Monster Crush

Halloween is nearly here and we deserve to have some fun! So this week there are NO MONSTER SINGLETONS, instead we play some games to talk about a whole bunch of monsters! So strap in and strap on for Slash’er Pass (a Smash or Pass game with movie slashers) as well as Smooch, Mate, Slay (a monster take on FMK). Come play with us… forever and ever… and ever

Featuring: Halloween costume memories, Spooky Sports News: minor league baseball celebrates local cryptids, several slashers would probably have been MAGA, some Olympic level mental gymnastics, the hottest Hot Topic icons, Jack Skellington would need a leash (not in that way), ET is a plant, the Xenomorph Queen is technically a Disney Princess, Hugh Jackman’s nickname for Kate Beckinsale’s chest, 10 years old and 5 foot 7 inches, Charizard is as tall as the average Australian, AND MORE!

CW: brief mentions of current politics (23:00-28:00), fictional child death (38:00-40:00)

We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network - beacons.ai/swordandkey. Our music is by the handsome and talented Nick Lambert. Find him on Instagram @lambertropolis. All other music and sounds are licensed through Epidemic Sounds.Use code THELADYDAME for 10% off of your order from Friday Afternoon Tea - https://www.fridaytea.com - we suggest the Smut-Tea and/or the Sword & Tea

The Halloween season is finally here (even though it lives in our hearts year round)! This is a special time of the year for Monster Crush so we wanted to recognize some monsters that truly embody the symbology of the season… Pumpkins! So carve out an hour for us as we learn to love the gourd and the bad about the Devouring Gourd, the Squasholiger, and Stingy Jack aka Jack o’ Lantern!

Featuring: How to pronounce “Samhain”, hot takes on Supernatural, a new game: Slash’er Pass (with heavy hitters like Chucky, Ghostface, Leatherface, and more!), all squash and gourds are the same and are cucumbers but also they aren’t, taxonomy is just trying to fit things into wet boxes, the Devouring Gourd’s devious master plan: not talking, squash-pigs make their own fertilizer, carving pumpkins is better than carving heads, cucumber insecurities, AND MORE!

CW: discussions of movie slashers and their fictional kills (6:30-28:15), fictional SA and harm to children (12:15-18:30)

We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network - beacons.ai/swordandkey. Our music is by the handsome and talented Nick Lambert. Find him on Instagram @lambertropolis. All other music and sounds are licensed through Epidemic Sounds.

Use code THELADYDAME for 10% off of your order from Friday Afternoon Tea - https://www.fridaytea.com - we suggest the Smut-Tea and/or the Sword & Tea

This episode of Monster Crush comes from a very special livestreamed version of the podcast that we did on our parent network Sword & Key! You can watch a recording of this stream on youtube.com/@swordandkey

For this episode we bring you the epitome of a “weird little guy” with Gef the Talking Mongoose! A self-described “extra extra clever mongoose” and “freak”, the story of Gef is as complex as it is absurd. And it has everything: pranks, ghost hunters, ventriloquism, a dog, and so much more!

Featuring: Dogmen are just domesticated werewolves, the sexual spectrum is werewolves to horny goats to spider ladies, LD’s Smut Corner presents 11 Halloween-themed monster romances - Spooky News: more US UFO Bread & Circuses, Hard Mountain Dew wants you to find Bigfoot, Maine Bigfoot is Chebacca, New York Bigfoot is a naked guy, Nessie spotted by Google satellites, vote for the next Godzilla monster - Gef the self-described freak, a screaming mongoose for an alarm clock, Gef could be a symptom of the male loneliness epidemic, the Mongoose Legal Case, it’s not the size of the rat that counts, AND MORE!

CW: hoaxes (throughout the episode), US politics, cover-ups, and conspiracy theories (22:00-28:50), harm to animals (1:02:00-1:02:45), gun violence (1:19:00-1:19:45), mention of animal abuse and eating disorders related to celebrities (1:29:30-1:30:30)

We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network - beacons.ai/swordandkey. Our music is by the handsome and talented Nick Lambert. Find him on Instagram @lambertropolis. All other music and sounds are licensed through Epidemic Sounds.Use code THELADYDAME for 10% off of your order from Friday Afternoon Tea - https://www.fridaytea.com - we suggest the Smut-Tea and/or the Sword & Tea

It’s Shadow’s first episode as an official Monster Crush co-host/co-cryptowoologist! To ease her into things, we decided to bring a couple cryptids that might sound kinda familiar but are totally unique and weird in their own special ways. So strap on and strap in for the Octosquatch and the Sheepsquatch, two hairy fellas with a lotta love to give!

Featuring: WELCOME Shadow, we present Shadow with her official Cryptowoologist credentials, dragons and sad round little guys, remember Buzzfeed Quizzes?, Spooky News (a Moon Base could prevent space plague, mini-squatch sightings, squatch calling contests), baby-cooing cryptids, Spanish roads take me home, jackhammering cryptids, White thing vs. White Thang, exit pursued by Sheepsquatch, stick your hectocotylus in my siphon, we solve a little mystery (kinda), pulling someone else’s hair out of your crack, AND MORE!

CW: reference to harm of mythical creatures (15:00-19:30), hypothetical virus/plague (22:45- death (25:30-26:30) mention of 9/11 (1:13:15-1:14:50)

We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network - beacons.ai/swordandkey. Our music is by the handsome and talented Nick Lambert. Find him on Instagram @lambertropolis. All other music and sounds are licensed through Epidemic Sounds.Use code THELADYDAME for 10% off of your order from Friday Afternoon Tea - https://www.fridaytea.com - we suggest the Smut-Tea and/or the Sword & Tea

We know you listeners are horny and hot to trot so we finally delivered on our promise to bring you two monsters to perfectly match that energy. Join us to explore the girthy mythology of the galloping Centaur and the labyrinthian Minotaur! But wait… if “taur” means bull why are they called centaurs? This and more secrets revealed in this episode!

Featuring: our hot takes on the Wicker movie trailer, the minotaur’s has a real name, Daedalus is the true villain of Greek Mythology, grabbing love by the horns, Greek Mythology is really messy, the MLP is a nightmare (no pun intended), centaurs are hung like a… you know, we learn what a euhemerist is, centaurs are weird because horses are weird, both together at the same time, a very special review, AN IMPORTANT MC ANNOUNCEMENT, AND MORE!

CW: Greek mythology throughout (so mentions of SA, bestiality, cannibalism, torture, murder, and incest also throughout), the dark side of the MLP fandom (38:45-39:45) genocide of the Aztecs (48:45-49:30)

We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network - beacons.ai/swordandkey. Our music is by the handsome and talented Nick Lambert. Find him on Instagram @lambertropolis. All other music and sounds are licensed through Epidemic Sounds.Use code THELADYDAME for 10% off of your order from Friday Afternoon Tea - https://www.fridaytea.com - we suggest the Smut-Tea and/or the Sword & Tea

The Dog Days of Summer mark the hottest days of the year but we’re going to make things even HOTTER with the DOGMAN Days of Summer here on Monster Crush! This time we bring you two Great Lakes good boys with the prowling Minnesota Dogman and denim-wearing Defiance Dogman. Be proud of us because we didn’t mention that one Florence and the Machine song even once.

Featuring: it’s HOT out which means we must be in the Dog Days of Summer, “seasonal thermal lag” is a fun term, Spooky News - 7th Nessie sighting of the year, Bigfoot sighting (no boobs) - bigfoot researchers are ruined by pendulous breasts, hairy nipples or no, dogmen and werewolves are NOT the same… kinda, Bonus Cryptids: The Turbo Poodle and Mobile Wolf Woman, my grandmother’s place has a lot of squirrels, dogman loves denim, Notting Hill is a werewolf romance story, AND MORE!

CW: harm to animals during hunting/gun violence to animals (43:00-44:30)

We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network - beacons.ai/swordandkey. Our music is by the handsome and talented Nick Lambert. Find him on Instagram @lambertropolis. All other music and sounds are licensed through Epidemic Sounds.Use code THELADYDAME for 10% off of your order from Friday Afternoon Tea - https://www.fridaytea.com - we suggest the Smut-Tea and/or the Sword & Tea

Hold on to your butts because we have two monsters of prehistoric proportions for this episode! Dinosaur cryptids can be found in lots of places but these two tend to break the mold in more than a few ways. So listen as love finds a way with the Partridge Creek Monster of the great white north and the surprisingly chatty Atami Stegosaurus!

Featuring: problematic youth organizations, shoutout to the YouTube series Muldoon’s Logs, Spooky News: Seattle’s new cryptid - Jimothy the Racoon, a new game: Dinosaur or Pokémon?, Mesozoic Regions, 5-layer-of-separation cryptid story dip, dinosaurs in snow, high strangeness, Nessie gives you the middle finger, and MORE!

CW: youth organizations that involve appropriation of indigenous cultures (3:45-6:10), mention of current US politics (5:30-5:35)

We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network - beacons.ai/swordandkey. Our music is by the handsome and talented Nick Lambert. Find him on Instagram @lambertropolis. All other music and sounds are licensed through Epidemic Sounds.Use code THELADYDAME for 10% off of your order from Friday Afternoon Tea - https://www.fridaytea.com - we suggest the Smut-Tea and/or the Sword & Tea

Just because the country is burning down around us doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate some all-American monsters. And it doesn’t get more American than the lumberjack folkloric traditions of FEARSOME CRITTERS! So grab a hot dog and get ready to salute these weird monsters of American folklore - the telescopic sniper, the Tripodero, and the super-fast noose-bird, the Roperite!

Featuring: Jennifer Tilly is monster-loving royalty, we love hot dogs, the virtues of street-meat vendors, taken by the spirit of Wiley Jeff, Spooky News: evidence of ancient life on Mars, US appoints a conspiracy theorist to investigate UAP, a man named Snake says he found a bigfoot and got it tested - Fearsome Critter True or False (a new game), a monster with the mouth of a butthole that can’t count past 12, a roadrunner crossed with a gallows, speed isn’t everything, getting over a buttface, AND MORE!

CW: mentions of US patriotism and general references to the state of the world (8:15-10:20), US politics and conspiracy theories (20:10-25:15)

We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network - beacons.ai/swordandkey. Our music is by the handsome and talented Nick Lambert. Find him on Instagram @lambertropolis. All other music and sounds are licensed through Epidemic Sounds.Use code THELADYDAME for 10% off of your order from Friday Afternoon Tea - https://www.fridaytea.com - we suggest the Smut-Tea and/or the Sword & Tea

Happy Monster Daddy’s Day! While monster dads are far less common than monster moms but we were able to find two frightful flirting fathers all the same. Plus we have A LOT of Spooky News today! So strap in and strap on for the Caribbean nature spirit, Papa Bois, and the Father of All Turtles, the island-sized Zaratan!

Featuring: LD is back, what dad archetype do you have, Book Review of Mothman is My Boyfriend by McKayla Coyle - Spooky News: new oceanic discoveries, WHALE NECROPOLIS, cretaceous krakens, prehistoric carnivorous squirrels, evolution needs a little FAFO, UFOs vs. UTIs, DC exorcist is exorcised, Mummy Bread - a satyr but not technically, hot snake wife, from crab to turtle, the zaratan may be the father-of-all-turtles but Splinter is the daddy of all turtles, AND MORE!

CW: Mentions of fathers throughout, news about the Catholic Church including historical wrongs as well as US politics (46:20-53:00), eating mummies (55:30-57:30)

We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network - beacons.ai/swordandkey. Our music is by the handsome and talented Nick Lambert. Find him on Instagram @lambertropolis. All other music and sounds are licensed through Epidemic Sounds.Use code THELADYDAME for 10% off of your order from Friday Afternoon Tea - https://www.fridaytea.com - we suggest the Smut-Tea and/or the Sword & Tea

It’s part TWO of our cursed experience with co-host Shadow! Again, the curse was that one episode went too long and ended up as two episodes, so kind of a fun curse in the end. But this episode we finally get to the three cursed objects mentioned in our last episode! So strap in and strap on for these objects of your desire with the bloodthirsty cursed Muramasa Demon Swords, the ill-gotten curse of the Ring of Silvianus, and the werewolf-summoning curse of the Hexham Heads!

Featuring: the difference between being cursed and being haunted, our favorite curses, demon (possibly vampire?) swords, Derek’s cursed attic, cursed-item opening parties, one ring to curse them all, cursed objects that summon were-monsters, it’s so much worse to see a monster leaving your house than entering, James the werewolf is your new dad, AND MORE!

CW: Mentions of death and tragedy related to warfare, murder, car accidents, and the general concepts of curses mentioned throughout, ritualistic self-harm (19:35-19:40)

We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network - beacons.ai/swordandkey. Our music is by the handsome and talented Nick Lambert. Find him on Instagram @lambertropolis. All other music and sounds are licensed through Epidemic Sounds.Use code THELADYDAME for 10% off of your order from Friday Afternoon Tea - https://www.fridaytea.com - we suggest the Smut-Tea and/or the Sword & Tea