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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

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

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

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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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A lost world comic book from the 50s drawn by the great Frank Frazetta!

Cian explains changes coming, a new show, a slight change of theme, and some behind-the-scenes info!