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Date 124 - Come to Papa
Jun 22, 2026
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Date 123 - Objectify Me
Jun 8, 2026
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Date 122 - Haunted Doll Botch (with special guest Shadow!)
May 25, 2026
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Date 121 - Mummy’s Day
May 11, 2026
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Date 120 - In the March of Madness 2026, The GOO Conference (Pt.2)
Mar 16, 2026
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| 6/22/26 | ![]() Date 124 - Come to Papa | 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 | — | ||||||
| 6/8/26 | ![]() Date 123 - Objectify Me | 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 | — | ||||||
| 5/25/26 | ![]() Date 122 - Haunted Doll Botch (with special guest Shadow!) | Monster Crush has been CURSED! But mostly the curse is that we played a game for too long, had too much fun, and had to turn one episode into two… So I think we’ll survive! What was planned to be an episode about cursed objects turned into a not-so-mini-game about Haunted Dolls on Ebay. Things did not go to plan when our Haunted Doll Watch turned into a Haunted Doll Botch. But with Shadow in the guest host seat for this episode, we definitely still had a good time!Featuring: We trust our pets when it comes to the supernatural - Spooky News: AI Muscular ET Captured?, New Nessie Sighting, Legalize the Loveland Frogman - nothing says you can’t mail haunted dolls to your enemies - a soggy & sad doll - a doll with real Karen energy - Jilted Witch Bride Permanent Physical Spirit Companion - buying haunted dolls is the same as adopting cats - “shadow-stitched child of the haunted veil” - look out for a Haunted Doll Cafe coming to a city near you! - AND MORE!CW: Implications of death and haunting (26:00-end of episode), Current US politics and AI (9:40-15:25), more slightly less upsetting politics (16:40-21:00), Child death and murder (26:00-30:00, 47:00-), Mention of cancer (32:20-32:40)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 | — | ||||||
| 5/11/26 | ![]() Date 121 - Mummy’s Day | We at Monster Crush have to apologize, we took a little break and were a little out of practice. So, while we wanted to celebrate Mothers’ Day and all the wonderful monster mommies out there, we weren’t paying attention to our spelling and… Well, we’re celebrating Mummy’s Day and all the monster mummies instead this year. So grab a protective spell and wrap both your date and your tool (even if it’s being used to scramble brains) for the MUMMY!Featuring: We’re doing this until we die - preferred pet names - LD’s Smut Corner: Everyone’s favorite BG3 vampire gets an origin story - mummies are everywhere and are a lot older than we thought - how to make a mummy - white people get weird with mummies… like really weird - 180,000 mummified cats - the curse (or not) of King Tutankhamun’s Tomb - the real Imhotep - AND MORE!CW: Fictional predatory relationships (15:35-22:15), description of the mummification process (32:25-39:00), discussions of the weird and bad qualities of colonialism including desecration of corpses, medicinal cannibalism, and fetishization/othering of non-European cultures (39:00-1:21:00), animal death (55:45-56:10), human deaths attributed to curses (55:00-60:02)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 | — | ||||||
| 3/16/26 | ![]() Date 120 - In the March of Madness 2026, The GOO Conference (Pt.2)✨ | Lovecraftian HorrorGOO Conference+4 | LD | Sword & Key NetworkEpidem+1 | Ohio | LovecraftianGOO Conference+7 | — | 1h 24m 18s | |
| 3/2/26 | ![]() Date 119 - In the March of Madness 2026, The BOG Conference (Pt.1)✨ | Lovecraftian Horrorbracket-style game+4 | — | Sword & Key NetworkSword & Key Discord+2 | — | Lovecraftmadness+5 | F*** H.P. LovecraftTHELADYDAME | 1h 17m 37s | |
| 2/17/26 | ![]() Date 118 - Eat Your Heart Out… Again✨ | Valentines Daymonsters+5 | — | Sword & Key NetworkEpidemic Sounds+1 | UFOs/UAPsChristian mythology+1 | PerytonAmmit+6 | — | 1h 15m 18s | |
| 2/3/26 | ![]() Date 117 - Facial Your (D&D) Demons Pt. 2✨ | Demon PrincesDungeons & Dragons+5 | — | Sword & Key NetworkDungeons & Dragons+1 | SeattleArea 51 | Demon PrincesDungeons & Dragons+8 | — | 1h 58m 39s | |
| 1/20/26 | ![]() Date 116 - Facial Your (D&D) Demons Pt. 1✨ | Dungeons & DragonsDemon Princes+4 | — | Sword & Key NetworkChariot of the Gods+1 | — | DemogorgonD&D+8 | — | 1h 29m 58s | |
| 1/8/26 | ![]() Date 115 - A Pascagoula Elephantman Never Forgets✨ | alien abductioncryptozoology+4 | — | Sword & Key Networkorc romance novels | PascagoulaInternational Cryptozoology Museum+2 | Pascagoula Elephantmenspace seduction+6 | — | 1h 13m 37s | |
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| 12/24/25 | ![]() Date 114 - Naughty or Nice Pt. 2✨ | holiday traditionsmonsters+3 | — | Monster CrushSword & Key Network+2 | YuleChristmas | holidaymonsters+5 | — | 1h 16m 44s | |
| 12/10/25 | ![]() Date 113 - Naughty or Nice Pt. 1✨ | holiday monstersNaughty or Nice+4 | — | Sword & Key Network | PNWgarden gnomes+3 | KallikantzarosNisse+5 | — | 1h 26m 14s | |
| 11/27/25 | ![]() Date 112 - Tur-Key to My Heart✨ | Turkish monstersThanksgiving+5 | — | Age of Disclosure | TürkiyeLake Van | turkeymonsters+8 | — | 1h 19m 40s | |
| 11/11/25 | ![]() Date 111 - One and Done✨ | cryptidsmass psychosis+4 | — | Sword & Key Network | Congoocean | cryptids50-Foot Congo Snake+5 | — | 1h 01m 04s | |
| 10/26/25 | ![]() Date 110 - I’ll Make a Man Out of You | WE’RE BACK! Just in time for halloween we return to our teratophilic ways to explore romance with one of the most iconic monsters - FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER!!! So get ready for jokes to leave you in stitches, love that strikes like lightning, and a monster ready for LONG-TERM commitments because… IT’S ALIVE!!!Featuring: Our podcast relationship Unicorn (Shadow), Halloween traditions & memories, LD’s Smut Corner - Scared Sexy Collection, a collection of dudes - a bro-pourri or a dude turducken, 8 feet tall and full of emotions, epistolary novels are just early found footage, Mary Shelley is a freak and a true Gothic Queen, we love cliterature… if you can find it, enormous schwanstuckers, AND MORE!CW: body horror, minor references to gun violence, fictional child death, fictional murder, and references to historical misogynyWe are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network. 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. | — | ||||||
| 9/29/25 | ![]() Date 109 - If You Like It, Put The One Ring On It (with special guest Shadow!) | In honor of the recent holiday, Hobbit Day, we’re talking Tolkien! Derek is joined once again by special guest Shadow (@shadowsilvia on socials) to delve too greedily and too deep into some Middle Earth monsters! So prepare to make an unexpected party with Smaug the Dragon, The Watcher in the Water, and Durin’s Bane the Balrog!Additional side note: Monster Crush will be skipping a week on our release schedule but will be back for a new episode hopefully at the end of October!Featuring: we prefer #raptortok to #rapturetok - Spooky News: Squonk at the right hand of god, honoring Jeff Meldrum (professional foot expert) - Happy Hobbit Day - rawdogging a Hobbit - a new game: NAME THAT DWARF - being trapped in rooms by tiny spiders - being penetrated in one specific spot - all billionaires are bad, even if they’re dragons - tentacles with “fingered” ends - AND MORE!CW: Mentions of the rapture (2:05-7:45), death from cancer (7:45-11:00), spiders (27:15-28:15)We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network. 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. | — | ||||||
| 9/15/25 | ![]() Date 108 - 28 Inches of Sturdiness (with special guest Shadow!) | Monster Crush is back after our Summer Break with all new chills and thrills. For this episode, Derek is joined by special guest Shadow (@shadowsilvia on socials) to discuss the noble Unicorn! And these horny horses have a wild history hiding behind all those sparkles and rainbows. Author Chris Lavers is quoted as saying “The history of the unicorn myth is so tangled that to try and unravel it is to glimpse madness”. But we’d gladly glimpse madness for some unicorn love! Featuring: Chupacabras on Ice, unicorns are not what you think but also they are, the first unicorns were more unicows, shock-resistant horns, a medieval figure with the best name - Ole Worm, unicorn horns can cure anything (and nothing), whale blubber tastes like hazelnut, a 300 year-long Scandinavian scam, 2026 is the year of the alicorn, we keep going back to square rhinoceros, unicorns are super gay, AND MORE!CW: Mentions of Christianity/real world religion throughout, Brief reference to the anniversary of 9/11 and recent news events (7:45-7:55) We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network. 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. | — | ||||||
| 7/28/25 | ![]() Date 107 - Goosebump and Grind | Summer is a time for fun, sun, and (if you’re anything like us) reading! So for this summer break episode we went back to our childhoods to explore some of the wonderful monsters gifted to us by the one and only R.L. Stine in the Goosebumps series! So get ready for monsters from Calling All Creeps, The Beast from the East, and Night of the Living Dummy! Listeners beware, you’re in for a (sexy) scare!Also, this episode marks the beginning of our brief Summer Break for Monster Crush, we'll be back in September for more episodes!Featuring: Summer activities in the 90s, the nostalgia of the Pizza Hut Summer Reading program, Spooky News: US Government Lies About Aliens/UFOs Again(?), Annabelle the Haunted Doll Kills a Man - R.L Stine wrote a horror novel about a rollercoaster, horror can be accessible for kids, Goosebumps cover Easter Eggs, do a “classic clone” to get to level 3, “fluids” counts as a superpower, FMK with some Goosebumps monsters, AND MORE!CW: Spoilers for 30+ year old Goosebumps books, Conspiracy theories surrounding the government/gaslighting/misinformation (11:00-21:20), Death/Loss (21:20-30:20), mentions of horror violence with references to horror violence to kids (35:20-1:20:35)We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network. 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. | — | ||||||
| 7/7/25 | ![]() Date 106 - Pretty Fly for a Yokai | On this date we fly back into the weird world of Yokai for a couple of avian singletons to nest with. So strap on and strap in for the Kogarasu and the Niwatori no sō! These two feathered friends are sure to peck their way into your hearts… perhaps literally.Featuring: Toilet ghosts and sentient umbrellas, a trip to LD’s Smut Corner, Spooky News: Bigfoot could get you high, eat the prideful and haughty, chicken’s grudge-curse, cloacal kisses, AND MORE!CW: Mentions of explosions/fireworks and allusions to the current state of the US (1:30-2:15), yokai/urban legend violence (6:30-7:25), drug use (20:30-26:30), monsters eating dead humans (29:10-33:40), bird-based body horror (33:45-40:00)We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network. 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. | — | ||||||
| 6/24/25 | ![]() Date 105 - You Gotta Pay The Troll Toll | For our second Pride Month episode of 2025 we consider giving a second chance to some monsters who did not get our full attention on previous dates. So this time we explore the wilderness for the Scandinavian Troll! These mysterious monsters of magic and nature have haunted fables and myth far back into ancient times… so it’s about time they haunt our bedrooms! Things are going to get rock hard so strap in and strap on!Featuring: A totally perfect first take on our intro - Spooky News: werewolf motivated robbery, aliens are starting WWIII… to help us?, and (old news) a portal in English forest is letting in werewolves - trolls are old and confusing, troll are bossbitches, trolls were illegal, smelly Christian blood, trolls are just Bigfoot(?), a quick dive into LOTR lore, troll movie recs, AND MORE!CW: Robbery & Assault (4:00-8:00), Current events - politics, war, etc. (8:05-12:00), mentions of Christianity and Christian misogyny/oppression of women (periodic starting at 30:00), monsters as caricatures/stereotypes of ethnicities and as forms of antisemitism (46:30-47:30, 50:45-53:00)We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network. 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. | — | ||||||
| 6/10/25 | ![]() Date 104 - Bone Daddy | Happy Pride, you beautiful Monster Crushers! To celebrate the queerest time of the year we wanted to present you all with a true gay icon. And, since we covered Mothman back in episode 69, we delved into pop culture for a figure who has represented the LGBTQ+ community for decades now. So strap on and strap in for the true Master of the Universe and master of our hearts, Skeletor! This skeletal singleton is sure to rattle your bones in the best of ways!Featuring: Pride Month for monster fucking, it’s all fucking weird fucking, Spooky News: Annabelle the Doll Contained(?) and Squatch Sighting in Colorado, a new game: Battlecat or Cringer (Masters of the Universe Smash or Pass), the history and queerness of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, very important discussions about facial hair, abs on abs on abs, AND MORE!CW: General discussions of sex, kink, and monster fucking (throughout the episode… I mean, come on), mention of con artists and objectively bad people Ed & Lorraine Warren (10:15-11:30), house fire and prison escape (12:55-13:13:35)We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network. 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. | — | ||||||
| 5/27/25 | ![]() Date 103 - I Will Remember U(boat) | For this Memorial Day we bring you two monsters you just can’t forget about. War is weird and strange stuff happens during times of conflict, so this episode we discuss two giant sea monsters seen by German U-boats during WWI. So get ready to be blown…out of the water by the U-28 Creature and the U-85 Atrocity! Featuring: The lusty month of May, a visit to LD’s Smut Corner: The Spinster and the Gargoyle, the gargoyle vs. grotesque debate, Spooky News: crop circles in England and a prehistoric wasp from hell, sea monsters learn to fly by exploding, don’t shoot whales because they might shoot back, mosasaur dickpics, AND MORE!CW: Insect/body horror/parasites/forced impregnation - insect/implication (29:30-33:40), discussions of naval warfare (35:00-50:00), animal/dinosaur/monster genitalia (50:15-56:00)We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network. 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. | — | ||||||
| 5/12/25 | ![]() Date 102 - Monster Mommy | We at Monster Crush want to celebrate Mother’s Day in the only way we know how… by making it about smooching monsters. So if you have mommy energy (however you personally define that), we want to wish you a special day full of whatever monsters you love best. But for us, we had to feature a monstrous mother of other monsters coming straight from Greek myth with the monster matriarch, the Echidna! So strap in and strap on for a serpentine seductress that will make you say “yes, mommy”.Featuring: Strong Mommy Energy, is LD ‘Mother’?, shoutout Derek’s mom, if you email us weird things - we will email you weird things back, monster moms in pop culture, Spooky News - NASA Chief Flight Surgeon sees an American UFO, research on a potential UFO sphere, Joe Nickell and a legacy of skepticism - echidna but the cute animal, a CatDog of a monster, so so many monster offspring, Typhon’s really nice couch, clean your all-purpose holes, AND MORE!CW: Mythological dismemberment (16:40-17:00), brief mention of mythological incest - i.e. Theseus (49:50-50:00)We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network. 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. | — | ||||||
| 4/29/25 | ![]() Date 101 - Tree-t Yourself | Does love have you stumped? Always branching out but your date always leaves? Well we get to the root of the problem this week with our lumbering singletons! No more barking up the wrong tree with two loveable cryptobotanical selections to really shiver your timbers! It’s two green-thumbs up for the Ya-Te-Veo and The Man-Eating Madagascar Tree! Plus a special appearance from The Cow-Eating Tree!Featuring: A new game of Nessie Knockoffs, a return to LD’s Smut Corner, a 1 minute recap of M. Night Shamalayan’s The Happening, the cow-eating tree eats… cows, trees with eyes, some pretty messed up depictions of indigenous people thanks to white colonists, treacly fluid, just so many tree puns, AND MORE!CW: mentions of suicide and self-harm (28:30-29:00), harm to animals (31:00-32:00), colonial depictions of indigenous people throughout the second half, sacrificial murder & sexual hedonism (42:30-44:30)We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network. 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. | — | ||||||
| 4/14/25 | ![]() Date 100 - Loch’d & Loaded | EPISODE 100 IS HERE! I can’t believe we actually made it to 100 episodes! And speaking of things that are hard to believe, is there a monster lurking in the depths of Loch Ness? Yes… at least we want the answer to be yes because we LOVE NESSIE! So strap in and strap on for Derek’s first monster love with The Loch Ness Monster! Also, a special thank you to all of you who have joined us on this wonderful monster ride and a very special thank you to Heaven-Leigh and Ellie for starting this amazing project for all of us to enjoy!Featuring: Do invisible monsters *eject* invisible fluids?, Spooky News: Forbidden Designer Dogs - judging baby names, Checkov’s panties (if they go on in the first act, they come off by the third), top cryptids list, her humps - her lovely Nessie humps, pulling a Gandalf, Nessie needs to get out of the road, hoaxes.. so many hoaxes, Nessie aka Sandy or Archibald, King Kong, new photos of Nessie, pay for us to go to Scotland, Mr. Crowley, Catfished by Nessie, AND MORE! CW: Mention of fictional SA (6:45 - 7:00), genetic manipulation (4:30 - 15:30), Catholicism (28:45 - 31:30), drowning/underwater monster attack (29:40 - 31:30), suicide/tragedy (1:01 - 1:02)We are proud to be a part of the Sword & Key Network. 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. | — | ||||||
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