Apocalypse Kong: Kong Skull Island (with Dr Justin Mullis)
Dr Justin Mullis drops into the Explorers Club to discuss the 2017 film Kong: Skull Island. Topics include:
-Japanese cryptozoology
-The depiction of apes in popular culture
-Kong as a colonial Lost World story?
-the ecology of Skull Island
-The significance of the 70s Vietnam setting
-John Goodman and the Monarch organisation
-Kong’s reinvention as a Kaiju
-Some of the best CGI in a recent creature film?
-The Skullcrawlers’ link to the original 1933 King Kong
-Cryptozoology in the Monsterverse
-The mystical gateway that often guards the Lost Worlds
Links:
-Justin’s academia edu
-Justin's Notes for the episode (availability pending)
-Justin at Adventures In Poor Taste
-From Cryptids to Kaiju
-Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction, John Rieder
-Kaiju Transmissions episode
-G-Fest 2024
-King Kong Cometh, Paul A. Woods
-Kong Unmade, John Lemay
-Encyclopedia of Weird War Stories, Paul Green
-The Great War and Prehistoric Memory, Ross J Wilson
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Just Like His Old Man: Son Of Kong (with Eddie Guimont)
Return to Skull Island back in 1933 with Eddie Guimont to see whether there's more to the overlooked SON OF KONG than you've heard. Topics include:
-UPDATE ON PERCY FAWCETT’s LOST CITY!
-Occult beliefs in Bolsonaro’s government
-Was Kong intended to be sympathetic?
-The origins & making of Son of Kong
-The real-life colonial adventures of Kong’s creators
-The social and economic world of Kong’s 1933
-The trope of the ancient lost monument-builders
-The ethnicity of the Skull Islanders
-Willis O’Brien’s special effects
-Lovecraft and Mysterious Islands
Links:
Jason Colavito on Percy Fawcett
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/a-plausible-explanation-for-the-lost-city-of-manuscript-512
Kong: The History Of A Movie Icon, Ray Morton, 2005
https://www.raymorton.com/books/king-kong-the-history-of-a-movie-icon-from-fay-wray-to-peter-jackson/
When The Stars Are Right, Edward Guimont and Horace A Smith
https://www.hippocampuspress.com/other-authors/nonfiction/when-the-stars-are-right-h.-p.-lovecraft-and-astronomy
From Crypto's to Kaiju, Justin Mullen (currently restricted access)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03080188241234141
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1:16:45
The Lost White Tribe (with Michael Robinson)
Cian chats with Michael Robinson, author of The Lost White Tribe. Topics include:
-the story of Henry Morton Stanley and his 'white' Ruwenzori tribe, a story that was famous at the time but is almost never mentioned today even in biographies of Stanley
-the birth of adventure fiction, the obsession with plots about lost cities and lost races
-connections to the life and work of HR Haggard, his place as a founder of lost world literature, his fictional lost white tribes in King Solomons Mines and She
-Richard Ogelsby Marsh's white tribe in Panama
-Ernst Schafer and the 1938 Nazi Tibet expedition
LINKS:
The Lost White Tribe book
Time To Eat The Dogs podcast
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Through the Crater's Rim by A. Hyatt Verrill
A lost race in Panama and some man-eating trees show up in this Amazing Stories tale from 1926, written by traveller and finder of Lost Worlds in fact and fiction, A. Hyatt Verrill!
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Read the story here
Wide Atlantic Weird: an Irish podcast about why people believe weird things. Now defunct, enjoy these episodes of investigating the world of the strange, remaining critical, not cynical. And enjoy the final episodes under the guise of the Lost Valley podcast too!
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