Date 112 - Tur-Key to My Heart

About this episode

The episode explores Turkish monsters in the context of Thanksgiving, featuring discussions on various mythical creatures and cultural references.

For many Americans Thanksgiving is a holiday focused on the iconic main dish, the turkey. But what about the country of Türkiye? Apparently it’s chock full of monsters we can smooch! So for this holiday, we gobble down on two Turkish monsters with the iconic Lake Van Monster and the nightmarish Al Basty. Pass the gravy because this episode is going to get saucy! Featuring: an ode to the noble turkey, why we’ll never talk about Sesame Street Monsters, the alternate timeline of Big Bird tragedy, a visit to LD’s Smut Corner, Spooky News: Age of Disclosure documentary and phantom boobs - a rich cultural heritage of monsters in Türkiye, a cyclo-boobian monster, a lake monster with murder on the mind, nightmares hide where it’s wet and they ride your horse without permission, the monster that is your cool wine aunt, AND MORE! CW: brief discussion of the Challenger explosion (11:30-13:00), conservative politicians/current politics/conservative religious conspiracies (29:00-33:15), monster attack that leads to a reported death (53:00-53:45), nightmares/sleep paralysis (58:45-1:08:00) post-partum depression/miscarriage/birth complications (1:02:46-1:08:00) We are proud to be a part of the…

People in this episode

Host: Monster Crush

Topics covered

• Turkish monsters
• Thanksgiving
• Lake Van Monster
• Al Basty
• cultural heritage
• nightmares
• politics

Keywords

• turkey
• monsters
• Thanksgiving
• Türkiye
• Lake Van Monster
• Al Basty
• nightmares
• politics
• Big Bird
• Smut Corner

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Age of Disclosure

Places: Türkiye, Lake Van

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