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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Monstrefact: Mothra

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses the legendary Kaiju Mothra…

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0:00.0

You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.

0:05.2

This week on Dear Chelsea with me, Chelsea Handler, Jay Shetty joins us.

0:09.7

The people who need the most love often ask for it in the most unloving ways.

0:15.6

So when I see someone's behavior, the first thing I try and think of is how is that a plea for love?

0:22.2

Whatever behavior you see from someone, it's them asking for love in some way.

0:27.4

And I think we see it in children the most where when a child's throwing a tantrum,

0:31.5

they're simply asking for presence, love and connection.

0:34.5

Listen to Dear Chelsea on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

0:38.8

podcasts. Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:50.0

Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact, a short-form series from

0:54.6

Stuff to Blow Your Mind focusing on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time.

1:03.6

This week on Weird House Cinema, we'll be discussing the classic 1964 kaiju movie

1:09.5

Mothra versus Godzilla,

1:11.6

in which the great divine moth comes to humanity's defense,

1:15.6

despite humanity's obvious greed and corruption.

1:19.6

Originally introduced in her own self-titled 1961 movie,

1:22.6

Mothra has continued to serve as a mainstay in the Godzilla franchise.

1:35.1

In the 1964 film, we see that Mothra's physical form continually experiences death and rebirth via the hatching of an enormous egg.

1:37.9

In fact, the egg hatches to reveal twins, providing the great kaiju protector with

1:43.4

a strategic advantage over Godzilla in their

1:45.9

final fight, despite the larval forms that she is restricted to. Now, this led me to wonder if

1:53.4

natural world moths ever hatch twins. Well, insects do on rare occasions produce genetic twins,

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