Date 114 - Naughty or Nice Pt. 2

About this episode

The episode explores festive holiday traditions featuring various monsters, blending humor with cultural commentary.

Happy Holidays from all of us at Monster Crush! To celebrate this festive season we return to the Yule traditions of ol for a couple monsters that are naughty, nice, and everything in between. So jingle your bells and wrap your present for the Mari Lwyd and Grýla the Christmas Witch. Plus a few bonus monsters including The Yule Cat! Featuring: who would Zooey Deschanel play in The Lion King? - you can’t lowkey Les Mis someone - F**k, Merry, Exorcise the ghosts from A Christmas Carol - The Feast of the Ass - watch out for Sausage Swiper and Window Peeper - capitalist incentives to avoid being eaten by a cat - Stubby the Yule Lad - AND MORE! CW: Mentions of Christianity and Christian influences on history throughout, mention of the historical use of blackface (24:20-25:10), harm to children in folklore (43:10-1:10:15) 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.

People in this episode

Host: Monster Crush

Topics covered

• holiday traditions
• monsters
• Christmas folklore
• humor
• cultural commentary

Keywords

• holiday
• monsters
• Christmas
• Yule
• folklore
• humor
• traditions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sword & Key Network

Books & works: A Christmas Carol, Les Mis

Places: Yule, Christmas

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