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Apr 2023
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#287: Kaiju Chaos: Antarctic-Zilla vs. K...

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In 1959 and again in 1971—the heart of the Shōwa period—the crews of two Japanese ships encountered a pair of bizarre and utterly inexplicable sea-bound behemoths that seemed to have crawled out of a giant monster movie and into the real world. 

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