Silver Screen Science – Godzilla (2014) and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

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Science, Natural Sciences, Education, Earth Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

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🗓️ 29 June 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Part 5 of 5 in this month’s series: KaiJune! There’s a new Godzilla movie, and that means it’s time for more movie science! All June, we’ll be exploring giant monster movies, specifically looking at two of the most famous examples of all time: King Kong and Godzilla. How do these movies handle such subjects as prehistoric creatures, the science of paleontology, and the portrayal of scientists? This episode, the latest installments: Godzilla (2014) and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) The Common Descent Store is open! Get merch! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast/PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.0	Hello, David. Hey, Will.
0:21.4	And hello, listeners.
0:22.9	Welcome to the final episode of Silver Screen Science Kai June.
0:28.4	It's Kai June.
0:31.6	This is episode five, the capstone to our series this June.
0:38.1	The reason we're all here in the first place.
0:39.6	The reason we're all here, because we are finally discussing the most recent Godzilla film, King of the Monsters.
0:47.0	Yeah, so we started with King Kong and Godzilla in their origin, took a break to talk about kaiju films in general, did more of the most
0:56.1	recent King Kong's last episode, and now at the end of the month, we are talking about the new
1:02.9	Warner Brothers Monsterverse Godzilla.
1:06.3	Released just at the end of May.
1:08.6	Godzilla, so two movies today.
1:10.2	Yes, two movies a day. We are discussing the two new Godzilla films.
1:13.6	So these are the two most recent Godzilla films in this monster verse, not in general.
1:19.2	Shin Godzilla came out in between them.
1:21.0	Yeah.
1:21.4	We're discussing these two.
1:22.9	And once again, we want to give a shout out to a couple of people, Ed for a final time, but also Alex.
1:29.7	Both suggested we talk about these recent Godzilla films as well as Godzilla films in
1:35.4	general. So thanks again for your suggestions. And this will be the end to our discussion since this
1:43.7	new one came out very, very recently. If you
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