jeopardy! Don’t miss it!YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtube.com/live/GaRJBb6EPt4. Featuring “10 Minutes of Hypothermia” by Metal Man. Check out Nathan’s spinoff podcasts, The Henshin

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03:30:39

Episode 105: ‘Gorgo’ vs. Bex vs. Encyclo | The...

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2025/08/13

Hello, Kaiju Lovers! In this, the penultimate episode of the “Monster Island World Tour,” Nate is joined by MIFV staple (and Jessica's "bestie"), Becky “Bex” Smith, but this time, she brings her “husbando,” Encyclo, along! They discuss arguably the best (or at least most iconic) British kaiju film, Gorgo, the last of the 1961 European kaiju movies. Why? To pay off a joke that goes all the way back to episode 18! This is the third Eugene Lourie monster film Nate has discussed on the show, so he may

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57:22

Episode 105: 'Gorgo' vs. Bex vs. Encyclo | The...

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2025/08/12

PART 2: Hello, Kaiju Lovers! In this, the penultimate episode of the “Monster Island World Tour,” Nate is joined by MIFV staple (and Jessica's "bestie"), Becky “Bex” Smith, but this time, she brings her “husbando,” Encyclo, along! They discuss arguably the best (or at least most iconic) British kaiju film, Gorgo, the last of the 1961 European kaiju movies. Why? To pay off a joke that goes all the way back to episode 18! This is the third Eugene Lourie monster film Nate has discussed on the show, so

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02:33:30

Episode 105: 'Gorgo' vs. Bex vs. Encyclo | The...

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2025/08/11

PART 1: Hello, Kaiju Lovers! In this, the penultimate episode of the “Monster Island World Tour,” Nate is joined by MIFV staple (and Jessica's "bestie"), Becky “Bex” Smith, but this time, she brings her “husbando,” Encyclo, along! They discuss arguably the best (or at least most iconic) British kaiju film, Gorgo, the last of the 1961 European kaiju movies. Why? To pay off a joke that goes all the way back to episode 18! This is the third Eugene Lourie monster film Nate has discussed on the show, so

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04:48:09

MIFV x Kaiju Kim x Donny Winter x Autistic Lizard...

The Monster Island Film Vault ·

2025/07/23

And there came a day unlike any other. When your favorite kaiju podcasters and YouTubers found themselves united to discuss G-Fest XXX. On that day became...uh, what's their team name? Join us for a MASSIVE livestream event that's going out to multiple YouTube channels! Also features appearances by kaiju authors Neil Riebe and Danile DiManna (Godzilla Novelization Project). Watch the live video version on the MIFV YouTube channel. Check out Nathan’s spinoff podcasts, The Henshin Men and The Power

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03:27:44

MIFV MAX #40 (Abridged): ‘Reptisaurus’ (2009) | Ft....

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2025/07/16

Hello, Kaiju Lovers! If you’re joining us just after G-Fest, welcome! In this abridged episode of our Patreon-exclusive podcast, you’ll hear Nathan and executive producer/MIFV MAX “prime” member Damon Noyes discuss (or rather, riff) a “pseudo-remake” (and by that, we mean “second cousin twice removed”) of Reptilicus with the 2009 SyFy movie Reptisaurus. It claims to be based on the Charlton comic, which was a Reptilicus comic for two issues, but the $15 CGI creature looks nothing like it. And

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02:26:36

MIFV Interview Series: Shawn Pryor - Author of Kaiju...

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2025/07/03

Nathan sits down with a fellow another fellow author! This time it's the writer of the new book Kaiju Unleashed, Shawn Pryor. Not only did he write this crash course in all things tokusatsu, he's also created his own toku-inspired comic book, written for Boom Studios' Power Rangers comics, and written children's books. We have a lot to talk about!Watch the original version here: https://youtube.com/live/rVsEXm5XBoM. Check out Nathan’s spinoff podcasts, The Henshin Men and The Power Trip,

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02:17:06

MIFV Interview Series: Linda Jo Miller | King Kong...

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2025/07/02

Nathan sits down to talk with former model/actress (and now everyone's favorite grandma) Linda Jo Miller, who famously starred alongside Akira Takarada and Rhodes Reason in King Kong Escapes (1967). Nathan asks her what it was growing up as a military brat in Japan and what life was like after she was in King Kong Escapes. Watch the original version here: https://youtube.com/live/XVFWdVDJMNo. Check out Nathan’s spinoff podcasts, The Henshin Men and The Power Trip, and Henshin Power V3! We’d like to

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03:02:07

Monster Conversation: Harryhausen Annual #4 – ‘The...

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2025/06/29

Hello, Kaiju Lovers! And Happy Birthday, Ray! Nate and Elijah once again celebrate their birthdays by celebrating Ray Harryhausen's birthday with another deep dive into the stopmotion master's filmography: The Valley of Gwangi. This 1969 dinosaur epic combined the monster movie and western at a time when both genres were past their primes. It failed at the box office, but it has since become a cult classic, and it's no wonder why. Cowboys wrangling dinosaurs, baby! While it aped (pun intended) King

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39:55

Bonus Episode #20: 'The Giant Behemoth' | The Monster...

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2025/06/13

Hello, Kaiju Lovers! In this solo bonus episode, which also features the return of the intrepid Jimmy From NASA to the producer booth, Nate discusses one of the lesser British kaiju movies, The Giant Behemoth (1959). This biblically-titled flick, which was directed by Eugene Lourie (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Gorgo), while pretty average, was the last film to feature special effects by the legendary Willis O'Brien of King Kong (1933) fame. However, some studio interference changed the story from

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05:28

Episode 104 Epilogue: “Apologies”

The Monster Island Film Vault ·

2025/06/05

In this journal entry, Nate is lost in his dark thoughts as he checks his e-mail and finds yet another message from Jimmy asking where he is. Nate throws it into the growing pile in his inbox—and suddenly Jimmy bursts through the door to confront him.We’d like to give a shout-out to our MIFV MAX patrons Danny DiManna (author/creator of the Godzilla Novelization Project); Damon Noyes, The Cel Cast, TofuFury, Eric Anderson of Nerd Chapel, Wynja the Ninja, Christopher Riner, Eli Harris, Jake Hambrick,

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02:49:20

Episode 104: ‘Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla’ (1974) |...

The Monster Island Film Vault ·

2025/06/04

Hello, Kaiju Lovers! This episode marks the final “Godzilla Redux” of season four, and it’s a low-key banger! Robert Kelly, who managed to escape capture by the British police after episode 103, returns to discuss his first G-film, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974), and share what Nate says is the most unique take he’s ever heard on this film. Namely, Robert says Godzilla is his friend, because Godzilla’s monstrousness is a virtue in the vein of G.K. Chesterton. No kidding! But it isn’t the only

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13:15

Episode 103 Epilogue: “In the Nose of Madness”

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2025/05/26

Nate follows his suddenly oppressed nose to Uber-Moguera's back room and discovers he has a stowaway--Dr. Dante Dourif! The mad scientist needed a place to stay while he was at a “xeno-botany” conference in London. But before Nate can chew him out too much, Konga, who's kaiju-sized again, is taking his inferiority complex out on Big Ben (unlike in 1961), but even Jet Jaguar's heroics can't halt the big ape’s raging rampage. Then Dr. Dourif says he has an idea on how to stop Konga....We’d like to

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02:43:37

Episode 103: 'Konga' vs. Record All Monsters

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2025/04/26

Hello, Kaiju Lovers! Nate and Jet move on to jolly ol' England for the penultimate stop on the Monster Island World Tour, but it's to discuss the sleaziest of the 1961 European kaiju movies: Konga. Thankfully, Nate is joined by the co-hosts of the podcast Record All Monsters (and...fugitives...?), who un-ironically like this movie. While it's a King Kong "knockoff," the studio paid RKO $25,000 for the rights. Not to mention, aside from featuring a giant gorilla (for 15 minutes) who carries humans in

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