Charles Liu
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Podcast Appearances
make it more accessible to us.
And then years later, as we have learned more about our natural world, we see that those monstrous aren't monstrous at all.
In fact, they're very natural and it's scientific.
And that kind of connection and learning about these creative things makes us feel cooler and makes us feel better about the whole universe.
So do you have a favorite monster?
We all do, presumably.
At the moment, my favorite monster is Godzilla.
Godzilla is classic.
It is the longest running movie franchise of all time.
Is it really?
The first Godzilla movie came out in 1954.
Well, those are monsters of a different kind, right?
Those are the monsters in our imagination.
Right.
Things that we think are frightened and scary, they must be a monster.
But then, turns out it's just a train.
It can still smoosh you, but it's just a train.
Right, right, and there's a tunnel, and it's all of the above.
And so humans will do that.
Okay.