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Finding Monster Right
@monsterrightpod.bsky.social
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Join @lemma.bsky.social and @zoologicallie.bsky.social as they combine creatures and comedy, answering questions (you've never asked) about monsters across fiction, mythology, and real life.
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#MayThe4thBeWithYou! Who is your favorite Glup Shitto?
Momaw Nadon, an Ithorian who appeared in the Mos Eisley cantina scene in Episode Four, A New Hope. His flattened, curved neck projects forward before bending upwards at a 90 angle. His eyes are widely spaced on a hammerhead-shaped two-lobed disc. Klaud, the caterpillar-like Resistance mechanic who appeared in Episode Nine, the Rise of Skywalker. Salacious B. Crumb, Jabba the Hutt’s jester. He is about the size of a cat, with spindly limbs, a short black beak, and wide floppy ears. The Jedi councilman Plo Koon. He has a wrinkled, fleshy face with two tentacles sprouting from either side of his skull. They are plugged into two sockets on a metallic breathing mask. The mask has two downward-pointing, mandible-like spikes on the chin. Koon’s eyes are covered by goggles with sieve-like metal mesh protecting the lenses.
May 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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"Mothman Saves Christmas" (FMR #145)
We played Ah, Dang! Mothman Won't Move Out (He Said It Was Just For The Weekend) with its creator, @ettin.itch.io.
At the 26-minute mark, we begin crafting what I think is truly, TRULY the greatest Christmas story ever told.
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A Hero Forge mini of Herald, a Mothman in a top hat, excitedly pointing out a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos in a rural Sheetz.
December 24, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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"Do You Want to Build a Golem? Frosty; or, The Modern Snowmetheus" (FMR #116)
I barely had to edit this A+ deep dive into the mechanics and lore of Frosty the Snowman's hat. There must have been some magic in this rare, post-2021 in-person recording!
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A scene from "Frosty's Winter Wonderland" (1976) in which the human man Parson Brown creates a snowman of himself and then animates it with a Bible so it can wed Frosty the Snowman to his fiancée. The theological implications of this action go hauntingly unaddressed in the film.
December 24, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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"Sleipnir Games: Is an Eight-Legged Horse Heir to Asgard?" (FMR #115)
We sat down with our good friend and certified OG Little Monster @chibi-tom.bsky.social to talk about Sleipnir (Odin's horse and nephew) and other yuletide monsters.
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Anthony Hopkins as Odin in "Thor" (2011), astride a majestic eight-legged CGI horse.
December 24, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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"Ballots of Holly: Vote Santa Claus for Congress" (FMR #99)
We dropped an emergency Christmas episode in May to endorse @santaclausalaska.bsky.social in the 2022 Alaska congressional special election. We also explored some of Rankin-Bass's wilder Santa Claus lore.
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a scene from "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" (1985) in which the Great Ak, a Gandalf-looking figure with an elaborate antlered crown, holds council with several wood sprites to determine whether or not they should bestow unto Santa Claus the Mantle of Immortality. Also, this is canon to The Wizard of Oz.
December 24, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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"The Seussiverse's Holiday Crime: Grinching the Clock to Stop Christmastime" (FMR #80)
Can you pod a whole cast solely in rhyme?
Will listeners listen, and have a good time?
It's one of the storied feats of our show.
But to answer the question, I really don't know.
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a frame from "The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat" (1982) in which the Grinch is putting his hands around the shoulders of a hesitant-looking Cat in the Hat. The toxic yaoi vibes are PALPABLE.
December 24, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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In the Monster Apartment Era, we questioned the madness of Rankin-Bass and finally solved the question everyone asks: Why the hell is a winged lion in charge of the Island of Misfit Toys?
"A Couple of Misfits in King Moonracer's Court" (FMR #79)
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Rudolph, Hermey, and Yukon Cornelius stand before King Moonracer, a winged lion, in his golden throne room.
December 24, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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The 2nd Christmas special from our first year was "Naughty or Nice: Are Elves Monsters?" (FMR #29).
Our attempt to connect Christmas elves to high fantasy elves became an early test of our show's conceptual limits. Also, I was really cozy for this recording!
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The cover of "Letters from Father Christmas", by J.R.R. Tolkien. A hooded Father Christmas carries a bag of presents through a snowy landscape.
December 24, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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Ranking Christmas specials of FMR Past(🧵)!
Did you know Jimmy Stewart (as in "It's a Wonderful Life" Jimmy Stewart) once conspired with an oil magnate to steal a mummified yeti hand?
"Yeti or Not: How Jimmy Stewart Fought the Abominable Snowman (and Won)" (FMR #28)
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a black-and-white film cell of actor Jimmy Stewart in the arms of a Gigantopithecus (source: Atlas Obscura)
December 24, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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Finding Monster Right is proud to be in the Top 100 Improv Podcasts on GoodPods! Thanks to and all our listeners!
Goodpods Award for Top 100 Podcast / Improv
September 11, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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Happy Penguin Awareness Day!
The most notable penguin cryptid I could find was a case from 1940s Florida.
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On the explicitly fictional(?) side of things, Zoo Tycoon 2's killer penguin has a special place in my heart.🖤
A killer penguin from Zoo Tycoon 2, created by messing up the cloning process in the Extinct Animals Research Lab. It's as tall as the player, with red "eyebrow" feathers, glowing eyes, and a beak smeared in the blood of its victims. (reskin credit to Lgcfm & Ulquiorra)
January 20, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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I’ve seen that look once before…
A picture I found of the human-faced Bigfoot featured on Robert W Morgan’s Bigfoot Observer’s Field Manual. Ignore any other books featured here.
January 9, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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FEED ME, ALLIE!
Audrey II and their namesake, Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
December 23, 2023 at 3:50 AM
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We've done episodes about Jaws and The Creature from the Black Lagoon and somehow never noticed this. We've been played for fools! Simpletons! Goofballs, even!
Two nearly identical shots of a woman swimming, one from Jaws (1975) and one from Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954).
December 5, 2023 at 9:36 PM
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Happy October!
From your hosts Allie & Adam
(pictured here)
October 19, 2023 at 8:17 PM