Cults And Kaiju
Step into the shadows of forgotten television history with Cults And Kaiju a gripping new podcast that investigates a bizarre cult’s attempt to launch a tokusatsu-style kids’ show in the 1970s. At the center of it all is Rogue Fighter X, a masked hero battling inter-dimensional kaiju—created not just as entertainment, but as part of a cult’s twisted belief system. What was marketed as a children’s TV show may have been a recruitment tool for something far darker.Hosted by investigative journalist Trenton Payne, Cults And Kaiju peels back the layers of a decades-old murder mystery that spans...
Episodes
Episode 4: A Cult's Champion
In this episode, we take a close look at an old photo of "Rogue Fighter X" from the unproduced Tokusatsu show of the same name. Even though the photo is in bad shape after sitting in the bottom of a drawer for years, we remaster it to what …
Episode 3: False Confessions
Tune in to episode 3: False Confessions. We interview "Mr. Isamu" a tv director who worked with the cult leaders Emi and Jimmy Muzaki back in the 70's in Japan. Mr. Isamu spent a lot of time with Jimmy and learned intimate details about Jim…
Episode 2: Forgotten Heroes
In episode 2 entitled, 'Forgotten Heroes', we interview someone who worked at the Japanese ad firm back in the 1970's who tells us about a secret tokusatsu kids show in pre-production created by a cult entitled, "The Heavenly Path". Are the…
Episode 1: Ghost Protocol
In Cults and Kaiju Episode One: "Ghost Protocol", host Trenton Payne stumbles upon a rabbit hole unlike any other when a mysterious stranger uploads a series of unsettling 1970s Japanese church recruitment films. What starts as a curious di…